and place the definition in <machine/types.h>. This can now be used
as a flag to indicate whether or not <machine/intr.h> can be included
to get the generic soft interrupt API.
multiprocessor support:
- Implement MP-safe halt.
- Make the FPU saving code more like Bill's on the i386 MP branch.
XXX This code will no doubt be revisited again.
- Pass the cpu_info and trapframe to IPI handlers, saving some work
in the handlers themselves, and also making it possible for the
"pause" handler to reference register state for DDB.
- Add "machine cpu" to DDB, making it possible to reference other
CPUs registers (and thus get e.g. a traceback) from whichever
CPU is actually running the debugger.
- Garbage-collect "machine halt" and "machine reboot" DDB commands.
They don't have a prayer of working properly in multiprocessor
kernels, and didn't really work all that well in uniprocessor kernels.
macro in the MULTIPROCESSOR case (hardclock() wants it).
- Implement __GENERIC_SOFT_INTERRUPTS, and redefine the legacy
software interrupts in terms of it. Garbage-collect setsoftserial().
add an IPI which causes the target CPU to perform AST processing when
it returns to userspace.
- Add a way to get/set a private pointer in the shared interrupt header.
that is priority is rasied. Add a new spllowersoftclock() to provide the
atomic drop-to-softclock semantics that the old splsoftclock() provided,
and update calls accordingly.
This fixes a problem with using the "rnd" pseudo-device from within
interrupt context to extract random data (e.g. from within the softnet
interrupt) where doing so would incorrectly unblock interrupts (causing
all sorts of lossage).
XXX 4 platforms do not have priority-raising capability: newsmips, sparc,
XXX sparc64, and VAX. This platforms still have this bug until their
XXX spl*() functions are fixed.
tty structures, and on some machines (namely the DraCo internal lpt, and some
multi-i/o boards for Amigas and DraCos), tying spltty to the pretty high printer
interupt level would hurt serial performance.
On all affected ports but Amiga, spllpt() has been defined in machine/intr.h
to be spltty(), thus preserving old behaviour. Portmasters are encouraged to
change is, if they feel something else is better (e.g., one of its own were
possible).
(1) it was using 'max', and some functions use a variable
of that name (*sigh*), and
(2) that makes it easier to be a bit trickier, and only call
swpipl if changing the IPL.
thorpej