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thorpej
d2275d51e1 Merge the nathanw_sa branch. 2003-01-18 06:55:21 +00:00
lukem
4bb41ae2f2 Rework how KERNOBJDIR functions; now it's always determined with
cd ${KERNSRCDIR}/${KERNARCHDIR}/compile && ${PRINTOBJDIR}
This is far simpler than the previous system, and more robust with
objdirs built via BSDOBJDIR.

The previous method of finding KERNOBJDIR when using BSDOBJDIR by
referencing _SRC_TOP_OBJ_ from another directory was extremely
fragile due to the depth first tree walk by <bsd.subdir.mk>, and
the caching of _SRC_TOP_OBJ_ (with MAKEOVERRIDES) which would be
empty on the *first* pass to create fresh objdirs.

This change requires adding sys/arch/*/compile/Makefile to create
the objdir in that directory, and descending into arch/*/compile
from arch/*/Makefile.  Remove the now-unnecessary .keep_me files
whilst here.

Per lengthy discussion with Andrew Brown.
2003-01-06 17:40:18 +00:00
thorpej
9c1214153c Use aprint_normal() for cfprint routines. 2003-01-01 02:20:47 +00:00
fredette
856e98cd30 bcopy -> memcpy, bzero -> memset 2002-12-13 20:44:44 +00:00
thorpej
e8cc3884de Rename __LDPGSZ to AOUT_LDPGSZ, to accurately reflect what it is. 2002-12-10 17:14:02 +00:00
thorpej
78ea2dd367 Use __LDPGSZ (which must be == USRTEXT) as the text address for a.out
executables, and eliminate the USRTEXT constant, which was only used
by the a.out exec code.
2002-12-10 05:14:24 +00:00
lukem
0635de35a3 Remove KDIR=, since SYS_INCLUDE=symlinks and KDIR are not supported any more. 2002-11-26 23:30:07 +00:00
thorpej
09dfaace39 The traditional C preprocessor is fixed in GCC 3.3 now, so no need
to skip -traditional-cpp for HAVE_GCC3.
2002-11-26 18:51:12 +00:00
wiz
e78e668887 Fix typo (responsiness -> responsiveness). 2002-11-22 12:20:58 +00:00
chs
4e15ef25e9 include wscons definitions, dev/sun/kbdvar.h needs it now. 2002-10-27 23:23:48 +00:00
jdolecek
c82ab2eb79 now that mem_no is emitted by config(8), there is no reason to keep
copy of more or less identical iskmemdev() for every arch; move the function
to spec_vnop.c, and g/c machine-dependant copies
2002-10-26 13:50:17 +00:00
jdolecek
707bbfecd1 g/c cons_ocount, it's not used by anything 2002-10-23 19:48:59 +00:00
jdolecek
e0cc03a09b merge kqueue branch into -current
kqueue provides a stateful and efficient event notification framework
currently supported events include socket, file, directory, fifo,
pipe, tty and device changes, and monitoring of processes and signals

kqueue is supported by all writable filesystems in NetBSD tree
(with exception of Coda) and all device drivers supporting poll(2)

based on work done by Jonathan Lemon for FreeBSD
initial NetBSD port done by Luke Mewburn and Jason Thorpe
2002-10-23 09:10:23 +00:00
chs
1c2419d28a merge the 12 copies of vm_machdep.c on the m68k platforms.
clean up some other stuff along the way, including:
 - use m68k/cacheops.*, remove duplicates from cpu.h.
 - centralize a few declarations in (all the copies of) cpu.h.
 - define M68K_VAC on platforms which have a VAC.
 - switch the sun platforms to the (now common) proc_trampoline().
 - do the phys_map thang on the sun platforms too, no reason not to.
2002-10-20 02:37:21 +00:00
junyoung
e4b7588c28 Add NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY (disabled by default). 2002-10-18 15:11:08 +00:00
elric
5ab71e20b0 Added commented out cgd(4)s to GENERIC configs. 2002-10-14 18:39:22 +00:00
martin
57801e8fb7 Pass a struct cons_channel * to cc_iclose, not a struct kbd_softc *.
This argument has been previously unused, thus undetected due to void*
typing. Mmm, copy & paste. Note that sparc got it right though.

Many thanks to Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@netbsd.org> for debugging support.
2002-10-10 00:22:19 +00:00
provos
2f7a0aaac8 add SYSTRACE; approved perry. 2002-10-06 02:11:54 +00:00
elric
d19d268a95 assign majors for raw and cooked cgd's. 2002-10-04 18:28:24 +00:00
uwe
191626f788 Refactor kbd and mouse drivers so that they can use different middle
layers.  Common middle layer shared by kbd_zs and sunkbd is moved into
the new file.  Move shared config directives to files.sun and adjust
ports' files.* accordingly.

Need this to support console/Xsun on Mr.Coffee JavaStation.

Tested on sparc, sparc64 (by martin) and sun3 (by jdc).
2002-10-03 16:13:24 +00:00
thorpej
4bf871a755 Add trailing ; to CFATTACH_DECL. 2002-10-02 16:02:08 +00:00
thorpej
82af7d52d4 Use CFATTACH_DECL(). 2002-10-01 05:32:42 +00:00
thorpej
f818766afe Declare all cfattach structures const. 2002-09-27 20:31:45 +00:00
provos
0f09ed48a5 remove trailing \n in panic(). approved perry. 2002-09-27 15:35:29 +00:00
thorpej
d1ad2ac4f2 Rather than referencing the cfdriver directly in the cfdata entries,
instead use a string naming the driver.  The cfdriver is then looked
up in a list which is built at run-time.
2002-09-27 02:24:06 +00:00
thorpej
71404bb533 Don't include <sys/map.h>. 2002-09-25 22:21:01 +00:00
chs
c081614ea2 it really helps to get the stub right before cutting + pasting it 27 times.
alas, I did not.  doh.
2002-09-22 07:53:39 +00:00
chs
55e1f79335 add pmap_remove_all() hook (empty on most platforms so far). 2002-09-22 07:17:08 +00:00
ragge
b3abfee038 Do not include <sys/clist.h>, it's not used in NetBSD at all. 2002-09-19 10:37:59 +00:00
lukem
3ea2e21f82 enable USERCONF by default; it's small and extremely useful to have available. 2002-09-18 02:43:53 +00:00
gehenna
77a6b82b27 Merge the gehenna-devsw branch into the trunk.
This merge changes the device switch tables from static array to
dynamically generated by config(8).

- All device switches is defined as a constant structure in device drivers.

- The new grammer ``device-major'' is introduced to ``files''.

	device-major <prefix> char <num> [block <num>] [<rules>]

- All device major numbers must be listed up in port dependent majors.<arch>
  by using this grammer.

- Added the new naming convention.
  The name of the device switch must be <prefix>_[bc]devsw for auto-generation
  of device switch tables.

- The backward compatibility of loading block/character device
  switch by LKM framework is broken. This is necessary to convert
  from block/character device major to device name in runtime and vice versa.

- The restriction to assign device major by LKM is completely removed.
  We don't need to reserve LKM entries for dynamic loading of device switch.

- In compile time, device major numbers list is packed into the kernel and
  the LKM framework will refer it to assign device major number dynamically.
2002-09-06 13:18:43 +00:00
thorpej
139cdc3125 Make nbuf, nswbuf, and bufpages unsigned. Make all operations on these
variables unsigned, and update places where their values are printed.
2002-08-25 20:21:33 +00:00
abs
2287052465 PIPE_SOCKETPAIR, MALLOC_NOINLINE and VNODE_OP_NOINLINE are all appropriate for
the 'minimal memory' configurations.
2002-08-22 14:36:48 +00:00
briggs
0b956d0b8b Implement pmc(9) -- An interface to hardware performance monitoring
counters.  These counters do not exist on all CPUs, but where they
do exist, can be used for counting events such as dcache misses that
would otherwise be difficult or impossible to instrument by code
inspection or hardware simulation.

pmc(9) is meant to be a general interface.  Initially, the Intel XScale
counters are the only ones supported.
2002-08-07 05:14:47 +00:00
soren
8e607cdca8 G/c vestiges of old sun3-specific SYMTAB_SPACE support. 2002-08-02 18:19:58 +00:00
fredette
ee28fd70d7 Fixed kgdb support by including <sun2/dev/cons.h>. 2002-07-27 15:55:36 +00:00
thorpej
3912e469dd Rename cdev_systrace_init() to cdev_clonemisc_init(), so it can
be properly used by any misc. cloning device.  While here, correct
a comment to indicate that "open" is the only entry point and that
everything else is handled with fileops.
2002-07-19 16:38:14 +00:00
scw
bef00d4895 m68k syscall rototill:
- Switch all m68k-based ports over to __HAVE_SYSCALL_INTERN.
 - Add systrace glue.
 - Define struct mdproc in <m68k/proc.h> instead of <machine/proc.h>.
   (They were all defined exactly the same anyway, other than a couple
   of the MDP_* flags.)
2002-07-13 08:28:40 +00:00
abs
eb73becae2 Ensure all INSTALL config files consistantly include PIPE_SOCKETPAIR,
MALLOC_NOINLINE, and VNODE_OP_NOINLINE. The exceptions are when they
include another config files that already defines the options, or if
they are for an embedded board, just define a few extra options, and
do not already define PIPE_SOCKETPAIR.
2002-07-05 13:40:10 +00:00
christos
3b50728cf4 MD systrace gluons. 2002-06-17 16:32:57 +00:00
lukem
fde6ae6f04 Enable "pseudo-device clockctl" in all kernels, except
installation related kernels (INSTALL* and RAMDISK*).
This enables rc.conf(5) $ntpd_chroot to be used "out of the box"
2002-06-17 05:14:02 +00:00
thorpej
d941ddfee0 Don't use -traditional-cpp if HAVE_GCC3. 2002-06-04 21:39:09 +00:00
thorpej
002ed08e32 Fix 2 sequence point errors. 2002-05-30 22:43:07 +00:00
thorpej
c40766dbee Add missing "__volatile" to the declaration of enable_reg_soft (the
extern decl in enable.h already has volatile).
2002-05-30 22:40:31 +00:00
matt
0dc8ee943d Eliminate more commons or redundant declarations. 2002-05-14 02:58:32 +00:00
matt
0a6d35b7ed Nuke local extern label_t *db_recover; it's now in <ddb/db_extern.h> 2002-05-13 20:30:07 +00:00
jdolecek
77a65b5e56 use _KERNEL_OPT rather than _KERNEL && !_LKM 2002-05-11 09:39:25 +00:00
atatat
d1b3852365 Add the INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE option to all config files. In config
files that are generic (ie, GENERIC, GENERICSBC, GENERIC32, ALL, or
ALPHA), it is uncommented.
2002-04-25 15:06:20 +00:00
gmcgarry
6e066ba77a Add commented-out USERCONF option. Mainly useful for install media
and can be optionally enabled based on miniroot and ramdisk size
requirements.
2002-04-12 08:10:45 +00:00
lukem
d213d804f7 Rename MEMORY_DISK_SIZE (formerly MINIROOTSIZE) to MEMORY_DISK_ROOT_SIZE,
which was suggested by Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp> as
being more consistent with what it's controlling...
2002-04-02 05:30:34 +00:00
fredette
3ba7f2074a Added missing DEV_ constants. 2002-03-22 00:28:55 +00:00
fredette
6db09399a0 Added bits to use the console code under sys/arch/sun2 and
sys/dev/sun.
2002-03-22 00:28:08 +00:00
fredette
d2550b2ba7 Added the console and zs code now found under sys/arch/sun2. 2002-03-22 00:25:56 +00:00
fredette
5268abfc97 sc_btype has been removed from struct bwtwo_softc. 2002-03-22 00:24:45 +00:00
fredette
453e503b32 Added support for the sun2 zs serial ports. As this driver
is very common on Suns, it could be made shared under sys/dev/sun.
2002-03-22 00:23:53 +00:00
fredette
ae1f6b9ea8 Added bits to complete the sun2 console code. These are
virtually identical copies of files under sys/arch/sparc/dev,
and one day they will be merged under sys/dev/sun.
2002-03-22 00:22:43 +00:00
christos
7e277b5782 kill remaining PS_STRINGS instances. 2002-03-20 17:59:22 +00:00
lukem
cd19d52695 * rename MINIROOTSIZE to MEMORY_DISK_SIZE, so that all md(4) options
are now consistently named
* fold opt_mdsize.h into opt_md.h
2002-03-10 19:56:37 +00:00
thorpej
a180cee23b Pool deals fairly well with physical memory shortage, but it doesn't
deal with shortages of the VM maps where the backing pages are mapped
(usually kmem_map).  Try to deal with this:

* Group all information about the backend allocator for a pool in a
  separate structure.  The pool references this structure, rather than
  the individual fields.
* Change the pool_init() API accordingly, and adjust all callers.
* Link all pools using the same backend allocator on a list.
* The backend allocator is responsible for waiting for physical memory
  to become available, but will still fail if it cannot callocate KVA
  space for the pages.  If this happens, carefully drain all pools using
  the same backend allocator, so that some KVA space can be freed.
* Change pool_reclaim() to indicate if it actually succeeded in freeing
  some pages, and use that information to make draining easier and more
  efficient.
* Get rid of PR_URGENT.  There was only one use of it, and it could be
  dealt with by the caller.

From art@openbsd.org.
2002-03-08 20:48:27 +00:00
tsutsui
3c8b0446fe Change type of dumpmag to u_int32_t since it is actually
a 32bit unsigned magic number.
As per discussion on tech-kern, and fixes port-sparc64/11949.
2002-03-06 13:10:18 +00:00
simonb
64c7743a05 Don't "extern int cold;" - this is in <sys/kernel.h>. 2002-03-04 02:19:07 +00:00
simonb
4324f37586 Use "#define<tab>". 2002-02-28 03:17:23 +00:00
christos
e8116a8f5b - Use DEV_ constants, instead of documenting the numbers!
- Delete cdev_decl(mm); where appropriate, and other hand-crufting [hi powerpc!]
2002-02-27 01:20:51 +00:00
christos
6b030ee036 - define other DEV_ constants that the local port uses.
- delete cdev_decl(mm) since <sys/conf.h> does it.
2002-02-27 01:19:03 +00:00
simonb
d9ab16ba2f Purge CLSIZE, CLSIZELOG2 and MCLOFSET.
Be consistant in the way that MSIZE, MCLSHIFT, MCLBYTES and NMBCLUSTERS
  are defined.
Remove old VM constants from cesfic port.
Bump MSIZE to 256 on mipsco (the only one that wasn't already 256).
2002-02-26 15:13:19 +00:00
chs
b744097a5f allow writing to write-only mappings. fixes PR 3493. 2002-02-14 07:08:02 +00:00
thorpej
07d023a3aa Define ELF32_EHDR_FLAGS_OK()/ELF64_EHDR_FLAGS_OK() and use it
as an added measure to make sure that we can execute a binary.
These default to (1) if elf_machdep.h does not override them.

On Sun2, ELF32_EHDR_FLAGS_OK() checks for the presense of EF_M68000,
since the 68010 cannot run binaries for the 68020-and-up.
2002-01-28 22:15:54 +00:00
thorpej
9c3a981460 Just use the stock m68k/elf_machdep.h for now, so that things compile.
A patch to handle EF_M68000 will be posted shortly.
2002-01-28 21:52:49 +00:00
thorpej
cde2b1d9c7 Clean up CPP flags. 2002-01-28 21:29:46 +00:00
jdolecek
6d265bd894 add options PIPE_SOCKETPAIR to individual kernel configs
the option is commented out on everything but kernels I was able
to recognize as INSTALL-like or ones for small memory machines
2002-01-27 13:23:08 +00:00
oster
39b858e3bf Add new RF_* options for RAIDframe bits that are no longer built by default.
While we're here, enable RAIDframe (and RAID_AUTOCONFIG) by default for
architectures that I'm comfortable can deal with it being on by default.

Also: bump the number of 'raid' devices from 4 to 8, since 4 seems to
be insufficient in practise.
2002-01-19 18:45:06 +00:00
manu
5f90ae55b5 Added clockctl 2002-01-12 14:52:40 +00:00
martin
b506d6e135 Add PPPoE to all generic kernels that should be able to use it.
XXX TODO: do this for INSTALL kernels too, add sysinst support and make the
XXX needed binaries available on the ramdisk root fs.
2001-12-28 12:21:52 +00:00
fredette
a366516238 Added ifmedia(4) support. 2001-12-17 18:14:17 +00:00
fredette
9976af904a Remove some devices that aren't needed in INSTALL or RAMDISK
kernels, reenable NFS v3, and enable kernfs in INSTALL.
2001-12-15 22:22:13 +00:00
fredette
74e4ac42de Be sure to mark in the prototype attach args
that a physical address is required for each
device on this bus.
2001-12-15 22:13:11 +00:00
gmcgarry
bdd225baa1 Add a blurb to the top of all GENERIC files. This serves three purposes:
- to clarify some terminology
- to clarify the intention of the GENERIC file
- to cross-reference some useful man pages
2001-12-14 05:34:45 +00:00
thorpej
51535d4bf5 Add support for dumping ELF-cormat core files. 2001-12-09 23:05:56 +00:00
fredette
b596abc4ed Picked up some old scheduler changes. Now the sun2 locore
corresponds tightly to revision 1.81 of the sun3 locore.
2001-12-07 05:24:56 +00:00
fredette
2fe9375188 Tweaked whitespace and, in comments only, added % to make this
file much easier to compare to its sun3 cousin.
2001-12-06 21:05:12 +00:00
fredette
f1673ae4dd Abstract out a large chunk of the kernel build machinery so that new
build features (such as ross's DEBUGLIST) can easily be applied to all
ports.  This should reduce the complexity of each port's kernel
Makefile considerably.
2001-12-01 15:23:18 +00:00
fredette
d4f3b9c987 Catch-up to revision 1.135 of the sun3 pmap. This revision
corresponds tightly to that one.
2001-11-30 18:22:51 +00:00
fredette
a5c8b5d17f Implement bus_space_mmap. 2001-11-30 18:11:56 +00:00
fredette
d925ceec5b vm_offset_t -> vaddr_t or paddr_t, as appropriate.
Purge register qualifiers.
bcopy() -> memcpy(), bzero() -> memset()
No longer try to protect the kernel with uvm_map_protect,
pmap_bootstrap has already done this.
Now use pmap_kenter_pa/pmap_kremove when dumping, instead
of pmap_enter/pmap_remove.
2001-11-30 18:10:27 +00:00
fredette
bbb634ca9e vm_offset_t -> vaddr_t or paddr_t or db_addr_t, as appropriate.
vm_size_t -> vsize_t
Purge register qualifiers.
bcopy() -> memcpy(), bzero() -> memset()
2001-11-30 18:06:55 +00:00
fredette
94ae8e87a9 Purge vm_offset_t. 2001-11-30 17:52:33 +00:00
fredette
b9b98bff66 Convert to use genassym.cf and genassym.sh, as other ports do. 2001-11-30 15:58:24 +00:00
fredette
af0a38f1d6 In kernel config files, now mention the options SCSI_OLD_NOINQUIRY,
NFS_V2_ONLY, and VNODE_OP_NOINLINE, commented out as appropriate
for each configuration.
Convert to use genassym.cf and genassym.sh, as other ports do.
2001-11-30 15:54:31 +00:00
fredette
708a12fced A new config file for VME-only machines 2001-11-26 21:20:35 +00:00
fredette
877ea05895 Only declare the console keyboard on zs if it's a Sun-2
or later keyboard.
2001-11-26 18:06:36 +00:00
fredette
6aa55077e7 Disabled some more things that lighter kernels don't need,
and picked up some formatting fixes from GENERIC.
2001-11-26 17:51:08 +00:00
lukem
03aef4723c cleanup:
options SPACE TAB
	makeoptions TAB
	psuedo-device TAB
	remove trailing whitespace
	replace multiple spaces -> tabs
	options "FOO" -> options FOO
	options "FOO=bar" -> options FOO=bar
	options "FOO=\"bar\"" -> options FOO="\"bar\""
2001-11-20 12:56:17 +00:00
lukem
99bccc3cab - pull in opt_kgdb.h where necessary
- replace opt_kgdb_machdep.h with opt_kgdb.h
- defparam opt_kgdb.h:
	KGDB_DEV KGDB_DEVNAME KGDB_DEVADDR KGDB_DEVRATE KGDB_DEVMODE
- move from opt_ddbparam.h to opt_ddb.h:
	DDB_FROMCONSOLE DDB_ONPANIC DDB_HISTORY_SIZE DDB_BREAK_CHAR SYMTAB_SPACE
- replace KGDBDEV with KGDB_DEV
- replace KGDBADDR with KGDB_DEVADDR
- replace KGDBMODE with KGDB_DEVMODE
- replace KGDBRATE with KGDB_DEVRATE
- use `9600' instead of `0x2580' for 9600 baud rate
- use correct quotes for  options KGDB_DEVNAME="\"com\""
- use correct quotes for  options KGDB_DEV="17*256+0"
- remove unnecessary dependancy on Makefile for kgdb_stub.o
- minor whitespace cleanup
2001-11-20 08:43:19 +00:00
soren
662f877587 MAXSLP is defined to be a machine-independent scheduling parameter,
so move it into sys/param.h.
2001-11-15 18:06:11 +00:00
thorpej
47514a31be Remove unneeded declarations of the db_machine_init() function. The
ARM ports are the only ones that actually have one, and it is about
to change.
2001-11-09 06:52:23 +00:00
jmc
6d536163de Change defaults for kernel compiles. Default all to USETOOLS?=no and have
the etc Makefile override that by putting USETOOLS into $.MAKEOVERRIDES
This way the default for kernel compiles is still to use the installed
toolchain instead of depending on $TOOLDIR. $TOOLDIR can be used by
simply adding USETOOLS=yes to the command line as usual.

Adjust each ports template to set the default no setting and also pull in
bsd.own.mk if they weren't already to ensure they'll build correctly
with the new toolchain setup.
2001-10-26 06:45:33 +00:00
thorpej
ba217c4196 Set MACHINE_ARCH explicitly in Makefiles for which it is constant.
Also, since config(8) now explcitly sets MACHINE, there is no need
to do it here in the Makefile.
2001-10-23 19:26:41 +00:00
fredette
d17c1f50bd Changed an obio to read Multibus. 2001-10-01 01:53:31 +00:00
fredette
65df8b69be Added the prom_kbdid function, to help us figure out if
the console keyboard is on the parallel interface or zs1.
2001-10-01 01:46:56 +00:00
chs
64c6d1d2dc a whole bunch of changes to improve performance and robustness under load:
- remove special treatment of pager_map mappings in pmaps.  this is
   required now, since I've removed the globals that expose the address range.
   pager_map now uses pmap_kenter_pa() instead of pmap_enter(), so there's
   no longer any need to special-case it.
 - eliminate struct uvm_vnode by moving its fields into struct vnode.
 - rewrite the pageout path.  the pager is now responsible for handling the
   high-level requests instead of only getting control after a bunch of work
   has already been done on its behalf.  this will allow us to UBCify LFS,
   which needs tighter control over its pages than other filesystems do.
   writing a page to disk no longer requires making it read-only, which
   allows us to write wired pages without causing all kinds of havoc.
 - use a new PG_PAGEOUT flag to indicate that a page should be freed
   on behalf of the pagedaemon when it's unlocked.  this flag is very similar
   to PG_RELEASED, but unlike PG_RELEASED, PG_PAGEOUT can be cleared if the
   pageout fails due to eg. an indirect-block buffer being locked.
   this allows us to remove the "version" field from struct vm_page,
   and together with shrinking "loan_count" from 32 bits to 16,
   struct vm_page is now 4 bytes smaller.
 - no longer use PG_RELEASED for swap-backed pages.  if the page is busy
   because it's being paged out, we can't release the swap slot to be
   reallocated until that write is complete, but unlike with vnodes we
   don't keep a count of in-progress writes so there's no good way to
   know when the write is done.  instead, when we need to free a busy
   swap-backed page, just sleep until we can get it busy ourselves.
 - implement a fast-path for extending writes which allows us to avoid
   zeroing new pages.  this substantially reduces cpu usage.
 - encapsulate the data used by the genfs code in a struct genfs_node,
   which must be the first element of the filesystem-specific vnode data
   for filesystems which use genfs_{get,put}pages().
 - eliminate many of the UVM pagerops, since they aren't needed anymore
   now that the pager "put" operation is a higher-level operation.
 - enhance the genfs code to allow NFS to use the genfs_{get,put}pages
   instead of a modified copy.
 - clean up struct vnode by removing all the fields that used to be used by
   the vfs_cluster.c code (which we don't use anymore with UBC).
 - remove kmem_object and mb_object since they were useless.
   instead of allocating pages to these objects, we now just allocate
   pages with no object.  such pages are mapped in the kernel until they
   are freed, so we can use the mapping to find the page to free it.
   this allows us to remove splvm() protection in several places.

The sum of all these changes improves write throughput on my
decstation 5000/200 to within 1% of the rate of NetBSD 1.5
and reduces the elapsed time for "make release" of a NetBSD 1.5
source tree on my 128MB pc to 10% less than a 1.5 kernel took.
2001-09-15 20:36:31 +00:00