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* Introduce the ipi_nmi_handler() function for the Xen infrastructure
* Fixup adeguately the ipi sender functions
Approved by: re (kib)
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- Provide lapic_disable_pmc(), lapic_enable_pmc(), and lapic_reenable_pmc()
routines in the local APIC code that the hwpmc(4) driver can use to
manage the local APIC PMC interrupt vector.
- Do not enable the local APIC PMC interrupt vector by default when
HWPMC_HOOKS is enabled. Instead, the hwpmc(4) driver explicitly
enables the interrupt when it is succesfully initialized and disables
the interrupt when it is unloaded. This avoids enabling the interrupt
on unsupported CPUs which may result in spurious NMIs.
Reported by: rnoland
Reviewed by: jkoshy
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 2 weeks
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has proven to have a good effect when entering KDB by using a NMI,
but it completely violates all the good rules about interrupts
disabled while holding a spinlock in other occasions. This can be the
cause of deadlocks on events where a normal IPI_STOP is expected.
* Adds an new IPI called IPI_STOP_HARD on all the supported architectures.
This IPI is responsible for sending a stop message among CPUs using a
privileged channel when disponible. In other cases it just does match a
normal IPI_STOP.
Right now the IPI_STOP_HARD functionality uses a NMI on ia32 and amd64
architectures, while on the other has a normal IPI_STOP effect. It is
responsibility of maintainers to eventually implement an hard stop
when necessary and possible.
* Use the new IPI facility in order to implement a new userend SMP kernel
function called stop_cpus_hard(). That is specular to stop_cpu() but
it does use the privileged channel for the stopping facility.
* Let KDB use the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and leave
stop_cpus() for all the other cases
* Disable interrupts on CPU0 when starting the process of APs suspension.
* Style cleanup and comments adding
This patch should fix the reboot/shutdown deadlocks many users are
constantly reporting on mailing lists.
Please don't forget to update your config file with the STOP_NMI
option removal
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: pho, bz, rink
Approved by: re (kib)
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The newbus lock is responsible for protecting newbus internIal structures,
device states and devclass flags. It is necessary to hold it when all
such datas are accessed. For the other operations, softc locking should
ensure enough protection to avoid races.
Newbus lock is automatically held when virtual operations on the device
and bus are invoked when loading the driver or when the suspend/resume
take place. For other 'spourious' operations trying to access/modify
the newbus topology, newbus lock needs to be automatically acquired and
dropped.
For the moment Giant is also acquired in some key point (modules subsystem)
in order to avoid problems before the 8.0 release as module handlers could
make assumptions about it. This Giant locking should go just after
the release happens.
Please keep in mind that the public interface can be expanded in order
to provide more support, if there are really necessities at some point
and also some bugs could arise as long as the patch needs a bit of
further testing.
Bump __FreeBSD_version in order to reflect the newbus lock introduction.
Reviewed by: ed, hps, jhb, imp, mav, scottl
No answer by: ariff, thompsa, yongari
Tested by: pho,
G. Trematerra <giovanni dot trematerra at gmail dot com>,
Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch at gmail dot com>
Sponsored by: Yahoo! Incorporated
Approved by: re (ksmith)
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Approved by: re (kib)
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and using it when appropriate. Merge analogue of the r195836
optimization to XEN.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
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when memory page caching attributes changed, and CPU does not support
self-snoop, but implemented clflush, for i386.
Take care of possible mappings of the page by sf buffer by utilizing
the mapping for clflush, otherwise map the page transiently. Amd64
used direct map.
Proposed and reviewed by: alc
Approved by: re (kensmith)
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Discussed with: kjim
Approved by: re (kib)
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a device pager (OBJT_DEVICE) object in that it uses fictitious pages to
provide aliases to other memory addresses. The primary difference is that
it uses an sglist(9) to determine the physical addresses for a given offset
into the object instead of invoking the d_mmap() method in a device driver.
Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 2 weeks
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optimization was implemented in the amd64 version roughly 1 year ago.)
Approved by: re (kensmith)
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amd64 and i386. Essentially, fictitious pages provide a mechanism for
creating aliases for either normal or device-backed pages. Therefore,
pmap_page_set_memattr() on a fictitious page needn't update the direct
map or flush the cache. Such actions are the responsibility of the
"primary" instance of the page or the device driver that "owns" the
physical address. For example, these actions are already performed by
pmap_mapdev().
The device pager needn't restore the memory attributes on a fictitious
page before releasing it. It's now pointless.
Add pmap_page_set_memattr() to the Xen pmap.
Approved by: re (kib)
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configuring machine-dependent memory attributes...":
Don't set the memory attribute for a "real" page that is allocated to
a device object in vm_page_alloc(). It is a pointless act, because
the device pager replaces this "real" page with a "fake" page and sets
the memory attribute on that "fake" page.
Eliminate pointless code from pmap_cache_bits() on amd64.
Employ the "Self Snoop" feature supported by some x86 processors to
avoid cache flushes in the pmap.
Approved by: re (kib)
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relying on _CID.
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: re (kib)
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dependent memory attributes:
Rename vm_cache_mode_t to vm_memattr_t. The new name reflects the
fact that there are machine-dependent memory attributes that have
nothing to do with controlling the cache's behavior.
Introduce vm_object_set_memattr() for setting the default memory
attributes that will be given to an object's pages.
Introduce and use pmap_page_{get,set}_memattr() for getting and
setting a page's machine-dependent memory attributes. Add full
support for these functions on amd64 and i386 and stubs for them on
the other architectures. The function pmap_page_set_memattr() is also
responsible for any other machine-dependent aspects of changing a
page's memory attributes, such as flushing the cache or updating the
direct map. The uses include kmem_alloc_contig(), vm_page_alloc(),
and the device pager:
kmem_alloc_contig() can now be used to allocate kernel memory with
non-default memory attributes on amd64 and i386.
vm_page_alloc() and the device pager will set the memory attributes
for the real or fictitious page according to the object's default
memory attributes.
Update the various pmap functions on amd64 and i386 that map pages to
incorporate each page's memory attributes in the mapping.
Notes: (1) Inherent to this design are safety features that prevent
the specification of inconsistent memory attributes by different
mappings on amd64 and i386. In addition, the device pager provides a
warning when a device driver creates a fictitious page with memory
attributes that are inconsistent with the real page that the
fictitious page is an alias for. (2) Storing the machine-dependent
memory attributes for amd64 and i386 as a dedicated "int" in "struct
md_page" represents a compromise between space efficiency and the ease
of MFCing these changes to RELENG_7.
In collaboration with: jhb
Approved by: re (kib)
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net80211 wireless stack. This work is based on the March 2009 D3.0 draft
standard. This standard is expected to become final next year.
This includes two main net80211 modules, ieee80211_mesh.c
which deals with peer link management, link metric calculation,
routing table control and mesh configuration and ieee80211_hwmp.c
which deals with the actually routing process on the mesh network.
HWMP is the mandatory routing protocol on by the mesh standard, but
others, such as RA-OLSR, can be implemented.
Authentication and encryption are not implemented.
There are several scripts under tools/tools/net80211/scripts that can be
used to test different mesh network topologies and they also teach you
how to setup a mesh vap (for the impatient: ifconfig wlan0 create
wlandev ... wlanmode mesh).
A new build option is available: IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH and it's enabled
by default on GENERIC kernels for i386, amd64, sparc64 and pc98.
Drivers that support mesh networks right now are: ath, ral and mwl.
More information at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WifiMesh
Please note that this work is experimental. Also, please note that
bridging a mesh vap with another network interface is not yet supported.
Many thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring this project and to
Sam Leffler for his support.
Also, I would like to thank Gateworks Corporation for sending me a
Cambria board which was used during the development of this project.
Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: projects/mesh11s
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if the new file mode is the same as it was before; however, this
optimization must be disabled for filesystems that support NFSv4 ACLs.
Chmod uses pathconf(2) to determine whether this is the case - however,
pathconf(2) always follows symbolic links, while the 'chmod -h' doesn't.
This change adds lpathconf(3) to make it possible to solve that problem
in a clean way.
Reviewed by: rwatson (earlier version)
Approved by: re (kib)
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when the interrupt was moved from one CPU to another. If the interrupt was
enabled, then the old IDT vector needs to be disabled and the new IDT vector
needs to be enabled. This was mostly masked prior to the recent MSI changes
since in the older code almost all allocated IDT vectors were already enabled
and the enabled vectors on the BSP during boot covered enough of the IDT
range. However, after the MSI changes, MSI interrupts that were allocated
but not enabled (e.g. DRM with MSI) during boot could result in an allocated
IDT vector that wasn't enabled. The round-robin at the end of boot could
place another interrupt at the same IDT vector without enabling the IDT
vector causing trap 30 faults.
Fix this by explicitly disabling/enabling the old and new IDT vectors for
enabled interrupt sources when moving an interrupt between CPUs via the
pic_assign_cpu() method. While here, fix a bug in my earlier changes so
that an I/O APIC interrupt pin is left unchanged if ioapic_assign_cpu()
fails to allocate a new IDT vector and returns ENOSPC.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
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4-entry table that must be located within the first 4GB of RAM. This
requirement is met by defining an UMA zone with a custom back-end
allocator function. This revision makes two changes to this back-end
allocator function: (1) It replaces the use of contigmalloc() with the
use of kmem_alloc_contig(). This eliminates "double accounting", i.e.,
accounting by both the UMA zone and malloc tags. (I made the same
change for the same reason to the zones supporting jumbo frames a week
ago.) (2) It passes through the "wait" parameter, i.e., M_WAITOK,
M_ZERO, etc. to kmem_alloc_contig() rather than ignoring it.
pmap_init() calls uma_zalloc() with both M_WAITOK and M_ZERO. At the
moment, this is harmless only because the default behavior of
contigmalloc()/kmem_alloc_contig() is to wait and because pmap_init()
doesn't really depend on the memory being zeroed.
The back-end allocator function in the Xen pmap is dead code. I am
changing it nonetheless because I don't want to leave any "bad examples"
in the source tree for someone to copy at a later date.
Approved by: re (kib)
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o add to platforms where it was missing (arm, i386, powerpc, sparc64, sun4v)
o define as "1" on amd64 and i386 where there is no restriction
o make the type returned consistent with ALIGN
o remove _ALIGNED_POINTER
o make associated comments consistent
Reviewed by: bde, imp, marcel
Approved by: re (kensmith)
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More applications (including Firefox) seem to depend on this nowadays,
so not having this enabled by default is a bad idea.
Proposed by: miwi
Patch by: Florian Smeets <flo kasimir com>
Approved by: re (kib)
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- For x86, change the interrupt source method to assign an interrupt source
to a specific CPU to return an error value instead of void, thus allowing
it to fail.
- If moving an interrupt to a CPU fails due to a lack of IDT vectors in the
destination CPU, fail the request with ENOSPC rather than panicing.
- For MSI interrupts on x86 (but not MSI-X), only allow cpuset to be used
on the first interrupt in a group. Moving the first interrupt in a group
moves the entire group.
- Use the icu_lock to protect intr_next_cpu() on x86 instead of the
intr_table_lock to fix a LOR introduced in the last set of MSI changes.
- Add a new privilege PRIV_SCHED_CPUSET_INTR for using cpuset with
interrupts. Previously, binding an interrupt to a CPU only performed a
privilege check if the interrupt had an interrupt thread. Interrupts
without a thread could be bound by non-root users as a result.
- If an interrupt event's assign_cpu method fails, then restore the original
cpuset mask for the associated interrupt thread.
Approved by: re (kib)
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Approved by: re
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specific macros for each audit argument type. This makes it easier to
follow call-graphs, especially for automated analysis tools (such as
fxr).
In MFC, we should leave the existing AUDIT_ARG() macros as they may be
used by third-party kernel modules.
Suggested by: brooks
Approved by: re (kib)
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
MFC after: 1 week
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behavior of Linux.
Reported by: Alexander Best alexbestms of math.uni-muenster.de
Approved by: re (kib)
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Noticed by: jmallett
Approved by: re (kib)
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required by video card drivers. Specifically, this change introduces
vm_cache_mode_t with an appropriate VM_CACHE_DEFAULT definition on all
architectures. In addition, this changes adds a vm_cache_mode_t parameter
to kmem_alloc_contig() and vm_phys_alloc_contig(). These will be the
interfaces for allocating mapped kernel memory and physical memory,
respectively, with non-default cache modes.
In collaboration with: jhb
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for UP kernels but as a stub that always returns the single CPU's local
APIC ID.
Reported by: kib
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This is mostly important for the multiple MSI message case where the
IDT vectors for the entire group need to be allocated together. This
also restores the assumptions made by the PCI bus code that it could
invoke PCIB_MAP_MSI() once MSI vectors were allocated.
- To avoid whiplash with CPU assignments, change the way that CPUs are
assigned to interrupt sources on activation. Instead of assigning the
CPU via pic_assign_cpu() before calling enable_intr(), allow the
different interrupt source drivers to ask the MD interrupt code which
CPU to use when they allocate an IDT vector. I/O APIC interrupt pins
do this in their pic_enable_intr() routines giving the same behavior as
before. MSI sources do it when the IDT vectors are allocated during
msi_alloc() and msix_alloc().
- Change the intr_table_lock from an sx lock to a mutex.
Tested by: rnoland
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Submitted by: keramida
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- The uid/cuid members of struct ipc_perm are now uid_t instead of unsigned
short.
- The gid/cgid members of struct ipc_perm are now gid_t instead of unsigned
short.
- The mode member of struct ipc_perm is now mode_t instead of unsigned short
(this is merely a style bug).
- The rather dubious padding fields for ABI compat with SV/I386 have been
removed from struct msqid_ds and struct semid_ds.
- The shm_segsz member of struct shmid_ds is now a size_t instead of an
int. This removes the need for the shm_bsegsz member in struct
shmid_kernel and should allow for complete support of SYSV SHM regions
>= 2GB.
- The shm_nattch member of struct shmid_ds is now an int instead of a
short.
- The shm_internal member of struct shmid_ds is now gone. The internal
VM object pointer for SHM regions has been moved into struct
shmid_kernel.
- The existing __semctl(), msgctl(), and shmctl() system call entries are
now marked COMPAT7 and new versions of those system calls which support
the new ABI are now present.
- The new system calls are assigned to the FBSD-1.1 version in libc. The
FBSD-1.0 symbols in libc now refer to the old COMPAT7 system calls.
- A simplistic framework for tagging system calls with compatibility
symbol versions has been added to libc. Version tags are added to
system calls by adding an appropriate __sym_compat() entry to
src/lib/libc/incldue/compat.h. [1]
PR: kern/16195 kern/113218 bin/129855
Reviewed by: arch@, rwatson
Discussed with: kan, kib [1]
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- Modules and kernel code alike may use DPCPU_DEFINE(),
DPCPU_GET(), DPCPU_SET(), etc. akin to the statically defined
PCPU_*. Requires only one extra instruction more than PCPU_* and is
virtually the same as __thread for builtin and much faster for shared
objects. DPCPU variables can be initialized when defined.
- Modules are supported by relocating the module's per-cpu linker set
over space reserved in the kernel. Modules may fail to load if there
is insufficient space available.
- Track space available for modules with a one-off extent allocator.
Free may block for memory to allocate space for an extent.
Reviewed by: jhb, rwatson, kan, sam, grehan, marius, marcel, stas
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While general idea of patch was good, it was not working properly due the way
it was implemented. When we are using same timer interrupt for several of
hard/prof/stat purposes we should not send several IPIs same time to other
CPUs. Sending several IPIs same time leads to terrible accounting/profiling
results due to strong synchronization effect, when the second interrupt
handler accounts processing of the first one.
Interlink timer events in a such way, that no more then one IPI is sent for
any original timer interrupt.
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* Driver for ACPI HP extra functionations, which required
ACPI WMI driver.
Submitted by: Michael <freebsdusb at bindone.de>
Approved by: re
MFC after: 2 weeks
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introduction of i686_mem.c in r45405.
Merge adjacent #ifdef _KERNEL/#endif blocks.
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getgroups for ibcs emulation. It seems vanishingly likely any
programs will actually be affected since they probably assume a much
lower value and use a static array size.
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NGROUPS_MAX, eliminate ABI dependencies on them, and raise the to 1024
and 1023 respectively. (Previously they were equal, but under a close
reading of POSIX, NGROUPS_MAX was defined to be too large by 1 since it
is the number of supplemental groups, not total number of groups.)
The bulk of the change consists of converting the struct ucred member
cr_groups from a static array to a pointer. Do the equivalent in
kinfo_proc.
Introduce new interfaces crcopysafe() and crsetgroups() for duplicating
a process credential before modifying it and for setting group lists
respectively. Both interfaces take care for the details of allocating
groups array. crsetgroups() takes care of truncating the group list
to the current maximum (NGROUPS) if necessary. In the future,
crsetgroups() may be responsible for insuring invariants such as sorting
the supplemental groups to allow groupmember() to be implemented as a
binary search.
Because we can not change struct xucred without breaking application
ABIs, we leave it alone and introduce a new XU_NGROUPS value which is
always 16 and is to be used or NGRPS as appropriate for things such as
NFS which need to use no more than 16 groups. When feasible, truncate
the group list rather than generating an error.
Minor changes:
- Reduce the number of hand rolled versions of groupmember().
- Do not assign to both cr_gid and cr_groups[0].
- Modify ipfw to cache ucreds instead of part of their contents since
they are immutable once referenced by more than one entity.
Submitted by: Isilon Systems (initial implementation)
X-MFC after: never
PR: bin/113398 kern/133867
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specialreg.h now consists solely of register-related macros.
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allocated. MSI have strict vectors allocation requirements, which are not
satisfied now during reallocation. This is not the best possible solution,
but better then just broken, as it was.
No objections: current@, arch@, jhb@
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memory with 4MB pages was added to pmap_object_init_pt(). This code
assumes that the pages of a OBJT_DEVICE object are always physically
contiguous. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. For example,
jhb@ informs me that the recently introduced /dev/ksyms driver creates
a OBJT_DEVICE object that violates this assumption. Thus, this
revision modifies pmap_object_init_pt() to abort the mapping if the
OBJT_DEVICE object's pages are not physically contiguous. This
revision also changes some inconsistent if not buggy behavior. For
example, the i386 version aborts if the first 4MB virtual page that
would be mapped is already valid. However, it incorrectly replaces
any subsequent 4MB virtual page mappings that it encounters,
potentially leaking a page table page. The amd64 version has a bug of
my own creation. It potentially busies the wrong page and always an
insufficent number of pages if it blocks allocating a page table page.
To my knowledge, there have been no reports of these bugs, hence,
their persistance. I suspect that the existing restrictions that
pmap_object_init_pt() placed on the OBJT_DEVICE objects that it would
choose to map, for example, that the first page must be aligned on a 2
or 4MB physical boundary and that the size of the mapping must be a
multiple of the large page size, were enough to avoid triggering the
bug for drivers like ksyms. However, one side effect of testing the
OBJT_DEVICE object's pages for physical contiguity is that a dubious
difference between pmap_object_init_pt() and the standard path for
mapping devices pages, i.e., vm_fault(), has been eliminated.
Previously, pmap_object_init_pt() would only instantiate the first
PG_FICTITOUS page being mapped because it never examined the rest.
Now, however, pmap_object_init_pt() uses the new function
vm_object_populate() to instantiate them all (in order to support
testing their physical contiguity). These pages need to be
instantiated for the mechanism that I have prototyped for
automatically maintaining the consistency of the PAT settings across
multiple mappings, particularly, amd64's direct mapping, to work.
(Translation: This change is also being made to support jhb@'s work on
the Nvidia feature requests.)
Discussed with: jhb@
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In the past there have been some reports of PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE not
functioning correctly. Instead of having garbled console messages, we
should just see whether the issues are still there and analyze them.
Approved by: re
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Submitted by: Christoph Mallon
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Submitted by: Christoph Mallon
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Submitted by: Christoph Mallon
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Reviewed by: imp, current@
Approved by: jhb (mentor)
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vnode interlock to protect the knote fields [1]. The locking assumes
that shared vnode lock is held, thus we get exclusive access to knote
either by exclusive vnode lock protection, or by shared vnode lock +
vnode interlock.
Do not use kl_locked() method to assert either lock ownership or the
fact that curthread does not own the lock. For shared locks, ownership
is not recorded, e.g. VOP_ISLOCKED can return LK_SHARED for the shared
lock not owned by curthread, causing false positives in kqueue subsystem
assertions about knlist lock.
Remove kl_locked method from knlist lock vector, and add two separate
assertion methods kl_assert_locked and kl_assert_unlocked, that are
supposed to use proper asserts. Change knlist_init accordingly.
Add convenience function knlist_init_mtx to reduce number of arguments
for typical knlist initialization.
Submitted by: jhb [1]
Noted by: jhb [2]
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: rnoland
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controller. These controllers are also known as L1C(AR8131) and
L2C(AR8132) respectively. These controllers resembles the first
generation controller L1 but usage of different descriptor format
and new register mappings over L1 register space requires a new
driver. There are a couple of registers I still don't understand
but the driver seems to have no critical issues for performance and
stability. Currently alc(4) supports the following hardware
features.
o MSI
o TCP Segmentation offload
o Hardware VLAN tag insertion/stripping
o Tx/Rx interrupt moderation
o Hardware statistics counters(dev.alc.%d.stats)
o Jumbo frame
o WOL
AR8131/AR8132 also supports Tx checksum offloading but I disabled
it due to stability issues. I'm not sure this comes from broken
sample boards or hardware bugs. If you know your controller works
without problems you can still enable it. The controller has a
silicon bug for Rx checksum offloading, so the feature was not
implemented.
I'd like to say big thanks to Atheros. Atheros kindly sent sample
boards to me and answered several questions I had.
HW donated by: Atheros Communications, Inc.
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