What is the HPET I hear you ask? It is the High Precision Event Timer
that is supposed to supplement and eventually replace the 8254 timer and
the RTC periodic interrupts. Among other things, it is 64 bit (can be
run in 32 bit mode for 32 bit cpus), and is suitable as a replacement for
the ACPI timer on SMP systems (the specs are much better) and as a
replacement for the ITC based synthetic clock for on ia64 systems.
It seems IA64 and AMD64 systems tend to have this. It is likely to start
showing up in i386 systems if it isn't already on some of them.
that we can flush the register stack prior to entering the kernel.
This avoids having dirty registers and saves us from having to
manually write them to the backing store from within the kernel.
In that respect, flushing the RSE is both functionally required as
well as performance optimal.
On average we had 18 dirty registers when getcontext(2) was called
from libthr. Since libthr does not switch back to a context created
by getcontext(2), not having dealt with the dirty registers was
harmless.
on the corresponding .proc directive, or the .endp must not have a
name at all.
While here, remove an artificial dependency in Ovfork.S by performing
manual register renaming.
type. We know about header types 0, 1 and 2. Ignore the rest in the
MD i386 code when we're looking for bridges. You cannot look at the
vendor tag. And if you don't you certainly can't look at function > 0
if the device isn't there.
The new soekris boards' GEODE cpu has issues with the old way. This
is reported to have fixed it.
MFC After: 2 days
considered to be good to try when it otherwise has no clue about which
interrupts to try. This is a band-aide and we really should try to
balance the IRQs that we arbitrarily pick, but it should help some
people that would otherwise get bad IRQs.
recompiling the driver. See the comments near the top of "if_em.h"
for descriptions of these delays. Four new loader tunables control
the system-wide default values:
hw.em.tx_int_delay
hw.em.rx_int_delay
hw.em.tx_abs_int_delay
hw.em.rx_abs_int_delay
The tunables are specified in microseconds. The valid range is
0-67108 usec., and 0 means that the timer is disabled.
There are also four new sysctls (actually, a set of four for each
"em" device in the system) to query and change the interrupt delays
after the system is up:
hw.em0.tx_int_delay
hw.em0.rx_int_delay
hw.em0.tx_abs_int_delay (not present for 82542/3/4 adapters)
hw.em0.rx_abs_int_delay (not present for 82542/3/4 adapters)
It seems to be OK to change these values even while the adapter is
passing traffic.
Approved by: Prafulla Deuskar <pdeuskar@FreeBSD.ORG>
MFC after: 4 weeks
would print it with probability 1/2**32. It seems that the correct
behavior is to print 4 with probability 1/4, but I'd like to avoid
breaking POLA until all the range inconsistencies in jot can be fixed
in one pass. See PR for details.
PR: 54878
Submitted by: David Brinegar <jot.3.brinegar@spamgourmet.com>
from passing the -P flag to crunchgen which seems to confuse crunchgen
horribly. This is the preferable solution to modifing crunchgen to
unset the MAKEFLAGS environment variable.
Submitted by: gad@
- Move isa/ppc* to sys/dev/ppc (repo-copy)
- Add an attachment method to ppc for puc
- In puc we need to walk the chain of parents.
Still to do, is to make ppc(4) & puc(4) work on other platforms. Testers
wanted.
PR: 38372 (in spirit done differently)
Verified by: Make universe (if I messed up a platform please fix)
the userland version of [gs]etcontext to switch between a thread
and the UTS scheduler (and back again). This also fixes a bug
in i386 _thr_setcontext() which wasn't properly restoring the
context.
Reviewed by: davidxu
