instead of a PCPU field for curthread. This averts a race on SMP systems
with a high interrupt rate where the thread looking up the value of
curthread could be preempted and migrated between obtaining the PCPU
pointer and reading the value of pc_curthread, resulting in curthread being
observed to be the current thread on the thread's original CPU. This played
merry havoc with the system, in particular with mutexes. Many thanks to
jhb for helping me work this one out.
Note that Book-E is in principle susceptible to the same problem, but has
not been modified yet due to lack of Book-E hardware.
MFC after: 2 weeks
some interesting bugs (mostly on SMP systems) with atomic operations
silently failing in interrupt heavy situations, especially when using
overflow pages.
(obvious in retrospect) in which interrupts on one CPU that are temporarily
masked can end up permanently masked when a handler on another CPU clobbers
the interrupt mask register with an old copy.
the future, but presents a set of simple block devices for now. With
(forthcoming) boot loader support or vfs.root.mountfrom, allows booting
PS3s from disk.
Submitted by: glevand <geoffrey.levand@mail.ru>
pmap_sync_icache() to sync random (possibly uncached or nonexisting!)
memory, causing kernel page faults or machine checks, most easily
triggered by using GDB. While here, add an additional safeguard to only
sync cacheable memory.
MFC after: 2 days
Renovate and improve the AIM Open Firmware support:
- Add RTAS (Run-Time Abstraction Services) support, found on all IBM systems
and some Apple ones
- Improve support for 32-bit real mode Open Firmware systems
- Pull some more OF bits over from the AIM directory
- Fix memory detection on IBM LPARs and systems with more than one /memory
node (by andreast@)
be brought up in the order they are enumerated in the device tree (in
particular, that thread 0 on each core be brought up first). The SLIST
through which we loop to start the CPUs has all of its entries added with
SLIST_INSERT_HEAD(), which means it is in reverse order of enumeration
and so AP startup would always fail in such situations (causing a machine
check or RTAS failure). Fix this by changing the SLIST into an STAILQ,
and inserting new CPUs at the end.
Reviewed by: jhb
Kelvin temperature, which is impossible except for some contrived magnetic
spin systems), use the previous measurement from that sensor instead of
corrupting everything and randomly changing the fans or shutting off the
machine.
o In bare_probe(), change the logic that determines the maximum
number of processors/cores into a switch statement and take
advantage of the fact that bit 3 of the SVR value indicates
whether we're running on a security enabled version. Since we
don't care about that here, mask the bit. All -E versions
are taken care of automatically.
that will connect all of the various sensors and fan control modules on
Apple hardware with software-controlled fans (e.g. all G5 systems).
MFC after: 1 month
