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# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 247047 20-Feb-2013 kib

Convert machine/elf.h, machine/frame.h, machine/sigframe.h,
machine/signal.h and machine/ucontext.h into common x86 includes,
copying from amd64 and merging with i386.

Kernel-only compat definitions are kept in the i386/include/sigframe.h
and i386/include/signal.h, to reduce amd64 kernel namespace pollution.
The amd64 compat uses its own definitions so far.

The _MACHINE_ELF_WANT_32BIT definition is to allow the
sys/boot/userboot/userboot/elf32_freebsd.c to use i386 ELF definitions
on the amd64 compile host. The same hack could be usefully abused by
other code too.


# 230426 21-Jan-2012 kib

Add support for the extended FPU states on amd64, both for native
64bit and 32bit ABIs. As a side-effect, it enables AVX on capable
CPUs.

In particular:

- Query the CPU support for XSAVE, list of the supported extensions
and the required size of FPU save area. The hw.use_xsave tunable is
provided for disabling XSAVE, and hw.xsave_mask may be used to
select the enabled extensions.

- Remove the FPU save area from PCB and dynamically allocate the
(run-time sized) user save area on the top of the kernel stack,
right above the PCB. Reorganize the thread0 PCB initialization to
postpone it after BSP is queried for save area size.

- The dumppcb, stoppcbs and susppcbs now do not carry the FPU state as
well. FPU state is only useful for suspend, where it is saved in
dynamically allocated suspfpusave area.

- Use XSAVE and XRSTOR to save/restore FPU state, if supported and
enabled.

- Define new mcontext_t flag _MC_HASFPXSTATE, indicating that
mcontext_t has a valid pointer to out-of-struct extended FPU
state. Signal handlers are supplied with stack-allocated fpu
state. The sigreturn(2) and setcontext(2) syscall honour the flag,
allowing the signal handlers to inspect and manipilate extended
state in the interrupted context.

- The getcontext(2) never returns extended state, since there is no
place in the fixed-sized mcontext_t to place variable-sized save
area. And, since mcontext_t is embedded into ucontext_t, makes it
impossible to fix in a reasonable way. Instead of extending
getcontext(2) syscall, provide a sysarch(2) facility to query
extended FPU state.

- Add ptrace(2) support for getting and setting extended state; while
there, implement missed PT_I386_{GET,SET}XMMREGS for 32bit binaries.

- Change fpu_kern KPI to not expose struct fpu_kern_ctx layout to
consumers, making it opaque. Internally, struct fpu_kern_ctx now
contains a space for the extended state. Convert in-kernel consumers
of fpu_kern KPI both on i386 and amd64.

First version of the support for AVX was submitted by Tim Bird
<tim.bird am sony com> on behalf of Sony. This version was written
from scratch.

Tested by: pho (previous version), Yamagi Burmeister <lists yamagi org>
MFC after: 1 month


# 229104 31-Dec-2011 kib

Make the comment in i386/include/ucontext.h identical to the one in
amd64/include/ucontext.h. The later is better worded.

Requested by: deischen
MFC after: 3 days


# 227399 09-Nov-2011 kib

Attempt to improve formatting and content of several comments for
amd64 and i386 MD code.

Based on suggestions by: bde
MFC after: 1 week


# 190616 01-Apr-2009 kib

Add all segment registers for the amd64 CPU to struct reg and mcontext.
To keep these structures ABI-compatible, half the size of r_trapno,
r_err, mc_trapno, mc_flags.

Add fsbase and gsbase to mcontext on both amd64 and i386.
Add flags to amd64 mcontext to indicate that it contains valid segments
or bases.

In collaboration with: pho
Discussed with: peter
Reviewed by: jhb


# 150013 12-Sep-2005 obrien

MFamd64: use register_t's.


# 107521 02-Dec-2002 deischen

Align the FPU state in the ucontext and sigcontext to 16 bytes
to accomodate the new SSE/XMM floating point save/restore
instructions.

This commit is mostly from bde and includes some style nits.

Approved by: re (jhb)


# 106977 16-Nov-2002 deischen

Add getcontext, setcontext, and swapcontext as system calls.
Previously these were libc functions but were requested to
be made into system calls for atomicity and to coalesce what
might be two entrances into the kernel (signal mask setting
and floating point trap) into one.

A few style nits and comments from bde are also included.

Tested on alpha by: gallatin


# 105950 25-Oct-2002 peter

Split 4.x and 5.x signal handling so that we can keep 4.x signal
handling clean and functional as 5.x evolves. This allows some of the
nasty bandaids in the 5.x codepaths to be unwound.

Encapsulate 4.x signal handling under COMPAT_FREEBSD4 (there is an
anti-foot-shooting measure in place, 5.x folks need this for a while) and
finish encapsulating the older stuff under COMPAT_43. Since the ancient
stuff is required on alpha (longjmp(3) passes a 'struct osigcontext *'
to the current sigreturn(2), instead of the 'ucontext_t *' that sigreturn
is supposed to take), add a compile time check to prevent foot shooting
there too. Add uniform COMPAT_43 stubs for ia64/sparc64/powerpc.

Tested on: i386, alpha, ia64. Compiled on sparc64 (a few days ago).
Approved by: re


# 104460 04-Oct-2002 deischen

Add another temporary hack to allow running older i386 binaries.
This will be removed when new versions of syscalls sigreturn()
and sigaction() are added (mini is working on this but is in
the middle of a move).

This should fix the problem of cvsupd dying.


# 103408 16-Sep-2002 mini

Add kernel support needed for the KSE-aware libpthread:
- Maintain fpu state across signals.
- Save and restore FPU state properly in ucontext_t's.

Reviewed by: deischen, julian
Approved by: -arch


# 89175 10-Jan-2002 deischen

Use a spare slot in the machine context for a flags word to indicate
whether the machine context is valid and whether the FPU state is
valid (saved).

Mark the machine context valid before copying it out when sending a
signal.

Approved by: -arch


# 52140 11-Oct-1999 luoqi

Add a per-signal flag to mark handlers registered with osigaction, so we
can provide the correct context to each signal handler.

Fix broken sigsuspend(): don't use p_oldsigmask as a flag, use SAS_OLDMASK
as we did before the linuxthreads support merge (submitted by bde).

Move ps_sigstk from to p_sigacts to the main proc structure since signal
stack should not be shared among threads.

Move SAS_OLDMASK and SAS_ALTSTACK flags from sigacts::ps_flags to proc::p_flag.
Move PS_NOCLDSTOP and PS_NOCLDWAIT flags from proc::p_flag to procsig::ps_flag.

Reviewed by: marcel, jdp, bde


# 51984 07-Oct-1999 marcel

Simplification of the signal trampoline and other cleanups.

o Remove unused defines from genassym.c that were needed
by the trampoline.
o Add load_gs_param function to support.s that catches
a fault when %gs is loaded with an invalid descriptor.
The function returns EFAULT in that case.
o Remove struct trapframe from mcontext_t and replace it
with the list of registers.
o Modify sendsig and sigreturn accordingly.

This commit contains a patch by bde.

Reviewed by: luoqi, jdp


# 51942 04-Oct-1999 marcel

Re-introduction of sigcontext.

struct sigcontext and ucontext_t/mcontext_t are defined in such
a way that both (ie struct sigcontext and ucontext_t) can be
passed on to sigreturn. The signal handler is still given a
ucontext_t for maximum flexibility.

For backward compatibility sigreturn restores the state for the
alternate signal stack from sigcontext.sc_onstack and not from
ucontext_t.uc_stack. A good way to determine which value the
application has set and thus which value to use, is still open
for discussion.

NOTE: This change should only affect those binaries that use
sigcontext and/or ucontext_t. In the source tree itself
this is only doscmd. Recompilation is required for those
applications.

This commit also fixes a lot of style bugs without hopefully
adding new ones.

NOTE: struct sigaltstack.ss_size now has type size_t again. For
some reason I changed that into unsigned int.

Parts submitted by: bde
sigaltstack bug found by: bde


# 51792 29-Sep-1999 marcel

sigset_t change (part 3 of 5)
-----------------------------

By introducing a new sigframe so that the signal handler operates
on the new siginfo_t and on ucontext_t instead of sigcontext, we
now need two version of sendsig and sigreturn.

A flag in struct proc determines whether the process expects an
old sigframe or a new sigframe. The signal trampoline handles
which sigreturn to call. It does this by testing for a magic
cookie in the frame.

The alpha uses osigreturn to implement longjmp. This means that
osigreturn is not only used for compatibility with existing
binaries. To handle the new sigset_t, setjmp saves it in
sc_reserved (see NOTE).

the struct sigframe has been moved from frame.h to sigframe.h
to handle the complex header dependencies that was caused by
the new sigframe.

NOTE: For the i386, the size of jmp_buf has been increased to hold
the new sigset_t. On the alpha this has been prevented by
using sc_reserved in sigcontext.