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# 272461 02-Oct-2014 gjb

Copy stable/10@r272459 to releng/10.1 as part of
the 10.1-RELEASE process.

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

# 271999 22-Sep-2014 jhb

MFC 270850,271053,271192,271717:
Save and restore FPU state across suspend and resume on i386.
- Create a separate structure for per-CPU state saved across suspend and
resume that is a superset of a pcb.
- Store the FPU state for suspend and resume in the new structure
(for amd64, this moves it out of the PCB)
- On both i386 and amd64, all of the FPU suspend/resume handling is now
done in C.

Approved by: re (hrs)


# 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


# 237027 13-Jun-2012 jkim

- Fix resumectx() prototypes to reflect reality.
- For i386, simply jump to resumectx() with PCB in %ecx.
- Fix a style(9) nit while I am here.


# 236772 08-Jun-2012 iwasaki

Add x86/acpica/acpi_wakeup.c for amd64 and i386. Difference of
suspend/resume procedures are minimized among them.

common:
- Add global cpuset suspended_cpus to indicate APs are suspended/resumed.
- Remove acpi_waketag and acpi_wakemap from acpivar.h (no longer used).
- Add some variables in acpi_wakecode.S in order to minimize the difference
among amd64 and i386.
- Disable load_cr3() because now CR3 is restored in resumectx().

amd64:
- Add suspend/resume related members (such as MSR) in PCB.
- Modify savectx() for above new PCB members.
- Merge acpi_switch.S into cpu_switch.S as resumectx().

i386:
- Merge(and remove) suspendctx() into savectx() in order to match with
amd64 code.

Reviewed by: attilio@, acpi@


# 235622 18-May-2012 iwasaki

Add SMP/i386 suspend/resume support.
Most part is merged from amd64.

- i386/acpica/acpi_wakecode.S
Replaced with amd64 code (from realmode to paging enabling code).

- i386/acpica/acpi_wakeup.c
Replaced with amd64 code (except for wakeup_pagetables stuff).

- i386/include/pcb.h
- i386/i386/genassym.c
Added PCB new members (CR0, CR2, CR4, DS, ED, FS, SS, GDT, IDT, LDT
and TR) needed for suspend/resume, not for context switch.

- i386/i386/swtch.s
Added suspendctx() and resumectx().
Note that savectx() was not changed and used for suspending (while
amd64 code uses it).
BSP and AP execute the same sequence, suspendctx(), acpi_wakecode()
and resumectx() for suspend/resume (in case of UP system also).

- i386/i386/apic_vector.s
Added cpususpend().

- i386/i386/mp_machdep.c
- i386/include/smp.h
Added cpususpend_handler().

- i386/include/apicvar.h
- kern/subr_smp.c
- sys/smp.h
Added IPI_SUSPEND and suspend_cpus().

- i386/i386/initcpu.c
- i386/i386/machdep.c
- i386/include/md_var.h
- pc98/pc98/machdep.c
Moved initializecpu() declarations to md_var.h.

MFC after: 3 days


# 234785 29-Apr-2012 dim

Add a convenience macro for the returns_twice attribute, and apply it to
the prototypes of the appropriate functions (getcontext, savectx,
setjmp, sigsetjmp and vfork).

MFC after: 2 weeks


# 209461 23-Jun-2010 kib

Remove the support for int13 FPU exception reporting on i386. It is
believed that all 486-class CPUs FreeBSD is capable to run on, either
have no FPU and cannot use external coprocessor, or have FPU on the
package and can use #MF.

Reviewed by: bde
Tested by: pho (previous version)


# 208833 05-Jun-2010 kib

Introduce the x86 kernel interfaces to allow kernel code to use
FPU/SSE hardware. Caller should provide a save area that is chained
into the stack of the areas; pcb save_area for usermode FPU state is
on top. The pcb now contains a pointer to the current FPU saved area,
used during FPUDNA handling and context switches. There is also a
facility to allow the kernel thread to use pcb save_area.

Change the dreaded warnings "npxdna in kernel mode!" into the panics
when FPU usage is not registered.

KPI discussed with: fabient
Tested by: pho, fabient
Hardware provided by: Sentex Communications
MFC after: 1 month


# 189423 05-Mar-2009 jhb

A better fix for handling different FPU initial control words for different
ABIs:
- Store the FPU initial control word in the pcb for each thread.
- When first using the FPU, load the initial control word after restoring
the clean state if it is not the standard control word.
- Provide a correct control word for Linux/i386 binaries under
FreeBSD/amd64.
- Adjust the control word returned for fpugetregs()/npxgetregs() when a
thread hasn't used the FPU yet to reflect the real initial control
word for the current ABI.
- The Linux/i386 ABI for FreeBSD/i386 now properly sets the right control
word instead of trashing whatever the current state of the FPU is.

Reviewed by: bde


# 153836 29-Dec-2005 davidxu

Remove pcb_switchout, it has not been used for a long time.


# 145047 14-Apr-2005 peter

It seems I introduced a new prerequisite for <machine/pcb.h> on i386,
which is included from <sys/user.h>. Add a bandaid for userland.


# 145034 13-Apr-2005 peter

Change the segment limits to 4GB, we set the user accessible bit on all
of the kernel address space already. Intel recommend this anyway, because
using a non-4GB limit adds an additional clock cycle to address generation.
We were able to install 4GB segments into the LDT, so any limits we imposed
on %cs and %ds were academic anyway. More importantly, this allows us to
make a page in the kernel readable to user applications, for holding things
like the signal trampoline and other fun things.

Move the user %cs/%ds segments from the LDT to the GDT. There was no good
reason for them to be there anyway. The old LDT entries are still there
but we can now relax the restriction that prevented users from emptying
the default LDT entries.

Putting user and kernel %cs and %ds together allows us to access the fast
sysenter/sysexit/syscall/sysret instructions. syscall/sysret in particular
require that the user/kernel segments be laid out this way. Reserve a slot
specifically for NDIS while here.

Create two user controllable slots in the GDT that are context switched
with the (kernel) thread. This allows user applications to set two
user privilige selectors to arbitary values. Create
i386_set_fsbase(void *base) and friends. (get/set, fs/gs). For i386,
%gs is used by tls and the thread libraries and this means that user
processes no longer have to have the cost of having a custom LDT, and
we will no longer to do a ldt switch when activating a kthread/ithread in
the usual case any more.

In other words, we can now set the base address for %fs and %gs to arbitary
addresses without the pain of messing with ldt segments.


# 145025 13-Apr-2005 peter

Fix an evil bug that appeared in September 2003. VM86 bios calls use two
of the __pcb_spare longs. Except that fields were changed and one of the
spare values was used and the __pcb_spare field was reduced from two to one
long. Now VM86 bios calls can trash the first 4 bytes of the next page
following the kernel stack/pcb. This Is Bad(TM). This bug has been
present in 5.2-release and onwards, and is still in RELENG_5.

Instead of tempting fate and trying to use "spare" fields, explicitly
reserve them.


# 131905 10-Jul-2004 marcel

Implement makectx(). The makectx() function is used by KDB to create
a PCB from a trapframe for purposes of unwinding the stack. The PCB
is used as the thread context and all but the thread that entered the
debugger has a valid PCB.
This function can also be used to create a context for the threads
running on the CPUs that have been stopped when the debugger got
entered. This however is not done at the time of this commit.


# 128019 07-Apr-2004 imp

Remove advertising clause from University of California Regent's
license, per letter dated July 22, 1999 and email from Peter Wemm,
Alan Cox and Robert Watson.

Approved by: core, peter, alc, rwatson


# 120602 30-Sep-2003 jeff

- On my Pentium4-M laptop, invalpg takes ~1100 cycles if the page is found in
the TLB and ~1600 if it is not. Therefore, it is more effecient to
invalidate the TLB after operations that use CMAP rather than before.
- So that the tlb is invalidated prior to switching off of a processor, we
must change the switchin functions to switchout functions.
- Remove td_switchout from the thread and move it to the x86 pcb.
- Move the code that calls switchout into swtch.s. These changes make this
optimization truely x86 specific.


# 106542 06-Nov-2002 davidxu

1.Fix smp race between kernel vm86 BIOS calling and userland vm86 mode code,
remove global variable in_vm86call, set vm86 calling flag in PCB flags.

2.Fix vm86 BIOS calling preempted problem by changing vm86_lock mutex type
from MTX_DEF to MTX_SPIN. vm86pcb is not remembered in thread struct,
when the thread calling vm86 BIOS is preempted by interrupt thread,
and later switching back to the thread would cause incorrect context be
loaded into CPU registers, this leads to kernel crash.


# 105138 14-Oct-2002 peter

The a.out md_coredump stuff isn't referenced anywhere anymore, and
hasn't been filled in for ages.. Nuked.


# 104294 01-Oct-2002 phk

It is too much work convincing lint why we would want empty structures,
so make the non-empty #ifdef lint.


# 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


# 93264 27-Mar-2002 dillon

Compromise for critical*()/cpu_critical*() recommit. Cleanup the interrupt
disablement assumptions in kern_fork.c by adding another API call,
cpu_critical_fork_exit(). Cleanup the td_savecrit field by moving it
from MI to MD. Temporarily move cpu_critical*() from <arch>/include/cpufunc.h
to <arch>/<arch>/critical.c (stage-2 will clean this up).

Implement interrupt deferral for i386 that allows interrupts to remain
enabled inside critical sections. This also fixes an IPI interlock bug,
and requires uses of icu_lock to be enclosed in a true interrupt disablement.

This is the stage-1 commit. Stage-2 will occur after stage-1 has stabilized,
and will move cpu_critical*() into its own header file(s) + other things.
This commit may break non-i386 architectures in trivial ways. This should
be temporary.

Reviewed by: core
Approved by: core


# 92761 20-Mar-2002 alfred

Remove __P.


# 91328 26-Feb-2002 dillon

revert last commit temporarily due to whining on the lists.


# 91315 26-Feb-2002 dillon

STAGE-1 of 3 commit - allow (but do not require) interrupts to remain
enabled in critical sections and streamline critical_enter() and
critical_exit().

This commit allows an architecture to leave interrupts enabled inside
critical sections if it so wishes. Architectures that do not wish to do
this are not effected by this change.

This commit implements the feature for the I386 architecture and provides
a sysctl, debug.critical_mode, which defaults to 1 (use the feature). For
now you can turn the sysctl on and off at any time in order to test the
architectural changes or track down bugs.

This commit is just the first stage. Some areas of the code, specifically
the MACHINE_CRITICAL_ENTER #ifdef'd code, is strictly temporary and will
be cleaned up in the STAGE-2 commit when the critical_*() functions are
moved entirely into MD files.

The following changes have been made:

* critical_enter() and critical_exit() for I386 now simply increment
and decrement curthread->td_critnest. They no longer disable
hard interrupts. When critical_exit() decrements the counter to
0 it effectively calls a routine to deal with whatever interrupts
were deferred during the time the code was operating in a critical
section.

Other architectures are unaffected.

* fork_exit() has been conditionalized to remove MD assumptions for
the new code. Old code will still use the old MD assumptions
in regards to hard interrupt disablement. In STAGE-2 this will
be turned into a subroutine call into MD code rather then hardcoded
in MI code.

The new code places the burden of entering the critical section
in the trampoline code where it belongs.

* I386: interrupts are now enabled while we are in a critical section.
The interrupt vector code has been adjusted to deal with the fact.
If it detects that we are in a critical section it currently defers
the interrupt by adding the appropriate bit to an interrupt mask.

* In order to accomplish the deferral, icu_lock is required. This
is i386-specific. Thus icu_lock can only be obtained by mainline
i386 code while interrupts are hard disabled. This change has been
made.

* Because interrupts may or may not be hard disabled during a
context switch, cpu_switch() can no longer simply assume that
PSL_I will be in a consistent state. Therefore, it now saves and
restores eflags.

* FAST INTERRUPT PROVISION. Fast interrupts are currently deferred.
The intention is to eventually allow them to operate either while
we are in a critical section or, if we are able to restrict the
use of sched_lock, while we are not holding the sched_lock.

* ICU and APIC vector assembly for I386 cleaned up. The ICU code
has been cleaned up to match the APIC code in regards to format
and macro availability. Additionally, the code has been adjusted
to deal with deferred interrupts.

* Deferred interrupts use a per-cpu boolean int_pending, and
masks ipending, spending, and fpending. Being per-cpu variables
it is not currently necessary to lock; bus cycles modifying them.

Note that the same mechanism will enable preemption to be
incorporated as a true software interrupt without having to
further hack up the critical nesting code.

* Note: the old critical_enter() code in kern/kern_switch.c is
currently #ifdef to be compatible with both the old and new
methodology. In STAGE-2 it will be moved entirely to MD code.

Performance issues:

One of the purposes of this commit is to enhance critical section
performance, specifically to greatly reduce bus overhead to allow
the critical section code to be used to protect per-cpu caches.
These caches, such as Jeff's slab allocator work, can potentially
operate very quickly making the effective savings of the new
critical section code's performance very significant.

The second purpose of this commit is to allow architectures to
enable certain interrupts while in a critical section. Specifically,
the intention is to eventually allow certain FAST interrupts to
operate rather then defer.

The third purpose of this commit is to begin to clean up the
critical_enter()/critical_exit()/cpu_critical_enter()/
cpu_critical_exit() API which currently has serious cross pollution
in MI code (in fork_exit() and ast() for example).

The fourth purpose of this commit is to provide a framework that
allows kernel-preempting software interrupts to be implemented
cleanly. This is currently used for two forward interrupts in I386.
Other architectures will have the choice of using this infrastructure
or building the functionality directly into critical_enter()/
critical_exit().

Finally, this commit is designed to greatly improve the flexibility
of various architectures to manage critical section handling,
software interrupts, preemption, and other highly integrated
architecture-specific details.


# 89466 17-Jan-2002 bde

Changed the type of pcb_flags from u_char to u_int and adjusted things.
This removes the only atomic operation on a char type in the entire
kernel.


# 85449 24-Oct-2001 jhb

Split the per-process Local Descriptor Table out of the PCB and into
struct mdproc.

Submitted by: Andrew R. Reiter <arr@watson.org>
Silence on: -current


# 79630 12-Jul-2001 peter

The #define for pcb_savefpu seems to do more harm than good.


# 79609 12-Jul-2001 peter

Activate SSE/SIMD. This is the extra context switching support that
we are required to do if we let user processes use the extra 128 bit
registers etc.

This is the base part of the diff I got from:
http://www.issei.org/issei/FreeBSD/sse.html
I believe this is by: Mr. SUZUKI Issei <issei@issei.org>
SMP support apparently by: Takekazu KATO <kato@chino.it.okayama-u.ac.jp>
Test code by: NAKAMURA Kazushi <kaz@kobe1995.net>, see
http://kobe1995.net/~kaz/FreeBSD/SSE.en.html

I have fixed a couple of style(9) deviations. I have some followup
commits to fix a couple of non-style things.


# 77015 22-May-2001 bde

Convert npx interrupts into traps instead of vice versa. This is much
simpler for npx exceptions that start as traps (no assembly required...)
and works better for npx exceptions that start as interrupts (there is
no longer a problem for nested interrupts).

Submitted by: original (pre-SMPng) version by luoqi


# 72930 22-Feb-2001 peter

Activate USER_LDT by default. The new thread libraries are going to
depend on this. The linux ABI emulator tries to use it for some linux
binaries too. VM86 had a bigger cost than this and it was made default
a while ago.

Reviewed by: jhb, imp


# 72746 20-Feb-2001 jhb

- Don't call clear_resched() in userret(), instead, clear the resched flag
in mi_switch() just before calling cpu_switch() so that the first switch
after a resched request will satisfy the request.
- While I'm at it, move a few things into mi_switch() and out of
cpu_switch(), specifically set the p_oncpu and p_lastcpu members of
proc in mi_switch(), and handle the sched_lock state change across a
context switch in mi_switch().
- Since cpu_switch() no longer handles the sched_lock state change, we
have to setup an initial state for sched_lock in fork_exit() before we
release it.


# 67694 27-Oct-2000 bde

Declare or #define per-cpu globals in <machine/globals.h> in all cases.
The i386 UP case was messily different.


# 65557 06-Sep-2000 jasone

Major update to the way synchronization is done in the kernel. Highlights
include:

* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*(). See mutex(9). (Note: The
alpha port is still in transition and currently uses both.)

* Per-CPU idle processes.

* Interrupts are run in their own separate kernel threads and can be
preempted (i386 only).

Partially contributed by: BSDi (BSD/OS)
Submissions by (at least): cp, dfr, dillon, grog, jake, jhb, sheldonh


# 55205 29-Dec-1999 peter

Change #ifdef KERNEL to #ifdef _KERNEL in the public headers. "KERNEL"
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.


# 54188 06-Dec-1999 luoqi

User ldt sharing.


# 50477 27-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 48691 09-Jul-1999 jlemon

Implement support for hardware debug registers on the i386.

Submitted by: Brian Dean <brdean@unx.sas.com>


# 47678 01-Jun-1999 jlemon

Unifdef VM86.

Reviewed by: silence on on -current


# 46129 27-Apr-1999 luoqi

Enable vmspace sharing on SMP. Major changes are,
- %fs register is added to trapframe and saved/restored upon kernel entry/exit.
- Per-cpu pages are no longer mapped at the same virtual address.
- Each cpu now has a separate gdt selector table. A new segment selector
is added to point to per-cpu pages, per-cpu global variables are now
accessed through this new selector (%fs). The selectors in gdt table are
rearranged for cache line optimization.
- fask_vfork is now on as default for both UP and SMP.
- Some aio code cleanup.

Reviewed by: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
John Dyson <dyson@iquest.net>
Julian Elischer <julian@whistel.com>
Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
David Greenman <dg@root.com>


# 33051 03-Feb-1998 bde

Ifdefed some SMP and VM86 code. Note that although VM86 is not a global
option, the ifdef on it in a header works because only the name of the
VM86 extension is hidden.


# 30274 10-Oct-1997 peter

Don't #include unneeded includes here. pcb_ext.h picks up lots of other
stuff with it.


# 27993 08-Aug-1997 dyson

VM86 kernel support.
Work done by BSDI, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>,
Mike Smith <msmith@gsoft.com.au>, Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>,
and probably alot of others.
Submitted by: Jnathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>


# 26812 22-Jun-1997 peter

Preliminary support for per-cpu data pages.

This eliminates a lot of #ifdef SMP type code. Things like _curproc reside
in a data page that is unique on each cpu, eliminating the expensive macros
like: #define curproc (SMPcurproc[cpunumber()])

There are some unresolved bootstrap and address space sharing issues at
present, but Steve is waiting on this for other work. There is still some
strictly temporary code present that isn't exactly pretty.

This is part of a larger change that has run into some bumps, this part is
standalone so it should be safe. The temporary code goes away when the
full idle cpu support is finished.

Reviewed by: fsmp, dyson


# 26494 07-Jun-1997 bde

Preserve %fs and %gs across context switches. This has a relatively low
cost since it is only done in cpu_switch(), not for every exception.
The extra state is kept in the pcb, and handled much like the npx state,
with similar deficiencies (the state is not preserved across signal
handlers, and error handling loses state).


# 25545 07-May-1997 peter

remove #include opt_smp.h
declare SMPcurpcb[] next to #define and uniprocessor counterpart


# 25164 26-Apr-1997 peter

Man the liferafts! Here comes the long awaited SMP -> -current merge!

There are various options documented in i386/conf/LINT, there is more to
come over the next few days.

The kernel should run pretty much "as before" without the options to
activate SMP mode.

There are a handful of known "loose ends" that need to be fixed, but
have been put off since the SMP kernel is in a moderately good condition
at the moment.

This commit is the result of the tinkering and testing over the last 14
months by many people. A special thanks to Steve Passe for implementing
the APIC code!


# 24690 07-Apr-1997 peter

No longer use an i386tss as the basis of our pcb - it wasn't particularly
convenient and makes life difficult for my next commit. We still need
an i386tss to point to for the tss slot in the gdt, so we use a common
tss shared between all processes.

Note that this is going to break debugging until this series of commits
is finished. core dumps will change again too. :-( we really need
a more modern core dump format that doesn't depend on the pcb/upages.

This change makes VM86 mode harder, but the following commits will remove
a lot of constraints for the VM86 system, including the possibility of
extending the pcb for an IO port map etc.

Obtained from: bde


# 22975 22-Feb-1997 peter

Back out part 1 of the MCFH that changed $Id$ to $FreeBSD$. We are not
ready for it yet.


# 21673 14-Jan-1997 jkh

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.


# 17371 31-Jul-1996 bde

Eliminated pcb_inl. It was always 0 because context switches don't occur
in interrupt handlers.


# 15501 01-May-1996 bde

Don't return unused values in cpu_switch() or savectx().

Don't preserve unused registers in the NPX case in savectx().


# 15379 25-Apr-1996 phk

Fix cpu_fork for real.

Suggested by: bde


# 15304 19-Apr-1996 phk

savectx returns through cpu_switch in case of the child, so it must
return void just like cpu_switch. Fix prototype and usage from machdep.c


# 15301 18-Apr-1996 phk

Fix a bogon. cpu_fork & savectx ecpected cpu_switch to restore %eax,
they shouldn't.


# 14331 02-Mar-1996 peter

Mega-commit for Linux emulator update.. This has been stress tested under
netscape-2.0 for Linux running all the Java stuff. The scrollbars are now
working, at least on my machine. (whew! :-)

I'm uncomfortable with the size of this commit, but it's too
inter-dependant to easily seperate out.

The main changes:

COMPAT_LINUX is *GONE*. Most of the code has been moved out of the i386
machine dependent section into the linux emulator itself. The int 0x80
syscall code was almost identical to the lcall 7,0 code and a minor tweak
allows them to both be used with the same C code. All kernels can now
just modload the lkm and it'll DTRT without having to rebuild the kernel
first. Like IBCS2, you can statically compile it in with "options LINUX".

A pile of new syscalls implemented, including getdents(), llseek(),
readv(), writev(), msync(), personality(). The Linux-ELF libraries want
to use some of these.

linux_select() now obeys Linux semantics, ie: returns the time remaining
of the timeout value rather than leaving it the original value.

Quite a few bugs removed, including incorrect arguments being used in
syscalls.. eg: mixups between passing the sigset as an int, vs passing
it as a pointer and doing a copyin(), missing return values, unhandled
cases, SIOC* ioctls, etc.

The build for the code has changed. i386/conf/files now knows how
to build linux_genassym and generate linux_assym.h on the fly.

Supporting changes elsewhere in the kernel:

The user-mode signal trampoline has moved from the U area to immediately
below the top of the stack (below PS_STRINGS). This allows the different
binary emulations to have their own signal trampoline code (which gets rid
of the hardwired syscall 103 (sigreturn on BSD, syslog on Linux)) and so
that the emulator can provide the exact "struct sigcontext *" argument to
the program's signal handlers.

The sigstack's "ss_flags" now uses SS_DISABLE and SS_ONSTACK flags, which
have the same values as the re-used SA_DISABLE and SA_ONSTACK which are
intended for sigaction only. This enables the support of a SA_RESETHAND
flag to sigaction to implement the gross SYSV and Linux SA_ONESHOT signal
semantics where the signal handler is reset when it's triggered.

makesyscalls.sh no longer appends the struct sysentvec on the end of the
generated init_sysent.c code. It's a lot saner to have it in a seperate
file rather than trying to update the structure inside the awk script. :-)

At exec time, the dozen bytes or so of signal trampoline code are copied
to the top of the user's stack, rather than obtaining the trampoline code
the old way by getting a clone of the parent's user area. This allows
Linux and native binaries to freely exec each other without getting
trampolines mixed up.


# 13580 23-Jan-1996 dg

Simplified savectx() a little and fixed a bug that caused it to return
garbage in the child process rather than "1" like it is supposed to.

Reviewed by: bde


# 10092 17-Aug-1995 dg

Killed some unused stuff inherited from Bill Jolitz. Note that since
this changes the size of the pcb struct, gdb will need to be rebuilt
or debugging won't work correctly.

Reviewed by: Bruce Evans


# 4929 03-Dec-1994 bde

i386/exception.s,
Keep track of interrupt nesting level. It is normally 0
for syscalls and traps, but is fudged to 1 for their exit
processing in case they metamorphose into an interrupt
handler.

i386/genassym.c;
Remove support for the obsolete pcb_iml and pcb_cmap2.

Add support for pcb_inl.

i386/swtch.s:
Fudge the interrupt nesting level across context switches and in
the idle loop so that the work for preemptive context switches
gets counted as interrupt time, the work for voluntary context
switches gets counted mostly as system time (the part when
curproc == 0 gets counted as interrupt time), and only truly idle
time gets counted as idle time.

Remove obsolete support (commented out and otherwise) for pcb_iml.

Load curpcb just before curproc instead of just after so that
curpcb is always valid if curproc is. A few more changes like
this may fix tracing through context switches.

Remove obsolete function swtch_to_inactive().

include/cpu.h:
Use the new interrupt nesting level variable to implement a
non-fake CLF_INTR() so that accounting for the interrupt state
works.

You can use top, iostat or (best) an up to date systat to see
interrupt overheads. I see the expected huge interrupt overheads
for ISA devices (on a 486DX/33, about 55% for an IDE drive
transferring 1250K/sec and the same for a WD8013EBT network card
transferring 1100K/sec). The huge interrupt overheads for serial
devices are unfortunately normally invisible.

include/pcb.h:
Remove the obsolete pcb_iml and pcb_cmap2. Replace them by
padding to preserve binary compatibility.

Use part of the new padding for pcb_inl.

isa/icu.s:
isa/vector.s:
Keep track of interrupt nesting level.


# 3437 08-Oct-1994 phk

Added prototypes.


# 2056 13-Aug-1994 wollman

Change all #includes to follow the current Berkeley style. Some of these
``changes'' are actually not changes at all, but CVS sometimes has trouble
telling the difference.

This also includes support for second-directory compiles. This is not
quite complete yet, as `config' doesn't yet do the right thing. You can
still make it work trivially, however, by doing the following:

rm /sys/compile
mkdir /usr/obj/sys/compile
ln -s M-. /sys/compile
cd /sys/i386/conf
config MYKERNEL
cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL
ln -s /sys @
rm machine
ln -s @/i386/include machine
make depend
make


# 1549 25-May-1994 rgrimes

The big 4.4BSD Lite to FreeBSD 2.0.0 (Development) patch.

Reviewed by: Rodney W. Grimes
Submitted by: John Dyson and David Greenman


# 924 03-Jan-1994 dg

Convert syscall to trapframe. Based on work done by John Brezak.


# 719 07-Nov-1993 wollman

Made all header files idempotent and moved incorrect common data from
headers into a related source file. Added cons.h as first step towards
moving i386/i386/cons.h to machine/cons.h where it belongs.


# 557 08-Oct-1993 rgrimes

All:
Remove patch kit headers, and add $Id$
This is mostly to align some more code with NetBSD.

cpu.h:
Remove the old function vs. include configuration stuff that was
ifdefed out when we went to inline functions.
Remove the define of resettodr that made it a nop, there is
already a function that makes it a nop, no need to #define one.
Remove the #defines of processor types, they are now defined
in cputypes.h, #include that file.
Add struct cpu_nameclass for support of cpu types.

frame.h:
include sys/signal.h, it will be needed in the future.
put the sigframe structure here that was in machdep.c

pcb.h:
Add multiple inclusion protection.
Add pcb_ldt and pcb_ldt_len to pcb structure, this is for the
user mode ldt.


# 5 12-Jun-1993 rgrimes

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r4,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.


# 4 12-Jun-1993 rgrimes

Initial import, 0.1 + pk 0.2.4-B1