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# 296373 04-Mar-2016 marius

- Copy stable/10@296371 to releng/10.3 in preparation for 10.3-RC1
builds.
- Update newvers.sh to reflect RC1.
- Update __FreeBSD_version to reflect 10.3.
- Update default pkg(8) configuration to use the quarterly branch.

Approved by: re (implicit)

# 266004 14-May-2014 ian

MFC r258247, r258250, r258257

Remove a pointless #ifdef AIM. This is just PPC64 specific, including
64-bit Book-E.

Make single precision floating point arithmetic actually work

Split the function of the PCB_FPU flags into two: PCB_FPU now indicates that
the actual FPU is enabled, while PCB_FPREGS indicates that the FPU state
structure in the PCB is valid.


# 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


# 252434 01-Jul-2013 kib

Fix issues with zeroing and fetching the counters, on x86 and ppc64.
Issues were noted by Bruce Evans and are present on all architectures.

On i386, a counter fetch should use atomic read of 64bit value,
otherwise carry from the increment on other CPU could be lost for the
given fetch, making error of 2^32. If 64bit read (cmpxchg8b) is not
available on the machine, it cannot be SMP and it is enough to disable
preemption around read to avoid the split read.

On x86 the counter increment is not atomic on purpose, which makes it
possible for the store of the incremented result to override just
zeroed per-cpu slot. The effect would be a counter going off by
arbitrary value after zeroing. Perform the counter zeroing on the
same processor which does the increments, making the operations
mutually exclusive. On i386, same as for the fetching, if the
cmpxchg8b is not available, machine is not SMP and we disable
preemption for zeroing.

PowerPC64 is treated the same as amd64.

For other architectures, the changes made to allow the compilation to
succeed, without fixing the issues with zeroing or fetching. It
should be possible to handle them by using the 64bit loads and stores
atomic WRT preemption (assuming the architectures also converted from
using critical sections to proper asm). If architecture does not
provide the facility, using global (spin) mutex would be non-optimal
but working solution.

Noted by: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 249304 09-Apr-2013 kib

Fix build for AIM 64bit.


# 249268 08-Apr-2013 glebius

Merge from projects/counters: counter(9).

Introduce counter(9) API, that implements fast and raceless counters,
provided (but not limited to) for gathering of statistical data.

See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-April/014204.html
for more details.

In collaboration with: kib
Reviewed by: luigi
Tested by: ae, ray
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.