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# 267654 19-Jun-2014 gjb

Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.

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

# 265882 11-May-2014 markj

MFC r236566 (by zml):
Fix DTrace TSC skew calculation:

The skew calculation here is exactly backwards. We were able to repro
it on a multi-package ESX server running a FreeBSD VM, where the TSCs
can be pretty evil.


# 251666 12-Jun-2013 gnn

MFC: 236567

Integrate a fix for a very odd signal delivery problem found
by Bryan Cantril and others in the Solaris/Illumos version of DTrace.

Obtained from: https://www.illumos.org/issues/789


# 244093 10-Dec-2012 gnn

MFC: 238537,238552
Add support for walltimestamp in DTrace.

Submitted by: Fabian Keil
Includes correction by: avg


# 225736 22-Sep-2011 kensmith

Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)


# 223758 04-Jul-2011 attilio

With retirement of cpumask_t and usage of cpuset_t for representing a
mask of CPUs, pc_other_cpus and pc_cpumask become highly inefficient.

Remove them and replace their usage with custom pc_cpuid magic (as,
atm, pc_cpumask can be easilly represented by (1 << pc_cpuid) and
pc_other_cpus by (all_cpus & ~(1 << pc_cpuid))).

This change is not targeted for MFC because of struct pcpu members
removal and dependency by cpumask_t retirement.

MD review by: marcel, marius, alc
Tested by: pluknet
MD testing by: marcel, marius, gonzo, andreast


# 222813 07-Jun-2011 attilio

etire the cpumask_t type and replace it with cpuset_t usage.

This is intended to fix the bug where cpu mask objects are
capped to 32. MAXCPU, then, can now arbitrarely bumped to whatever
value. Anyway, as long as several structures in the kernel are
statically allocated and sized as MAXCPU, it is suggested to keep it
as low as possible for the time being.

Technical notes on this commit itself:
- More functions to handle with cpuset_t objects are introduced.
The most notable are cpusetobj_ffs() (which calculates a ffs(3)
for a cpuset_t object), cpusetobj_strprint() (which prepares a string
representing a cpuset_t object) and cpusetobj_strscan() (which
creates a valid cpuset_t starting from a string representation).
- pc_cpumask and pc_other_cpus are target to be removed soon.
With the moving from cpumask_t to cpuset_t they are now inefficient
and not really useful. Anyway, for the time being, please note that
access to pcpu datas is protected by sched_pin() in order to avoid
migrating the CPU while reading more than one (possible) word
- Please note that size of cpuset_t objects may differ between kernel
and userland. While this is not directly related to the patch itself,
it is good to understand that concept and possibly use the patch
as a reference on how to deal with cpuset_t objects in userland, when
accessing kernland members.
- KTR_CPUMASK is changed and now is represented through a string, to be
set as the example reported in NOTES.

Please additively note that no MAXCPU is bumped in this patch, but
private testing has been done until to MAXCPU=128 on a real 8x8x2(htt)
machine (amd64).

Please note that the FreeBSD version is not yet bumped because of
the upcoming pcpu changes. However, note that this patch is not
targeted for MFC.

People to thank for the time spent on this patch:
- sbruno, pluknet and Nicholas Esborn (nick AT desert DOT net) tested
several revision of the patches and really helped in improving
stability of this work.
- marius fixed several bugs in the sparc64 implementation and reviewed
patches related to ktr.
- jeff and jhb discussed the basic approach followed.
- kib and marcel made targeted review on some specific part of the
patch.
- marius, art, nwhitehorn and andreast reviewed MD specific part of
the patch.
- marius, andreast, gonzo, nwhitehorn and jceel tested MD specific
implementations of the patch.
- Other people have made contributions on other patches that have been
already committed and have been listed separately.

Companies that should be mentioned for having participated at several
degrees:
- Yahoo! for having offered the machines used for testing on big
count of CPUs.
- The FreeBSD Foundation for having sponsored my devsummit attendance,
which has been instrumental.
- Sandvine for having offered offices and infrastructure during
development.

(I really hope I didn't forget anyone, if it happened I apologize in
advance).


# 221740 10-May-2011 avg

dtrace: remove unused code

Which is also useless, IMO.

MFC after: 5 days


# 220433 07-Apr-2011 jkim

Use atomic load & store for TSC frequency. It may be overkill for amd64 but
safer for i386 because it can be easily over 4 GHz now. More worse, it can
be easily changed by user with 'machdep.tsc_freq' tunable (directly) or
cpufreq(4) (indirectly). Note it is intentionally not used in performance
critical paths to avoid performance regression (but we should, in theory).
Alternatively, we may add "virtual TSC" with lower frequency if maximum
frequency overflows 32 bits (and ignore possible incoherency as we do now).


# 218909 21-Feb-2011 brucec

Fix typos - remove duplicate "the".

PR: bin/154928
Submitted by: Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>
MFC after: 3 days


# 216251 07-Dec-2010 avg

dtrace_xcall: no need for special handling of curcpu

smp_rendezvous_cpus alreadt does the right thing in a very similar
fashion, so the code was kind of duplicating that.

MFC after: 3 weeks


# 216250 07-Dec-2010 avg

dtrace_gethrtime_init: pin to master while examining other CPUs

Also use pc_cpumask to be future-friendly.

Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 209059 11-Jun-2010 jhb

Update several places that iterate over CPUs to use CPU_FOREACH().


# 195710 15-Jul-2009 avg

dtrace_gethrtime: improve scaling of TSC ticks to nanoseconds

Currently dtrace_gethrtime uses formula similar to the following for
converting TSC ticks to nanoseconds:
rdtsc() * 10^9 / tsc_freq
The dividend overflows 64-bit type and wraps-around every 2^64/10^9 =
18446744073 ticks which is just a few seconds on modern machines.

Now we instead use precalculated scaling factor of
10^9*2^N/tsc_freq < 2^32 and perform TSC value multiplication separately
for each 32-bit half. This allows to avoid overflow of the dividend
described above.
The idea is taken from OpenSolaris.
This has an added feature of always scaling TSC with invariant value
regardless of TSC frequency changes. Thus the timestamps will not be
accurate if TSC actually changes, but they are always proportional to
TSC ticks and thus monotonic. This should be much better than current
formula which produces wildly different non-monotonic results on when
tsc_freq changes.

Also drop write-only 'cp' variable from amd64 dtrace_gethrtime_init()
to make it identical to the i386 twin.

PR: kern/127441
Tested by: Thomas Backman <serenity@exscape.org>
Reviewed by: jhb
Discussed with: current@, bde, gnn
Silence from: jb
Approved by: re (gnn)
MFC after: 1 week


# 185310 25-Nov-2008 ganbold

Remove unused variable.

Found with: Coverity Prevent(tm)
CID: 3669,3671

Approved by: jb


# 179237 23-May-2008 jb

Custom DTrace kernel module files plus FreeBSD-specific DTrace providers.