History log of /freebsd-current/sys/kern/kern_et.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# fdafd315 24-Nov-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Automated cleanup of cdefs and other formatting

Apply the following automated changes to try to eliminate
no-longer-needed sys/cdefs.h includes as well as now-empty
blank lines in a row.

Remove /^#if.*\n#endif.*\n#include\s+<sys/cdefs.h>.*\n/
Remove /\n+#include\s+<sys/cdefs.h>.*\n+#if.*\n#endif.*\n+/
Remove /\n+#if.*\n#endif.*\n+/
Remove /^#if.*\n#endif.*\n/
Remove /\n+#include\s+<sys/cdefs.h>\n#include\s+<sys/types.h>/
Remove /\n+#include\s+<sys/cdefs.h>\n#include\s+<sys/param.h>/
Remove /\n+#include\s+<sys/cdefs.h>\n#include\s+<sys/capsicum.h>/

Sponsored by: Netflix


# 685dc743 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: one-line .c pattern

Remove /^[\s*]*__FBSDID\("\$FreeBSD\$"\);?\s*\n/


# 4d846d26 10-May-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of BSD-2-Clause.

Discussed with: pfg
MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix


# a28c28e6 18-Nov-2020 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

Remove NO_EVENTTIMERS support

The arm configs that required it have been removed from the tree.
Removing this option makes the callout code easier to read and
discourages developers from adding new configs without eventtimer
drivers.

Reviewed by: ian, imp, mav
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27270


# 6fed89b1 01-Sep-2020 Mateusz Guzik <mjg@FreeBSD.org>

kern: clean up empty lines in .c and .h files


# 7029da5c 26-Feb-2020 Pawel Biernacki <kaktus@FreeBSD.org>

Mark more nodes as CTLFLAG_MPSAFE or CTLFLAG_NEEDGIANT (17 of many)

r357614 added CTLFLAG_NEEDGIANT to make it easier to find nodes that are
still not MPSAFE (or already are but aren’t properly marked).
Use it in preparation for a general review of all nodes.

This is non-functional change that adds annotations to SYSCTL_NODE and
SYSCTL_PROC nodes using one of the soon-to-be-required flags.

Mark all obvious cases as MPSAFE. All entries that haven't been marked
as MPSAFE before are by default marked as NEEDGIANT

Approved by: kib (mentor, blanket)
Commented by: kib, gallatin, melifaro
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23718


# 8a36da99 27-Nov-2017 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys/kern: adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.


# fd0f5970 13-Dec-2016 Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org>

Add labels to sysctls related to clocks.

Sysctls like kern.eventtimer.et.*.quality currently embed the name of
the clock device. This is problematic for the Prometheus metrics
exporter for two reasons:

- Some of those clocks have dashes in their names, which Prometheus
doesn't allow to be used in metric names.
- It doesn't allow for extracting the same property of all clocks on the
system from within a single query.

Attach these nodes to have a label, so that the Prometheus metrics
exporter gives these metric a uniform name with the name of the clock
attached as a label.

Reviewed by: cem
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8775


# f62fbd30 16-Mar-2015 Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>

Trivial change / forced-commit to document prior change that slipped in
without a commit message...

Use sbuf_new() + SYSCTL_OUT() instead of wiring the userland buffer and
using sbuf_new_for_sysctl(). The preallocated 256 byte buffer is always
going to be big enough to hold these results, and this should be more
efficient than wiring the old buffer.


# ff352d89 16-Mar-2015 Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>


# 91d9eda2 14-Mar-2015 Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>

Use sbuf_printf() for sysctl strings instead of stack buffers and snprintf().


# 9e24f238 02-Apr-2014 Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>

Fix build breakage. Apparently all ARM configs build kern_et.c, but only a
few of them also build kern_clocksource.c. That strikes me as insane, but
maybe there's a good reason for it. Until I figure that out, un-break
the build by not referencing functions in kern_clocksource if NO_EVENTTIMERS
is defined.


# cfc4b56b 02-Apr-2014 Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>

Add support for event timers whose clock frequency can change while running.


# ca9feb49 13-Mar-2013 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Fix incorrect assertion that caused panic when periodic-only timers used.


# fdc5dd2d 28-Feb-2013 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

MFcalloutng:
Switch eventtimers(9) from using struct bintime to sbintime_t.
Even before this not a single driver really supported full dynamic range of
struct bintime even in theory, not speaking about practical inexpediency.
This change legitimates the status quo and cleans up the code.


# 6472ac3d 07-Nov-2011 Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org>

Mark all SYSCTL_NODEs static that have no corresponding SYSCTL_DECLs.

The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.


# fbbb13f9 12-Jan-2011 Matthew D Fleming <mdf@FreeBSD.org>

sysctl(9) cleanup checkpoint: amd64 GENERIC builds cleanly.

Commit the kernel changes.


# a7d5f7eb 19-Oct-2010 Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org>

A new jail(8) with a configuration file, to replace the work currently done
by /etc/rc.d/jail.


# a157e425 13-Sep-2010 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Refactor timer management code with priority to one-shot operation mode.
The main goal of this is to generate timer interrupts only when there is
some work to do. When CPU is busy interrupts are generating at full rate
of hz + stathz to fullfill scheduler and timekeeping requirements. But
when CPU is idle, only minimum set of interrupts (down to 8 interrupts per
second per CPU now), needed to handle scheduled callouts is executed.
This allows significantly increase idle CPU sleep time, increasing effect
of static power-saving technologies. Also it should reduce host CPU load
on virtualized systems, when guest system is idle.

There is set of tunables, also available as writable sysctls, allowing to
control wanted event timer subsystem behavior:
kern.eventtimer.timer - allows to choose event timer hardware to use.
On x86 there is up to 4 different kinds of timers. Depending on whether
chosen timer is per-CPU, behavior of other options slightly differs.
kern.eventtimer.periodic - allows to choose periodic and one-shot
operation mode. In periodic mode, current timer hardware taken as the only
source of time for time events. This mode is quite alike to previous kernel
behavior. One-shot mode instead uses currently selected time counter
hardware to schedule all needed events one by one and program timer to
generate interrupt exactly in specified time. Default value depends of
chosen timer capabilities, but one-shot mode is preferred, until other is
forced by user or hardware.
kern.eventtimer.singlemul - in periodic mode specifies how much times
higher timer frequency should be, to not strictly alias hardclock() and
statclock() events. Default values are 2 and 4, but could be reduced to 1
if extra interrupts are unwanted.
kern.eventtimer.idletick - makes each CPU to receive every timer interrupt
independently of whether they busy or not. By default this options is
disabled. If chosen timer is per-CPU and runs in periodic mode, this option
has no effect - all interrupts are generating.

As soon as this patch modifies cpu_idle() on some platforms, I have also
refactored one on x86. Now it makes use of MONITOR/MWAIT instrunctions
(if supported) under high sleep/wakeup rate, as fast alternative to other
methods. It allows SMP scheduler to wake up sleeping CPUs much faster
without using IPI, significantly increasing performance on some highly
task-switching loads.

Tested by: many (on i386, amd64, sparc64 and powerc)
H/W donated by: Gheorghe Ardelean
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.


# 90baf564 11-Sep-2010 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Do not print "frequency 0 Hz", when frequency is unknown.


# d89be950 05-Sep-2010 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Initialize buffer for case of empty string. Happens only on non-refactored
platforms.


# e88f9fb4 20-Jul-2010 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Use proper sysctl type (quad) for et_frequency. It fixes output on sparc64.


# 51636352 20-Jul-2010 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Extend timer driver API to report also minimal and maximal supported period
lengths. Make MI wrapper code to validate periods in request. Make kernel
clock management code to honor these hardware limitations while choosing hz,
stathz and profhz values.


# 875b8844 20-Jun-2010 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Implement new event timers infrastructure. It provides unified APIs for
writing event timer drivers, for choosing best possible drivers by machine
independent code and for operating them to supply kernel with hardclock(),
statclock() and profclock() events in unified fashion on various hardware.

Infrastructure provides support for both per-CPU (independent for every CPU
core) and global timers in periodic and one-shot modes. MI management code
at this moment uses only periodic mode, but one-shot mode use planned for
later, as part of tickless kernel project.

For this moment infrastructure used on i386 and amd64 architectures. Other
archs are welcome to follow, while their current operation should not be
affected.

This patch updates existing drivers (i8254, RTC and LAPIC) for the new
order, and adds event timers support into the HPET driver. These drivers
have different capabilities:
LAPIC - per-CPU timer, supports periodic and one-shot operation, may
freeze in C3 state, calibrated on first use, so may be not exactly precise.
HPET - depending on hardware can work as per-CPU or global, supports
periodic and one-shot operation, usually provides several event timers.
i8254 - global, limited to periodic mode, because same hardware used also
as time counter.
RTC - global, supports only periodic mode, set of frequencies in Hz
limited by powers of 2.

Depending on hardware capabilities, drivers preferred in following orders,
either LAPIC, HPETs, i8254, RTC or HPETs, LAPIC, i8254, RTC.
User may explicitly specify wanted timers via loader tunables or sysctls:
kern.eventtimer.timer1 and kern.eventtimer.timer2.
If requested driver is unavailable or unoperational, system will try to
replace it. If no more timers available or "NONE" specified for second,
system will operate using only one timer, multiplying it's frequency by few
times and uing respective dividers to honor hz, stathz and profhz values,
set during initial setup.