the only architecture dependence of devether was enabling interrupts,
which is now done at the end of the driver's reset() function now.
the wifi stack and dummy ethersink also go to port/.
do the IRQ2->IRQ9 hack for pc kernels in intrenabale(), so not
every caller of intrenable() has to be aware of it.
introducing the PFPU structue which allows the machine specific
code some flexibility on how to handle the FPU process state.
for example, in the pc and pc64 kernel, the FPsave structure is
arround 512 bytes. with avx512, it could grow up to 2K. instead
of embedding that into the Proc strucutre, it is more effective
to allocate it on first use of the fpu, as most processes do not
use simd or floating point in the first place. also, the FPsave
structure has special 16 byte alignment constraint, which further
favours dynamic allocation.
this gets rid of the memmoves in pc/pc64 kernels for the aligment.
there is also devproc, which is now checking if the fpsave area
is actually valid before reading it, avoiding debuggers to see
garbage data.
the Notsave structure is gone now, as it was not used on any
machine.
devmouse controls the screen blanking timeout, so move the
code there avoiding cross calls between modules. the only
function that needs to be provided is blankscreen(), which
gets called with drawlock locked.
the blank timeout is set thru /dev/mousectl now, so kernels
without devvga can set it.
blanking now only happens while /dev/mouse is read. so this
avoids accidentally blanking the screen on cpu servers that
do not have a mouse to unblank it.
introduce cpushutdown() function that does the common
operation of initiating shutdown, returning once all
cpu's got the message and are about to shutdown. this
avoids duplicated code which isnt really machine specific.
automatic reboot on panic only when *debug= is not set
and the machine is a cpu server or has no display,
otherwise just hang.
the following hooks have been added to the ehci Ctlr
structore to handle cache coherency (on arm):
void* (*tdalloc)(ulong,int,ulong);
void* (*dmaalloc)(ulong);
void (*dmafree)(void*);
void (*dmaflush)(int,void*,ulong);
tdalloc() is used to allocate descriptors and the periodic
frame schedule array. on arm, this needs to return uncached
memory. tdalloc()ed memory is never freed.
dmaalloc()/dmafree() is used for io buffers. this can return
cached memory when when hardware maintains cache coherency (pc)
or dmaflush() is provided to flush/invalidate the cache (zynq),
otherwise needs to return uncached memory.
dmaflush() is used to flush/invalidate the cache. the first
argument tells us if we need to flush (non zero) or
invalidate (zero).
uncached.h is gone now. this change makes the handling explicit.
there are no kernels currently that do page coloring,
so the only use of cachectl[] is flushing the icache
(on arm and ppc).
on pc64, cachectl consumes 32 bytes in each page resulting
in over 200 megabytes of overhead for 32gb of ram with 4K
pages.
this change removes cachectl[] and adds txtflush ulong
that is set to ~0 by pio() to instruct putmmu() to flush
the icache.
there is no use for "bootdisk" variable parametrization
of /boot/boot and no point for the boot section with its
boot methods in the kernel configuration anymore. so
mkboot and boot$CONF.out are gone.
move the rules for bootfs.paq creation in 9/boot/bootmkfile.
location of bootfs.proto is now in 9/boot/bootfs.proto.
our /boot/boot target is now just "boot".
as with the Block refcount changes, _xinc() and _xdec() arent
used anymore, so remove them.
architecure can still define ainc()/adec() when it needs them.
this change is in preparation for amd64. the systab calling
convention was also changed to return uintptr (as segattach
returns a pointer) and the arguments are now passed as
va_list which handles amd64 arguments properly (all arguments
are passed in 64bit quantities on the stack, tho the upper
part will not be initialized when the element is smaller
than 8 bytes).
this is partial. xalloc needs to be converted in the future.
dont spam the console with qfull warnings. this makes things worse.
handle loopback packets as stated in the comment. we call etheriq()
with fromwire=1 for loopback packets so etheriq() can pass the packet
on (without copying) or free it. dont inhibit interrupts while calling
etheriq(). etheriq() can safely be called from process and interrupt
context. it is unclear what this was supposed to fix and testing didnt
seem to have any odd effects.
this simplifies the arm ports and keeps all the stuff in one place
instead of spreading it thru notify(), trap() and syscall() functions
and prevents useless fp state copying for kernel procs.
also make sure to save fp in notify while still splhi().
the software cursor starts flickering and reacts bumby if a process
spends most of its time with drawlock acquired because the timer interrupt
thats supposed to redraw the cursor fails to acquire the lock at the time
the timer fires.
instead of trying to draw the cursor on the screen from a timer interrupt
30 times per second, devmouse now creates a process calling cursoron() and
cursoroff() when the cursor needs to be redrawn. this allows the swcursor
to schedule a redraw while holding the drawlock in swcursoravoid() and
cursoron()/cursoroff() are now able to wait for a qlock (drawlock) because
they get called from process context.
the overall responsiveness is also improved with this change as the cursor
redraw rate isnt limited to 30 times a second anymore.
the kernel uses fixed area (TSTKTOP, TSTKSIZ) of the address
space to temporarily map the new stack segment for exec. for
386 and arm, this area was right below the stack segment which
has the problem that the program can map arbitrary segments
there (even readonly).
alpha and ppc dont have this problem as they map the temporary
exec stack *above* the user reachable stack segement and segattach
prevents one from mapping anything above or overlaping the stack.
lots of arch code assumes USTKTOP being the end of userspace
address space and changing this to TSTKTOP would work, but results
in lots of hard to test changes.
instead, we'r going to map the temporary stack programmatically
finding a hole in the address space where to map it. we also lift
the size limitation for arguments and allow arguments to fill
the whole new stack segement.
the TSTKTOP and TSTKSIZ are not used anymore so they where removed.
references:
http://9fans.net/archive/2013/03/203http://9fans.net/archive/2013/03/202http://9fans.net/archive/2013/03/197http://9fans.net/archive/2013/03/195http://9fans.net/archive/2013/03/181
access to non standard serial port COM3 at i/o port 0x200 causes
kernel panic on some machines (Toshiba Sattelite 1415-S115). also,
some machines have gameport at 0x200.
i readded uartisa to the pcf and pccpuf kernel configurations so
one can use plan9.ini to add non standard uarts like:
uart2=type=isa port=0x200 irq=5
