Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 20:56:39 -1000 (HST) From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net> To: powerpc@freebsd.org Subject: Dynamic pcpu, arm, mips, powerpc, sun, etc. help needed (fwd) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906032056190.981@desktop>
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Hi Folks, I'm forwarding this in case you don't see it. Please help test and implement the remaining booke change. Thanks, Jeff ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 20:55:39 -1000 (HST) From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Dynamic pcpu, arm, mips, powerpc, sun, etc. help needed http://people.freebsd.org/~jeff/dpcpu.diff This patch implements dynamic per-cpu areas such that kernel code can do the following in a header: DPCPU_DECLARE(uint64_t, foo); and this in source: DPCPU_DEFINE(uint64_t, foo) = 10; local = DPCPU_GET(foo); DPCPU_SET(foo, 11); The dynamic per-cpu area of non-local cpus is accessable via DPCPU_ID_{GET,SET,PTR}. If you provide an initializer as I used above that will be the default value when all cpus come up. Otherwise it defaults to zero. This is presently slightly more expensive than PCPU but much more flexible. Things like id and curthread should stay in PCPU forever. I had to change the pcpu_init() call on every architecture to pass in storage for the dynamic area. I didn't change the following three calls because it wasn't immediately obvious how to allocate the memory: ./powerpc/booke/machdep.c: pcpu_init(pc, 0, sizeof(struct pcpu)); ./mips/mips/machdep.c: pcpu_init(&__pcpu[0], 0, sizeof(struct pcpu)); ./mips/mips/machdep.c: pcpu_init(pcpup, 0, sizeof(struct pcpu)); I have not tested anything other than amd64. If you have a !amd64 architecture, in particular any of the embedded architectures, I would really appreciate it. Some of the arm boards postincrement the end address to allocate early memory and some pre-decriment. Hopefully I got it right. Thanks, Jeff
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