The a.out md_coredump stuff isn't referenced anywhere anymore, and
hasn't been filled in for ages.. Nuked.

It is too much work convincing lint why we would want empty structures,
so make the non-empty #ifdef lint.

Add kernel support needed for the KSE-aware libpthread:
- Maintain fpu state across signals.
- Save and restore FPU state properly in ucontext_t's.

Reviewed by: deischen, julian
Approved by: -arch

Compromise for critical*()/cpu_critical*() recommit. Cleanup the interrupt
disablement assumptions in kern_fork.c by adding another API call,
cpu_critical_fork_exit(). Cleanup the td_savecrit field

Compromise for critical*()/cpu_critical*() recommit. Cleanup the interrupt
disablement assumptions in kern_fork.c by adding another API call,
cpu_critical_fork_exit(). Cleanup the td_savecrit field by moving it
from MI to MD. Temporarily move cpu_critical*() from <arch>/include/cpufunc.h
to <arch>/<arch>/critical.c (stage-2 will clean this up).

Implement interrupt deferral for i386 that allows interrupts to remain
enabled inside critical sections. This also fixes an IPI interlock bug,
and requires uses of icu_lock to be enclosed in a true interrupt disablement.

This is the stage-1 commit. Stage-2 will occur after stage-1 has stabilized,
and will move cpu_critical*() into its own header file(s) + other things.
This commit may break non-i386 architectures in trivial ways. This should
be temporary.

Reviewed by: core
Approved by: core

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Remove __P.

revert last commit temporarily due to whining on the lists.

STAGE-1 of 3 commit - allow (but do not require) interrupts to remain
enabled in critical sections and streamline critical_enter() and
critical_exit().

This commit allows an architecture to leave in

STAGE-1 of 3 commit - allow (but do not require) interrupts to remain
enabled in critical sections and streamline critical_enter() and
critical_exit().

This commit allows an architecture to leave interrupts enabled inside
critical sections if it so wishes. Architectures that do not wish to do
this are not effected by this change.

This commit implements the feature for the I386 architecture and provides
a sysctl, debug.critical_mode, which defaults to 1 (use the feature). For
now you can turn the sysctl on and off at any time in order to test the
architectural changes or track down bugs.

This commit is just the first stage. Some areas of the code, specifically
the MACHINE_CRITICAL_ENTER #ifdef'd code, is strictly temporary and will
be cleaned up in the STAGE-2 commit when the critical_*() functions are
moved entirely into MD files.

The following changes have been made:

* critical_enter() and critical_exit() for I386 now simply increment
and decrement curthread->td_critnest. They no longer disable
hard interrupts. When critical_exit() decrements the counter to
0 it effectively calls a routine to deal with whatever interrupts
were deferred during the time the code was operating in a critical
section.

Other architectures are unaffected.

* fork_exit() has been conditionalized to remove MD assumptions for
the new code. Old code will still use the old MD assumptions
in regards to hard interrupt disablement. In STAGE-2 this will
be turned into a subroutine call into MD code rather then hardcoded
in MI code.

The new code places the burden of entering the critical section
in the trampoline code where it belongs.

* I386: interrupts are now enabled while we are in a critical section.
The interrupt vector code has been adjusted to deal with the fact.
If it detects that we are in a critical section it currently defers
the interrupt by adding the appropriate bit to an interrupt mask.

* In order to accomplish the deferral, icu_lock is required. This
is i386-specific. Thus icu_lock can only be obtained by mainline
i386 code while interrupts are hard disabled. This change has been
made.

* Because interrupts may or may not be hard disabled during a
context switch, cpu_switch() can no longer simply assume that
PSL_I will be in a consistent state. Therefore, it now saves and
restores eflags.

* FAST INTERRUPT PROVISION. Fast interrupts are currently deferred.
The intention is to eventually allow them to operate either while
we are in a critical section or, if we are able to restrict the
use of sched_lock, while we are not holding the sched_lock.

* ICU and APIC vector assembly for I386 cleaned up. The ICU code
has been cleaned up to match the APIC code in regards to format
and macro availability. Additionally, the code has been adjusted
to deal with deferred interrupts.

* Deferred interrupts use a per-cpu boolean int_pending, and
masks ipending, spending, and fpending. Being per-cpu variables
it is not currently necessary to lock; bus cycles modifying them.

Note that the same mechanism will enable preemption to be
incorporated as a true software interrupt without having to
further hack up the critical nesting code.

* Note: the old critical_enter() code in kern/kern_switch.c is
currently #ifdef to be compatible with both the old and new
methodology. In STAGE-2 it will be moved entirely to MD code.

Performance issues:

One of the purposes of this commit is to enhance critical section
performance, specifically to greatly reduce bus overhead to allow
the critical section code to be used to protect per-cpu caches.
These caches, such as Jeff's slab allocator work, can potentially
operate very quickly making the effective savings of the new
critical section code's performance very significant.

The second purpose of this commit is to allow architectures to
enable certain interrupts while in a critical section. Specifically,
the intention is to eventually allow certain FAST interrupts to
operate rather then defer.

The third purpose of this commit is to begin to clean up the
critical_enter()/critical_exit()/cpu_critical_enter()/
cpu_critical_exit() API which currently has serious cross pollution
in MI code (in fork_exit() and ast() for example).

The fourth purpose of this commit is to provide a framework that
allows kernel-preempting software interrupts to be implemented
cleanly. This is currently used for two forward interrupts in I386.
Other architectures will have the choice of using this infrastructure
or building the functionality directly into critical_enter()/
critical_exit().

Finally, this commit is designed to greatly improve the flexibility
of various architectures to manage critical section handling,
software interrupts, preemption, and other highly integrated
architecture-specific details.

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Changed the type of pcb_flags from u_char to u_int and adjusted things.
This removes the only atomic operation on a char type in the entire
kernel.

Split the per-process Local Descriptor Table out of the PCB and into
struct mdproc.

Submitted by: Andrew R. Reiter <arr@watson.org>
Silence on: -current

The #define for pcb_savefpu seems to do more harm than good.

Activate SSE/SIMD. This is the extra context switching support that
we are required to do if we let user processes use the extra 128 bit
registers etc.

This is the base part of the diff I got from:

Activate SSE/SIMD. This is the extra context switching support that
we are required to do if we let user processes use the extra 128 bit
registers etc.

This is the base part of the diff I got from:
http://www.issei.org/issei/FreeBSD/sse.html
I believe this is by: Mr. SUZUKI Issei <issei@issei.org>
SMP support apparently by: Takekazu KATO <kato@chino.it.okayama-u.ac.jp>
Test code by: NAKAMURA Kazushi <kaz@kobe1995.net>, see
http://kobe1995.net/~kaz/FreeBSD/SSE.en.html

I have fixed a couple of style(9) deviations. I have some followup
commits to fix a couple of non-style things.

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Convert npx interrupts into traps instead of vice versa. This is much
simpler for npx exceptions that start as traps (no assembly required...)
and works better for npx exceptions that start as inter

Convert npx interrupts into traps instead of vice versa. This is much
simpler for npx exceptions that start as traps (no assembly required...)
and works better for npx exceptions that start as interrupts (there is
no longer a problem for nested interrupts).

Submitted by: original (pre-SMPng) version by luoqi

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Activate USER_LDT by default. The new thread libraries are going to
depend on this. The linux ABI emulator tries to use it for some linux
binaries too. VM86 had a bigger cost than this and it was

Activate USER_LDT by default. The new thread libraries are going to
depend on this. The linux ABI emulator tries to use it for some linux
binaries too. VM86 had a bigger cost than this and it was made default
a while ago.

Reviewed by: jhb, imp

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- Don't call clear_resched() in userret(), instead, clear the resched flag
in mi_switch() just before calling cpu_switch() so that the first switch
after a resched request will satisfy the reques

- Don't call clear_resched() in userret(), instead, clear the resched flag
in mi_switch() just before calling cpu_switch() so that the first switch
after a resched request will satisfy the request.
- While I'm at it, move a few things into mi_switch() and out of
cpu_switch(), specifically set the p_oncpu and p_lastcpu members of
proc in mi_switch(), and handle the sched_lock state change across a
context switch in mi_switch().
- Since cpu_switch() no longer handles the sched_lock state change, we
have to setup an initial state for sched_lock in fork_exit() before we
release it.

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Declare or #define per-cpu globals in <machine/globals.h> in all cases.
The i386 UP case was messily different.

Major update to the way synchronization is done in the kernel. Highlights
include:

* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*(). See mutex(9). (Note: The
alpha port is still in transition and c

Major update to the way synchronization is done in the kernel. Highlights
include:

* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*(). See mutex(9). (Note: The
alpha port is still in transition and currently uses both.)

* Per-CPU idle processes.

* Interrupts are run in their own separate kernel threads and can be
preempted (i386 only).

Partially contributed by: BSDi (BSD/OS)
Submissions by (at least): cp, dfr, dillon, grog, jake, jhb, sheldonh

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Change #ifdef KERNEL to #ifdef _KERNEL in the public headers. "KERNEL"
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is cons

Change #ifdef KERNEL to #ifdef _KERNEL in the public headers. "KERNEL"
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.

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User ldt sharing.

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$

Implement support for hardware debug registers on the i386.

Submitted by: Brian Dean <brdean@unx.sas.com>

Unifdef VM86.

Reviewed by: silence on on -current

Enable vmspace sharing on SMP. Major changes are,
- %fs register is added to trapframe and saved/restored upon kernel entry/exit.
- Per-cpu pages are no longer mapped at the same virtual address.
- E

Enable vmspace sharing on SMP. Major changes are,
- %fs register is added to trapframe and saved/restored upon kernel entry/exit.
- Per-cpu pages are no longer mapped at the same virtual address.
- Each cpu now has a separate gdt selector table. A new segment selector
is added to point to per-cpu pages, per-cpu global variables are now
accessed through this new selector (%fs). The selectors in gdt table are
rearranged for cache line optimization.
- fask_vfork is now on as default for both UP and SMP.
- Some aio code cleanup.

Reviewed by: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
John Dyson <dyson@iquest.net>
Julian Elischer <julian@whistel.com>
Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
David Greenman <dg@root.com>

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Ifdefed some SMP and VM86 code. Note that although VM86 is not a global
option, the ifdef on it in a header works because only the name of the
VM86 extension is hidden.

Don't #include unneeded includes here. pcb_ext.h picks up lots of other
stuff with it.

VM86 kernel support.
Work done by BSDI, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>,
Mike Smith <msmith@gsoft.com.au>, Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>,
and probably alot of others.
Submitted by: Jnat

VM86 kernel support.
Work done by BSDI, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>,
Mike Smith <msmith@gsoft.com.au>, Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>,
and probably alot of others.
Submitted by: Jnathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>

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