- Merge from HEAD

Remove conditionally compiled time counter statistics; tools like
DTrace, kernel profiling, etc, can provide this information without
the overhead.

MFC after: 3 days
Suggested by: bde

Update the projects tree to a newer FreeBSD current.

By default, don't compile in counters of calls to various time
query functions in the kernel, as these effectively serialize
parallel calls to the gettimeofday(2) system call, as well as
other kernel

By default, don't compile in counters of calls to various time
query functions in the kernel, as these effectively serialize
parallel calls to the gettimeofday(2) system call, as well as
other kernel services that use timestamps.

Use the NetBSD version of the fix (kern_tc.c:1.32 by ad@) as
they have picked up our timecounter code and also ran into the
same problem.

Reported by: kris
Obtained from: NetBSD
MFC after: 3 days

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In keeping with style(9)'s recommendations on macros, use a ';'
after each SYSINIT() macro invocation. This makes a number of
lightweight C parsers much happier with the FreeBSD kernel
source, inclu

In keeping with style(9)'s recommendations on macros, use a ';'
after each SYSINIT() macro invocation. This makes a number of
lightweight C parsers much happier with the FreeBSD kernel
source, including cflow's prcc and lxr.

MFC after: 1 month
Discussed with: imp, rink

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Fix typo in comment.

Note what is too {short,long}.

Despite several examples in the kernel, the third argument of
sysctl_handle_int is not sizeof the int type you want to export.
The type must always be an int or an unsigned int.

Remove the instances

Despite several examples in the kernel, the third argument of
sysctl_handle_int is not sizeof the int type you want to export.
The type must always be an int or an unsigned int.

Remove the instances where a sizeof(variable) is passed to stop
people accidently cut and pasting these examples.

In a few places this was sysctl_handle_int was being used on 64 bit
types, which would truncate the value to be exported. In these
cases use sysctl_handle_quad to export them and change the format
to Q so that sysctl(1) can still print them.

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Commit the results of the typo hunt by Darren Pilgrim.
This change affects documentation and comments only,
no real code involved.

PR: misc/101245
Submitted by: Darren Pilgrim <darren pilgrim bitfr

Commit the results of the typo hunt by Darren Pilgrim.
This change affects documentation and comments only,
no real code involved.

PR: misc/101245
Submitted by: Darren Pilgrim <darren pilgrim bitfreak org>
Tested by: md5(1)
MFC after: 1 week

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Add a kern.timecounter.tc sysctl tree that contains the mask,
frequency, quality and current value of each available time counter.

At the moment all of these are read-only, but it might make sense t

Add a kern.timecounter.tc sysctl tree that contains the mask,
frequency, quality and current value of each available time counter.

At the moment all of these are read-only, but it might make sense to
make some of these read-write in the future.

MFC after: 3 months

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Disable the "cputick increased..." message now that the dust has settled.

Oops, forgot newline.

silence cpu_tick calibration and notice only (under bootverbose)
when the frequency increases.

Style nit.

Add missing cast.

More detailed logging if timestepwarnings are enabled.

Suffer a little bit of math every 16 second and tighten calibration of
cpu_ticks to the low side of PPM.

CPU time accounting speedup (step 2)

Keep accounting time (in per-cpu) cputicks and the statistics counts
in the thread and summarize into struct proc when at context switch.

Don't reach across CPU

CPU time accounting speedup (step 2)

Keep accounting time (in per-cpu) cputicks and the statistics counts
in the thread and summarize into struct proc when at context switch.

Don't reach across CPUs in calcru().

Add code to calibrate the top speed of cpu_tickrate() for variable
cpu_tick hardware (like TSC on power managed machines).

Don't enforce monotonicity (at least for now) in calcru. While the
calibrated cpu_tickrate ramps up it may not be true.

Use 27MHz counter on i386/Geode.

Use TSC on amd64 & i386 if present.

Use tick counter on sparc64

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Modify the way we account for CPU time spent (step 1)

Keep track of time spent by the cpu in various contexts in units of
"cputicks" and scale to real-world microsec^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hclock_t
only when

Modify the way we account for CPU time spent (step 1)

Keep track of time spent by the cpu in various contexts in units of
"cputicks" and scale to real-world microsec^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hclock_t
only when somebody wants to inspect the numbers.

For now "cputicks" are still derived from the current timecounter
and therefore things should by definition remain sensible also on
SMP machines. (The main reason for this first milestone commit is
to verify that hypothesis.)

On slower machines, the avoided multiplications to normalize timestams
at every context switch, comes out as a 5-7% better score on the
unixbench/context1 microbenchmark. On more modern hardware no change
in performance is seen.

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Start time_uptime with 1 instead of 0.

Discussed with: phk

Forward declaring static variables as extern is invalid ISO-C. Now that
GCC can properly handle forward static declarations, do this properly.

s/ENOTTY/ENOIOCTL/

Put on my peril sensitive sunglasses and add a flags field to the internal
sysctl routines and state. Add some code to use it for signalling the need
to downconvert a data structure to 32 bits on a

Put on my peril sensitive sunglasses and add a flags field to the internal
sysctl routines and state. Add some code to use it for signalling the need
to downconvert a data structure to 32 bits on a 64 bit OS when requested by
a 32 bit app.

I tried to do this in a generic abi wrapper that intercepted the sysctl
oid's, or looked up the format string etc, but it was a real can of worms
that turned into a fragile mess before I even got it partially working.

With this, we can now run 'sysctl -a' on a 32 bit sysctl binary and have
it not abort. Things like netstat, ps, etc have a long way to go.

This also fixes a bug in the kern.ps_strings and kern.usrstack hacks.
These do matter very much because they are used by libc_r and other things.

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Add some KASSERTS.

Just because the timecounter reads the same value on two samples
after each other doesn't mean that nothing happened.