Since the PC is a pointer to a code address, change the second parameter of
addupc_task() and addupc_intr() to be a uintptr_t instead of a u_long.

Change and clean the mutex lock interface.

mtx_enter(lock, type) becomes:

mtx_lock(lock) for sleep locks (MTX_DEF-initialized locks)
mtx_lock_spin(lock) for spin locks (MTX_SPIN-initialized)

simil

Change and clean the mutex lock interface.

mtx_enter(lock, type) becomes:

mtx_lock(lock) for sleep locks (MTX_DEF-initialized locks)
mtx_lock_spin(lock) for spin locks (MTX_SPIN-initialized)

similarily, for releasing a lock, we now have:

mtx_unlock(lock) for MTX_DEF and mtx_unlock_spin(lock) for MTX_SPIN.
We change the caller interface for the two different types of locks
because the semantics are entirely different for each case, and this
makes it explicitly clear and, at the same time, it rids us of the
extra `type' argument.

The enter->lock and exit->unlock change has been made with the idea
that we're "locking data" and not "entering locked code" in mind.

Further, remove all additional "flags" previously passed to the
lock acquire/release routines with the exception of two:

MTX_QUIET and MTX_NOSWITCH

The functionality of these flags is preserved and they can be passed
to the lock/unlock routines by calling the corresponding wrappers:

mtx_{lock, unlock}_flags(lock, flag(s)) and
mtx_{lock, unlock}_spin_flags(lock, flag(s)) for MTX_DEF and MTX_SPIN
locks, respectively.

Re-inline some lock acq/rel code; in the sleep lock case, we only
inline the _obtain_lock()s in order to ensure that the inlined code
fits into a cache line. In the spin lock case, we inline recursion and
actually only perform a function call if we need to spin. This change
has been made with the idea that we generally tend to avoid spin locks
and that also the spin locks that we do have and are heavily used
(i.e. sched_lock) do recurse, and therefore in an effort to reduce
function call overhead for some architectures (such as alpha), we
inline recursion for this case.

Create a new malloc type for the witness code and retire from using
the M_DEV type. The new type is called M_WITNESS and is only declared
if WITNESS is enabled.

Begin cleaning up some machdep/mutex.h code - specifically updated the
"optimized" inlined code in alpha/mutex.h and wrote MTX_LOCK_SPIN
and MTX_UNLOCK_SPIN asm macros for the i386/mutex.h as we presently
need those.

Finally, caught up to the interface changes in all sys code.

Contributors: jake, jhb, jasone (in no particular order)

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- Catch up to proc flag changes.

Convert more malloc+bzero to malloc+M_ZERO.

Submitted by: josh@zipperup.org
Submitted by: Robert Drehmel <robd@gmx.net>

Hide intrstate in the #ifdef where it belongs.

Catch up to moving headers:
- machine/ipl.h -> sys/ipl.h
- machine/mutex.h -> sys/mutex.h

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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Previous commit changing SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS violated KNF.

Pointed out by: bde

Style police catches up with rev 1.26 of src/sys/sys/sysctl.h:

Sanitize SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS so that simplistic tools can grog our
sources:

-sysctl_vm_zone SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS
+sysct

Style police catches up with rev 1.26 of src/sys/sys/sysctl.h:

Sanitize SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS so that simplistic tools can grog our
sources:

-sysctl_vm_zone SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS
+sysctl_vm_zone (SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS)

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Commit major SMP cleanups and move the BGL (big giant lock) in the
syscall path inward. A system call may select whether it needs the MP
lock or not (the default being that it does need it).

Commit major SMP cleanups and move the BGL (big giant lock) in the
syscall path inward. A system call may select whether it needs the MP
lock or not (the default being that it does need it).

A great deal of conditional SMP code for various deadended experiments
has been removed. 'cil' and 'cml' have been removed entirely, and the
locking around the cpl has been removed. The conditional
separately-locked fast-interrupt code has been removed, meaning that
interrupts must hold the CPL now (but they pretty much had to anyway).
Another reason for doing this is that the original separate-lock for
interrupts just doesn't apply to the interrupt thread mechanism being
contemplated.

Modifications to the cpl may now ONLY occur while holding the MP
lock. For example, if an otherwise MP safe syscall needs to mess with
the cpl, it must hold the MP lock for the duration and must (as usual)
save/restore the cpl in a nested fashion.

This is precursor work for the real meat coming later: avoiding having
to hold the MP lock for common syscalls and I/O's and interrupt threads.
It is expected that the spl mechanisms and new interrupt threading
mechanisms will be able to run in tandem, allowing a slow piecemeal
transition to occur.

This patch should result in a moderate performance improvement due to
the considerable amount of code that has been removed from the critical
path, especially the simplification of the spl*() calls. The real
performance gains will come later.

Approved by: jkh
Reviewed by: current, bde (exception.s)
Some work taken from: luoqi's patch

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Unremove used includes.

Bugs in test coverage should be fixed before removing any includes. LINT
should be configured for full profiling support.

Trim unused options (or #ifdef for undoc options).

Submitted by: phk

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$

Fixed profiling of elf kernels. Made high resolution profiling compile
for elf kernels (it is broken for all kernels due to lack of egcs support).

Renaming of many assembler labels is avoided by de

Fixed profiling of elf kernels. Made high resolution profiling compile
for elf kernels (it is broken for all kernels due to lack of egcs support).

Renaming of many assembler labels is avoided by declaring by declaring
the labels that need to be visible to gprof as having type "function"
and depending on the elf version of gprof being zealous about discarding
the others. A few type declarations are still missing, mainly for SMP.

PR: 9413
Submitted by: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> (initial parts)

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Fixed bogotification of pseudocode for syscall args by rev.1.53 of
syscalls.master.

Changed to the C9x draft spelling of the (unsigned) integral type
suitable for holding object pointers (ptrint_t -> uintptr_t).
Added corresponding signed type (intptr_t). Changed/added
correspondin

Changed to the C9x draft spelling of the (unsigned) integral type
suitable for holding object pointers (ptrint_t -> uintptr_t).
Added corresponding signed type (intptr_t). Changed/added
corresponding non-C9x types for function pointers to match. Don't
use nonstandard types to implement these types, and don't comment
on them in <machine/types.h>.

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Oops, the previous commit should have changed `i386' to `__i386__',
not `__i386'.

Support compiling with `gcc -ansi'.

Move the "retval" (3rd) parameter from all syscall functions and put
it in struct proc instead.

This fixes a boatload of compiler warning, and removes a lot of cruft
from the sources.

I have not re

Move the "retval" (3rd) parameter from all syscall functions and put
it in struct proc instead.

This fixes a boatload of compiler warning, and removes a lot of cruft
from the sources.

I have not removed the /*ARGSUSED*/, they will require some looking at.

libkvm, ps and other userland struct proc frobbing programs will need
recompiled.

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Moved declaration of etext from <machine/md_var.h> to <machine/cpu.h>
and fixed everything that dependended on it being declared in the old
place. It is used in "machine-independent" code in subr_pr

Moved declaration of etext from <machine/md_var.h> to <machine/cpu.h>
and fixed everything that dependended on it being declared in the old
place. It is used in "machine-independent" code in subr_prof.c.

Moved declaration of btext from subr_prof.c to <machine/cpu.h>. It
is machine-dependent.

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Last major round (Unless Bruce thinks of somthing :-) of malloc changes.

Distribute all but the most fundamental malloc types. This time I also
remembered the trick to making things static: Put "s

Last major round (Unless Bruce thinks of somthing :-) of malloc changes.

Distribute all but the most fundamental malloc types. This time I also
remembered the trick to making things static: Put "static" in front of
them.

A couple of finer points by: bde

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Distribute and statizice a lot of the malloc M_* types.

Substantial input from: bde

Back out part 1 of the MCFH that changed $Id$ to $FreeBSD$. We are not
ready for it yet.

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.

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Fixed magic and wrong numbers in calibration of nullfunc_loop_profiled()
and removed related debugging code. Now this part of the calibration is
almost as machine-independent as gprof generally.