New event timers for 8-STABLE [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Wilkinson, Alex]

    0n Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 02:40:28AM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: 

    >I've created a patch, merging all kernel event timers related stuff from
    >HEAD to 8-STABLE. The only thing I have skipped at this moment was mips
    >architecture, because of too big code difference there between HEAD and
    >8-STABLE. Patch appeared to be quite large and includes more then 60 SVN
    >revisions from HEAD. I hope I haven't missed anything important. I would
    >like to ask interested people to test it. Patched code successfully
    >builds on all platforms and successfully runs on my amd64 test machine.
    >
    >In HEAD code seems to be working enough stable, There only two known
    >open issues at the moment:
    > - kernel freeze on XEN HVM when using LAPIC timer in one-shot mode --
    >can be workarounded by switching to periodic mode or other timer.
    > - if HPET interrupt shared with other device, system load average may
    >lie (report +1 value) -- not a timer problem and not fatal.
    >Please report me if you find anything else.
    >
    >Latest patch can be found here:
    >http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/timers_merge/timers_merge-20101111.patch
    >
    >Merge instructions (list of revisions, if somebody want to redo it):
    >http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/timers_merge/guide-20101111
    >
    >After patching you need just rebuild/reinstall the kernel. I haven't
    >merged related manual pages yet, so, if needed, consult with man pages
    >from HEAD: eventtimers(7), attimer(4), atrtc(4), hpet(4).

patches apply cleanly but buildkernel fails:

make -V CFILES -V SYSTEM_CFILES -V GEN_CFILES |  MKDEP_CPP="cc -E" CC="cc" xargs mkdep -a -f .newdep -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -march=nocona -std=c99 -g -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual  -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions -nostdinc  -I. -I/usr/src/sys -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/altq -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/ipfilter -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/pf -I/usr/src/sys/dev/ath -I/usr/src/sys/dev/ath/ath_hal -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/ngatm -I/usr/src/sys/dev/twa -I/usr/src/sys/gnu/fs/xfs/FreeBSD -I/usr/src/sys/gnu/fs/xfs/FreeBSD/support -I/usr/src/sys/gnu/fs/xfs -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/opensolaris/compat -I/usr/src/sys/dev/cxgb -D_KERNEL -DHAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADERS -include opt_global.h -fno-common -finline-limit=8000 --param inline-unit-growth=100 --param large-function-growth=1000  -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mcmodel=kernel -mno-red-zone  -mfpmath=387 -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-sse3 -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow  -msoft-float -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -ffreestanding -fstack-protector
cc: /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_et.c: No such file or directory
cc: /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_clocksource.c: No such file or directory
/usr/src/sys/dev/acpica/acpi_hpet.c:46:24: error: sys/timeet.h: No such file or directory
/usr/src/sys/x86/x86/local_apic.c:52:24: error: sys/timeet.h: No such file or directory
/usr/src/sys/x86/isa/atrtc.c:45:24: error: sys/timeet.h: No such file or directory
/usr/src/sys/x86/isa/clock.c:60:24: error: sys/timeet.h: No such file or directory
mkdep: compile failed
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MARGS.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.

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