svn commit: r313037 - in head/sys: amd64/include kern mips/include net powerpc/include sparc64/include
Jason Harmening
jason.harmening at gmail.com
Sat Feb 4 06:27:32 UTC 2017
It's hard to argue with that:) I've backed it out until we can figure out
what's going on.
Sorry for the breakage.
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Kurt Lidl <lidl at pix.net> wrote:
> Having just spent a couple of hours bisecting what broke the kernel on
> my mips64 machine, I can definitively state it was this commit.
>
> With this commit in place, the kernel hangs early in the
> autoconfiguration:
>
> gcc version 4.2.1 20070831 patched [FreeBSD]
> Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xffffffff80aa96a0.
> real memory = 523239424 (510976K bytes)
> Physical memory chunk(s):
> 0x00bf3000 - 0x080d5fff, 122564608 bytes (29923 pages)
> 0x08101000 - 0x0ff00fff, 132120576 bytes (32256 pages)
> 0x410000000 - 0x41f196fff, 253325312 bytes (61847 pages)
> avail memory = 504360960 (480MB)
> Create COP2 context zone
> AP #1 started!
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
> ---- hangs here ----
>
> -Kurt
>
> On 2/4/17 12:29 AM, Jason Harmening wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a bit confused as to how this change breaks MIPS. The new function,
>> get_pcpu() is intended to be used only to access the per-cpu data
>> pointer locally. It returns pcpup, which is the per-cpu pointer wired
>> into the local TLB to translate to the local CPU's physical data region,
>> correct?
>>
>> This is the same value used by the per-CPU accessors such as PCPU_ADD
>> and PCPU_GET. The MI portions of this change only use get_pcpu() to
>> access the local CPU's data, e.g. under a critical section in the
>> rmlock. It is not intended to be used for iterating all CPUs.
>>
>> If I've missed something and MIPS is truly broken by this, then I'll
>> gladly revert, but (maybe because it's late) I'm not seeing where this
>> goes wrong on MIPS.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Alexander Kabaev <kabaev at gmail.com
>> <mailto:kabaev at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 03:32:49 +0000 (UTC)
>> "Jason A. Harmening" <jah at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Author: jah
>> > Date: Wed Feb 1 03:32:49 2017
>> > New Revision: 313037
>> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/313037
>> <https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/313037>
>> >
>> > Log:
>> > Implement get_pcpu() for the remaining architectures and use it to
>> > replace pcpu_find(curcpu) in MI code.
>> >
>> > Modified:
>> > head/sys/amd64/include/pcpu.h
>> > head/sys/kern/kern_rmlock.c
>> > head/sys/mips/include/pcpu.h
>> > head/sys/net/netisr.c
>> > head/sys/powerpc/include/cpufunc.h
>> > head/sys/powerpc/include/pcpu.h
>> > head/sys/sparc64/include/pcpu.h
>> >
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> this change was not reviewed nor testing was thought for all
>> architectures it touches. The change happens to break MIPS quite
>> thoroughly, since MIPS is using different pointers when accessing PCPU
>> area locally and when doing iterations using cpu_to_cpuid array. I
>> therefore officially am requesting this change to be reverted until
>> reasonable solution is found to unbreak architectures that use wired
>> TLBs to access local per-CPU data.
>>
>> --
>> Alexander Kabaev
>>
>>
>>
>
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