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# 259065 07-Dec-2013 gjb

- Copy stable/10 (r259064) to releng/10.0 as part of the
10.0-RELEASE cycle.
- Update __FreeBSD_version [1]
- Set branch name to -RC1

[1] 10.0-CURRENT __FreeBSD_version value ended at '55', so
start releng/10.0 at '100' so the branch is started with
a value ending in zero.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 224680 06-Aug-2011 marcel

Add support for PBVM addresses. In a nutshell this means:
o get the physical address and size of the PBVM page table. This
can be found in the bootinfo structure, of which the physical
address is recorded as the ELF entry point.
o translate region 4 virtual addresses to physical addresses using
the PBVM page table.

In _kvm_kvatop() make the distinction between physical address and
core file offset a little clearer to avoid confusion. To further
enhance readability, always store the translated address into pa
so that it's obvious how the translation from va to pa happened.

Approved by: re (blanket)


# 217744 23-Jan-2011 uqs

libkvm code janitoring

- make WARNS=6 clean for archs w/o strict alignment requirments
- add const, ANSIfy, remove unused vars, cast types for comparison
- thanks to differing definitions of VM_MIN_ADDRESS across our archs, we
need to trick the compiler to not complain about signedness. We could
either fix VM_MIN_ADDRESS to always be a simple integer or make the
check conditional on $ARCH.

Closes PRs: kern/42386, kern/83364
Reviewed by: bde


# 169760 19-May-2007 marcel

Add a level of indirection to the kernel PTE table. The old
scheme allowed for 1024 PTE pages, each containing 256 PTEs.
This yielded 2GB of KVA. This is not enough to boot a kernel
on a 16GB box and in general too low for a 64-bit machine.
By adding a level of indirection we now have 1024 2nd-level
directory pages, each capable of supporting 2GB of KVA. This
brings the grand total to 2TB of KVA.


# 147672 29-Jun-2005 peter

Support crash dumps > 4GB in size on 32 bit platforms. _kvm_kvatop()
returned an lseek offset in a "u_long *" value, which can't express >4GB
offsets on 32 bit machines (eg: PAE). Change to "off_t *" for all.

Support ELF crashdumps on i386 and amd64.

Support PAE crashdumps on i386. This is done by auto-detecting the
presence of the IdlePDPT which means that PAE is active.

I used Marcel's _kvm_pa2off strategy and ELF header reader for ELF support
on amd64. Paul Saab ported the amd64 changes to i386 and we implemented
the PAE support from there.

Note that gdb6 in the src tree uses whatever libkvm supports. If you want
to debug an old crash dump, you might want to keep an old libkvm.so handy
and use LD_PRELOAD or the like. This does not detect the old raw dump
format.

Approved by: re


# 135590 22-Sep-2004 marcel

Redefine a PTE as a 64-bit integral type instead of a struct of
bit-fields. Unify the PTE defines accordingly and update all
uses.


# 135585 22-Sep-2004 marcel

The offset argument to mmap(2) is not a pointer. Use 0 instead of NULL.


# 115084 16-May-2003 marcel

Revamp of the syscall path, exception and context handling. The
prime objectives are:
o Implement a syscall path based on the epc inststruction (see
sys/ia64/ia64/syscall.s).
o Revisit the places were we need to save and restore registers
and define those contexts in terms of the register sets (see
sys/ia64/include/_regset.h).

Secundairy objectives:
o Remove the requirement to use contigmalloc for kernel stacks.
o Better handling of the high FP registers for SMP systems.
o Switch to the new cpu_switch() and cpu_throw() semantics.
o Add a good unwinder to reconstruct contexts for the rare
cases we need to (see sys/contrib/ia64/libuwx)

Many files are affected by this change. Functionally it boils
down to:
o The EPC syscall doesn't preserve registers it does not need
to preserve and places the arguments differently on the stack.
This affects libc and truss.
o The address of the kernel page directory (kptdir) had to
be unstaticized for use by the nested TLB fault handler.
The name has been changed to ia64_kptdir to avoid conflicts.
The renaming affects libkvm.
o The trapframe only contains the special registers and the
scratch registers. For syscalls using the EPC syscall path
no scratch registers are saved. This affects all places where
the trapframe is accessed. Most notably the unaligned access
handler, the signal delivery code and the debugger.
o Context switching only partly saves the special registers
and the preserved registers. This affects cpu_switch() and
triggered the move to the new semantics, which additionally
affects cpu_throw().
o The high FP registers are either in the PCB or on some
CPU. context switching for them is done lazily. This affects
trap().
o The mcontext has room for all registers, but not all of them
have to be defined in all cases. This mostly affects signal
delivery code now. The *context syscalls are as of yet still
unimplemented.

Many details went into the removal of the requirement to use
contigmalloc for kernel stacks. The details are mostly CPU
specific and limited to exception_save() and exception_restore().
The few places where we create, destroy or switch stacks were
mostly simplified by not having to construct physical addresses
and additionally saving the virtual addresses for later use.

Besides more efficient context saving and restoring, which of
course yields a noticable speedup, this also fixes the dreaded
SMP bootup problem as a side-effect. The details of which are
still not fully understood.

This change includes all the necessary backward compatibility
code to have it handle older userland binaries that use the
break instruction for syscalls. Support for break-based syscalls
has been pessimized in favor of a clean implementation. Due to
the overall better performance of the kernel, this will still
be notived as an improvement if it's noticed at all.

Approved by: re@ (jhb)


# 105607 21-Oct-2002 marcel

Implement working on ELF corefiles. Use kvm_read() when reading
memory while mapping a virtual address to a physical address.
This allows us to work with virtual addresses for page tables,
provided it doesn't cause infinite recursion. Currently all
page tables are direct mapped.


# 85478 25-Oct-2001 dfr

Implement va->pa translation for kernel virtual addresses. This is
untested - it only seems to be used for crashdumps.


# 85361 23-Oct-2001 dfr

Partially port kvm to ia64 - virtual to physical translation is incomplete.