On Thursday, December 10, 2015, Konstantin Belousov <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:18:19PM +0100, Oliver Pinter wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Konstantin Belousov <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > Author: kib > > > Date: Mon Nov 23 07:09:35 2015 > > > New Revision: 291171 > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/291171 > > > > > > Log: > > > Split kerne timekeep ABI structure vdso_sv_tk out of the struct > > > sysentvec. This allows the timekeep data to be shared between > similar > > > ABIs which cannot share sysentvec. > > > > > > Make the timekeep_push_vdso() tick callback to the timekeep > structures > > > instead of sysentvecs. If several sysentvec share the vdso_sv_tk > > > structure, we would update the userspace data several times on each > > > tick, without the change. > > > > > > Only allocate vdso_sv_tk in the exec_sysvec_init() sysinit when > > > sysentvec is marked with the new SV_TIMEKEEP flag. This saves > > > allocation and update of unneeded vdso_sv_tk for ABIs which do not > > > provide userspace gettimeofday yet, which are PowerPCs arches right > > > now. > > > > > > Make vdso_sv_tk allocator public, namely split out and export > > > alloc_sv_tk() and alloc_sv_tk_compat32(). ABIs which share timekeep > > > data now can allocate it manually and share as appropriate. > > > > > > Requested by: nwhitehorn > > > Tested by: nwhitehorn, pho > > > Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation > > > MFC after: 2 weeks > > > > Hello Konstantin! > > > > Do you plan to MFC back this changes to 10-STABLE in these days? > > I decided to not merge the change. > And if I'm not wrong, the rationale behind this decision is the type stability of struct sysvec / sysent. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
