From https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2014/msg00113.html
By Richard Earnshaw at ARM
>
>GCC has for a number of years provides a set of pre-defined macros for
>use with determining the ISA and feature

From https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2014/msg00113.html
By Richard Earnshaw at ARM
>
>GCC has for a number of years provides a set of pre-defined macros for
>use with determining the ISA and features of the target during
>pre-processing. However, the design was always somewhat cumbersome in
>that each new architecture revision created a new define and then
>removed the previous one. This meant that it was necessary to keep
>updating the support code simply to recognise a new architecture being
>added.
>
>The ACLE specification (ARM C Language Extentions)
>(http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.set.swdev/index.html)
>provides a much more suitable interface and GCC has supported this
>since gcc-4.8.
>
>This patch makes use of the ACLE pre-defines to map to the internal
>feature definitions. To support older versions of GCC a compatibility
>header is provided that maps the traditional pre-defines onto the new
>ACLE ones.

Stop using __FreeBSD_ARCH_armv6__ and switch to __ARM_ARCH >= 6 in the
couple of places in tree. clang already implements ACLE. Add a define
that says we implement version 1.1, even though the implementation
isn't quite complete.

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Simplify how we build MACHINE_ARCH. There are 3 options that may be set
however only arm, armeb, armv6, and soon armv6hf will be used.

Remove all traces of support for ARM chips prior to the arm9 series. We
never actually ran on these chips (other than using SA1 support in an
emulator to do the early porting to FreeBSD long long ag

Remove all traces of support for ARM chips prior to the arm9 series. We
never actually ran on these chips (other than using SA1 support in an
emulator to do the early porting to FreeBSD long long ago). The clutter
and complexity of some of this code keeps getting in the way of other
maintenance, so it's time to go.

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Remove all dregs of a per-thread undefined-exception-mode stack. This is
a leftover from the days when a low-level debugger had hooks in the
undefined exception vector and needed stack space to func

Remove all dregs of a per-thread undefined-exception-mode stack. This is
a leftover from the days when a low-level debugger had hooks in the
undefined exception vector and needed stack space to function. These days
it effectively isn't used because we switch immediately to the svc32 mode
stack on exception entry. For that, the single undef mode stack per core
that gets set up at init time works fine.

The stack wasn't necessary but it was harmful, because the space for it
was carved out of the normal per-thread svc32 stack, in effect cutting
that 8K stack in half. If svc32 mode used more than 4k of stack space it
wandered down into the undef mode stack, and then an undef exception would
overwrite a couple words on the stack while switching to svc32 mode,
corrupting the scv32 stack. Having another stack abut the bottom of the
svc32 stack also effectively mooted the guard page below the stack.

This work is based on analysis and patches submitted by Juergen Weiss.

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Introduce superpages support for ARMv6/v7.

Promoting base pages to superpages can increase TLB coverage and allow for
efficient use of page table entries. This development provides FreeBSD/ARM
with

Introduce superpages support for ARMv6/v7.

Promoting base pages to superpages can increase TLB coverage and allow for
efficient use of page table entries. This development provides FreeBSD/ARM
with superpages management mechanism roughly equivalent to what we have for
i386 and amd64 architectures.

1. Add mechanism for automatic promotion of 4KB page mappings to 1MB section
mappings (and demotion when not needed, respectively).

2. Managed and non-kernel mappings are now superpages-aware.

3. The functionality can be enabled by setting "vm.pmap.sp_enabled" tunable to
a non-zero value (either in loader.conf or by modifying "sp_enabled"
variable in pmap-v6.c file). By default, automatic promotion is currently
disabled.

Submitted by: Zbigniew Bodek <zbb@semihalf.com>
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation, Semihalf

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Rename VM_NDOMAIN into MAXMEMDOM and move it into machine/param.h in
order to match the MAXCPU concept. The change should also be useful
for consolidation and consistency.

Sponsored by: EMC / Isilo

Rename VM_NDOMAIN into MAXMEMDOM and move it into machine/param.h in
order to match the MAXCPU concept. The change should also be useful
for consolidation and consistency.

Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Obtained from: jeff
Reviewed by: alc

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__FreeBSD_ARCH_armv6__ is undefined on clang. We can use __ARM_ARCH in
it's place. This makes 'uname -p' correctly output 'armv6' on a kernel
built with clang.

Merging projects/armv6, part 1

Cummulative patch of changes that are not vendor-specific:
- ARMv6 and ARMv7 architecture support
- ARM SMP support
- VFP/Neon support
- ARM Generic Interrupt Cont

Merging projects/armv6, part 1

Cummulative patch of changes that are not vendor-specific:
- ARMv6 and ARMv7 architecture support
- ARM SMP support
- VFP/Neon support
- ARM Generic Interrupt Controller driver
- Simplification of startup code for all platforms

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trim trailing whitespace

Fix the MACHINE_ARCH for big endian arm to be armeb.

Add the possibility to specify from kernel configs MAXCPU value.
This patch is going to help in cases like mips flavours where you
want a more granular support on MAXCPU.

No MFC is previewed for thi

Add the possibility to specify from kernel configs MAXCPU value.
This patch is going to help in cases like mips flavours where you
want a more granular support on MAXCPU.

No MFC is previewed for this patch.

Tested by: pluknet
Approved by: re (kib)

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MFC r197316
Add a new sysctl for reporting all of the supported page sizes.

Add a new sysctl for reporting all of the supported page sizes.

Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 3 weeks

Get rid of the _NO_NAMESPACE_POLLUTION kludge by creating an
architecture specific include file containing the _ALIGN*
stuff which <sys/socket.h> needs.

Cleanup ALIGNED_POINTER:
o add to platforms where it was missing (arm, i386, powerpc, sparc64, sun4v)
o define as "1" on amd64 and i386 where there is no restriction
o make the type returned consiste

Cleanup ALIGNED_POINTER:
o add to platforms where it was missing (arm, i386, powerpc, sparc64, sun4v)
o define as "1" on amd64 and i386 where there is no restriction
o make the type returned consistent with ALIGN
o remove _ALIGNED_POINTER
o make associated comments consistent

Reviewed by: bde, imp, marcel
Approved by: re (kensmith)

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Don't conditionally define CACHE_LINE_SHIFT, as we anticipate sizing
a fair number of static data structures, making this an unlikely
option to try to change without also changing source code. [1]

C

Don't conditionally define CACHE_LINE_SHIFT, as we anticipate sizing
a fair number of static data structures, making this an unlikely
option to try to change without also changing source code. [1]

Change default cache line size on ia64, sparc64, and sun4v to 128
bytes, as this was what rtld-elf was already using on those
platforms. [2]

Suggested by: bde [1], jhb [2]
MFC after: 2 weeks

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Add description and cautionary note regarding CACHE_LINE_SIZE.

MFC after: 2 weeks
Suggested by: alc

For each architecture, define CACHE_LINE_SHIFT and a derived
CACHE_LINE_SIZE constant. These constants are intended to
over-estimate the cache line size, and be used at compile-time
when a run-time

For each architecture, define CACHE_LINE_SHIFT and a derived
CACHE_LINE_SIZE constant. These constants are intended to
over-estimate the cache line size, and be used at compile-time
when a run-time tuning alternative isn't appropriate or
available.

Defaults for all architectures are 64 bytes, except powerpc
where it is 128 bytes (used on G5 systems).

MFC after: 2 weeks
Discussed on: arch@

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When building a kernel module, define MAXCPU the same as SMP so
that modules work with and without SMP.

By popular demand, move __HAVE_ACPI and __PCI_REROUTE_INTERRUPT into
param.h. Per request, I've placed these just after the
_NO_NAMESPACE_POLLUTION ifndef. I've not renamed anything yet, but
may si

By popular demand, move __HAVE_ACPI and __PCI_REROUTE_INTERRUPT into
param.h. Per request, I've placed these just after the
_NO_NAMESPACE_POLLUTION ifndef. I've not renamed anything yet, but
may since we don't need the __.

Submitted by: bde, jhb, scottl, many others.

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Drop _MACHINE_ARCH and _MACHINE defines (not to be confused with
MACHINE_ARCH and MACHINE). Their purpose was to be able to test
in cpp(1), but cpp(1) only understands integer type expressions.
Usin

Drop _MACHINE_ARCH and _MACHINE defines (not to be confused with
MACHINE_ARCH and MACHINE). Their purpose was to be able to test
in cpp(1), but cpp(1) only understands integer type expressions.
Using such unsupported expressions introduced a number of subtle
bugs, which were discovered by compiling with -Wundef.

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Get the kernel stack right now that the u-area is gone.

Remove UAREA_PAGES and USPACE definitions. The definitions of
USPACE_SVC_STACK_TOP, USPACE_SVC_STACK_BOTTOM, USPACE_UNDEF_STACK_TOP,
and USPACE_UNDEF_STACK_BOTTOM look wrong to me, so I'm leaving th

Remove UAREA_PAGES and USPACE definitions. The definitions of
USPACE_SVC_STACK_TOP, USPACE_SVC_STACK_BOTTOM, USPACE_UNDEF_STACK_TOP,
and USPACE_UNDEF_STACK_BOTTOM look wrong to me, so I'm leaving them
alone.

Reviewed by: arch@

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Decrease KSTACK_PAGES and UAREA_PAGES.

Define STACKALIGNBYTES and STACKALIGN.