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Date:      Tue, 14 May 2013 16:02:09 +0300
From:      Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@freebsd.org>
To:        Zbyszek Bodek <zbb@semihalf.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org, Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
Subject:   Re: New PV entry allocator for pmap-v6.c
Message-ID:  <20130514160209.d4dfed7c7f3053e0e3b25201@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <51922FF0.4080508@semihalf.com>
References:  <518545A0.5020107@semihalf.com> <518A13D5.9030904@semihalf.com> <20130508144718.7ed355d7e0860a1abbe8955b@freebsd.org> <518A47F0.9020106@semihalf.com> <518CBB1F.7040408@semihalf.com> <51922FF0.4080508@semihalf.com>

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On Tue, 14 May 2013 14:37:04 +0200
Zbyszek Bodek <zbb@semihalf.com> wrote:

> On 10.05.2013 11:17, Zbyszek Bodek wrote:
> > On 08.05.2013 14:41, Zbyszek Bodek wrote:
> >> On 08.05.2013 13:47, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 08 May 2013 10:59:01 +0200
> >>> Zbyszek Bodek <zbb@semihalf.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 04.05.2013 19:30, Zbyszek Bodek wrote:
> >>>>> Hello everyone,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> As a part of Semihalf work on Superpages support,
> >>>>> we've made some pmap-v6.c improvements and clean-ups.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> We would like to start integrating our code to the mainline FreeBSD,
> >>>>> therefore I'm happy to introduce the new PV entry allocator for
> >>>>> pmap-v6.c ported from amd64/i386/mips.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Alan Cox (alc) was so kind to review the code.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If there are no objections, then we will commit this patch to the HEAD
> >>>>> around Monday/Tuesday.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Please check out the attachment for details.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello again,
> >>>>
> >>>> Does anyone have any comments and/or remarks regarding the mentioned
> >>>> patch?
> >>>>
> >>>> I was testing it on the multicore ARMv7 machine however, it would be
> >>>> good if someone test it on available ARMv6/ARMv7 platforms.
> >>>>
> >>>> Best regards
> >>>> Zbyszek Bodek
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list
> >>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm
> >>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
> >>>
> >>> Hi Zbyszek!
> >>>
> >>> I've not done deep review, but fail to compile it on fresh head:
> >>>
> >>> cc -c -O -pipe -march=armv6 -DARM_ARCH_6=1 -std=c99 -g -Wall
> >>> -Wredundant-decls - Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes
> >>> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winli ne -Wcast-qual  -Wundef
> >>> -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions  -Wmissing-include -dirs
> >>> -fdiagnostics-show-option  -Wno-error-tautological-compare
> >>> -Wno-error-empt y-body  -Wno-error-parentheses-equality -nostdinc  -I.
> >>> -I/usr/home/ray/work/Free BSD/CLEAN/head/sys
> >>> -I/usr/home/ray/work/FreeBSD/CLEAN/head/sys/contrib/altq -I/u
> >>> sr/home/ray/work/FreeBSD/CLEAN/head/sys/contrib/libfdt -D_KERNEL
> >>> -DHAVE_KERNEL_O PTION_HEADERS -include opt_global.h  -ffreestanding
> >>> -Werror  /usr/home/ray/work$
> >>> FreeBSD/CLEAN/head/sys/arm/arm/pmap-v6.c
> >>> /usr/home/ray/work/FreeBSD/CLEAN/head/sys/arm/arm/pmap-v6.c:908:9:
> >>>
> >>> error: no member named 'pvh_attrs' in 'struct md_page' pg->md.pvh_attrs
> >>> &= ~(maskbits & (PVF_MOD | PVF_REF)); ~~~~~~^
> >>> /usr/home/ray/work/FreeBSD/CLEAN/head/sys/arm/arm/pmap-v6.c:1001:9:
> >>>
> >>> error: no member named 'pvh_attrs' in 'struct md_page' pg->md.pvh_attrs
> >>> |= flags & (PVF_REF | PVF_MOD); ~~~~~~ ^
> >>>
> >>> 18 errors total.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks a lot!
> >>>
> >>> P.S. how far from full ARM SMP support Semihalf now?
> >>>
> >>> WBW
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hello Aleksandr,
> >>
> >> Thank for pointing that out. This was because we have other changes on
> >> our development branch that btw. we intend to post soon.
> >>
> >> I'm attaching the patch that works for me on the current "vanilla" HEAD.
> >> Please send your feedback.
> >>
> >> Regarding SMP support, then we are able to boot 4-core SMP system.
> >> I was stressing the system with multiple, simultaneous build-world (-j5)
> >> and it survived overnight tests. We can successfully build kernel,
> >> stress testing suit is also working fine.
> >> But please be advised that I was mainly focused on tests that might give
> >> me basic information about memory operations and I was using only one
> >> type of target machine.
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >> Zbyszek Bodek
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Hello again Aleksandr and everyone,
> >
> > Do you have any update in this topic?
> >
> > Does anyone tried the new patch as has any remarks or findings?
> >
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm happy to inform that the new PV entry allocator for ARMv6/7 has been 
> integrated to FreeBSD HEAD.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> 
> Best regards
> Zbyszek Bodek
> 

Heh, sorry for delay.
I've just tonight made tests and found no difference.

Thanks!

WBW
-- 
Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@freebsd.org>



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