/* * Copyright (c) 2009 * The President and Fellows of Harvard College. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors * may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software * without specific prior written permission. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE UNIVERSITY AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE UNIVERSITY OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF * SUCH DAMAGE. */ #ifndef _MIPS_CURRENT_H_ #define _MIPS_CURRENT_H_ /* * Macro for current thread, or alternatively current cpu. * * This file should only be included via (q.v.) * * These are machine-dependent because on some platforms it is * better/easier to keep track of curcpu and make curthread be * curcpu->c_curthread, and on others to keep track of curthread and * make curcpu be curthread->t_cpu. * * Either way we don't want retrieving curthread or curcpu to be * expensive; digging around in system board registers and whatnot is * not a very good idea. So we want to keep either curthread or curcpu * on-chip somewhere in some fashion. * * There are various possible approaches; for example, one might use * the MMU on each CPU to map that CPU's cpu structure to a fixed * virtual address that's the same on all CPUs. Then curcpu can be a * constant. (But one has to remember to use curcpu->c_self as the * canonical form of the pointer anywhere that's visible to other * CPUs.) Another approach is to reserve a register to hold curthread. * * On mips there's an architectural issue that informs this choice: * there's no easy way to find the current cpu, the current thread, or * even the kernel stack of the current thread when entering the * kernel at trap time. (On most CPUs there's a canonical way to find * at least the stack.) * * Therefore we do the following: * * - We misuse a kernel-settable field of a nonessential MMU register * to hold the CPU number. * * - On trap entry we use this number to index an array that gets us * both the kernel stack and curthread. * * - We tell the compiler not to use the s7 register and keep * curthread there. * * Note that if you want to change this scheme to use a different * register, or change to a different scheme, you need to touch three * places: here, the mips-specific kernel CFLAGS in the makefiles, and * the trap entry and return code. */ register struct thread *curthread asm("$23"); /* s7 register */ #undef __NEED_CURTHREAD #define __NEED_CURCPU /* For how we've defined it, curthread gets set first, then curcpu. */ #define INIT_CURCPU(cpu, thread) (curthread = (thread), curcpu = (cpu)) #endif /* _MIPS_CURRENT_H_ */