USB update

I've finished much of the work on improving the in-tree USB stack, apart from adding device IDs. This is just the initial round. Now that all the cruft has been removed from the in-tree USB stack, we'll be able to support it better in RELENG_7. I plan on merging most of the client drivers into RELENG_6 after a couple of weeks, depending on how testing goes. So far, so good. I've added about 30 new devices. In fact, I've added so many that I've had no time to update the manual pages. If there are any doc people that can help synchronize the man pages to what we now support, that would be great.

After removing the obfuscating macros from the code, it is clear to me that adding some primitive locking to the USB stack might be possible now. It isn't going to happen for 7.0, however.

ooo builds!

After the shared library version bump, the xorg 7.2 transition and the new gcc compiler in the base, I started to rebuild everything. After some snafu deleted all my +CONTENTS files, I've finally managed to rebuild everything (I think). The last major thing was ooo. After my laptop would shut down for being too hot a dozen times, and having to play whack-a-mole to remove all the extra bogus junk that's accumulated in /tmp, I've finally been able to do a build.

The biggest lesson learned, apart from how fragile java can be on amd64, is that ooo itself takes 8G of disk to build. That's /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/work only, not counting the dozens of packages it depends on. I thought I was being insanely pessimistic when I installed /tmp with 10G and put my ports tree there. Now I see that I'm right up on the edge. I'll have to repartition my disk, or get a bigger one.

Now, if only kino worked on FreeBSD/amd64 and current. It isn't even compiling for me these days :-(.

Minor USB cleanup

I did a quick pass through the tree tonight eliminating all the devinfo stuff. This code had been implemented in uhub a while ago, but the client drivers were never updated to remove the bloat. We set the device name to usbd_get_devinfo in uhub, but then in the client drivers, we computed it again, and printed it, so the data would appear twice.

So far the only wrinkle is that kldunload/kldload doesn't set the description, but there are bigger problems there.

I hope to investigate a few of the bigger usb problems before 7.0 branches and get them fixed.

CardBus and USB minor improvements

I've started working on some minor improvements to CardBus and USB. I'd like to see each of them using filters. CardBus and PC Card necessarily share interrupts between the bridge and the client devices. There's only one interrupt pin. Having to schedule an ithread just to check on the status of the card (for eject events) or power (for the interrupt driven power-up sequence) imposes a large overhead on the system. In addition, it may interfere with CardBus drivers that use filter. The current ISR isn't written to be a filter (what used to be known as a fast interrupt), so some work is needed to migrate it to such an interrupt.

For USB the problem is different. There's no interrupt sharing inside of USB, per se, since all the work goes through the pci<->usb host controller. However, on many systems the designers cheaped out and forced usb and the network to share interrupts. Since usb is still Giant locked, this causes a lot of extra Giant contention. The idea hear is to introduce a filter that turns off the interrupt bits and requests that the ISR run. The ISR would be exactly like we have today, with the addition of code to turn the interrupt sources back on. The theory here is that network inspired interrupts don't have to take out Giant at all since usb can schedule its ithread only when there's real work to do. If the ithread isn't scheduled, then Giant isn't taken out.

Since the freeze is coming up soon, I need to get this done in the next two weeks.