* Completely Remove the option STOP_NMI from the kernel. This option

has proven to have a good effect when entering KDB by using a NMI,
but it completely violates all the good rules about interrupts
disabled while holding a spinlock in other occasions.  This can be the
cause of deadlocks on events where a normal IPI_STOP is expected.
* Adds an new IPI called IPI_STOP_HARD on all the supported architectures.
This IPI is responsible for sending a stop message among CPUs using a
privileged channel when disponible. In other cases it just does match a
normal IPI_STOP.
Right now the IPI_STOP_HARD functionality uses a NMI on ia32 and amd64
architectures, while on the other has a normal IPI_STOP effect. It is
responsibility of maintainers to eventually implement an hard stop
when necessary and possible.
* Use the new IPI facility in order to implement a new userend SMP kernel
function called stop_cpus_hard(). That is specular to stop_cpu() but
it does use the privileged channel for the stopping facility.
* Let KDB use the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and leave
stop_cpus() for all the other cases
* Disable interrupts on CPU0 when starting the process of APs suspension.
* Style cleanup and comments adding

This patch should fix the reboot/shutdown deadlocks many users are
constantly reporting on mailing lists.

Please don't forget to update your config file with the STOP_NMI
option removal

Reviewed by:	jhb
Tested by:	pho, bz, rink
Approved by:	re (kib)

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index add10f3a78b8..8c31a898e509 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.x IS SLOW:
 	to maximize performance.  (To disable malloc debugging, run
 	ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.)
 
+20090813:
+	Remove the option STOP_NMI.  The default action is now to use NMI
+	only for KDB via the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard()
+	and maintain stop_cpus() to just use a normal IPI_STOP on ia32
+	and amd64.
+
 20090719:
 	Bump the shared library version numbers for all libraries that
 	do not use symbol versioning as part of the 8.0-RELEASE cycle.