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.\" $OpenBSD: mi_switch.9,v 1.7 2017/09/05 03:49:56 jmatthew Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: ctxsw.9,v 1.9 1999/03/06 22:09:29 mycroft Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
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.\" by Paul Kranenburg.
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.Dd $Mdocdate: September 5 2017 $
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.Dt MI_SWITCH 9
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm mi_switch ,
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.Nm cpu_switchto
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.Nd switch to another process context
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In sys/param.h
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.In sys/proc.h
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.Ft void
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.Fn mi_switch "void"
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.Ft void
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.Fn cpu_switchto "struct proc *old" "struct proc *new"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn mi_switch
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function implements the machine-independent prelude to a process context
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switch.
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It is called from only a few distinguished places in the kernel code as a
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result of the principle of non-preemptable kernel mode execution.
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The three major uses of
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.Fn mi_switch
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can be enumerated as follows:
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.Bl -enum -offset indent
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.It
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From within functions like
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.Xr tsleep 9 ,
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when the current process sleeps to wait for some resource to become
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available, or from within functions like
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.Fn yield ,
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when it relinquishes the CPU to allow other processes to make progress.
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.It
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After handling a trap
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.Pq e.g., a system call or device interrupt
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when the kernel prepares a return to user-mode execution.
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This case is typically handled by machine-dependent trap-handling code after
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detection of a change in the signal disposition of the current process, or
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when a higher priority process might be available to run.
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The latter event is communicated by the machine-independent scheduling
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routines by calling the machine-dependent
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.Fn need_resched "void" .
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.It
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In the signal handling code
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.Pq see Pa sys/kern/kern_sig.c
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if a signal is delivered that causes a process to stop.
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.El
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.Pp
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.Fn mi_switch
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records the amount of time the current process has been running in the
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process structure and checks this value against the CPU time limits
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allocated to the process
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.Pq see Xr getrlimit 2 .
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Exceeding the soft limit results in a
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.Dv SIGXCPU
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signal to be posted to the process, while exceeding the hard limit will
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cause a
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.Dv SIGKILL .
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After these administrative tasks are done,
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.Fn mi_switch
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chooses the next process to run and hands over control to the machine
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dependent routine
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.Fn cpu_switchto ,
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which will perform the actual process context switch.
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.Pp
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.Fn cpu_switchto
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will save the context of the old process and switch to the new one.
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A special case is when the old process is
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.Dv NULL
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which means that the old process has exited and doesn't need to be
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saved.
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.Pp
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Note that
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.Fn mi_switch
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and thus
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.Fn cpu_switchto
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must be called while holding the scheduler lock.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr spl 9 ,
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.Xr tsleep 9 ,
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.Xr wakeup 9
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