Currently there are two generators. The fast one is the same one the scheduler
is using. The standard one is the same algorithm libroot's rand() uses. Should
there be a need for more cryptographically PRNG MD4 or MD5 might be a good
candidates.
Placing commpage and team user data somewhere at the top of the user accessible
virtual address space prevents these areas from conflicting with elf images
that require to be mapped at exact address (in most cases: runtime_loader).
This patch introduces randomization of commpage position. From now on commpage
table contains offsets from begining to of the commpage to the particular
commpage entry. Similary addresses of symbols in ELF memory image "commpage"
are just offsets from the begining of the commpage.
This patch also updates KDL so that commpage entries are recognized and shown
correctly in stack trace. An update of Debugger is yet to be done.
Set execute disable bit for any page that belongs to area with neither
B_EXECUTE_AREA nor B_KERNEL_EXECUTE_AREA set.
In order to take advanage of NX bit in 32 bit protected mode PAE must be
enabled. Thus, from now on it is also enabled when the CPU supports NX bit.
vm_page_fault() takes additional argument which indicates whether page fault
was caused by an illegal instruction fetch.
The physical memory map area was not included in the kernel virtual
address space range (it was below KERNEL_BASE). This caused problems
if an I/O operation took place on physical memory mapped there (the
bad address error seen in #9547 was occurring in lock_memory_etc()).
Changed KERNEL_BASE and KERNEL_SIZE to cover the area and add a null
area that covers all of it. Also changed X86VMTranslationMap64Bit to
handle large pages in Query(), as the physical map area uses large
pages.
* Added the aforementioned functions.
* create_area_etc() now takes a guard size parameter.
* The thread_info::stack_base/end range now refers to the usable range
only.
Since we're using multi-part uImage format, we can add the FDT as
a seperate "blob" in the uImage, if the used U-Boot version is not
"FDT enabled".
This is used for example for our Verdex target. Currently I've got
a local hack in the platform/u-boot/Jamfile, looking into pulling
in the FDT files and a proper Jam setup to do that properly...
This detects everything up to ARMv6 right now. Need to check more
recent ARM ARMs for ARMv7 detection.
The detected details get passed on to the kernel, which can use
the pre-detected info for selecting right pagetable format and such.
Copyright removal of Axel done after agreement with Axel @ BeGeistert
that for files that were copy/pasted from x86 arch and then fully
replaced the implementation, removal of original copyright holder is
allowed, since their actual code is gone ;)
This is to make sure all ARM platforms will benefit from planned work on this
MMU/CPU code. The less code duplicated, the better.
Compile-tested for all supported ARM platforms
This also implements the fault handler correctly now, and cleans up the
exception handling. Seems a lot more stable now, no unexpected panics or
faults happening anymore.
* The only implementation that would accept more than 2 TB was the one in
scsi_disk. But even that one was limited to 63 TB.
* Now there is a new utility function devfs_compute_geometry_size() which
does it correctly for sizes up to 2^64 which should be good enough for
quite some time :-)
* This fixes bug #8992.
* For now let's include the same fields in platform_kernel_args
than in the OF version.
* This allows linking the kernel.
Later on we should allow supporting more than a single boot platform,
to have a single kernel per arch.
The lowest 4 bits of the MSR serves as a hint to the hardware to
favor performance or energy saving. 0 means a hint preference for
highest performance while 15 corresponds to the maximum energy
savings. A value of 7 translates into a hint to balance performance
with energy savings.
The default reset value of the MSR is 0. If BIOS doesn't intialize
the MSR, the hardware will run in performance state. This patch
initialize the MSR with value of 7 for balance between performance
and energy savings
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Holmqvist <fredrik.holmqvist@gmail.com>
Renamed {32,64}/int.cpp to {32,64}/descriptors.cpp, which now contain
functions for GDT and TSS setup that were previously in arch_cpu.cpp,
as well as the IDT setup code. These get called from the init functions
in arch_cpu.cpp, rather than having a bunch of ifdef'd chunks of code
for 32/64.
Reused x86 arch_user_debugger.cpp, with a few minor changes to make
the code work for both 32 and 64 bit. Something isn't quite working
right, if a breakpoint is hit the kernel will hang. Other than that
everything appears to work correctly.
* Changed IS_USER_ADDRESS to check an address using USER_BASE and
USER_SIZE, rather than just !IS_KERNEL_ADDRESS. The old check would
allow user buffers to point into the physical memory map area.
* Added an unmapped hole at the end of the bottom half of the address
space which catches buffers that cross into the uncanonical address
region. This also removes the need to check for uncanonical return
addresses in the syscall handler, it is no longer possible for the
return address to be uncanonical under normal circumstances. All
cases in which the return address might be changed by the kernel
are still handled via the IRET path.
The cookie is used to store the base address of the area that was just
visited. On 64-bit systems, int32 is not sufficient. Therefore, changed
to ssize_t which retains compatibility on x86 while expanding to a
sufficient size on x86_64.
Userland switch is implemented, as is basic system call support (using
SYSCALL/SYSRET). The system call handler is not yet complete: it doesn't
handle more than 6 arguments, and does not perform all the necessary kernel
entry/exit work (neither does the interrupt handler). However, this is
sufficient for runtime_loader to start and print some debug output.
Since this argument may be used to pass pointers, uint32 is not
correct for 64-bit. Effectively no change on 32-bit targets, both
size_t and uint32 are unsigned long there.
