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Author SHA1 Message Date
Stefan Kalkowski
4e97a6511b hw: switch page-tables only when necessary
* Instead of always re-load page-tables when a thread context is switched
  only do this when another user PD's thread is the next target,
  core-threads are always executed within the last PD's page-table set
* remove the concept of the mode transition
* instead map the exception vector once in bootstrap code into kernel's
  memory segment
* when a new page directory is constructed for a user PD, copy over the
  top-level kernel segment entries on RISCV and X86, on ARM we use a designated
  page directory register for the kernel segment
* transfer the current CPU id from bootstrap to core/kernel in a register
  to ease first stack address calculation
* align cpu context member of threads and vms, because of x86 constraints
  regarding the stack-pointer loading
* introduce Align_at template for members with alignment constraints
* let the x86 hardware do part of the context saving in ISS, by passing
  the thread context into the TSS before leaving to user-land
* use one exception vector for all ARM platforms including Arm_v6

Fix #2091
2017-10-19 13:31:18 +02:00
Stefan Kalkowski
ca60e24ad9 hw: run core threads in privileged mode
* introduce new syscall (core-only) to create privileged threads
* take the privilege level of the thread into account
  when doing a context switch
* map kernel segment as accessable for privileged code only

Ref #2091
2017-10-19 13:31:17 +02:00
Stefan Kalkowski
42db1e112b hw: introduce kernel/user address space split
* introduces central memory map for core/kernel
* on 32-bit platforms the kernel/core starts at 0x80000000
* on 64-bit platforms the kernel/core starts at 0xffffffc000000000
* mark kernel/core mappings as global ones (tagged TLB)
* move the exception vector to begin of core's binary,
  thereby bootstrap knows from where to map it appropriately
* do not map boot modules into core anymore
* constrain core's virtual heap memory area
* differentiate in between user's and core's main thread's UTCB,
  which now resides inside the kernel segment

Ref #2091
2017-10-19 13:31:17 +02:00
Norman Feske
29b8d609c9 Adjust file headers to refer to the AGPLv3 2017-02-28 12:59:29 +01:00
Stefan Kalkowski
cf943dac65 hw: bootstrap into kernel
Put the initialization of the cpu cores, setup of page-tables, enabling of
MMU and caches into a separate component that is only used to bootstrap
the kernel resp. core.

Ref #2092
2017-02-23 14:54:42 +01:00
Stefan Kalkowski
b6490e913f hw_x86_64: assemble TSS and IDT statically
* remove alignment restrictions of code64 entrypoint

Ref #2092
2017-02-07 19:20:30 +01:00
Stefan Kalkowski
7841058320 hw: only use x86_64 specifier instead of x86
Fix #2109
2016-10-21 12:39:31 +02:00