The Muen-specific PIC implementation provides the irq_occurred()
function which is used to register an IRQ with the PIC upon thread
exception.
The occurred IRQs are stored in a boolean array internally and handed
out to a CPU via take_request().
The driver uses the timer page containing a vector and timer value to
implement the start_one_shot() and value() functions. The timer value
designates the absolute tick count of the next event.
The address of the time page is acquired using the get_memregion_info
Sinfo API function.
The Muen Sinfo API is used to retrieve information about the execution
environment of a subject running on the Muen Separation Kernel.
While the C++ API is defined in sinfo.h, musinfo.h specifies the
internal format of the information stored in the Sinfo pages provided by
the Muen SK. It is a copy of the file contained in the libmusinfo
library of the Muen project. That is the reason why the coding style in
this file differs from the official style.
Move Platform::setup_irq_mode function from x86 platform_support.cc to
x86_64 specific file. This will enable the upcoming x86_64_muen platform
to provide a separate implementation.
The hw_x86_64_muen platform is a x86/64 base-hw kernel which runs as
isolated subject (guest) on the Muen Separation Kernel (SK) [1].
The platform is implemented as an extension to hw_x86_64 replacing the
PIC and timer drivers with paravirtualized variants. The skeleton
contains a dummy PIC and timer implementation for now.
[1] - http://muen.sk
Add spin loop hint by means of the PAUSE instruction since
wait_for_interrupt is called in a busy loop. This should improve processor
performance and reduce power consumption.
Note: HLT cannot be used since it is a privileged instruction and the idle
thread is executed in userspace.
Move the _core_only_mmio_regions function to the
x86_64/platform_support.cc file. This is required to make it overridable
for other platforms deriving from x86.
For most platforms except of NOVA a distinction between pager entrypoint
and pager activation is not needed, and only exists due to historical
reasons. Moreover, the pager thread's execution path is almost identical
between most platforms excluding NOVA, HW, and Fisco.OC. Therefore,
this commit unifies the pager loop for the other platforms, and removes
the pager activation class.
Moves the Bios Data Area header from base-hw to base. Modifies the
base-nova core console that it uses the header as replacement for
the previous BDA bit logic.
Ref #1625
Three things were done:
* Timouts are measured in an asynchronous way to be able to start counters
after the potentially expensive RPC that starts the timeout.
* Timeouts were increased from 45 and 15 seconds to 60 and 20 seconds
because at least on Arndale, results were not stable enough.
* Counting is done on 'unsigned long long' instead of 'unsigned' because
with the higher timeouts, overflows occured.
Fixes#1628
Since the HW-kern-caps commit, there was a bug in the Platform_thread
constructor. When called for a user thread, the constructor stated 0
as CPU quota at the Kernel_object instead of its quota input-paramater.
Fixes#1620
Instead of using the Genode user-level signal API to signal page-faults to
a page-fault handler, use the kernel API directly. Thereby the accounting
of signal contexts needed for each paging subject can be done easily.
Fix#956
Moreover, be strict when calculating the page-table requirements of
core, which is architecture specific, and declare the virtual memory
requirements of core architecture-wise.
Ref #1588
The ~Irq_session_component relied on the IRQ number obtained by the
corresponding kernel IRQ object to mark the IRQ as free at the IRQ
allocator. However, since the kernel IRQ object is initialized not
before the 'sigh' function is called, the IRQ of sessions that
never called 'sigh' could not be freed correctly. This patch fixes
the problem by not relying on the kernel IRQ object for obtaining
the number in the destructor but using the '_irq_number' member
variable instead.
Instead of organizing page tables within slab blocks and allocating such
blocks dynamically on demand, replace the page table allocator with a
simple, static alternative. The new page table allocator is dimensioned
at compile-time. When a PD runs out of page-tables, we simply flush its
current mappings, and re-use the freed tables. The only exception is
core/kernel that should not produce any page faults. Thereby it has to
be ensured that core has enough page tables to populate it's virtual
memory.
A positive side-effect of this static approach is that the accounting
of memory used for page-tables is now possible again. In the dynamic case
there was no protocol existent that solved the problem of donating memory
to core during a page fault.
Fix#1588
This patch enable clients of core's TRACE service to obtain the
execution times of trace subjects (i.e., threads). The execution time is
delivered as part of the 'Subject_info' structure.
Right now, the feature is available solely on NOVA. On all other base
platforms, the returned execution times are 0.
Issue #813
Add a Platform::setup_irq_mode function which enables the IRQ session to
update the trigger mode and polarity of the associated IRQ according to
the session parameters. On ARM this function is a nop.
This change enables the x86_64 platform to support devices which use
arbitrary trigger modes and polarity settings, e.g. AHCI on QEMU and
real hardware.
Fixes#1528.
Because of helping, it is possible that a core thread that wants to
destroy another thread at the kernel is using the scheduling context of
the thread that shall be destroyed at this point in time. When building
without GENODE_RELEASE defined, this always triggers an assertion in the
kernel. But when building with GENODE_RELEASE defined, this might silently
lead to kernel-memory corruption. This commit eliminates the latter case.
Should be reverted as soon as the scheduler is able to remove its head.
Ref #1537
Placement new can be misleading, as we already overload the new operator
to construct objects via pointers to allocators. To prohibit any problems here,
and to use one consistent approach, we can explicitely construct the object
with the already available 'construct_at' template function.
Ref #1443
* Introduce a hw specific Address_space interface for protection
domains, which combines all memory-virtualization related functionality
* Introduce a core-specific Platform_pd object that solves all the hen-egg
problems formerly distributed in kernel and core-platform code
Ref #595
Ref #1443
