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11 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Christian Helmuth
dc2961338d Bootable GRUB2 disk image with ext2 partition
This provides bootable disk images for x86 platforms via

! RUN_OPT="--target disk"

The resulting disk image contains one ext2 partition with binaries from
the GRUB2 boot loader and the run scenario. The default disk size fits
all binaries, but is configurable via

! --disk-size <size in MiB>

in RUN_OPT.

The feature depends on an grub2-head.img, which is part of the commit,
but may also be generated by executing tool/create_grub2. The script
generates a disk image prepared for one partition, which contains files
for GRUB2. All image preparation steps that need superuser privileges
are conducted by this script.

The final step of writing the entire image to a disk must be executed
later by

  sudo dd if=<image file> of=<device> bs=8M conv=fsync

Fixes #1203.
2014-08-18 13:25:21 +02:00
Christian Prochaska
a46de84f89 Fix race condition in page fault notification
When a page fault cannot be resolved, the GDB monitor can get a hint about
which thread faulted by evaluating the thread state object returned by
'Cpu_session::state()'. Unfortunately, with the current implementation,
the signal which informs GDB monitor about the page fault is sent before
the thread state object of the faulted thread has been updated, so it
can happen that the faulted thread cannot be determined immediately
after receiving the signal.

With this commit, the thread state gets updated before the signal is sent.

At least on base-nova it can also happen that the thread state is not
accessible yet after receiving the page fault notification. For this
reason, GDB monitor needs to retry its query until the state is
accessible.

Fixes #1206.
2014-07-24 10:18:07 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
e70c13ce1f nova: update to r6 nova kernel branch
- adds general support for semaphore timeouts
- fixes PCID feature (aka tagged TLB) seeen on Lenovo X201

Fixes #1211
2014-07-24 10:18:06 +02:00
Stefan Kalkowski
786fe805da base: introduce caching attributes (fix #1184)
On ARM it's relevant to not only distinguish between ordinary cached memory
and write-combined one, but also having non-cached memory too. To insert the
appropriated page table entries e.g.: in the base-hw kernel, we need to preserve
the information about the kind of memory from allocation until the pager
resolves a page fault. Therefore, this commit introduces a new Cache_attribute
type, and replaces the write_combined boolean with the new type where necessary.
2014-06-26 10:57:26 +02:00
Christian Helmuth
2c3a0bbe1b nova: re-throw uncatched exception of dying thread
If the re-throw works, we will can see which exception type was thrown.
2014-05-27 13:45:20 +02:00
Norman Feske
615830e107 Enable hash checks for ports mechanism 2014-05-27 13:45:03 +02:00
Christian Prochaska
078883fda3 base: interface for D- and I-cache synchronization
On ARM, when machine instructions get written into the data cache
(for example by a JIT compiler), one needs to make sure that the
instructions get written out to memory and read from memory into
the instruction cache before they get executed. This functionality
is usually provided by a kernel syscall and this patch adds a generic
interface for Genode applications to use it.

Fixes #1153.
2014-05-27 11:14:45 +02:00
Norman Feske
05a460c11f Temporarily disable hash checks
...until the transition to the new ports management is complete.
2014-05-27 11:14:44 +02:00
Norman Feske
7d4f8fa746 base-nova: migrate to new ports mechanism
Issue #1082
2014-05-27 11:14:43 +02:00
Norman Feske
9f43aa4363 base-nova: fully qualify Utcb type 2014-05-27 11:14:41 +02:00
Norman Feske
ca971bbfd8 Move repositories to 'repos/' subdirectory
This patch changes the top-level directory layout as a preparatory
step for improving the tools for managing 3rd-party source codes.
The rationale is described in the issue referenced below.

Issue #1082
2014-05-14 16:08:00 +02:00