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Author SHA1 Message Date
Stefan Kalkowski
e05d26567d hw: make 'smp' property an aspect (Ref #1312)
This commit separates certain SMP aspects into 'spec/smp' subdirectories.
Thereby it simplifies non-SMP implementations again, where no locking
and several platform specific maintainance operations are not needed.
Moreover, it moves several platform specifics to appropriated places,
removes dead code from x86, and starts to turn global static pointers
into references that are handed over.
2016-01-15 16:42:12 +01:00
Martin Stein
555835c95b hw: unlock kernel before context propagation
Propagating the user context-pointer from C++ code to the mode
transition assembly doesn't touch any CPU global data. Thus, we can
reduce the in-sync window.

Fixes #1223
2015-09-09 15:14:27 +02:00
Stefan Kalkowski
cc58b11998 hw: replace page table allocator with static one
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
2015-06-22 14:43:41 +02:00
Stefan Kalkowski
e61a3db30d hw: separate function declaration/implementation
Move kernel object functions from its headers to compilation units,
thereby reducing the kernel's text section, cache, and TLB footprint.

Fix #1492
2015-05-06 10:55:23 +02:00
Martin Stein
9da42dde2f hw & arm_v7: mode transition via transit ttbr0
Previously, we did the protection-domain switches without a transitional
translation table that contains only global mappings. This was fine as long
as the CPU did no speculative memory accesses. However, to enabling branch
prediction triggers such accesses. Thus, if we don't want to invalidate
predictors on every context switch, we need to switch more carefully.

ref #474
2014-08-15 10:19:48 +02:00