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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
Stefan Kalkowski 6552d47e60 hw: eliminate missing references for consts
Fix #1606
2015-07-01 14:46:16 +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 e081554731 hw: kernel backed capabilities (Fix #1443) 2015-05-26 09:40:04 +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
Alexander Boettcher faa25e1df6 base: make irq_session asynchronous
second step

options: factor out common parts of irq_session_component.cc
options: use on foc arm no proxy threads

Fixes #1456
2015-04-23 16:47:58 +02:00
Stefan Kalkowski c850462f43 hw: replace kernel's object id allocators
Instead of having an ID allocator per object class use one global allocator for
all. Thereby artificial limitations for the different object types are
superfluent. Moreover, replace the base-hw specific id allocator implementation
with the generic Bit_allocator, which is also memory saving.

Ref #1443
2015-04-17 16:13:20 +02:00
Stefan Kalkowski 7582396e9c hw_arndale: enable ARM virtualization extensions
* enables world-switch using ARM virtualization extensions
* split TrustZone and virtualization extensions hardly from platforms,
  where it is not used
* extend 'Vm_session' interface to enable configuration of guest-physical memory
* introduce VM destruction syscall
* add virtual machine monitor for hw_arndale that emulates a simplified version
  of ARM's Versatile Express Cortex A15 board for a Linux guest OS

Fixes #1405
2015-02-27 11:48:05 +01:00