The kernel::args namespace is really the protocol for initializing the
kernel from the bootloader. Also, the header struct in that namespace
isn't actually a header, but a collection of parameters. This change
renames the namespace to kernel::init and the struct to args.
The previous frame allocator involved a lot of splitting and merging
linked lists and lost all information about frames while they were
allocated. The new allocator is based on an array of descriptor
structures and a bitmap. Each memory map region of allocatable memory
becomes one or more descriptors, each mapping up to 1GiB of physical
memory. The descriptors implement two levels of a bitmap tree, and have
a pointer into the large contiguous bitmap to track individual pages.
To enable setting sections as NX or read-only, the boot program loader
now loads programs as lists of sections, and the kernel args are updated
accordingly. The kernel's loader now just takes a program pointer to
iterate the sections. Also enable NX in IA32_EFER in the bootloader.
Remove ELF and initrd loading from the kernel. The bootloader now loads
the initial programs, as it does with the kernel. Other files that were
in the initrd are now on the ESP, and non-program files are just passed
as modules.
The page table code had been copied mostly verbatim from the kernel, and
was a dense mess. I abstraced the `page_table_indices` class and the old
loop behavior of `map_in` into a new `page_entry_iterator` class, making
both `map_pages` and the initial offset mapping code much cleaner.
Tags: vmem paging
Set up initial page tables for both the offset-mapped area and the
loaded kernel code and data.
* Got rid of the `loaded_elf` struct - the loader now runs after the
initial PML4 is created and maps the ELF sections itself.
* Copied in the `page_table` and `page_table_indices` from the kernel,
still need to clean this up and extract it into shared code.
* Added `page_table_cache` to the kernel args to pass along free pages
that can be used for initial page tables.
Tags: paging