Renamed and genericized the stack_cache class to manage any address
range area of buffers or memory regions. Removed singleton and created
some globals that map to different address regions (kernel stacks,
kernel buffers).
Tags: vmem virtual memeory
We were previously allocating kernel stacks as large objects on the
heap. Now keep track of areas of the kernel stack area that are in use,
and allocate them from there. Also required actually implementing
vm_space::commit(). This still needs more work.
Add the channel object for sending messages between threads. Currently
no good of passing channels to other threads, but global variables in a
single process work. Currently channels are slow and do double copies,
need to refine more.
Tags: ipc
Implement the syscalls necessary for threads to create other threads in
their same process. This involved rearranging a number of syscalls, as
well as implementing object_wait and a basic implementation of a
process' list of handles.
Re-implent the concept of processes as separate from threads, and as a
kobject API object. Also improve scheduler::prune which was doing some
unnecessary iterations.
Create a clock class which can be queried for current timestamp in
nanoseconds. Also implements a simple HPET class as one possible clock
source.
Tags: time
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
Exiting boot services can't actually be done from inside
`bootloader_uefi_main`, because there are objects in that scope that run
code requiring boot services in their destructors.
Also added `support.cpp` with `memcpy` because clang will emit
references to `memcpy` even in freestanding mode.
Added a `debug_break` function to allow for faking breakpoints when
connecting to the bootloader with GDB.
Tags: debug
This commit makes several fundamental changes to memory handling:
- the frame allocator is now only an allocator for free frames, and does
not track used frames.
- the frame allocator now stores its free list inside the free frames
themselves, as a hybrid stack/span model.
- This has the implication that all frames must currently fit within
the offset area.
- kutil has a new allocator interface, which is the only allowed way for
any code outside of src/kernel to allocate. Code under src/kernel
_may_ use new/delete, but should prefer the allocator interface.
- the heap manager has become heap_allocator, which is merely an
implementation of kutil::allocator which doles out sections of a given
address range.
- the heap manager now only writes block headers when necessary,
avoiding page faults until they're actually needed
- page_manager now has a page fault handler, which checks with the
address_manager to see if the address is known, and provides a frame
mapping if it is, allowing heap manager to work with its entire
address size from the start. (Currently 32GiB.)
