Justin C. Miller 68a2250886 [kernel] Use IST for kernel stacks for NMI, #DF, #PF ...

We started actually running up against the page boundary for kernel
stacks and thus double-faulting on page faults from kernel space. So I
finally added IST stacks. Note that we currently just
increment/decrement the IST entry by a page when we enter the handler to
avoid clobbering on re-entry, but this means:

* these handlers need to be able to operate with only a page of stack
* kernel stacks always have to be >1 pages
* the amount of nesting possible is tied to the kernel stack size.

These seem fine for now, but we should maybe find a way to use something
besides g_kernel_stacks to set up the IST stacks if/when this becomes an
issue.

2021-02-02 18:36:11 -08:00

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