- Add a tag field to all endpoint messages, which doubles as a
notification field
- Add a endpoint_bind_irq syscall to enable an endpoint to listen for
interrupt notifications. This mechanism needs to change.
- Add a temporary copy of the serial port code to nulldrv, and let it
take responsibility for COM2
This is the first commit of several reworking the VM system. The main
focus is replacing page_manager's global functionality with objects
representing individual VM spaces. The main changes in this commit were:
- Adding the (as yet unused) vm_area object, which will be the main
point of control for programs to allocate or share memory.
- Replace the old vm_space with a new one based on state in its page
tables. They will also be containers for vm_areas.
- vm_space takes over from page_manager as the page fault handler
- Commented out the page walking in memory_bootstrap; I'll probably need
to recreate this functionality, but it was broken as it was.
- Split out the page_table.h implementations from page_manager.cpp into
the new page_table.cpp, updated it, and added page_table::iterator as
well.
Instead of many timer interrupts and decrementing a process' remaining
quanta, change to setting a single timer for when a process should be
preempted. If it uses its whole timeslice, demote it. If it uses less
than half before blocking, promote it. Determine timeslice based on
priority as well.
This change also required changing the apic timer interface to be purely
interval (in microseconds) based instead of its previous interval/tick
hybrid.
Created a new `memory_initialize()` function that uses the new-style
kernel args structure from the new bootloader.
Additionally:
* Fixed a hard-coded interrupt EOI address that didn't work with new
memory locations
* Make the `page_manager::fault_handler()` automatically grant pages
in the kernel heap
Tags: boot page fault
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.)
There are a lot of under the hood changes here:
- Move syscalls to be a dispatch table, defined by syscalls.inc
- Don't need a full process state (push_all) in syscalls now
- In push_all, define REGS instead of using offsets
- Save TWO stack pointers as well as current saved stack pointer in TCB:
- rsp0 is the base of the kernel stack for interrupts
- rsp3 is the saved user stack from cpu_data
- Update syscall numbers in nulldrv
- Some asm-debugging enhancements to the gdb script
- fork() still not working
- More sensible stack tracer, in C++ (no symbols yet)
- Was forgetting to add null frame to new kernel stacks
- __kernel_assert was using an old vector
- A GP fault will only print its associated table entry
Previously CPU statue was passed on the stack, but the compiler is
allowed to clobber values passed to it on the stack in the SysV x86 ABI.
So now leave the state on the stack but pass a pointer to it into the
ISR functions.
The syscall/sysret instructions don't swap stacks. This was bad but
passable until syscalls caused the scheduler to run, and scheduling a
task that paused due to interrupt.
Adding a new (hopefully temporary) syscall interrupt `int 0xee` to allow
me to test syscalls without stack issues before I tackle the
syscall/sysret issue.
Also implemented a basic `pause` syscall that causes the calling process
to become unready. Because nothing can wake a process yet, it never
returns.
- Scheduler now has multiple linked_lists of processes at different
priorities
- Process structure improvements
- scheduler::tick() and scheduler::schedule() separation
* It looks like UEFI enables SSE, so we need to tell clang -mno-sse for
now to not use XMM* until we're ready to save them.
* SYSCALL is working from ring3 tasks, calling console printf!
* Implement MSI style interrupts
* Move interrupt handling to device_manager for IRQs
* Give device_manager the ability to allocate IRQs
* Move achi::port to an interrupt-based scheme