core: Introduce default CPU exception handler

The CPU session interfaces comes with the ability to install an
exception handler per thread. This patch enhances the feature with the
provision of a default signal handler that is used if no thread-specific
handler is installed. The default signal handler can be set by
specifying an invalid thread capability and a valid signal context
capability.

Furthermore, this patch relaxes the requirement of the order of the
calls of 'exception_handler' and 'set_pager'. Originally, the exception
handler could be installed not before setting a pager. Now, we remember
the installed exception handler in the 'Cpu_thread' and propagate to to
the platform thread at a later time.
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Norman Feske
2013-01-03 20:29:18 +01:00
parent 9b24115c08
commit 9f82764316
8 changed files with 170 additions and 34 deletions

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@ -166,6 +166,11 @@ namespace Genode {
/**
* Register signal handler for region-manager faults
*
* On Linux, this signal is never delivered because page-fault handling
* is performed by the Linux kernel. On microkernel platforms,
* unresolvable page faults (traditionally called segmentation fault)
* will result in the delivery of the signal.
*/
virtual void fault_handler(Signal_context_capability handler) = 0;