Whether an SoC has the multiprocessing extensions can be read out
from the identification registers, and does not need to be specified
in each board header.
Ref #3445
In the past, the core-only privileged syscall `update_pd` was used only
to invalidate the TLB after removal of page-table entries.
By now, the whole TLB at least for one protection domain got invalidated,
but in preparation for optimization and upcomingARM v8 support,
it is necessary to deliver the virtual memory region that needs to get
invalidated. Moreover, the name of the call shall represent explicitely
that it is used to invalidate the TLB.
Ref #3405
On x86 the CPU count is determined through ACPI's MADT by counting the
local APICs reported there. Some platforms report more APICs
than there are actual CPUs. These might be physically disabled CPUs.
Therefore, a check if the LAPIC is actually physically enabled in
hardware fixes this issue.
Thanks to Alex Boettcher
fixes#3376
Fix initial stack pointer alignment for x86_64 in crt0.s startup code of
bootstrap. SysV ABI states that upon function entry (rsp + 8) % 16 = 0.
There, we have to align the stack to 16 bytes before all 'call'
instruction not 8. Otherwise FPU (GP) exception might be raised later on
because of unaligned FPU accesses.
issue #3365
Since gcc 8.3.0 generates SSE instructions into kernel code, the
kernel itself may raise FPU exceptions and/or corrupt user level FPU
contexts thereby. Both things are not feasible, and therefore, lazy FPU
switching becomes a no go for base-hw because we cannot avoid FPU
instructions because of the entanglement of base-hw, base, and the tool
chain (libgcc_eh.a).
issue #3365
Also disable TS (task switch) flag in cr0 during kernel initialization,
so FPU faults are not raised. This became necessary since GCC lately
aggressively generates FPU instructions at arbitrary places and also at
early kernel-bootstrapping stages.
fixes#3365
Components like kernel, core, and bootstrap that are built for a
specific board need to reside inside the same architectural dependent
build directory. For instance there are sel4, foc, and hw kernel builds
for imx6q_sabrelite and imx7d_sabre, which have to reside inside the same
arm_v7 build directory.
This commit names those components explicitely, and adapts the run-tool to it.
Fix#3316
This enforces the use of unsigned 64-bit values for time in the duration type,
the timeout framework, the timer session, the userland timer-drivers, and the
alarm framework on all platforms. The commit also adapts the code that uses
these tools accross all basic repositories (base, base-*, os. gems, libports,
ports, dde_*) to use unsigned 64-bit values for time as well as far as this
does not imply profound modifications.
Fixes#3208
Instead of using `cps` instruction, use an exception return
instruction to switch from `hyp` mode to `svc` mode.
Otherwise it causes unpredicted behaviour on ARM.
Fix#3284
Track the dataspaces used by attach and add handling of flushing VM space
when dataspace gets destroyed (not triggered via the vm_session interface).
Issue #3111
Triggering of an invalidated signal seems to be no real exception,
but something that occurs regularily. Therefore, the kernel warning
is of no use to developers anymore.
Ref #3277
As far as possible remove usage of warning/error/log in the kernel,
otherwise the kernel context might try to take a lock hold by a core
thread, which results in a syscall to block.
Fix#3277
* Introduces pending_signal syscall to check for new signals for the
calling thread without blocking
* Implements pending_signal in the base-library specific for hw to use the
new syscall
Fix#3217
* Introduce 64-bit tick counter
* Let the timer always count when possible, also if it already fired
* Simplify the kernel syscall API to have one current time call,
which returns the elapsed microseconds since boot
In commit "hw: improve cross-cpu synchronization" the implicit safe
initialization of the global kernel lock gets unsafe.
It is a static object, which is protected by the cxx library regarding
its initialization. But our cxx library uses a Genode::semaphore in
the contention case of object construction, which implicitly leads
to kernel syscalls for blocking the corresponding thread. This behaviour
is unacceptable for the kernel code.
Therefore, this fix guards the initialization of the kernel code with
a simple static boolean value explicitely.
Ref #3042
Ref #3043
This commit removes APIs that were previously marked as deprecated. This
change has the following implications:
- The use of the global 'env()' accessor is not possible anymore.
- Boolean accessor methods are no longer prefixed with 'is_'. E.g.,
instead of 'is_valid()', use 'valid()'.
- The last traces of 'Ram_session' are gone now. The 'Env::ram()'
accessor returns the 'Ram_allocator' interface, which is a subset of
the 'Pd_session' interface.
- All connection constructors need the 'Env' as argument.
- The 'Reporter' constructor needs an 'Env' argument now because the
reporter creates a report connection.
- The old overload 'Child_policy::resolve_session_request' that returned
a 'Service' does not exist anymore.
- The base/printf.h header has been removed, use base/log.h instead.
- The old notion of 'Signal_dispatcher' is gone. Use 'Signal_handler'.
- Transitional headers like os/server.h, cap_session/,
volatile_object.h, os/attached*_dataspace.h, signal_rpc_dispatcher.h
have been removed.
- The distinction between 'Thread_state' and 'Thread_state_base' does
not exist anymore.
- The header cpu_thread/capability.h along with the type definition of
'Cpu_thread_capability' has been removed. Use the type
'Thread_capability' define in cpu_session/cpu_session.h instead.
- Several XML utilities (i.e., at os/include/decorator) could be removed
because their functionality is nowadays covered by util/xml_node.h.
- The 'os/ram_session_guard.h' has been removed.
Use 'Constrained_ram_allocator' provided by base/ram_allocator.h instead.
Issue #1987
This patch adjusts the implementation of the base library and core such
that the code no longer relies on deprecated APIs except for very few
cases, mainly to keep those deprecated APIs in tact for now.
The most prominent changes are:
- Removing the use of base/printf.h
- Removing of the log backend for printf. The 'Console' with the
format-string parser is still there along with 'snprintf.h' because
the latter is still used at a few places, most prominently the
'Connection' classes.
- Removing the notion of a RAM session, which does not exist in
Genode anymore. Still the types were preserved (by typedefs to
PD session) to keep up compatibility. But this transition should
come to an end now.
- Slight rennovation of core's tracing service, e.g., the use of an
Attached_dataspace as the Argument_buffer.
- Reducing the reliance on global accessors like deprecated_env() or
core_env(). Still there is a longish way to go to eliminate all such
calls. A useful pattern (or at least a stop-gap solution) is to
pass the 'Env' to the individual compilation units via init functions.
- Avoiding the use of the old 'Child_policy::resolve_session_request'
interface that returned a 'Service' instead of a 'Route'.
Issue #1987
- support to create multiple vCPUs
- support to implement Vm_session methods client side within base library
- adjust muen specific virtualbox4 version to compile/link
Issue #3111
As we don't execute the acpi_drv on Muen, we have to supply a static
'acpi' info as boot module. This is normally done by the
base/run/platform.inc include. However, when using base-hw-muen kernel
from a depot archive - as done by modern run scripts like
depot_download.run - the platform.inc magic is not applied.
This patch enhances the src archive of base-hw-muen with a mechanism
that creates a pre-defined acpi info at the bin directory via an
artificial src/acpi/target.mk file. This way, the static acpi ROM ends
up as boot module when importing the base-hw-muen archive into a
run script.
This patch replaces the former prominent use of pointers by references
wherever feasible. This has the following benefits:
* The contract between caller and callee becomes more obvious. When
passing a reference, the contract says that the argument cannot be
a null pointer. The caller is responsible to ensure that. Therefore,
the use of reference eliminates the need to add defensive null-pointer
checks at the callee site, which sometimes merely exist to be on the
safe side. The bottom line is that the code becomes easier to follow.
* Reference members must be initialized via an object initializer,
which promotes a programming style that avoids intermediate object-
construction states. Within core, there are still a few pointers
as member variables left though. E.g., caused by the late association
of 'Platform_thread' objects with their 'Platform_pd' objects.
* If no pointers are present as member variables, we don't need to
manually provide declarations of a private copy constructor and
an assignment operator to avoid -Weffc++ errors "class ... has
pointer data members [-Werror=effc++]".
This patch also changes a few system bindings on NOVA and Fiasco.OC,
e.g., the return value of the global 'cap_map' accessor has become a
reference. Hence, the patch touches a few places outside of core.
Fixes#3135
This patch moves the removal of the signal context from the
'_platform_finish_dissolve' to the '_platform_begin_dissolve'
method. This is needed because the removal involves taking
the signal-registry lock. The latter must adhere the same
locking order as the code path used for signal delivery.
Fixes#3109
Since the timer and timeout handling is part of the base library (the
dynamic linker), it belongs to the base repository.
Besides moving the timer and its related infrastructure (alarm, timeout
libs, tests) to the base repository, this patch also moves the timer
from the 'drivers' subdirectory directly to 'src' and disamibuates the
timer's build locations for the various kernels. Otherwise the different
timer implementations could interfere with each other when using one
build directory with multiple kernels.
Note that this patch changes the include paths for the former os/timer,
os/alarm.h, os/duration.h, and os/timed_semaphore.h to base/.
Issue #3101
This commit solves several issues:
* correct calculation of overlap region when detaching regions
in managed dataspaces
* prevent unmap of Fiasco.OC's core log buffer
* calculate the core-local address of regions in managed dataspaces
if possible at all and use it to unmap on kernels where this is
needed
Fix#976Fix#3082
This commit addresses several multiprocessing issues in base-hw:
* it reworks cross-cpu maintainance work for TLB invalidation by
introducing a generic Inter_processor_work and removes the so
called Cpu_domain_update
* thereby it solves the cross-cpu thread destruction, when the
corresponding thread is active on another cpu (fix#3043)
* it adds the missing TLB shootdown for x86 (fix#3042)
* on ARM it removes the TLB shootdown via IPIs, because this
is not needed on the multiprocessing ARM platforms we support
* it enables the per-cpu initialization of the kernel's cpu
objects, which means those object initialization is executed
by the proper cpu
* it rollbacks prior decision to make multiprocessing an aspect,
but puts back certain 'smp' mechanisms (like cross-cpu lock)
into the generic code base for simplicity reasons
* To base-hw/recipes/src add base-hw-arndale, base-hw-imx53_qsb,
base-hw-imx53_qsb_tz, base-hw-odroid_xu, base-hw-panda, base-hw-rpi,
base-hw-wand_quad
* Ensure that the correct base-hw recipe is choosen by the run module
'boot_dir/hw'
The new 'conditional' method simplifies the typical use case for
'Constructible' objects where the constructed/destructed state depends
on a configuration parameter. The method alleviates the need to
re-implement the logic again and again.
The patch also removes the 'Reconstructible' constructor arguments
because they are unused.
Fixes#3006
Previously, the trace control of a thread was initialized in its
constructor (which is generic for all components). This has the
disadvantage that the CPU-session-pointer member of the thread might not
be valid at this point. And it cannot be replaced by using the
"deprecated_env" CPU session neither as constructing the deprecated
environment in causes troubles in Core. But as the trace control
shouldn't be needed in Core anyway, the initialization can be moved to
the Thread::start implementation of non-core components. This code
already takes care of the CPU session pointer.
Fixes#2901
The sinfo API now also exports PCI devices without logical IRQs.
Therefore, explicitly check interrupt count in get_msi_params() function
and ignore such devices.
- Use latest Muen version
- Sync VirtualBox Muen subject state
- Drop unneccessary subject IP patch
- Adapt Muen RUN_OPTs
- Update documentation
Note: the GPL 2017 toolchain is now required and as the debug output
format has changed the mulog-subject.py script must be updated on
autopilot instances.
AVL trees can't be copied with the default copy constructor as the
parent pointer of the first item of both of the resulting trees would
point to the original tree. Copying an AVL node, however, generally
violates the integrity of the corresponding tree. The copy constructor
of Avl_tree is used in some places but in those places it can be
replaced easily. So, this commit deletes the copy constructor of
Avl_node_base which makes Avl_node and Avl_tree non-copyable.
Issue #2654
The patch adjust the code of the base, base-<kernel>, and os repository.
To adapt existing components to fix violations of the best practices
suggested by "Effective C++" as reported by the -Weffc++ compiler
argument. The changes follow the patterns outlined below:
* A class with virtual functions can no longer publicly inherit base
classed without a vtable. The inherited object may either be moved
to a member variable, or inherited privately. The latter would be
used for classes that inherit 'List::Element' or 'Avl_node'. In order
to enable the 'List' and 'Avl_tree' to access the meta data, the
'List' must become a friend.
* Instead of adding a virtual destructor to abstract base classes,
we inherit the new 'Interface' class, which contains a virtual
destructor. This way, single-line abstract base classes can stay
as compact as they are now. The 'Interface' utility resides in
base/include/util/interface.h.
* With the new warnings enabled, all member variables must be explicitly
initialized. Basic types may be initialized with '='. All other types
are initialized with braces '{ ... }' or as class initializers. If
basic types and non-basic types appear in a row, it is nice to only
use the brace syntax (also for basic types) and align the braces.
* If a class contains pointers as members, it must now also provide a
copy constructor and assignment operator. In the most cases, one
would make them private, effectively disallowing the objects to be
copied. Unfortunately, this warning cannot be fixed be inheriting
our existing 'Noncopyable' class (the compiler fails to detect that
the inheriting class cannot be copied and still gives the error).
For now, we have to manually add declarations for both the copy
constructor and assignment operator as private class members. Those
declarations should be prepended with a comment like this:
/*
* Noncopyable
*/
Thread(Thread const &);
Thread &operator = (Thread const &);
In the future, we should revisit these places and try to replace
the pointers with references. In the presence of at least one
reference member, the compiler would no longer implicitly generate
a copy constructor. So we could remove the manual declaration.
Issue #465
This is necessary because in contrast to the zynq boards (see specs in genode-world), only zynq_qemu uses UART_0.
These files should thus fall under the zynq_qemu spec.
Fixes#2615
Instead of changing the attributes (e.g., Xd bit) of the top-level page-tables,
set them to allow everything. Only leafs of the paging hierarchy are set
according to the paging attributes given by core. Otherwise, top-level page-
table attributes are changed during lifetime, which requires a TLB flush
operation (not intended in the semantic of the kernel/core).
This led to problems when using the non-executable features introduced by
issue #1723 in the recent past.
Recent work related to issue 1723 showed that there is potential
to get rid of code duplication in MMU fault handling especially
with regard to ARM cpus.
* Instead of always re-load page-tables when a thread context is switched
only do this when another user PD's thread is the next target,
core-threads are always executed within the last PD's page-table set
* remove the concept of the mode transition
* instead map the exception vector once in bootstrap code into kernel's
memory segment
* when a new page directory is constructed for a user PD, copy over the
top-level kernel segment entries on RISCV and X86, on ARM we use a designated
page directory register for the kernel segment
* transfer the current CPU id from bootstrap to core/kernel in a register
to ease first stack address calculation
* align cpu context member of threads and vms, because of x86 constraints
regarding the stack-pointer loading
* introduce Align_at template for members with alignment constraints
* let the x86 hardware do part of the context saving in ISS, by passing
the thread context into the TSS before leaving to user-land
* use one exception vector for all ARM platforms including Arm_v6
Fix#2091
* introduce new syscall (core-only) to create privileged threads
* take the privilege level of the thread into account
when doing a context switch
* map kernel segment as accessable for privileged code only
Ref #2091
Always switch to the "exception stack" instead of having a hardware initiated
stack switch during exceptions/interrupts when the privilege level changes only.
Moreover, this commit increases the exception stack slightly.
Ref #2091
* introduces central memory map for core/kernel
* on 32-bit platforms the kernel/core starts at 0x80000000
* on 64-bit platforms the kernel/core starts at 0xffffffc000000000
* mark kernel/core mappings as global ones (tagged TLB)
* move the exception vector to begin of core's binary,
thereby bootstrap knows from where to map it appropriately
* do not map boot modules into core anymore
* constrain core's virtual heap memory area
* differentiate in between user's and core's main thread's UTCB,
which now resides inside the kernel segment
Ref #2091
In the past, a signal context, that was chosen for handling by
'Signal_receiver::pending_signal and always triggered again before
the next call of 'pending_signal', caused all other contexts behind
in the list to starve. This was the case because 'pending_signal'
always took the first pending context in its context list.
We avoid this problem now by handling pending signals in a round-robin
fashion instead.
Ref #2532
Some x86 machines do have a LAPIC speed < 1000 ticks per millisecond
when configured to use the maximum divider (as it was always the case).
But we need microseconds precision for the timeout framework. Thus,
reduce the divider dynamically until the frequency fullfills our
requirements.
Ref #2400
There are hardware timers whose frequency can't be expressed as
ticks-per-microsecond integer-value because only a ticks-per-millisecond
integer-value is precise enough. We don't want to use expensive
floating-point values here but nonetheless want to translate from ticks
to time with microseconds precision. Thus, we split the input in two and
translate both parts separately. This way, we can raise precision by
shifting the values to their optimal bit position. Afterwards, the results
are shifted back and merged together again.
As this algorithm is not so trivial anymore and used by at least three
timer drivers (base-hw/x86_64, base-hw/cortex_a9, timer/pit), move it to a
generic header to avoid redundancy.
Ref #2400
Due to the simplicity of the algorithm that translated from timer ticks
to time, we lost microseconds precision although the timer allows for it.
Ref #2400
When running core as the kernel inside every component, a separate
stack area for core is needed that is different from the user-land
component's one.
Ref #2091
