Add extended FPU state detection and handling (via xsave and friends) to the
kernel, which has to store/load more FPU state (~512 -> 2k++) during context
switching of threads. Additional the referenced nova branch contains various
optimization during VM destruction and cross core IPC resource caching.
This FPU work is based upon upstream NOVA kernel and Hedron commits.
Issue #5314Fixes#3914
Turn some of the current assertions into warnings/error messages and
continue boot. Print the messages as soon as core_log is initialized,
so that on live/release systems (Sculpt OS) it may be inspected later on.
Related to issue #5307
The code to group together SMT threads of one CPU and to move P-Core to
the beginning of Genode's affinity-space, did not consider to run on
SOCs with only E-Core CPUs.
Re-structure the code to support e-Core only SOCs.
Additionally, provide a fallback mapping in case of CPU id reordering problems.
Track faulty re-mapping and delay the reporting until core_log is initialized,
so that the warnings is visible to consumers, e.g. on Sculpt OS.
Related to discussion of #5304Fixes#5307
This patch tightens the coupling of the 'Platform_thread' objects
with their corresponding 'Platform_pd' objects by specifying the
'Platform_pd' as constructor argument, keeping the relationship
as a reference (instead of a pointer), and constraining the
lifetime of 'Platform_pd' objects to the lifetime of the PD.
It thereby clears the way to simplify the thread creation since all
PD-related information (like quota budgets) are now known at the
construction time of the 'Platform_thread'.
The return value of 'Platform_thread::start' has been removed because it
is not evaluated by 'Cpu_thread_component'.
Related to #5256
- Remove exceptions
- Use 'Attr' struct for attach arguments
- Let 'attach' return 'Range' instead of 'Local_addr'
- Renamed 'Region_map::State' to 'Region_map::Fault'
Issue #5245Fixes#5070
The 'Thread_creation_failed' error is now reflected as
'Thread::Start_result' return value. This change also removes the
use of 'Invalid_thread' within core as this exception is an alias
of Cpu_session::Thread_creation_failed.
Issue #5245
This patch removes the exception formerly thrown by 'Cpu_thread::state'
and turns the 'Thread_state' structure into a plain compound type w/o a
constructor.
Issue #5245Fixes#5250
This patch replaces exceptions of the PD session RPC interface with
result types.
The change of the quota-transfer RPC functions required the adaptation
of base/quota_transfer.h and base/child.h.
The 'alloc_signal_source' method has been renamed to 'signal_source'
to avoid an exceedingly long name of the corresponding result type.
The Pd_session::map function takes a 'Virt_range' instead of basic-type
arguments.
The 'Signal_source_capability' alias for 'Capability<Signal_source>' has
been removed.
Issue #5245
Based on not emulated and therby wrong values, acpica calculates a
physical address which points to somewhere. Remove this hack from core and
try to emulate accesses inside acpica where necessary.
Issue #4643
Issue #5234
Using a segment to reserve the AP (application processor) code page does not
work if the region overlaps with other non-memory types, e.g. bender checks
for the overlapping and denies to boot on such machines.
Without bender, the system boots up fine. So, partially remove the nova commit
"Add segment to reserve AP startup page" and instead apply the idea of
Cyberus's version. Place the AP boot code later during boot and save and
restore the memory before/after SMP bootstrap.
separately. The "iommu" option is now split up into "iommu_intel" and
"iommu_amd" and thereby can be disabled easily if required for one of the CPU
vendors.
Fixes#5206
- no need to explicitly switch off vga anymore
- use vPID for VMs which improves TLB usage if multiple vCPUs on same
pCPU is used, which happens to happen on Sculpt.
- support for mwait by nova kernel, which is off by default
Issue #5206
By adding the `irq_type` argument, one can explicitly specify whether to
use LEGACY, MSI or MSI-X interrupts. We formerly used the
`device_phys_config` to implicitly select MSI, however, with the
addition of IOMMU support to the platform driver there is at least one
instance where we need an MSI for a non-PCI device.
Yet, by adding another session argument to the Irq session, we exceed
the character limit for session args. Since not all arguments are
relevant for LEGACY interrupts resp. MSI, we can split the Irq_connection
constructor to handle the two cases separately and omit unneeded
arguments.
genodelabs/genode#5002
Per Affinity::Location a system control cap can be requested. The capability
provides an RPC interface to request and set Cpu_state, as provided by the
former Pd::managing_system(Cpu_state) method. Invocation of those system
control capabilities then *can* (see below) be executed on the desired CPU
as described by Affinity::Location.
The system control cap will be invalid for kernels that don't support
system_control/managing_system functionality at all.
The system control cap will be ever by the same, e.g. ignoring the
Affinity::Location parameter, if the used kernel doesn't support or doesn't
require the feature to execute the system control per CPU.
The commit is a preparation step to add guarded and selective x86 MSR
access per CPU.
Fixes#5009
instead via the hardware registers of the FPU. On Genode all components and
so VMMs are built such, that the compiler may generate optimized code by
using the FPU at any time. We had to make sure to save the
FPU state as early as possible before the VMM component touches the FPU,
to avoid corrupting & losing guest FPU state. This caused headache again
and again. To avoid the uncertainty, we remove this feature and explicitly
transfer the FPU state via the UTCB.
