The vanilla NOVA kernel solely supports tracking and exporting of execution
times per SC kernel object, but not per thread (EC object). The commit extends
to track execution times per EC in the NOVA kernel, exporting it to Genode's
'core' roottask and populating Genode's Trace::Subject_info structure.
Fixes#4481
Remove handling of ACPI (SCI) interrupt from kernel and thereby let the
handling of the ACPI irq exclusively to an Genode driver. On Genode the ACPICA
library+app handles the ACPI irq, where we can now remove the contrib patches
related to the synchronization between NOVA kernel and ACPICA library.
Fixes#4479
With the new usb driver #4399 and usage of the updated dde_linux lx_eml/lx_kit
approach a much higher rate of IRQ session construction/destruction and signal
handler assignment (irq->sigh) are caused. This trickles down to the kernel,
which causes an hang of the AMD IOMMUs due to not setting reserved bits
adequately. The commit fixes the root cause in the kernel and add a guard
into core's to limit such driver behaviour.
Fixes#4482
This patch improves the robustness of the CPU-affinity handling.
- The types in base/affinity.h received the accessors
'Location::within(space)' and 'Affinity::valid', which alleviates
the fiddling with coordinates when sanity checking the values,
in init or core.
- The 'Affinity::Location::valid' method got removed because its
meaning was too vague. For sanity checks of affinity configurations,
the new 'within' method is approriate. In cases where only the x,y
values are used for selecting a physical CPU (during thread creation),
the validity check (width*height > 0) was not meaningful anyway.
- The 'Affinity::Location::from_xml' requires a 'Affinity::Space'
as argument because a location always relates to the bounds of
a specific space. This function now implements the selection of
whole rows or columns, which has previously a feature of the
sandbox library only.
- Whenever the sandbox library (init) encounters an invalid affinity
configuration, it prints a warning message as a diagnostic aid.
- A new 'Affinity::unrestricted' function constructs an affinity that
covers the whole affinity space. The named functions clarifies
the meaning over the previous use of the default constructor.
- Core's CPU service denies session requests with an invalid
affinity parameter. Previously, it would fall back to an
unrestricted affinity.
Issue #4300
This patch changes the 'Allocator' interface to the use of 'Attempt'
return values instead of using exceptions for propagating errors.
To largely uphold compatibility with components using the original
exception-based interface - in particluar use cases where an 'Allocator'
is passed to the 'new' operator - the traditional 'alloc' is still
supported. But it existes merely as a wrapper around the new
'try_alloc'.
Issue #4324
- request FPU state on VM exit in portal config
- transfer FPU state on VM entry
- save fpu state early
Avoid any FPU instructions (for example during base API calls), which
use the FPU and overwrite FPU registers holding the guest vCPU FPU
state.
- don't save fpu state of EP
Issue #4313
Report via platform_info the capabilities of the kernel, e.g. ACPI and MSI.
With the commit the try-catch pattern on IRQ session creation by the platform
driver is avoided.
Issue #4016
This patch unifies the core-internal 'Mapping' type across all base
platforms.
As one minor downside on seL4, the diagnostic error messages when
observing faults other than page faults no longer print the faulting
thread and PD names.
Issue #2243
Do not link base and core libraries into on large relocatable .o file,
which is linked later to core - causing long link times. Create an
independent library archive out of the base and core libraries that can
be linked faster.
issue #4027
