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
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
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.
The NOVA kernel and Genode's roottask core are configured to be runnable
with up to 64 CPUs (MAX_SUPPORTED_CPUS in core resp. NUM_CPU in kernel).
On machines with more CPUs a reset occurred. The commit checks for this
case, bootstraps the first 64 CPUs only, and sends all other CPUs to
sleep.
Also, the platform_info ROM size is increased to host information about
more than 32 CPUs.
Issue #4640
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
- sorting of initializer by Christian Prochaska - issue #3253
- leak of FPU register state reported by Julian Stecklina - thanks !
- fix page table synchronization bug - by Julian Stecklina
- add a second dynamic buddy if the memory requirements could not be fulfilled
by the first dynamic buddy
- disable vtlb peek if EPT/NPT is enabled
