This is needed as soon as we do inter-processor interrupts to
inform a processor about a remote modification in its scheduling plan.
In this case we can not explicitely decide wether to reset timer
or not. Instead we must decide it according to the choices of the
scheduler before and after the modification.
ref #1088
Previously this was not done before Thread_base::start(..) in
base-hw as it was not needed to have a valid cap that early. However,
when changing the affinity of a thread we need the cap to be valid
before Thread_base::start(..).
ref #1076
Instead of using a special bitfield use a compound of boolean
values for the generic page attributes. To reduce copy overhead,
change the corresponding functions, where Page_flags are used as
arguments, to use references.
Within the central security unit of the i.MX53 SoC, one can set protection
level of various DMA bus master requests, distinguishing them between normal,
and secure access. Although, the access level was meant to be set correctly,
the enumeration values that denoted the kind of access were incorrect. Thereby,
until now every DMA requests was set as being secure. This commit corrects
the enumeration values, and sets all DMA operations as being unsecure, accept
from the graphical subsystem which is controlled by the secure world only.
Thanks to Andrea Barisani and Andrej Rosano from Inverse Path for discovering
this bug, as well as the hardware limitation!
Previously we used to many registers in syscalls with much arguments
to build with optimization level O0. Additionally this fix fastens the
userland backend of syscalls.
For a main thread a thread object is created by the CRT0 before _main gets
called so that _main can already run in a generic environment that, e.g.,
catches stack overflows as a page-fault instead of corrupting the BSS.
Additionally dynamic programs have only one CRT0 - the one of the LDSO -
which does the initialization for both LDSO and program.
ref #989
