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6 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Stefan Kalkowski
d6a05245f2 hw: remove User_context
Fix #2540
2017-11-06 13:57:20 +01:00
Stefan Kalkowski
0635d5fffb hw: turn Cpu_idle into a Thread
Fix #2539
2017-11-06 13:57:20 +01:00
Stefan Kalkowski
84331ac0f7 hw: remove obsolete Kernel::Cpu_context
Due to the changes when fixing issue #2091 the Kernel::Cpu_context
became superfluent and is not used anymore.

Fix #2538
2017-11-06 13:57:20 +01:00
Stefan Kalkowski
4e97a6511b hw: switch page-tables only when necessary
* 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
2017-10-19 13:31:18 +02:00
Stefan Kalkowski
42db1e112b hw: introduce kernel/user address space split
* 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
2017-10-19 13:31:17 +02:00
Stefan Kalkowski
6106e64aac base: remove include/spec/* other than ISA
This commit moves the headers residing in `repos/base/include/spec/*/drivers`
to `repos/base/include/drivers/defs` or repos/base/include/drivers/uart`
respectively. The first one contains definitions about board-specific MMIO
iand RAM addresses, or IRQ lines. While the latter contains device driver
code for UART devices. Those definitions are used by driver implementations
in `repos/base-hw`, `repos/os`, and `repos/dde-linux`, which now need to
include them more explicitely.

This work is a step in the direction of reducing 'SPEC' identifiers overall.

Ref #2403
2017-05-31 13:16:01 +02:00