Userland switch is implemented, as is basic system call support (using
SYSCALL/SYSRET). The system call handler is not yet complete: it doesn't
handle more than 6 arguments, and does not perform all the necessary kernel
entry/exit work (neither does the interrupt handler). However, this is
sufficient for runtime_loader to start and print some debug output.
No major changes to the kernel: just compiled in arch_smp.cpp and fixed the
IDT load in arch_cpu_init_percpu to use the correct limit for x86_64 (uses
sizeof(interrupt_descriptor)). In the boot loader, changed smp_boot_other_cpus
to construct a temporary GDT and get the page directory address from CR3, as
what's in kernel_args will be 64-bit stuff and will not work to switch the
CPUs into 32-bit mode in the trampoline code. Refactored 64-bit kernel entry
code to not use the stack after disabling paging, as the secondary CPUs are
given a 32-bit virtual stack address by the SMP trampoline code which will
no longer work.
A proper page fault handler was required for areas that were not locked
into the kernel address space. This enables the boot process to get
up to the point of trying to find the boot volume.
* Thread creation and switching is working fine, however threads do not yet
get interrupted because I've not implemented hardware interrupt handling
yet (I'll do that next).
* I've made some changes to struct iframe: I've removed the e/r prefixes
from the member names for both 32/64, so now they're just named ip, ax,
bp, etc. This makes it easier to write code that works with both 32/64
without having to deal with different iframe member names.
This has been done by adding typedefs in elf_common.h to the correct ELF
structures for the architecture, and changing all Elf32_* uses to those
types. I don't know whether image loading works as I cannot test it yet,
there may be some 64-bit safety issues around. However, symbol lookup for
the kernel is working correctly.
* Uses 64-bit multiplication, special handling for CPUs clocked < 1 GHz
in system_time_nsecs() not required like on x86.
* Tested against a straight conversion of the x86 version, noticably
faster with a large number of system_time() calls.
* Added empty source files for all the 64-bit paging method code, and a
stub implementation of X86PagingMethod64Bit.
* arch_vm_translation_map.cpp has been modified to use X86PagingMethod64Bit
on x86_64.
* Some things are currently ifndef'd out completely for x86_64 because
they aren't implemented, there's a few other ifdef's to handle x86_64
differences but most of the code works unchanged.
* Renamed some i386_* functions to x86_*.
* Added a temporary method for setting the current thread on x86_64
(a global variable, not SMP safe). This will be changed to be done
via the GS segment but I've not implemented that yet.
For now I've just put all the stub functions that are needed to link the
kernel into a file called stubs.cpp. I've not yet moved across the interrupt
handling code or the ELF64 relocation code to the x86 directory. Once those
have been moved I can get rid of the x86_64 headers/source directories.
Not many changes seeing as there's not much x86_64 stuff done yet. Small
differences are handled with ifdefs, large differences (descriptors.h,
struct iframe) have separate headers under arch/x86/32 and arch/x86/64.
The setup procedure is fairly simple: create a 64-bit GDT and 64-bit page
tables that include all kernel mappings from the 32-bit address space, but at
the correct 64-bit address, then go through kernel_args and changes all virtual
addresses to 64-bit addresses, and finally switch to long mode and jump to the
kernel.
* platform_allocate_elf_region() is removed, it is implemented in platform-
independent code now (ELF*Class::AllocateRegion). For ELF64 it is now
assumed that 64-bit addresses are mapped in the loader's 32-bit address space
as (address - KERNEL_BASE_64BIT + KERNEL_BASE).
* mapped_delta field from preloaded_*_image removed, now handled compile-time
using the ELF*Class::Map method.
* Also link the kernel with -z max-page-size=0x1000, removes the need for
2MB alignment on the data segment (not going to map the kernel with large
pages for the time being).
* Added a FixedWidthPointer template class which uses 64-bit storage to hold
a pointer. This is used in place of raw pointers in kernel_args.
* Added __attribute__((packed)) to kernel_args and all structures contained
within it. This is necessary due to different alignment behaviour for
32-bit and 64-bit compilation with GCC.
* With these changes, kernel_args will now come out the same size for both
the x86_64 kernel and the loader, excluding the preloaded_image structure
which has not yet been changed.
* Tested both an x86 GCC2 and GCC4 build, no problems caused by these changes.
The whole kernel now builds and there are no undefined references when
linking, I just need to fix some strange relocation errors I'm getting
(probably a problem with the linker script) and then I'll have a kernel
image.
* x86_64 is using the existing *_ia32 boot platforms.
* Special flags are required when compiling the loader to get GCC to compile
32-bit code. This adds a new set of rules for compiling boot code rather
than using the kernel rules, which compile using the necessary flags.
* Some x86_64 private headers have been stubbed by #include'ing the x86
versions. These will be replaced later.
* gPeripheralBase keeps track of the device
peripherals before and after mmu_init
* Add ability to disable mmu for troubleshooting
* Remove static FB_BASE, we actually don't know
where the FB is yet. (depends on firmware used)
* BCM2708 defines no longer assume 0x20 address
We will be throwing away the blob memory mapping
and using our own.
* Use existing blob mapping to turn GPIO led on pre mmu_init
* Remap MMU hardware addresses from 0x7E. We could map each device,
however the kernel will throw away the mappings again anyway. For
now we just map the whole range and use offsets.
* Serial uart no longer works, however at least
we know why now :). Serial driver now needs to
use mapped address.
* Use U-Boot mmu code as base
* This will be factored out someday into common arch mmu
code when we can read Flattened Device Trees
* Move mmu_init after serial_init.
Temporary change as we will want serial_init to use
memory mapped addresses... for debugging.
* introduce a DebugUART baseclass,
* rework 8250 and PL011 implementations from kallisti5 to inherit DebutUART,
* each arch should override the IO methods to access registers.
* on ARM registers are 32bit-aligned.
* U-Boot still works for the verdex target.
* rPi still compiles, needs testing.
* Still some more consolidation needed to allow runtime choice of the UART type (as read from FDT blobs for ex.).
* serial.cpp should probably mostly be made generic as well.
* didn't touch x86 or ppc yet.
* Enable/Disable makes more sense and matches
platform loader serial functions.
* Rework PL011 code after finding a PDF covering
the details of it.
* Rename UART global defines in loader to be more
exact about location
* This makes things a little more flexible and
the interface to use the uarts cleaner.
* May want to make a generic Uart wrapper
class in uart.h / uart.cpp and call drivers
as needed from there.
