SMAP will generated page faults when the kernel tries to access user pages unless overriden.
If SMAP is enabled, the override instructions are written where needed in memory with
binary "altcodepatches".
Support is enabled by default, might be disabled per safemode setting.
Change-Id: Ife26cd765056aeaf65b2ffa3cadd0dcf4e273a96
This patch adds user_access() which can be used to gracefully handle
page faults that may happen when accessing user memory. It is used
by arch_cpu_user{memcpy, memset, strlcpy}() to allow using optimized
functions from the standard library.
Currently only x64 uses this, but nothing really is arch specific here.
Signed-off-by: Paweł Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>
* 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.
