It has more general use than just in the VM code; basically anything
which receives buffers from userland should be invoking this if it
does anything besides user_memcpy (which alreay does it.)
* Changed IS_USER_ADDRESS to check an address using USER_BASE and
USER_SIZE, rather than just !IS_KERNEL_ADDRESS. The old check would
allow user buffers to point into the physical memory map area.
* Added an unmapped hole at the end of the bottom half of the address
space which catches buffers that cross into the uncanonical address
region. This also removes the need to check for uncanonical return
addresses in the syscall handler, it is no longer possible for the
return address to be uncanonical under normal circumstances. All
cases in which the return address might be changed by the kernel
are still handled via the IRET path.
that's the limit of the addr_t domain anyway.
* Defined IS_USER_ADDRESS() to !IS_KERNEL_ADDRESS(), which semantically it was
already, just more verbosely.
Should, in the future, avoid hundreds of useless Coverity tickets where the
macros are used.
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This might help with ACPI shutdown issues, if not this change can be reverted. Not verified as it works on all my machines even without this.
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ROUNDUP to use '*' and '/' -- the compiler will optimize that for powers of
two anyway and this implementation works for other numbers as well.
* The thread::fault_handler use in C[++] code was broken with gcc 4. At least
when other functions were invoked. Trying to trick the compiler wasn't a
particularly good idea anyway, since the next compiler version could break
the trick again. So the general policy is to use the fault handlers only in
assembly code where we have full control. Changed that for x86 (save for the
vm86 mode, which has a similar mechanism), but not for the other
architectures.
* Introduced fault_handler, fault_handler_stack_pointer, and fault_jump_buffer
fields in the cpu_ent structure, which must be used instead of
thread::fault_handler in the kernel debugger. Consequently user_memcpy() must
not be used in the kernel debugger either. Introduced a debug_memcpy()
instead.
* Introduced debug_call_with_fault_handler() function which calls a function
in a setjmp() and fault handler context. The architecture specific backend
arch_debug_call_with_fault_handler() has only been implemented for x86 yet.
* Introduced debug_is_kernel_memory_accessible() for use in the kernel
debugger. It determines whether a range of memory can be accessed in the
way specified. The architecture specific back end
arch_vm_translation_map_is_kernel_page_accessible() has only been implemented
for x86 yet.
* Added arch_debug_unset_current_thread() (only implemented for x86) to unset
the current thread pointer in the kernel debugger. When entering the kernel
debugger we do some basic sanity checks of the currently set thread structure
and unset it, if they fail. This allows certain commands (most importantly
the stack trace command) to avoid accessing the thread structure.
* x86: When handling a double fault, we do now install a special handler for
page faults. This allows us to gracefully catch faulting commands, even if
e.g. the thread structure is toast.
We are now in much better shape to deal with double faults. Hopefully avoiding
the triple faults that some people have been experiencing on their hardware
and ideally even allowing to use the kernel debugger normally.
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include the guard pages. Adjusted the kernel and boot loader code
accordingly -- the guard pages size is added/not removed respectively.
The stack size passed to _kern_spawn_thread() is now the actually usable
size, and it is no longer possible to specify a size smaller than or
equal to the guard pages size.
* vm_create_anonymous_area(): Precommit two pages maximum -- a stack with
only one page usable size obviously doesn't need two pages.
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to contain headers shared by kernel and userland (mainly libroot).
* Moved quite a few private kernel headers to the new location. Split
several kernel headers into a shared part and one that is still kernel
private. Adjusted all affected Jamfiles and source in the standard x86
build accordingly. The build for other architectures and for test code
may be broken.
* Quite a bit of userland code still includes private kernel headers.
Mostly those are <util/*> headers. The ones that aren't strictly
kernel-only should be moved to some other place (maybe
headers/private/shared/util).
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arguments they get a single thread_creation_attributes structure now.
* Added stack_address and stack_size to thread_creation_attributes,
which allow to specify the stack size or the stack to be used for the
new user thread.
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stack hungry and would previously hit the stack limit and thus cause a
double fault. Hopefully we'll be able to reduce the stack foot print at
some time.
PXE boot does now fully work.
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MAIN_THREAD_STACK_SIZE to USER_MAIN_THREAD_STACK_SIZE.
Added support for stack overflow debugging: in userspace, the lower (on x86)
4 pages will be used to detect stack overflows. It's disabled for kernel
stacks by default.
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BeOS values commented beneath it.
For now MAIN_THREAD_STACK_SIZE is the same as STACK_SIZE.
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header kqueue.h - together with their implementation which was in module.c
Added a new CHECK_USER_ADDRESS() macro that can be used to check if a
user address points into the kernel.
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Removed dependencies on arch/x86/types.h - this file is not really used
anymore, now. Might prevent compiling on Windows, though.
Replaced "int" with "int32" for the id types.
Removed some stuff from ktypes.h because it didn't belong there.
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