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Ben Gras 08cb986d3f vm: fix kernel-requested mappings for arm
. make vm tell kernel virtual locations of mappings
	. makes _minix_kerninfo feature work
	. fix for mappings being larger than what 1 pde can address
	  (e.g. devices memory requested on arm)
	. still requires a special case for devices memory for the
	  kernel, which has to switch to virtual addressing

Change-Id: I2e94090aa432346fa4da0edeba72f0b7406c2ad7
2013-01-29 17:57:04 +00:00
Thomas Veerman fe45ee7ed0 ARM: disable __minix_init for now
On ARM we can't yet globally map pages into every process. So now that
we correctly receive the pointer to the globally mapped kern_info
struct, we have to ignore it on ARM because attempting to dereference
the pointer yields a segfault.
2013-01-25 17:07:02 +00:00
Tomas Hruby 10f30159a9 struct minix_ipcvecs - pretty-print
- the _ptr suffix is not needed anymore :-)
2012-11-15 16:52:00 +01:00
Ben Gras 2d72cbec41 SYSENTER/SYSCALL support
. add cpufeature detection of both
	. use it for both ipc and kernelcall traps, using a register
	  for call number
	. SYSENTER/SYSCALL does not save any context, therefore userland
	  has to save it
	. to accomodate multiple kernel entry/exit types, the entry
	  type is recorded in the process struct. hitherto all types
	  were interrupt (soft int, exception, hard int); now SYSENTER/SYSCALL
	  is new, with the difference that context is not fully restored
	  from proc struct when running the process again. this can't be
	  done as some information is missing.
	. complication: cases in which the kernel has to fully change
	  process context (i.e. sigreturn). in that case the exit type
	  is changed from SYSENTER/SYSEXIT to soft-int (i.e. iret) and
	  context is fully restored from the proc struct. this does mean
	  the PC and SP must change, as the sysenter/sysexit userland code
	  will otherwise try to restore its own context. this is true in the
	  sigreturn case.
	. override all usage by setting libc_ipc=1
2012-09-24 15:53:43 +02:00
Ben Gras b6ea15115c kernel: facility for user-visible memory
. map all objects named usermapped_*.o with globally visible
	  pages; usermapped_glo_*.o with the VM 'global' bit on, i.e.
	  permanently in tlb (very scarce resource!)
	. added kinfo, machine, kmessages and loadinfo for a start
	. modified log, tty to make use of the shared messages struct
2012-07-28 20:57:38 +00:00