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Tomas Hruby
1dd6f5573a Direction flag
- ack assumes that the direction flag in eflags is clear when
  assigning two structures. It is implemented by a call to a built-in
  function which is like memcpy but needs the flag to be clear
  otherwise rubish is copied. This patch fixes the kernel entries.
2010-03-26 12:29:52 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
8451a86f0a Interrupts hadling while idle
- When the cpu halts, the interrupts are enable so the cpu may be
  woken up. When the interrupt handler returns but another interrupt
  is available it is also serviced immediately. This is not a problem
  per-se. It only slightly breaks time accounting as idle accounted is
  for the kernel time in the interrupt handler.
  
  
-  As the big kernel lock is lock/unlocked in the smp branch in the
   time acounting functions as they are called exactly at the places
   we need to take the lock) this leads to a deadlock.

- we make sure that once the interrupt handler returns from the nested
  trap, the interrupts are disabled. This means that only one
  interrupt is serviced after idle is interrupted.

- this requires the loop in apic timer calibration to keep reenabling
  the interrupts. I admit it is a little bit hackish (one line),
  however, this code is a stupid corner case at the boot time.
  Hopefully it does not matter too much.
2010-03-23 13:35:01 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
5efa92f754 NMI watchdog is an awesome feature for debugging locked up kernels.
There is not that much use for it on a single CPU, however, deadlock
between kernel and system task can be delected. Or a runaway loop.

If a kernel gets locked up the timer interrupts don't occure (as all
interrupts are disabled in kernel mode). The only chance is to
interrupt the kernel by a non-maskable interrupt.

This patch generates NMIs using performance counters. It uses the most
widely available performace counters. As the performance counters are 
highly model-specific this patch is not guaranteed to work on every
machine.  Unfortunately this is also true for KVM :-/ On the other
hand adding this feature for other models is not extremely difficult
and the framework makes it hopefully easy enough.

Depending on the frequency of the CPU an NMI is generated at most
about every 0.5s If the cpu's speed is less then 2Ghz it is generated
at most every 1s. In general an NMI is generated much less often as
the performance counter counts down only if the cpu is not idle.
Therefore the overhead of this feature is fairly minimal even if the
load is high.

Uppon detecting that the kernel is locked up the kernel dumps the 
state of the kernel registers and panics.

Local APIC must be enabled for the watchdog to work.

The code is _always_ compiled in, however, it is only enabled if  
watchdog=<non-zero> is set in the boot monitor.

One corner case is serial console debugging. As dumping a lot of stuff
to the serial link may take a lot of time, the watchdog does not 
detect lockups during this time!!! as it would result in too many
false positives. 10 nmi have to be handled before the lockup is
detected. This means something between ~5s to 10s.

Another corner case is that the watchdog is enabled only after the
paging is enabled as it would be pure madness to try to get it right.
2010-01-16 20:53:55 +00:00
Ben Gras
bd42705433 FPU context switching support by Evgeniy Ivanov. 2009-12-02 13:01:48 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
8a44a44cb9 Local APIC
- local APIC timer used as the source of time

- PIC is still used as the hw interrupt controller as we don't have
  enough info without ACPI or MPS to set up IO APICs

- remapping of APIC when switching paging on, uses the new mechanism
  to tell VM what phys areas to map in kernel's virtual space

- one more step to SMP

based on code by Arun C.
2009-11-16 21:41:44 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
ae75f9d4e5 Removal of the executable flag from files that cannot be executed
- 755 -> 644
2009-11-09 10:26:00 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
ebbce7507b Complete ovehaul of mode switching code
- after a trap to kernel, the code automatically switches to kernel
  stack, in the future local to the CPU

- k_reenter variable replaced by a test whether the CS is kernel cs or
  not. The information is passed further if needed. Removes a global
  variable which would need to be cpu local

- no need for global variables describing the exception or trap
  context. This information is kept on stack and a pointer to this
  structure is passed to the C code as a single structure

- removed loadedcr3 variable and its use replaced by reading the %cr3
  register

- no need to redisable interrupts in restart() as they are already
  disabled.

- unified handling of traps that push and don't push errorcode

- removed save() function as the process context is not saved directly
  to process table but saved as required by the trap code. Essentially
  it means that save() code is inlined everywhere not only in the
  exception handling routine

- returning from syscall is more arch independent - it sets the retger
  in C

- top of the x86 stack contains the current CPU id and pointer to the
  currently scheduled process (the one right interrupted) so the mode
  switch code can find where to save the context without need to use
  proc_ptr which will be cpu local in the future and therefore
  difficult to access in assembler and expensive to access in general

- some more clean up of level0 code. No need to read-back the argument
  passed in
  %eax from the proc structure. The mode switch code does not clobber
  %the general registers and hence we can just call what is in %eax

- many assebly macros in sconst.h as they will be reused by the apic
  assembly
2009-11-06 09:08:26 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
403764c538 Conversion of kernel assembly from ACK to GNU
- .s files removed and replaced by .S as the .S is a standard extension for assembly that needs preprocessing
2009-10-30 16:00:44 +00:00
Ben Gras
c078ec0331 Basic VM and other minor improvements.
Not complete, probably not fully debugged or optimized.
2008-11-19 12:26:10 +00:00
Ben Gras
6f77685609 Split of architecture-dependent and -independent functions for i386,
mainly in the kernel and headers. This split based on work by
Ingmar Alting <iaalting@cs.vu.nl> done for his Minix PowerPC architecture
port.

 . kernel does not program the interrupt controller directly, do any
   other architecture-dependent operations, or contain assembly any more,
   but uses architecture-dependent functions in arch/$(ARCH)/.
 . architecture-dependent constants and types defined in arch/$(ARCH)/include.
 . <ibm/portio.h> moved to <minix/portio.h>, as they have become, for now,
   architecture-independent functions.
 . int86, sdevio, readbios, and iopenable are now i386-specific kernel calls
   and live in arch/i386/do_* now.
 . i386 arch now supports even less 86 code; e.g. mpx86.s and klib86.s have
   gone, and 'machine.protected' is gone (and always taken to be 1 in i386).
   If 86 support is to return, it should be a new architecture.
 . prototypes for the architecture-dependent functions defined in
   kernel/arch/$(ARCH)/*.c but used in kernel/ are in kernel/proto.h
 . /etc/make.conf included in makefiles and shell scripts that need to
   know the building architecture; it defines ARCH=<arch>, currently only
   i386.
 . some basic per-architecture build support outside of the kernel (lib)
 . in clock.c, only dequeue a process if it was ready
 . fixes for new include files

files deleted:
 . mpx/klib.s - only for choosing between mpx/klib86 and -386
 . klib86.s - only for 86

i386-specific files files moved (or arch-dependent stuff moved) to arch/i386/:
 . mpx386.s (entry point)
 . klib386.s
 . sconst.h
 . exception.c
 . protect.c
 . protect.h
 . i8269.c
2006-12-22 15:22:27 +00:00
Renamed from kernel/sconst.h (Browse further)