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Ben Gras 8ea66915f2 kernel: scheduling fix for ARM
. make read_tsc_64 use the free-running clock, significantly
	  improving scheduling behaviour

Change-Id: Idf6a12f6e26be7fe3b3664c278cae846d8b2a442
2013-02-03 22:49:05 +01:00
Thomas Veerman db8c1ee9d0 ARM: provide free running clock to replace ccnt
The Cycle CouNTer on ARM cannot be used reliably as it wraps around
rather quickly and can be altered by user space (on Minix). Furthermore,
it's buggy when wrapping and is not implemented at all on the Linaro
Beagleboard emulator.

This patch programs GPTIMER10 as a free running clock at 1.625 MHz (it
doesn't generate interrupts). It's memory mapped into every process,
which enables libsys to provide micro_delay().

Change-Id: Iba004c6c62976762fe154ea390d69e518eec1531
2013-01-31 15:19:11 +00:00
Ben Gras e3e5cf6d34 arm: make signal handlers work
A few kernel and calling convention adjustments to make sigsend and
sigreturn work for arm.

	. provide a arch_proc_setcontext for earm in kernel
	. set LR in context of signal handler to provide a proper
	  return address (to __sigreturn)
	. change __sigreturn to retrieve the sigcontext pointer
	  from the sigframe struct and pass it to _sigreturn() in r0

Change-Id: Icd135a70595382c79d11d8dd9876f6a6f1df41f8
2013-01-30 04:10:12 +00:00
Thomas Veerman df0c35f0f5 Kernel/ARM: faster context save 2013-01-25 17:07:02 +00:00
Thomas Veerman fb4b3da7da Kernel/ARM: use modern srsdb invocation 2013-01-25 17:07:02 +00:00
Thomas Veerman 1a60a84cb7 ARM: clear BSS upon boot 2013-01-25 17:07:01 +00:00
Thomas Veerman c96cd5e1a0 ARM: provide means to pass boot cmdline 2013-01-25 17:07:01 +00:00
Lionel Sambuc b1c4ba4ab6 ARM updates
Due to the ABI we are using we have to use the earm architecture
moniker for the build system to behave correctly. This involves
then some headers to move around.

There is also a few related Makefile updates as well as minor
source code corrections.
2013-01-17 10:03:58 +01:00