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Ben Gras
ba05f39d1e kernel: some boottime sanitychecks
. Check if we have the right number of boot modules
	. Check if the ELF parsing of VM actually succeeded

Both these are root causes of less-than-obvious other
errors/asserts a little further down the line; uncovered
while experimenting with booting by iPXE, specifically
(a) iPXE having a 8-multiboot-modules limit and
(b) trying to boot a gzipped VM.
2012-11-08 11:40:35 +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
fe6e291f59 vm, kernel, top: report memory usage of vm, kernel 2012-09-18 23:43:52 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
cf9a4ec79b Kernel: clean up include statements a bit
Coverity was flagging a recursive include between kernel.h and
cpulocals.h. As cpulocals.h also included proc.h, we can move that
include statement into kernel.h, and clean up the source files'
include statements accordingly.
2012-08-14 16:29:05 +00:00
Ben Gras
cbcdb838f1 various coverity-inspired fixes
. some strncpy/strcpy to strlcpy conversions
	. new <minix/param.h> to avoid including other minix headers
	  that have colliding definitions with library and commands code,
	  causing parse warnings
	. removed some dead code / assignments
2012-07-16 14:00:56 +02:00
Ben Gras
1d48c0148e segmentless smp fixes
adjust the smp booting procedure for segmentless operation. changes are
mostly due to gdt/idt being dependent on paging, because of the high
location, and paging being on much sooner because of that too.

also smaller fixes: redefine DESC_SIZE, fix kernel makefile variable name
(crosscompiling), some null pointer checks that trap now because of a
sparser pagetable, acpi sanity checking
2012-07-15 22:47:20 +02:00
Ben Gras
50e2064049 No more intel/minix segments.
This commit removes all traces of Minix segments (the text/data/stack
memory map abstraction in the kernel) and significance of Intel segments
(hardware segments like CS, DS that add offsets to all addressing before
page table translation). This ultimately simplifies the memory layout
and addressing and makes the same layout possible on non-Intel
architectures.

There are only two types of addresses in the world now: virtual
and physical; even the kernel and processes have the same virtual
address space. Kernel and user processes can be distinguished at a
glance as processes won't use 0xF0000000 and above.

No static pre-allocated memory sizes exist any more.

Changes to booting:
        . The pre_init.c leaves the kernel and modules exactly as
          they were left by the bootloader in physical memory
        . The kernel starts running using physical addressing,
          loaded at a fixed location given in its linker script by the
          bootloader.  All code and data in this phase are linked to
          this fixed low location.
        . It makes a bootstrap pagetable to map itself to a
          fixed high location (also in linker script) and jumps to
          the high address. All code and data then use this high addressing.
        . All code/data symbols linked at the low addresses is prefixed by
          an objcopy step with __k_unpaged_*, so that that code cannot
          reference highly-linked symbols (which aren't valid yet) or vice
          versa (symbols that aren't valid any more).
        . The two addressing modes are separated in the linker script by
          collecting the unpaged_*.o objects and linking them with low
          addresses, and linking the rest high. Some objects are linked
          twice, once low and once high.
        . The bootstrap phase passes a lot of information (e.g. free memory
          list, physical location of the modules, etc.) using the kinfo
          struct.
        . After this bootstrap the low-linked part is freed.
        . The kernel maps in VM into the bootstrap page table so that VM can
          begin executing. Its first job is to make page tables for all other
          boot processes. So VM runs before RS, and RS gets a fully dynamic,
          VM-managed address space. VM gets its privilege info from RS as usual
          but that happens after RS starts running.
        . Both the kernel loading VM and VM organizing boot processes happen
	  using the libexec logic. This removes the last reason for VM to
	  still know much about exec() and vm/exec.c is gone.

Further Implementation:
        . All segments are based at 0 and have a 4 GB limit.
        . The kernel is mapped in at the top of the virtual address
          space so as not to constrain the user processes.
        . Processes do not use segments from the LDT at all; there are
          no segments in the LDT any more, so no LLDT is needed.
        . The Minix segments T/D/S are gone and so none of the
          user-space or in-kernel copy functions use them. The copy
          functions use a process endpoint of NONE to realize it's
          a physical address, virtual otherwise.
        . The umap call only makes sense to translate a virtual address
          to a physical address now.
        . Segments-related calls like newmap and alloc_segments are gone.
        . All segments-related translation in VM is gone (vir2map etc).
        . Initialization in VM is simpler as no moving around is necessary.
        . VM and all other boot processes can be linked wherever they wish
          and will be mapped in at the right location by the kernel and VM
          respectively.

Other changes:
        . The multiboot code is less special: it does not use mb_print
          for its diagnostics any more but uses printf() as normal, saving
          the output into the diagnostics buffer, only printing to the
          screen using the direct print functions if a panic() occurs.
        . The multiboot code uses the flexible 'free memory map list'
          style to receive the list of free memory if available.
        . The kernel determines the memory layout of the processes to
          a degree: it tells VM where the kernel starts and ends and
          where the kernel wants the top of the process to be. VM then
          uses this entire range, i.e. the stack is right at the top,
          and mmap()ped bits of memory are placed below that downwards,
          and the break grows upwards.

Other Consequences:
        . Every process gets its own page table as address spaces
          can't be separated any more by segments.
        . As all segments are 0-based, there is no distinction between
          virtual and linear addresses, nor between userspace and
          kernel addresses.
        . Less work is done when context switching, leading to a net
          performance increase. (8% faster on my machine for 'make servers'.)
	. The layout and configuration of the GDT makes sysenter and syscall
	  possible.
2012-07-15 22:30:15 +02:00
Ben Gras
927b9ef243 kernel: align gdt and idt base addresses
patch my fdmanana:
As recommended by the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Developer's
Manual Volume 3A, the GDT and IDT base addresses should be aligned on an
8 byte boundary to yield better processor performance.
2012-04-15 20:41:36 +02:00
Ben Gras
7336a67dfe retire PUBLIC, PRIVATE and FORWARD 2012-03-25 21:58:14 +02:00
Ben Gras
6a73e85ad1 retire _PROTOTYPE
. only good for obsolete K&R support
	. also remove a stray ansi.h and the proto cmd
2012-03-25 16:17:10 +02:00
Arun Thomas
92fa3189ab MKSYSDEBUG: conditionally compile more debug code 2011-09-16 15:25:26 +02:00
Ben Gras
a77c2973b3 fix clang warnings -R in kernel/ and servers/ 2011-06-09 16:09:13 +02:00
Arun Thomas
25a790a631 VM and kernel support for ELF 2011-02-26 23:00:55 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
62c666566e SMP - We boot APs
- kernel detects CPUs by searching ACPI tables for local apic nodes

- each CPU has its own TSS that points to its own stack. All cpus boot
  on the same boot stack (in sequence) but switch to its private stack
  as soon as they can.

- final booting code in main() placed in bsp_finish_booting() which is
  executed only after the BSP switches to its final stack

- apic functions to send startup interrupts

- assembler functions to handle CPU features not needed for single cpu
  mode like memory barries, HT detection etc.

- new files kernel/smp.[ch], kernel/arch/i386/arch_smp.c and
  kernel/arch/i386/include/arch_smp.h

- 16-bit trampoline code for the APs. It is executed by each AP after
  receiving startup IPIs it brings up the CPUs to 32bit mode and let
  them spin in an infinite loop so they don't do any damage.

- implementation of kernel spinlock

- CONFIG_SMP and CONFIG_MAX_CPUS set by the build system
2010-09-15 14:09:52 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
6c3b981cd6 arch proto.h renamed to arch_proto.h
- the file moved to the arch include dir
2010-09-15 14:09:36 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
df0ba02a38 Multiboot support (contributed by Feiran "Fam" Zheng);
keep in mind that GRUB needs to be patched to read MFS for now;
use /boot/image_latest to boot the last compiled image in GRUB
2010-07-23 14:24:34 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
ac14a989b3 Fixed some inconsistent strict typing declarations.
Better strict typing.
2010-05-25 07:23:24 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
1f11a57141 Oops, last commit included more than was intended 2010-05-20 08:07:47 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
5f15ec05b2 More system processes, this was not enough for the release script to run on some configurations 2010-05-20 08:05:07 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
86a23c1fbd Remove U16_t and most other similar types. Rewrite functions to ansi-style
declaration if necessary.
2010-04-21 11:05:22 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
bc314bda91 Remove the types Dev_t, _mnx_Gui, _mnx_Uid, and similar.
Use ANSI-style function declarations where necessary.
2010-04-13 10:58:41 +00:00
Arun Thomas
4ed3a0cf3a Convert kernel over to bsdmake 2010-04-01 22:22:33 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
98493805fd Lots of const correctness. 2010-03-27 14:31:00 +00:00
Arun Thomas
1f9ce647cf Move archtypes.h, fpu.h, and stackframe.h
Move archtypes.h to include/ dir, since several servers require it. Move
fpu.h and stackframe.h to arch-specific header directory. Make source
files and makefiles aware of the new header locations.
2010-03-09 09:41:14 +00:00
Ben Gras
35a108b911 panic() cleanup.
this change
   - makes panic() variadic, doing full printf() formatting -
     no more NO_NUM, and no more separate printf() statements
     needed to print extra info (or something in hex) before panicing
   - unifies panic() - same panic() name and usage for everyone -
     vm, kernel and rest have different names/syntax currently
     in order to implement their own luxuries, but no longer
   - throws out the 1st argument, to make source less noisy.
     the panic() in syslib retrieves the server name from the kernel
     so it should be clear enough who is panicing; e.g.
         panic("sigaction failed: %d", errno);
     looks like:
         at_wini(73130): panic: sigaction failed: 0
         syslib:panic.c: stacktrace: 0x74dc 0x2025 0x100a
   - throws out report() - printf() is more convenient and powerful
   - harmonizes/fixes the use of panic() - there were a few places
     that used printf-style formatting (didn't work) and newlines
     (messes up the formatting) in panic()
   - throws out a few per-server panic() functions
   - cleans up a tie-in of tty with panic()

merging printf() and panic() statements to be done incrementally.
2010-03-05 15:05:11 +00:00
Ben Gras
e6cb76a2e2 no more kprintf - kernel uses libsys printf now, only kputc is special
to the kernel.
2010-03-03 15:45:01 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
391fd926ff TASK_PRIVILEGE and level0() removed
- there are no tasks running, we don't need TASK_PRIVILEGE priviledge anymore

- as there is no ring 1 anymore, there is no need for level0() to call sensitive
  code from ring 1 in ring 0

- 286 related macros removed as clean up
2010-02-09 15:23:31 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
728f0f0c49 Removal of the system task
* Userspace change to use the new kernel calls

	- _taskcall(SYSTASK...) changed to _kernel_call(...)

	- int 32 reused for the kernel calls

	- _do_kernel_call() to make the trap to kernel

	- kernel_call() to make the actuall kernel call from C using
	  _do_kernel_call()

	- unlike ipc call the kernel call always succeeds as kernel is
	  always available, however, kernel may return an error

* Kernel side implementation of kernel calls

	- the SYSTEm task does not run, only the proc table entry is
	  preserved

	- every data_copy(SYSTEM is no data_copy(KERNEL

	- "locking" is an empty operation now as everything runs in
	  kernel

	- sys_task() is replaced by kernel_call() which copies the
	  message into kernel, dispatches the call to its handler and
	  finishes by either copying the results back to userspace (if
	  need be) or by suspending the process because of VM

	- suspended processes are later made runnable once the memory
	  issue is resolved, picked up by the scheduler and only at
	  this time the call is resumed (in fact restarted) which does
	  not need to copy the message from userspace as the message
	  is already saved in the process structure.

	- no ned for the vmrestart queue, the scheduler will restart
	  the system calls

	- no special case in do_vmctl(), all requests remove the
	  RTS_VMREQUEST flag
2010-02-09 15:20:09 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
b14a86ca5c Sys calls are called ipc calls now
- the syscalls are pretty much just ipc calls, however, sendrec() is
  used to implement system task (sys) calls

- sendrec() won't be used anymore for this, therefore ipc calls will
  become pure ipc calls
2010-02-09 15:13:07 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
a701e290f7 Removed unused symbols.
Made some functions PRIVATE, including ones that aren't used anywhere.
2010-01-25 18:13:48 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
a7cee5bec4 Removed unused symbols.
Minor cleanups.
2010-01-22 22:01:08 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
d6383bef47 Removed some unused tests. 2010-01-20 17:55:14 +00:00
Cristiano Giuffrida
c5b309ff07 Merge of Wu's GSOC 09 branch (src.20090525.r4372.wu)
Main changes:
- COW optimization for safecopy.
- safemap, a grant-based interface for sharing memory regions between processes.
- Integration with safemap and complete rework of DS, supporting new data types
  natively (labels, memory ranges, memory mapped ranges).
- For further information:
  http://wiki.minix3.org/en/SummerOfCode2009/MemoryGrants

Additional changes not included in the original Wu's branch:
- Fixed unhandled case in VM when using COW optimization for safecopy in case
  of a block that has already been shared as SMAP.
- Better interface and naming scheme for sys_saferevmap and ds_retrieve_map
  calls.
- Better input checking in syslib: check for page alignment when creating
  memory mapping grants.
- DS notifies subscribers when an entry is deleted.
- Documented the behavior of indirect grants in case of memory mapping.
- Test suite in /usr/src/test/safeperf|safecopy|safemap|ds/* reworked
  and extended.
- Minor fixes and general cleanup.
- TO-DO: Grant ids should be generated and managed the way endpoints are to make
sure grant slots are never misreused.
2010-01-14 15:24:16 +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
37a7e1b76b Use of isemptyp() macro instead of testing RTS_SLOT_FREE flag
- some code used to test if only this flag is set, some if also this flag is
  set. This change unifies the test
2009-11-12 08:35:26 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
a972f4bacc All macros defining rts flags are prefixed with RTS_
- macros used with RTS_SET group of macros to define struct proc p_rts_flags are
  now prefixed with RTS_ to make things clear
2009-11-10 09:11:13 +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
Ben Gras
6bd3002f06 - exact magic values for entered/nonentered states in recursive enter check
- read_*() functions to read segment selector values
 - decode loaded segments on panic
2009-10-03 12:17:46 +00:00
Ben Gras
1d0854e6db pre-APPROVEd (thanks Arun) sanity check function. 2009-09-25 11:12:06 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
7c10365f1b removed idt_reload()
- not part of klib386 yet
2009-09-23 07:20:57 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
b900311656 endpoint_t in syslib
- headers use the endpoint_t in syslib.h and the implmentation was using int
  instead. Both uses endpoint_t now

- every variable named like proc, proc_nr or proc_nr_e of type endpoint_t has
  name proc_ep now

- endpoint_t defined as u32_t not int
2009-09-22 21:42:02 +00:00
Ben Gras
cd8b915ed9 Primary goal for these changes is:
- no longer have kernel have its own page table that is loaded
    on every kernel entry (trap, interrupt, exception). the primary
    purpose is to reduce the number of required reloads.
Result:
  - kernel can only access memory of process that was running when
    kernel was entered
  - kernel must be mapped into every process page table, so traps to
    kernel keep working
Problem:
  - kernel must often access memory of arbitrary processes (e.g. send
    arbitrary processes messages); this can't happen directly any more;
    usually because that process' page table isn't loaded at all, sometimes
    because that memory isn't mapped in at all, sometimes because it isn't
    mapped in read-write.
So:
  - kernel must be able to map in memory of any process, in its own
    address space.
Implementation:
  - VM and kernel share a range of memory in which addresses of
    all page tables of all processes are available. This has two purposes:
      . Kernel has to know what data to copy in order to map in a range
      . Kernel has to know where to write the data in order to map it in
    That last point is because kernel has to write in the currently loaded
    page table.
  - Processes and kernel are separated through segments; kernel segments
    haven't changed.
  - The kernel keeps the process whose page table is currently loaded
    in 'ptproc.'
  - If it wants to map in a range of memory, it writes the value of the
    page directory entry for that range into the page directory entry
    in the currently loaded map. There is a slot reserved for such
    purposes. The kernel can then access this memory directly.
  - In order to do this, its segment has been increased (and the
    segments of processes start where it ends).
  - In the pagefault handler, detect if the kernel is doing
    'trappable' memory access (i.e. a pagefault isn't a fatal
     error) and if so,
       - set the saved instruction pointer to phys_copy_fault,
	 breaking out of phys_copy
       - set the saved eax register to the address of the page
	 fault, both for sanity checking and for checking in
	 which of the two ranges that phys_copy was called
	 with the fault occured
  - Some boot-time processes do not have their own page table,
    and are mapped in with the kernel, and separated with
    segments. The kernel detects this using HASPT. If such a
    process has to be scheduled, any page table will work and
    no page table switch is done.

Major changes in kernel are
  - When accessing user processes memory, kernel no longer
    explicitly checks before it does so if that memory is OK.
    It simply makes the mapping (if necessary), tries to do the
    operation, and traps the pagefault if that memory isn't present;
    if that happens, the copy function returns EFAULT.
    So all of the CHECKRANGE_OR_SUSPEND macros are gone.
  - Kernel no longer has to copy/read and parse page tables.
  - A message copying optimisation: when messages are copied, and
    the recipient isn't mapped in, they are copied into a buffer
    in the kernel. This is done in QueueMess. The next time
    the recipient is scheduled, this message is copied into
    its memory. This happens in schedcheck().
    This eliminates the mapping/copying step for messages, and makes
    it easier to deliver messages. This eliminates soft_notify.
  - Kernel no longer creates a page table at all, so the vm_setbuf
    and pagetable writing in memory.c is gone.

Minor changes in kernel are
  - ipc_stats thrown out, wasn't used
  - misc flags all renamed to MF_*
  - NOREC_* macros to enter and leave functions that should not
    be called recursively; just sanity checks really
  - code to fully decode segment selectors and descriptors
    to print on exceptions
  - lots of vmassert()s added, only executed if DEBUG_VMASSERT is 1
2009-09-21 14:31:52 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
4903a734b8 IDT is initialized in idt_init() not in prot_init()
This is a backport form the SMP branch. Not required here, it only makes life
for SMP easier. And future merging too.

- filling the IDT is removed from prot_init()

- struct gate_table_s is a public type

- gate_table_pic is a global array as it is used by APIC code too

- idt_copy_vectors() is also global and used by idt_init() as well as
  apic_idt_init()

- idt_init() is called right after prot_init() in system_init()
2009-08-28 15:55:30 +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
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