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Antoine Leca
da82f9b2e8 <a.out.h>, MINIX style: remove as obsolete
Change-Id: Icc8b7210d60a93ac9cc4610d676dcba270756410
2013-08-06 11:43:35 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
50e46307de Move MINIX reboot definitions into minix/reboot.h
Also fix a buffer overflow in commands/reboot/sh_wall.c.

Change-Id: I3a61057c4f0221d1700e14d44520b4ad17f1dbe1
2013-03-20 16:50:01 +00:00
Ben Gras
5acaa0814f kernel, ramdisk: some boot unification
To use the new SD building script, Linux has to be configured with
loop.max_part=15 on the command line (or set at module load time)
to make the loopback device see the partitions.

This commit removes a lot of differences between the ARM and x86
boot ramdisk and rc scripts. It changes the ARM build from running
from ramdisk to requiring a full filesystem on the SD image and
booting into it.

	. ramdisk: remove some arm-only utilities only used for running
	  from the shell
	. remove ARM-only rc.arm, proto.arm.small, ttys and mylogin.sh
	  boot-time ramdisk files
	. change kernel to add "arch" variable so userland knows what
	  we're running on from sysenv
	. make ARM use the regular ramdisk rc file, changed to distinguish
	  i386-only and ARM-only drivers; requires rootdevname to be set
	. change /etc/rc and /usr/etc/rc to start i386-only drivers only on
	  i386 systems
	. change the kernel/arm to have a special case for the memory
	  driver to load it higher so it can be bigger
	. add uEnv.txt, cmdline.txt and a for now highly linux-dependent
	  SD preparation script arm_sdimage.sh to the git repository in
	  releasetools/

Change-Id: I68910ba4e96ee80f7a12b65e48b5d39b43ca6397
2013-03-07 14:29:27 +00:00
Ben Gras
3bc6d7df06 impove memory accounting
. the total amount of memory in the system didn't include the memory
	  used by the boot-time modules and some dynamic allocation by the
	  kernel at boot time (to map in VM). especially apparent on our
	  ARM board with 'only' 512MB of memory and a huge ramdisk.
	. also: *add* the VM loaded module to the freelist after it has
	  been allocated for & mapped in instead of cutting it *out* of the
	  freelist! so we get a few more MB free..

Change-Id: If37ac32b21c9d38610830e21421264da4f20bc4f
2013-02-11 19:31:57 +01:00
Ben Gras
5a0585359d ARM divsi3.S: raise(SIGFPE) when called for
. raise(SIGFPE) for modulo-0/divide-0 operations in
	  internal int division functions
	. gcc: do not link with -lgcc anywhere so these internal
	  functions are always used from libc instead of (sometimes)
	  masked by -lgcc
	. together fixes test53 on ARM

Change-Id: I31ec19dfdd68b8a92695595da901874e63106f9d
2013-02-09 22:24:59 +01:00
Ben Gras
dcff984d6a kernel: fix sanity check 2013-01-18 21:38:28 +00:00
Lionel Sambuc
f14fb60209 Libraries updates and cleanup
* Updating common/lib
 * Updating lib/csu
 * Updating lib/libc
 * Updating libexec/ld.elf_so
 * Corrected test on __minix in featuretest to actually follow the
   meaning of the comment.
 * Cleaned up _REENTRANT-related defintions.
 * Disabled -D_REENTRANT for libfetch
 * Removing some unneeded __NBSD_LIBC defines and tests

Change-Id: Ic1394baef74d11b9f86b312f5ff4bbc3cbf72ce2
2013-01-14 11:36:26 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
456a46e6bf Removing useless minix/types.h header
Change-Id: If5f922279b87f075f301b64c7786caa18b434c2a
2012-12-07 13:58:06 +01:00
Ben Gras
fe6e291f59 vm, kernel, top: report memory usage of vm, kernel 2012-09-18 23:43:52 +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
Ben Gras
49d4116100 kernel: keep serial info in system env
. otherwise serial hardware gets reinitialized by tty
2012-07-18 15:16:57 +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
Dirk Vogt
207e4d2a71 Let the kernel load figure out where to put mods
This patch makes the mkimage tool obsolete
2012-06-18 10:53:22 +00:00
Ben Gras
040362e379 exec() cleanup, generalization, improvement
. make exec() callers (i.e. vfs and rs) determine the
	  memory layout by explicitly reserving regions using
	  mmap() calls on behalf of the exec()ing process,
	  i.e. handling all of the exec logic, thereby eliminating
	  all special exec() knowledge from VM.
	. the new procedure is: clear the exec()ing process
	  first, then call third-party mmap()s to reserve memory, then
	  copy the executable file section contents in, all using callbacks
	  tailored to the caller's way of starting an executable
	. i.e. no more explicit EXEC_NEWMEM-style calls in PM or VM
	  as with rigid 2-section arguments
	. this naturally allows generalizing exec() by simply loading
	  all ELF sections
	. drop/merge of lots of duplicate exec() code into libexec
	. not copying the code sections to vfs and into the executable
	  again is a measurable performance improvement (about 3.3% faster
	  for 'make' in src/servers/)
2012-06-07 15:15:01 +02:00
Ben Gras
53002f6f6c recognize and execute dynamically linked executables
. generalize libexec slightly to get some more necessary information
	  from ELF files, e.g. the interpreter
	. execute dynamically linked executables when exec()ed by VFS
	. switch to netbsd variant of elf32.h exclusively, solves some
	  conflicting headers
2012-04-16 00:41:42 +00:00
Ben Gras
7336a67dfe retire PUBLIC, PRIVATE and FORWARD 2012-03-25 21:58:14 +02:00
Antoine Leca
f4ffbc6072 Make ELF kernel boot faster 2012-02-14 14:52:15 +01:00
Evgeniy Ivanov
2487445f5f make panic() work for multiboot/elf case
. we cannot use the boot monitor to print the system diag buffer
	. for serial, we do nothing, just reset, everything is already printed
	. for not-serial, we print the current diag buffer using direct video
	  memory access from the kernel
2012-02-14 14:48:10 +01:00
Ben Gras
636264c1c6 Fixes for loading kernel with multiboot
While parsing command line, only consider "variable=value" to
be part of environment.

Patch by Antoine Leca.
2012-02-09 18:54:45 +01:00
Tomas Hruby
9cd53f1cc0 SMP - fixed compilation and removed warnings 2011-12-20 12:58:20 +00:00
Arun Thomas
8b4492ed1c kernel: remove unused var 2011-11-02 18:45:08 +01:00
Arun Thomas
f71ec49525 kernel: Remove legacy boot vars from pre_init 2011-09-19 16:39:51 +02:00
Arun Thomas
92fa3189ab MKSYSDEBUG: conditionally compile more debug code 2011-09-16 15:25:26 +02:00
Arun Thomas
93ae43f577 boot: Add multiboot support
Not yet fully spec-compliant; work in progress
2011-06-24 17:21:51 +02:00
Ben Gras
a77c2973b3 fix clang warnings -R in kernel/ and servers/ 2011-06-09 16:09:13 +02:00
Arun Thomas
350b60661a ELF multiboot support 2011-05-04 18:51:43 +02:00
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
Tomas Hruby
ac9a7f47bd Missing prototype in pre_init.c
- gcc does not like it
2010-08-06 12:26:26 +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