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Thomas Veerman
2b793e4945 libsys: refactor frclock api
Make the frclock functions similar to the tsc utility functions. This
way, we can call frclock functions from the framebuffer driver which
will use frclock on ARM and tsc on X86.

Also, frclock_64_to_micros computed seconds, not microseconds

Change-Id: I6718ae0fb7db050794f6f032205923e1a32dc1ac
2013-02-22 13:08:21 +00:00
Ben Gras
7a07b58aa8 test66: float smoke test, floating point fixes (arm)
Change-Id: Idd209ab6f341fbfb6b2dca77290ff440695bc2c1
2013-02-20 12:29:37 +00:00
Ben Gras
7df45744ad libexec: quiet
. harmless errors in the case of shell scripts

Change-Id: I461776024a21233e291102ca6d05dc7fa767f71a
2013-02-10 19:52:25 +01:00
Ben Gras
95513e73da opendir change: refinement
Change-Id: I90cc6929c9e7678da8e200688dcd40441efe030f
2013-02-08 23:09:21 +00:00
Ben Gras
4505b4a30a add opendir alias
Change-Id: Ib121e763bac7bea44a2f2533c454ff7d9361dc8d
2013-02-08 21:40:57 +00:00
Ben Gras
f5cfab17d6 ldivmod, uldivmod: fix qdivrem calls
. ldivmod, uldivmod were passing the modulo argument pointer
	  in R4, which is bogus, as qdivrem expects it on the stack as
	  per the EABI, causing essentially 'random' memory to be trampled
	  by qdivrem. fix by pushing R4 before the call.
	. also add these functions to -minc so -lminc clients can be
	  linked without -lgcc

Change-Id: I90b0b28b51a188c93da5de6afb108224749ea794
2013-02-08 14:09:45 +01:00
Kees Jongenburger
3357fcb24a GPIO:further development
* Generalize GPIO handling.
* Add libs to configure gpio's clocks and pads
* Add Interrupt handling.
* Introduce mmio.h and log.h

Change-Id: I928e4c807d15031de2eede4b3ecff62df795f8ac
2013-02-06 16:07:43 +01:00
Ben Gras
298b41b523 libexec: detect short files
if an exec() fails partway through reading in the sections, the target
process is already gone and a defunct process remains. sanity checking
the binary beforehand helps that.

test10 mutilates binaries and exec()s them on purpose; making an exec()
fail cleanly in such cases seems like acceptable behaviour.

fixes test10 on ARM.

Change-Id: I1ed9bb200ce469d4d349073cadccad5503b2fcb0
2013-02-04 12:04:35 +01:00
Ben Gras
57bab02d57 kernel, libc: signals fixes
. kernel: signal handler args for ARM
	. kernel: sanity check return address (LSB indicates thumb mode)
	. libc: properly retrieve signal mask for ARM

together fix test37 on ARM.

Change-Id: I4e00f754c50104ed85c7fdf8ec5ad54568f20a81
2013-02-04 12:03:46 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
252a83f614 Fix command line history in ash
Also did some cleanup in ash sources, to make minix modifications
more obvious, as well as some simplifications (by removing code which
is never compiled)

Removed EDITLINE support, use libedit, which does the termcap/terminfo
handling.

Change-Id: I19f7f425ed6a61298844631f9d7f3173cf7f30c0
2013-02-01 11:41:47 +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
Ben Gras
b6d285faba libc: add stat aliases
. add non-internal aliases for stat, lstat, fstat

Change-Id: I87e025b2bf073ff56a5742fc1dcf5badb2b7b321
2013-01-29 20:11:16 +00:00
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
fe892c5e66 libcsu: store argc and argv on the stack 2013-01-25 17:07:02 +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
Thomas Veerman
e52ecfbf5d ARM: correctly store kernel_info_struct pointer 2013-01-25 17:07:02 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
264c20159d Split libsys in arch dependent parts
The ARM part is not finished yet and will be fixed in a later commit.
2013-01-25 17:07:01 +00:00
Ben Gras
8ebdbed79c getifaddrs: add un-namespaced alias
. needed for security/heimdal, needed for git

Change-Id: I8638945dffd0abffd487c47281ad7616da1b70db
2013-01-24 21:57:15 +00:00
Lionel Sambuc
3e1db26a5a Termcap update, replacing elvis by nvi.
Removing elvis, importing nvi, ctags, updating libedit.

Change-Id: I881eb04d2dc64cf112facd992de1114e1a59107f
2013-01-24 07:44:38 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
f9f6c9251a Re-adding extended keys in minix termcap entry 2013-01-23 21:28:17 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
96836647f8 Fixing cross build i386 on minix 2013-01-23 21:03:38 +01:00
Arne Welzel
a58c735738 virtio: generic virtio library 2013-01-23 09:03:03 +00:00
Nicholas Heath
1bbba6353d Fixed bug in getrlimit as core dumps are supported now. 2013-01-17 14:06:35 +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
Lionel Sambuc
ebae0113f8 Removing useless __NBSD_LIBC define in libcurses 2013-01-17 10:03:58 +01:00
Ben Gras
287c0e3b92 csu: restore crt1.o symlink
. minix gcc package uses crt1.o to link
2013-01-15 09:20:27 +00:00
Lionel Sambuc
0ac803292e Fix warnings trivial warnings.
Fix warnings about:
 . Unused variables
 . format mismatch in printf/scanf format string and arguments
 . Missing parenthesis around assignment as truth values
 . Clang warnings anout unknown GCC pragma
2013-01-14 11:44:31 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
f5435c74b7 Updating lib/libcrypt
Change-Id: I4dc5ca7c86abc5295ffc57386a14dd1d790fd489
2013-01-14 11:36:27 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
0c3ae37f52 Updating libcurses, libterminfo and terminfo.
The three are updated together as they are tightly coupled.

Change-Id: I9e1f07b6adc6e8ae10833e6f1402f8472d2d34b8
2013-01-14 11:36:26 +01:00
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
f6aac1c3b5 Moving all NetBSD headers back where they belong.
Moving include/sys NetBSD headers to /sys/sys
Moving include/arch/*/ NetBSD headers to /sys/arch/*/include

Change-Id: Ia1a45d4e83ab806c84093ec2b61bdbea9bed65a0
2013-01-14 11:36:25 +01:00
Thomas Veerman
aa3623d873 ARM: make cycle counter available to userspace 2013-01-11 09:18:36 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
93103f497f libmthread: add possibility to randomize scheduler 2013-01-11 09:18:35 +00:00
Ben Gras
017ce5a503 libc, libutil: remove compat hacks 2013-01-08 15:47:37 +00:00
Ben Gras
d36ce68582 libexec exec fix
. restores executing shell scripts without explicit interpreter
2012-12-29 01:41:24 +00:00
Ben Gras
29edcad310 vm: replace phys avl by array
. make vm be able to use malloc() by overriding brk()
   and minix_mmap() functions
 . phys regions can then be malloc()ed and free()d instead
   of being in an avl tree, which is slightly faster
 . 'offset' field in phys_region can go too (offset is implied
   by position in array) but leads to bigger code changes
2012-12-26 16:14:41 +00:00
Ben Gras
59ba14bb1d libutil: add O_NOCTTY back to old pty open code
restores fix 4f78dfcabc

	. fixes e.g. ssh sessions not getting their own
	  controlling tty
2012-12-10 15:22:12 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
456a46e6bf Removing useless minix/types.h header
Change-Id: If5f922279b87f075f301b64c7786caa18b434c2a
2012-12-07 13:58:06 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
100babf0e0 Removing last reference to NETBSDINCLUDES
Also removing minix-config.inc and placing its content in
Makefile.inc, as the file is modified anyway. Simplifies diff.

Change-Id: I6262fdb790a5455b59e07acdccdc221fd5dd41f8
2012-12-07 13:58:06 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
7faf801d1f fixing warning about uninitialized variable in libsys/vprintf.c
Change-Id: I8764a57b502edc3d50a32b3e2db56c4f94592309
2012-12-07 13:58:06 +01:00
Thomas Veerman
d9f4f71916 Implement dynamic mtab support
With this patch /etc/mtab becomes obsolete.
2012-11-26 15:20:18 +00:00
Lionel Sambuc
9903b9fb96 Fixing wrong dependency from libc on libsys. 2012-11-26 13:53:02 +01:00
Erik van der Kouwe
57c748b968 Remove ability to pass commands to bootloader 2012-11-22 19:16:17 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
4a711bea63 Upgrading bzip2
Change-Id: I6968b0f0401f3f42dc55a0f4938a7e12a3a55ae7
2012-11-21 18:32:06 +01:00
Ben Gras
a89ec8bc3b can't get_block(NO_DEV) any more
. 'anonymous' cache blocks (retrieved with NO_DEV as dev
	  parameter) were used to implement read()s from holes in
	  inodes that should return zeroes
	. this is an awkward special case in the cache code though
	  and there's a more direct way to implement the same functionality:
	  instead of copying from a new, anonymous, zero block, to
	  the user target buffer, simply sys_safememset the user target
	  buffer directly. as this was the only use of this feature,
	  this is all that's needed to simplify the cache code a little.
2012-11-16 16:37:44 +01:00
Tomas Hruby
10f30159a9 struct minix_ipcvecs - pretty-print
- the _ptr suffix is not needed anymore :-)
2012-11-15 16:52:00 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
cd554e7284 Hack for unresolved symbol read_tsc_64 2012-11-15 16:07:30 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
d19d7d58aa Toolchain upgrade and portability improvements.
upgrade to NetBSD CVS release from 2012/10/17 12:00:00 UTC

Makefiles updates to imporve portability

Made sure to be consistent in the usage of braces/parenthesis at
least on a per file basis. For variables, it is recommended to
continue to use braces.
2012-11-15 16:07:29 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
9152e1c5a7 Upgrading build system to new NetBSD revision
The tested targets are the followgin ones:
 * tools
 * distribution
 * sets
 * release

The remaining NetBSD targets have not been disabled nor tested
*at all*. Try them at your own risk, they may reboot the earth.

For all compliant Makefiles, objects and generated files are put in
MAKEOBJDIR, which means you can now keep objects between two branch
switching. Same for DESTDIR, please refer to build.sh options.

Regarding new or modifications of Makefiles a few things:
 * Read share/mk/bsd.README
 * If you add a subdirectory, add a Makefile in it, and have it called
   by the parent through the SUBDIR variable.
 * Do not add arbitrary inclusion which crosses to another branch of
   the hierarchy; If you can't do without it, put a comment on why.
   If possible, do not use inclusion at all.
 * Use as much as possible the infrastructure, it is here to make
   life easier, do not fight it.

Sets and package are now used to track files.
We have one set called "minix", composed of one package called "minix-sys"
2012-11-15 16:07:29 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
bdb3f57135 Adding shlib_version for libsys 2012-11-15 16:07:29 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
e415d48872 Libc update to simplify merge.
Bumping libc files for unsupported architectures, to simplify merging.
A bunch of small fixes:
 * in libutil update
 * the macro in endian.h
 * some undefined types due to clear separation from host.
 * Fix a warning for cdbr.c

Some modification which were required for the new build system:
 * inclusion path for const.h in sconst, still hacky
 * Removed default malloc.c which conflicts on some occasions.
2012-11-15 16:07:29 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
dba3562d78 Updating libutil from netbsd 2012-11-15 16:07:29 +01:00
Ben Gras
196021cd82 drop safemap code 2012-10-30 13:55:42 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
85fee539f4 Upgrading pax.
This also means importing librmt.

Change-Id: Ie5b314aeaad28dca46acb64f20f2d70746ea52d0
2012-10-24 13:42:44 +02:00
Ben Gras
bd3cde4571 Move primary cache code to libminixfs.
Add primary cache management feature to libminixfs as mfs and ext2
currently do separately, remove cache code from mfs and ext2, and make
them use the libminixfs interface. This makes all fields of the buf
struct private to libminixfs and FS clients aren't supposed to access
them at all. Only the opaque 'void *data' field (the FS block contents,
used to be called bp) is to be accessed by the FS client.

The main purpose is to implement the interface to the 2ndary vm cache
just once, get rid of some code duplication, and add a little
abstraction to reduce the code inertia of the whole caching business.

Some minor sanity checking and prohibition done by mfs in this code
as removed from the generic primary cache code as a result:
        - checking all inodes are not in use when allocating/resizing
          the cache
        - checking readonly filesystems aren't written to
        - checking the superblock isn't written to on mounted filesystems

The minixfslib code relies on fs_blockstats() in the client filesystem to
return some FS usage information.
2012-10-23 19:48:38 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
23907fa712 libvboxfs: fix setting file mtimes 2012-10-17 23:01:24 +02:00
Tomas Hruby
ee99bb81b9 LIBC - getifaddrs() fix
ifpa must be set to something meaningful every time it returns 0.
2012-10-11 09:43:33 +00:00
Arun Thomas
471a03a362 ARM support for kernel and vm 2012-10-07 21:38:03 -04:00
Arne Welzel
bf33a1c097 libsys: add sys_safememset() 2012-09-26 02:18:00 +02:00
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
8a3b6ca3bb remove unused <tools.h> 2012-09-20 12:24:22 +02:00
Ben Gras
d526f1a0db some coverity fixes. 2012-09-18 15:11:51 +02:00
Ben Gras
ed1af3c86c VM: full munmap
complete munmap implementation; single-page references made
a general munmap() implementation possible to write cleanly.

	. memory: let the MIOCRAMSIZE ioctl set the imgrd device
	  size (but only to 0)
	. let the ramdisk command set sizes to 0
	. use this command to set /dev/imgrd to 0 after mounting /usr
	  in /etc/rc, so the boot time ramdisk is freed (about 4MB
	  currently)
2012-09-18 13:17:52 +02:00
Ben Gras
2cb560297c VM: remove unused dma memory support functions from vm
. unused calls / data structures
2012-09-18 13:17:47 +02:00
Ben Gras
d3d8c30c2e libc/libminc malloc reorganization
. rename minix malloc sources to minix-* so Makefile
    references aren't ambiguous
  . throw out malloc source file copies in libminc
  . make libminc use phkmalloc instead of minix malloc (slightly faster)
2012-09-18 13:17:44 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
41df1b59f1 libsys: let optset parse largeish positive values
Note that strtoul() also parses negative numbers correctly.
2012-09-03 12:20:17 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
6b97790a38 libblockdriver: minor whitespace fix 2012-08-31 12:36:17 +00:00
Ben Gras
053fa581b5 vm: remove stack handling for signals
. moved to the kernel as the handling was only
	  reading it; the kernel may as well write it too
2012-08-29 17:31:38 +02:00
Arun Thomas
fd43d93ce5 ARM support for system libraries 2012-08-28 13:49:27 -04:00
Arun Thomas
9a9d555f56 machine/ipcconst.h for arch-specific constants 2012-08-27 19:46:41 -04:00
David van Moolenbroek
201031fb38 libaudiodriver: properly deallocate memory 2012-08-24 09:17:27 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
9821bbf780 libaudiodriver: call drv_init() again 2012-08-24 09:17:26 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
ca216b3d97 libaudiodriver: resolve Coverity warnings 2012-08-24 09:17:25 +00:00
Arun Thomas
a57a591f25 Reorganize arch consts and types
-DEFAULT_HZ const moved to archconst.h
-cpu_info struct moved to archtypes.h
2012-08-16 17:07:43 +02:00
Arun Thomas
697f0d097f Rename sys_vmctl_get_cr3_i386 2012-08-12 23:30:54 +02:00
Arun Thomas
ed9152a1a3 csu: build for ARM 2012-08-12 23:30:54 +02:00
Ben Gras
31d8526346 libexec: add load_offset feature, used for ld.so
. ld.so is linked at 0 but it can relocate itself; we
	  wish to load ld.so higher though to trap NULL dereferences.
	  if we know we have to execute ld.so, vfs tells libexec to put it
	  higher.
2012-08-12 23:22:54 +02:00
Arun Thomas
fbd456ee2b libc/mallocdebug: Make arch-generic 2012-08-10 22:45:35 +02:00
Arun Thomas
caa798bbe1 brksize: Remove non-ELF code 2012-08-10 22:45:35 +02:00
Arun Thomas
65a87d5bcb Fix prototypes for getdents, read, readlink 2012-08-10 22:09:43 +02:00
Arun Thomas
fbad9eaf95 Clean up arch Makefiles for libminc 2012-08-10 19:02:38 +02:00
Arun Thomas
ad95bad8f7 Restore and use C version of oneC_sum 2012-08-10 14:48:48 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
378164d359 libnetsock: resolve Coverity warnings 2012-08-09 00:16:36 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
ebc85e54c4 libsys: resolve Coverity warnings 2012-08-09 00:16:36 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
49aed1ad97 libsys: remove unused stacktrace variant 2012-08-09 00:16:35 +02:00
Arun Thomas
0ae2e2df94 libc: ARM generateasm 2012-08-07 17:01:25 +02:00
Arun Thomas
19ffad7692 Remove ACK EM_WSIZE/EM_PSIZE macro usage 2012-08-06 17:49:22 +02:00
Arun Thomas
6723dcfab7 Replace MACHINE/CHIP macros with compiler macros 2012-08-06 17:49:22 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
5909c8ba20 libvtreefs: resolve Coverity warnings 2012-07-30 14:00:22 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
ee71bbbcb5 libsffs: resolve Coverity warnings 2012-07-30 12:10:14 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
0b30c0a1bb libchardriver: resolve Coverity warnings 2012-07-30 12:10:13 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
55c3f4800e libbdev: resolve Coverity warnings 2012-07-30 12:10:12 +00:00
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
David van Moolenbroek
8caec1b57b libsys: 64-bit numbers support for printf()
Change some drivers accordingly.
2012-07-26 09:45:05 +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
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
Kees Jongenburger
30b5c227e9 Allow to specify the rslabel to use for a file system.
When a file system is mounted some heuristics are used to define
a RS label for that system. This commit allows to specify the
label to use in an optional mount argument using either
mount -o rslabel=fs_myfs or as a mount option in fstab.

This can be used to start services that later also need to be
accessed directly.
2012-07-05 14:52:16 +02:00
Ben Gras
c3db1c6939 various symbol referencing fixes
make weak symbol references and namespace renames references
the renamed versions.

function renaming, weak symbol references and libc namespace.h
protection interact in hairy ways and causes weak symbol references
for renamed functions to be unresolved; e.g. vfork should be an
alias for _vfork but _vfork doesn't exist because __vfork14()
exists.

this is a problem for dynamically linked executables as all symbols
have to be resolved, used or not, at link time. it was masked by
clang-compiled base system libraries but is a problem when gcc does
it.
2012-06-28 15:20:53 +02:00
Thomas Veerman
8d1c219676 libvassert: don't build shared lib 2012-06-26 09:32:15 +00:00