bootmain.c doesn't work right if the ELF sections aren't sector-aligned. so you can't use ld -N. and the sections may also need to be non-zero length, only really matters for tiny "kernels". kernel loaded at 1 megabyte. stack same place that bootasm.S left it. kinit() should find real mem size and rescue useable memory below 1 meg no paging, no use of page table hardware, just segments no user area: no magic kernel stack mapping so no copying of kernel stack during fork though there is a kernel stack page for each process no kernel malloc(), just kalloc() for user core user pointers aren't valid in the kernel setting up first process we do want a process zero, as template but not runnable just set up return-from-trap frame on new kernel stack fake user program that calls exec map text read-only? shared text? what's on the stack during a trap or sys call? PUSHA before scheduler switch? for callee-saved registers. segment contents? what does iret need to get out of the kernel? how does INT know what kernel stack to use? are interrupts turned on in the kernel? probably. per-cpu curproc one tss per process, or one per cpu? one segment array per cpu, or per process? pass curproc explicitly, or implicit from cpu #? e.g. argument to newproc()? hmm, you need a global curproc[cpu] for trap() &c test stack expansion test running out of memory, process slots we can't really use a separate stack segment, since stack addresses need to work correctly as ordinary pointers. the same may be true of data vs text. how can we have a gap between data and stack, so that both can grow, without committing 4GB of physical memory? does this mean we need paging? what's the simplest way to add the paging we need? one page table, re-write it each time we leave the kernel? page table per process? probably need to use 0-0xffffffff segments, so that both data and stack pointers always work so is it now worth it to make a process's phys mem contiguous? or could use segment limits and 4 meg pages? but limits would prevent using stack pointers as data pointers how to write-protect text? not important? perhaps have fixed-size stack, put it in the data segment? oops, if kernel stack is in contiguous user phys mem, then moving users' memory (e.g. to expand it) will wreck any pointers into the kernel stack. do we need to set fs and gs? so user processes can't abuse them? setupsegs() may modify current segment table, is that legal? trap() ought to lgdt on return, since currently only done in swtch() protect hardware interrupt vectors from user INT instructions? i'm getting a curious interrupt when jumping into user space. maybe it's IRQ 0, but it comes at a weird and changing vector (e.g. 119) if you don't initialize the PIC. why doesn't jos see this? if i initialize the PIC with IRQ_OFFSET 32, the interrupt arrives at vector 32.