This isn't needed for Process / Thread as they only reference it
by pointer and it's already part of Kernel/Forward.h. So just include
it where the implementation needs to call it.
To add a new per-CPU data structure, add an ID for it to the
ProcessorSpecificDataID enum.
Then call ProcessorSpecific<T>::initialize() when you are ready to
construct the per-CPU data structure on the current CPU. It can then
be accessed via ProcessorSpecific<T>::get().
This patch replaces the existing hard-coded mechanisms for Scheduler
and MemoryManager per-CPU data structure.
This enables further work on implementing KASLR by adding relocation
support to the pre-kernel and updating the kernel to be less dependent
on specific virtual memory layouts.
Despite what the declaration would have us believe these are not "u8*".
If they were we wouldn't have to use the & operator to get the address
of them and then cast them to "u8*"/FlatPtr afterwards.
Depending on the values it might be difficult to figure out whether a
value is decimal or hexadecimal. So let's make this more obvious. Also
this allows copying and pasting those numbers into GNOME calculator and
probably also other apps which auto-detect the base.
The entire process is not needed, just require the user to pass in the
Space. Also provide no_lock variant to use when you already have the
VM/Space lock acquired, to avoid unnecessary recursive spinlock
acquisitions.
The non CPU specific code of the kernel shouldn't need to deal with
architecture specific registers, and should instead deal with an
abstract view of the machine. This allows us to remove a variety of
architecture specific ifdefs and helps keep the code slightly more
portable.
We do this by exposing the abstract representation of instruction
pointer, stack pointer, base pointer, return register, etc on the
RegisterState struct.
This switches tracking CPU usage to more accurately measure time in
user and kernel land using either the TSC or another time source.
This will also come in handy when implementing a tickless kernel mode.
This implements a simple bootloader that is capable of loading ELF64
kernel images. It does this by using QEMU/GRUB to load the kernel image
from disk and pass it to our bootloader as a Multiboot module.
The bootloader then parses the ELF image and sets it up appropriately.
The kernel's entry point is a C++ function with architecture-native
code.
Co-authored-by: Liav A <liavalb@gmail.com>
The kernel doesn't currently boot when using an address other than
0xc0000000 because the page tables aren't set up properly for that
but this at least lets us build the kernel.
The 32-bit boot code jumps to 0xc0000000 + entry address once page
tables are set up. This is unnecessary for 64-bit mode because we'll
do another far jump just moments later.
By moving the PhysicalPage classes out of the kernel heap into a static
array, one for each physical page, we can avoid the added overhead and
easily find them by indexing into an array.
This also wraps the PhysicalPage into a PhysicalPageEntry, which allows
us to re-use each slot with information where to find the next free
page.
We already use PAE for the NX bit, but this changes the PhysicalAddress
structure to be able to hold 64 bit physical addresses. This allows us
to use all the available physical memory.
