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    • Frans Kaashoek's avatar
      Checkpoint port of xv6 to x86-64. Passed usertests on 2 processors a few times. · ab0db651
      Frans Kaashoek authored
      The x86-64 doesn't just add two levels to page tables to support 64 bit
      addresses, but is a different processor. For example, calling conventions,
      system calls, and segmentation are different from 32-bit x86. Segmentation is
      basically gone, but gs/fs in combination with MSRs can be used to hold a
      per-core pointer. In general, x86-64 is more straightforward than 32-bit
      x86. The port uses code from sv6 and the xv6 "rsc-amd64" branch.
      
      A summary of the changes is as follows:
      
      - Booting: switch to grub instead of xv6's bootloader (pass -kernel to qemu),
      because xv6's boot loader doesn't understand 64bit ELF files.  And, we don't
      care anymore about booting.
      
      - Makefile: use -m64 instead of -m32 flag for gcc, delete boot loader, xv6.img,
      bochs, and memfs. For now dont' use -O2, since usertests with -O2 is bigger than
      MAXFILE!
      
      - Update gdb.tmpl to be for i386 or x86-64
      
      - Console/printf: use stdarg.h and treat 64-bit addresses different from ints
        (32-bit)
      
      - Update elfhdr to be 64 bit
      
      - entry.S/entryother.S: add code to switch to 64-bit mode: build a simple page
      table in 32-bit mode before switching to 64-bit mode, share code for entering
      boot processor and APs, and tweak boot gdt.  The boot gdt is the gdt that the
      kernel proper also uses. (In 64-bit mode, the gdt/segmentation and task state
      mostly disappear.)
      
      - exec.c: fix passing argv (64-bit now instead of 32-bit).
      
      - initcode.c: use syscall instead of int.
      
      - kernel.ld: load kernel very high, in top terabyte.  64 bits is a lot of
      address space!
      
      - proc.c: initial return is through new syscall path instead of trapret.
      
      - proc.h: update struct cpu to have some scratch space since syscall saves less
      state than int, update struct context to reflect x86-64 calling conventions.
      
      - swtch: simplify for x86-64 calling conventions.
      
      - syscall: add fetcharg to handle x86-64 calling convetions (6 arguments are
      passed through registers), and fetchaddr to read a 64-bit value from user space.
      
      - sysfile: update to handle pointers from user space (e.g., sys_exec), which are
      64 bits.
      
      - trap.c: no special trap vector for sys calls, because x86-64 has a different
      plan for system calls.
      
      - trapasm: one plan for syscalls and one plan for traps (interrupt and
      exceptions). On x86-64, the kernel is responsible for switching user/kernel
      stacks. To do, xv6 keeps some scratch space in the cpu structure, and uses MSR
      GS_KERN_BASE to point to the core's cpu structure (using swapgs).
      
      - types.h: add uint64, and change pde_t to uint64
      
      - usertests: exit() when fork fails, which helped in tracking down one of the
      bugs in the switch from 32-bit to 64-bit
      
      - vectors: update to make them 64 bits
      
      - vm.c: use bootgdt in kernel too, program MSRs for syscalls and core-local
      state (for swapgs), walk 4 levels in walkpgdir, add DEVSPACETOP, use task
      segment to set kernel stack for interrupts (but simpler than in 32-bit mode),
      add an extra argument to freevm (size of user part of address space) to avoid
      checking all entries till KERNBASE (there are MANY TB before the top 1TB).
      
      - x86: update trapframe to have 64-bit entries, which is what the processor
      pushes on syscalls and traps.  simplify lgdt and lidt, using struct desctr,
      which needs the gcc directives packed and aligned.
      
      TODO:
      - use int32 instead of int?
      - simplify curproc(). xv6 has per-cpu state again, but this time it must have it.
      - avoid repetition in walkpgdir
      - fix validateint() in usertests.c
      - fix bugs (e.g., observed one a case of entering kernel with invalid gs or proc
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