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    • Frans Kaashoek's avatar
      One way of supporting a guard page below kstack: allocate kstacks in · 91566327
      Frans Kaashoek authored
      procinit() and map them high up (below TRAMPOLNE) with an empty
      mapping below each stack.  Never free a kernel stack.
      
      Another way would be to allocate and map them dynamically, but then we
      need to reload page table when switching processes in scheduler()
      and/or have a kernel pagetable per proc (if we want k->stack to be the
      same virtual address in each process).
      
      One gotcha: kernel addresses are not equal to physical addresses for
      stack addresses.  A stack address must be translated if we need its
      physical address (e.g., virtio passes a stack address to the disk).
      91566327
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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
      ab0db651
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  25. 27 Jun, 2015 1 commit
    • Frans Kaashoek's avatar
      Pick up where i left off in april: · 8320d61b
      Frans Kaashoek authored
      - move log into metadata part of disk, so that marking
      that the log's blocks are in use falls out for free
      - superblock describes the whole disk (sizes and offets)
      - sizes and offsets are computed in one place (mkfs) and
      the rest of the code refers to the superblock for these values,
      instead of recomputing them.
      8320d61b
  26. 12 Sep, 2014 1 commit
    • Cody Cutler's avatar
      cmosgetdate() for system-call homework · aae4e749
      Cody Cutler authored
      the day of reckoning has come for the debug port "Shutdown" hack.
      
      instead of mucking with ACPI or using a new hack, the student will now write
      sys_date() using the cmosgetdate() helper.
      aae4e749
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    • Austin Clements's avatar
      Make fetchint and fetchstr use proc instead of taking a struct proc · 9d59eb01
      Austin Clements authored
      Previously, these were inconsistent: they used their struct proc
      argument for bounds checking, but always copied the argument from the
      current address space (and hence the current process).  Drop the
      struct proc argument and always use the current proc.
      
      Suggested by Carmi Merimovich.
      9d59eb01