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