New UTCB implementation almost working.

- KIP's pointer to UTCB seems to work with existing l4lib ipc functions.
- Works up to clone()
- In clone we mmap() the same UTCB on each new thread - excessive.
- Generally during page fault handling, cloned threads may fault on the same page
  multiple times even though a single handling would be enough for all of them.
  Need to detect and handle this.
This commit is contained in:
Bahadir Balban
2009-05-01 10:11:47 +03:00
parent 7a81db8782
commit cada0f8f18
31 changed files with 297 additions and 188 deletions

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@@ -255,12 +255,12 @@ static inline void context_switch(struct ktcb *next)
// printk("(%d) to (%d)\n", cur->tid, next->tid);
/* Update KIP UTCB pointer for new thread to run */
kip.utcb = next->utcb_address;
/* Flush caches and everything */
arch_hardware_flush(next->pgd);
/* Update utcb region for next task */
task_update_utcb(cur, next);
/* Switch context */
arch_switch(cur, next);

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@@ -8,7 +8,10 @@
#include <l4/generic/scheduler.h>
#include <l4/generic/preempt.h>
#include <l4/lib/idpool.h>
#include <l4/api/kip.h>
#include INC_ARCH(exception.h)
#include INC_SUBARCH(mm.h)
#include INC_GLUE(memory.h)
/* ID pools for threads and spaces. */
struct id_pool *thread_id_pool;
@@ -22,3 +25,36 @@ struct list_head global_task_list;
unsigned int need_resched_offset = offsetof(struct ktcb, ts_need_resched);
unsigned int syscall_regs_offset = offsetof(struct ktcb, syscall_regs);
/*
* Every thread has a unique utcb region that is mapped to its address
* space as its context is loaded. The utcb region is a function of
* this mapping and its offset that is reached via the KIP UTCB pointer
*/
void task_update_utcb(struct ktcb *cur, struct ktcb *next)
{
/* Update the KIP pointer */
kip.utcb = next->utcb_address;
/* We stick with KIP update and no private tls mapping for now */
#if 0
/*
* Unless current and next are in the same address
* space and sharing the same physical utcb page, we
* update the mapping
*/
if (cur->utcb_phys != next->utcb_phys)
add_mapping(page_align(next->utcb_phys),
page_align(next->utcb_virt),
page_align_up(UTCB_SIZE),
MAP_USR_RW_FLAGS);
/*
* If same physical utcb but different pgd, it means two
* address spaces share the same utcb. We treat this as a
* bug for now.
*/
else
BUG_ON(cur->pgd != next->pgd);
#endif
}