7 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bahadir Balban
d39ffc6acd Fixed utcb updating issue that was a significant burden.
Any thread that touches a utcb inside the kernel now properly checks
whether the utcb is mapped on its owner, and whether the mapped physical
address matches that of the current thread's tables. If not the tables
are updated.

This way, even though page tables become incoherent on utcb address
change situations (such as fork() exit(), execve()) they get updated
as they are referenced.

Since mappings are added only conditionally, caches are flushed only
when an update is necessary.
2009-10-09 16:45:10 +03:00
Bahadir Balban
30de876a6c Added MR #define place holders so that these are used instead of real register names 2008-09-15 18:27:41 +03:00
Bahadir Balban
4fb5277123 Towards finishing exchange_registers()
- Added mutex_trylock()
- Implemented most of exchange_registers()
- thread_control() now needs a lock for operations that can modify thread context.
- thread_start() does not initialise scheduler flags, now done in thread_create.

TODO:
- Fork/clone'ed threads should retain their context in tcb, not syscall stack.
- exchange_registers() calls in userspace need cleaning up.
2008-09-13 18:07:00 +03:00
Bahadir Balban
afc0599d49 Saving all registers in syscall so that return from fork is easier.
Child needs rewound function stack in order to reach registers r9-r12
that have original userspace values. But we jump to return_from_syscall
without rewinding the stack. Therefore to ease context restore, we save
r9-r12 on the stack as well upon syscall entry.
2008-09-01 16:19:03 +03:00
Bahadir Balban
476bac5142 Cleaned up all compile errors. 2008-08-25 16:59:00 +03:00
Bahadir Balban
3ce220f062 Changes to make sure after a fork a child process can safely return.
This copies the parent kernel stack to child only for the part where
the previous context is saved. Then the child registers are modified
so that it would begin execution from returning of the system call.
2008-08-21 16:21:08 +03:00
Bahadir Balban
e2b791a3d8 Initial commit 2008-01-13 13:53:52 +00:00