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2023-04-08kernel: Clear secrets on rebootcinap_lenrek
The idea is that when we reboot, we zero out memory written by processes that have the private flag set (such as factotum and keyfs), and also clear the secrmem pool, which contains TLS keys and the state of the random number generator. This is so the newly booted kernel or firmware will not find these secret keys in memory.
2022-08-129: compute available kernel pages using sizeof(Proc*)Ori Bernstein
procs come from the dynamic pools, so we don't need to remove the memory used by possible procs from the total available.
2022-08-109/port: allow kiloprocs -- allocate procs lazilyOri Bernstein
Treallocate the small data structures around procs eagerly, but use malloc to allocate the large proc data structures when we need them, which allows us to scale to many more procs. There are still many scalability bottlenecks, so we only crank up the nproc limit by a little bit this time around, and crank it up more as we optimize more.
2021-01-17pc, pc64: add minimal HPET driver to measure LAPIC and TSC frequenciescinap_lenrek
This adds the new function pointer PCArch.clockinit(), which is a timer dependent initialization routine. It also takes over the job of guesscpuhz(). This way, the architecture ident code can switch between different timers (i8253, HPET and XEN timer).
2020-12-21pc, xen: move fpu setup/fork/save/restore handlers to pc/fpu.ccinap_lenrek
2020-12-21kernel: update procsave() comment, we'r not holding up->rlock anymorecinap_lenrek
2020-12-20kernel: handle tos and per process pcycle counters in port/cinap_lenrek
we might as well handle the per process cycle counter in the portable part instead of duplicating the code in every arch and have inconsistent implementations. we now have a portable kenter() and kexit() function, that is ment to be used in trap/syscall from user, which updates the counters. some kernels missed initializing Mach.cyclefreq.
2020-12-06xen: use pc/fpu.ccinap_lenrek
2020-01-26kernel: implement portable userinit() and simplify process creationcinap_lenrek
replace machine specific userinit() by a portable implemntation that uses kproc() to create the first process. the initcode text is mapped using kmap(), so there is no need for machine specific tmpmap() functions. initcode stack preparation should be done in init0() where the stack is mapped and can be accessed directly. replacing the machine specific userinit() allows some big simplifications as sysrfork() and kproc() are now the only callers of newproc() and we can avoid initializing fields that we know are being initialized by these callers. rename autogenerated init.h and reboot.h headers. the initcode[] and rebootcode[] blobs are now in *.i files and hex generation was moved to portmkfile. the machine specific mkfile only needs to specify how to build rebootcode.out and initcode.out.
2017-11-04kernel: introduce per process FPU struct (PFPU) for more flexible machine ↵cinap_lenrek
specific fpu handling introducing the PFPU structue which allows the machine specific code some flexibility on how to handle the FPU process state. for example, in the pc and pc64 kernel, the FPsave structure is arround 512 bytes. with avx512, it could grow up to 2K. instead of embedding that into the Proc strucutre, it is more effective to allocate it on first use of the fpu, as most processes do not use simd or floating point in the first place. also, the FPsave structure has special 16 byte alignment constraint, which further favours dynamic allocation. this gets rid of the memmoves in pc/pc64 kernels for the aligment. there is also devproc, which is now checking if the fpsave area is actually valid before reading it, avoiding debuggers to see garbage data. the Notsave structure is gone now, as it was not used on any machine.
2017-10-29kernel: introduce devswap #¶ to serve /dev/swap and handle swapfile encryptioncinap_lenrek
2017-03-11kernel: get rid of active.Lock and active.thunderbirdsargocinap_lenrek
2016-01-05kernel: change active.machs from bitmap to char array to support up to 64 ↵cinap_lenrek
cpus on pc64
2015-11-30kernel: cleanup exit()/shutdown()/reboot() codecinap_lenrek
introduce cpushutdown() function that does the common operation of initiating shutdown, returning once all cpu's got the message and are about to shutdown. this avoids duplicated code which isnt really machine specific. automatic reboot on panic only when *debug= is not set and the machine is a cpu server or has no display, otherwise just hang.
2015-02-07kernel: reduce Page structure size by changing Page.cachectl[]cinap_lenrek
there are no kernels currently that do page coloring, so the only use of cachectl[] is flushing the icache (on arm and ppc). on pc64, cachectl consumes 32 bytes in each page resulting in over 200 megabytes of overhead for 32gb of ram with 4K pages. this change removes cachectl[] and adds txtflush ulong that is set to ~0 by pio() to instruct putmmu() to flush the icache.
2014-12-18xen: remove segmentation constants, not used on xen.cinap_lenrek
2014-12-17teg2, xen: remove unused bootdisk[] and fix conf.nswppo factor in kernel ↵cinap_lenrek
memory size calculation
2014-12-16kernel: remove obsolete comment regarding Mntcache size in */main.ccinap_lenrek
2014-06-25xen: fix boot argv0mischief
2014-06-24xen: fix early consolemischief
2014-06-24import xen 32 bit paravirtual kernel from /n/sources/xen.mischief