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page allocations were recorded by marking entries in the dummy page
tables 'flow' and 'fupp'. This approach was not very memory efficient,
since 4-bytes were used to record each page.
Now, a bitmap table is used, where every bit represents a page (every
byte therefore representing 8 pages). This approach also shaves some CPU
time during allocation, since 8 pages can be checked at a time by
testing whole bytes.
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printk() to notify the user of the kernel panic. This resulted in a
system call being made to the kernel itself and the machine not fully
halting.
Fixed an issue with the serial driver in which the functions rsputs()
and rsread() will still attempt a data transfer even if serial_init()
failed to detect and initialize a serial port.
Added the ability for tasks to be interrupted whilst reading from the
serial port. This was done by putting the task into TSTATE_INTERRUPTIBLE
instead of TSTATE_UNINTERRUPTIBLE when waiting for data in the serial
buffer. Furthermore, a check was introduced after the task wakes up to
see if any data was put in the buffer, or if the task was awoken by
another source.
Changed the type pid_t from an unsigned 16-bit integer to a signed
16-bit integer. This was done to make passing PID's to certain functions
easier.
Added the new system call sys_kill which will allow one process to send
a signal to another.
Added the kill_proc() function to sched.c to kill a process. Currently,
this works by nullifying the PID field in the process' task structure,
marking all the pages mapped to it's address space as free for use, then
calling the scheduler to switch to another runnable task (or to idle).
Modified the default signal handler within the kernel to now handle the
SIGKILL signal by calling kill_proc().
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CPU is not an i386 before executing the invlpg instruction with the
provided address. This will once again make the kernel compatible with
the i386 processor as executing the invlpg instruction without these
checks would have resulted in an invalid opcode exception.
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prior to return. This meant that switching to the same task did not
abort properly as the incorrect return address was popped off the stack.
Fixed a bug where the task register was not initialized before the
scheduler. This meant that on the first task switch, the CPU would dump
it's current state to a random address (0 most likely), potentially
corrupting important data. This has been corrected by introducing a
'garbage TSS' (and associated descriptor in the GDT) which is selected
before the scheduler is initialized as a safe place for the data to be
written.
Modified the scheduler so that it now waits indefinitely until a task
becomes ready to run. This fixes the possible bug where the scheduler
won't re-schedule the currently running task if it is the only task on
the system.
Add signal handling capabilities to the kernel. The bulk of this is
present in the subroutine check_signals() defined in traps.s. This
function is called on every timer tick and system call prior to
userspace return. The subroutine operates by pushing fake state
information onto the kernel's stack, then using it to return to
userspace. Prior to this, the subroutine pushes the return address
0xFFFFE000 onto the user's stack. This address corresponds to the
unmapped page located between the top of the user's stack (lower) and
the kernel's stack page (upper). When the user's signal handler tries to
return, it will cause a page fault that will be used as a notification
mechanism to inform the kernel that the signal handler is done. The
kernel will then switch to the originally pushed state information and
use it to return the task to the original execution state. Due to it's
nature, check_signals() must only be called prior to exiting the kernel
since it may not return.
Added the header file 'signal.h' which defines (most) of the POSIX
signals as well as the prototype for the signal() function.
Added the 'signal' element to the task structure. This field is a bitmap
of all currently pending signals.
Added the 'sig_handlers' element to the task structure. This is an array
of all user-defined signal handlers. Currently, a value of 0 indicates
the default handler should be used whilst any other value is considered
to be the address of a userspace signal handler. The ability to ignore a
signal is not yet present but will be added sometime soon.
Added the sys_signal system call to register a signal.
Added the stub function sighandler_default() to sched.c which handles
all signals not caught by the user.
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is produced. This may change later.
Added the new directory 'lib' to the source tree which build lib.a, an
archive containing common library routines for both the kernel and
userspace code to use.
Added the file string.c to the lib directory (as well as the appropriate
headers in /include) which provides some basic functions from the
standard C string library.
Added a physical memory manager which is now located in memory.c. This
memory manager tracks free pages from 1MB-8MB with a simple table and
allocates memory in blocks of 4KB pages. Multiple pages can be allocated
in which they are returned as a linked list.
Added a 'page window' in memory.c which allows the temporary mapping of
a single page at a time into the current address space.
Moved all paging routines that were previously located in page.s over to
memory.c where they have been re-implemented as a mixture of C and
inline assembly.
Moved the primative userspace routines from usrspace.s over to the new
sched.c. The only remaining routine, usrcall is now located in asm.s as
'switch_to' which takes two arguments, pointers to the task structure
and task state structure of the new task which is being switched to.
Pages for userspace are now allocated dynamically. The user binary is
loaded in at 1GB upwards. The user stack is located at the end of the
4GB address space with the lower 1GB being reserved for the kernel.
Updated the link.ld file for the userspace binary to include the new
starting address 0x40000000 (1GB).
Renamed the symbols for the user binary blob to make them shorter.
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