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each structure has a TSS inside, as well as several descriptor entries
in the GDT pointing to each task's TSS. Task switching is performed in
hardware by means of far jumping to the new task's TSS descriptor in the
GDT. Task states are saved manually by copying the saved state from the
interrupt handler's stack, back into the task's TSS.
Added the function save_state() to sched.c which can be called from
assembly to copy the state information of the suspended task from the
current stack, to it's respective task structure. NOTE: this assumes
that the pointer cstate has been set ahead of time to point to the state
information on the stack, and that the pointer ctask has not yet been
modified.
Added the function reschedule() which is currently called from the
timer's tick handler. Currently, this function merely alternates between
the two tasks created in sched_init(), but in future, will be expanded
to decided independently which task will run next.
The function userspace_init() was renamed to the more appropriate
sched_init().
Moved most of the code from the original userspace_init() to the new
function create_proc() which sets up a virtual address space and state
information, copies the specified binary into the new address space,
then returns a pointer to the newly created tasks entry in the task
table.
Defined the type pid_t in unistd.h as a 16-bit unsigned integer.
Added two new debugging system calls for checking which task is
currently active. The getpid() system calls returns the caller's PID
whilst the getpdir() call returns the physical location of the caller's
page directory (the value of CR3). The getpdir() call can be used as a
fallback to determine which task is *actually* running if the
information in ctask or the getpid() call is faulty.
Added two new subroutines; set_tss() and clear_tss() (whose prototypes
are defined in asm/system.h) for managing the task-state descriptor
entries in the GDT. set_tss() initializes a TSS descriptor and sets it's
base pointer to the supplied TSS pointer whilst clear_tss() simply marks
a TSS descriptor as 'not present' without clearing it.
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vsprintf() function to render formatted strings and then the puts system
call to output them.
Moved the vsprintf() function from the kernel to the library.
Furthermore, the prototype for the function has been moved from the
kernel's headers, to the new header file stdio.h.
Renamed the kernel's internal printf() function to printk() in order to
avoid confusion with the library provided function.
Renamed the sys_print system call to the more appropriate name,
sys_puts.
Added a new system call sys_time, which returns the system's uptime in
seconds. This is mainly for testing the userspace binary and will not be
permanent.
Added the file time.c to the library which contains the caller for
sys_time and a helper routine sleep() which delays execution for the
specified number of seconds. The new header file time.h contains
prototypes for both these functions as well as the definition for the
type time_t.
Fixed a bug in which the value of EAX was not properly passed to the
system call handler, resulting in the wrong system call being executed.
This was caused by the code in the SAVE macro not properly preserving
the value.
Fixed a bug in which the value of EAX was not preserved during a return
from system call, but rather restored with the original EAX value prior
to the call. As a result, system call return codes were not properly
passed. This has been corrected by introducing a new macro RESTORE_SYS
which carries out the same restore operations, but maintains EAX prior
to the return.
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invoking the tool recursively.
Disabled GCC's position-independent-code generation in makefiles.
Modified makefile for kernel/usrbin so that it now compiles and links C
code into the userspace test.
Created errno.h and populated it with standard error definitions.
Replaced the va_list based system call handlers with a system call table
defined in the header kernel/sys.h. NOTE: This header is included in
kmain.c and should ONLY be included there! Do NOT include this header in
sys.c.
Rather than fetching the user's stack pointer and using it to initialize
a va_list, parameters are now passed to the call handlers via the
general purpose registers EAX, EBX, ECX and EDX where EAX contains the
requested call number and conveys the return value.
Setup macros in unistd.h to aid to making system calls from userspace.
Implemented two basic system calls; sys_print and sys_dummy. The former
takes a single char* argument and displays it on screen whilst the
latter is used to populate otherwise empty entries of the system call
table. sys_dummy returns the error ENOSYS whenever it is called.
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