Due to a boolean mistake in smp_return_to_pool(), we didn't retry
pushing the message onto the freelist after a failed attempt.
This caused the message pool to eventually become completely empty
after enough contentious access attempts.
This patch also adds a pause hint to the CPU in the failed attempt
code path.
To add a new per-CPU data structure, add an ID for it to the
ProcessorSpecificDataID enum.
Then call ProcessorSpecific<T>::initialize() when you are ready to
construct the per-CPU data structure on the current CPU. It can then
be accessed via ProcessorSpecific<T>::get().
This patch replaces the existing hard-coded mechanisms for Scheduler
and MemoryManager per-CPU data structure.
The non CPU specific code of the kernel shouldn't need to deal with
architecture specific registers, and should instead deal with an
abstract view of the machine. This allows us to remove a variety of
architecture specific ifdefs and helps keep the code slightly more
portable.
We do this by exposing the abstract representation of instruction
pointer, stack pointer, base pointer, return register, etc on the
RegisterState struct.
This switches tracking CPU usage to more accurately measure time in
user and kernel land using either the TSC or another time source.
This will also come in handy when implementing a tickless kernel mode.
When retrieving and setting x86 MSRs two registers are required. The
existing setter and getter for the MSR class made this implementation
detail visible to the caller. This changes the setter and getter to
use u64 instead.
Right now we're using the FS segment for our per-CPU struct. On x86_64
there's an instruction to switch between a kernel and usermode GS
segment (swapgs) which we could use.
This patch doesn't update the rest of the code to use swapgs but it
prepares for that by using the GS segment instead of the FS segment.
Userland faulted on the very first instruction before because the
PML4T/PDPT/etc. weren't marked as user-accessible. For some reason
x86 doesn't care about that.
Also, we need to provide an appropriate userspace stack segment
selector to iretq.
This isn't particularly useful because by the time we've entered
init() the CPU had better support x86_64 anyway. However this shows the
CPU flag in System Monitor - even in 32-bit mode.
This adds just enough stubs to make the kernel compile on x86_64. Obviously
it won't do anything useful - in fact it won't even attempt to boot because
Multiboot doesn't support ELF64 binaries - but it gets those compiler errors
out of the way so more progress can be made getting all the missing
functionality in place.
