The gp register is intended to used by the linker as another means of
performing relaxations, and should point to the small data section (.sdata).
Currently gp is being used as the pcpu pointer within the kernel, but the more
appropriate choice for this is the tp register, which is unused.
Swap existing usage of gp with tp within the kernel, and set up gp properly
at boot with the value of __global_pointer$ for all harts.
Additionally, remove some cases of accessing tp from the PCB, as it is not
part of the per-thread state. The user's tp and gp should be tracked only
through the trapframe.
Reviewed by: markj, jhb
Approved by: markj (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19893
After our migration (of certain architectures) to lld the kernel is built
with a unique build-ID. Make it available via a sysctl and uname(1) to
allow the user to identify their running kernel.
Submitted by: Ali Mashtizadeh <ali_mashtizadeh.com>
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: Yes
Event: Waterloo Hackathon 2019
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20326
Ensure __bss_start is associated with the next section
in case orphan sections are placed directly after .sdata,
as has been seen to happen with LLD.
Submitted by: "J.R.T. Clarke" <jrtc4@cam.ac.uk>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18429
Machine privilege level was specially designed to use in vendor's
firmware or bootloader. We have implemented operation in machine
mode in FreeBSD as part of understanding RISC-V ISA, but it is time
to remove it.
We now use BBL (Berkeley Boot Loader) -- standard RISC-V firmware,
which provides operation in machine mode for us.
We now use standard SBI calls to machine mode, instead of handmade
'syscalls'.
o Remove HTIF bus.
HTIF bus is now legacy and no longer exists in RISC-V specification.
HTIF code still exists in Spike simulator, but BBL do not provide
raw interface to it.
Memory disk is only choice for now to have multiuser booted in Spike,
until Spike has implemented more devices (e.g. Virtio, etc).
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Sponsored by: HEIF5
The linker script CONSTRUCTORS keyword is only meaningful "when linking
object file formats which do not support arbitrary sections, such as
ECOFF and XCOFF"[1] and is ignored for other object file formats.
LLVM's lld does not yet accept (and ignore) CONSTRUCTORS, so just remove
CONSTRUCTORS from the linker scripts as it has no effect.
[1] https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Output-Section-Keywords.html
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7343
This is the final step required allowing to compile and to run RISC-V
kernel and userland from HEAD.
RISC-V is a completely open ISA that is freely available to academia
and industry.
Thanks to all the people involved! Special thanks to Andrew Turner,
David Chisnall, Ed Maste, Konstantin Belousov, John Baldwin and
Arun Thomas for their help.
Thanks to Robert Watson for organizing this project.
This project sponsored by UK Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF5) and
DARPA CTSRD project at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
FreeBSD/RISC-V project home: https://wiki.freebsd.org/riscv
Reviewed by: andrew, emaste, kib
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Sponsored by: HEIF5
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4982
