is the physical memory size so may be larger than a u_long can hold, e.g.
on ARM with LPAE we could see an address space of up to 40 bits. On ARM
u_long is only 32 bits so the memory size will be truncated, possibly to
zero.
Reported by: bz
Sponsored by: ABT Systems Ltd
Use u_long instead of uint32_t variables to avoid overflow
in case of PA space bigger than 32-bit.
Obtained from: Semihalf
Submitted by: Michal Stanek <mst@semihalf.com>
Sponsored by: Annapurna Labs
Approved by: cognet (mentor)
Reviewed by: andrew, br, wma
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5393
providing compiled-in static environment data that is used instead of any
data passed in from a boot loader.
Previously 'env' worked only on i386 and arm xscale systems, because it
required the MD startup code to examine the global envmode variable and
decide whether to use static_env or an environment obtained from the boot
loader, and set the global kern_envp accordingly. Most startup code wasn't
doing so. Making things even more complex, some mips startup code uses an
alternate scheme that involves calling init_static_kenv() to pass an empty
buffer and its size, then uses a series of kern_setenv() calls to populate
that buffer.
Now all MD startup code calls init_static_kenv(), and that routine provides
a single point where envmode is checked and the decision is made whether to
use the compiled-in static_kenv or the values provided by the MD code.
The routine also continues to serve its original purpose for mips; if a
non-zero buffer size is passed the routine installs the empty buffer ready
to accept kern_setenv() values. Now if the size is zero, the provided buffer
full of existing env data is installed. A NULL pointer can be passed if the
boot loader provides no env data; this allows the static env to be installed
if envmode is set to do so.
Most of the work here is a near-mechanical change to call the init function
instead of directly setting kern_envp. A notable exception is in xen/pv.c;
that code was originally installing a buffer full of preformatted env data
along with its non-zero size (like mips code does), which would have allowed
kern_setenv() calls to wipe out the preformatted data. Now it passes a zero
for the size so that the buffer of data it installs is treated as
non-writeable.
Add a check to preload_search_info to make sure mod is set. Most of the
callers of preload_search_info don't check that the mod parameter is
set, which can cause page faults. While at it, remove some now unnecessary
checks before calling preload_search_info.
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3440
platforms which do not use loaders or kernels that want to hardcode
options or for FDT passed in by loader.
Also fix a build issue by putting the kmdp variable accessed back under
the #ifdef FDT; we may wish to revisit decision in which case more
code needs changing.
Submitted by: brooks
commit 003649d962
Author: Robert N. M. Watson <robert.watson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Wed Feb 5 18:32:09 2014 +0000
Teach the FreeBSD/beri boot to "auto-detect" whether argument 4 (a3) is a
memory size of pointer to a struct bootinfo * by looking at its value and
seeing whether it is pointer-like. If a pointer, assume it's a bootinfo
and extract memsize from it instead; otherwise, use it as memsize directly.
This allows kernels to support bootinfo being passed by loader (and boot2)
while still supporting older Miniboot setups.
commit f7045af9a1
Author: Robert N. M. Watson <robert.watson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Thu Feb 6 13:45:34 2014 +0000
When the module metadata pointer is available from loader, use it in the
kernel.
commit 52e0e1ff2c
Author: Robert N. M. Watson <robert.watson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Thu Feb 6 19:57:48 2014 +0000
In the BERI kernel boot code, extract 'boothowto' (which includes boot flags
such as '-s') and 'envp' from passed module data. Booting to single-user
mode using boot flags now works.
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
boot/mips/beri/loader/metadata.c allow FDT configuration to set
command line options.
This leads to an interesting quesiton of future interactions with loader.
However for configurations without loader this allows bootverbose or boot
single user to be set by compiling a new kernel, which is good enough for
testing and debugging.
Reviewed by: rwatson
MFC after: 1 week
Change 227630 by bz@bz_zenith on 2013/04/12 08:50:27
Implement soft reset setting sr in sr and just in case loop
endlessly afterwards.
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: DARPA/AFRL
Add code so that the BERI boot process can ask the kernel linker for
DTB blobs that may have been left for it by the boot loader, as done
on PowerPC and ARM. This will require both a more mature boot
loader, and more mature boot loader argument passing mechanism,
than currently supported on BERI.
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Initialise Openfirmware/FDT code earlier in the FreeBSD/beri boot,
so that the results will be available for configuring the console
UART (eventually).
Suggested by: thompsa
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
FDT headers can't be included if the kernel is compiled without
FDT support, due to dependence on generated kobj headers. BERI
supports both FDT and non-FDT kernels.
Spotted by: bz
Bluespec Extensible RISC Implementation (BERI) processor. BERI is a 64-bit
MIPS ISA soft CPU core that can be synthesised to Altera and Xilinx FPGAs,
and is being used for CPU and OS research at several institutions.
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
