communicate the kernel's physical load address from where it's known in
initarm() into cpu_mp_start() which is called from non-arm code and
takes no parameters.
This adds the global variable and ensures that all the various copies
of initarm() set it. It uses the variable in cpu_mp_start(), eliminating
the last uses of KERNPHYSADDR outside of locore.S (where we can now
calculate it instead of relying on the constant).
a new physmem.c file. The new code provides helper routines that can be
used by legacy SoCs and newer FDT-based systems. There are routines to
add one or more regions of physically contiguous ram, and exclude one or
more physically contiguous regions of ram. Ram can be excluded from crash
dumps, from being given over to the vm system for allocation management,
or both. After all the included and excluded regions have been added,
arm_physmem_init_kernel_globals() processes the regions into the global
dump_avail and phys_avail arrays and realmem and physmem variables that
communicate memory configuration to the rest of the kernel.
Convert all existing SoCs to use the new helper code.
This was an optimization used only by a few xscale platforms. Part of
the optimization was to create a direct map for all physical pages, and
that resulted in making multiple mappings of pages in a way that bypassed
the logic in pmap.c to handle VIVT cache aliasing. It also just generally
made the code more complex and hard to maintain for all SoCs.
Reviewed by: cognet
new devmap.[ch] files. Emphasize the MD nature of these things by using
the prefix arm_devmap_ on the function and type names (already a few of
these things found their way into MI code, hopefully it will be harder to
do by accident in the future).
On single core devices set_stackptrs is only ever called with cpu = 0 in
initarm and will be identical to the existing function. On SMP this needs
to be implemented for sys/arm/mp_machdep.c, but the implementations are
identical for each SoC.
Cummulative patch of changes that are not vendor-specific:
- ARMv6 and ARMv7 architecture support
- ARM SMP support
- VFP/Neon support
- ARM Generic Interrupt Controller driver
- Simplification of startup code for all platforms
FDT-enabled targets were broken after r238043 that relies
on device up the hierarchy to properly setup interrupt.
nexus device for ARM platforms did job only partially:
setting handler but not unmasking interrupt. Unmasking
was performed by platform code.
Reviewed by: andrew@
structure with the first 4 registers to allow a wider range of boot
loaders to work. Future commits will make use of this to centralize
support for the different loaders.
used in the code which needs to implement some specific
behaviour when being run under QEMU.
- Make PXA UART probe code to work under QEMU gumstix, which
doesn't emulate all the ports properly.
- Modules and kernel code alike may use DPCPU_DEFINE(),
DPCPU_GET(), DPCPU_SET(), etc. akin to the statically defined
PCPU_*. Requires only one extra instruction more than PCPU_* and is
virtually the same as __thread for builtin and much faster for shared
objects. DPCPU variables can be initialized when defined.
- Modules are supported by relocating the module's per-cpu linker set
over space reserved in the kernel. Modules may fail to load if there
is insufficient space available.
- Track space available for modules with a one-off extent allocator.
Free may block for memory to allocate space for an extent.
Reviewed by: jhb, rwatson, kan, sam, grehan, marius, marcel, stas
the implementation can guarantee forward progress in the event of
a stuck interrupt or interrupt storm. This is especially critical
for fast interrupt handlers, as they can cause a hard hang in that
case. When first called, arm_get_next_irq() is passed -1.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
boards. This is enough to net-boot to multiuser.
Also supported is the SMSC LAN91C111 parts used on the netCF, netDUO and netMMC
add-on boards.
I'll be putting some instructions on how to boot this on the Gumstix boards
online soon.
This is still fairly rough and will be refined over time but I felt it was
better to get this out there where other people can help out.
