This fixes operation in QEMU and saves some booting time as well.
Pointed out by: Sagar Karandikar <skarandikar@berkeley.edu>
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Sponsored by: HEIF5
gp (global pointer) is used by compiler in userland only,
so re-use it for pcpup in kernel, save it on stack on switching
out to userland and load back on return to kernel.
Discussed with: jhb, andrew, kib
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Sponsored by: HEIF5
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5178
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
