History log of /haiku/headers/private/system/arch/x86_64/arch_commpage_defs.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# f2f91078 06-Sep-2014 Paweł Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>

kernel/x86_64: remove memset and memcpy from commpage

There is absolutely no reason for these functions to be in commpage,
they don't do anything that involves the kernel in any way.

Additionaly, this patch rewrites memset and memcpy to C++, current
implementation is quite simple (though it may perform surprisingly
well when dealing with large buffers on cpus with ermsb). Better
versions are coming soon.

Signed-off-by: Paweł Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>


# e85e399f 17-Mar-2013 Pawel Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>

commpage: randomize position of commpage

This patch introduces randomization of commpage position. From now on commpage
table contains offsets from begining to of the commpage to the particular
commpage entry. Similary addresses of symbols in ELF memory image "commpage"
are just offsets from the begining of the commpage.

This patch also updates KDL so that commpage entries are recognized and shown
correctly in stack trace. An update of Debugger is yet to be done.


# 211f7132 06-Mar-2013 Pawel Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>

x86: move x86_userspace_thread_exit() from user stack to commpage

x86_userspace_thread_exit() is a stub originally placed at the bottom of
each thread user stack that ensures any thread invokes exit_thread() upon
returning from its main higher level function.

Putting anything that is expected to be executed on a stack causes problems
when implementing data execution prevention. Code of x86_userspace_thread_exit()
is now moved to commpage which seems to be much more appropriate place for it.


# c0d28c01 30-Jul-2012 Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>

Implemented signals for x86_64.


# 59ae45c1 21-Jul-2012 Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>

Fixed commpage for x86_64.

Since the commpage is at a kernel address, changed 64-bit paging code
to match x86's behaviour of allowing user-accessible mappings to be
created in the kernel portion of the address space. This is also
required by some drivers.


# f76bc433 13-Jun-2012 Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>

Added some x86_64 system/kernel headers and kernel Jamfiles.

* Not all of these headers are correct yet, just adding what's necessary
to get things to compile for the time being.


# f2f91078bdfb4cc008c2f87af2bcc4aedec85cbc 06-Sep-2014 Paweł Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>

kernel/x86_64: remove memset and memcpy from commpage

There is absolutely no reason for these functions to be in commpage,
they don't do anything that involves the kernel in any way.

Additionaly, this patch rewrites memset and memcpy to C++, current
implementation is quite simple (though it may perform surprisingly
well when dealing with large buffers on cpus with ermsb). Better
versions are coming soon.

Signed-off-by: Paweł Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>


# e85e399fd7b229b8bc92f28928a059876d7216d3 17-Mar-2013 Pawel Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>

commpage: randomize position of commpage

This patch introduces randomization of commpage position. From now on commpage
table contains offsets from begining to of the commpage to the particular
commpage entry. Similary addresses of symbols in ELF memory image "commpage"
are just offsets from the begining of the commpage.

This patch also updates KDL so that commpage entries are recognized and shown
correctly in stack trace. An update of Debugger is yet to be done.


# 211f71325a1c2c1f3c7d0efabe01506144fcd6ba 06-Mar-2013 Pawel Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>

x86: move x86_userspace_thread_exit() from user stack to commpage

x86_userspace_thread_exit() is a stub originally placed at the bottom of
each thread user stack that ensures any thread invokes exit_thread() upon
returning from its main higher level function.

Putting anything that is expected to be executed on a stack causes problems
when implementing data execution prevention. Code of x86_userspace_thread_exit()
is now moved to commpage which seems to be much more appropriate place for it.


# c0d28c01990d8815dddc645177f44b9ce361d186 30-Jul-2012 Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>

Implemented signals for x86_64.


# 59ae45c1ab32476f1fa428dae22989f8387a1f9e 21-Jul-2012 Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>

Fixed commpage for x86_64.

Since the commpage is at a kernel address, changed 64-bit paging code
to match x86's behaviour of allowing user-accessible mappings to be
created in the kernel portion of the address space. This is also
required by some drivers.


# f76bc433e1582f4f5424cd5c95613cb247e15a98 13-Jun-2012 Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>

Added some x86_64 system/kernel headers and kernel Jamfiles.

* Not all of these headers are correct yet, just adding what's necessary
to get things to compile for the time being.