memory problems on Fiasco porting

[Adam Lackorzynski]

Hi,

On Wed Feb 11, 2009 at 21:44:55 +0800, Tsai, Tung-Chieh wrote:
>    I'm working on porting Fiasco to an ARM(922T) platform.

Great!

> Currently, I can get into kernel debugger, and successfully
>  leave the `Calibrating timer loop'. But then I stuck in
> Thread::init_workload, fail to create sigma0_thread. ARM
> processor would raise a data abort exception and then
> goto 0xffff0010.
> 
>   It seems failed because trying to load an illegal virtual
> address at 0xc0080004, which doing this at :

This is the first access to the TCB of the sigma0 thread and actually
what should happen in init_workload. The TCBs are pulled in on request.

>   I guess the problem maybe becuase some architecture
> porting part still has problem, or because the sigma0_task
> create for sigma0_thread setting wrong memory space,
> because I've some memory space setting incorrect.

The the data abort happens it should end up in the page fault handler
and further on make a page visible at 0xc0080000. Does this happen or
not?

> Honestly, I don't know where setting the virtual address
> translation for 0xd0000000 ~ 0xc0000000(_tcbs_1 to
> phys_offset), is this range use for each  thread's tcb ?

Yes, actually TCBs go from 0xc0000000 - 0xe0000000 usually.

>   And where can I get more information about Fiasco's
> memory layout? for example, what does Mem_layout::Tcbs
> and Mem_layout::User_max means? which range of memory
> is used for specific purpose, for example,  I/O device(seems
> is 0xef100000 ~ ) ?

There's the mem_layout-arm.cpp file which describes the generic layout.
The platform specific layout is described in kern/arm/bsp/foo/mem_layout...
User_max is the address there user virtual memory end and Tcbs is the
address there the TCBs start.

Adam
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