syntax ". += length;" not work with arcmwdt toolchain, let's using
". = . + length;", which both work with gnu and arcmwdt toolchain.
Signed-off-by: Watson Zeng <zhiwei@synopsys.com>
Due to the use of gperf to generate hash table for kobjects,
the addresses of these kobjects cannot change during the last
few phases of linking (especially between zephyr_prebuilt.elf
and zephyr.elf). Because of this, the gperf generated data
needs to be placed at the end of memory to avoid pushing symbols
around in memory. This prevents moving these generated blocks
to earlier sections, for example, pinned data section needed
for demand paging. So create placeholders for use in
intermediate linking to reserve space for these generated blocks.
Due to uncertainty on the size of these blocks, more space is
being reserved which could result in wasted space. Though, this
retains the use of hash table for faster lookup.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Leung <daniel.leung@intel.com>
All system calls made from userspace which involve pointers to kernel
objects (including device drivers) will need to have those pointers
validated; userspace should never be able to crash the kernel by passing
it garbage.
The actual validation with _k_object_validate() will be in the system
call receiver code, which doesn't exist yet.
- CONFIG_USERSPACE introduced. We are somewhat far away from having an
end-to-end implementation, but at least need a Kconfig symbol to
guard the incoming code with. Formal documentation doesn't exist yet
either, but will appear later down the road once the implementation is
mostly finalized.
- In the memory region for RAM, the data section has been moved last,
past bss and noinit. This ensures that inserting generated tables
with addresses of kernel objects does not change the addresses of
those objects (which would make the table invalid)
- The DWARF debug information in the generated ELF binary is parsed to
fetch the locations of all kernel objects and pass this to gperf to
create a perfect hash table of their memory addresses.
- The generated gperf code doesn't know that we are exclusively working
with memory addresses and uses memory inefficently. A post-processing
script process_gperf.py adjusts the generated code before it is
compiled to work with pointer values directly and not strings
containing them.
- _k_object_init() calls inserted into the init functions for the set of
kernel object types we are going to support so far
Issue: ZEP-2187
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
Watson Zeng