A red-black tree is maintained containing the metadata for all
dynamically created kernel objects, which are allocated out of the
system heap.
Currently, k_object_alloc() and k_object_free() are supervisor-only.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
This patch does several things, most notably it changes the semantics
of CONFIG_DEBUG. CONFIG_DEBUG continues to behave as a vaguely defined
"debug mode" that enables printf's, -Og, etc. but now the user may
choose to be in "debug mode" while using a different optimization
level than -Og.
Tp support this a new config is defined to enable -Og;
CONFIG_DEBUG_OPTIMIZATIONS.
Additionally CONFIG_SIZE_OPTIMIZATIONS is introduced to allow the user
to explicitly request optimizing for size instead of relying on
defaulting to it.
The three config's {NO,SIZE,DEBUG}_OPTIMIZATIONS are now organized in
a Kconfig choice to ensure that at most one can be enabled at a time.
Finally, selected users of CONFIG_DEBUG have been ported to use one of
the optimizations configs when it was clear from usage that the
intention was to behave differently when using a different
optimization level and not when in "debug mode".
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Bøe <sebastian.boe@nordicsemi.no>
We need to track permission on stack memory regions like we do
with other kernel objects. We want stacks to live in a memory
area that is outside the scope of memory domain permission
management. We need to be able track what stacks are in use,
and what stacks may be used by user threads trying to call
k_thread_create().
Some special handling is needed because thread stacks appear as
variously-sized arrays of struct _k_thread_stack_element which is
just a char. We need the entire array to be considered an object,
but also properly handle arrays of stacks.
Validation of stacks also requires that the bounds of the stack
are not exceeded. Various approaches were considered. Storing
the size in some header region of the stack itself would not allow
the stack to live in 'noinit'. Having a stack object be a data
structure that points to the stack buffer would confound our
current APIs for declaring stacks as arrays or struct members.
In the end, the struct _k_object was extended to store this size.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
By default, threads are created only having access to their own thread
object and nothing else. This new flag to k_thread_create() gives the
thread access to all objects that the parent had at the time it was
created, with the exception of the parent thread itself.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@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>
Andrew Boie