source: trunk/hal/generic/hal_uspace.h @ 16

Last change on this file since 16 was 16, checked in by alain, 7 years ago

mprove the HAL for interrupt, exception, syscall handling.

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1/*
2 * hal_uspace.h - Generic User Space Access API definition
3 *
4 * Authors   Mohamed Karaoui  (2015)
5 *           Alain Greiner    (2016)
6 *
7 * Copyright (c)  UPMC Sorbonne Universites
8 *
9 * This file is part of ALMOS-MKH.
10 *
11 * ALMOS-MKH is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
12 * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
13 * the Free Software Foundation; version 2.0 of the License.
14 *
15 * ALMOS-MKH is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
16 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
17 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
18 * General Public License for more details.
19 *
20 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
21 * along with ALMOS-MKH; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
22 * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
23 */
24
25#ifndef  _HAL_USPACE_H_
26#define  _HAL_USPACE_H_
27
28#include <hal_types.h>
29
30//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
31//           User space access API (implementation in hal_uspace.c)
32//
33// When moving data between user space and kernel space, the user address is always
34// a virtual address, but the kernel address can be a physical address, on some
35// architectures. Therefore, data transfers must use the following API.
36//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
37
38
39/*****************************************************************************************
40 * This function tranfers a data buffer from the user space to the kernel space.
41 * As the kernel is using physical addresses on the TSAR architecture, it activates
42 * the MMU to access the user buffer.
43 *****************************************************************************************
44 * @ k_dst     : destination address in kernel space.
45 * @ u_src     : source buffer address in user space.
46 * @ size      : size (number of bytes).
47 ****************************************************************************************/
48extern void hal_copy_from_uspace( void     * k_dst,
49                                  void     * u_src,
50                                  uint32_t   size );
51
52/*****************************************************************************************
53 * This function tranfers a data buffer from the kernel space to the user space.
54 * As the kernel is using physical addresses on the TSAR architecture, it activates
55 * the MMU to access the user buffer.
56 *****************************************************************************************
57 * @ u_dst     : destination buffer address and size in user space.
58 * @ k_src     : source address in kernel space.
59 * @ size      : size (number of bytes).
60 ****************************************************************************************/
61extern void hal_copy_to_uspace( void     * udst,
62                                void     * ksrc,
63                                uint32_t   size );
64
65/*****************************************************************************************
66 * This function activates the MMU to computes the length of a string in user space,
67 * and returns it to a kernel buffer.
68 *****************************************************************************************
69 * @ u_str     : string address in user space.
70 * @ return length of the string.
71 ****************************************************************************************/
72uint32_t hal_strlen_from_uspace( char     * string );
73
74
75#endif  /* _HAL_USPACE_H_ */
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