Changes between Version 25 and Version 26 of boot_procedure


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May 3, 2017, 6:57:47 PM (7 years ago)
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alain
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    5252Le chargement d'ALMOS-MK sur l'architecture TSAR se fait donc en 4 phases:
    5353A core is identified by  two indexes[cxy][lid] : ''cxy'' is the cluster identifier, an ''lid'' is the core local index in cluster cxy.
    54  In all clusters, the core with local index 0 is called ''CP0''.
     54In all clusters, the core with local index 0 is called ''CP0''.
    5555
    5656=== B1. Preloader phase ===
     
    118118
    119119== D) Generic kernel initialization procedure
     120
     121The kernel_init( boot_info_t * info ) function is the kernel entry point when the boot_loader transfer control to kernel.
     122The ''info'' argument is a pointer on the fixed size boot_info_t structure, that is stored in the data kernel segment.
     123
     124All cores execute this procedure in parallel, but some tasks are only executed by the CP0 core.
     125This procedure uses two synchronisation barriers, defined as global variables in the data segment:
     126 * the global_barrier variable is used to synchronize all CP0 cores in all clusters containing a kernel instance.
     127 * the local_barrier variable is used to synchronize all cores in a given cluster.
     128
     129The kernel initialization procedure execute sequentially the following steps:
     130
     131=== D1) Core and cluster identification ===
     132
     133Each core has an unique hardware identifier, called '''gid''', that is hard-wired in a read-only register.
     134From the kernel point of view a core is identified by a composite index (cxy,lid), where '''cxy''' is the cluster identifier, and ''lid'' is a local (continuous) index in the cluster. The association between the gid hardware index and the (cxy,lid) composite index is defined in the boot_info_t structure.
     135In this first step, each core makes an associative search in the boot_info_t structure to obtain the ('''cxy,lid''') indexes from the '''gid''' index.
     136Then the CP0 initialize the global variable '''local_cxy''' defining the local cluster identifier.
     137
     138=== D2) TXT0 device initialization ===
     139
     140The core[io_cxy][0] (i.e. CP0 in I/O cluster) initializes the chdev descriptor associated to the kernel text terminal TXT0. This terminal is used by any kernel instance running on any core to display log or debug messages.  This terminal is configured in ''non-descheduling'' mode :
     141the calling thread call directly the relevant TXT driver, without using a server thread.
     142
     143A first synchonization barrier is used to avoid other cores to use the TXT0 terminal before initialization completion.
     144
     145=== D3) Cluster manager Initialization ===
     146
     147In Each cluster the CP0 makes the cluster manager initialization, namely the cores descriptors array, and the physical memory allocators.
     148Then it initializes the local process_zero, containing al kernel threads in a given cluster.
     149
     150A second synchonization barrier is used to avoid other cores to access cluster manager before initialization completion.
     151
     152=== D4) Internal & external devices Initialization ===
     153
     154In each cluster, the CP0 makes the devices initialization. For multi-channels devices, there is one channel device (called chdev_t) per channel.
     155For internal (replicated) devices, the khedive descriptors are allocated in the local cluster. For external (shared) devices, the chdev descriptors are regularly distributed on all clusters. These external chdev are indexed by a global index, and the host cluster is computed from this
     156index by a modulo.
     157
     158The internal devices descriptors are created first( ICU, then MMC, then DMA ), because the ICU device is used by all other devices.
     159Then the WTI mailboxes used for IPIs (Inter Processor Interrupt) are allocated in local ICU : one WTI mailbox per core.
     160Then each external chdev descriptor is created by the CP0 in the cluster where it must be created.
     161
     162A third synchonization barrier is used to avoid other cores to access devices before initialization completion. 
     163
     164=== D5) Idle thread Initialization ===
     165
     166In this step, each core creates and initializes, its private idle thread.
     167
     168=== D6) File system initialization ===
     169
     170The CP0 in I/O cluster) initializes the file system.
     171
     172A fourth synchonization barrier is used to avoid other cores to access file system before initialization completion. 
     173
     174=== D7) Scheduler activation ===
     175
     176Finally, each core enables its private timer IRQ to activate its private scheduler, and jump to the idle thread code.
     177