Changes between Version 55 and Version 56 of boot_procedure


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Mar 2, 2019, 3:49:27 PM (5 years ago)
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    3636The TSAR boot_loader allocates - in each cluster containing a physical memory bank - six fixed size memory zones, to store various
    37 binary files or data structures. The two first zones are permanently allocated: The '''PRE_LOADER''' zone is only defined in cluster 0, and contains the pre-loader code. The '''KERNEL_CODE''' zone containing the ''kcode'' and ''kdata'' sgments is directly used by the kernel when the boot_loader transfers control - in each cluster - to the kernel_init procedure. The '''BOOT_CODE''', '''ARCH_INFO''', '''KERNEL_ELF''', and '''BOOT_STACK''' zones are temporary: they are only used - in each cluster - by the boot-loader code, and the corresponding physical memory can be freely used and re-allocated by the local kernel instance when it starts execution.
     37binary files or data structures. The two first zones are permanently allocated: The '''PRE_LOADER''' zone is only defined in cluster 0, and contains the pre-loader code. The '''KERNEL_CODE''' zone containing the ''kcode'' and ''kdata'' sgments is directly used by the kernel when the boot_loader transfers control - in each cluster - to the kernel_init procedure. The '''BOOT_CODE''', '''ARCH_INFO''', '''KERNEL_ELF''', and '''BOOT_STACK''' zones are temporary: they are only used - in each cluster - by the boot-loader code, and the corresponding physical memory can be freely re-allocated by the local kernel instance when it starts execution.
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    3939 || name                        || description                            ||  base address (physical)          || size                                                             ||
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    4747The values given in this array are indicative. The actual values are defined by configuration parameters in the ''boot_config.h'' file.
    4848The two main constraint are the following:
    49    * the ''kcode''  segment (in the KERNEL_CODE zone) must be entirely contained in one single big physical page (2 Mbytes), because it will be mapped as one single big page in all process virtual spaces.
    50    * the BOOT_CODE region (containing the boot loader instructions and data) must be entirely contained in the
    51 next big physical page, because it will be mapped in the boot-loader virtual space yo allow the cores to access locally the boot code as soon as it has been copied in the local cluster.
     49   * the ''kcode'' and ''kdata'' segments (in the KERNEL_CODE zone) must be entirely contained in one single big physical page (2 Mbytes), because it will be mapped as one single big page in all process virtual spaces.
     50   * the BOOT_CODE zone (containing the boot loader instructions and data) must be entirely contained in the
     51next big physical page, because it will be mapped in the boot-loader page table to allow the cores to access locally the boot code as soon as it has been copied in the local cluster.
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    5353A core is identified by  two indexes: '''cxy''' is the cluster identifier, an '''lid''' is the core local index in cluster.
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    5656All cores contribute to the boot procedure, but all cores are not simultaneously active:
    57  * in a first phase, only core[0][0] is running (core 0 in cluster 0).
    58  * In a second phase, only core[cxy][0] are running (one core per cluster).
    59  * in last phase, all core[cxy][lid] are running.
     57 * in the first phase - fully sequencial - only core[0][0] is running (core 0 in cluster 0).
     58 * In the second phase - partially parallel - only core[cxy][0] is running in each cluster.
     59 * in the last phase - fully parallel - all core[cxy][lid] are running.
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    6161We describe below the four phases of the TSAR boot-loader:
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    6363=== B1. Pre-loader phase ===
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    65  * In the TSAR_LETI architecture, the preloader is loaded in the first 16 kbytes of the physical address space in cluster 0.
     65 * In the TSAR_LETI architecture, the pre-loader code is stored in the first 16 kbytes of the physical address space in cluster 0.
    6666 * In the TSAR_IOB architecture, the preloader is stored in an external ROM, that is accessed throug the IO_bridge located in cluster 0.
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    6969Therefore, all cores can only access the physical address space of cluster 0.
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    71 All cores execute the same preloader code (stored in cluster 0, but the work done depends on the core identifier:
     71All cores execute the same pre-loader code, but the work done depends on the core identifier:
    7272   * The core[0][0] load in the BOOT_CODE zone of cluster 0, the boot-loader code stored on disk.
    7373   * All other cores do only one task before going to sleep (i.e. low-power state): each core activates its private WTI channel in the local ICU (Interrupt Controller Unit) to be later activated by an IPI (Inter Processor Interrupt). 
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    7777In this phase, only core [0][0] is running, while all other cores are blocked in the preloaded, waiting to be activated by an IPI.
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    79 The first instructions of the boot-loader are defined in the ''boot_entry.S'' file. This assembly code is executed by all cores entering the boot loader, but not at the same time.
     79The first instructions of the boot-loader are defined in the ''boot_entry.S'' file. This assembly code is executed by all cores entering the boot-loader, but not at the same time.
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    8181Each core running this code makes the 3 following actions: