RE: Physical memory allocation to L4linux

2014-09-10 Thread Masti Ramya Jayaram
Hey Adam, thanks a lot for the replies. I still have a few questions/clarifications though. :-) a. Is there a way to implement the MODE=sigma for linux? I could not find anything that points to it. b. Now if I were to tweak the page fault handler in sigma, then does that imply that even a

RE: Aborted L4linux due to CLI/STI

2014-09-10 Thread Masti Ramya Jayaram
hi, a. Ok I will re-enable the cmpxchg8b. b. I am not sure about the changes and since it occurs quite rarely, I am not sure if it is a case of not cleaning up interrupts properly after a crash. I will live with them for now and get back to this once the other issues are sorted out. thanks,

Re: l4/sys/syscalls.h: No such file or directory

2014-09-10 Thread Valentin Hauner
Hi, On 09/08/2014 12:17 AM, Adam Lackorzynski wrote: Your threads page-fault all around. The reason is that I was slightly wrong with my last statement on paging. The pager of the parent task resolves the page-fault however just maps the memory locally to the parent task, so the memory never

Using IO-Server

2014-09-10 Thread Korbinian Ederer
Hello Community, I'm relative new to l4RE. My Goal is to get access to an Hardware Device which is Build in the Processor. After some research i came to the conclusion that the IO-Server is the thing I need, but i have no clue how to invoke it. It would be great if someone could supply a short

Re: Using IO-Server

2014-09-10 Thread Martin Schröder
Hi Korbinian, Am 10.09.2014 um 14:24 schrieb Korbinian Ederer: Hello Community, I'm relative new to l4RE. My Goal is to get access to an Hardware Device which is Build in the Processor. After some research i came to the conclusion that the IO-Server is the thing I need, but i have no clue how

RE: Physical memory allocation to L4linux

2014-09-10 Thread Masti Ramya Jayaram
Update: Sorry, I misunderstood a few things in the previous email. The change was in fiasco and not sigma and therefore, in theory, no user space process should have access to the protected region. This also implies that sigma0 will not have access if I understand correctly which is rather

Does Fiasco have yield system call or something similar

2014-09-10 Thread Yuxin Ren
Hi All, Does Fiasco support yield system call? Or other mechanism one thread can switch to another one without IPC? Thank you very much. Yuxin ___ l4-hackers mailing list l4-hackers@os.inf.tu-dresden.de

Re: Does Fiasco have yield system call or something similar

2014-09-10 Thread Björn Döbel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10.09.2014 20:06, Yuxin Ren wrote: Hi All, Does Fiasco support yield system call? Or other mechanism one thread can switch to another one without IPC? $ cd src/l4/pkg $ find . -name \*.h | xargs grep l4.\*yield [..]

Re: l4/sys/syscalls.h: No such file or directory

2014-09-10 Thread Björn Döbel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10.09.2014 11:32, Valentin Hauner wrote: Hi, On 09/08/2014 12:17 AM, Adam Lackorzynski wrote: Your threads page-fault all around. The reason is that I was slightly wrong with my last statement on paging. The pager of the parent task