Created a new syscall, seL4_DebugSendIPI for ARM to send arbitrary SGIs
(software generated interrupts) to arbitrary cores. As SGIs are
specifically PPIs (private interrupts), this syscall effectively allows
to trigger PPIs on arbitrary cores, for debug/testing purposes.
Some platforms and configurations do not allow user code to change the
value of the register used for TLS. On these architectures a syscall can
be used to allow the kernel to update the register on their behalf.
This does not immediately update the value in the user context on many
configurations as the values are only stored in the user context on a
context switch.
Provides a syscall interface for reading and writing arbitrary MSR values. This is
being introduced as an alternative to the DebugRun, as the main purpose of debug run
is for modifying the performance monitoring events via read/write MSR.
- when CONFIG_DEBUG is enabled, track all threads
- when CONFIG_PRINTING is enabled, provide seL4_DebugDumpScheduler which
allows the user to dump the state of the kernel scheduler.
Previously the #ifdefs for some debug syscalls relied on definitions
from Makefile.flags in sel4_tools. This changes them to use configs
defined in autoconf.h which makes them easier to import when building
projects that don't use sel4_tools.
Given that the log buffer is now
(79291252a8) in user-level, the kernel doesn't have
to dump and send the size for users. Users have to take care of this.
Benchmark feature that currently:
- Keeps track of system calls info
- Start time
- Duration
- Capability type
- Invocation tag
- Log the number of invocations of each system call*
- Log the number of invocations for each capability type per syscall.
- Has 3 new syscalls (dump, reset, get size).
- This new feature uses the existing log buffer (which is 1MiB for x86
and ARM). Since the number of syscall invocations is not
deterministic, the logged number of invocations is limited by the size
of the buffer. I suggested to enable the users to pass their own
user-level buffer, to enable more flexibility, later.
- ENABLE_BENCHMARKS is now a parent config option of trace points and
system call track features, they can't be used at the same time.
This commit deprecates seL4_ReplyWait, removes seL4_NBwait completely,
and changes the return type of seL4_Wait to void (seL4_Wait should be
used for notification objects, and seL4_Recv should be used where
seL4_Wait was used previously for endpoints).
