This commit refactors kernel and arch headers to establish a boundary
between private and public interface headers.
The refactoring strategy used in this commit is detailed in the issue
This commit introduces the following major changes:
1. Establish a clear boundary between private and public headers by
removing "kernel/include" and "arch/*/include" from the global
include paths. Ideally, only kernel/ and arch/*/ source files should
reference the headers in these directories. If these headers must be
used by a component, these include paths shall be manually added to
the CMakeLists.txt file of the component. This is intended to
discourage applications from including private kernel and arch
headers either knowingly and unknowingly.
- kernel/include/ (PRIVATE)
This directory contains the private headers that provide private
kernel definitions which should not be visible outside the kernel
and arch source code. All public kernel definitions must be added
to an appropriate header located under include/.
- arch/*/include/ (PRIVATE)
This directory contains the private headers that provide private
architecture-specific definitions which should not be visible
outside the arch and kernel source code. All public architecture-
specific definitions must be added to an appropriate header located
under include/arch/*/.
- include/ AND include/sys/ (PUBLIC)
This directory contains the public headers that provide public
kernel definitions which can be referenced by both kernel and
application code.
- include/arch/*/ (PUBLIC)
This directory contains the public headers that provide public
architecture-specific definitions which can be referenced by both
kernel and application code.
2. Split arch_interface.h into "kernel-to-arch interface" and "public
arch interface" divisions.
- kernel/include/kernel_arch_interface.h
* provides private "kernel-to-arch interface" definition.
* includes arch/*/include/kernel_arch_func.h to ensure that the
interface function implementations are always available.
* includes sys/arch_interface.h so that public arch interface
definitions are automatically included when including this file.
- arch/*/include/kernel_arch_func.h
* provides architecture-specific "kernel-to-arch interface"
implementation.
* only the functions that will be used in kernel and arch source
files are defined here.
- include/sys/arch_interface.h
* provides "public arch interface" definition.
* includes include/arch/arch_inlines.h to ensure that the
architecture-specific public inline interface function
implementations are always available.
- include/arch/arch_inlines.h
* includes architecture-specific arch_inlines.h in
include/arch/*/arch_inline.h.
- include/arch/*/arch_inline.h
* provides architecture-specific "public arch interface" inline
function implementation.
* supersedes include/sys/arch_inline.h.
3. Refactor kernel and the existing architecture implementations.
- Remove circular dependency of kernel and arch headers. The
following general rules should be observed:
* Never include any private headers from public headers
* Never include kernel_internal.h in kernel_arch_data.h
* Always include kernel_arch_data.h from kernel_arch_func.h
* Never include kernel.h from kernel_struct.h either directly or
indirectly. Only add the kernel structures that must be referenced
from public arch headers in this file.
- Relocate syscall_handler.h to include/ so it can be used in the
public code. This is necessary because many user-mode public codes
reference the functions defined in this header.
- Relocate kernel_arch_thread.h to include/arch/*/thread.h. This is
necessary to provide architecture-specific thread definition for
'struct k_thread' in kernel.h.
- Remove any private header dependencies from public headers using
the following methods:
* If dependency is not required, simply omit
* If dependency is required,
- Relocate a portion of the required dependencies from the
private header to an appropriate public header OR
- Relocate the required private header to make it public.
This commit supersedes #20047, addresses #19666, and fixes#3056.
Signed-off-by: Stephanos Ioannidis <root@stephanos.io>
Only a single bit of the 4-byte internal (thread.arch) status
variable 'mode' is currently used, when we build with User mode
support (CONFIG_USERSPACE=y). In this commit we extend the usage
of 'mode' variable, adding an additional bit-flag to track the
status of the floating point context in a particular thread,
i.e. to track whether FP context is active or not. The status
bit is meant to be used in context-switch, to restore the FP
register context when required.
Signed-off-by: Ioannis Glaropoulos <Ioannis.Glaropoulos@nordicsemi.no>
Under Unshared FP register mode we are not sharing the
FP context among different threads, so we do not need to
include the FP high registers bank in the thread.arch
container.
Signed-off-by: Ioannis Glaropoulos <Ioannis.Glaropoulos@nordicsemi.no>
The struct _caller_saved is not used. Most architectures put
automatically the registers onto stack, in others architectures the
exception code does it.
Signed-off-by: Flavio Ceolin <flavio.ceolin@intel.com>
This commit removes the priv_stack_size field from the _thread_arch
on arm architecture as there is no code using value stored in this
variable.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Zięcik <piotr.ziecik@nordicsemi.no>
Avoid nested C++ comments inside the C comment block due to MISRA-C
rule 3.1. Keep the variables documenting possible caller saved
registers.
Signed-off-by: Patrik Flykt <patrik.flykt@intel.com>
Any word started with underscore followed by and uppercase letter or a
second underscore is a reserved word according with C99.
Signed-off-by: Flavio Ceolin <flavio.ceolin@intel.com>
This patch adds support for userspace on ARM architectures. Arch
specific calls for transitioning threads to user mode, system calls,
and associated handlers.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gross <andy.gross@linaro.org>
Historically, space for struct k_thread was always carved out of the
thread's stack region. However, we want more control on where this data
will reside; in memory protection scenarios the stack may only be used
for actual stack data and nothing else.
On some platforms (particularly ARM), including kernel_arch_data.h from
the toplevel kernel.h exposes intractable circular dependency issues.
We create a new per-arch header "kernel_arch_thread.h" with very limited
scope; it only defines the three data structures necessary to instantiate
the arch-specific bits of a struct k_thread.
Change-Id: I3a55b4ed4270512e58cf671f327bb033ad7f4a4f
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
