This patch extends the protection domain framework with a third plugin
that is a hybrid of the previous two. The hardware task switching
mechanism has a strictly-defined format for TSS data structures that
causes more space to be consumed than would otherwise be required.
This patch defines a smaller data structure that is allocated for each
protection domain, only requiring 32 bytes instead of 128 bytes. It
uses the same multi-segment memory layout as the TSS-based plugin and
leaves paging disabled. However, it uses a similar mechanism as the
paging plugin to perform system call dispatches and returns.
For additional information, please refer to cpu/x86/mm/README.md.
This patch implements a simple, lightweight form of protection domains
using a pluggable framework. Currently, the following plugin is
available:
- Flat memory model with paging.
The overall goal of a protection domain implementation within this
framework is to define a set of resources that should be accessible to
each protection domain and to prevent that protection domain from
accessing other resources. The details of each implementation of
protection domains may differ substantially, but they should all be
guided by the principle of least privilege. However, that idealized
principle is balanced against the practical objectives of limiting the
number of relatively time-consuming context switches and minimizing
changes to existing code.
For additional information, please refer to cpu/x86/mm/README.md.
This patch also causes the C compiler to be used as the default linker
and assembler.
