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Michael LeMay e0aefd11d9 x86: Add support for SW-switched segment-based protection domains
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.
2016-04-22 08:16:43 -07:00