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This patch extends the protection domain framework with an additional plugin to use Task-State Segment (TSS) structures to offload much of the work of switching protection domains to the CPU. This can save space compared to paging, since paging requires two 4KiB page tables and one 32-byte page table plus one whole-system TSS and an additional 32-byte data structure for each protection domain, whereas the approach implemented by this patch just requires a 128-byte data structure for each protection domain. Only a small number of protection domains will typically be used, so n * 128 < 8328 + (n * 32). For additional information, please refer to cpu/x86/mm/README.md. GCC 6 is introducing named address spaces for the FS and GS segments [1]. LLVM Clang also provides address spaces for the FS and GS segments [2]. This patch also adds support to the multi-segment X86 memory management subsystem for using these features instead of inline assembly blocks, which enables type checking to detect some address space mismatches. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Named-Address-Spaces.html [2] http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/tools/clang/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#target-specific-extensions |
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