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authorJoursoir <chat@joursoir.net>2021-08-13 23:25:50 +0000
committerJoursoir <chat@joursoir.net>2021-08-13 23:25:50 +0000
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x86/boot: move and rename asm code with multiboot header
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-# https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.html
-
-/*
-Declare constants for the multiboot header.
-*/
-.set ALIGN, 1 << 0 # align loaded modules on page boundaries
-.set MEMINFO, 1 << 1 # provide memory map
-.set FLAGS, ALIGN | MEMINFO # this is the Multiboot 'flag' field
-.set MAGIC, 0x1BADB002 # 'magic number' lets bootloader find the header
-.set CHECKSUM, -(MAGIC + FLAGS) # checksum of above, to prove we are multiboot
-
-/*
-Declare a multiboot header that marks the program as a kernel.
-These are magic values that are documented in the multiboot standard.
-The bootloader will search for this signature in the first 8 KiB of
-the kernel file, aligned at a 32-bit boundary. The signature is in
-its own section so the header can be forced to be within the first
-8 KiB of the kernel file.
-*/
-.section .multiboot
-.align 4
-.long MAGIC
-.long FLAGS
-.long CHECKSUM
-
-/*
-The multiboot standard does not define the value of the
-stack pointer register (esp) and it is up to the kernel to provide a stack.
-This allocates room for a small stack by creating a symbol at the bottom
-of it, then allocating 16384 bytes for it, and finally creating a symbol
-at the top. The stack grows downwards on x86. The stack is in its own
-section so it can be marked nobits, which means the kernel file is smaller
-because it does not contain an uninitialized stack. The stack on x86
-must be 16-byte aligned according to the System V ABI standard and
-de-facto extensions. The compiler will assume the stack is properly
-aligned and failure to align the stack will result in undefined behavior.
-*/
-.section .bss
-.align 16
-stack_bottom:
-.skip 16384 # 16 KiB
-stack_top:
-
-/*
-The linker script specifies _start as the entry point to the kernel and the
-bootloader will jump to this position once the kernel has been loaded. It
-doesn't make sense to return from this function as the bootloader is gone.
-*/
-.section .text
-.global _start
-.type _start, @function
-_start:
- /*
- The bootloader has loaded us into 32-bit protected mode on a x86
- machine. Interrupts are disabled. Paging is disabled. The processor
- state is as defined in the multiboot standard. The kernel has full
- control of the CPU. The kernel can only make use of hardware features
- and any code it provides as part of itself. There's no printf
- function, unless the kernel provides its own <stdio.h> header and a
- printf implementation. There are no security restrictions, no
- safeguards, no debugging mechanisms, only what the kernel provides
- itself. It has absolute and complete power over the
- machine.
- */
-
- /*
- To set up a stack, we set the esp register to point to the top of the
- stack (as it grows downwards on x86 systems). This is necessarily done
- in assembly as languages such as C cannot function without a stack.
- */
- mov $stack_top, %esp
-
- /*
- This is a good place to initialize crucial processor state before the
- high-level kernel is entered. It's best to minimize the early
- environment where crucial features are offline. Note that the
- processor is not fully initialized yet: Features such as floating
- point instructions and instruction set extensions are not initialized
- yet. The GDT should be loaded here. Paging should be enabled here.
- C++ features such as global constructors and exceptions will require
- runtime support to work as well.
- */
-
- /*
- Enter the high-level kernel. The ABI requires the stack is 16-byte
- aligned at the time of the call instruction (which afterwards pushes
- the return pointer of size 4 bytes). The stack was originally 16-byte
- aligned above and we've pushed a multiple of 16 bytes to the
- stack since (pushed 0 bytes so far), so the alignment has thus been
- preserved and the call is well defined.
- */
- call kernel_main
-
- /*
- If the system has nothing more to do, put the computer into an
- infinite loop. To do that:
- 1) Disable interrupts with cli (clear interrupt enable in eflags).
- They are already disabled by the bootloader, so this is not needed.
- Mind that you might later enable interrupts and return from
- kernel_main (which is sort of nonsensical to do).
- 2) Wait for the next interrupt to arrive with hlt (halt instruction).
- Since they are disabled, this will lock up the computer.
- 3) Jump to the hlt instruction if it ever wakes up due to a
- non-maskable interrupt occurring or due to system management mode.
- */
- cli
-1: hlt
- jmp 1b
-
-/*
-Set the size of the _start symbol to the current location '.' minus its
-start. This is useful when debugging or when you implement call tracing.
-*/
-.size _start, . - _start