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seL4SharedData
by Zippy Maniac 29 Nov '17

29 Nov '17

We have a security requirement on our ARM based product using CAmkES 2.2.x to ensure all sensitive data declared in specific seL4SharedData regions are erased on detection of a power failure. We achieve this by overwriting the data with a known pattern that we read back from a separate component before declaring the device as secured. This is working fine. But we need to guarantee that the overwrite data is actually written to DDR and we aren't just using cached values. This means flushing the … [View More]

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Tx1 UART and GiC distributor PPTR address
by Muneeswaran Rajendran 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

Hi, The PPTR address range between UART and GIC distributor was 12k (kernel/include/plat/tx1/plat/machine/device.h). But when refer in TX1 reference sheet the length was specified as 64byte for UART,4k for GIC distributor and 8k for interrupt controller. can you please point out the reference or reason to choose this address for Tx1 board? /* These devices are used by the seL4 kernel. */ #define UARTA_PPTR 0xffffffffffff0000 #define GIC_DISTRIBUTOR_PPTR … [View More]

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Caught cap fault in send phase at address 0x0 @Tx2
by Muneeswaran Rajendran 23 Nov '17

23 Nov '17

Hi seL4 Dev Team, I am bringing up the sel4 kernel on tx2 board with ref of Tx1. I encountered the TLB invalidation hang issue after kernel map window setup. I do not know the exact reason for hang so just disable that piece of code to look further execution of sel4 kernel. After that it dropped into the usersapce and throwing the cap fault or vm fault issue. Does anyone has come across this type of issue and how it debugged?. Please share your thought or pointers to debug this issue. I … [View More]

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Tx1 SMP and Hypervisor support
by Muneeswaran Rajendran 17 Nov '17

17 Nov '17

Hi Sel4 Dev Team, Any update of SMP and Hypervisor feature which fully functional on TX2. If its not available when will get this feature supported . Regards, Munees

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1:1 Mapping of Zynqmp devices
by Chris Guikema 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

Hello, I am attempting to port the camkes-arm-vm to the zynqmp platform. For the TK1 and Exynos platforms, the physical address of the hardware devices are well below the kernelBase of 0xe0000000. However, for the zynqmp, these hardware devices are greater than the kernel base. This causes the "map_emulated_device" function call to fail for the GIC and any other passthrough devices. sel4utils_reserve_range_at_no_alloc@vspace.c:589 Range not available at 0xff010000, size 0x1000 Assertion … [View More]

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loading and booting seL4 on a tegra Tx2
by Muneeswaran Rajendran 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

Hi, I am trying to bring up sel4 on tegra Tx2 platform using tegra Tx1 as reference. I tweaked the important changes of UART,Timer configuration and IRQ number and also GIC controller, GIC distributor configuration w.r.t Tx2 after loading and booting the Tx2 board sel4 enter into init kernel to initialize the kerenl memory map for GIC and UART devices then control transfer to user space. I underdtand from ref manual both Tx1 and Tx2 using the same clock and baud rate for UART configuration. … [View More]

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loading and booting seL4test on a zynq7000
by Joel Svensson 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

Hello, I want to learn about seL4 so I am trying to get is started on the hardware I already have (a zynq 7000). I have generated the image: sel4test-driver-image-arm-zynq7000 Now I try to load that onto the zynq by executing these commands in XMD: connect arm hw rst fpga -f design_1_wrapper.bit source ps7_init.tcl ps7_init ps7_post_config dow sel4test-driver-image-arm-zynq7000 run All of the above seem to be successful. Then, I have a serial link hooked up to the board (uart) and there I … [View More]

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CAmkES mutex Question
by Brandon, Jeffrey - 0553 - MITLL 06 Nov '17

06 Nov '17

Hi, I've been taking a look at mutex implementations in the camkes-app example and I had a question. In the mutex example here https://github.com/seL4/camkes/tree/master/apps/mutex suppose I wanted to extend to add a third component C I need to add the corresponding camkes, source, Kbuild, and Kconfig files and then I need to add connections to the master mutex.camkes file correct? My first intuition was to add a connector: Assembly { … [View More]Composition{ . Connection seL4MyConnector connection(from c.lock, to b.lock); . } } But this yields and error saying something to the effect "seL4MyConnector expects one from endpoint and two are specified" To remedy this I added another lock component to B, and made a connection between C and this new lock B provides. The new lock being implemented by the same template. My Questions: In this scenario do A B and C still have access to the same mutex? If A has a lock on the mutex, then C requests a lock, will this cause A to be unable to release the lock? In my mental model I have three threads of control, one each for A B and C, if A has a lock and then C requests a lock, does this block B (when it receives a message from C and is now blocked on requesting the mutex)? Then when A tries to release, B is blocked and cannot release the mutex on A's behalf. To put it another way, does this mutex example rely on B having direct access to the templated code and there only being two components? Secondarily, in the lockserver example https://github.com/seL4/camkes/tree/master/apps/lockserver a situation is presented where three clients access a single mutex through a single server. Would there be an issue if one of the clients also acted as the server? So for instance if A implemented the three pairs of lock unlock functions instead of the server and then B and C used seL4RPCCall connections to A in order to access them, would there be any synchronization issues? I'm relatively new to this and am trying to build a system with the help of camkes and I want to make sure I understand this before I get too far. I don't want to be working under incorrect assumptions. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Sincerely, Jeff Brandon Associate Staff MIT Lincoln Laboratory Secure Resilient Systems and Technology Ph: +1 781.981.9233 [View Less]

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PPTR address computation on Sel4 Kernel
by Muneeswaran Rajendran 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

Hi sel4 development team, I understand from the sel4 kernel the paddr and pptr used in the kernel framework to compute the page table entry. I found from ref manual GICD_PADDR defined as (ARM_PERIPHBASE (0x50040000) + 0x1000) 0x50041000 for that GIC_DISTRIBUTOR_PPTR used as 0xffffffffffff3000. This details was not able to see in the ref manual and other sel4 reference. Can someone help to understand the pptr calculation w.r.t sel4? Thanks in advance Munees

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UART initialisation on seL4 @TX1
by Muneeswaran Rajendran 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Hi sel4 development team, I understand from the seL4 kernel the initial printf message are not routed through sel4 platform uart driver. Because the sel4 UART driver initialisation happened later when seL4 Main kernel initialization is finished. till then sel4 kernel uses u-boot UART driver to route the message. This interpretation is correct as per my understanding. Also mentioned in code as well debug output available via serial interface after kernel init thread started. /* debug … [View More]

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