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Running Linux on top of seL4
by Daniel Wang 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Hi all, Is there any guide about how to run Linux on top of seL4? Or has anyone done that before that can give me some hints? Thanks -Dan

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Re: [seL4] 回复： camkes-manifest project make failed for arm
by Hesham.Almatary＠data61.csiro.au 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Hi Talos, Are you following some instructions or getting started guides? e.g. camkes getting started guide [1] is using kzm config (arm_simple_defconfig). You can know which target at the time you're configuring the project by: 1) reading the *_defconfig you ran make with, 2) make menuconfig, 3) or after this from the .config file from where you run make *_defconfig or make menuconfig. Hope that helps. [1] https://sel4.systems/Info/CAmkES/GettingStarted.pml Best, Hesham ________________________________ From: talos <2486580938(a)qq.com> Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 1:42 PM To: Almatary, Hesham (Data61, Kensington NSW) Subject: 回复： [seL4] camkes-manifest project make failed for arm Hi Hesham, How could I get which targets I used? Thanks for your patient! ------------------ 原始邮件 ------------------ 发件人: "Hesham.Almatary";<Hesham.Almatary(a)data61.csiro.au>; 发送时间: 2017年6月2日(星期五) 中午11:11 收件人: "talos"<2486580938(a)qq.com>; 抄送: "devel"<devel(a)sel4.systems>; 主题: Re: [seL4] camkes-manifest project make failed for arm Hi Talos, Thanks for reporting this. It seems like it’s an issue with KZM (ARMv6) targets which I assume you’re using? I submitted a fix, should be public on GitHub soon. Meanwhile, you can use the following patch to get around this error. diff --git a/include/util.h b/include/util.h index d6afdbb..4b05430 100644 --- a/include/util.h +++ b/include/util.h @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ #ifndef __UTIL_H #define __UTIL_H -#define BIT(n) (1ul << (n)) #define MASK(n) (BIT(n)-1ul) #define IS_ALIGNED(n, b) (!((n) & MASK(b))) #define ROUND_DOWN(n, b) (((n) >> (b)) << (b)) @@ -23,6 +22,7 @@ #ifndef __ASSEMBLER__ #define NULL ((void *)0) +#define BIT(n) (1ul << (n)) #define PACKED __attribute__((packed)) #define NORETURN __attribute__((__noreturn__)) @@ -131,6 +131,10 @@ CONST popcountl(unsigned long x) } #define POPCOUNTL(x) __builtin_popcountl(x) +#else /* __ASSEMBLER__ */ + + +#define BIT(n) (1 << (n)) Cheers, Hesham On 2 Jun 2017, at 10:41 am, Hesham.Almatary(a)data61.csiro.au<mailto:Hesham.Almatary@data61.csiro.au> wrote: Hi Talos, This might be because of this change [1] to the kernel. Since this change has passed on our local machines, I'd be interested to know which toolchain version are you using (specifically binutils)? [1] https://github.com/seL4/seL4/commit/1930cf2e44908cb8faa5b315651bdb1958102f8f Cheers, Hesham ________________________________ From: Devel <devel-bounces(a)sel4.systems<mailto:devel-bounces@sel4.systems>> on behalf of talos <2486580938(a)qq.com<mailto:2486580938@qq.com>> Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 9:59 AM To: devel Subject: [seL4] camkes-manifest project make failed for arm When I make the project, it said that: /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S: Assembler messages: /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:56: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:56: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:82: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:82: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:117: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:117: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:128: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:128: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:168: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:168: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:185: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:185: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:213: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:213: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/Makefile:653: recipe for target 'src/arch/arm/32/traps.o' failed make[1]: *** [src/arch/arm/32/traps.o] Error 1 tools/common/project.mk:258: recipe for target 'kernel_elf' failed make: *** [kernel_elf] Error 2 But I make successfully for x86 What's matter? Thanks! _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel(a)sel4.systems<mailto:Devel@sel4.systems> https://sel4.systems/lists/listinfo/devel

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camkes-manifest project make failed for arm
by talos 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

When I make the project, it said that: /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S: Assembler messages: /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:56: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:56: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:82: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:82: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:117: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:117: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:128: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:128: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:168: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:168: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:185: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:185: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:213: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:213: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/Makefile:653: recipe for target 'src/arch/arm/32/traps.o' failed make[1]: *** [src/arch/arm/32/traps.o] Error 1 tools/common/project.mk:258: recipe for target 'kernel_elf' failed make: *** [kernel_elf] Error 2 But I make successfully for x86 What's matter? Thanks!

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Re: [seL4] Devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 2
by talos 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Dear Hesham This is binutils information 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.4 Thanks ------------------ Original ------------------ From: "devel-request";<devel-request(a)sel4.systems>; Date: Fri, Jun 2, 2017 08:56 AM To: "devel"<devel(a)sel4.systems>; Subject: Devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 2 Send Devel mailing list submissions to devel(a)sel4.systems To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://sel4.systems/lists/listinfo/devel or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to devel-request(a)sel4.systems You can reach the person managing the list at devel-owner(a)sel4.systems When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Devel digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Running multiple VMs under ARM and C++ under SeL4? (John Backes) 2. camkes-manifest project make failed for arm (=?ISO-8859-1?B?dGFsb3M=?=) 3. Re: camkes-manifest project make failed for arm (Hesham.Almatary(a)data61.csiro.au) 4. Re: Running multiple VMs under ARM and C++ under SeL4? (Adrian.Danis(a)data61.csiro.au) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 11:41:49 -0500 From: John Backes <john.backes(a)gmail.com> To: devel(a)sel4.systems Subject: [seL4] Running multiple VMs under ARM and C++ under SeL4? Message-ID: <CAGzTpxHy_b+RWx33=xXv=vyEAwRttE3no-S21hwhqtBX6ZRG-w(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Does the ARM VMM currently support running multiple virtual machines. Also, as a side question, how hard would it be to compile general C++ code that makes heavy use of the standard template library for use in a camkes component? I assume this would be non-trivial? - John -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://sel4.systems/pipermail/devel/attachments/20170601/5de7f205/attachmen…> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 07:59:34 +0800 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?B?dGFsb3M=?=" <2486580938(a)qq.com> To: "=?ISO-8859-1?B?ZGV2ZWw=?=" <devel(a)sel4.systems> Subject: [seL4] camkes-manifest project make failed for arm Message-ID: <tencent_0DEA523F71A09CF508392575(a)qq.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" When I make the project, it said that: /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S: Assembler messages: /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:56: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:56: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:82: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:82: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:117: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:117: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:128: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:128: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:168: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:168: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:185: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:185: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:213: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:213: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/Makefile:653: recipe for target 'src/arch/arm/32/traps.o' failed make[1]: *** [src/arch/arm/32/traps.o] Error 1 tools/common/project.mk:258: recipe for target 'kernel_elf' failed make: *** [kernel_elf] Error 2 But I make successfully for x86 What's matter? Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://sel4.systems/pipermail/devel/attachments/20170602/a0e0e40f/attachmen…> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 00:41:15 +0000 From: <Hesham.Almatary(a)data61.csiro.au> To: <2486580938(a)qq.com>, <devel(a)sel4.systems> Subject: Re: [seL4] camkes-manifest project make failed for arm Message-ID: <1496364075337.38653(a)data61.csiro.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Talos, This might be because of this change [1] to the kernel. Since this change has passed on our local machines, I'd be interested to know which toolchain version are you using (specifically binutils)? [1] https://github.com/seL4/seL4/commit/1930cf2e44908cb8faa5b315651bdb1958102f8f Cheers, Hesham ________________________________ From: Devel <devel-bounces(a)sel4.systems> on behalf of talos <2486580938(a)qq.com> Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 9:59 AM To: devel Subject: [seL4] camkes-manifest project make failed for arm When I make the project, it said that: /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S: Assembler messages: /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:56: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:56: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:82: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:82: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:117: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:117: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:128: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:128: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:168: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:168: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:185: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:185: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:213: Error: missing ')' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/src/arch/arm/32/traps.S:213: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=kernel_stack_alloc+(1ul<<(12))' /home/talos/camkes-manifest/kernel/Makefile:653: recipe for target 'src/arch/arm/32/traps.o' failed make[1]: *** [src/arch/arm/32/traps.o] Error 1 tools/common/project.mk:258: recipe for target 'kernel_elf' failed make: *** [kernel_elf] Error 2 But I make successfully for x86 What's matter? Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://sel4.systems/pipermail/devel/attachments/20170602/516c7463/attachmen…> ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 00:56:24 +0000 From: <Adrian.Danis(a)data61.csiro.au> To: <john.backes(a)gmail.com>, <devel(a)sel4.systems> Subject: Re: [seL4] Running multiple VMs under ARM and C++ under SeL4? Message-ID: <ad050360-e6ef-eeb2-7130-dc66fb368f51(a)data61.csiro.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi John, The ARM VMM does not currently support multiple virtual machines, this is something we are working on adding. To properly use the C++ standard template library you would need to build a cross compiler for a CAmkES system based seL4 system. This is something we have never done. Whether this is trivial or not depends entirely upon whether you find building cross compilers trivial or not. Adrian On Fri 02-Jun-2017 2:41 AM, John Backes wrote: Does the ARM VMM currently support running multiple virtual machines. Also, as a side question, how hard would it be to compile general C++ code that makes heavy use of the standard template library for use in a camkes component? I assume this would be non-trivial? - John _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel(a)sel4.systems<mailto:Devel@sel4.systems> https://sel4.systems/lists/listinfo/devel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://sel4.systems/pipermail/devel/attachments/20170602/c454560f/attachmen…> ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel(a)sel4.systems https://sel4.systems/lists/listinfo/devel ------------------------------ End of Devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 2 ************************************

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Running multiple VMs under ARM and C++ under SeL4?
by John Backes 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Does the ARM VMM currently support running multiple virtual machines. Also, as a side question, how hard would it be to compile general C++ code that makes heavy use of the standard template library for use in a camkes component? I assume this would be non-trivial? - John

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The path where the kernel jumps to apps
by shijun zhao 31 May '17

31 May '17

Hi, I’m tracing the path where sel4 kernel jumps to an application, such as hello-1. >From the Makefile for apps I know that the entry of the hello-1.bin is *_sel4_start* which is defined in the sel4_crt0.S (the directory is sel4_tutorials/projects/sel4_libs_libsel4platsupport/src/arch/arm). The *_sel4_start* function first calls a C function called *sel4_InitBootInfo*, and finally jumps to the *_start* function which is defined in the crt0.S. However the *_start* in crt0.S calls the sel4_InitBootInfo again. What confuses me is that the sel4_InitBootInfo function requires an input argument passed by R0, however the R0 has been set to zero in the _sel4_start function, so I think the calling of sel4_InitBootInfo in the _start will not run correctly. Or is the path where the kernel jumps to the app (_sel4_start->_start->main) wrong? I paste referred codes below: */******sel4_crt0.S********************/* _sel4_start: /* Setup a stack for ourselves. */ ldr sp, =_stack_top /* Setup bootinfo. The pointer to the bootinfo struct starts in 'r0'. */ bl seL4_InitBootInfo ............ mov r0, #0 // *The R0 is modified, so it doesn't store the bootinfo structure anymore!* ............ /* Now go to actual _start */ ldr pc, =_start */*********crt0.S********************/* _start: /* Setup a stack for ourselves. */ ldr sp, =_stack_top */* Setup bootinfo. The pointer to the bootinfo struct starts in 'r0'. */* * bl seL4_InitBootInfo //Since R0 has been modified by _sel4_start, sel4_InitBootInfo will not run correctly.* /* Call constructors and other initialisation functions. */ bl _init /* Call main. */ bl main b exit Best Regards, Shijun Zhao

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How to prove correctness of my own program?
by Adam Badura 30 May '17

30 May '17

I expect this might be (or even probably is) a bad place to ask this but at the same time I didn't find any better coming from the Contact Information page (http://sel4.systems/contact/) I'm working on a conference paper (not sure if I will make it but still trying to - code::dive <http://codedive.pl/> if anyone would be interested) about proving program correctness. Considering my own knowledge in the field and expected knowledge of the audience there would be nothing new in that paper - more like an update on what is the current state of the field. Yet I wanted to supply also some examples. As main example I would like to show proof (or at least parts of it) of correctness (adherence to specification) of C++ code, possibly reduced to C code if need be. After research in this topic and finding this project some time ago it felt natural to reuse its tools. But I fail to do so. Could you possibly guide me? Using your tools and techniques what should I do to prove correctness of some piece of code. I think source code level would be more than enough - for this task no need to verify binary in any form. As a side example I would like to show how your proves look like. I'm not sure what you are generating / writing as a proof (that gets later verified automatically). I imagine a sequence of something. Some formulas in natural deduction perhaps? Or something else? Whatever that would be I guess it must be pretty long so it is not like I would show and analyze it all but instead would like to somehow let the audience "feel the size". If - as I expect - this is not the right place to ask and you cannot help me with above questions, could you at least point me to where to ask them? Adam Badura

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camkes-arm-vm not registering GPIO?
by Steven Johnston 30 May '17

30 May '17

Hi All, I am playing around with the capabilities of the camkes-arm-vm project pn the Tegra TK1 and and wondering if someone else has come across this issue. It looks like GPIO functionality is not available in the buildroot. I can confirm the GPIO source is present and is being built: camkes-arm-vm/libs/libplatsupport/rc/plat/tk1/gpio.c camkes-arm-vm/libs/libplatsupport/plat_include/tk1/platsupport/plat/gpio.h [CC] src/plat/tk1/gpio.o The expected sysfs support is not present and looking and the relevant dmesg: # dmesg | grep gpio [ 0.057543] gpiochip_add: GPIOs 0..255 (tegra-gpio) failed to register [ 1.485061] input: gpio-keys as /devices/soc0/gpio-keys/input/input0 Any thoughts on what could be causing GPIO to the failing to register? Steven

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About timer tests (CONFIG_HAVE_TIMER) in sel4test testsuites
by Jesse-SC Chou (周書正) 26 May '17

26 May '17

Hi seL4-hackers, I am porting the sel4test project to my custom target board, which contains an ARM Cortex-A7 core. The porting work is based on NVidia TK1 Cortex-A15 platform. In current stage, the seL4 kernel has booted up and the test benches can be tested. I can pass all tests except for the timer tests (turn off CONFIG_HAVE_TIMER). In my target, only ARM generic timer is used. My questions are: 1. Are the timer tests (CONFIG_HAVE_TIMER) designed for other platform timer besides ARM generic timer? If I only use ARM generic timer, should these timer tests be passed? 2. My goal is to running Linux with seL4 VMM on my target. The sel4platsupport_get_default_timer() is platform specific. If I only use ARM generic timer, should sel4platsupport_get_default_timer() be ported to return the ARM generic timer? If yes, is there any example for me to reference? BRs, Jesse

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CapDL Spec Error
by Chris Guikema 22 May '17

22 May '17

Hello All, Has anyone come across this error before? [GEN] imx6_net.cdl While forming CapDL spec: failed to find dataport symbol 'camkes router router_send_buf data' in ELF router_group_bin make[1]: *** [imx6_net.cdl] Error 255 make[1]: *** Deleting file `imx6_net.cdl' make: *** [imx6_net] Error 2 Thanks, Chris Guikema

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Blog post: seL4, CAmkES, and L4v dependencies
by Luke.Mondy＠data61.csiro.au 19 May '17

19 May '17

Hello all, We have published a blog post about how we manage software dependencies within Trustworthy Systems, and how it has been adapted to produce a relatively user-friendly interface. It is relevant for people both new and old to the seL4 ecosystem, as it simplifies and compartmentalises the elaborate software dependencies sometimes required to get things to build. You can read the blog post here: https://research.csiro.au/tsblog/getting-started-sel4-camkes-l4v-dependenci… If you have any feedback or changes you would like made, please let us know on the GitHub repo. Cheers, Luke -- Luke Mondy, Systems Administrator, Trustworthy Systems DATA61 | CSIRO M +61 0415 281 991 | https://ts.data61.csiro.au

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Is there has any seL4 project support ARM Cortex-A7 ?
by Joyce Peng(彭美僑) 19 May '17

19 May '17

Hi Everyone, Is there has any seL4 project support ARM Cortex-A7 ? I found seL4 official projects in below link. https://github.com/seL4 https://github.com/SEL4PROJ I use sel4test project that repo from https://github.com/seL4/sel4test-manifest.git And I found Xilinx zynq7000 support ARM Cortex-A9 in sel4test like below. File: sel4test/projects/sel4test/master-configs/zynq7000_release_xml_defconfig # # seL4 System # # CONFIG_ARCH_X86 is not set CONFIG_ARCH_ARM=y CONFIG_ARCH_AARCH32=y # CONFIG_ARM1136JF_S is not set # CONFIG_ARM_CORTEX_A8 is not set CONFIG_ARM_CORTEX_A9=y # CONFIG_ARM_CORTEX_A15 is not set # CONFIG_PLAT_EXYNOS54XX is not set I can’t find seL4 project support ARM cortex-A7. Does anyone find it? Thanks, Joyce Peng

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sel4test data abort when boot strap test program
by Joyce Peng(彭美僑) 19 May '17

19 May '17

Hi all, I tried to run seL4 test suite on my ARM Cortex-A7 target board. There is no error message when boot up seL4 kernel and boot strap test program on seL4 user land. But I got a “data abort” message after call sel4utils_map_page(..vaddr) and do memset(vaddr, 0, PAGE_SIZE_4K); There are some debug information list below. <1> I add debug message before the program that happen data abort diff --git a/libsel4utils/src/vspace/bootstrap.c b/libsel4utils/src/vspace/bootstrap.c index c366a35..70d378a 100644 --- a/libsel4utils/src/vspace/bootstrap.c +++ b/libsel4utils/src/vspace/bootstrap.c @@ -107,13 +107,13 @@ static void *alloc_and_map(vspace_t *vspace, size_t size) { error = sel4utils_map_page(data->vka, data->vspace_root, frame.cptr, vaddr, seL4_AllRights, 1, objects, &num); + LOG_ERROR("my-hacker\n"); if (error) { vka_free_object(data->vka, &frame); LOG_ERROR("Failed to map bootstrap frame at %p, error: %d", vaddr, error); return NULL; } + LOG_ERROR("my-hacker alloc_and_map() before memset vaddr=0x%x\n",vaddr); /* Zero the memory */ memset(vaddr, 0, PAGE_SIZE_4K); <2>Printed messages: ELF-loader started on CPU: ARM Ltd. Cortex-A7 r0p5 paddr=[20000000..2051881f] ELF-loading image 'kernel' paddr=[22000000..22032fff] vaddr=[e0000000..e0032fff] virt_entry=e0000000 ELF-loading image 'sel4test-driver' paddr=[22033000..22463fff] vaddr=[8000..438fff] virt_entry=15f50 Enabling MMU and paging Jumping to kernel-image entry point... Bootstrapping kernel Booting all finished, dropped to user space Warning: using printf before serial is set up. This only works as your printf is backed by seL4_Debug_PutChar() alloc_and_map@bootstrap.c:111 my-hacker alloc_and_map@bootstrap.c:119 my-hacker alloc_and_map() before memset() vaddr=0xdf7fe000 <3>When happen data abort, the value of CPU registers: r1:0 r3:0xdf7fe000 lr:0xcbe8 <4>Objdump sel4test-driver. 0000cbc8 <memset>: cbc8: e3520000 cmp r2, #0 cbcc: e92d4030 push {r4, r5, lr} cbd0: 08bd8030 popeq {r4, r5, pc} cbd4: e0803002 add r3, r0, r2 cbd8: e6ef1071 uxtb r1, r1 cbdc: e3520002 cmp r2, #2 cbe0: e5431001 strb r1, [r3, #-1] cbe4: e5c01000 strb r1, [r0] cbe8: 98bd8030 popls {r4, r5, pc} cbec: e3520006 cmp r2, #6 It seems to write virtual address 0xdf7ff000. <5>The virtual address 0xdf7fe000 is not map in page table It seems sel4utils_map_page() not create page table for user land program correctly. Can anyone help me, how to solve this problem? Thanks! Joyce Peng(彭美僑)

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seL4 on Cortex-A5
by Andrew Gacek 19 May '17

19 May '17

Is there any support for seL4 on the Cortex-A5? -Andrew

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Change Access Right to Memory Pages
by Norrathep Rattanavipanon 04 May '17

04 May '17

Hello, I have some questions about how to change access rights in seL4. (I'm using native seL4, not camkes) 1) Currently, I'm using seL4_ARCH_Page_Remap to change an access right (from R/W to R/O) to a specific page (of other processes) at run-time. I'm doing as follows: seL4_CPtr frame = vspace_get_cap(&(p.vspace), p.thread.stack_top-1); // only for the stack int error = seL4_ARCH_Page_Remap(frame, ppd.cptr, seL4_CanRead, seL4_ARCH_Default_VMAttributes); Am I doing it correctly? The code seems to work fine for me but I just want to double check. 2) If my understanding in 1) is correct, the remap function only takes 1 cap at a time. So if I want to modify access rights of many pages, do I have to call the remap function multiple times? Or is there a more efficient way to do so? 3) I am also curious how the kernel handles the remap function. Does it simply flip/change some bits? Or does it involve page-related operations as well? e.g. unmap that page first and then remap the same region with a new access right? I guess it should be the former but I need to be sure about that. Thank you, Oak -- Norrathep (Oak) Rattanavipanon M.S. in Computer Science University of California - Irvine

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seL4 Upgrading Issues
by Chris Guikema 04 May '17

04 May '17

Hello, I have developed an Ethernet application using CAmkES 2.2 and seL4 3.2. Because we are going to open-source the design and other documentation, I thought it would be a good idea to upgrade to the latest version of seL4 and CAmkES. I can pull the latest kernel and merge the compatible libraries with my changes and get everything to compile; however, when I load it on the board it fails... Failed to find any untyped capable of creating an object at address 0x20c4000 Failed to find a way to map address 0x20c4000 Failed to find any untyped capable of creating an object at address 0x20c8000 Failed to find a way to map address 0x20c8000 Failed to find any untyped capable of creating an object at address 0x20e0000 Failed to find a way to map address 0x20e0000 Failed to find any untyped capable of creating an object at address 0x21bc000 Failed to find a way to map address 0x21bc000 Here is my CAmkES configuration which sets up the Ethdrivers cnode and untypes. Keep in mind this works with seL4 3.2 ethdriver.simple = true; ethdriver.cnode_size_bits = 12; ethdriver.simple_untyped20_pool = 4; ethdriver.heap_size = 0; ethdriver.mmios = "0x02188000:0x4000:12, 0x021BC000:0x4000:12, 0x020E0000:0x4000:12, 0x020A4000:0x4000:12, 0x020B0000:0x4000:12, 0x020C4000:0x4000:12, 0x020C8000:0x1000:12"; Can anyone see the problem? Thanks, Chris Guikema

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Re: [seL4] Memory protections within userspace and hardware/driver support
by Devin Harper 03 May '17

03 May '17

Hi, I read the whole FAQ. Does the "bug-free" protections for privacy apply to within each app of the same Linux virtual machine (overcoming memory bugs built in apps), between apps of the same Linux virtual machine (overcoming memory bugs built in the Linux kernel/GNU distro), or merely between different virtual machines (allowing any Linux kernel/GNU distro to be compromised, just not allowing them to compromise each other)? Furthermore, do I understand correctly that sel4 will only work on a few pieces of computer hardware, or will it work on everything the Linux kernel supports (has drivers for)? If sel4 will work on everything the Linux kernel supports (has drivers for), then do the same bug-free promises hold true on those hardwares in addition to the hardwares sel4 has already been tested on? Thanks!

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Can I running camkes-arm-vm on HiKey board
by li94575 02 May '17

02 May '17

Hi all, Now, only exynos5 and tk1 are supported for running virtualised Linux on seL4. If I want to port it to HiKey board, is this possible?

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questions about TK1 VM
by PX 01 May '17

01 May '17

Hi, all I have some questions about TK1 VM. I want to save the execution status of the TK1 VM. First, I stop the VM, then I use the function, seL4_TCB_ReadRegisters() to read the VM's registers into a buffer. Here are my questions: 1. Before I call the function, seL4_TCB_ReadRegisters(), do I need to flush TLB of CPU? If so, where is the library I need to check for this function? 2. The register values in the structure, seL4_UserContext, are VMM's physical addresses or virtual addresses? Best wishes Peng

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sel4test failing TEST_SCHED0004 on iMX6
by Robert Kaiser 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

Hi all, I just tried to run the test suite on iMX6. Using the current version from github, I got this result: ---------------------------- ..... Test suite failed. 200/202 tests passed. 200/202 tests passed. *** FAILURES DETECTED *** ---------------------------- Further checking into the log shows this: ---------------------------- ..... Starting test 51: TEST_SCHED0004 TEST_SCHED0004 Running test SCHED0004 (Test threads at all priorities) _allocman_cspace_alloc@allocman.c:252 Regular cspace alloc failed, and failed from watermark vka_alloc_object_at_maybe_dev@object.h:46 Failed to allocate cslot: error 1 new_pages_at_vaddr@vspace.c:331 Failed to allocate page sel4utils_configure_thread_config@thread.c:77 ipc buffer allocation failed Assertion failed: error == 0 ([.....]/seL4test/apps/sel4test-tests/src/helpers.c: create_helper_thread: 346) Failure: result == SUCCESS at line 343 of file [.....]/seL4test/apps/sel4test-driver/src/main.c Failure: Test check failure (see log). at line 0 of file ..... ---------------------------- The same test is run a second time further down below the log, giving the same result. I tested this on two different IMX6 platforms (SabreLite and Wandboard). Both showed identical results. Is this a known problem? Cheers Robert -- Robert Kaiser Technische Informatik Hochschule RheinMain Wiesbaden Rüsselsheim Computer Engineering RheinMain University of Applied Sciences robert.kaiser(a)hs-rm.de http://www.cs.hs-rm.de/~kaiser tel:(+49)611-9495-1292 fax:(+49)611-9495-1210 Postanschrift/Postal Address: Robert Kaiser, Hochschule RheinMain, FB DCSM/Informatik Unter den Eichen 5, 65195 Wiesbaden, Germany

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smaccm/sel4arm-vmm-manifest complie problem
by 高文博 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

hi everyone! i am doing research about sel4.i used https://github.com/smaccm/sel4arm-vmm-manifest code. and complie it.than it build out kernel.elf only. but where is linux? expecting your answers. thanks very much! gao. -- 高文博数据通信科学技术研究所

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smaccm/sel4arm-vmm-manifest compile problem
by 高文博 15 Apr '17

15 Apr '17

hi everyone! i am doing research about sel4.i used https://github.com/smaccm/sel4arm-vmm-manifest code. and compile it.than it build out kernel.elf only. but where is linux? expecting your answers. thanks very much! gao.

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how to debug libsel4allocman
by Vasily A. Sartakov 14 Apr '17

14 Apr '17

Greetings I am using a 4.0 compatible seL4 snapshot derived from mainline several months ago as a base for seL4/MIPS port. Currently, I am debugging sel4tests. My goal — make everything working before moving to hardware. By «everything» I mean different configurations of the system (optimization flags, syscall attributes, fast/slow path, etc). For example, most stable build uses «CONFIG_LIB_SEL4_INLINE_INVOCATIONS», less stable build, which I am debugging now, uses «CONFIG_LIB_SEL4_PUBLIC_SYMBOLS». This configuration crashes at the start when I am trying to allocate memory for the first test: Starting test suite sel4test Starting test 0: TEST_TRIVIAL0001 TEST_TRIVIAL0001 b24e68 b0cc4c b0cc2c b0cc2c sel4test-tests 0 0 * Loading segment 00400000-->005748a4 * Loading segment 00575000-->00689d84 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 30 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 29 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 28 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 27 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 26 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 25 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 24 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 23 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 22 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 21 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 20 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 19 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 18 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 17 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 16 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 15 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 14 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 13 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 12 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 11 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 10 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 9 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 8 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 7 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 6 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 5 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 4 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 3 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 2 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 1 _allocman_cspace_alloc@allocman.c:254 Regular cspace alloc failed, and failed from watermark alloc->num_cspace_slots == 0_refill_watermark:374 slota = 0 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 1 _allocman_cspace_alloc@allocman.c:254 Regular cspace alloc failed, and failed from watermark alloc->num_cspace_slots == 0_refill_watermark:374 slota = 0 alloc->num_cspace_slots = 1 _allocman_cspace_alloc@allocman.c:254 Regular cspace alloc failed, and failed from watermark I see, that: 243: error = alloc->cspace.alloc(alloc, alloc->cspace.cspace, slot); returns the error, and then we allocating memory from the watermark. In other builds (for example, with CONFIG_LIB_SEL4_INLINE_INVOCATIONS attributes), I do not see this issue - there are no errors on return. So, I need to debug function to be sure that I am receiving in the kernel proper arguments and so one, but I do not understand how this part of the code works. Do you have any documentation, or slides or just simple diagrams how this allocator work? What functions are responsible for generating error return, where exactly allocation is performed and how to debug this. Thank you.

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Questions about userspace memory allocation
by Daniel (Xiaolong) Wang 11 Apr '17

11 Apr '17

Hi all, I have a couple questions hope someone can help me clear it out. I understand that after booting up, the kernel keep tracking of all physical memory as Untyped and hand it over to the init thread. It seems like the kernel create both idlethread and init thread and, but it only create a TCB object. 1). I wonder when the init thread's frame and PD are created, and how the thread's stack and heap is allocated? 2). I wonder is there a limit or default value for how much physical memory init thread uses at booting time? Thanks -Dan

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Questions about Userspace memory allocation
by Daniel Wang 09 Apr '17

09 Apr '17

Hi all, I have a couple questions hope someone can help me clear it out. I understand that after booting up, the kernel keep tracking of all physical memory as Untyped and hand it over to the init thread. It seems like the kernel create both idlethread and init thread and, but it only create a TCB object. 1). I wonder when the init thread's frame and PD are created, and how the thread's stack and heap is allocated? 2). I wonder is there a limit or default value for how much physical memory init thread uses at booting time? Thanks -Dan

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Creating process from not root process
by rad021993＠yandex.ru 02 Apr '17

02 Apr '17

Hi all, I try to create process (process2) from not root process (process1). Process1 has own cspace and vspace (fields 'create_cspace' and 'create_vspace' are set to true in process1' config). I try to create process2 like in the root process (4-th example in sel4 tutorials), but I can't obtain bootinfo to create allocman. As I understood it, this info available only from root process. Also I found function to create allocman via bootstrap function (like in example_bootstrap.c), but I also need to get process1' vspace and cspace to attach them to allocman. I do not understand, how I can get the needed info. Could you tell me how I can do it? Best regards, Rinat Dobrokhotov

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Re: [seL4] Devel Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1
by talos 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

Re: 1. Re: errors when make camkes-tutorials-manifest the output of ls -al for my .stack directory: drwxrwxr-x 4 talos talos 4096 3月 29 17:19 .stack my username is talos Thanks ------------------ Original ------------------ From: "devel-request";<devel-request(a)sel4.systems>; Date: Sat, Apr 1, 2017 06:29 AM To: "devel"<devel(a)sel4.systems>; Subject: Devel Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1 Send Devel mailing list submissions to devel(a)sel4.systems To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://sel4.systems/lists/listinfo/devel or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to devel-request(a)sel4.systems You can reach the person managing the list at devel-owner(a)sel4.systems When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Devel digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: errors when make camkes-tutorials-manifest (Stephen.Sherratt(a)data61.csiro.au) 2. Announcing seL4 5.0.0 (Kent.Mcleod(a)data61.csiro.au) 3. Creating process from not root process (rad021993(a)yandex.ru) 4. Confusion with various memory address (Daniel (Xiaolong) Wang) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 03:46:28 +0000 From: <Stephen.Sherratt(a)data61.csiro.au> To: <devel(a)sel4.systems> Subject: Re: [seL4] errors when make camkes-tutorials-manifest Message-ID: <1490931983542.96806(a)data61.csiro.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Talos, Are you the owner of /home/talos/.stack ? For comparison, the output of ls -al for my .stack directory: drwxr-xr-x 10 ssteve ssteve 4096 Jan 24 15:25 .stack My username is ssteve. You could also try renaming your .stack directory so stack can create a new one for you. Cheers, Stephen ________________________________ From: Devel <devel-bounces(a)sel4.systems> on behalf of talos <2486580938(a)qq.com> Sent: Thursday, 30 March 2017 9:28 PM To: devel Subject: [seL4] errors when make camkes-tutorials-manifest Hi, When I made this tutorials, there was an error; You are not the owner of '/home/talos/.stack/'. Aborting to protect file permissions. Retry with '--allow-different-user' to disable this precaution How can I do this, thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://sel4.systems/pipermail/devel/attachments/20170331/b3b2c08e/attachmen…>

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Confusion with various memory address
by Daniel (Xiaolong) Wang 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

Hi all, I have a probably a dumb question that need some clarification. I was reading the kernel source code and I’m little bit confused with the three data type: paddr_t, pptr_t, vptr_t and the following three data struct related to them. typedef struct region { pptr_t start; pptr_t end; } region_t; typedef struct p_region { paddr_t start; paddr_t end; } p_region_t; typedef struct v_region { vptr_t start; vptr_t end; } v_region_t; Based on how those are being used I assume the paddr_t and p_region are data struct for physical address, vptr_t and v_region are for virtual address. According to the following functions seem that the translation between physical address to pptr_r is by adding/subtracting a offset. But I’m confused with the pptr_t and region I wonder what are those for? Tank you very much! static inline void* CONST ptrFromPAddr(paddr_t paddr) { return (void*)(paddr + physMappingOffset); } static inline paddr_t CONST addrFromPPtr(void* pptr) { return (paddr_t)pptr - physMappingOffset; } static inline region_t CONST paddr_to_pptr_reg(p_region_t p_reg) { return (region_t) { p_reg.start + physMappingOffset, p_reg.end + physMappingOffset }; } static inline p_region_t CONST pptr_to_paddr_reg(region_t reg) { return (p_region_t) { reg.start - physMappingOffset, reg.end - physMappingOffset }; } Thanks -Dan

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Announcing seL4 5.0.0
by Kent.Mcleod＠data61.csiro.au 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

We are pleased to announce the release of 5.0.0 of seL4. Listed below are a few of the key changes in this release: Below are the changes to the seL4 ABI and API: Generic changes: * Add missing case to seL4_getFault (seL4_Fault_DebugException) * Explicitly pack bootinfo data structures * Modify FinalizeLog syscall - Now returns a number of entries in the log * Extend bootinfo to support potentially arbitrary additional structures * Deprecate bootinfo management in libsel4 - a replacement, platsupport_get_bootinfo can be found in libsel4platsupport x86 specific changes: * Pass VBE information from multiboot through bootinfo * Remove PAE support x86-64 specific changes: * VT-x related cap and object definitions added * seL4_VMEnter syscall added arm specific changes: * ARM-HYP: VCPU interface for manipulating banked registers added * plat: added nvidia tx1 support * ARM-HYP: Add support for save/restore of debug registers * Add aarch64 implementation = Upgrade notes = * This release breaks both API and ABI and is not source compatible with the earlier versions. = Full changelog = Use {{{git log 4.0.0..5.0.0}}} in https://github.com/seL4/seL4 = More details = See the 5.0.0 manual (http://sel4.systems/Info/Docs/seL4-manual-5.0.0.pdf) included in the release for detailed descriptions of the new features. The release tarballs can be directly downloaded from: https://github.com/seL4/seL4/archive/5.0.0.tar.gz [9e143c75c68edcaefc5506caea341890 5.0.0.tar.gz] Contributors: Adrian Danis Hesham Almatary Amirreza Zarrabi Kent McLeod Jack Suann Kofi Doku Atuah Amirreza Zarrabi Donny Yang Anna Lyons Stephen Sherratt Partha Susarla Thomas Sewell Frank Li Jeff Waugh Berkus Decker Corey Richardson Kent Mcleod Please let us know of any issues that you run into by creating an issue in the issue tracker: https://github.com/seL4/seL4/issues -- Kent McLeod Kernel engineer DATA61 | CSIRO E kent.mcleod at data61.csiro.au www.data61.csiro.au CSIRO's Digital Productivity business unit and NICTA have joined forces to create digital powerhouse Data61

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errors when make camkes-tutorials-manifest
by talos 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

Hi, When I made this tutorials, there was an error; You are not the owner of '/home/talos/.stack/'. Aborting to protect file permissions. Retry with '--allow-different-user' to disable this precaution How can I do this, thanks!

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Allocation manager and processes
by Rinat Dobrokhotov 28 Mar '17

28 Mar '17

Hi all, 1. Could you check if my thoughts are right? The allocation manager is global object and there is only one instance for whole system. If I need in creation kernel objects I should create _one_ allocman above some array of memory. 2. I have the first question because I work with processes now. In the root process I create two different processes based on the elf image via allocman. Then I try to manage (suspend, change priority, etc.) process1 by process2. But I can't get process1 object from process2 because both of them belong to root process and belong to root process' memory space. As I understand it, I should copy cap which belongs to process1 to process2, then I will be able to manage them. Could you tell me if I am right? -- Best regards, Rinat Dobrokhotov

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CapDL & RT
by Richard Habeeb 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

Hello all, I see that the master branch of CapDL has some support for the RT kernel, but I am having some trouble building it against the current public sel4 RT branch. Which version of the RT kernel does capDL work with? Or, is it still a work in progress? Thanks, Richard -- Richard Habeeb Research Assistant, Computer Science, USF PGP: https://goo.gl/VhmGGu https://habeebr.bitbucket.io/

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sel4 kernel boot problem on i.mx6q board
by shijun zhao 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hi everyone, I am running sel4 on i.mx6q sabre board. I use the sabre_debug_xml_defconfig config file. However, the image stops at "Jumping to kernel-image entry point..." when I run it on the board. Following is the printed messages: ## Starting application at 0x20000000 ... ELF-loader started on CPU: ARM Ltd. Cortex-A9 r2p10 paddr=[20000000..2030081f] ELF-loading image 'kernel' paddr=[80000000..80032fff] vaddr=[e0000000..e0032fff] virt_entry=e0000000 ELF-loading image 'sel4test-driver' paddr=[80033000..80406fff] vaddr=[10000..3e3fff] virt_entry=203d0 Enabling MMU and paging Jumping to kernel-image entry point... There are some warnings during compilation, all of which are caused by arm-none-eabi/bin/ld. And I see that the sel4 wiki shows how to solve the warnings: *To fix, do make menuconfig visit seL4 Libraries→Build musl C Library and untick libmuslc use precompiled archive then do make clean and attempt to rebuild.* However, there is no *Build musl C library* in my menuconfig, and there are only *libmuslc *and *libsel4muslcsys *options in the seL4 libraries. Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem? Thanks! Best Regards, Shijun

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Help accessing physical address on zynq7000
by Brandon, Jeffrey - 0553 - MITLL 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hello, I've been getting started with seL4 on the zynq7000 and I am looking for resources on how to read/write physical memory for memory mapped io purposes. If there is a relevant tutorial or manual to reference I haven't come across it yet so I wanted to ask here. Any other guidance as to how to think about and work with capabilities would be useful at this stage. I'm working with a modified version of the sel4test repository. Looking at that I found env.simple (simple_t defined https://github.com/seL4/seL4_libs/blob/a1c031b0885dec4ddf1ee1f8866bcd23dcca6 ac3/libsel4simple/include/simple/simple.h) which seems to contain function pointers for some relevant functions to what I'm trying to do, but I am not entirely sure how to go about using them. What needs to be initialized first and how do I go about that? Any guidance greatly appreciated, Thanks. Jeff Brandon Associate Staff MIT Lincoln Laboratory 05-53 Secure Resilient Systems and Technology Ph: 781.981.9233

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TK1 VMM SMMU Translation Error
by Enrique Leon 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

Hello All, We have recently run into an issue trying to boot the TK1 VMM on a TK1 Jetson board. The kernel tries to run but soon runs into translation errors after a couple of seconds. We are using the non-secure dtb with the initrd image. Here are some of the lines, it continues on like this and never stops. SMMU Address translation error: ID: 1 address: 0x0 type: 6 direction: 0x0 IOPT permission: read 0x0 write 0x0 nonsecure 0x0 SMMU Address translation error: ID: 1 address: 0x18fc00 type: 6 direction: 0x0 IOPT permission: read 0x0 write 0x0 nonsecure 0x SMMU Address translation error: ID: 1 address: 0x912c0 type: 6 direction: 0x0 We had success running the VM using the previous commit from camkes-arm-vmm repo, but the newest commit has introduced this issue. We have isolated it to line 93 in the "vmm_common.camkes" file. Removing "0x54200000:18", // Display A" from the file fixes the problem and we can boot as normal. We are also running Uboot 2010-10-rc5 as suggested by a email on the board. I am still new to working down to this level of code so any help in understanding this problem is appreciated.

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Linux Virtualization on ODROID-XU4
by Norrathep Rattanavipanon 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

Hi, I tried to run Linux on top of seL4 in ODROID-XU4 device. I followed the instruction in https://sel4.systems/Community/Devdays/Workshop2016/ihor-sel4ws2016.pdf. I run with normal u-boot. And I got to the part that it printed out: We used 57776 CSlots (11.02% of our CNode) Done; suspending... Initialising UART driver Initialising UART driver Then it stops there. Any idea of what went wrong here? Best, Oak -- Norrathep (Oak) Rattanavipanon M.S. in Computer Science University of California - Irvine

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How to implement RM scheduling on seL4
by wang 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

Hello, I'm now studying seL4/seL4test and try to implement the RM scheduling on seL4test. I understand how the RM scheduling works, but just don't know how to make it happen on seL4test. So where can I start? In addition, I put the sel4test driver image on my board and run, it shows "206/206 tests passed. All is well in the universe" at the last line. Does it means that the seL4test project runs correctly? Thanks!

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Using Rump kernels to run unmodified NetBSD drivers on seL4
by Kent.Mcleod＠data61.csiro.au 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

Last year for my honors thesis I evaluated rump kernels as a way of running unmodified NetBSD drivers on seL4. This work has recently been pushed out with a corresponding blog post: https://research.csiro.au/tsblog/using-rump-kernels-to-run-unmodified-netbs…. This was done by adding support for the Rumprun unikernel to use seL4 as a target platform. Currently ia32 and x86_64 is supported and we have tested the e1000 network card driver and networking stack using Dell Sandy Bridge and Haswell machines. Rump kernels are a project that allows unmodified NetBSD OS component reuse in other systems (http://rumpkernel.org/) We want to use rump kernels as a way of providing drivers and other OS components such as filesystems and networking stacks on seL4 such as in CAmkES components. Some sample applications can be found here (https://github.com/SEL4PROJ/rumprun-sel4-demoapps) and a link to the thesis can be found here (http://www.disy.cse.unsw.edu.au/theses_public/16/kentm.pdf) Kent McLeod

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ARM timer driver and interrupts
by Wladislav Wiebe 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

Hello, I wrote a new timer driver for this timer device: http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/sprugv5a/sprugv5a.pdf I am already able to run the seL4 testsuite successfully, except the interrupt/timer tests. It waits forever @ wait_for_timer_interrupt(env); I've uploaded the driver temporary to: https://github.com/wwladikw/devel/blob/master/timer.c Any idea what could be wrong? I am able to run the timer periodically or as oneshot. The gic_390 interrupt driver in the kernel should also be compatible with the gic_400, for my understanding, right? The SoC I am using contains a Coretex A15. Thanks a lot in advance! Wladislav Wiebe

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Boot Hyp mode in elfloader
by SHI, Yao 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

I am trying to boot CAmkES-ARM-VM and got problem in elfloader. I tested Jetson-TK1 and TK1-SOM. The results are same. I've set bootm_boot_mode=nonsec in u-boot and tracked registers in function switch_to_hyp_mode(). 1) Enter switch_to_hyp_mode(), after asm volatile ("mrc p15, 0, %0, c1, c1, 0":"=r"(scr)); ==> scr == 0x100, in which NS==0, HCE==1, SCD==0, SIF==0 2) Then switch_to_hyp_mode() changes NS to 1, so scr==0x101 asm volatile ("mcr p15, 0, %0, c1, c1, 0"::"r"(scr)); 3) switch_to_hyp_mode() changes cpsr to Hyp mode asm volatile ("cps %0\n\t" "isb\n" ::"I"(HYPERVISOR_MODE)); 4) The final step, switch_to_hyp_mode() reads cpsr, asm volatile ("mrs %0, cpsr":"=r"(scr)); ==> scr == 0x6000001da, in which cpsr.M==0x1a, cpsr.I==1, cpsr.F==1, cpsr.A==1 Finally, the process died here. My questions are, 1) Are NS==0 and HCE==1 correct when entering switch_to_hyp_mode() ? 2) Is the final status (cpsr.F==cpsr.I==cpsr.A==1) expected? 3) Any other mistake I might make? Yao

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Clarification on seL4 on RPi3b
by Joseph Adam Powers 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

It seems to be necessary for me to use the debug output using a serial cable on UART0 u-boot seems to be waiting for a Ethernet or serial cable connection to finish boot process. I don't have the serial cable so I just need some understanding that that is the case considering that I followed the rest of the instructions on the blog at https://research.csiro.au/tsblog/sel4-raspberry-pi-3/ , newbie question btw.

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RT and domains
by rad021993＠yandex.ru 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Hi, Could you tell me why did you not implement domains in RT kernel version? Are there any difficulties? I'm going to add support of domains, and at the first sight I don't see any difficulties.

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seL4 no longer support zynq7000 board?
by wang 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Hello, https://wiki.sel4.systems/Hardware On this seL4wiki hardware page I find the link of Zynq7000 turns grey, and the page says "This page does not exist yet. You can create a new empty page, or use one of the page templates." So it means seL4 do not support zynq7000 any more? And how can I run seL4/seL4test on zynq7000 board? Thanks!

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seL4/seL4test on odroid-xu4
by wang 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Hello, I've just got my odroid-xu4 board and tried to port seL4test onto it, but met some problems that cannot procceed. Do you have any guide or tutorial for it step by step? I think I may have problem of initializing and partitioning of a new sd card(main problem?). And maybe something is wrong with the uboot or fastboot, but I'm not quite sure about that. This is my fist time using this devel, don't know whether this message was sent correctly or not :) Looking forward to get some help by you guys. Thanks! Wang

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seL4/seL4test on odroid-xu4
by wang 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Hello, I've just got my odroid-xu4 board and tried to port seL4test onto it, but met some problems that cannot procceed. Do you have any guide or tutorial for it step by step? I think I may have problem of initializing and partitioning of a new sd card(main problem?). And maybe something is wrong with the uboot or fastboot, but I'm not quite sure about that. This is my fist time using this devel, don't know whether this message was sent correctly or not :) Looking forward to get some help by you guys. Thanks! Wang

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camkes DMA with predetermined physical addresses
by Gareth Howard 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

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Deriving and Revoking IRQControl caps
by Andrew Gacek 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Based on the seL4 manual it sounds like IRQControl caps only support one level of derivation. What is the reason for this restriction? We encountered a case where we wanted to hand out an IRQControl for a specific irq and then later revoke access, but we couldn't do it because the IRQControl for a specific irq is already a derived capability. -Andrew

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imx6 U-Boot Issues
by Chris Guikema 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Hello, I am using the i.mx6 to test a networking example that function in QEMU. To load the application, I am using the u-boot that comes pre-compiled on the micro-sd. I am able to dhcp to my tftpserver and grab the seL4 image, and when I run the "go 20000000" command, I get the following: ## Starting application at 0x20000000 ... AP Kernel returned back to the elf-loader. abort() called. Looking through the code, that error is in non_boot_main, yet that function call is wrapped by #ifdef CONFIG_SMP_ARM_MPCORE Which is undefined. That makes me think that the main() in boot.c is not being accessed and the elfloader isn't being run properly. Is this a u-boot issue, or is it that way I have everything setup? Is it a requirement to use the pre-compiled u-boot binary for the i.mx6? Thanks, Chris Guikema

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CAmkES ARM VM boot on TK1
by SHI, Yao 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Hi, I am trying to run CAmkES ARM VM on TK1. I downloaded built the image using: repo init -u https://github.com/SEL4PROJ/camkes-arm-vm-manifest repo sync make tk1_vm_defconfig make And then ran the image on the hardware. It stopped after loading seL4 in nonsecure HYP mode, Tegra124 (Jetson TK1) # bootelf CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [90000000, 90007408] CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [90007408, 9134c900] CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [9134c900, 9134c908] CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [91350000, 91360820] ## Starting application at 0x90000000 ... ELF loader: monitor mode init done Copy monitor mode vector from 90001000 to a7f00000 size 50 Number of IRQs: 192 Load seL4 in nonsecure HYP mode 600001da Then I tried to build a monitor mode image and got this, Tegra124 (Jetson TK1) # bootelf CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [90000000, 90007250] CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [90007250, 9134c710] CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [91350000, 91360820] ## Starting application at 0x90000000 ... ELF loader: monitor mode init done Copy monitor mode vector from 90001000 to a7f00000 size 50 ELF-loader started on CPU: ARM Ltd. Cortex-A15 r3p3 paddr=[90000000..9136081f] ELF-loading image 'kernel' paddr=[80000000..80031fff] vaddr=[e0000000..e0031fff] virt_entry=e0000000 ELF-loading image 'capdl-loader-experimental' paddr=[80032000..8155bfff] vaddr=[10000..1539fff] virt_entry=17580 Enabling MMU and paging Jumping to kernel-image entry point... abort() called. Anyone may tell me the possible problem? Thank you very much. Yao

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Coretex A15 periodic timer interrupts
by Wladislav Wiebe 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Hello, I wonder if the generic timer https://github.com/seL4/util_libs/blob/master/libplatsupport/src/arch/arm/g… can be extended by timer->periodic timer->handle_irq to be able to run the sel4 testsuite which requires timer IRQ's such as https://github.com/seL4/sel4test/blob/master/apps/sel4test-tests/src/tests/… Right now I am able to get timer_get_time(env->timer->timer); by using the generic timer, but I am missing the periodic time and the irq handler for the Coretex A15 generic timer implementation. Some ideas if there is some tricky way to get it running? Thanks in advance! - Wladislav Wiebe

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Re: [seL4] SDHC drivers (cont.)
by Norrathep Rattanavipanon 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

Hi Siwei, So, I tried the code using Kingston microSDHC but it still couldnt read the card. However, the code works perfectly when loaded from the SD slot (with microSD to SD adapter), instead of the microSD slot. I also found that for some reasons, if mmc dev 1 is used in u-boot, the program wouldnt be able to read/write the micro-sd card. I'm kind of good for now but still curious about that. Do you have any idea what might have caused this? Best, Oak On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Norrathep Rattanavipanon <nrattana(a)uci.edu > wrote: > Thanks Siwei. I really appreciate your help. > Yeah so I tried your image with three different micro-sd cards and none of > them works (still stuck after printing the card's capacity). > I'll buy Kingston microsdhc class 4 and try on that, will let you know if > it works or not. > > Best, > Oak > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 12:03 AM, <Siwei.Zhuang(a)data61.csiro.au> wrote: > >> Hi Oak, >> >> >> Here is what exactly I did, >> >> >> $ mkdir sel4-sdcard >> >> $ cd sel4-sdcard >> >> $ repo init -u https://github.com/SEL4PROJ/sel4-tutorials-manifest.git >> -m sel4-tutorials-master.xml >> >> $ repo sync >> >> $ cd projects >> >> $ git clone https://github.com/SEL4PROJ/projects_libs.git >> >> $ cd ../libs >> >> $ ln -sf ../projects/projects_libs/libsdhcdrivers libsdhcdrivers >> >> $ ln -sf ../projects/seL4_libs/libsel4sync libsel4sync >> >> >> Then, I copied my sdcard app into sel4-sdcard/apps. >> >> The sdcard app directory has Kconfig, Kbuild, Makefile and src/main.c >> >> >> ------------ Kconfig ---------------- >> menuconfig APP_SDCARD >> bool "SD card" >> default y >> depends on HAVE_LIBC >> depends on LIB_SEL4_PLAT_SUPPORT >> depends on LIB_SEL4_VKA >> depends on LIB_SEL4_UTILS >> depends on LIB_UTILS >> depends on LIB_CPIO >> depends on LIB_SEL4 >> depends on LIB_ELF >> help >> SD card app. >> >> >> >> ------------ Kbuild ----------------- >> apps-$(CONFIG_APP_SDCARD) += sdcard >> >> sdcard: common libsel4utils libutils libsel4 libmuslc libsel4muslcsys \ >> libsel4vka libsel4allocman libsel4vspace libsel4simple >> libsel4simple-default \ >> libsel4platsupport libsel4platsupport libcpio libelf \ >> libsel4sync libsdhcdrivers libsel4debug >> >> ------------ Makefile --------------- >> # Targets >> TARGETS := sdcard.bin >> >> ENTRY_POINT := _sel4_start >> >> # Source files required to build the target >> CFILES := $(patsubst $(SOURCE_DIR)/%,%,$(wildcard >> $(SOURCE_DIR)/src/*.c)) >> ASMFILES := $(patsubst $(SOURCE_DIR)/%,%,$(wildcard >> $(SOURCE_DIR)/src/*.S)) >> OFILES := archive.o >> >> # Libraries required to build the target >> LIBS = c sel4 sel4muslcsys sel4vka sel4allocman \ >> platsupport sel4platsupport sel4vspace elf \ >> sel4utils sel4simple utils sel4simple-default cpio \ >> sel4sync sdhcdrivers sel4debug >> #CFLAGS += -Werror >> >> include $(SEL4_COMMON)/common.mk >> >> archive.o: ${COMPONENTS} >> $(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@) >> ${COMMON_PATH}/files_to_obj.sh $@ _cpio_archive $^ >> >> >> I also edited sel4-sdcard/Kconfig, added the following to the related >> menus, >> >> source "apps/sdcard/Kconfig" >> >> source "libs/libsdhcdrivers/Kconfig" >> >> source "libs/libsel4sync/Kconfig" >> >> >> I've attached the config file, copy it to configs directory, then do >> "make sdcard_defconfig". >> >> I've also attached the binary image that I compiled. >> >> >> Since the u-boot command works, it doesn't seem that the controller is >> disabled. Also try another card if possible, my card is Kingston micro SDHC >> class 4. The driver only implements very basic single block read/write. I'm >> not surprised that it doesn't work for some cards. >> >> >> - Siwei >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Norrathep Rattanavipanon <nrattana(a)uci.edu> >> *Sent:* Monday, 23 January 2017 4:59 PM >> *To:* Zhuang, Siwei (Data61, Kensington NSW) >> >> *Subject:* Re: [seL4] SDHC drivers (cont.) >> >> Hi Siwei, >> >> Thank you for helping me out. I am still unable to get it to work even if >> using your code with the latest kernel (4.0) and latest libraries >> (downloaded from https://github.com/SEL4PROJ/sel4-tutorials-manifest >> master branch) >> >> I also tried calling mmc read command in u-boot and it was able to read >> data from the card just fine. >> I'm not really sure how I can check if the host controller works >> properly. Do you mean I can do it in seL4? >> >> Also, is it possible if you can upload the binary image file (and the >> build config) so that I can test on my board really quick? I suspect that >> either I miss something for the build or my micro-sd is not working. >> >> Thank you again for your help, >> Oak >> >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Norrathep Rattanavipanon < >> nrattana(a)uci.edu> wrote: >> >>> Hi Siwei, >>> >>> Yes, I believe mmc_card_capacity returns the correct value (4026531840 >>> <(402)%20653-1840> - my microsd is 4GB). >>> >>> And my code does not do any interrupt handling. In fact, that's all the >>> code in the root userspace process (besides initializing vka, vspace and >>> simple objects) and there is no other process. >>> >>> I also tried using a callback as mmc_block_read's argument, instead of >>> using NULL, but it also does not work. >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 8:41 PM, <Siwei.Zhuang(a)data61.csiro.au> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Oak, >>>> >>>> >>>> Do you get the correct card capacity by calling mmc_card_capacity? If >>>> you don't, you'd need to check if the hardware is enabled in your >>>> bootloader. >>>> >>>> >>>> Are you doing any interrupt handling? As you don't supply a callback >>>> function to mmc_block_read, the read function would block until the >>>> hardware responses. In this case, mmc_block_read handles the interrupt >>>> itself. It would trigger a dead lock if you also handles the interrupt. >>>> >>>> >>>> - Siwei >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> *From:* Devel <devel-bounces(a)sel4.systems> on behalf of Norrathep >>>> Rattanavipanon <nrattana(a)uci.edu> >>>> *Sent:* Thursday, 19 January 2017 9:54 AM >>>> *To:* Danis, Adrian (Data61, Kensington NSW) >>>> *Cc:* devel(a)sel4.systems; GTS >>>> *Subject:* Re: [seL4] SDHC drivers (cont.) >>>> >>>> Hi Adrian, >>>> >>>> Thank you for the reply. I fix it according to what you suggest but it >>>> still does not solve the problem (still hang at the same place. Do you have >>>> any other suggestions on what I should fix or how I should look into >>>> debugging it? >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Oak >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 8:58 PM, <Adrian.Danis(a)data61.csiro.au> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Oak, >>>>> >>>>> I don't know much about SD cards or this driver but it seems to me >>>>> like passing it a physical address of 0 isn't what you want, and whilst I >>>>> know nothing about the mmc hardware it seems reasonable to me that it might >>>>> hang trying to DMA to memory that doesn't exist. There is also the >>>>> additional problem that even if paddr was correct for the first page, there >>>>> is no guarantee that the 5 pages you have allocated are contiguously >>>>> physically even though they will be mapped contiguous virtually. >>>>> >>>>> My recommendation is to use the page dma allocator in >>>>> seL4_libs/libsel4utils/include/sel4utils/page_dma.h, this will >>>>> provide you an easy way to allocate/map pages for the purposes of DMA. So >>>>> instead of >>>>> >>>>> void *vaddr = vspace_new_pages(&vspace, seL4_AllRights, 5, seL4_PageBits); >>>>> uintptr_t paddr = 0; >>>>> >>>>> You would have >>>>> >>>>> ps_dma_man_t dma_man; >>>>> error = sel4utils_new_page_dma_alloc(&vka, &vspace, &dma_man); >>>>> void *vaddr = ps_dma_alloc(&dma_man, 5 * PAGE_SIZE_4K, PAGE_SIZE_4K, >>>>> 0, PS_MEM_NORMAL); >>>>> uintptr_t paddr = ps_dma_pin(&dma_man, vaddr, 5 * PAGE_SIZE_4K); >>>>> >>>>> As I said at the start, I don't know if this will actually fix your >>>>> current problem, but it's still something you will need to fix. >>>>> >>>>> Adrian >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed 18-Jan-2017 6:31 AM, Norrathep Rattanavipanon wrote: >>>>> >>>>> My apology that I have to continue the discussion from the old thread: >>>>> (http://sel4.systems/pipermail/devel/2016-October/001056.html) >>>>> My goal is to read and write data from/to micro sd in SabreLite >>>>> platform. >>>>> I tried both Adrain and Anna's suggestions in that thread and they >>>>> dont seem to fix the problem. Nothing returns error and I also changed >>>>> cacheable parameter in sel4utils_new_pages_at_vaddr to 0 (I believe this is >>>>> what Anna meant instead of setting 3rd argument of vspace_new_pages). >>>>> >>>>> The code's still stuck inside mmc_block_read function. I tracked it >>>>> down and it seems like BRR and BWR interrupt statuses are never set to 1 >>>>> I add my code below, please let me know if anything is wrong with my >>>>> code. >>>>> >>>>> ps_io_mapper_t io_mapper = {0}; >>>>> error = sel4platsupport_new_io_mapper(simple, vspace, vka, &io_mapper); >>>>> assert(error == 0); >>>>> >>>>> ps_io_ops_t io_ops = { >>>>> .io_mapper = io_mapper >>>>> }; >>>>> >>>>> sdio_host_dev_t* dev = (sdio_host_dev_t*) malloc(sizeof(*dev)); >>>>> assert(dev != NULL); >>>>> memset(dev, 0, sizeof(*dev)); >>>>> >>>>> enum sdio_id id = sdio_default_id(); // return id=3 >>>>> error = sdio_init(id, &io_ops, dev); >>>>> assert(error == 0); >>>>> >>>>> mmc_card_t* mmc_card = (mmc_card_t*) malloc(sizeof(*mmc_card)); >>>>> error = mmc_init(dev, &io_ops, mmc_card); >>>>> assert(error == 0 && mmc_card != NULL); >>>>> >>>>> void *vaddr = vspace_new_pages(&vspace, seL4_AllRights, 5, seL4_PageBits); >>>>> assert(vaddr != NULL); >>>>> >>>>> uintptr_t paddr = 0; >>>>> printf("mmc card capacity %llu bytes\n", mmc_card_capacity(*mmc_card)); >>>>> long read_len = mmc_block_read(*mmc_card, 0x50000, 1, vaddr, paddr, NULL, NULL); // Stuck here >>>>> printf("read %lu bytes\n", read_len); >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> Oak >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Norrathep (Oak) Rattanavipanon >>>>> M.S. in Computer Science >>>>> University of California - Irvine >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Devel mailing listDevel@sel4.systemshttps://sel4.systems/lists/listinfo/devel >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Norrathep (Oak) Rattanavipanon >>>> M.S. in Computer Science >>>> University of California - Irvine >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Norrathep (Oak) Rattanavipanon >>> M.S. in Computer Science >>> University of California - Irvine >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Norrathep (Oak) Rattanavipanon >> M.S. in Computer Science >> University of California - Irvine >> > > > > -- > Norrathep (Oak) Rattanavipanon > M.S. in Computer Science > University of California - Irvine > -- Norrathep (Oak) Rattanavipanon M.S. in Computer Science University of California - Irvine

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seL4 on Zedboard
by Brandon, Jeffrey - 0553 - MITLL 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Hi, I've been trying to get seL4 running on a Zedboard and I was wondering if there was any documentation on how to boot sle4 from an SD card. I've read http://sel4.systems/pipermail/devel/2016-December/001160.html and https://sel4.systems/Info/Hardware/General/ which mentions using ${loadaddr} but that doesn't seem to be defined on the Zedboard's u-boot. So far I've compiled the image targeting the zynq7000 and used the mkimage command from the general hardware page to try u-boot's fastboot, but fastboot doesn't seem to be available on the zynq either. I am a bit of a novice here. I worry that the solution may be simple but I am currently taking shots in the dark. I wanted to ask this list for any resources you may be aware of for getting sel4 test cases running on the Zed. Thanks for the help, Jeff Brandon 05-53 Secure Resilient Systems and Technology

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arm_data_abort_exception
by Wladislav Wiebe 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

Hello, has somebody experience with running into arm_data_abort_exception after enabling the MMU/paging and jumping to the kernel image: .. ELF-loader started on CPU: ARM Ltd. Cortex-A15 r2p4 paddr=[90000000..904b041f] ELF-loading image 'kernel' paddr=[80000000..80033fff] vaddr=[f0000000..f0033fff] virt_entry=f0000000 ELF-loading image 'sel4test-driver' paddr=[80034000..8042dfff] vaddr=[10000..409fff] virt_entry=1e924 Enabling MMU and paging Jumping to kernel-image entry point... check_data_abort_exception() DFAR = 0xfff01014 DFSR = 0x7 ADFSR = 0x0 abort() called. I've dumped the DFAR/DFSR register -- Relevant config parts about the setup: CONFIG_ARCH_ARM_V7A=y CONFIG_ARCH_ARM=y CONFIG_ARCH_AARCH32=y CONFIG_ARM_CORTEX_A15=y CONFIG_PLAT_KEYSTONE=y Thanks in advance! -- WBR, Wladislav WIebe

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Exposing ticks to the rt API
by Corey Richardson 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

Hi Anna, While analyzing some time related APIs, I've noticed that the x86 rt kernel assumes that the tsc frequency is constant and well represented by the measurement made at init by comparing against the PIT. It also exposes only microseconds and uses the internal calibration to convert that to/from ticks. I'm concerned about this behavior. The tsc can have up to 200ppm error if uncalibrated and not temperature controlled, from what I'm able to determine. I'd rather have all the public APIs take ticks and allow user space to determine how their timing requirements best correspond to ticks. This came up when wanting to measure how much running time a process/thread has used. Ideally, it's kept as a running count of ticks. In the current API, one can only observe microseconds consumed, converted by a potentially lossy ticksToUs (lossy when the rate isn't exactly known or tick->us conversion isn't an exact integer multiplication). It'd be more useful for me to have tick count directly. I'm also somewhat concerned with using the PIT to estimate the TSC rate, as I can't find anything about expected error of the PIT, and any slop there will influence all future kernel behaviors until reboot. One potential alternative is the ACPI PM timer or the HPET. Those run at higher frequencies, which would help reduce the error bounds on the rate estimation. Let me know what you think! If it's useful at all, I've written up some stuff about the work that inspired these thoughts: https://gitlab.com/robigalia/meta/blob/master/blog/_drafts/2016-12-23-what-… Merry Christmas, -- cmr http://octayn.net/

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strange code in thread.c
by Berkus 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

Hi! Details here https://github.com/seL4/seL4/issues/57 do you guys keep an eye on github activity actually or it’s a bad medium for communcation?

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I2C Driver for BeagleBone (AM335x) for CAmkES
by Richard Habeeb 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

Hey all, Has anyone setup I2C on a Beaglebone CAmkES application? Is the code in libplatsupport all that's needed? The i2d_id enum doesn't seem to include all the i2c modules ( https://github.com/seL4/libplatsupport/blob/master/plat_include/am335x/plat…) I didn't see an init function for the i2c_bus for am335x; for example, exynos uses the exynos_i2c_init. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Richard -- Richard Habeeb Research Assistant, Computer Science, USF PGP: https://goo.gl/VhmGGu https://habeebr.bitbucket.io/

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ARM LPAE?
by Wladislav Wiebe 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

Hello, I am trying to integrate TI Keystone 2 platform to seL4. What I have done so far is basically an initial port of the Kernel/libs/elfloader/Platform components and introducing a new keystone defconfig. Relevant config parts about the setup: CONFIG_ARCH_ARM_V7A=y CONFIG_ARCH_ARM=y CONFIG_ARCH_AARCH32=y CONFIG_ARM_CORTEX_A15=y CONFIG_PLAT_KEYSTONE=y At the end I am able to generate an image which looks like: $ arm-cortexa15-linux-gnueabihf-readelf -e images/sel4test-driver-image-arm-keystone ELF Header: Class: ELF32 .. Entry point address: 0xc0008000 .. (I am using the same entry point as Linux use it) So far, it stops booting in the elfloader -- output log: .. [ 29.705] ## Starting application at 0xc0008000 ... ELF-loader started on CPU: ARM Ltd. Cortex-A15 r2p4 paddr=[c0008000..c032841f] -> Stop here <- Seems it stops loading @ elf_getMemoryBounds(). I suppose it is related to fact that the physical start address starts @ 0x840000000 which is beyond 32 Bit - so, LPAE support is required. The physical RAM setup looks like: bank 0: addr: 0x840000000 size: 0x17ec5000 (382 MB) bank 1: addr: 0x880000000 size: 0x80000000 (2048 MB) Do you have an idea if this is supposed to be supported on seL4? What should be the "physBase" and the "kernelBase" for such a setup? How should the "static const p_region_t BOOT_RODATA avail_p_regs" looks like? Thanks in advance! -- WBR, Wladislav WIebe

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Re: [seL4] SDHC drivers (cont.)
by Siwei.Zhuang＠data61.csiro.au 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Hi Oak, I tried your code. It works for me except that it seems that you are using old versions of seL4 kernel and libraries. Attached is the code I'm using, I merely add some initialization code to your code. It should work on the latest version of seL4 kernel and related libraries. If the code doesn't work for you. I would suggest, 1. If you are using u-boot, try its mmc command, see if you can access the card. 2. Have a look at the imx6 reference manual, chapter 67.2 and 67.3, check if the host controller is enabled properly. - Siwei ________________________________ From: Norrathep Rattanavipanon <nrattana(a)uci.edu> Sent: Friday, 20 January 2017 6:12 AM To: Zhuang, Siwei (Data61, Kensington NSW) Subject: Re: [seL4] SDHC drivers (cont.) Hi Siwei, Yes, I believe mmc_card_capacity returns the correct value (4026531840 - my microsd is 4GB). And my code does not do any interrupt handling. In fact, that's all the code in the root userspace process (besides initializing vka, vspace and simple objects) and there is no other process. I also tried using a callback as mmc_block_read's argument, instead of using NULL, but it also does not work. On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 8:41 PM, <Siwei.Zhuang(a)data61.csiro.au<mailto:Siwei.Zhuang@data61.csiro.au>> wrote: Hi Oak, Do you get the correct card capacity by calling mmc_card_capacity? If you don't, you'd need to check if the hardware is enabled in your bootloader. Are you doing any interrupt handling? As you don't supply a callback function to mmc_block_read, the read function would block until the hardware responses. In this case, mmc_block_read handles the interrupt itself. It would trigger a dead lock if you also handles the interrupt. - Siwei ________________________________ From: Devel <devel-bounces(a)sel4.systems> on behalf of Norrathep Rattanavipanon <nrattana(a)uci.edu<mailto:nrattana@uci.edu>> Sent: Thursday, 19 January 2017 9:54 AM To: Danis, Adrian (Data61, Kensington NSW) Cc: devel(a)sel4.systems; GTS Subject: Re: [seL4] SDHC drivers (cont.) Hi Adrian, Thank you for the reply. I fix it according to what you suggest but it still does not solve the problem (still hang at the same place. Do you have any other suggestions on what I should fix or how I should look into debugging it? Best, Oak On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 8:58 PM, <Adrian.Danis(a)data61.csiro.au<mailto:Adrian.Danis@data61.csiro.au>> wrote: Hi Oak, I don't know much about SD cards or this driver but it seems to me like passing it a physical address of 0 isn't what you want, and whilst I know nothing about the mmc hardware it seems reasonable to me that it might hang trying to DMA to memory that doesn't exist. There is also the additional problem that even if paddr was correct for the first page, there is no guarantee that the 5 pages you have allocated are contiguously physically even though they will be mapped contiguous virtually. My recommendation is to use the page dma allocator in seL4_libs/libsel4utils/include/sel4utils/page_dma.h, this will provide you an easy way to allocate/map pages for the purposes of DMA. So instead of void *vaddr = vspace_new_pages(&vspace, seL4_AllRights, 5, seL4_PageBits); uintptr_t paddr = 0; You would have ps_dma_man_t dma_man; error = sel4utils_new_page_dma_alloc(&vka, &vspace, &dma_man); void *vaddr = ps_dma_alloc(&dma_man, 5 * PAGE_SIZE_4K, PAGE_SIZE_4K, 0, PS_MEM_NORMAL); uintptr_t paddr = ps_dma_pin(&dma_man, vaddr, 5 * PAGE_SIZE_4K); As I said at the start, I don't know if this will actually fix your current problem, but it's still something you will need to fix. Adrian On Wed 18-Jan-2017 6:31 AM, Norrathep Rattanavipanon wrote: My apology that I have to continue the discussion from the old thread: (http://sel4.systems/pipermail/devel/2016-October/001056.html) My goal is to read and write data from/to micro sd in SabreLite platform. I tried both Adrain and Anna's suggestions in that thread and they dont seem to fix the problem. Nothing returns error and I also changed cacheable parameter in sel4utils_new_pages_at_vaddr to 0 (I believe this is what Anna meant instead of setting 3rd argument of vspace_new_pages). The code's still stuck inside mmc_block_read function. I tracked it down and it seems like BRR and BWR interrupt statuses are never set to 1 I add my code below, please let me know if anything is wrong with my code. ps_io_mapper_t io_mapper = {0}; error = sel4platsupport_new_io_mapper(simple, vspace, vka, &io_mapper); assert(error == 0); ps_io_ops_t io_ops = { .io_mapper = io_mapper }; sdio_host_dev_t* dev = (sdio_host_dev_t*) malloc(sizeof(*dev)); assert(dev != NULL); memset(dev, 0, sizeof(*dev)); enum sdio_id id = sdio_default_id(); // return id=3 error = sdio_init(id, &io_ops, dev); assert(error == 0); mmc_card_t* mmc_card = (mmc_card_t*) malloc(sizeof(*mmc_card)); error = mmc_init(dev, &io_ops, mmc_card); assert(error == 0 && mmc_card != NULL); void *vaddr = vspace_new_pages(&vspace, seL4_AllRights, 5, seL4_PageBits); assert(vaddr != NULL); uintptr_t paddr = 0; printf("mmc card capacity %llu bytes\n", mmc_card_capacity(*mmc_card)); long read_len = mmc_block_read(*mmc_card, 0x50000, 1, vaddr, paddr, NULL, NULL); // Stuck here printf("read %lu bytes\n", read_len); Thanks Oak -- Norrathep (Oak) Rattanavipanon M.S. in Computer Science University of California - Irvine _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel(a)sel4.systems<mailto:Devel@sel4.systems> https://sel4.systems/lists/listinfo/devel -- Norrathep (Oak) Rattanavipanon M.S. in Computer Science University of California - Irvine -- Norrathep (Oak) Rattanavipanon M.S. in Computer Science University of California - Irvine

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seL4 System Utilization / Benchmark
by Andrew Gacek 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Hi, I'm interested in seeing how much of the CPU is being used by the various threads in my (camkes) application. I'd like a simple "Task Manager" style report of the form: 70% idle 25% can_obj_7_0_control_9_tcb 5% can_obj_7_Int_3_0000_tcb 0% can_obj_7_0_fault_handler_15_0000_tcb etc I've tried poking around libsel4bench, but I don't see any obvious way of benchmarking the whole system. From what I can tell, it's mostly designed to get cycle counts from specific code segments. Is that right? What's the best way to go about benchmarking the whole system? It's only for debugging, so I'm willing to make some quick-and-dirty changes to the kernel just to see the results. Thanks, Andrew

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SDHC drivers (cont.)
by Norrathep Rattanavipanon 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

My apology that I have to continue the discussion from the old thread: ( http://sel4.systems/pipermail/devel/2016-October/001056.html) My goal is to read and write data from/to micro sd in SabreLite platform. I tried both Adrain and Anna's suggestions in that thread and they dont seem to fix the problem. Nothing returns error and I also changed cacheable parameter in sel4utils_new_pages_at_vaddr to 0 (I believe this is what Anna meant instead of setting 3rd argument of vspace_new_pages). The code's still stuck inside mmc_block_read function. I tracked it down and it seems like BRR and BWR interrupt statuses are never set to 1 I add my code below, please let me know if anything is wrong with my code. ps_io_mapper_t io_mapper = {0}; error = sel4platsupport_new_io_mapper(simple, vspace, vka, &io_mapper); assert(error == 0); ps_io_ops_t io_ops = { .io_mapper = io_mapper }; sdio_host_dev_t* dev = (sdio_host_dev_t*) malloc(sizeof(*dev)); assert(dev != NULL); memset(dev, 0, sizeof(*dev)); enum sdio_id id = sdio_default_id(); // return id=3 error = sdio_init(id, &io_ops, dev); assert(error == 0); mmc_card_t* mmc_card = (mmc_card_t*) malloc(sizeof(*mmc_card)); error = mmc_init(dev, &io_ops, mmc_card); assert(error == 0 && mmc_card != NULL); void *vaddr = vspace_new_pages(&vspace, seL4_AllRights, 5, seL4_PageBits); assert(vaddr != NULL); uintptr_t paddr = 0; printf("mmc card capacity %llu bytes\n", mmc_card_capacity(*mmc_card)); long read_len = mmc_block_read(*mmc_card, 0x50000, 1, vaddr, paddr, NULL, NULL); // Stuck here printf("read %lu bytes\n", read_len); Thanks Oak -- Norrathep (Oak) Rattanavipanon M.S. in Computer Science University of California - Irvine

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CAmkES Templates
by Chris Guikema 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Hello, I am working on a CAmkES application attempting to build a seL4 Network Stack. I am basing this on the CAmkES-VM and utilizing UDP Protocol with the lwIP library. During my build process, I get quite a few linking errors like this: undefined reference to `pbuf_alloc' This is odd, because in the templates, the proper header files are being linked in. There are also warnings like this: Warning: no template for ethdriver_1.to.source Even though the connection does exist: connection seL4Ethdriver eth_driver(from router.ethdriver, to ethdriver.client); Is there something obvious I am doing wrong? Thanks Chris

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questions about SMMU on TK1 VMM
by PX 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

Hi, I have some questions about the SMMU on the new version of TK1 VMM as follows: 1. In the source code, smmu.c, the IO ASID 1 is assigned to hardware engine, AFI, which is supposed to connect with PCIE devices. However, when I add 1 to vm.smmu in vm.camkes, the VM can not access Ethernet and cause a SMMU translation error. But it works if I add 0 to vm.smmu as suggested by Kent. whats the reason to do so? 2. Each IO device is assigned with an IO space mapping. However, there is no IO ASID associated with these mappings. Does that means these mappings are associated with an IO ASID in the order given in vm.smmu? 3. Is it possible for the VMM to change the IO mapping for a specific device? say, invalidate old mapping and load a new mapping? what's the rough idea to do so? thanks Peng

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questions about PCIE SMMU for tk1 vmm
by PX 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

Hi, I am confused by the SMMU management for PCIE device in the updated TK1 VMM. The IO ASID for PCIE device is 0. However, the start IO ASID is from 1 as defined in smmu.h. When initialized, the lookup table, smmu_ioasid_to_pd, has no entry for IO asid 0 at all. I don't understand how the page table for PCIE device is generated and used by SMMU? which part source code should I check ? thanks Peng

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Re: [seL4] quesitons about TK1 VMM
by Kent.Mcleod＠data61.csiro.au 14 Jan '17

14 Jan '17

Hi Peng, Adding the ethernet card requires adding the 0 ASID in the vm.camkes file that I mentioned in the previous email. vm.smmu = [0, 10, 24]; This gives permission for PCIE devices to read and write to memory. I confirmed that on the TK1 Jetson the ethernet port works after this change. You may need to run "ifconfig eth0 up" to enable the device once the image boots. Regards, Kent. ? ________________________________ From: PX <seawolf.peng(a)gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 12:13 PM To: Mcleod, Kent (Data61, Kensington NSW) Subject: Re: quesitons about TK1 VMM Kent, I am using NVIDIA Jetson TK1 board. The reason I want to use insecure config is to enable VM Linux to use Ethernet port. I do not care about the SD card. How can I just add Ethernet card? is there a way for me to avoid adding SD card to The VM linux as you just suggest in your email? Thanks Peng On Thursday,January 12, 2017, <Kent.Mcleod(a)data61.csiro.au<mailto:Kent.Mcleod@data61.csiro.au>> wrote: Hi Peng, Which hardware are you using to run the image? This project has only been tested on the TK1-SOM made by Colorado Engineering. The ethernet port doesn't work as the version of Linux that we use doesn't support it. As for your second question, we configure the IOMMU to only let Linux use the emmc device and USB device on the TK1-SOM. The error is caused because Linux is trying to access a SD card device that it isn't authorized to access. The TK1-SOM doesn't have any SD card hardware so camkes doesn't set up access. If you want to use the Insecure config then you will need to modify apps/vm/vm.camkes and add the right ID to vm.smmu on line 443. To find out which ID to add we take the ID:98 from your Address translation error and look it up in the TK1 technical reference manual. In the memory controller section of the manual there is a "Error Data Capture: Status" section that starts on page 716. Using the table there you can look up ID:98 to see that it belongs to the SWGROUP sdmmc3a. We can now take this and look in seL4 ("kernel/include/plat/tk1/plat/machine/smmu.h?") to find the relevant ASID. From the list of ASIDs we see that SMMU_SDMMC3A_ASID is defined as 23. This is the ID that needs to be added to the vm.smmu array in vm.camkes. Hope this helps, Regards, Kent. ________________________________ From: Devel <devel-bounces(a)sel4.systems> on behalf of PX <seawolf.peng(a)gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 9:03 AM To: devel(a)sel4.systems Subject: [seL4] quesitons about TK1 VMM Hi, I built a TK1 ARM VMM image from the source code SEL4PROJ/camkes-vm-manifest in GitHub. I have some quesitons about the tk1_vmlinux. Question 1: If I use the original tk1_vm_defconfig, the eth0 does not work in vm. Is the tk1_vm_linux in default not supposed to access Ethernet card? Hpw do I access Ethernet card in this case? Question 2: If I change the VM conifg into insecure, CONFIG_TK1_INSECURE=y, the VM can not get booted, I get "SMMU address translation error". The error message is appended as follows: " [ 10.503932] mmc1: Invalid maximum block size, assuming 512 bytes [ 10.566465] mmc1: SDHCI controller on 700b0400.sdhci [700b0400.sdhci] using ADMA 64-bit SMMU Address translation error: ID: 98 address: 0xae609000 type: 6 direction: 0x0 IOPT permission: read 0x0 write 0x0 nonsecure 0x0 [ 10.617123] mmc1: ADMA error" Is this error caused by bugs in source code or my wrong config? if the later case, what's the correct config? thanks Peng

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quesitons about TK1 VMM
by PX 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

Hi, I built a TK1 ARM VMM image from the source code SEL4PROJ/camkes-vm-manifest in GitHub. I have some quesitons about the tk1_vmlinux. Question 1: If I use the original tk1_vm_defconfig, the eth0 does not work in vm. Is the tk1_vm_linux in default not supposed to access Ethernet card? Hpw do I access Ethernet card in this case? Question 2: If I change the VM conifg into insecure, CONFIG_TK1_INSECURE=y, the VM can not get booted, I get "SMMU address translation error". The error message is appended as follows: " [ 10.503932] mmc1: Invalid maximum block size, assuming 512 bytes [ 10.566465] mmc1: SDHCI controller on 700b0400.sdhci [700b0400.sdhci] using ADMA 64-bit SMMU Address translation error: ID: 98 address: 0xae609000 type: 6 direction: 0x0 IOPT permission: read 0x0 write 0x0 nonsecure 0x0 [ 10.617123] mmc1: ADMA error" Is this error caused by bugs in source code or my wrong config? if the later case, what's the correct config? thanks Peng

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question about SEL4PROJ /camkes-arm-vm-manifest
by PX 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

Hi, all I try to build a TK1 ARM VMM image from the source code SEL4PROJ/camkes-vm-manifest in GitHub. However, I can not compile it. I get errors when the compiler tries to build "camkes-accelerator" . I don't put any new code yet. I just: 1) repo init the url ; 2) repo sync; 3) make tk1_vm_defconfig; and 4) make. Did I do something wrong here? thanks Peng

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Overly eager xsave size rejection
by Corey Richardson 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

in src/arch/x86/machine/fpu.c:140 on 4.0.0, there is > if (x86_cpuid_ebx(0x0d, 0x0) != CONFIG_XSAVE_SIZE) { > printf("XSAVE buffer set set to %d, but should be %d\n", CONFIG_XSAVE_SIZE, x86_cpuid_ebx(0x0d, 0x0)); > return false; > } I want to force a large(r than 576) xsave region so that TCBBits is always 11, to help my userspace be vaguely more kernel-config-independent. I don't think it's a problem if the xsave buffer in the TCB is larger than the hardware will actually use? I also think this is buggy. Shouldn't it be querying ecx, since things like AVX aren't enabled in the kernel? To be clear, this is my suggested change: > if (x86_cpuid_ecx(0x0d, 0x0) > CONFIG_XSAVE_SIZE) { > printf("XSAVE buffer set set to %d, but should be at least %d\n", CONFIG_XSAVE_SIZE, x86_cpuid_ecx(0x0d, 0x0)); > return false; > } -- cmr http://octayn.net/ +16038524272

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question about SEL4PROJ /camkes-arm-vm-manifest
by PX 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

Hi, all I posted this question yesterday, and get no answer. Let me to be more specific this time. I try to build a TK1 ARM VMM image from the source code SEL4PROJ/camkes-vm-manifest in GitHub. However, I can not compile it. I get errors when the compiler tries to parse capDL. The errors are appended as follows: " make: Entering directory '/home/dev/Documents/new_vmm/projects/capd /capDL-tool' stack setup make: stack: Command not found Makefile:37: recipe for target 'sandbox' failed make: *** [sandbox] Error 127 make: Leaving directory '/home/dev/Documents/new_vmm/projects/capdl/capDL-tool' Makefile:51: recipe for target '/home/dev/Documents/new_vmm/stage/arm/tk1/parse-capDL/parse-capDL' failed " I checked that there is a file called stack.ymal in the directory: ~/capdl/capDL-tool. My system is also installed latest ghc and ghc-prof. Anybody can help me on this problem? Thanks Peng

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Using the seL4 Benchmark Tool
by Chris Guikema 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

Hello, I am currently attempting to use the seL4 Benchmark tool. After going through the menuconfig (kernel -> build options -> Enable Benchmarks -> Track threads and kernel utilization time), I attempt to rebuild, and get a host of errors: In file included from /home/chrisguikema/gdbtest/kernel/include/compound_types.h:16:0, from /home/chrisguikema/gdbtest/kernel/include/types.h:15, from /home/chrisguikema/gdbtest/kernel/src/api/faults.c:14: /home/chrisguikema/gdbtest/kernel/include/object/structures.h:249:5: error: unknown type name 'benchmark_util_t' benchmark_util_t benchmark; And a lot more, but all along the "not a structure or union" line, which makes me think that either the header file isn't being linked properly, or the #ifdefs aren't working for everything. Did I do something improperly in my setup? Thanks, Chris Guikema

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Workshop debrief?
by Jeff Waugh 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

Hey there, I might be hoping a little too much for video, but will there be slides and notes from the Workshop? (Particularly interested in the gaps discussion.) Would be handy content on the wiki. :-) Thanks, Jeff

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config-independent object type numbers
by Corey Richardson 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

Right now, object type numbers vary based on the kernel config (eg, CONFIG_VTX) etc. This is a huge source of pain for the Rust userspace libraries which don't integrate with seL4's build system. Is it possible for those enums to explicitly label every potential object type for a given architecture with a fixed number? -- cmr http://octayn.net/ +16038524272

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seL4 as Xen guest / AWS
by Tony Arcieri 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

Has anyone managed to run seL4 as a Xen HVM guest? I was more specifically curious about running seL4 on an EC2 instance. I was curious about the possibility of using seL4 as the host OS for a "unikernel"-like deployment of a Rust application split into a small set of services living in different capability spaces (e.g. network, key storage / crypto) -- Tony Arcieri

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sel4test 4.0.x.xml broken?
by Corey Richardson 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

It seems that the line <project name="seL4.git" path="kernel" revision="4.0.x-compatible"/> should be <project name="seL4.git" path="kernel" revision="4.0.0"/> Either that, or a tag is missing from the kernel repo. -- cmr http://octayn.net/ +16038524272

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questions about the vgic maintenance for sel4 TK1 ARM VMM
by PX 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Hi, all I have questions about the vgic maintenance for sel4 tk1 ARM VMM. When the VM acknowledges an IRQ, an exception is raised and is delivered to the VMM. Could someone explain how seL4 intercepts the VM ack? How is this exception is raised ? I am confused because the VM is supposed to totally control the MMIO of the device and can write any thing to the device. How can seL4 be triggered in this case? Which part of source code allows seL4 to intercept the VM ack? Thanks Peng

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Interest in 32-bit x86 Rust userspace?
by Corey Richardson 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

Is anyone interested at all in the 32-bit x86 Rust userspace libraries? I'm considering dropping support for them, as I don't personally plan to have any support for them in Robigalia, instead focusing on x86_64. Note that this wouldn't impact any Rust CAmkES components using the support in the sel4 buildsystem, just the sel4-sys, rust-sel4, etc crates. -- cmr http://octayn.net/ +16038524272

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DMA driver in VM
by PX 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

Hi, I have a generic question about DMA driver in the VM on sel4. How does the device driver in the vm put physical address in the DMA controller given that there is no emulation in sel4? I worked on TK1 sel4 hypervisor extention version, but cannot find any address translation from vmm. Thanks Peng

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pic/no-pic and some other questions
by Vasily A. Sartakov 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

Greetings. I have merged MIPS port with 4.0.0 release. Now I would like to clean up my code and need to remove many small issues that I did not fix during the porting before making the code public. In fact, most of the current problems are related to toolchains: 1. The first problem is a position independent code. Could you please describe me seL4' vision about it? muclibs is building with -fPIC, but everything else doesn't, right? I have a very tricky set of GCC’ flags, related to MIPS’ GOT, small data, abicalls, pic/non-pic, etc, and many of them are not working together. 2. MIPS assembler has several features, one of them is that the -O0 code requires having an addition space above the top of the stack for 4 registers: > 43b610: 27bdffe8 addiu sp,sp,-24 <— start of the function > 43b614: afbf0014 sw ra,20(sp) > 43b618: afbe0010 sw s8,16(sp) > 43b61c: afb0000c sw s0,12(sp) > 43b620: 03a0f021 move s8,sp <— frame stack > 43b624: afc40018 sw a0,24(s8) <— save 1st arg for a subroutine call > 43b628: afc5001c sw a1,28(s8) <— save 2nd arg for the subroutine > 43b62c: afc60020 sw a2,32(s8) <— save 3rd arg for the subroutine So, each time when I am allocating new stack I should return not top of the stack, but top_of_the_stack - 4*sizeof(seL4_Word). As result, sel4utils_configure_thread_config becomes platform specific. Could you please consider a possibility to put it into the «arch» as sel4utils_arch_init_context, or add something like «sel4utils_arch_configure». Also, it is important: this is an issue only for -O0 code, as far I see, -O2 uses different methods for arguments passing. I am trying to build toolchains which do not use frame pointer this style for -O0 code, but I am not sure about the result. 3. I really like how you redesigned declaration syscalls. Now I have a freedom to modify syscalls and do not care about the mainline declarations because now there are syscall wrappers. However, my toolchain generates very poor code for CONFIG_LIB_SEL4_PUBLIC_SYMBOLS and «DEFAULT» — I have proper working code only for CONFIG_LIB_SEL4_INLINE_INVOCATIONS. What is the conceptual difference of these declaration attributes, what they affect? 4. Could you please tell me what was the C equivalent of this asm code: .global __syscall .type __syscall,%function __syscall: sub sp, sp, #4 push {r5,r6} adr r5, 1f ldr r6, 1f ldr r5, [r5,r6] str r5, [sp, #8] pop {r5, r6} pop {pc} .hidden __sysinfo 1: .word __sysinfo-1b something similar to __syscall6 from libmuslc/arch/<arch>_sel4/syscall_arch.h, right? Thank you. P/s Happy new year/merry xmass/happy holidays! -- Vasily A. Sartakov sartakov(a)ksyslabs.org

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xsave region size for haswell/broadwell?
by Corey Richardson 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

Does anyone have a "maximal" xsave region size big enough for all the xsave-supporting features seL4 enables on Broadwell or Haswell? I don't have access to a machine with these features, so I can't run a program to get them with cpuid. -- cmr http://octayn.net/ +16038524272

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questions about the address translation for a DMA driver in the ARM VM
by PX 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Hi, all Happy new year! I have some urgent questions about address translation for a DMA driver in the ARM seL4-based VM. Your quick response is highly appreciated! 1. In the ARM sel4-based VM, the MMIO of a device is directly exposed to the device driver in the VM. When the DMA device driver allocates a DMA buffer to a device controller, the device driver can directly tell the real controller the IPA of the buffer starting address, instead of the real physical address. In other words, the device controller can only get the IPA of the buffer starting address. How can this device controller perform DMA without knowing the real PA of the buffer? Does seL4 perform some emulation here? How? 2. A closely related question to 1: when we develop a DMA driver in the VMM space, we put the real physical address of the device descriptor and real physical address of the DMA buffer in the controller registers through its MMIO. We found that the controller cannot find the correct place for the descriptor and the buffer. Do the seL4 hypervisor perform the address translation? If so, which source code does that? Thanks Peng

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Build Error
by Daniel Romero 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Hi, I am currently on a BeagleBone running Ubuntu 14.04 using gcc-arm-none-eabi. However I am getting the following error running 'make' after 'make menuconfig'. I am wondering if someone can guide me in the right direction [libs/libsel4] building... [GEN] include/sel4/types_gen.h Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/ubuntu/seL4test/libs/libsel4/tools/bitfield_gen.py", line 26, in <module> from six.moves import range ImportError: No module named six.moves make[1]: *** [include/sel4/types_gen.h] Error 1 make: *** [libsel4] Error 2 Thank you, Hector Daniel Romero hdromero93(a)gmail.com

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seL4test on Odroid-XU4
by Yevgeny Lavrov 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Hello I ran into the following issue while running seL4test suite on Odroid-XU4: Exynos5422 # fatload mmc 0 0x48000000 sel4test-driver-image-arm-exynos5 there are pending interrupts 0x00000001 reading sel4test-driver-image-arm-exynos5 3149364 bytes read Exynos5422 # bootelf 0x48000000 ## Starting application at 0x41000000 ... ELF-loader started on CPU: ARM Ltd. Cortex-A7 r0p3 Switching CPU... ELF-loader started on CPU: ARM Ltd. Cortex-A15 r2p3 paddr=[41000000..4130441f] ELF-loading image 'kernel' paddr=[60000000..60037fff] vaddr=[e0000000..e0037fff] virt_entry=e0000000 ELF-loading image 'sel4test-driver' paddr=[60038000..60411fff] vaddr=[10000..3e9fff] virt_entry=1e74c Enabling MMU and paging Jumping to kernel-image entry point... Bootstrapping kernel Kernel init: Too many untyped regions for boot info Kernel init: Too many untyped regions for boot info Kernel init: Too many untyped regions for boot info .... 1 untypeds of size 10 1 untypeds of size 11 126 untypeds of size 12 2 untypeds of size 13 3 untypeds of size 14 3 untypeds of size 15 5 untypeds of size 16 3 untypeds of size 17 3 untypeds of size 18 3 untypeds of size 19 3 untypeds of size 20 2 untypeds of size 21 2 untypeds of size 22 1 untypeds of size 23 2 untypeds of size 24 2 untypeds of size 25 2 untypeds of size 26 2 untypeds of size 27 1 untypeds of size 29 Switching to a safer, bigger stack... seL4 Test ========= _allocman_utspace_alloc@allocman.c:301 Regular utspace alloc failed and not watermark for size 31 type 0 vka_alloc_object_at@object.h:57 Failed to allocate object of size 2147483648, error 1 _allocman_utspace_alloc@allocman.c:301 Regular utspace alloc failed and not watermark for size 30 type 0 vka_alloc_object_at@object.h:57 Failed to allocate object of size 1073741824, error 1 _allocman_utspace_alloc@allocman.c:301 Regular utspace alloc failed and not watermark for size 29 type 0 vka_alloc_object_at@object.h:57 Failed to allocate object of size 536870912, error 1 ..... _utspace_split_alloc@split.c:247 Failed to find any untyped capable of creating an object at address 0x12dd0000 vka_alloc_object_at@object.h:64 Failed to allocate object of size 4096 at paddr 0x12dd0000, error 1 init_timer_caps@main.c:348 [Cond failed: error] Failed to get untyped at paddr 0x12dd0000 for timer Ignoring call to sys_rt_sigprocmask Ignoring call to sys_gettid sys_tkill assuming self kill HYP mode is enabled, and seL4test suite is compiled in Debug Mode. Prior to running seL4test, I ran code from seL4 tutorials and those ran w/o any problems. Any suggestions on what I might have done wrong? Thanks

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Exposing TSD on x86
by Corey Richardson 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

How do people feel about exposing the TSD (time-stamp disable) bit as a piece of state on the TCB? Ideally it'd be lazily switched. I vaguely want this in Robigalia for disabling access to real time in non-sufficiently-privileged processes. Best, -- cmr http://octayn.net/ +16038524272

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Re: [seL4] Workshop debrief?
by Corey Richardson 20 Dec '16

20 Dec '16

I really ought to stop using my phone for email. Sent back to list. On Mon, Dec 19, 2016, at 05:25, Jeff Waugh wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Corey Richardson > <corey(a)octayn.net> wrote: > > > I'm writing up my notes and will be publishing them on the > > Robigalia blog. > > Will send a link here when it's up. Ihor said he'd be collecting > > slides, > > not sure what the availability of those will be. > > > > Cool -- maybe let the list know too? -- cmr http://octayn.net/

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RELEASE: Announcing CAmkES 2.3.0
by Stephen.Sherratt＠data61.csiro.au 15 Dec '16

15 Dec '16

Announcing the release of CAmkES 2.3.0 Changes in this release: * support for seL4 4.0.0 * new dependency: Haskell Stack (http://haskellstack.org) + Haskell Stack is a haskell version and package manager. It takes care of installing an appropriate version of ghc and cabal for building the capDL translator - part of CAmkES' build system. Check out an example CAmkES system with: repo init -u https://github.com/seL4/camkes-manifest.git -m default-2.3.x.xml repo sync For more information about CAmkES, see: https://wiki.sel4.systems/CAmkES Cheers, Stephen

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ARM bootloaders that matter
by Jeff Waugh 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

Hi all, Out of interest, are there any ARM targets the seL4 development team / community care about that do not boot via u-boot or UEFI (whatever the implementation, be it u-boot, vendor-supplied, etc)? Thanks, Jeff

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RELEASE: Announcing seL4 4.0.0
by Parthasarathi.Susarlaajay＠data61.csiro.au 13 Dec '16

13 Dec '16

We are pleased to announce the release of 4.0.0 of seL4. Listed below are a few of the key changes in this release: * Reorder bootinfo structure. * Add missing seL4_AllRights macro in libsel4. * Disallow kernel from using a device frame as an IPC buffer. * Syscall docs in manual now generated by doxygen. * Changes to make verification easier. * Various documentation fixes. * Benchmarks refactoring. * Coding style fixes. * Support for TLB and Cache management. * Preemptible backwards memzero for Retype. * Support for TCB operations in X86 multicore. * Support for raspberry-pi 3. ARM specific changes: * ARM Hyp refactoring. * Update VCPU fault definitions. * Add userspace invocations for hardware debugging. * Enable PMU export for V8. * Support ARM MPCore registers * Fix config dependency for 'IPC Buffer location'. * Use new cap rights structures in iospace. * Move initial setting of TPIDRURW register. * Add seL4_BenchmarkFlushCaches() for arm and ia32. * Support for prefetcher on Cortex-A9. * Fix fastpath_restore on ARM Hyp and implement slowpath and restore in C. * am335x: Prevent out of bounds array access. * TK1 + Remove temporary SMMU memory mapping support. + Correct SMMU PD and PT indexing. + Split the mux controller from the misc region. * OMAP: + Fix issues with OMAP IRQ Code. X86 specific changes: * Add userspace invocations for hardware debugging. * Avoid writing the fs/gs base unless necessary. * Explicitly declare adress of .phys.bss. * Add BSS regions for BOOT and PHYS code. * Write FS and GS base when restoring user context. * Initialize store area when using XSAVE variant instructions. * Efficiently pack objects for fastpath. * Increase IPI words to 3. * Support for x2APIC. * Support larger XSAVE region sizes. * Change ia32 to use fs register for IPC buffer. * Update the bootinfo for number of cores. * Initial support for SMP vt-x. * Split CPU ID management into mode and general. * Fix cpuid family/model composition. * Add X86_64 support. Please note that this release is not source compatible with earlier releases of seL4, please read https://research.csiro.au/tsblog/introduc ing-device-untyped-memory-sel4/ for more information regarding the changes. The release tarballs can be directly downloaded from: https://github.com/seL4/seL4/archive/4.0.0.tar.gz [259d9eadaddef579c2b98b91cf40d13a 4.0.0.tar.gz] The manual for this release can be downloaded here: http://sel4.systems/Info/Docs/seL4-manual-4.0.0.pdf Contributors: * Adrian Danis * Alexander Boettcher * Amirreza Zarrabi * Anna Lyons * Christian Helmuth * Corey Richardson * Donny Yang * Hesham Almatary * Jeff Waugh * Joel Beeren * Kent McLeod * Kofi Doku Atuah * Matthew Brecknell * Matthew Fernandez * Matt Rice * Rafal Kolanski * Stephen Sherratt * Thomas Sewell * Xin,Gao Please let us know of any issues that you run into by creating an issue in the issue tracker: https://github.com/seL4/seL4/issues -- Partha Susarla Kernel engineer DATA61 | CSIRO E parthasarathi.susarla(a)data61.csiro.au www.data61.csiro.au CSIRO's Digital Productivity business unit and NICTA have joined forces to create digital powerhouse Data61

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seL4 on Zinq7000 on QEMU
by Andrew Gacek 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

I'm trying to build and emulate a version of seL4 for the zinq7000 platform, but it crashes immediately. I've started by taking the camkes tutorial and building it for zinq7000: repo init -u https://github.com/seL4/camkes-manifest.git repo sync make arm_simple_defconfig make menuconfig # change seL4 platform to zinq7000 make When I try to emulate it, it crashes right away: qemu-system-arm -M xilinx-zynq-a9 -nographic -kernel images/capdl-loader-experimental-image-arm-zynq7000 qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 0x10000000 R00=00000000 R01=00000000 R02=00000000 R03=00000000 R04=00000000 R05=00000000 R06=00000000 R07=00000000 R08=00000000 R09=00000000 R10=00000000 R11=00000000 R12=00000000 R13=00000000 R14=00000000 R15=10000000 PSR=400001d3 -Z-- A svc32 s00=00000000 s01=00000000 d00=0000000000000000 s02=00000000 s03=00000000 d01=0000000000000000 s04=00000000 s05=00000000 d02=0000000000000000 s06=00000000 s07=00000000 d03=0000000000000000 s08=00000000 s09=00000000 d04=0000000000000000 s10=00000000 s11=00000000 d05=0000000000000000 s12=00000000 s13=00000000 d06=0000000000000000 s14=00000000 s15=00000000 d07=0000000000000000 s16=00000000 s17=00000000 d08=0000000000000000 s18=00000000 s19=00000000 d09=0000000000000000 s20=00000000 s21=00000000 d10=0000000000000000 s22=00000000 s23=00000000 d11=0000000000000000 s24=00000000 s25=00000000 d12=0000000000000000 s26=00000000 s27=00000000 d13=0000000000000000 s28=00000000 s29=00000000 d14=0000000000000000 s30=00000000 s31=00000000 d15=0000000000000000 s32=00000000 s33=00000000 d16=0000000000000000 s34=00000000 s35=00000000 d17=0000000000000000 s36=00000000 s37=00000000 d18=0000000000000000 s38=00000000 s39=00000000 d19=0000000000000000 s40=00000000 s41=00000000 d20=0000000000000000 s42=00000000 s43=00000000 d21=0000000000000000 s44=00000000 s45=00000000 d22=0000000000000000 s46=00000000 s47=00000000 d23=0000000000000000 s48=00000000 s49=00000000 d24=0000000000000000 s50=00000000 s51=00000000 d25=0000000000000000 s52=00000000 s53=00000000 d26=0000000000000000 s54=00000000 s55=00000000 d27=0000000000000000 s56=00000000 s57=00000000 d28=0000000000000000 s58=00000000 s59=00000000 d29=0000000000000000 s60=00000000 s61=00000000 d30=0000000000000000 s62=00000000 s63=00000000 d31=0000000000000000 FPSCR: 00000000 Aborted Is there something I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Andrew

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Virtio on camkes-vm
by Robert VanVossen 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Hello, We are looking to add another virtio device to camkes-vm for guests to use. I have been looking through the code at how virtio_net works and I have a pretty decent understanding of how it is configured and used. I have a few design/philosophical questions though. 1. Was any of this (libethdriver, libpci, Ethdriver component, virtio_net.c, virtio_emul.c) ported from somewhere else, or was it all written from scratch? 2. Why is components/Init/src/virtio_net.c used in conjunction with vm0_config.init_cons instead of just using the VMNet templates? 3. Looks like pci handling was decoupled from drivers like libethdriver and it is left up to the VM Init component to configure PCI. What is the reason for that? 4. Virtio_emul.c appears to be the layer that actually provides the virtio interface to the VM. Would it make more sense to make this more generic to cover more devices, or should new emulation files be created for each device? Thanks, Robbie VanVossen

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Huge kernel images no more
by Jeff Waugh 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

Hurrah, I was curious about the huge kernel images, and had it on my list to poke at. Adrian's changes merged last night sorted it: x86: Explicitly declare adress of .phys.bss x86: Add BSS regions for BOOT and PHYS code Simulation debug x86_64 image is down from 7.1M to 1.1M. That's more like it! Nice! :-) Thanks, Jeff

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Bitcoin on seL4?
by Carl Dong 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

Hi all, I recently acquired a BD-SL-I.MX6 and will be tinkering with it to install seL4. A major use case for me is if I could run [bitcoind](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoind) or at least [vanitygen](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen) on seL4. I'm very new to the system, but is there a relatively easy way of cross-compiling said software for seL4? Would love to spend some time learning. Cheers, Carl Dong accounts(a)carldong.me

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seL4 Memory Management
by Mark Reus 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

Hi I have been going through some of the research papers about seL4. I wanted to understand the security features in the memory management. I am a little confused, hope someone can I help me. Quote from the paper "Finally, the kernel ensures that each physical frame mapped by the MMU at a useraccessible address is of the Frame object type. These Frame objects contain no kernel data and since they cannot overlap with other typed objects, direct user access to kernel data is not possible" I understand that seL4 promotes isolation between processes and no allocation is done by the kernel itself rather it is done by user level manager. Since we use untyped memory and we retype them, there is no overlap of objects. The user level resource managers can access both the kernel memory and other memory as well because they have capabilities to both. What exactly in the above quote causes the isolation of user level memory with kernel memory. I am of the notion that the kernel allocated objects are still accessible and can be modified to point to some other memory? Am I misunderstanding something? Regards Mark

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Good C, bad C, verifiable C
by Jeff Waugh 30 Nov '16

30 Nov '16

Howdy, Is there a guide to the dos and don'ts of C according to the seL4 verification process? I kinda remember reading a quick summary somewhere, but can't find it on the wiki. Maybe I read it in one of the papers? I certainly remember reading the moral equivalent of "lol no strings". ;-) Thanks, Jeff

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contiguous physical memory allocation for seL4
by PX 30 Nov '16

30 Nov '16

Hi, all I want to allocate a contiguous physical memory block (larger than a physical page) and map it to contiguous virtual addresses in the vspace, what's the best way to do it? Are there existing libraries allowing me to do that? thanks Peng

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First International seL4 Workshop
by Gernot.Heiser＠data61.csiro.au 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Hey seL4 community! We’d like to invite you to participate in the inaugural seL4 Workshop. Given the growth in the community we are starting an annual seL4 workshop where we can come together to share and learn what is being done with seL4. Unlike the previous developers days, the focus is much more on what is happening with seL4 and what interesting things are being done using seL4 rather than a learning or tutorial event. We’d like participants to join and: - present what they are doing with seL4 - demonstrate seL4-based projects - give tutorials on aspects of seL4 or tools, libraries, environments for working with seL4 - show results or progress of verification work involving seL4 - discuss interesting challenges (and possible solutions) they’ve encountered when using seL4 - discuss visions for the future of seL4 and high-assurance systems This workshop will take place on Thursday December 15, 2016 (and may be extended to December 16th if there is enough demand) in Malibu, CA, USA. Note that you are welcome to attend even if you do not present anything. Please register participation at: https://sel4.systems/Community/Devdays/ Participation is free, and we may be able to provide students with financial assistance for travel. This workshop is sponsored by the Center for Secure and Resilient Systems at HRL Laboratories, LLC, and by Data61. Gernot for the Data61 Trustworthy Systems Team

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Re: [seL4] Timer for Performance Measurement
by Kofidoku.Atuah＠data61.csiro.au 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

?Hey Andrew, Sorry I took so long to get back to you: we have a benchmarking suite, seL4Bench (https://github.com/seL4/sel4bench/blob/master/apps/ipc/src/main.c) which should have userspace timers and precise timestamps available for most platforms. As I understand, you will just have to write a new microbenchmark of your own, and import your library, and then insert calls to the relevant timestamp counter functions (https://wiki.sel4.systems/Benchmarking%20guide)? Kofi Doku Atuah Kernel engineer DATA61 | CSIRO E kofidoku.atuah(a)data61.csiro.au www.data61.csiro.au CSIRO's Digital Productivity business unit and NICTA have joined forces to create digital powerhouse Data61 ________________________________ From: Devel <devel-bounces(a)sel4.systems> on behalf of Andrew Mine <secondmine(a)gmail.com> Sent: 04 November 2016 16:30 To: devel(a)sel4.systems Subject: [seL4] Timer for Performance Measurement Hi Is there any inbuilt library to get the time like get_time in seL4? I want to measure IPC performance and overheads for my tasks. Regards Andrew

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Re: [seL4] how to get timing information on seL4 user space
by Kofidoku.Atuah＠data61.csiro.au 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

??Hi Peng, Well, an atomic counter would suffice, and if you need to secure the counter, you could wrap it around with a server. You either need a hardware upcounter, or else a periodic event-timer that you can use to emulate a hardware upcounter; from there, you just use your upcounter for your jiffies. Libplatsupport has userspace timer drivers for most platforms we support: https://github.com/seL4/util_libs/tree/master/libplatsupport? Kofi Doku Atuah Kernel engineer DATA61 | CSIRO E kofidoku.atuah(a)data61.csiro.au www.data61.csiro.au CSIRO's Digital Productivity business unit and NICTA have joined forces to create digital powerhouse Data61 ________________________________ From: Devel <devel-bounces(a)sel4.systems> on behalf of PX <seawolf.peng(a)gmail.com> Sent: 29 November 2016 08:27 To: devel(a)sel4.systems Subject: [seL4] how to get timing information on seL4 user space Hi, all I want to get number of ticks, similar to jiffies in Linux, in the ARM seL4 user space. How can I do it? Are there existing libraries I can use? If not, what's the best way to implement it? thanks Peng

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how to get timing information on seL4 user space
by PX 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Hi, all I want to get number of ticks, similar to jiffies in Linux, in the ARM seL4 user space. How can I do it? Are there existing libraries I can use? If not, what's the best way to implement it? thanks Peng

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IPC measurements
by Neelesh Vemula 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

Hi I have been measuring the performance of my application and doing some comparisons with other kernels. I had a couple of queries. I am running seL4 on zynq device. I am using the given timer driver in libplatsupport to measure the clock cycles. Queries: 1) I have found the sample benchmark numbers for seL4 IPC from http://l4hq.org/docs/performance.php. Since I am running on Armv7 Cortex A9 , the time for one half way trip is 316 ns. Is this measured from system call to system call or from process to process? 2) I am trying to compare the performance on FreeRTOS and Linux, is there any such comparison on where seL4 stands? 3) Does the IPC time vary with the different api of ReplyRecv, Reply, seL4_NBRecv? I have this question because I am seeing that Reply is taking about twice the amount of clock cycles compared to Recv. In terms of my application, I am majorly looking at measuring one whole cycle which includes: 1) 1st Process sends message to 2nd Process 2) 2nd Process Reads from AXI device space 3) 2nd Process replies with Reply and waits for another command from 1st process 4) 1st process sends another message to 2nd Process 5) 2nd Process writes to the hardware 6) Time from step 1 to step 5 is measured. Results for this on seL4 : 3180 clock cycles FreeRTOS: 2414 clock cycles I am sure there is possibility of unnecessary overheads involved in my measurement, but I expected seL4 to be faster. Can someone help me in this regard. Regards Neelesh Vemula

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Reading executable of the first process in kernel
by Norrathep Rattanavipanon 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Hi, I want to modify the sel4 kernel to compute a checksum over the executable of the first process before executing it. The goal is to ensure that we execute the correct first process. What I'm doing right now is modify try_init_kernel() in kernel/src/archarm/kernel/boot.c by adding the following lines: for(i=ui_p_reg_start, i<ui_p_reg_end; i++) { checksum += *((char*) (i)); } My questions are the following: (1) Is this a right place to perform the checksum (inside try_init_kernel())? I assume in this function, seL4 kernel already takes over and thus this should do the job. (2) Based on my understanding, what I did was computing the checksum over the entire image (which may includes executable of other processes as well). Is there a way to just read the executable of the first process and ignore the rest in seL4 kernel? (3) I'm also curious: where/when does the seL4 kernel start the root process? I see the end of the same file (boot.c) that it just calls try_init_kernel() but does not load the root process. Best, Oak -- Norrathep (Oak) Rattanavipanon M.S. in Computer Science University of California - Irvine

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Memory Management
by Mark Reus 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Hi I have a general case about memory allocation in particular with that of the Vspace. I have been reading some documents and trying to compare how it is in Linux Kernel. Any program Virtual memory in a Linux kernel is as shown in picture below where all processes have 1GB of virtual memory which is mapped to kernel space for faster context switches and system calls. _____________________ | Kernel Space (1GB) | |_____________________| | | | User Mode Space | | (3 GB) | | | |_____________________| I have come across this this link http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pipermail/l4-hackers/2014/006262.html detailing a little about the sel4 memory management. But I haven't been able to completely comprehend it . I wanted to know if the seL4 kernel also has a similar mapping of kernel space. Regards Mark

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