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<title>Lab: system calls</title>
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<h1>Lab: system calls</h1>
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This lab makes you familiar with the implementation of system calls.
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In particular, you will implement a new system
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calls: <tt>sigalarm</tt> and <tt>sigreturn</tt>.
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<b>Note: before this lab, it would be good to have recitation section on gdb and understanding assembly</b>
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<h2>Warmup: system call tracing</h2>
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<p>In this exercise you will modify the xv6 kernel to print out a line
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for each system call invocation. It is enough to print the name of the
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system call and the return value; you don't need to print the system
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call arguments.
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<p>
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When you're done, you should see output like this when booting
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xv6:
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<pre>
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...
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fork -> 2
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exec -> 0
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open -> 3
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close -> 0
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$write -> 1
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write -> 1
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</pre>
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<p>
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That's init forking and execing sh, sh making sure only two file descriptors are
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open, and sh writing the $ prompt. (Note: the output of the shell and the
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system call trace are intermixed, because the shell uses the write syscall to
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print its output.)
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<p> Hint: modify the syscall() function in kernel/syscall.c.
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<p>Run the programs you wrote in the lab and inspect the system call
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trace. Are there many system calls? Which systems calls correspond
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to code in the applications you wrote above?
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<p>Optional: print the system call arguments.
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<h2>RISC-V assembly</h2>
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<p>For the alarm system call it will be important to understand RISC-V
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assembly. Since in later labs you will also read and write assembly,
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it is important that you familiarize yourself with RISC_V assembly.
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<p>Add a file user/call.c with the following content, modify the
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Makefile to add the program to the user programs, and compile (make
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fs.img). The Makefile also produces a binary and a readable
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assembly a version of the program in the file user/call.asm.
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<pre>
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#include "kernel/param.h"
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#include "kernel/types.h"
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#include "kernel/stat.h"
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#include "user/user.h"
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int g(int x) {
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return x+3;
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}
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int f(int x) {
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return g(x);
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}
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void main(void) {
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printf(1, "%d %d\n", f(8)+1, 13);
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exit();
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}
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</pre>
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<p>Read through call.asm and understand it. The instruction manual
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for RISC-V is in the doc directory (doc/riscv-spec-v2.2.pdf). Here
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are some questions that you should answer for yourself:
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<ul>
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<li>Which registers contain arguments to functions? Which
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register holds 13 in the call to <tt>printf</tt>? Which register
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holds the second one? Which register holds the second one? Etc.
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<li>Where is the function call to <tt>f</tt> and <tt>g</tt>
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in <tt>main</tt>? (Hint: compiler may inline functions.)
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<li>At what address is the function <tt>printf</tt> located?
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<li>What value is in the register <tt>ra</tt> in the <tt>jalr</tt>
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to <tt>printf</tt> in <tt>main</tt>?
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</ul>
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<h2>alarm</h2>
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<p>
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In this exercise you'll add a feature to xv6 that periodically alerts
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a process as it uses CPU time. This might be useful for compute-bound
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processes that want to limit how much CPU time they chew up, or for
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processes that want to compute but also want to take some periodic
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action. More generally, you'll be implementing a primitive form of
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user-level interrupt/fault handlers; you could use something similar
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to handle page faults in the application, for example.
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<p>
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You should add a new <tt>sigalarm(interval, handler)</tt> system call.
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If an application calls <tt>sigalarm(n, fn)</tt>, then after every
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<tt>n</tt> "ticks" of CPU time that the program consumes, the kernel
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will cause application function
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<tt>fn</tt> to be called. When <tt>fn</tt> returns, the application
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will resume where it left off. A tick is a fairly arbitrary unit of
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time in xv6, determined by how often a hardware timer generates
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interrupts.
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<p>
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You should put the following example program in <tt>user/alarmtest.c</tt>:
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<b>XXX Insert the final program here; maybe just give the code in the repo</b>
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#include "kernel/param.h"
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#include "kernel/types.h"
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#include "kernel/stat.h"
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#include "kernel/riscv.h"
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#include "user/user.h"
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void test0();
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void test1();
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void periodic();
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int
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main(int argc, char *argv[])
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{
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test0();
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test1();
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exit();
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}
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void test0()
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{
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int i;
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printf(1, "test0 start\n");
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alarm(2, periodic);
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for(i = 0; i < 1000*500000; i++){
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if((i % 250000) == 0)
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write(2, ".", 1);
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}
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alarm(0, 0);
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printf(1, "test0 done\n");
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}
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void
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periodic()
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{
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printf(1, "alarm!\n");
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}
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void __attribute__ ((noinline)) foo(int i, int *j) {
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if((i % 2500000) == 0) {
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write(2, ".", 1);
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}
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*j += 1;
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}
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void test1() {
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int i;
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int j;
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printf(1, "test1 start\n");
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j = 0;
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alarm(2, periodic);
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for(i = 0; i < 1000*500000; i++){
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foo(i, &j);
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}
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if(i != j) {
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printf(2, "i %d should = j %d\n", i, j);
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exit();
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}
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printf(1, "test1 done\n");
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}
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</pre>
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The program calls <tt>sigalarm(2, periodic1)</tt> in <tt>test0</tt> to
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ask the kernel to force a call to <tt>periodic()</tt> every 2 ticks,
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and then spins for a while. After you have implemented
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the <tt>sigalarm()</tt> system call in the kernel,
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<tt>alarmtest</tt> should produce output like this for <tt>test0</tt>:
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<b>Update output for final usertests.c</b>
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<pre>
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$ alarmtest
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alarmtest starting
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.....alarm!
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....alarm!
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.....alarm!
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......alarm!
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.....alarm!
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....alarm!
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....alarm!
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......alarm!
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.....alarm!
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...alarm!
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...$
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</pre>
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<p>
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<p>
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(If you only see one "alarm!", try increasing the number of iterations in
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<tt>alarmtest.c</tt> by 10x.)
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<p>The main challenge will be to arrange that the handler is invoked
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when the process's alarm interval expires. In your usertrap, when a
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process's alarm interval expires, you'll want to cause it to execute
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its handler. How can you do that? You will need to understand in
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details how system calls work (i.e., the code in kernel/trampoline.S
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and kernel/trap.c). Which register contains the address where
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systems calls return to?
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<p>Your solution will be few lines of code, but it will be tricky to
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write the right lines of code. Common failure scenarios are: the
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user program crashes or doesn't terminate. You can see the assembly
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code for the alarmtest program in alarmtest.asm, which will be handy
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for debugging.
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<h2>Test0: invoke handler</h2>
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<p>To get started, the best strategy is to first pass test0, which
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will force you to handle the main challenge above. Here are some
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hints how to pass test0:
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<ul>
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<li>You'll need to modify the Makefile to cause <tt>alarmtest.c</tt>
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to be compiled as an xv6 user program.
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<li>The right declaration to put in <tt>user/user.h</tt> is:
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<pre>
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int sigalarm(int ticks, void (*handler)());
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</pre>
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<li>Update kernel/syscall.h and user/usys.S (update usys.pl to update
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usys.S) to allow <tt>alarmtest</tt> to invoke the sigalarm system
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call.
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<li>Your <tt>sys_sigalarm()</tt> should store the alarm interval and
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the pointer to the handler function in new fields in the <tt>proc</tt>
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structure; see <tt>kernel/proc.h</tt>.
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<li>You'll need to keep track of how many ticks have passed since the
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last call (or are left until the next call) to a process's alarm
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handler; you'll need a new field in <tt>struct proc</tt> for this
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too. You can initialize <tt>proc</tt> fields in <tt>allocproc()</tt>
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in <tt>proc.c</tt>.
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<li>Every tick, the hardware clock forces an interrupt, which is handled
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in <tt>usertrap()</tt>; you should add some code here.
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<li>You only want to manipulate a process's alarm ticks if there's a a
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timer interrupt; you want something like
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<pre>
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if(which_dev == 2) ...
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</pre>
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<li>Only invoke the process's alarm function, if the process has a
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timer outstanding. Note that the address of the user's alarm
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function might be 0 (e.g., in alarmtest.asm, <tt>periodic</tt> is at
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address 0).
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<li>It will be easier to look at traps with gdb if you tell qemu to
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use only one CPU, which you can do by running
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<pre>
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make CPUS=1 qemu
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</pre>
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</ul>
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<h2>test1(): resume interrupted code</h2>
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<p>Test0 doesn't tests whether the handler returns correctly to
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interrupted instruction in test0. If you didn't get this right, it
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is likely that test1 will fail (the program crashes or the program
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goes into an infinite loop).
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<p>A main challenge is to arrange that when the handler returns, it
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returns to the instruction where the program was interrupted. Which
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register contains the return address of a function? When the kernel
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receives an interrupt, which register contains the address of the
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interrupted instruction?
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<p>Your solution is likely to require you to save and restore
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registers---what registers do you need to save and restore to resume
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the interrupted code correctly? (Hint: it will be many). There are
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several ways to do this, but one convenient way is to add another
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system call <tt>sigreturn</tt> that the handler calls when it is
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done. Your job is to arrange that <tt>sigreturn</tt> returns to the
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interrupted code.
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Some hints:
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<ul>
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<li>Add the <tt>sigreturn</tt> system call, following the changes
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you made to support <tt>sigalarm</tt>.
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<li>Save enough state when the timer goes in the <tt>struct
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proc</tt> so that <tt>sigreturn</tt> can return to the
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interrupted code.
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<li>Prevent re-entrant calls to the handler----if a handler hasn't
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returned yet, don't call it again.
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<ul>
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<p>Once you pass <tt>test0</tt> and <tt>test1</tt>, run usertests to
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make sure you didn't break any other parts of the kernel.
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