This first patch gets B2 and SS to build under Leopard and Tiger.
I tested this on a 32-bit intel 10.5.6 mac like so:
B2
./autogen.sh --disable-standalone-gui --enable-vosf --enable-sdl-video --enable-sdl-audio --enable-addressing=real --without-esd --without-gtk --without-mon --without-x
SS
./autogen.sh --disable-standalone-gui --enable-vosf -enable-sdl-video --disable-sdl-audio --enable-addressing=real --without-esd --without-gtk --without-mon --without-x --enable-jit
There is also a little tweak so that you can use sdl audio in SheepShaver when building for Mac OS X.
explicitly generated from mig. The advantage of that is to provide a "fast"
path for x86_64 on Leopard too (fault address in code[1]).
By "fast", this means +33% faster wrt. explicitly thread_get_state() but
still pretty slow (40 usec/fault). This is on par with the i386 code path though.
Leopard kernel faster? This is pure marketing hype. For 32-bit applications,
Mach exception recovery is 60% slower. For 64-bit applications, this is up
to 40% faster though. In any case, MacOS X remains pretty slow wrt. Linux...
environment variable: SIGSEGV_MACH_FAULT. It can be set to "direct" to
assume the fault address comes from code[1] argument, or "slow" to use
the slow path through thread_get_status(EXCEPTION_STATE)->faultvaddr.
in the bundle. This is faster and more accurate as this avoids emulation.
Also clean-up code so that to prepare the use of lib uaccess on hpux/ia64.
XXX: this will need explicit use of uint64_t to define registers because
HP/UX is ILP32 capable and all registers are 64-bit capable so "unsigned long"
won't fit.
complex than expected but it was fun to play with. Who designed this ISA?
I'd love to see how the decoder is implemented in HW, by all means it is
not "simplified" unless I missed some pattern...
XNU 792.21.3 (10.4.10) and XNU 1228 (10.5.0), exception handler code[1] always
contains the fault address nowadays. So make it the default fast path but keep
provisions to check that at run-time first.
This yields a nearly 4x improvement in SIGSEGV recovery but MacOS X is still
suboptimal wrt. Linux, so VOSF is still not possible with frameskip == 0.
XXX: the ppc kernel had bugs that caused DAR (put into code[1]) to be incorrectly
decoded. This would need a broader test audience or more careful audit of the
sources changes.
- Don't export transfer types definitions (formerly used by older API)
- Handle ADD instructions in ix86_skip_instruction() (generated by icc 9.1)
- Use "%p" format for EIP/RIP addresses
- Call user handler for KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS too (SIGBUS)
- Check for VALID_THREAD_STATE_FLAVOR in forward_exception()
- Return KERN_FAILURE if forward_exception() got an unknown behavior code
- In the instruction skipper code, add a huge kludge (trampoline) to forcibly
zero out %global registers when requested. Otherwise, Solaris/SPARC turned
out to use %g1 during signal handling, and the zero we could have written
to there vanished. This assumes [%sp-8] is valid to use (ABI states data
below %sp is undefined though)
Add Linux/ARM instruction skipping, includes support for ARMv4+ halfword
and signed data transfer instructions. Note that load/store multiple are
not handled and someone has to make sure post-incr/write-back logic is
correctly implemented.