Now that we reclaim the memory range that is created by KASLR before
the start of the kernel image, there's no need to be conservative with
the KASLR offset.
This enables further work on implementing KASLR by adding relocation
support to the pre-kernel and updating the kernel to be less dependent
on specific virtual memory layouts.
This implements a simple bootloader that is capable of loading ELF64
kernel images. It does this by using QEMU/GRUB to load the kernel image
from disk and pass it to our bootloader as a Multiboot module.
The bootloader then parses the ELF image and sets it up appropriately.
The kernel's entry point is a C++ function with architecture-native
code.
Co-authored-by: Liav A <liavalb@gmail.com>
We had an inconsistency in valid user addresses. is_user_range() was
checking against the kernel base address, but previous changes caused
the maximum valid user addressable range to be 32 MiB below that.
This patch stops mmap(MAP_FIXED) of a range between these two bounds
from panic-ing the kernel in RangeAllocator::allocate_specific.
By moving the PhysicalPage classes out of the kernel heap into a static
array, one for each physical page, we can avoid the added overhead and
easily find them by indexing into an array.
This also wraps the PhysicalPage into a PhysicalPageEntry, which allows
us to re-use each slot with information where to find the next free
page.
