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Andreas Kling
be5f42adea UserspaceEmulator+LibX86: Start tracking uninitialized memory :^)
This patch introduces the concept of shadow bits. For every byte of
memory there is a corresponding shadow byte that contains metadata
about that memory.

Initially, the only metadata is whether the byte has been initialized
or not. That's represented by the least significant shadow bit.

Shadow bits travel together with regular values throughout the entire
CPU and MMU emulation. There are two main helper classes to facilitate
this: ValueWithShadow and ValueAndShadowReference.

ValueWithShadow<T> is basically a struct { T value; T shadow; } whereas
ValueAndShadowReference<T> is struct { T& value; T& shadow; }.

The latter is used as a wrapper around general-purpose registers, since
they can't use the plain ValueWithShadow memory as we need to be able
to address individual 8-bit and 16-bit subregisters (EAX, AX, AL, AH.)

Whenever a computation is made using uninitialized inputs, the result
is tainted and becomes uninitialized as well. This allows us to track
this state as it propagates throughout memory and registers.

This patch doesn't yet keep track of tainted flags, that will be an
important upcoming improvement to this.

I'm sure I've messed up some things here and there, but it seems to
basically work, so we have a place to start! :^)
2020-07-21 02:37:29 +02:00
Andreas Kling
2da44dba44 UserspaceEmulator: Add support for shared buffers (shbuf)
We track these separately from regular mmap() regions, as they have
slightly different behaviors.
2020-07-15 18:47:45 +02:00
Andreas Kling
e0580e2975 UserspaceEmulator: Add some more syscalls
We can now unmap mapped memory, among other things. This is all very
ad-hoc as I'm trying to run UserspaceEmulator inside itself. :^)
2020-07-13 13:50:22 +02:00
Andreas Kling
94f07660e9 UserspaceEmulator: Add some convenient SoftMMU APIs for copying data
We'll soon want to copy data in and out of the SoftMMU memory space.
2020-07-12 17:42:57 +02:00
Andreas Kling
734f63d522 UserspaceEmulator: Add basic TLS (thread-local storage) support
The SoftMMU now receives full X86::LogicalAddress values from SoftCPU.
This allows the MMU to reroute TLS accesses to a special memory region.

The ELF executable's PT_TLS header tells us how to allocate the TLS.

Basically, the GS register points to a magical 4-byte area which has
a pointer to the TCB (thread control block). The TCB lives in normal
flat memory space and is accessed through the DS register.
2020-07-12 01:36:45 +02:00
Andreas Kling
f4ddca0a73 UserspaceEmulator: Warn in SoftMMU if accessing unknown memory 2020-07-10 20:29:44 +02:00
Andreas Kling
6f27770cea UserspaceEmulator: Add 8/16 bit memory read/write operations 2020-07-10 20:20:27 +02:00
Andreas Kling
d5c46cf528 UserspaceEmulator: Start sketching out a SoftMMU class :^)
This Emulator sub-object will keep track of all active memory regions
and handle memory read/write operations from the CPU.

A memory region is currently represented by a virtual Region object
that can implement arbitrary behavior by overriding read/write ops.
2020-07-09 16:18:47 +02:00