The exception vector page on m88k systems has always been the same page as

the one used by the firmware, which (at least on mvme88k) is at address zero.

This is unfortunate, since this means that NULL pointer dereferences in the
kernel are not caught, and writes cause havoc.

This behaviour was necessary to be able to use the PROM system call interface
during early bootstrap, without having to disassemble the VBR page and
update branches - which use pc-relative displacement - if we were to use
a different VBR address.

On mvme88k, change this and actually set up two VBR pages: one, over the PROM
page (except for the system call vectors), and another one in the kernel
image (which will be mapped read-only). We'll run with the PROM page until
the end of autoconf, and then switch to the kernel one, and unmap all the
PROM below it.

As a bonus, the final kernel page can use optimized data access fault
handlers, which do not have to check for faults caused by badaddr(), since
badaddr() is only used during device probe on buses which do not support
hotplug.

There are a few infrastructure collateral damage on aviion and luna88k, but
these ports do not change their behaviour yet.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/sys/arch/mvme88k/include/prom.h b/sys/arch/mvme88k/include/prom.h
index 8caba0743bb..750fd8a54ff 100644
--- a/sys/arch/mvme88k/include/prom.h
+++ b/sys/arch/mvme88k/include/prom.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$OpenBSD: prom.h,v 1.17 2007/12/15 19:35:52 miod Exp $ */
+/*	$OpenBSD: prom.h,v 1.18 2010/12/23 20:05:08 miod Exp $ */
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 1998 Steve Murphree, Jr.
  * Copyright (c) 1996 Nivas Madhur
@@ -168,8 +168,6 @@ struct mvmeprom_dskio {
 };
 #define MVMEPROM_BLOCK_SIZE	256
 
-extern unsigned long bugvec[32], sysbugvec[32];	/* BUG trap vector copies */
-
 #endif	/* _LOCORE */
 
 #ifndef RB_NOSYM