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Lioncash 567b7de124 core/cpu_core_manager: Create threads separately from initialization. Our initialization process is a little wonky than one would expect when it comes to code flow. We initialize the CPU last, as opposed to hardware, where the CPU obviously needs to be first, otherwise nothing else would work, and we have code that adds checks to get around this. For example, in the page table setting code, we check to see if the system is turned on before we even notify the CPU instances of a page table switch. This results in dead code (at the moment), because the only time a page table switch will occur is when the system is not running, preventing the emulated CPU instances from being notified of a page table switch in a convenient manner (technically the code path could be taken, but we don't emulate the process creation svc handlers yet). This moves the threads creation into its own member function of the core manager and restores a little order (and predictability) to our initialization process. Previously, in the multi-threaded cases, we'd kick off several threads before even the main kernel process was created and ready to execute (gross!). Now the initialization process is like so: Initialization: 1. Timers 2. CPU 3. Kernel 4. Filesystem stuff (kind of gross, but can be amended trivially) 5. Applet stuff (ditto in terms of being kind of gross) 6. Main process (will be moved into the loading step in a following change) 7. Telemetry (this should be initialized last in the future). 8. Services (4 and 5 should ideally be alongside this). 9. GDB (gross. Uses namespace scope state. Needs to be refactored into a class or booted altogether). 10. Renderer 11. GPU (will also have its threads created in a separate step in a following change). Which... isn't ideal per-se, however getting rid of the wonky intertwining of CPU state initialization out of this mix gets rid of most of the footguns when it comes to our initialization process.	8 years ago
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inih@603729dec8	Added configuration file system.	12 years ago
CMakeLists.txt	CMakeLists: Derive the source directory grouping from targets themselves	9 years ago

Lioncash 567b7de124 core/cpu_core_manager: Create threads separately from initialization.

Our initialization process is a little wonky than one would expect when
it comes to code flow. We initialize the CPU last, as opposed to
hardware, where the CPU obviously needs to be first, otherwise nothing
else would work, and we have code that adds checks to get around this.

For example, in the page table setting code, we check to see if the
system is turned on before we even notify the CPU instances of a page
table switch. This results in dead code (at the moment), because the
only time a page table switch will occur is when the system is *not*
running, preventing the emulated CPU instances from being notified of a
page table switch in a convenient manner (technically the code path
could be taken, but we don't emulate the process creation svc handlers
yet).

This moves the threads creation into its own member function of the core
manager and restores a little order (and predictability) to our
initialization process.

Previously, in the multi-threaded cases, we'd kick off several threads
before even the main kernel process was created and ready to execute (gross!).
Now the initialization process is like so:

Initialization:
  1. Timers

  2. CPU

  3. Kernel

  4. Filesystem stuff (kind of gross, but can be amended trivially)

  5. Applet stuff (ditto in terms of being kind of gross)

  6. Main process (will be moved into the loading step in a following
                   change)

  7. Telemetry (this should be initialized last in the future).

  8. Services (4 and 5 should ideally be alongside this).

  9. GDB (gross. Uses namespace scope state. Needs to be refactored into a
          class or booted altogether).

  10. Renderer

  11. GPU (will also have its threads created in a separate step in a
           following change).

Which... isn't *ideal* per-se, however getting rid of the wonky
intertwining of CPU state initialization out of this mix gets rid of
most of the footguns when it comes to our initialization process.

8 years ago

inih@603729dec8

Added configuration file system.

12 years ago

CMakeLists.txt

CMakeLists: Derive the source directory grouping from targets themselves

9 years ago