Hi,
Lets assume, boot processor has done all its
initialization and is booting the second processor.
In do_boot_cpu(), it calls fork_by_hand() and creates
an idle task for cpu#2 .
It then iniliazes all relevant fields of 'idle' task
for cpu#2.
It also does following
start_eip = setup_trampoline();
stack_start.esp = (void *) (1024 + PAGE_SIZE + (char
*)idle);
After doing lot of APIC related stuff, it sends
Startup IPI to cpu#2 to start booting from start_eip .
cpu#2, from trampoline code jumps to startup_32 and
from there to initialize_secondary.
initialize_secondary is
asm volatile(
"movl %0,%%esp\n\t"
"jmp *%1"
:
:"r" (current->thread.esp),"r"
(current->thread.eip));
Now my questions
1] what is trampoline ?
2] I did not understood, how 'current' above is set to
new idle task created in fork_by_hand (is some magic
done in start_stack.esp ?? )
-- Amol
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