QEMU triple faults when enabling paging - c

Question

I'm implementing my own kernel and I'm stuck. I'm trying to load my kernel into the high half virtual addresses. I've tackled the identity addresses problem by identity mapping the low 1M of RAM. I've created an init section that is relocated to the kernel's physical address in order to take care of paging initialisation. My kernel's virtual offset is 0xc0000000. This is my linker script:
OUTPUT_FORMAT(elf32-i386)
ENTRY(start)
KERNEL_VIRTUAL_OFFSET = 0xC0000000;
SECTIONS
{
. = 1M;
kernel_start = .;
start_init = .;
.init ALIGN(4K) :
{ *(.multiboot);
*(.init);
*(.tables);
}
end_init = .;
. += KERNEL_VIRTUAL_OFFSET;
kernel_high_half_start = .;
.text ALIGN(4K) : AT(ADDR(.text) - KERNEL_VIRTUAL_OFFSET)
{*(.text) }
.data ALIGN(4K) : AT(ADDR(.data) - KERNEL_VIRTUAL_OFFSET)
{ *(.data) }
.rodata ALIGN(4K) : AT(ADDR(.rodata) - KERNEL_VIRTUAL_OFFSET)
{ *(.rodata) }
.bss ALIGN(4K) : AT(ADDR(.bss) - KERNEL_VIRTUAL_OFFSET)
{ *(.bss) }
kernel_high_half_end = .;
kernel_end = . - KERNEL_VIRTUAL_OFFSET;
}
Here's my entry point. I'm using GRUB as my bootloader. It successfully boots and jumps into my entry point because of the init section:
its 32
section .multiboot
;grub bootloader header
align 4
dd 0x1BADB002 ;magic
dd 0x00 ;flags
dd - (0x1BADB002 + 0x00) ;checksum. m+f+c should be zero
; Declarations
global start
extern kmain
extern paging_init
extern kernel_page_directory
section .init
enable_paging:
mov eax, kernel_page_directory
mov cr3, eax
mov eax, cr0
or eax, 0x80000000
mov cr0, eax ; ***** PAGING ENABLED HERE *****
ret
start:
cli ;block interrupts
mov esp, init_stack
call paging_init
call enable_paging
;mov eax, 0xb8000
;mov byte[eax], 'h'
;mov byte[eax+1], 0x7
; Now high half kernel is mapped to the page directory
mov esp, stack_space ;set stack pointer
push ebx ; grub boot info
call kmain
loop:
hlt ;halt the CPU
jmp loop
resb 4096; 4KB small stack for my init section.
init_stack:
section .bss
resb 8192 ;8KB for stack
stack_space:
Here is my code the fills the page table and the page directory of the kernel. As you can see, the whole code is linked into the init section, to avoid relocation problems:
page_table_t kernel_page_directory[PAGE_DIR_SIZE]
__attribute__((aligned(PAGE_SIZE))) __attribute__((section(".tables"))) = {0};
page_pointer_t kernel_page_tables[PAGE_TABLE_SIZE]
__attribute__((aligned(PAGE_SIZE))) __attribute__((section(".tables"))) = {0};
page_pointer_t identity_page_table[PAGE_TABLE_SIZE]
__attribute__((aligned(PAGE_SIZE))) __attribute__((section(".tables"))) = {0};
/* Identity map the low 1M
* In early boot stage.
*/
static void __attribute__((section(".init"))) map_identity()
{
//map bios
unsigned int current_page = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < BIOS_PAGE_TABLE_ENTRIES; i++, current_page += PAGE_SIZE)
{
identity_page_table[i] = (current_page) | 0x3;
}
//map init
current_page = INIT_START;
for(int i = INIT_START >> 12 & 0x3FF;
i < ((INIT_START >> 12 & 0x3FF) + (INIT_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE));
i++, current_page += PAGE_SIZE)
{
identity_page_table[i] = (current_page) | 0x3;
}
kernel_page_directory[0] = ((unsigned long)(identity_page_table)) | 0x3;
}
/* Map the kernel memory to its page directory,
* **in early boot stage.
* We don't need to map the init section, we don't need it anymore.
*/
__attribute__((section(".init"))) static void map_kernel_memory()
{
//Identity map the init section
//Start at 1MB i.e. its page aligned.
unsigned int start_index = 256;
unsigned long current_page = KERNEL_START;
for(int i = start_index;
i < start_index + (KERNEL_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE) + 1;
i++, current_page += PAGE_SIZE)
{
kernel_page_tables[i] = current_page | 0x3;
}
kernel_page_directory[KERNEL_DIRECTORY_ENTRY] = ((unsigned long)kernel_page_tables) | 0x3;
}
__attribute__((section(".init"))) void paging_init()
{
map_identity();
map_kernel_memory();
}
I tried to point to the exact assembly instruction, but that makes my kernel work incorrectly and I think it is because of mov cr0, eax when I enable paging. CR3 does contain the address of kernel_page_directory or with 0x3. As soon as I enable paging, QEMU stops responding and the system reboots constantly. The screen is being flushed and then printed repeatedly. Any ideas why this is happening? How I can fix it?

Answer 1

Is the address of your page directory Page-Aligned? The size of each page (frame) is 4 KB. I suggest to create a struct for page directory like this:
typedef struct page_directory{
page_table_t *tables[1024];
size_t tablesPhysical[1024]; // Physical address of page tables
size_t physicalAddr; // Physical address of `tablesPhysical'
} page_directory_t;
So, your address of the directory must be the multiple of 4 KB (0x1000). James Molloy's Tutorial may help you.