Hi Franc,

The easiest way to trigger privileged code from userland is by adding a new syscall to the base-hw kernel. To achieve this, you first have to adapt the kernel-interface description. Let me give you some background for this. There are two types of syscalls, public syscalls that can be called by everyone and core syscalls that can be called only by Genodes core process. For optimization purpose, the kernel expects the IDs of the syscalls to be this way:

public syscalls: 0, 1, ..., x
core syscalls: x+1, x+2, x+y

So if you want to add a public syscall in base-hw/include/kernel/interface.h, you should always use the call ID that is one higher than the current maximum in this file. Additionally, you must increase all core-syscall IDs in base-hw/src/core/include/kernel/core_interface.h by one.

After that, you can implement the syscall back-end by adding a new method 'void Thread::_call_xxx()' in base-hw/src/core/kernel/thread.cc and adapting the 'void Thread::_call()' method in the same file accordingly. In this file you also find the implementation of all the other syscalls. They may serve you as inspiration on how to pass arguments and return values.

If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to ask ;)

Cheers,
Martin

On 19.01.2015 11:04, Franc sylvester wrote: