Colloquially known as "invert-fastpath".
Update verification efforts on ARM for the following seL4 changes:
- scheduling decisions done in possibleSwitchTo are moved to the
scheduler
- possibleSwitchTo only checks whether the candidate is valid for a
fast switch, not its priority, accepting possible candidates
immmediately as a switch-to scheduler action
- the scheduler checks the candidate against the current thread and
against the bitmaps before making a decision
- attemptSwitchTo and switchIfRequiredTo are gone
- scheduler is now more complicated, and numerous proofs related to it
are rewritten from scratch
- fast path now checks ready queues via the scheduler bitmaps
- L2 scheduler bitmap order reversed for better cache locality
Many iterations between the kernel and verification teams were needed
to get this right.
The things that usually go wrong:
- wp fall through: add +, e.g.
apply (wp select_wp) -> apply (wp select_wp)+
- precondition: you can remove most hoare_pre, but wpc still needs it, and
sometimes the wp instance relies on being able to fit a rule to the
current non-schematic precondition. In that case, use "including no_pre"
to switch off the automatic hoare_pre application.
- very rarely there is a schematic postcondition that interferes with the
new trivial cleanup rules, because the rest of the script assumes some
specific state afterwards (shouldn't happen in a reasonable proof, but
not all proofs are reasonable..). In that case, (wp_once ...)+ should
emulate the old behaviour precisely.
Corey Lewis
Rafal Kolanski
Alejandro Gomez-Londono
Gerwin Klein
Joel Beeren
Thomas Sewell
Matthew Brecknell