OS in 1,000 lines: Exception in RISC-V64

This is a companion note to OS in 1,000 lines: Exception originally for RISC-V32.

When kernel_entry calls handle_trap, a0 would be the first parameter to handle_trap, which would be interpreted as a pointer to a trap_frame pointer.

In RISC-V64, kernel_entry should still be aligned to 4 bytes. From https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-manual, click on the snapshot link to the priviledged instructions, then go to the section “Supervisor Trap Vector Base Address (stvec) Register” under the chapter “Supervisor-level ISA”.

When the program faults, the sepc points to the line

   __asm__ __volatile__("unimp");

which may not be 4-byte aligned, but if one disassembles kernel.elf with

llvm-objdump -d kernel.elf

the address of kernel_entry the exception handler is indeed 4-byte aligned.