HP-UX 11i Internals

Virtual Mode Initialization

Once rdb_bootstrap() has placed the system into virtual mode, it has a couple of more steps to do. It flushes all the caches because the realmain routine does some code optimization. This act of having the kernel modify its own code can cause problems with the caches, so we flush them. We also create the kernel stack and switch to using that instead of the interrupt stack. Finally, rdb_bootstrap branches to main(), the virtual mode main program for the kernel.

main() is similar to realmain() in that it works from a calllist. This one is called mainstreet_calllist. One interesting difference in main is that it never returns. The thread that calls the mainstreet_calllist routines eventually become proc 0, the swapper. ...