Increased inode block pointers to 40. The current maximum allowed (and checked).
Updates to file size after every file write ensures subsequent writes can
correctly operate using updated file size information (i.e. not try to add
more pages that are already present). We cannot do this inside write() because
directory writes rely on byte-granularity updates on file buffers, whereas
file updates are by page-granularity (currently).
File open was failing when using 2 files with same name. TODO: Look at it in the future.
Need to increase writeable file size in fs0. 16 pages don't work.
- Implemented reasonable way to suspend task.
- A task that has a pending suspend would be interrupted
from its sleep via the suspender task.
- If suspend was raised and right after, task became about to sleep,
then scheduler wakes it up.
- If suspend was raised when task was in user mode, then an irq suspends it.
- Also suspends are checked at the end of a syscall so that if suspend was
raised because of a syscall from the task, the task is suspended before it
goes back to user mode.
- This mechanism is very similar to signals, and it may lead as a base for
implementing signal handling.
- Implemented common vma dropping for shadow vm object dropping and task exiting.
A new scheduler replaces the old one.
- There are no sched_xxx_notify() calls that ask scheduler to change task state.
- Tasks now have priorities and different timeslices.
- One second interval is distributed among processes.
- There are just runnable and expired queues.
- SCHED_GRANULARITY determines a maximum running boundary for tasks.
- Scheduler can now detect a safe point and suspend a task.
Interruptible blocking is implemented.
- Mutexes, waitqueues and ipc are modified to have an interruptible nature.
- Sleep information is stored on the ktcb. (which waitqueue? etc.)
- test0 now forks 16 tasks that each modify a global variable.
- scheduler now gives 1/10th of a second per task. It also does not increase timeslice
of a task that has scheduled.
- When a memory is granted to the kernel, the distribution of this memory to memcaches
was calculated in a complicated way. This is now simplified.
serving mm0, if it page faults, system deadlocks because mm0 is waiting to be served by vfs.
FIX: To fix this, mm0 will need to fork itself and keep a separate thread solely for
page fault handling.
Factored out mapping of the physical page as the final generic code
after all fault-specific handling is done.
Fixed the error that zero page didn't have an owner (devzero).
Fixed the error that struct dirent did not have the record length
field as u16 as expected by userspace.
Separated vfs file as a specific file. vm file is not always a vfs file.
Updated the README
sys_open was not returning back to client, added that.
Added comments for future vfs additions.
Environment is backed by a special per-task file maintained by mm0 for each task.
This file is filled in by the env pager, by simple copying of env data into the
faulty page upon a fault. UTCB and all anon regions (stack) could use the same
scheme.
Fixed IS_ERR(x) to accept negative values that are above -1000 for errors. This
protects against false positives for pointers such as 0xE0000000.
modified: include/l4/generic/scheduler.h
modified: include/l4/macros.h
modified: src/arch/arm/exception.c
modified: tasks/fs0/include/linker.lds
modified: tasks/libl4/src/init.c
modified: tasks/libposix/shm.c
new file: tasks/mm0/include/env.h
modified: tasks/mm0/include/file.h
new file: tasks/mm0/include/lib/addr.h
deleted: tasks/mm0/include/lib/vaddr.h
modified: tasks/mm0/include/task.h
new file: tasks/mm0/include/utcb.h
new file: tasks/mm0/src/env.c
modified: tasks/mm0/src/fault.c
modified: tasks/mm0/src/file.c
modified: tasks/mm0/src/init.c
new file: tasks/mm0/src/lib/addr.c
modified: tasks/mm0/src/lib/idpool.c
deleted: tasks/mm0/src/lib/vaddr.c
modified: tasks/mm0/src/mmap.c
modified: tasks/mm0/src/shm.c
modified: tasks/mm0/src/task.c
new file: tasks/mm0/src/utcb.c
modified: tasks/test0/include/linker.lds
Added reading pages from the page cache into user buffer for sys_read.
Increases stack sizes to 4 pages.
Updated README to include more details about multi-pager environments.
Headers 3 headers related to message registers and utcbs are now merged under
utcb.h in libl4. Some message register definitions used by the kernel are now
moved into kernel's glue/message.h. This avoids the duplication of same
definitions. Also the total number of mregs are now determined by arch-specific
kernel header, which is good.
Boot files and tasks are now initialised together. Theads can ask for particular
space and thread ids, if they're unused. This enables us to get predefined ids for
known tasks such as the VFS task.
Fixes to README
Other minor fixes.
Previously we had changed the method of setting the ipc tag from l4_ipc() call
argument to being passed as a message register.
- This change was not reflected in l4_ipc() signature as it still had a 3rd argument,
even though ignored.
- l4_set_sender and _set_tag had their arguments wrong way around.
- Previously 5 mrs were passed onto utcb instead of 6, relying on the fact that
l4_ipc tag argument was being passed in r3 directly, this wasnt true anymore
with new convention, but wasn't catered for.
TODO:
- MM0 shouldn't really allocate tids itself, but use ones supplied by C0.
- Sender tid shouldn't really passed by the sender task, but rather by C0. Otherwise
security can be easily breached by user tasks pretending to be other tasks. This
would also save us a message register.
Previously python hex() would put an extra 'L' after printing out the
value and this would be trimmed in readelf.py. Now it doesn't seem to
do that so the lsd of the number was trimmed. This patch fixes that.
