- Now libl4 has no references to utcb page or shmat etc.
- Pager does not deal with special case utcb page allocation.
It instead allocates a shared page from shm memory pool.
- All tasks working to original standard.
Next:
- Add per-thread utcb allocation from the kernel
- Add larger register file for standard ipc
- Add long ipc (up to 1Kb)
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).
fs0 used to receive open() requests and notify pager about them via a syscall ipc.
This caused deadlocks because normally request flow is mm0 -> fs0 on all other calls.
The solution was to have mm0 ask and validate file descriptors from fs0 on the first
request instance that involved that file descriptor. By this method we delay the
validation of the fd until its first use, and avoid deadlock. It also fits well with
the lazy request handling design philosophy.
- Added automatic utcb map/prefaulting of forked tasks for fs0
so that it does not need to explicitly request those tasks from mm0.
Eliminating fs0 requests to mm0 reduce deadlock possibilities.
- Replaced kmalloc with a public malloc implementation because of a bug in kmalloc.
- Fixed a kfree bug. default_release_pages was trying to free page_array pages.
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.
close() needs to flush dirty buffers.
pager needs to have read/write support properly implemented.
open() needs to record mode and access times.
The need for access times means we need rtc and time implementation.
Also need to add stat() access() etc.
Input paths are now parsed at the beginning and components
put into an ordered linked list headed by struct pathdata.
Lookup functions use these components to look up vnodes.
Dirbuf allocation was broken, fixed it.
Added more comments on reading directories.
Issues: fs0 ought to check buf address for sys_readdir(). Currently
test0 is passing an area on its stack and fs0 is writing the data to its own
address space (i.e. an area on its own stack.)
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.
Removed some commented out code.
Removed excessive printfs.
Fixed spid not initialising for mm0
Fixed some faults with fs0.
TODO:
- Need to store vfs files in a separate list.
- Need to define vnum as a vfs-file-specific data, i.e. in priv_data field of vm_file.
- Need to then fix vfs_receive_sys_open.
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.
This implements the infrastructure for read/write system calls where
file content is first searched in mm0's page cache and then read-in
or written via the vfs read/write functions.
modified: tasks/fs0/src/syscalls.c
modified: tasks/mm0/include/lib/bit.h
modified: tasks/mm0/include/lib/idpool.h
modified: tasks/mm0/include/task.h
modified: tasks/mm0/include/vm_area.h
modified: tasks/mm0/main.c
modified: tasks/mm0/src/devzero.c
modified: tasks/mm0/src/fault.c
new file: tasks/mm0/src/file.c
modified: tasks/mm0/src/init.c
modified: tasks/mm0/src/lib/bit.c
modified: tasks/mm0/src/lib/idpool.c
modified: tasks/mm0/src/task.c
