- Directory creation, file read/write is OK.
- Cannot reuse old task's fds. They are not recycled for some reason.
- Problems with fork/clone/exit. They fail for a reason.
It turned out we used one version of kmalloc for malloc() and another for kfree()!
Now fixed.
Added parent-child relationship to tasks. Need to polish handling CLONE_PARENT and THREAD.
l4_unmap now returns -1 if given range was only partially unmapped.
do_munmap() now only unmaps address ranges that have correspondence in
the unmapped vmas. Trying to unmap regions with no correspondent vmas
causes problems in corner cases, e.g. mm0 that tries to mmap its own
address space during initialisation would unmap its whole address space
and fail to execute.
- 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.
- Fixed do_mmap() so that it returns mapped address, and various bugs.
- A child seems to fork with new setup, but with incorrect return value.
Need to use and test exregs() for fork + clone.
- Shmat searches an unmapped area if input arg is invalid, do_mmap()
should do this.
- Added mutex_trylock()
- Implemented most of exchange_registers()
- thread_control() now needs a lock for operations that can modify thread context.
- thread_start() does not initialise scheduler flags, now done in thread_create.
TODO:
- Fork/clone'ed threads should retain their context in tcb, not syscall stack.
- exchange_registers() calls in userspace need cleaning up.
Child needs rewound function stack in order to reach registers r9-r12
that have original userspace values. But we jump to return_from_syscall
without rewinding the stack. Therefore to ease context restore, we save
r9-r12 on the stack as well upon syscall entry.
This copies the parent kernel stack to child only for the part where
the previous context is saved. Then the child registers are modified
so that it would begin execution from returning of the system call.
Next issues: For every read fault, the fault must traverse the
vma's object stack until the page is found. The problem was that
we were only searching the first object, that object was a writable
shadow, and the shadow didn't have the read-only page, and the 0
return value was interpreted with IS_ERR() and failed, so address
0 was mapped into the location, and QEMU blew off.
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.
Modified ipc handling so that from now on the kernel inspects and sets
the sender id if the receiver is receiving from L4_ANYTHREAD. This posed
a security problem since the receiver could not trust the sender for
sender information.
Added routines that check whether a user pointer is accessible by the kernel,
and if not ask the pager to map-in those pages. I haven't implemented yet the
bit that asks the pager for paging-in.
