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).
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.
- Fixed an important bug with shadow object handling.
When a shadow is dropped, if there are references left
to it, both the object in front and dropped object becomes
a shadow of the original object underneath. We had thought
of this case but had not increase the shadow count.
- Added a test mechanism that tests the number of objects,
vmfiles, shadows etc. by first counting them and trying to
reach the same number by other means, i.e. per-object-shadow counts.
It discovered a plethora of bugs.
- Added new set of functions to register objects, files and tasks
globally with the pager, these functions introduce a refcount as
well as adding structures to linked lists.
- fork/exit now seems to work stably i.e. no negative shadow counts etc.
- Updated sleeping paths such that a task is atomically put into
a runqueue and made RUNNABLE, or removed from a runqueue and made SLEEPING.
- Modified vma dropping sources to handle both copy_on_write() and exit() cases
in a common function.
- Added the first infrastructure to have a pager to suspend a task and wait for
suspend completion from the scheduler.
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.)
Now all system calls can simply return their final values and they
will be sent to client parties from a single location. Should have had this
simple cleanup a long time ago.
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.
For clone, file descriptor and vm area structures need to be
separate from the tcb and reached via a pointer so that they
can be shared among multiple tcbs.
Added a list of links for vm objects so they can follow
the links that point at them.
More succinct handling of the case where a vm object
is dropped. Now depending on the object's number of link
references and shadow references, upon a drop it could
either be merged, deleted or kept.
Added opener reference count for vm files. Now files
have opener count, objects have shadow and link count.
Link count is also meaningful for how many tasks have
mmap'ed that object.
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.
When copying file pages back and forth, we need both dst and src
offsets since the cursor offset and read/write buffer page offsets
are different. This is now fixed.
Also done some mods to close().
- Added logic to calculate which pages are in the file and which are new
for writing.
- Nearly finished the template for sys_write.
- Need to implement write_cache_pages().
- Need to distinguish dirty/clean pages and implement flushing dirty
pages back to vfs.
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.
