Added 8 notify slots of 1 byte each. These will be notification
slots for irqs and other threads.
Also now userspace refers to kernel's utcb definition, so they're
in sync.
A 16-bit device number or id further distinguishes a device on the
system in addition to the device type. This is meant to be used for
the very first identification of the device for further probing. Any
further info is available by userspace mapping and probing.
The fix solves the problem of giving the last slice from a pool.
The helper macro makes utcb space creation easy for the user because we have to
consider a few things like alignment and total allocated space.
Lots of polishing, organizational changes, bug fixes, error handling etc. are
introduced.
COPY and NEW space thread creation are allowed but not thoroughly tested yet. It
seems they will work best if the lib supports utcb virtual range management
through the mapping.
Lots of polishing, organizational changes, bug fixes, error handling etc. are
introduced.
COPY and NEW space thread creation are allowed but not thoroughly tested yet. It
seems they will work best if the lib supports utcb virtual range management
through the mapping.
Now, we support thread trees which are spanning more than one level depth. Any
thread can create any number of threads provided that they are under the limits
which are enforced by the kernel.
Also with this commit, we have almost finished supporting SHARED space thread
creation in which stack and utcb space are allocated statically.
In order to do resource recycling we need a table structure. In the search of
one, we concluded that a task list will make things easier when we start adding
COPY and NEW space handling.
This commit is for utcb recycling. Now, it does not support thread trees more
than one level depth. Thus, to be able to test it, we preferred l4thread_destroy
instead of l4thread_exit.
UTCB support has beed added. It has the same drawback as in the stack support:
the area in question has to be already mapped-in.
There are also some minor fixes for the stack support and the utcb common helper
routines.
The difference between this thread library and the existing ones like pthreads
is the necessity of informing the library about the address range of the stack
and the l4 specific utcb. Utcb has not been supported yet. As for stack, there
is also a drawback: library does not support mapping. In other words, the stack
area in question has to be already mapped-in. Thus, for now we only support
threads sharing their address spaces: TC_SHARE_SPACE. In this respect, it is
very similar to pthreads.
This is one of the steps we need in the process of providing a similar interface
for thread creation which can be found in the mainstream operating systems like
Linux.
Examples container type is designed to keep applications using codezero
userspace libraries, which is aiming to help newcomers who would like to
develop programs on top of the l4 microkernel.
Now bare bone application is one of the examples. In the near future, lots of
new programs will be introduced to show the various aspects of codezero
eco-system.
Now, we support thread trees which are spanning more than one level depth. Any
thread can create any number of threads provided that they are under the limits
which are enforced by the kernel.
Also with this commit, we have almost finished supporting SHARED space thread
creation in which stack and utcb space are allocated statically.
