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.
utcb as a shared page instead of the message registers.
Implemented the code that passes task information from mm0 to fs0
using the fs0 utcb. The code seems to work OK but:
There's an issue with anon pages that they end up on the same swapfile
and with same file offsets (e.g. utcb and stack at offset 0). Need to
fix this issue but otherwise this implementation seems to work.
TODO:
- Separate anon regions into separate vmfiles.
- Possibly map the stacks from virtual files so that they can be
read from userspace in the future for debugging.
- Possibly utcb could be created as a shared memory object using shmget/shmat
during startup.
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
This will help when syscalls have long arguments individual
utcbs can be mapped to server tasks and kept mapped in until the
tasks die, as opposed to map requests every time a server task maps
a different utcb at the same virtual address.
The changes have preparation code to also passing the utcb info
through the stack as part of the environment.
To sum up env and arg regions have also been added above the stack and
env region is to be used to pass on the utcb address information at
task startup.
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
