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88 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Christian Prochaska
cc04ffcf42 GDB monitor: find out page faulting thread
Fixes #898.
2013-10-25 23:49:00 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
73cff5c996 nova: don't wait for workers in cpu_session::pause
If a local thread is attempted to be 'pause'd via cpu_session, don't wait
until it gets into the recalled state. If the caller is lucky it is, if not
return only the stack pointer.

Avoids deadlocking of the gdb when attached to a process running a server.

Issue #478
2013-10-16 09:26:09 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
fe19103546 nova: create sm for signalling via pager
The 'pause' call on base-nova assumes that a thread can solely block in its
associated semaphore. Main reason is that so core can unblock a thread in order
that the recall exception gets delivered and the register state can be
obtained.

Unfortunately the signal session implementation creates a semaphore, which is
unknown by the pager code. Instead create the semaphore via the pager of the
thread, so that the pager can unblock the signal thread when a pause is issued.

Issue #478
2013-10-16 09:26:09 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
816b4e0479 nova: fix thread in page fault and getting paused
If a thread caused a page fault and later on get be paused, then it left
the recall handler immediately due to the pause call instead of staying
in this handler.

Add some (complicated) state machine to detect and handle the case. Still not
waterproof, especially server threads may never get recalled if they never get
a IPC from the outside.

Fixes #478
2013-10-16 09:26:09 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
2c983f3c89 nova: remove native_cap method from cpu_session
Remove native_cap method which caused the cpu_session implementation of the
gdb server to fail.

Issue #478
2013-10-16 09:26:09 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
dd2e006309 nova: request native ec cap via pager
Prerequisite to get rid of the base-nova special native_cap method in
cpu_session.

Vancouver/Seoul bootstrap code gets also much simpler.

Issue #478
2013-10-16 09:26:09 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
d3bcafc4c6 nova: support requesting multiple event portals
Enables us to request the exception handler portals at once instead each
separately.

Issue #478
2013-10-16 09:26:09 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
c426bac8bb nova: create sm of each thread in pager
Mainly simplification of the code and getting rid of reserved (Genode) special
cap selectors in the syscall-generic.h file.

Issue #478
2013-10-16 09:26:09 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
ff29f85cc9 nova: speed up cap selector allocation
Issue #485
2013-09-23 14:26:01 +02:00
Norman Feske
a2b15349fd base: Add tracing support to CPU session interface 2013-08-13 17:27:40 +02:00
Norman Feske
5fe29e8e4a Express affinities via Cartesian coordinates
This patch introduces new types for expressing CPU affinities. Instead
of dealing with physical CPU numbers, affinities are expressed as
rectangles in a grid of virtual CPU nodes. This clears the way to
conveniently assign sets of adjacent CPUs to subsystems, each of them
managing their respective viewport of the coordinate space.

By using 2D Cartesian coordinates, the locality of CPU nodes can be
modeled for different topologies such as SMP (simple Nx1 grid), grids of
NUMA nodes, or ring topologies.
2013-08-13 17:08:24 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
70d0b00dde nova: update to kernel revision r3
r3 contains the recent Nova upstream kernel version plus the Genode specific
extensions and changes as known from r2.

Additionally, the r3 branch

* contains the assign_pci patch now directly,
* adds support for cross CPU IPC,
* fixes some issues with freeing up kernel memory part of r2 and
* update the documentation a bit.

Fixes #814
2013-08-13 17:08:24 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
4ae1faf14d base: add affinity support to pager construction
Propagating the affinity information is needed to allow for assigning
a pager thread that is local to the CPU of the to-be-created thread.

issue #814
2013-08-13 17:08:23 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
1a82b664ef nova: determine number of CPUs
Issue #813
2013-08-13 17:08:23 +02:00
Norman Feske
6f294eddc2 Fix warning about initializer of 'Local_addr'
Fixes #726
2013-05-06 11:11:03 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
801d09f166 nova: revoke set portal id right
Revoke the right to set the portal id (aka label) when it is not needed
anymore. Otherwise everybody in the system having a mapping of the portal can
reset the label to something we don't expect.

Issue #667
2013-02-25 16:45:50 +01:00
Alexander Boettcher
46447d531e nova: add syscall pt_ctrl bindings
Issue #667
2013-02-25 16:45:49 +01:00
Alexander Boettcher
c36f6a04a7 nova: extend pd_session by assign_pci function 2013-02-21 11:52:02 +01:00
Alexander Boettcher
250f7b1570 nova: update syscall assign_gsi/_pci for 32/64 bit 2013-02-21 11:52:02 +01:00
Alexander Boettcher
ff062f24ff nova: map write_combined ds as dma able 2013-02-21 11:52:02 +01:00
Alexander Boettcher
1c2f76cd2a nova: add support to specify dma mapping flag 2013-02-21 11:52:02 +01:00
Norman Feske
bcdc706f42 Unify 'ipc.h' and 'ipc_generic.h' across platforms
The distinction between 'ipc.h' and 'ipc_generic.h' is no more. The only
use case for platform-specific extensions of the IPC support was the
marshalling of capabilities. However, this case is accommodated by a
function interface ('_marshal_capability', '_unmarshal_capability'). By
moving the implementation of these functions from the headers into the
respective ipc libraries, we can abandon the platform-specific 'ipc.h'
headers.
2013-02-14 13:23:37 +01:00
Alexander Boettcher
edd30b56a2 nova: fix pager cleanup handling
The cleanup call must be performed already during the _dissolve function
shortly after the object at the cap_session is freed up. Otherwise there
is the chance that an in-flight IPC will find the to be dissolved function
again.

Bomb test triggered the case, that a already dissolved rpc_object was found
by a in-flight IPC. If the rpc_object was already freed up by alloc->destroy
the thread using this stale rpc_object pointer cause page-faults in core.

Fixes partly #549
2013-02-11 12:01:26 +01:00
Alexander Boettcher
f762e8e4fd nova: increase number of available cap indexes
Noux test requires some more indexes. We don't free all up because of a missing
reference counting implementation of indexes in base-nova.

Issue #394
2013-02-11 12:01:25 +01:00
Alexander Boettcher
9453d319cb base: add remove_client to rm_session
Fixes #13
2013-02-11 12:01:25 +01:00
Alexander Boettcher
486b27a1b8 nova: ease debugging if no cap indexes are left
If we ran out of capabilities indexes, the bit allocator throws an exception.
If this happens the code seems to hang and nothing happens.

Instead one could catch the exception and print some diagnostic message.
This would be nice, but don't work. Printing some diagnostic message itself
tries to do potentially IPC and will allocate new capability indexes at
least for the receive window.

So, catch the exception and let the thread die, so at least the instruction
pointer is left as trace to identify the reason of the trouble.

Fixes #625
2013-01-24 11:09:15 +01:00
Norman Feske
8fe0c6c91c base-nova: Coding style 2013-01-11 23:11:07 +01:00
Norman Feske
73ab30c22c Update copyright headers to 2013 2013-01-10 21:44:47 +01:00
Alexander Boettcher
fa2cbdc7cb Fix: don't deference stale pager pointer in core
Reset pager pointer in platform_thread if pager object is removed.

Fixes #532
2012-11-29 13:44:07 +01:00
Alexander Boettcher
727f29f2e9 Remove obsolete cap selector lock
We can use the Genode::Lock abstraction instead of a separate native SM cap.
2012-11-27 10:56:05 +01:00
Norman Feske
f2e47ef9f4 Whitespace 2012-11-26 09:45:13 +01:00
Martin Stein
05f5999e71 cpu_session: Access thread state by value 2012-11-23 12:20:22 +01:00
Norman Feske
959df5d46b Generalize handling of PD-session arguments
On Linux, we want to attach additional attributes to processes, i.e.,
the chroot location, the designated UID, and GID. Instead of polluting
the generic code with such Linux-specific platform details, I introduced
the new 'Native_pd_args' type, which can be customized for each
platform. The platform-dependent policy of init is factored out in the
new 'pd_args' library.

The new 'base-linux/run/lx_pd_args.run' script can be used to validate
the propagation of those attributes into core.

Note that this patch does not add the interpretation of the new UID and
PID attributes by core. This will be subject of a follow-up patch.

Related to #510.
2012-11-21 20:04:07 +01:00
Martin Stein
91c27f3f72 base: Tell a mapping wether it maps IO memory. 2012-11-14 16:36:51 +01:00
Alexander Boettcher
7a619b9ede base-nova: solely revoke unused capabilities
Extend tracking of delegated and of translated items. The additional
information is used to solely free up unused/unwanted mapped capabilities and
to avoid unnecessary revokes on capability indexes where nothing have been
received.

Fixes #430
2012-11-07 13:32:40 +01:00
Alexander Boettcher
83039267fa Cleanup: remove 'first' and 'next' of cpu_session
Fixes #10
2012-10-24 11:34:38 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
ec66788f11 NOVA: cleanup - remove _first_sel special handling
Replace dislocation of extern variables with simplistic convention
2012-10-08 15:08:12 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
6862ab481a NOVA: drop special utcb handling of main thread
Unify handling of UTCBs. The utcb of the main thread is with commit
ea38aad30e at a fixed location - per convention.
So we can remove all the ugly code to transfer the utcb address during process
creation.

To do so also the UTCB of the main thread of Core must be inside Genode's
thread context area to handle it the same way. Unfortunately the UTCB of the
main thread of Core can't be chosen, it is defined by the kernel.

Possible solutions:
- make virtual address of first thread UTCB configurable in hypervisor
- map the utcb of the first thread inside Core to the desired location

This commit implements the second option.

Kernel patch: make utcb map-able
With the patch the Utcb of the main thread of Core is map-able.

Fixes #374

Noux actually uses the sp variable during thread creation and expects to be
set accordingly. This wasn't the case for the main thread, it was ever set
to the address of the main thread UTCB.
2012-10-04 14:35:38 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
110a69413d NOVA: move context area
Move the context area close to the end of the virtual user available address,
so that Vancouver can obtain as much as possible of the lower virtual address
range for VMs.
2012-09-24 09:17:58 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
ea38aad30e Move context area definition to native_type 2012-09-24 09:17:54 +02:00
Norman Feske
83bdfea9b0 Extend Cpu_session with thread-affinity API
This patch introduces the functions 'affinity' and 'num_cpus' to the CPU
session interface. The interface extension will allow the assignment of
individual threads to CPUs. At this point, it is just a stub with no
actual platform support.
2012-09-05 10:25:04 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
aae3ce348e NOVA: add single-step support used by gdb
Fixes #336
2012-08-30 10:42:38 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
3b0e4372fe NOVA: setup all exception handlers of a thread 2012-08-30 10:42:38 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
fcd62729d4 NOVA: tunnel thread start parameters via state()
The cpu_session interface fails to be virtualized by gdb_monitor because
platform-nova uses an extended nova_cpu_session interface.

The problem was that threads have been created directly at core without
knowledge of gdb_monitor. This lead to the situation that gdb_monitor didn't
know of all threads to be debugged.

Tunnel the additional parameters required on base-nova through the state()
call of the cpu_session interface before the thread actual is started.
2012-08-30 10:42:26 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
197a48a26c NOVA: implement pause using recall kernel feature 2012-08-30 10:40:00 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
841a1fd579 NOVA: extend cpu_session with synchronous pause
The kernel provides a "recall" feature issued on threads to force a thread into
an exception. In the exception the current state of the thread can be obtained
and its execution can be halted/paused.

However, the recall exception is only delivered when the next time the thread
would leave the kernel. That means the delivery is asynchronous and Genode has
to wait until the exception triggered.

Waiting for the exception can either be done in the cpu_session service or
outside the service in the protection domain of the caller.

It turned out that waiting inside the cpu_service is prone to deadlock the
system. The cpu_session interface is one of many session interfaces handled by
the same thread inside Core.

Deadlock situation:
* The caller (thread_c) to pause some thread_p manages to establish the call
  to the cpu_session thread_s of Core but get be interrupted before issuing
  the actual pause (recall) command.
* Now the - to be recalled thread_p - is scheduled and tries to invoke another
  service of Core, like making log output.
* Since the Core thread_s is handling the session request of thread_c, the
  kernel uses the timeslice of thread_p to help to finish the request handled
  by thread_s.
* Thread_s issues the actual pause/recall on thread_p and blocks inside Core
  to wait for the recall exception to be issued.
* thread_p will leave not the kernel before finishing it actual IPC with
  thread_s which is blocked waiting for thread_p.

That is the reason why the waiting/blocking for the recall exception taking
place must be done on NOVA in the context of the caller (thread_1).

Introduce a pause_sync call to the cpu_session which returns a semaphore
capability to the caller. The caller blocks on the semaphore and is woken up
when the pager of thread_p receives the recall exception with the state of
thread_p.
2012-08-30 10:40:00 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
0d03a91b80 NOVA: Use thread_state with all registers 2012-08-30 10:40:00 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
869abe4ec6 NOVA: make noux_tool_chain happy
Multiple calls to get the dataspace capability on NOVA lead to the situation
that the caller gets each time a new mapping of the same capability at
different indexes.

The client/caller assumes to get every time the very same index, e.g. in
Noux the index is used to look up structures.

Cache the dataspace capability returned via a rm_session for base-nova.
2012-08-17 11:43:04 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
6899dd3d0a NOVA: fix compiler warning 2012-08-16 10:03:07 +02:00
Alexander Boettcher
dddd602b48 NOVA: fix invalid cap detection 2012-08-10 10:58:14 +02:00