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.
Currently, on the Arndale platform, core uses a different thread context
area base address than the other tasks (0x20000000 vs. 0x40000000). This
is problematic, because core calculates the location of the UTCB area of a
new thread relatively to core's own thread context area base. So, the UTCB
area of non-core threads ends up in a virtual address range which is
outside of the task's thread context area and not marked as used in the
task's RM session.
With this patch, the same thread context area base address gets used in
core and in the other tasks.
Fixes#779.
When destroying a thread, which was not bound to a protection domain via kernel
primitives beforehand, it is critical to change the pager and exregs the thread
in the destruction process. Therefore, this commit introduces two thread states:
DEAD and RUNNING. On the basis of the thread state, we can decide whether to
reset the thread before destroying it, or not.
Originally, a thread was created at core not before calling the 'start'
function. In order to configure the thread affinity before starting the
thread, we have to make the thread known at core right at construction
time. This patch moves the needed thread-creation sequence from the
'start' function to the '_init_platform_thread' function.
Don't do anything in Mapping::prepare_map_operation. At this point and in the
current implementation, the memory has been mapped and cleared already. Touching
the memory may only pollute the cache causing data corruption in DMA memory.
Fixes issue #452
Explicitly set default mode for legacy interrupts to not rely on kernel
default settings. This patch fixes the constantly busy IRQ threads for
IRQ 1 and 12 as soon as the PS/2 driver was loaded until the point when
the first IRQ occurred.
The new core-internal 'Address_space' interface enables cores RM service
to flush mappings of a PD in which a given 'Rm_client' thread resides.
Prior this patch, each platform invented their own way to flush mappings
in the respective 'rm_session_support.cc' implementation. However, those
implementations used to deal poorly with some corner cases. In
particular, if a PD session was destroyed prior a RM session, the RM
session would try to use no longer existing PD session. The new
'Address_space' uses the just added weak-pointer mechanism to deal with
this issue.
Furthermore, the generic 'Rm_session_component::detach' function has
been improved to avoid duplicated unmap operations for platforms that
implement the 'Address_space' interface. Therefore, it is related to
issue #595. Right now, this is OKL4 only, but other platforms will follow.
With this patch, the 'futex' syscall gets used for blocking and unblocking
of threads in the Linux-specific lock implementation.
The 'Native_thread_id' type, which was previously used in the
lock-internal 'Applicant' class to identify a thread to be woken up,
was not suitable anymore for implementing this change. With this patch,
the 'Thread_base*' type gets used instead, which also has the positive
effect of making the public 'cancelable_lock.h' header file
platform-independent.
Fixes#646.
In base-fiasco, base-foc and base-pistachio, physical memory gets mapped
1:1 to core virtual memory. When the 'Ram_session_component' allocates
physical memory for a client, it zeroes out the corresponding area in
core's virtual address space and then maps the area to the client. If this
area overlaps with core's virtual thread context area (usually at
0x40000000-0x4fffffff), the stack of one or more core threads can get
overwritten.
To avoid this problem, with this patch, the thread context area gets
removed from the physical RAM allocator on these platforms.
Fixes#660.
Make 'context_area_virtual_base' platform configurable. On Arndale, we
need to move the context area to a location that does not interfere with
the address range of physical memory.
This patch simplifies the way of how Genode's base libraries are
organized. Originally, the base API was implemented in the form of many
small libraries such as 'thread', 'env', 'server', etc. Most of them
used to consist of only a small number of files. Because those libraries
are incorporated in any build, the checking of their inter-dependencies
made the build process more verbose than desired. Also, the number of
libraries and their roles (core only, non-core only, shared by both core
and non-core) were not easy to capture.
Hereby, the base libraries have been reduced to the following few
libraries:
- startup.mk contains the startup code for normal Genode processes.
On some platform, core is able to use the library as well.
- base-common.mk contains the parts of the base library that are
identical by core and non-core processes.
- base.mk contains the complete base API implementation for non-core
processes
Consequently, the 'LIBS' declaration in 'target.mk' files becomes
simpler as well. In the most simple case, only the 'base' library must
be mentioned.
Fixes#18
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.
Remove signal context object from signal source component list (_signal_queue)
before destruction, otherwise we get a dangling pointer.
On native hardware for base-nova, the signal source thread triggered page
faults in the Signal_source_component::wait_for_signal() method when the signal
context got freed up in Signal_session_component::free_context but was still
enqueued in Signal_source_component::_signal_queue.
Fixes#600
Add functionality to lookup an object and lock it. Additional the case is
handled that a object may be already in-destruction and the lookup will deny
returning the object.
The object_pool generalize the lookup and lock functionality of the rpc_server
and serve as base for following up patches to fix dangling pointer issues.
The CPU session interfaces comes with the ability to install an
exception handler per thread. This patch enhances the feature with the
provision of a default signal handler that is used if no thread-specific
handler is installed. The default signal handler can be set by
specifying an invalid thread capability and a valid signal context
capability.
Furthermore, this patch relaxes the requirement of the order of the
calls of 'exception_handler' and 'set_pager'. Originally, the exception
handler could be installed not before setting a pager. Now, we remember
the installed exception handler in the 'Cpu_thread' and propagate to to
the platform thread at a later time.
If no platform thread was created before somebody destroys a thread object,
there is no valid UTCB available. Thereby, we've to check this before accessing
the UTCB when destroying a thread object.
The generic 'sleep_forever()' function creates an Ipc_server object which
might not get cleaned up correctly when the thread gets destroyed and
unneeded capability references could remain and drain the capability index
allocator. With this patch a lock gets used on thread exit instead of
calling 'sleep_forever()'.
Fixes#538.
This patch reflects eventual allocation errors in a more specific way to
the caller of 'alloc_aligned', in particular out-of-metadata and
out-of-memory are considered as different conditions.
Related to issue #526.
This patch introduces clean synchronization between the entrypoint
thread and the caller of the 'Rpc_entrypoint' destructor. The most
important change is the handling of the 'Ipc_server' destruction. This
object is in the local scope of the server's entry function. However,
since the server loop used to be an infinite loop, there was hardly any
chance to destruct the object in a clean way. Hence, the
'Rpc_entrypoint' destructor used to explicitly call '~Ipc_server'.
Unfortunately, this approach led to problems because there are indeed
rare cases where the server thread leaves the scope of the entry
function, namely uncaught exceptions. In such a case, the destructor
would have been called twice.
With the new protocol, we make sure to leave the scope of the entry
function and thereby destroy the 'Ipc_server' object as expected. This
is achieved by propagating the exit condition through a local RPC call
to the entrypoint. This way, the blocking state of the entrypoint
becomes unblocked. Furthermore, '~Rpc_entrypoint' makes use of the new
'join' function to wait for the completion of the server thread.
Using the new 'join()' function, the caller can explicitly block for the
completion of the thread's 'entry()' function. The test case for this
feature can be found at 'os/src/test/thread_join'. For hybrid
Linux/Genode programs, the 'Thread_base::join()' does not map directly
to 'pthread_join'. The latter function gets already called by the
destructor of 'Thread_base'. According to the documentation, subsequent
calls of 'pthread_join' for one thread may result in undefined behaviour.
So we use a 'Genode::Lock' on this platform, which is in line with the
other platforms.
Related to #194, #501
Implies support for the ARMv6 architecture through 'base-hw'.
Get rid of 'base/include/drivers' expect of 'base/include/drivers/uart'.
Merge with the support for trustzone on VEA9X4 that came from
Stefan Kalkowski.
Leave board drivers in 'base/include/platform'.
Rework structure of the other drivers that were moved to
'base_hw/src/core' and those that came with the trustzone support.
Beautify further stuff in 'base_hw'.
Test 'nested_init' with 'hw_imx31' (hardware) and 'hw_panda_a2' (hardware),
'demo' and 'signal' with 'hw_pbxa9' (qemu) and 'hw_vea9x4'
(hardware, no trustzone), and 'vmm' with 'hw_vea9x4'
(hardware, with trustzone).
When building the Fiasco.OC kernel, and L4Linux within the Genode build system,
forward the CC, and CXX variables. It might contain useful tools like ccache,
or distcc to speed up compilation. Moreover, don't delete the MAKEFLAGS when
building Fiasco.OC. It hinders parallel builds.
Replacing the local name of a capability index object which exists in the
capability map can destroy the AVL tree order of the capability map. With
this patch the outdated object gets removed from the map and a new object
gets inserted afterwards.
Fixes#435.
Norman Feske
Sebastian Sumpf
Alexander Boettcher
Stefan Kalkowski
Christian Prochaska
Martin Stein