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Author SHA1 Message Date
Norman Feske
7274ca997d Remove Genode::Process from API
This patch makes the former 'Process' class private to the 'Child'
class and changes the constructor of the 'Child' in a way that
principally enables the implementation of single-threaded runtime
environments that virtualize the CPU, PD, and RAM services. The
new interfaces has become free from side effects. I.e., instead
of implicitly using Genode::env()->rm_session(), it takes the reference
to the local region map as argument. Also, the handling of the dynamic
linker via global variables is gone. Now, the linker binary must be
provided as constructor argument.

Fixes #1949
2016-05-09 13:10:52 +02:00
Norman Feske
b49e588c1c Assign threads to PD at its creation time
This patch replaces the former 'Pd_session::bind_thread' function by a
PD-capability argument of the 'Cpu_session::create_thread' function, and
removes the ancient thread-start protocol via 'Rm_session::add_client' and
'Cpu_session::set_pager'. Threads are now bound to PDs at their creation
time and implicitly paged according to the address space of the PD.

Note the API change:

This patch changes the signature of the 'Child' and 'Process' constructors.
There is a new 'address_space' argument, which represents the region map
representing the child's address space. It is supplied separately to the
PD session capability (which principally can be invoked to obtain the
PD's address space) to allow the population of the address space
without relying on an 'Pd_session::address_space' RPC call.
Furthermore, a new (optional) env_pd argument allows the explicit
overriding of the PD capability handed out to the child as part of its
environment. It can be used to intercept the interaction of the child
with its PD session at core. This is used by Noux.

Issue #1938
2016-05-09 13:10:52 +02:00
Norman Feske
511acad507 Consolidate RM service into PD session
This patch integrates three region maps into each PD session to
reduce the session overhead and to simplify the PD creation procedure.
Please refer to the issue cited below for an elaborative discussion.

Note the API change:

With this patch, the semantics of core's RM service have changed. Now,
the service is merely a tool for creating and destroying managed
dataspaces, which are rarely needed. Regular components no longer need a
RM session. For this reason, the corresponding argument for the
'Process' and 'Child' constructors has been removed.

The former interface of the 'Rm_session' is not named 'Region_map'. As a
minor refinement, the 'Fault_type' enum values are now part of the
'Region_map::State' struct.

Issue #1938
2016-05-09 13:10:51 +02:00
Norman Feske
20f961cbd8 cli_monitor, launcher: handle exiting subsystems
Until now, the CLI monitor and the laucher allowed the user to explitly
kill subsystems but both used to ignore gracefully exiting subsystems.
It was the user's job to remove the remains of those subsystems. The
patch takes the burden of manually killing exited subsystems from the
user.

Fixes #1685
2015-09-30 15:48:12 +02:00
Stefan Kalkowski
73c3a81e0b base: make PD session upgradeable
Ref #1443
2015-05-26 09:40:02 +02:00
Norman Feske
eaac3cc1bd Revised API documentation
This patch curates the API documentation to become suitable for the
functional specificaton, which is partially generated from the header
files.
2015-04-09 16:04:46 +02:00
Norman Feske
b2b5d1b2d2 os: make reusable cli_monitor headers public
The child handling as done by CLI monitor is worth reusing. Hence, this
patch moves the corresponding headers to 'os/include/cli_monitor/'.
2014-10-13 15:21:54 +02:00