The new 'String' buffer type is meant to replace the manually created
character buffers that are scattered throughout Genode. It plainly holds
a null-terminated string to be stored as a member variable (e.g., a
session label) or passed as RPC argument. It is not intended to become a
string API.
This patch adds support for iterating through a const list. This allows
users of lists to be more rigid with regard to constness. Furthermore,
the patch adds the function 'List::insert_at' for inserting an element
at a specified position. By adding this function, we can remove code
duplication in nitpicker.
By now Signal_session_component has allocated initial SLAB
blocks in constructor, wich crashed with the root
components assumptions about the RAM quota needs of
session creation. Thus, if the background allocator was already
exhausted from component allocation the session was created
with broken initial SLAB blocks.
fix#574
This patch extends the 'Parent::session()' and 'Root::session()'
functions with an additional 'affinity' parameter, which is inteded to
express the preferred affinity of the new session. For CPU sessions
provided by core, the values will be used to select the set of CPUs
assigned to the CPU session. For other services, the session affinity
information can be utilized to optimize the locality of the server
thread with the client. For example, to enable the IRQ session to route
an IRQ to the CPU core on which the corresponding device driver (the IRQ
client) is running.
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.
This avoids a deadlock if during issuing a printf the low level IPC fails.
. Printf uses an address space local lock and if we are trying again
to make a printf we deadlock forever ...
The given number of bytes is consumed but not actually allocated. This
feature may be used for accounting and use memory within core which is
in fact provided by a session client.
Fixes#792.
Sebastian Sumpf
Norman Feske
Stefan Kalkowski
Alexander Boettcher
Martin Stein
Christian Prochaska
Josef Söntgen
Christian Helmuth