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Author SHA1 Message Date
Martin Stein 9369057f90 Extend RAM/CPU session for base-hw context-areas. 2012-08-02 16:41:21 +02:00
Norman Feske 288fd4e56e Add support for allocating DMA memory
This patch extends the RAM session interface with the ability to
allocate DMA buffers. The client specifies the type of RAM dataspace to
allocate via the new 'cached' argument of the 'Ram_session::alloc()'
function. By default, 'cached' is true, which correponds to the common
case and the original behavior. When setting 'cached' to 'false', core
takes the precautions needed to register the memory as uncached in the
page table of each process that has the dataspace attached.

Currently, the support for allocating DMA buffers is implemented for
Fiasco.OC only. On x86 platforms, it is generally not needed. But on
platforms with more relaxed cache coherence (such as ARM), user-level
device drivers should always use uncacheable memory for DMA transactions.
2012-06-20 09:17:48 +02:00
Stefan Kalkowski ae8cf5f44d Rename tid() to dst() in Native_capability.
As suggested by Norman in the discussion of issue #145, this commit
renames the tid() accessor in Native_capability to dst().
2012-03-10 15:52:19 +01:00
Stefan Kalkowski 42b7c01685 Unify policy name for Native_capability_tpl.
This commit unifies the policy name for the template argument for
Native_capability_tpl to Cap_dst_policy, like suggested by Norman in the
discussion resulting from issue #145. Moreover, it takes the memcpy
operation for copying a Native_capability out of the template, which is
included by a significant bunch of files, and separates it in a library,
analog to the suggestion in issue #145.
2012-03-10 15:52:13 +01:00
Norman Feske 35384faa7a Follow-up tweaks for issue #145
Because we use to pass a policy class to 'Native_capability_tpl'
we can pass the dst type as part of the policy instead of as
a separate template argument. This patch also adds documentation
of the POLICY interface as expected by 'Native_capability_tpl'.
2012-03-08 19:28:32 +01:00
Stefan Kalkowski c9c21ad39c Merge Native_capability implementations (fix #145).
This patch unifies the Native_capability classes for the different kernel
platforms by introducing an appropriate template, and eliminating naming
differences. Please refer issue #145.
2012-03-08 18:42:39 +01:00
Stefan Kalkowski 9992efed03 Don't memcpy the parent capability. Fix #144.
To give the platform developer more freedom in how the Native_capability
class is internally implemented (e.g. turning it into a smart-pointer),
this patch removes the memcpy operation, when transfering the parent-capability
to a new process from the generic code, and let the implementation of the
platform-specific Native_capability decide how the transfer has to be done.
Please refer to issue #144.
2012-03-08 18:41:38 +01:00
Stefan Kalkowski fa377f0df5 Make local capability interface explicit. Fix #139.
Introduce a factory-, and dereference method for local capabilities. These are
capabilities that reference objects of services, which are known to be used
protection-domain internally only. To support the new Capability class methods
a protected constructor and accessor to the local object's pointer is needed
in the platform's capability base-classes. For further discussion details please
refer issue #139.
2012-03-08 18:40:48 +01:00
Norman Feske 08ce32215d Bump year in copyright headers to 2012 2012-01-03 15:35:05 +01:00
Genode Labs da4e1feaa5 Imported Genode release 11.11 2011-12-22 16:19:25 +01:00