Instead of using an additional thread in each Session_component of a
block server, which uses the generic block component and driver classes,
replace it with signal dispatchers.
Ref #113
To support components, which implement the block session's server side
rpc object, and which doesn't write data to their device backend immediately,
an additional synchronization call is needed. Thereby, clients like for
instance a file system can tell these components, when a synchronization is
required.
Ref #113
The platform driver is used to access the features provided by the
Videocore mboxes, i.e., power configuration and framebuffer setup. The
framebuffer driver uses the platform interface to setup a screen mode of
1024x768.
In general, requesting a dataspace from a server twice is no good
idea. The server might react in a unrecoverable fashion. E.g. the rom_fs
service always throws away the corresponding dataspace from the first call
of dataspace(), and constructs a new one.
This patch changes the interface of Nitpicker to support dynamically
dimensioned virtual frame buffers. This solves two problems:
First, it enables a client to create a connection to nitpicker without
donating much session quota in advance. The old interface required each
screen-size-dependent client to donate as much memory as needed to
allocate a screen-sized virtual framebuffer. For clients that are
interested int the screen size but cover just a small portion of the
screen (e.g., a banner, a menu, an applet that sits in the screen
corner), this overprovisioning is painful. The new interface allows such
clients to upgrade the session quota for an existing session as needed.
Second, because each nitpicker session used to have a virtual frame
buffer with a fixed size over the lifetime of the session, a client that
wanted to implement a variable-sized window had to either vastly
overprovide resources (by opening a session as large as the screen just
in order to be prepared for the worst case of a maximized window), or it
had to replace the session by a new one (thereby discarding the stacking
order of the old views) each time the window changes its dimensions. The
new interface accommodates such clients much better.
With this patch, the 'Ring_buffer' class can be made unsynchronized by
setting the 'Ring_buffer_unsynchronized' policy as third template
argument.
Fixes#922.
For the framebuffer driver of the i.MX53 platform to work even when u-boot
didn't prepared the display previously, there were some IOMUX routes missing.
Fixes#914
* Remove far too low default values from Nic::Connection constructor
* Extend lwip initialization function with desired TX/RX buffer sizes
* Add configuration possibility to libc_lwip_dhcp plugin to define
buffer sizes, like the following:
'<libc tx_buf_size="1M" tx_buf_size="1M"/>'
Fixes#892
In order to be able to dynamically balance resources of slaves, we need
to provide an accessor to the slave's RAM session and a way to issue
yield requests.
Both 'platform_session/capability.h' and 'platform_session/connection.h'
do not contain platform-specific information. By moving them from
'include/platform/imx53/platform_session/' to 'include/platform_session/',
this patch enables other platforms to reuse them.
By splitting Session_policy into two classes, we make it more flexible.
Originally, the constructor accepted solely an args string, which made it
unusable for situations where we already have extracted the session
label (e.g., stored in the session meta data of a server). Now, the
extraction of the label from the args string is performed by the new
Session_label class instead, which, in turn, can be passed to the
constructor of Session_policy.
This change causes a minor API change. The following code
Session_policy policy(session_args);
Must be turned into
Session_label label(session_args);
Session_policy policy(label);
Originally, the convenience utility for accessing a process
configuration came in the form of a header file. But this causes
aliasing problems if multiple compilation units access the config while
the configuration gets dynamically updated. Moving the implementation of
the accessor to the singleton object into a library solves those
problems.
To enable the specification of key names in configuration files parsed
at runtime, we need the association between key-code values and their
respective names.
Instead of using msleep to sleep periodically, and then increase jiffies
counter in the alarm scheduler implementation of the timed semaphore
use the 'trigger_periodic' call introduced by the change of the timer session
interface into an asynchronous one. Thereby, we can reduce the necessary IPC
communication with the timer service effectively.
Ref #35
The assignment of affinities consists of two parts, the definition
of the affinity space dimensions as used for the init process, and
the association sub systems with affinity locations (relative to the
affinity space). The affinity space is configured as a sub node of the
config node. For example, the following declaration describes an
affinity space of 4x2:
<config>
...
<affinity_space width="4" height="2" />
...
</config>
Subsystems can be constrained to parts of the affinity space using
the '<affinity>' sub node of a '<start>' entry:
<config>
...
<start name="loader">
<affinity xpos="0" ypos="1" width="2" height="1" />
...
</start>
...
</config>
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.
* Implements platform driver for Arndale providing Regulator for CPU clock
* Implements a cpu frequency scaling test using the affinity test
* Fixes#770
