Instead of blindly resetting every AHCI port, let's just reset only the
controller by default. The user can still request to reset everything
with a new kernel boot argument called ahci_reset_mode which is set
by default to "controller", so the code will only invoke an HBA reset.
This kernel boot argument can be set to 3 different values:
1. "controller" - reset the HBA and skip resetting AHCI ports
2. "none" - don't reset anything, so we rely on the firmware to
initialize the AHCI HBA and ports for us.
3. "complete" - reset the AHCI HBA and ports.
Instead of waiting for the AHCI HBA to reset the signature after SATA
reset sequence, let's just check if the Port x Serial ATA Status
register was set to value 3, indicating that device was detected
and phy communication was established.
The intention is to make the boot to be faster, therefore we should
decrease the time deltas in timeout loops to allow earlier break
from these.
Also, there's no need to wait 10 milliseconds before setting
the interface state to "no action request" during the reset sequence.
The system is extremely sensitive to heap allocations during heap
expansion. This was causing frequent OOM panics under various loads.
Work around the issue for now by putting the logging behind
KMALLOC_DEBUG. Ideally dmesgln() & friends would not reqiure any
heap allocations, but we're not there right now.
Fixes#5724.
The previous architecture had a huge flaw: the pointer to the protected
data was itself unprotected, allowing you to overwrite it at any time.
This patch reorganizes the protected data so it's part of the Process
class itself. (Actually, it's a new ProcessBase helper class.)
We use the first 4 KB of Process objects themselves as the new storage
location for protected data. Then we make Process objects page-aligned
using MAKE_ALIGNED_ALLOCATED.
This allows us to easily turn on/off write-protection for everything in
the ProcessBase portion of Process. :^)
Thanks to @bugaevc for pointing out the flaw! This is still not perfect
but it's an improvement.
Process member variable like m_euid are very valuable targets for
kernel exploits and until now they have been writable at all times.
This patch moves m_euid along with a whole bunch of other members
into a new Process::ProtectedData struct. This struct is remapped
as read-only memory whenever we don't need to write to it.
This means that a kernel write primitive is no longer enough to
overwrite a process's effective UID, you must first unprotect the
protected data where the UID is stored. :^)
