This is way better than walking the region lists. I suppose we could
even let the hardware trigger a page fault and handle that. That'll
be the next step in the evolution here I guess.
I added an RAII helper called OtherTaskPagingScope. While present,
it switches the kernel over to using another task's page directory.
This is perfect for e.g walking the stack in /proc/PID/stack.
I spent some time stuck on a problem where processes would clobber each
other's stacks. Took me a moment to figure out that their stacks
were allocated in the sub-4MB linear address range which is shared
between all processes. Oops!
This isn't finished but I'll commit as I go. We need to get to where context
switching only needs to change CR3 and everything's ready to go.
My basic idea is:
- The first 4 kB is off-limits. This catches null dereferences.
- Up to the 4 MB mark is identity-mapped and kernel-only.
- The rest is available to everyone!
While the first 4 MB is only available to the kernel, it's still mapped in
every process, for convenience when entering the kernel.
Ran into a horrendous bug where VirtualConsole would overrun its buffer
and scribble right into some other object if we were interrupted while
processing a character. Slapped an InterruptDisabler onto onChar for now.
This provokes an interesting question though.. if a process is killed
while its in kernel space, how the heck do we release any locks it held?
I'm sure there are many different solutions to this problem, but I'll
have to think about it.
I ran out of steam writing library routines and imported two
BSD-licensed libc routines: sscanf() and getopt().
I will most likely rewrite them sooner or later. For now
I just wanted to see figlet running.
We now make three VirtualConsoles at boot: tty0, tty1, and tty2.
We launch an instance of /bin/sh in each one.
You switch between them with Alt+1/2/3
How very very cool :^)
The SpinLock was all backwards and didn't actually work. Fixing it exposed
how wrong most of the locking here is.
I need to come up with a better granularity here.
- sys$readlink + readlink()
- Add a /proc/PID/exe symlink to the process's executable.
- Print symlink contents in ls output.
- Some work on plumbing options into VFS::open().
This is pretty inefficient for ext2fs. We walk the entire block group
containing the inode, searching through every directory for an entry
referencing this inode.
It might be a good idea to cache this information somehow. I'm not sure
how often we'll be searching for it.
Obviously there are multiple caching layers missing in the file system.
This took me a couple hours. :^)
The ELF loading code now allocates a single region for the entire
file and creates virtual memory mappings for the sections as needed.
Very nice!
I also added a generator cache to FileHandle. This way, multiple
reads to a generated file (i.e in a synthfs) can transparently
handle multiple calls to read() without the contents changing
between calls.
The cache is discarded at EOF (or when the FileHandle is destroyed.)
FileHandle gets a hasDataAvailableForRead() getter.
If this returns true in sys$read(), the task will block(BlockedRead) + yield.
The fd blocked on is stored in Task::m_fdBlockedOnRead.
The scheduler then looks at the state of that fd during the unblock phase.
This makes "sh" restful. :^)
There's still some problem with the kernel not surviving the colonel task
getting scheduled. I need to figure that out and fix it.
It's implemented as a separate process. How cute is that.
Tasks now have a current working directory. Spawned tasks inherit their
parent task's working directory.
Currently everyone just uses "/" as there's no way to chdir().
I added a dead-simple malloc that only allows allocations < 4096 bytes.
It just forwards the request to mmap() every time.
I also added simplified versions of opendir() and readdir().
