The result will be -1 on error, and the error value will be stored in
errno. PVS-Studio found this because result it saw result < 0 and new
EFAULT is < 0, so this could never be true.
This change removes the halt and reboot syscalls, and create a new
mechanism to change the power state of the machine.
Instead of how power state was changed until now, put a SysFS node as
writable only for the superuser, that with a defined value, can result
in either reboot or poweroff.
In the future, a power group can be assigned to this node (which will be
the GroupID responsible for power management).
This opens an opportunity to permit to shutdown/reboot without superuser
permissions, so in the future, a userspace daemon can take control of
this node to perform power management operations without superuser
permissions, if we enforce different UserID/GroupID on that node.
This removes the awkward String::replace API which was the only String
API which mutated the String and replaces it with a new immutable
version that returns a new String with the replacements applied. This
also fixes a couple of UAFs that were caused by the use of this API.
As an optimization an equivalent StringView::replace API was also added
to remove an unnecessary String allocations in the format of:
`String { view }.replace(...);`
These interfaces are broken for about 9 months, maybe longer than that.
At this point, this is just a dead code nobody tests or tries to use, so
let's remove it instead of keeping a stale code just for the sake of
keeping it and hoping someone will fix it.
To better justify this, I read that OpenBSD removed loadable kernel
modules in 5.7 release (2014), mainly for the same reason we do -
nobody used it so they had no good reason to maintain it.
Still, OpenBSD had LKMs being effectively working, which is not the
current state in our project for a long time.
An arguably better approach to minimize the Kernel image size is to
allow dropping drivers and features while compiling a new image.
This patch adds a `-z` option to js and test-js. When run in this mode,
garbage cells are never actually destroyed. We instead keep them around
in a special zombie state.
This allows us to validate that zombies don't get marked in future GC
scans (since there were not supposed to be any more references!) :^)
Cells get notified when they become a zombie (via did_become_zombie())
and this is used by WeakContainer cells to deregister themselves from
the heap.
Command used:
grep -Pirn '(out|warn)ln\((?!["\)]|format,|stderr,|stdout,|output, ")' \
AK Kernel/ Tests/ Userland/
(Plus some manual reviewing.)
Let's pick ArgsParser as an example:
outln(file, m_general_help);
This will fail at runtime if the general help happens to contain braces.
Even if this transformation turns out to be unnecessary in a place or
two, this way the code is "more obviously" correct.
A couple of things were changed:
1. Semantic changes - PCI segments are now called PCI domains, to better
match what they are really. It's also the name that Linux gave, and it
seems that Wikipedia also uses this name.
We also remove PCI::ChangeableAddress, because it was used in the past
but now it's no longer being used.
2. There are no WindowedMMIOAccess or MMIOAccess classes anymore, as
they made a bunch of unnecessary complexity. Instead, Windowed access is
removed entirely (this was tested, but never was benchmarked), so we are
left with IO access and memory access options. The memory access option
is essentially mapping the PCI bus (from the chosen PCI domain), to
virtual memory as-is. This means that unless needed, at any time, there
is only one PCI bus being mapped, and this is changed if access to
another PCI bus in the same PCI domain is needed. For now, we don't
support mapping of different PCI buses from different PCI domains at the
same time, because basically it's still a non-issue for most machines
out there.
2. OOM-safety is increased, especially when constructing the Access
object. It means that we pre-allocating any needed resources, and we try
to find PCI domains (if requested to initialize memory access) after we
attempt to construct the Access object, so it's possible to fail at this
point "gracefully".
3. All PCI API functions are now separated into a different header file,
which means only "clients" of the PCI subsystem API will need to include
that header file.
4. Functional changes - we only allow now to enumerate the bus after
a hardware scan. This means that the old method "enumerate_hardware"
is removed, so, when initializing an Access object, the initializing
function must call rescan on it to force it to find devices. This makes
it possible to fail rescan, and also to defer it after construction from
both OOM-safety terms and hotplug capabilities.
If the domain/group/key doesn't exist in the config, exit with
non-zero status and don't print out anything.
Previously the CLI would print a single empty line if the config
value was not found with LibConfig. Now, we use the proper
`Config::Client::the().read_string()` API which can return an
`Optional` type indicating failure.`
We now expose the `USBDevice`'s address in the SysFS object. This means
that device addresses are no longer determined by the name of the file
in the `/bus/usb/` directory. This was an incorrect way of determining
device address, as a standard PC can have multiple USB controllers
(and hence multiple buses) that can have overlapping device IDs.
This adds a `-q` option, which expects a comma-separated list of PIDs as
a value. On using it, only the processes associated with the supplied
PIDs are output.
Previously, we were always getting the full screen(s) bitmap from
the WindowServer and cropping it manually. The `get_screen_bitmap`
function already took in a `crop_region`, so we are now utilizing
that.
The new asctl (audio server control) utility expands on avol with a
completely new command line interface (documented in the man page) that
supports retrieving and setting all exposed audio server settings, like
volume and sample rate. This is currently the only user-facing way of
changing the sample rate.
All audio applications (aplay, Piano, Sound Player) respect the ability
of the system to have theoretically any sample rate. Therefore, they
resample their own audio into the system sample rate.
LibAudio previously had its loaders resample their own audio, even
though they expose their sample rate. This is now changed. The loaders
output audio data in their file's sample rate, which the user has to
query and resample appropriately. Resampling code from Buffer, WavLoader
and FlacLoader is removed.
Note that these applications only check the sample rate at startup,
which is reasonable (the user has to restart applications when changing
the sample rate). Fully dynamic adaptation could both lead to errors and
will require another IPC interface. This seems to be enough for now.
