Instead of doing so in the constructor, let's do immediately after the
constructor, so we can safely pass a reference of a Device, so the
SysFSDeviceComponent constructor can use that object to identify whether
it's a block device or a character device.
This allows to us to not hold a device in SysFSDeviceComponent with a
RefPtr.
Also, we also call the before_removing method in both SlavePTY::unref
and File::unref, so because Device has that method being overrided, it
can ensure the device is removed always cleanly.
This expands the reach of error propagation greatly throughout the
kernel. Sadly, it also exposes the fact that we're allocating (and
doing other fallible things) in constructors all over the place.
This patch doesn't attempt to address that of course. That's work for
our future selves.
This ensures we safely handle interrupts (which can call virtual
functions), so they don't happen in the constructor - this pattern can
lead to a crash, if we are still in the constructor context because
not all methods are available for usage (some are pure virtual,
so it's possible to call __cxa_pure_virtual).
Also, under some conditions like adding a PCI device via PCI-passthrough
mechanism in QEMU, it became exposed to the eye that the code asserts on
RNG::handle_device_config_change(). That device has no configuration but
if the hypervisor still misbehaves and tries to configure it, we should
simply return false to indicate nothing happened.
Before of this change, many specific classes to VirtIO were in the
Kernel namespace, which polluted it.
Everything should be more organized now, but there's still room for
improvement later.
This class member was used only to determine the device type when
printing messages to the debug log. Instead, remove this class member,
and add a quick way to find the device type according to how the VirtIO
specification says to do that.
This simplifies construction of VirtIODevices a bit, because now the
constructor doesn't need to ask for a String identified with the device
type.