Linux creates holes in block lists for all-zero content. This is very
reasonable and we can now handle that situation as well.
Note that we're not smart enough to generate these holes ourselves yet,
but now we can at least read from such files.
The kernel sampling profiler will walk thread stacks during the timer
tick handler. Since it's not safe to trigger page faults during IRQ's,
we now avoid this by checking the page tables manually before accessing
each stack location.
We're not equipped to deal with page faults during an IRQ handler,
so add an assertion so we can immediately tell what's wrong.
This is why profiling sometimes hangs the system -- walking the stack
of the profiled thread causes a page fault and things fall apart.
If we get an -ENOENT when resolving the target because of some part, that is not
the very last part, missing, we should just return the error instead of panicking
later :^)
To test:
$ mkdir /tmp/foo/
$ mv /tmp/foo/ /tmp/bar/
Related to https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/issues/1253
This is apparently a special case unlike any other, so let's handle it
directly in VFS::mkdir() instead of adding an alternative code path into
VFS::resolve_path().
Fixes https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/issues/1253
Anonymous VM objects should never have null entries in their physical
page list. Instead, "empty" or untouched pages should refer to the
shared zero page.
Fixes#1237.
This will allow us to run the system menu as any user. It will also
enable further lockdown of the WindowServer process since it should no
longer need to pledge proc and exec. :^)
Note that this program is not finished yet.
Work towards #1231.
Process teardown is divided into two main stages: finalize and reap.
Finalization happens in the "Finalizer" kernel and runs with interrupts
enabled, allowing destructors to take locks, etc.
Reaping happens either in sys$waitid() or in the scheduler for orphans.
The more work we can do in finalization, the better, since it's fully
pre-emptible and reduces the amount of time the system runs without
interrupts enabled.
Replace Process::m_being_inspected with an inspector reference count.
This prevents an assertion from firing when inspecting the same process
in /proc from multiple processes at the same time.
It was trivially reproducible by opening multiple FileManagers.
This patch adds NotificationServer, which runs as the "notify" user
and provides an IPC API for desktop notifications.
LibGUI gains the GUI::Notification class for showing notifications.
NotificationServer is spawned on demand and will unspawn after
dimissing all visible notifications. :^)
Finally, this also comes with a small /bin/notify utility.
This was actually rather painless and straightforward. WindowServer now
runs as the "window" user. Users in the "window" group can connect to
it via the socket in /tmp/portal/window as usual.
This mechanism wasn't actually used to create any WeakPtr<Process>.
Such pointers would be pretty hard to work with anyway, due to the
multi-step destruction ritual of Process.
A 16-bit refcount is just begging for trouble right nowl.
A 32-bit refcount will be begging for trouble later down the line,
so we'll have to revisit this eventually. :^)
This patch adds a globally shared zero-filled PhysicalPage that will
be mapped into every slot of every zero-filled AnonymousVMObject until
that page is written to, achieving CoW-like zero-filled pages.
Initial testing show that this doesn't actually achieve any sharing yet
but it seems like a good design regardless, since it may reduce the
number of page faults taken by programs.
If you look at the refcount of MM.shared_zero_page() it will have quite
a high refcount, but that's just because everything maps it everywhere.
If you want to see the "real" refcount, you can build with the
MAP_SHARED_ZERO_PAGE_LAZILY flag, and we'll defer mapping of the shared
zero page until the first NP read fault.
I've left this behavior behind a flag for future testing of this code.
