Userspace initially didn't have any sort of mechanism to handle
device hotplug (either removing or inserting a device).
This meant that after a short term of scanning all known devices, by
fetching device events (DeviceEvent packets) from /dev/devctl, we
basically never try to read it again after SystemServer initialization
code.
To accommodate hotplug needs, we change SystemServer by ensuring it will
generate a known set of device nodes at their location during the its
main initialization code. This includes devices like /dev/mem, /dev/zero
and /dev/full, etc.
The actual responsible userspace program to handle hotplug events is a
new userspace program called DeviceMapper, with following key points:
- Its current task is to to constantly read the /dev/devctl device node.
Because we already created generic devices, we only handle devices
that are dynamically-generated in nature, like storage devices, audio
channels, etc.
- Since dynamically-generated device nodes could have an infinite minor
numbers, but major numbers are decoded to a device type, we create an
internal registry based on two structures - DeviceNodeFamily, and
RegisteredDeviceNode. DeviceNodeFamily objects are attached in the
main logic code, when handling a DeviceEvent device insertion packet.
A DeviceNodeFamily object has an internal HashTable to hold objects of
RegisteredDeviceNode class.
- Because some device nodes could still share the same major number (TTY
and serial TTY devices), we have two modes of allocation - limited
allocation (so a range is defined for a major number), or infinite
range. Therefore, two (or more) separate DeviceNodeFamily objects can
can exist albeit sharing the same major number, but they are required
to allocate from a different minor numbers' range to ensure there are
no collisions.
- As for KCOV, we handle this device differently. In case the user
compiled the kernel with such support - this happens to be a singular
device node that we usually don't need, so it's dynamically-generated
too, and because it has only one instance, we don't register it in our
internal registry to not make it complicated needlessly.
The Kernel code is modified to allow proper blocking in case of no
events in the DeviceControlDevice class, because otherwise we will need
to poll periodically the device to check if a new event is available,
which would waste CPU time for no good reason.
The process could be long gone by the point the async IO request has
completed so hold a weak reference pointer to the requesting Process and
try get a strong reference only when needed.
This patch is necessary because otherwise async IO requests can hold
Process objects long after they were terminated, which would make it
impossible to perform certain tasks in the system, like killing all user
processes during the shutdown procedure.
Previously we would set the KeyCode correctly to the appropriate
extended keys values, like Home and End, but keep the code point of the
original keys, like 1, 2, 3, etc. Because of this, the keys would just
print the original keys, instead of behaving like the extended ones.
Shadow doorbell feature was added in the NVMe spec to improve
the performance of virtual devices.
Typically, ringing a doorbell involves writing to an MMIO register in
QEMU, which can be expensive as there will be a trap for the VM.
Shadow doorbell mechanism was added for the VM to communicate with the
OS when it needs to do an MMIO write, thereby avoiding it when it is
not necessary.
There is no performance improvement with this support in Serenity
at the moment because of the block layer constraint of not batching
multiple IOs. Once the command batching support is added to the block
layer, shadow doorbell support can improve performance by avoiding many
MMIO writes.
Default to old MMIO mechanism if shadow doorbell is not supported.
Introduce a new Struct Doorbell that encapsulates the mmio doorbell
register.
This commit does not introduce any functional changes and it is added
in preparation to adding shadow doorbell support.
This was the root cause of zombie processes showing up randomly and
disappearing after some disk activity, such as running shell commands -
The NVMeIO AsyncBlockDeviceRequest member simply held a pointer to a
Process object, therefore it could keep it alive a for a long time after
it ceased to actually function at all.
Add the device ID for PCI serial port cards that use the WCH CH351
chip. This device has been tested with real hardware where the serial
debug output could succesfully be received.
The driver would crash if it was unable to find an output route, and
subsequently the destruction of controller did not invoke
`GenericInterruptHandler::will_be_destroyed()` because on the level of
`AudioController`, that method is unavailable.
By decoupling the interrupt handling from the controller, we get a new
refcounted class that correctly cleans up after itself :^)
We used to not care about stopping an audio output stream for Intel HDA
since AudioServer would continuously send new buffers to play. Since
707f5ac150ef858760eb9faa52b9ba80c50c4262 however, that has changed.
Intel HDA now uses interrupts to detect when each buffer was completed
by the device, and uses a simple heuristic to detect whether a buffer
underrun has occurred so it can stop the output stream.
This was tested on Qemu's Intel HDA (Linux x86_64) and a bare metal MSI
Starship/Matisse HD Audio Controller.
This is a preparation before we can create a usable mechanism to use
filesystem-specific mount flags.
To keep some compatibility with userland code, LibC and LibCore mount
functions are kept being usable, but now instead of doing an "atomic"
syscall, they do multiple syscalls to perform the complete procedure of
mounting a filesystem.
The FileBackedFileSystem IntrusiveList in the VFS code is now changed to
be protected by a Mutex, because when we mount a new filesystem, we need
to check if a filesystem is already created for a given source_fd so we
do a scan for that OpenFileDescription in that list. If we fail to find
an already-created filesystem we create a new one and register it in the
list if we successfully mounted it. We use a Mutex because we might need
to initiate disk access during the filesystem creation, which will take
other mutexes in other parts of the kernel, therefore making it not
possible to take a spinlock while doing this.
Otherwise, reading will sometimes fail on the Raspberry Pi.
This is mostly a hack, the spec has some info about how the correct
divisor should be calculated and how we can recover from timeouts.
Namely, we previously forgot to configure the SD Host Controller for
4-bit mode after issuing ACMD6, which caused data transfers to fail on
bare metal.
To ensure actual PS2 code is not tied to the i8042 code, we make them
separated in the following ways:
- PS2KeyboardDevice and PS2MouseDevice classes are no longer inheriting
from the IRQHandler class. Instead we have specific IRQHandler derived
class for the i8042 controller implementation, which is used to ensure
that we don't end up mixing PS2 code with low-level interrupt handling
functionality. In the future this means that we could add a driver for
other PS2 controllers that might have only one interrupt handler but
multiple PS2 devices are attached, therefore, making it easier to put
the right propagation flow from the controller driver all the way to
the HID core code.
- A simple abstraction layer is added between the PS2 command set which
devices could use and the actual implementation low-level commands.
This means that the code in PS2MouseDevice and PS2KeyboardDevice
classes is no longer tied to i8042 implementation-specific commands,
so now these objects could send PS2 commands to their PS2 controller
and get a PS2Response which abstracts the given response too.
The HIDController class is removed and instead adding SerialIOController
class. The HIDController class was a mistake - there's no such thing in
real hardware as host controller only for human interface devices
(VirtIO PCI input controller being the exception here, but it could be
technically treated as serial IO controller too).
Instead, we simply add a new abstraction layer - the SerialIO "bus",
which will hold all the code that is related to serial communications
with other devices. A PS2 controller is simply a serial IO controller,
and the Intel 8042 Controller is simply a specific implementation of a
PS2 controller.
Ideally, we would want the audio controller to run a channel at a
device's initial sample rate instead of hardcoding 44.1 KHz. However,
most audio is provided at 44.1 KHz and as long as `Audio::Resampler`
introduces significant audio artifacts, let's set a sensible sample
rate that offers a better experience for most users.
This can be removed after someone implements a higher quality
`Audio::Resampler`.
Like the HID, Audio and Storage subsystem, the Graphics subsystem (which
handles GPUs technically) exposes unix device files (typically in /dev).
To ensure consistency across the repository, move all related files to a
new directory under Kernel/Devices called "GPU".
Also remove the redundant "GPU" word from the VirtIO driver directory,
and the word "Graphics" from GraphicsManagement.{h,cpp} filenames.
This has KString, KBuffer, DoubleBuffer, KBufferBuilder, IOWindow,
UserOrKernelBuffer and ScopedCritical classes being moved to the
Kernel/Library subdirectory.
Also, move the panic and assertions handling code to that directory.
The Storage subsystem, like the Audio and HID subsystems, exposes Unix
device files (for example, in the /dev directory). To ensure consistency
across the repository, we should make the Storage subsystem to reside in
the Kernel/Devices directory like the two other mentioned subsystems.
"Wherever applicable" = most places, actually :^), especially for
networking and filesystem timestamps.
This includes changes to unzip, which uses DOSPackedTime, since that is
changed for the FAT file systems.
That's what this class really is; in fact that's what the first line of
the comment says it is.
This commit does not rename the main files, since those will contain
other time-related classes in a little bit.
To do this we also need to get rid of LockRefPtrs in the USB code as
well.
Most of the SysFS nodes are statically generated during boot and are not
mutated afterwards.
The same goes for general device code - once we generate the appropriate
SysFS nodes, we almost never mutate the node pointers afterwards, making
locking unnecessary.
While doing this, we can also just return a normal RefPtr instead of a
LockRefPtr, because we create these channels when initializing an audio
controller, and never change the pointer in AudioController instances
after their initialization, hence no locking is necessary.
