kprintf should not really care about the hardware-specific details of
each UART or serial port out there, so instead of using x86 specific
instructions, let's ensure that we will compile only the relevant code
for debug output for a targeted-specific platform.
The RTC and CMOS are currently only supported for x86 platforms and use
specific x86 instructions to produce only certain x86 plaform operations
and results, therefore, we move them to the Arch/x86 specific directory.
Many code patterns and hardware procedures rely on reliable delay in the
microseconds granularity, and since they are using such delays which are
valid cases, but should not rely on x86 specific code, we allow to
determine in compile time the proper platform-specific code to use to
invoke such delays.
We only use the RTC code in the Kernel, so it doesn't make sense to make
the RTC namespace outside of it. In addition to that, we will need later
on to use the RTC in an x86 specific manner and this will help us to use
this code in such fashion.
We move QEMU and VirtualBox shutdown sequences to a separate file, as
well as moving the i8042 reboot code sequence too to another file.
This allows us to abstract specific methods from the power state node
code of the SysFS filesystem, to allow other architectures to put their
methods there too in the future.
Using the IO address space is only relevant for x86 machines, so let's
not compile instructions to access the PCI configuration space when we
don't target x86 platforms.
This remained undetected for a long time as HeaderCheck is disabled by
default. This commit makes the following file compile again:
// file: compile_me.cpp
#include <Kernel/API/POSIX/ucontext.h>
// That's it, this was enough to cause a compilation error.
According to Dr. POSIX, we should allow to call mmap on inodes even on
ranges that currently don't map to any actual data. Trying to read or
write to those ranges should result in SIGBUS being sent to the thread
that did violating memory access.
We make these methods non-virtual because we want to ensure we properly
enforce locking of the m_inode_lock mutex. Also, for write operations,
we want to call prepare_to_write_data before the actual write. The
previous design required us to ensure the callers do that at various
places which lead to hard-to-find bugs. By moving everything to a place
where we call prepare_to_write_data only once, we eliminate a possibilty
of forgeting to call it on some code path in the kernel.
The block list required a bit of work, and now the only method being
declared const to bypass its const-iness is the read_bytes method that
calls a new method called compute_block_list_with_exclusive_locking that
takes care of proper locking before trying to update the block list data
of the ext2 inode.
Before of this patch, we supported two methods to address a boot device:
1. Specifying root=/dev/hdXY, where X is a-z letter which corresponds to
a boot device, and Y as number from 1 to 16, to indicate the partition
number, which can be omitted to instruct the kernel to use a raw device
rather than a partition on a raw device.
2. Specifying root=PARTUUID: with a GUID string of a GUID partition. In
case of existing storage device with GPT partitions, this is most likely
the safest option to ensure booting from persistent storage.
While option 2 is more advanced and reliable, the first option has 2
caveats:
1. The string prefix "/dev/hd" doesn't mean anything beside a convention
on Linux installations, that was taken into use in Serenity. In Serenity
we don't mount DevTmpFS before we mount the boot device on /, so the
kernel doesn't really access /dev anyway, so this convention is only a
big misleading relic that can easily make the user to assume we access
/dev early on boot.
2. This convention although resemble the simple linux convention, is
quite limited in specifying a correct boot device across hardware setup
changes, so option 2 was recommended to ensure the system is always
bootable.
With these caveats in mind, this commit tries to fix the problem with
adding more addressing options as well as to remove the first option
being mentioned above of addressing.
To sum it up, there are 4 addressing options:
1. Hardware relative address - Each instance of StorageController is
assigned with a index number relative to the type of hardware it handles
which makes it possible to address storage devices with a prefix of the
commandset ("ata" for ATA, "nvme" for NVMe, "ramdisk" for Plain memory),
and then the number for the parent controller relative hardware index,
another number LUN target_id, and a third number for LUN disk_id.
2. LUN address - Similar to the previous option, but instead we rely on
the parent controller absolute index for the first number.
3. Block device major and minor numbers - by specifying the major and
minor numbers, the kernel can simply try to get the corresponding block
device and use it as the boot device.
4. GUID string, in the same fashion like before, so the user use the
"PARTUUID:" string prefix and add the GUID of the GPT partition.
For the new address modes 1 and 2, the user can choose to also specify a
partition out of the selected boot device. To do that, the user needs to
append the semicolon character and then add the string "partX" where X
is to be changed for the partition number. We start counting from 0, and
therefore the first partition number is 0 and not 1 in the kernel boot
argument.
This reworks the way the UHCI schedule is set up to handle interrupt
transfers, creating 11 queue heads each assigned a different
period/latency, so that interrupt transfers can be linked into the
schedule with their specified period more easily.
Modifies the way the UHCI schedule is set up & modified to allow for
multiple transfers of the same type, from one or more devices, to be
queued up and handled simultaneously.
Otherwise we would be holding the MM global data lock and the Process
address space locks in reversed order to the rest of the system, which
can lead to deadlocks.
This is a left-over from back when we didn't have any locking on the
global Process list, nor did we have SMP support, so this acted as some
kind of locking mechanism. We now have proper locks around the Process
list, so this is no longer relevant.
Change the name of set_serial_debug(bool on_or_off) to
set_serial_debug_enabled(bool desired_state). This is to make the names
more expressive and less unclear as to what the function does, as it
only sets the enabled state.
Likewise, change the name of get_serial_debug() to
is_serial_debug_enabled() in order to make clear from the name that
this is simply the state of s_serial_debug_enabled.
Change the name of serial_debug to s_serial_debug_enabled since this is
a static bool describing this state.
Finally, change the signature of set_serial_debug_enabled to return a
bool, as this is more logical and understandable.
Now that the Spinlock code is not dependent on architectural specific
code anymore, we can move it back to the Locking folder. This also means
that the Spinlock implemenation is now used for the aarch64 kernel.
This commit updates the lock function from Spinlock and
RecursiveSpinlock to return the InterruptsState of the processor,
instead of the processor flags. The unlock functions would only look at
the interrupt flag of the processor flags, so we now use the
InterruptsState enum to clarify the intent, and such that we can use the
same Spinlock code for the aarch64 build.
To not break the build, all the call sites are updated aswell.
This commit adds the concept of an InterruptsState to the kernel. This
will be used to make the Spinlock code architecture independent. A new
Processor.cpp file is added such that we don't have to duplicate the
code.
Globally shared MemoryManager state is now kept in a GlobalData struct
and wrapped in SpinlockProtected.
A small set of members are left outside the GlobalData struct as they
are only set during boot initialization, and then remain constant.
This allows us to access those members without taking any locks.
I believe this to be safe, as the main thing that LockRefPtr provides
over RefPtr is safe copying from a shared LockRefPtr instance. I've
inspected the uses of RefPtr<PhysicalPage> and it seems they're all
guarded by external locking. Some of it is less obvious, but this is
an area where we're making continuous headway.
We're not accessing any of the MM members here. Also remove some
redundant code to update CR3, since it calls activate_page_directory()
which does exactly the same thing.
