These were easy to pick-up as these pointers are assigned during the
construction point and are never changed afterwards.
This small change to these pointers will ensure that our code will not
accidentally assign these pointers with a new object which is always a
kind of bug we will want to prevent.
Before, the mapping of our HBA region would be done in the constructor.
Since this can fail, I moved it into initialize().
Additionally, we now use the TypedMapping helper for mapping the HBA
instead of doing it manually. This actually uncovered a bug where we
would ignore any possible offset into the page we were mapping, which
caused us to miss the mapped registers entirely.
Storage controllers are initialized during init and are never modified.
NonnullRefPtr can be safely used instead of the NonnullLockRefPtr. This
also fixes one of the UB issue that was there when using an NVMe device
because of NonnullLockRefPtr.
We can add proper locking when we need to modify the storage controllers
after init.
There's no plan to support ATAPI in the foreseeable future. ATAPI is
considered mostly as an extension to pass SCSI commands over ATA-link
compatible channel (which could be a physical SATA or PATA).
ATAPI is mostly used for controlling optical drives which are considered
obsolete in 2023, and require an entire SCSI abstraction layer we don't
exhibit with bypassing ioctls for sending specific SCSI commands in many
control-flow sequences for actions being taken for such hardware.
Therefore, let's make it clear we don't support ATAPI (SCSI over ATA)
unless someone picks it up and proves otherwise that this can be done
cleanly and also in a relevant way to our project.
This class had slightly confusing semantics and the added weirdness
doesn't seem worth it just so we can say "." instead of "->" when
iterating over a vector of NNRPs.
This patch replaces NonnullRefPtrVector<T> with Vector<NNRP<T>>.
There are now 2 separate classes for almost the same object type:
- EnumerableDeviceIdentifier, which is used in the enumeration code for
all PCI host controller classes. This is allowed to be moved and
copied, as it doesn't support ref-counting.
- DeviceIdentifier, which inherits from EnumerableDeviceIdentifier. This
class uses ref-counting, and is not allowed to be copied. It has a
spinlock member in its structure to allow safely executing complicated
IO sequences on a PCI device and its space configuration.
There's a static method that allows a quick conversion from
EnumerableDeviceIdentifier to DeviceIdentifier while creating a
NonnullRefPtr out of it.
The reason for doing this is for the sake of integrity and reliablity of
the system in 2 places:
- Ensure that "complicated" tasks that rely on manipulating PCI device
registers are done in a safe manner. For example, determining a PCI
BAR space size requires multiple read and writes to the same register,
and if another CPU tries to do something else with our selected
register, then the result will be a catastrophe.
- Allow the PCI API to have a united form around a shared object which
actually holds much more data than the PCI::Address structure. This is
fundamental if we want to do certain types of optimizations, and be
able to support more features of the PCI bus in the foreseeable
future.
This patch already has several implications:
- All PCI::Device(s) hold a reference to a DeviceIdentifier structure
being given originally from the PCI::Access singleton. This means that
all instances of DeviceIdentifier structures are located in one place,
and all references are pointing to that location. This ensures that
locking the operation spinlock will take effect in all the appropriate
places.
- We no longer support adding PCI host controllers and then immediately
allow for enumerating it with a lambda function. It was found that
this method is extremely broken and too much complicated to work
reliably with the new paradigm being introduced in this patch. This
means that for Volume Management Devices (Intel VMD devices), we
simply first enumerate the PCI bus for such devices in the storage
code, and if we find a device, we attach it in the PCI::Access method
which will scan for devices behind that bridge and will add new
DeviceIdentifier(s) objects to its internal Vector. Afterwards, we
just continue as usual with scanning for actual storage controllers,
so we will find a corresponding NVMe controllers if there were any
behind that VMD bridge.
A virtual method named device_name() was added to
Kernel::PCI to support logging the PCI::Device name
and address using dmesgln_pci. Previously, PCI::Device
did not store the device name.
All devices inheriting from PCI::Device now use dmesgln_pci where
they previously used dmesgln.
This step would ideally not have been necessary (increases amount of
refactoring and templates necessary, which in turn increases build
times), but it gives us a couple of nice properties:
- SpinlockProtected inside Singleton (a very common combination) can now
obtain any lock rank just via the template parameter. It was not
previously possible to do this with SingletonInstanceCreator magic.
- SpinlockProtected's lock rank is now mandatory; this is the majority
of cases and allows us to see where we're still missing proper ranks.
- The type already informs us what lock rank a lock has, which aids code
readability and (possibly, if gdb cooperates) lock mismatch debugging.
- The rank of a lock can no longer be dynamic, which is not something we
wanted in the first place (or made use of). Locks randomly changing
their rank sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
- In some places, we might be able to statically check that locks are
taken in the right order (with the right lock rank checking
implementation) as rank information is fully statically known.
This refactoring even more exposes the fact that Mutex has no lock rank
capabilites, which is not fixed here.
The AHCI code doesn't rely on x86 IO at all as it only uses memory
mapped IO so we can simply remove the header.
We also simply don't use x86 IO in the Intel graphics driver, so we can
simply remove the include of the x86 IO header there too.
Everything else was a bunch of stale includes to the x86 IO header and
are actually not necessary, so let's remove them to make it easier to
compile non-x86 Kernel builds.
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.
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.
Until now, our kernel has reimplemented a number of AK classes to
provide automatic internal locking:
- RefPtr
- NonnullRefPtr
- WeakPtr
- Weakable
This patch renames the Kernel classes so that they can coexist with
the original AK classes:
- RefPtr => LockRefPtr
- NonnullRefPtr => NonnullLockRefPtr
- WeakPtr => LockWeakPtr
- Weakable => LockWeakable
The goal here is to eventually get rid of the Lock* classes in favor of
using external locking.
Instead of having two separate implementations of AK::RefCounted, one
for userspace and one for kernelspace, there is now RefCounted and
AtomicRefCounted.
All users which relied on the default constructor use a None lock rank
for now. This will make it easier to in the future remove LockRank and
actually annotate the ranks by searching for None.
We do that to increase clarity of the major and secondary components in
the subsystem. To ensure it's even more understandable, we rename the
files to better represent the class within them and to remove redundancy
in the name.
Also, some includes are removed from the general components of the ATA
components' classes.
