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.
The initialize_hba method now calls the reset method to reset the HBA
and initialize each AHCIPort. Also, after full HBA reset we need to turn
on the AHCI functionality of the HBA and global interrupts since they
are cleared to 0 according to the specification in the GHC register.
Instead of doing this in a parent class like the AHCIController, let's
do that directly in the AHCIPort class as that class is the only user of
these sort of physical pages. While it seems like we waste an entire 4KB
of physical RAM for each allocation, this could serve us later on if we
want to fetch other types of logs from the ATA device.
The way AHCIPortHandler held AHCIPorts and even provided them with
physical pages for the ATA identify buffer just felt wrong.
To fix this, AHCIPortHandler is not a ref-counted object anymore. This
solves the big part of the problem, because AHCIPorts can't hold a
reference to this object anymore, only the AHCIController can do that.
Then, most of the responsibilities are shifted to the AHCIController,
making the AHCIPortHandler a handler of port interrupts only.
This was a premature optimization from the early days of SerenityOS.
The eternal heap was a simple bump pointer allocator over a static
byte array. My original idea was to avoid heap fragmentation and improve
data locality, but both ideas were rooted in cargo culting, not data.
We would reserve 4 MiB at boot and only ended up using ~256 KiB, wasting
the rest.
This patch replaces all kmalloc_eternal() usage by regular kmalloc().
Like what happened with the PCI and USB code, this feels like the right
thing to do because we can improve on the ATA capabilities and keep it
distinguished from the rest of the subsystem.
2021-11-13 10:05:22 +01:00
Renamed from Kernel/Storage/AHCIController.h (Browse further)
