ENODEV better represents the fact that there might be no display device
(e.g. a monitor) connected to the connector, therefore we should return
this error.
Another reason to not use ENOTIMPL is that it's a requirement for all
DisplayConnectors to put a valid EDID in place even for a hardware we
don't currently support mode-setting in runtime.
Instead of doing that on the IntelDisplayPlane class, let's have this in
derived classes so these classes can decide how to use the settings that
were provided before calling the enable method.
It became apparent to me that future generations of the Intel graphics
chipset utilize the same register set as part of the Transcoder register
set. Therefore, it should be included now in the Transcoder class.
In the real world, graphics hardware tend to have multiple display
connectors. However, usually the connectors share one register space but
still keeping different PLL timings and display lanes.
This new class should represent a group of multiple display connectors
working together in the same Intel graphics adapter. This opens an
opportunity to abstract the interface so we could support future Intel
iGPU generations.
This is also a preparation before the driver can support newer devices
and utilize their capabilities.
The mentioned preparation is applied in a these aspects:
1. The code is splitted into more classes to adjust to future expansion.
2 classes are introduced: IntelDisplayPlane and IntelDisplayTranscoder,
so the IntelDisplayPlane controls the plane registers and second class
controls the pipeline (transcoder, encoder) registers. On gen4 it's not
really useful because there are probably one plane and one encoder to
care about, but in future generations, there are likely to be multiple
transcoders and planes to accommodate multi head support.
2. The set_edid_bytes method in the DisplayConnector class can now be
told to not assume the provided EDID bytes are always invalid. Therefore
it can refrain from printing error messages if this flag parameter is
true. This is useful for supporting real hardware situation when on boot
not all ports are connected to a monitor, which can result in floating
bus condition (essentially all the bytes we read are 0xFF).
3. An IntelNativeDisplayConnector could now be set to flag other types
of connections such as eDP (embedded DisplayPort), Analog output, etc.
This is important because on the Intel gen4 graphics we could assume to
have one analog output connector, but on future generations this is very
likely to not be the case, as there might be no VGA outputs, but rather
only an eDP connector which is converted to VGA by a design choice of
the motherboard manufacturer.
4. Add ConnectorIndex to IntelNativeDisplayConnector class - Currently
this is used to verify we always handle the correct connector when doing
modesetting.
Later, it will be used to locate special settings needed when handling
connector requests.
5. Prepare to support more types of display planes. For example, the
Intel Skylake register set for display planes is a bit different, so
let's ensure we can properly support it in the near future.
This subdirectory is meant to hold all constant data related to the
kernel. This means that this data is never meant to updated and is
relevant from system boot to system shutdown.
Move the inodes of "load_base", "cmdline" and "system_mode" to that
directory. All nodes under this new subdirectory are generated during
boot, and therefore don't require calling kmalloc each time we need to
read them. Locking is also not necessary, because these nodes and their
data are completely static once being generated.
This is considered somewhat an abstraction layer violation, because we
should always let userspace to decide on the root filesystem mount flags
because it allows the user to configure the mount table to preferences
that they desire.
Now that SystemServer is modified to re-mount the root mount with the
desired flags, we can just mount the root filesystem without assuming
special flags.
The check of ensuring we are not trying to read beyond the end of the
inode data buffer is already there, it's just that we need to disallow
further reading if the read offset equals to the inode data size.
Apparently we lacked this important check from the beginning of this
piece of code. This check is crucial to ensure we only give back data
being related to the FATInode data buffer and nothing beyond it.
This is necessary to support the wayland protocol.
I also moved the CMSG_* macros to the kernel API since they are used in
both kernel and userspace.
this does not break ntpquery/SCM_TIMESTAMP.
There was a bug in which bound Inodes would lose all their references
(because localsocket does not reference them), and they would be
deallocated, and clients would get ECONNREFUSED as a result. now
LocalSocket has a strong reference to inode so that the inode will live
as long as the socket, and Inode has a weak reference to the socket,
because if the socket stops being referenced anywhere it should not be
bound.
This still prevents the reference loop that
220b7dd779 was trying to fix.
Even though we currently build all of Userland and the Kernel with the
-mstrict-align flag, the compiler will still emit unaligned memory
accesses. To work around this, we disable the check for now. See
https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/issues/17516 for the relevant
issue.
This commit adds Processor::set_thread_specific_data, and this function
is used to factor out architecture specific implementation of setting
the thread specific data. This function is implemented for
aarch64 and x86_64, and the callsites are changed to use this function
instead.
This new method is meant to be used in both userspace and kernel code.
The idea is to allow printing of a verbose message and then returning an
errno code which is the proper mechanism for kernel code because we
should almost always assume that such error will be propagated back to
userspace in some way, so the userspace code could reasonably decode it.
For userspace code however, this new method is meant to be a simple
wrapper for Error::from_string_view, because for most invocations, it's
much more useful to have a verbose & literal error than a errno code, so
we simply ignore that errno code completely in such context.
Returning literal strings is not the proper action here, because we
should always assume that error could be propagated back to userland, so
we need to keep a valid errno when returning an Error.
Returning literal strings is not the proper action here, because we
should always assume that error could be propagated back to userland, so
we need to keep a valid errno when returning an Error.
For example, consider cases where we want to propagate errors only in
specific instances:
auto result = read_data(); // something like ErrorOr<ByteBuffer>
if (result.is_error() && result.error().code() != EINTR)
continue;
auto bytes = TRY(result);
The TRY invocation will currently copy the byte buffer when the
expression (in this case, just a local variable) is stored into
_temporary_result.
This patch binds the expression to a reference to prevent such copies.
In less trival invocations (such as TRY(some_function()), this will
incur only temporary lifetime extensions, i.e. no functional change.
This is needed so we can retrieve the registers of a traced
thread that was attached to while it was running.
Attaching with ptrace to a running thread sends SIGSTOP to it.
This adds the necessary code to init.cpp to be able to execute the first
userspace process. To do this, first the filesystem code is initialized,
which will use the ramdisk embedded into the kernel image. Then the
first userspace process, /bin/SystemServer is executed. :^)
The ramdisk code is used as it is useful for the bring-up of the aarch64
port, however once the kernel has support for better ram-based
filesystems, the ramdisk code will be removed again.
