. data structure that automatically keeps a set
of pages in reserve, to replace sparepages and
possibly re-used in the future for similar situations,
e.g. if in-filesystem-cache block eviction is
implemented and FS asks for a new block
Change-Id: I149d46c14b9c8e75df16cb94e08907f008c339a6
. if there is no memory there, it's not writable; this
check bug by the shared memory's writable() method causes
pagefaults not to be handled at all in certain situations,
triggering an assert() in pt_writemap()
. added some assert()s to catch this and similar situations
in the future
Change-Id: Ife89bfab4f9a3aa7bf4e33dfb0b13b89dcd5bb94
The build system distinction between "bootprog" and "service" is
meaningless as boot programs are standard services.
As minix.service.mk simply imports minix.bootprog.mk, reduce confusion
by removing minix.bootprog.mk and placing the rules in minix.service.mk.
Change-Id: I4056b1e574bed59a8c890239b41b1a7c7cad63e8
. the total amount of memory in the system didn't include the memory
used by the boot-time modules and some dynamic allocation by the
kernel at boot time (to map in VM). especially apparent on our
ARM board with 'only' 512MB of memory and a huge ramdisk.
. also: *add* the VM loaded module to the freelist after it has
been allocated for & mapped in instead of cutting it *out* of the
freelist! so we get a few more MB free..
Change-Id: If37ac32b21c9d38610830e21421264da4f20bc4f
. allow any number of pde's used for pagedir mapping
. allows >1024 NR_PROCS on x86, >64 on ARM
. allows NR_PROCS to be the same in both cases
. also cleanup: allocating spare PDE's is not necessary
throw that function out
Change-Id: Ibb8f8cf6e7db6a4d6384b6911d1a3f3f5e5d8256
if an exec() fails partway through reading in the sections, the target
process is already gone and a defunct process remains. sanity checking
the binary beforehand helps that.
test10 mutilates binaries and exec()s them on purpose; making an exec()
fail cleanly in such cases seems like acceptable behaviour.
fixes test10 on ARM.
Change-Id: I1ed9bb200ce469d4d349073cadccad5503b2fcb0
The 'polarity' of the RW bit is inversed on ARM, causing one
of the sanity check compensations to fail. ARM now runs basic
stuff with sanity checks passing.
Change-Id: Iee28ab63e430e759f204eeb204b24c301d5ea3c9
. make vm tell kernel virtual locations of mappings
. makes _minix_kerninfo feature work
. fix for mappings being larger than what 1 pde can address
(e.g. devices memory requested on arm)
. still requires a special case for devices memory for the
kernel, which has to switch to virtual addressing
Change-Id: I2e94090aa432346fa4da0edeba72f0b7406c2ad7
Due to the ABI we are using we have to use the earm architecture
moniker for the build system to behave correctly. This involves
then some headers to move around.
There is also a few related Makefile updates as well as minor
source code corrections.
Fix warnings about:
. Unused variables
. format mismatch in printf/scanf format string and arguments
. Missing parenthesis around assignment as truth values
. Clang warnings anout unknown GCC pragma
. make vm be able to use malloc() by overriding brk()
and minix_mmap() functions
. phys regions can then be malloc()ed and free()d instead
of being in an avl tree, which is slightly faster
. 'offset' field in phys_region can go too (offset is implied
by position in array) but leads to bigger code changes
. also make other out-of-memory conditions less fatal
. add a test case for a user program using all the memory
it can
. remove some diagnostic prints for situations that are normal
when running out of memory so running the test isn't noisy
Introduce explicit abstractions for different mapping types,
handling the instantiation, forking, pagefaults and freeing of
anonymous memory, direct physical mappings, shared memory and
physically contiguous anonymous memory as separate types, making
region.c more generic.
Also some other genericification like merging the 3 munmap cases
into one.
COW and SMAP safemap code is still implicit in region.c.
. add cpufeature detection of both
. use it for both ipc and kernelcall traps, using a register
for call number
. SYSENTER/SYSCALL does not save any context, therefore userland
has to save it
. to accomodate multiple kernel entry/exit types, the entry
type is recorded in the process struct. hitherto all types
were interrupt (soft int, exception, hard int); now SYSENTER/SYSCALL
is new, with the difference that context is not fully restored
from proc struct when running the process again. this can't be
done as some information is missing.
. complication: cases in which the kernel has to fully change
process context (i.e. sigreturn). in that case the exit type
is changed from SYSENTER/SYSEXIT to soft-int (i.e. iret) and
context is fully restored from the proc struct. this does mean
the PC and SP must change, as the sysenter/sysexit userland code
will otherwise try to restore its own context. this is true in the
sigreturn case.
. override all usage by setting libc_ipc=1
fixes an assert() firing when starting X. thanks to the report by pikpik.
. NO_MEM was 0, which is actually an existing piece
of physical memory. it can't be allocated because it's reserved
for bios data (by the kernel), but it can be mapped in (e.g.
by X), causing sanity check disaster.
. NONCONTIGUOUS is also obsolete as all allocations are single-page
now, i.e. NONCONTIGUOUS is really the default and only mode.
complete munmap implementation; single-page references made
a general munmap() implementation possible to write cleanly.
. memory: let the MIOCRAMSIZE ioctl set the imgrd device
size (but only to 0)
. let the ramdisk command set sizes to 0
. use this command to set /dev/imgrd to 0 after mounting /usr
in /etc/rc, so the boot time ramdisk is freed (about 4MB
currently)
. only reference single pages in process data structures
to simplify page faults, copy-on-write, etc.
. this breaks the secondary cache for objects that are
not one-page-sized; restored in a next commit
