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Jorrit Herder e0a98a4d65 * Fixed bug relating to nested locking in interrupt handlers. The nested lock
caused interrupts to be reenabled (due to unlock), which caused a race. The
problems were especially visible on slower machines.
* Relocated free memory parsing to process manager. This saved quite some
code at the kernel level. Text size was reduced by about 650 bytes.
* Removed locks for updating the realtime in the clock's main loop and the
get_uptime function. Interrupts are no longer reentrant, so realtime is
immediately updated.
2005-06-17 09:09:54 +00:00
Jorrit Herder f2a85e58d9 Various updates.
* Removed some variants of the SYS_GETINFO calls from the kernel;
  replaced them with new PM and utils libary functionality. Fixed
  bugs in utils library that used old get_kenv() variant.
* Implemented a buffer in the kernel to gather random data.
  Memory driver periodically checks this for /dev/random.
  A better random algorithm can now be implemented in the driver.
  Removed SYS_RANDOM; the SYS_GETINFO call is used instead.
* Remove SYS_KMALLOC from the kernel. Memory allocation can now
  be done at the process manager with new 'other' library functions.
2005-06-03 13:55:06 +00:00
Ben Gras c977bd8709 Added args to lock() and unlock() to tell them apart, for use
when lock timing is enabled in minix/config.h.

Added phys_zero() routine to klib386.s that zeroes a range of memory, and
added corresponding system call.
2005-06-01 09:37:52 +00:00
Jorrit Herder 826fee4c6d Fixed clear_proc(): properly release resources (IRQ hooks, notify buffers);
Cleaned up comments in proc.c (old code still present for comparison);
2005-05-30 11:05:42 +00:00
Jorrit Herder 0899f82ab2 Fixed some minor issues with the NOTIFY call. 2005-05-24 14:35:58 +00:00
Jorrit Herder ccd17ecfed New NOTIFY system call! Queued at kernel. Duplicate messages (with same source
and type) are overwritten with newer flags/ arguments. The interface from
within the kernel is lock_notify(). User processes can make a system call with
notify(). NOTIFY fully replaces the old notification mechanism.
2005-05-24 10:06:17 +00:00
Jorrit Herder 614f49b557 Fixed some comments and reorganized some code.
Fixed minor bug in notify() function.
2005-05-18 10:36:23 +00:00
Jorrit Herder ac0995259d *** empty log message *** 2005-05-02 14:30:04 +00:00
Jorrit Herder 89ac678b9b *** empty log message *** 2005-04-29 15:36:43 +00:00
Ben Gras 9865aeaa79 Initial revision 2005-04-21 14:53:53 +00:00