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David van Moolenbroek
2c5c5c06ea ProcFS server, by Alen Stojanov and David van Moolenbroek 2010-09-14 21:25:25 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
dff0434eaf Add support for the ext2 file system. Contributed by Evgeniy Ivanov. 2010-08-02 11:44:45 +00:00
Arun Thomas
c0c8d25799 Rename mkfiles from minix.*.mk to bsd.*.mk
Makes things easier for pkgsrc
2010-06-25 18:29:09 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
b09bcf6779 Scheduling server (by Bjorn Swift)
In this second phase, scheduling is moved from PM to its own
scheduler (see r6557 for phase one). In the next phase we hope to a)
include useful information in the "out of quantum" message and b)
create some simple scheduling policy that makes use of that
information.

When the system starts up, PM will iterate over its process table and
ask SCHED to take over scheduling unprivileged processes. This is
done by sending a SCHEDULING_START message to SCHED. This message
includes the processes endpoint, the parent's endpoint and its nice
level. The scheduler adds this process to its schedproc table, issues
a schedctl, and returns its own endpoint to PM - as the endpoint of
the effective scheduler. When a process terminates, a SCHEDULING_STOP
message is sent to the scheduler.

The reason for this effective endpoint is for future compatibility.
Some day, we may have a scheduler that, instead of scheduling the
process itself, forwards the SCHEDULING_START message on to another
scheduler.

PM has information on who schedules whom. As such, scheduling
messages from user-land are sent through PM. An example is when
processes change their priority, using nice(). In that case, a
getsetpriority message is sent to PM, which then sends a
SCHEDULING_SET_NICE to the process's effective scheduler.

When a process is forked through PM, it inherits its parent's
scheduler, but is spawned with an empty quantum. As before, a request
to fork a process flows through VM before returning to PM, which then
wakes up the child process. This flow has been modified slightly so
that PM notifies the scheduler of the new process, before waking up
the child process. If the scheduler fails to take over scheduling,
the child process is torn down and the fork fails with an erroneous
value.

Process priority is entirely decided upon using nice levels. PM
stores a copy of each process's nice level and when a child is
forked, its parent's nice level is sent in the SCHEDULING_START
message. How this level is mapped to a priority queue is up to the
scheduler. It should be noted that the nice level is used to
determine the max_priority and the parent could have been in a lower
priority when it was spawned. To prevent a CPU intensive process from
hawking the CPU by continuously forking children that get scheduled
in the max_priority, the scheduler should determine in which queue
the parent is currently scheduled, and schedule the child in that
same queue.

Other fixes: The USER_Q in kernel/proc.h was incorrectly defined as
NR_SCHED_QUEUES/2. That results in a "off by one" error when
converting priority->nice->priority for nice=0. This also had the
side effect that if someone were to set the MAX_USER_Q to something
else than 0, then USER_Q would be off.
2010-05-18 13:39:04 +00:00
Arun Thomas
436d6012a3 Convert drivers/ and servers/ over to bsdmake
-Move libdriver to lib/
-Install all boot image services on filesystem to aid restartability
2010-03-22 21:25:22 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
71fe2852f4 HGFS - VMware Shared Folders file system server 2010-01-25 23:18:02 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
958b25be50 - Introduce support for sticky bit.
- Revise VFS-FS protocol and update VFS/MFS/ISOFS accordingly.
- Clean up MFS by removing old, dead code (backwards compatibility is broken by
  the new VFS-FS protocol, anyway) and rewrite other parts. Also, make sure all
  functions have proper banners and prototypes.
- VFS should always provide a (syntactically) valid path to the FS; no need for
  the FS to do sanity checks when leaving/entering mount points.
- Fix several bugs in MFS:
  - Several path lookup bugs in MFS.
  - A link can be too big for the path buffer.
  - A mountpoint can become inaccessible when the creation of a new inode
    fails, because the inode already exists and is a mountpoint.
- Introduce support for supplemental groups.
- Add test 46 to test supplemental group functionality (and removed obsolete
  suppl. tests from test 2).
- Clean up VFS (not everything is done yet).
- ISOFS now opens device read-only. This makes the -r flag in the mount command
  unnecessary (but will still report to be mounted read-write).
- Introduce PipeFS. PipeFS is a new FS that handles all anonymous and
  named pipes. However, named pipes still reside on the (M)FS, as they are part
  of the file system on disk. To make this work VFS now has a concept of
  'mapped' inodes, which causes read, write, truncate and stat requests to be
  redirected to the mapped FS, and all other requests to the original FS.
2009-12-20 20:27:14 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
cb6f6a94f7 Fixes to ISOFS 2009-10-01 14:34:17 +00:00
Ben Gras
75d3db4911 new ipc server that implements shared memory and semaphores.
this server, tests, vm support, library stubs and other contributions
are the work of Guanqun Lu, a 2009 GSOC student.
2009-09-21 14:53:13 +00:00
Ben Gras
c078ec0331 Basic VM and other minor improvements.
Not complete, probably not fully debugged or optimized.
2008-11-19 12:26:10 +00:00
Ben Gras
fa0ba56bc9 Merge of VFS by Balasz Gerofi with Minix trunk. 2006-10-25 13:40:36 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
9ea63c60fa Updated makefile for DS server. 2005-10-20 20:32:40 +00:00
Ben Gras
a565c350e1 propagate EXTRA_OPTS 2005-08-29 20:00:39 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
b4d7de6ee1 New makefile (src/tools/Makefile) logic:
- make fresh install: still builds new everything (libraries, services, image)
- make clean image: only builds new boot image (about 5 sec. now!)
2005-08-23 12:53:35 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
7bf400a709 *** empty log message *** 2005-08-23 11:31:32 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
3d0b9140f2 Updated F4 dump at IS to include send masks.
Removed unused constant from fproc.h
Changed signal behaviour at PM (work in progress)
2005-07-26 12:49:35 +00:00
Ben Gras
7697700802 Made src belong to bin in release cp.
Made /usr/include belong to bin in mtree.
Fixed compiler warning in fs/pipe.c.
Added mdb (minix debugger) manual page.
Added ethernet config function in setup script.
2005-06-27 11:59:36 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
042c4ac395 Changed Makefiles for mkdep script.
Updated debugging dumps at IS server, and function key control.

NOTE: pm modified with DEBUG() output, to be removed later.
2005-06-24 16:21:21 +00:00
Ben Gras
0e9261ed5a Rename mm (memory manager) to pm (process manager), involved renaming
dir..
2005-05-03 15:35:52 +00:00
Ben Gras
9865aeaa79 Initial revision 2005-04-21 14:53:53 +00:00