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Erik van der Kouwe
c107dbe1d0 Man-pages on mkdep, cdprobe, loadramdisk and newroot; thanks to Antoine Leca 2010-02-02 15:10:00 +00:00
Cristiano Giuffrida
f4574783dc Rewrite of boot process
KERNEL CHANGES:
- The kernel only knows about privileges of kernel tasks and the root system
process (now RS).
- Kernel tasks and the root system process are the only processes that are made
schedulable by the kernel at startup. All the other processes in the boot image
don't get their privileges set at startup and are inhibited from running by the
RTS_NO_PRIV flag.
- Removed the assumption on the ordering of processes in the boot image table.
System processes can now appear in any order in the boot image table.
- Privilege ids can now be assigned both statically or dynamically. The kernel
assigns static privilege ids to kernel tasks and the root system process. Each
id is directly derived from the process number.
- User processes now all share the static privilege id of the root user
process (now INIT).
- sys_privctl split: we have more calls now to let RS set privileges for system
processes. SYS_PRIV_ALLOW / SYS_PRIV_DISALLOW are only used to flip the
RTS_NO_PRIV flag and allow / disallow a process from running. SYS_PRIV_SET_SYS /
SYS_PRIV_SET_USER are used to set privileges for a system / user process.
- boot image table flags split: PROC_FULLVM is the only flag that has been
moved out of the privilege flags and is still maintained in the boot image
table. All the other privilege flags are out of the kernel now.

RS CHANGES:
- RS is the only user-space process who gets to run right after in-kernel
startup.
- RS uses the boot image table from the kernel and three additional boot image
info table (priv table, sys table, dev table) to complete the initialization
of the system.
- RS checks that the entries in the priv table match the entries in the boot
image table to make sure that every process in the boot image gets schedulable.
- RS only uses static privilege ids to set privileges for system services in
the boot image.
- RS includes basic memory management support to allocate the boot image buffer
dynamically during initialization. The buffer shall contain the executable
image of all the system services we would like to restart after a crash.
- First step towards decoupling between resource provisioning and resource
requirements in RS: RS must know what resources it needs to restart a process
and what resources it has currently available. This is useful to tradeoff
reliability and resource consumption. When required resources are missing, the
process cannot be restarted. In that case, in the future, a system flag will
tell RS what to do. For example, if CORE_PROC is set, RS should trigger a
system-wide panic because the system can no longer function correctly without
a core system process.

PM CHANGES:
- The process tree built at initialization time is changed to have INIT as root
with pid 0, RS child of INIT and all the system services children of RS. This
is required to make RS in control of all the system services.
- PM no longer registers labels for system services in the boot image. This is
now part of RS's initialization process.
2009-12-11 00:08:19 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
2dc9e354f7 ugly double blank line, my fault 2009-11-16 18:22:28 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
49808dcf77 PM delay call infrastructure improvements
- allow PM to tell sys_runctl() whether to use delay call feature
- only use this feature in PM for delivering signals - not for exits
- do better error checking in PM on sys_runctl() calls
- rename SIGKREADY to SIGNDELAY
2009-10-01 10:36:09 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
b423d7b477 Merge of David's ptrace branch. Summary:
o Support for ptrace T_ATTACH/T_DETACH and T_SYSCALL
o PM signal handling logic should now work properly, even with debuggers
  being present
o Asynchronous PM/VFS protocol, full IPC support for senda(), and
  AMF_NOREPLY senda() flag

DETAILS

Process stop and delay call handling of PM:
o Added sys_runctl() kernel call with sys_stop() and sys_resume()
  aliases, for PM to stop and resume a process
o Added exception for sending/syscall-traced processes to sys_runctl(),
  and matching SIGKREADY pseudo-signal to PM
o Fixed PM signal logic to deal with requests from a process after
  stopping it (so-called "delay calls"), using the SIGKREADY facility
o Fixed various PM panics due to race conditions with delay calls versus
  VFS calls
o Removed special PRIO_STOP priority value
o Added SYS_LOCK RTS kernel flag, to stop an individual process from
  running while modifying its process structure

Signal and debugger handling in PM:
o Fixed debugger signals being dropped if a second signal arrives when
  the debugger has not retrieved the first one
o Fixed debugger signals being sent to the debugger more than once
o Fixed debugger signals unpausing process in VFS; removed PM_UNPAUSE_TR
  protocol message
o Detached debugger signals from general signal logic and from being
  blocked on VFS calls, meaning that even VFS can now be traced
o Fixed debugger being unable to receive more than one pending signal in
  one process stop
o Fixed signal delivery being delayed needlessly when multiple signals
  are pending
o Fixed wait test for tracer, which was returning for children that were
  not waited for
o Removed second parallel pending call from PM to VFS for any process
o Fixed process becoming runnable between exec() and debugger trap
o Added support for notifying the debugger before the parent when a
  debugged child exits
o Fixed debugger death causing child to remain stopped forever
o Fixed consistently incorrect use of _NSIG

Extensions to ptrace():
o Added T_ATTACH and T_DETACH ptrace request, to attach and detach a
  debugger to and from a process
o Added T_SYSCALL ptrace request, to trace system calls
o Added T_SETOPT ptrace request, to set trace options
o Added TO_TRACEFORK trace option, to attach automatically to children
  of a traced process
o Added TO_ALTEXEC trace option, to send SIGSTOP instead of SIGTRAP upon
  a successful exec() of the tracee
o Extended T_GETUSER ptrace support to allow retrieving a process's priv
  structure
o Removed T_STOP ptrace request again, as it does not help implementing
  debuggers properly
o Added MINIX3-specific ptrace test (test42)
o Added proper manual page for ptrace(2)

Asynchronous PM/VFS interface:
o Fixed asynchronous messages not being checked when receive() is called
  with an endpoint other than ANY
o Added AMF_NOREPLY senda() flag, preventing such messages from
  satisfying the receive part of a sendrec()
o Added asynsend3() that takes optional flags; asynsend() is now a
  #define passing in 0 as third parameter
o Made PM/VFS protocol asynchronous; reintroduced tell_fs()
o Made PM_BASE request/reply number range unique
o Hacked in a horrible temporary workaround into RS to deal with newly
  revealed RS-PM-VFS race condition triangle until VFS is asynchronous

System signal handling:
o Fixed shutdown logic of device drivers; removed old SIGKSTOP signal
o Removed is-superuser check from PM's do_procstat() (aka getsigset())
o Added sigset macros to allow system processes to deal with the full
  signal set, rather than just the POSIX subset

Miscellaneous PM fixes:
o Split do_getset into do_get and do_set, merging common code and making
  structure clearer
o Fixed setpriority() being able to put to sleep processes using an
  invalid parameter, or revive zombie processes
o Made find_proc() global; removed obsolete proc_from_pid()
o Cleanup here and there

Also included:
o Fixed false-positive boot order kernel warning
o Removed last traces of old NOTIFY_FROM code

THINGS OF POSSIBLE INTEREST

o It should now be possible to run PM at any priority, even lower than
  user processes
o No assumptions are made about communication speed between PM and VFS,
  although communication must be FIFO
o A debugger will now receive incoming debuggee signals at kill time
  only; the process may not yet be fully stopped
o A first step has been made towards making the SYSTEM task preemptible
2009-09-30 09:57:22 +00:00
Ben Gras
5f497bcf22 - Introduce some macros for field names, so that endpt, pendpt,
addr and taddr don't have to be defined any more, so that <sys/mman.h>
    can be included for proper prototypes of munmap() and friends.
  - rename our GETPID to MINIX_GETPID to avoid a name conflict with
    other sources
  - PM needs its own munmap() and munmap_text() to avoid sending messages
    to VM at the startup phase. It *does* want to do that, but only
    after initialising. So they're called again with unmap_ok set to 1
    later.
  - getnuid(), getngid() implementation
2009-09-21 14:48:19 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
ba83b7663d PM: some tiny fixes 2009-09-12 18:36:07 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
323f0abdd6 Support for setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL/ITIMER_PROF). New test (41) for setitimer. 2009-08-15 21:37:26 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
d82e260a90 Support for setitimer(ITIMER_REAL). 2009-08-15 16:09:32 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
1a9e07b0e5 PM: fix ptrace(T_EXIT) 'exit_proc: not idle' race condition. 2009-07-11 13:22:56 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
14f3a0e018 PM: add clarifying comment about exiting system processes early (thanks Philip) 2009-07-11 11:19:39 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
73c5bbf1a3 PM: add EXITING process flag as stopgap between starting coredump and setting ZOMBIE flag 2009-07-09 22:33:56 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
693a6652ca PM cleanup: remove obsolete HAS_DMA flag 2009-07-08 20:08:46 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
67d986f882 PM cleanup: merge exit and coredump paths 2009-07-08 17:16:53 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
12451e6b06 Miscellaneous PM fixes:
o Don't call vm_willexit() more than once upon normal process exit
o Correct two cases of indenting of the no-discussion-possible kind
o Perform slightly stricter ptrace(2) checks:
  - process calling ptrace must be target process's parent
  - process must call wait/waitpid before using ptrace on stopped child
  - no ptrace on zombies
o Allow user processes to use ptrace(T_STOP) to stop an active child
2009-07-05 22:48:18 +00:00
Ben Gras
e0f3a5acf1 - enable ipc warnings by default
- ipc checking code in kernel didn't properly catch the
   sendrec() to self case; added special case check
 - triggered by PM using stock panic() - needs its own _exit()

reported by Joren l'Ami.
2009-04-17 13:46:37 +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
Philip Homburg
1cffa69d2c Support for I/O MMU: do not re-use a memory segment until the I/O MMU has
removed it from its map.
2008-02-21 16:33:34 +00:00
Philip Homburg
9c3f85d14f Better interface for sys_times. 2007-08-16 13:16:26 +00:00
Ben Gras
1e656b349d . processes stay ZOMBIE, even after wait(), to avoid wrongly seeing them
as living processes  before they are cleaned up (fixes
  wait()/waitpid() hanging forever on previously-ZOMBIE processes)

. stop processes from running using sys_nice() with PRIO_STOP
  when a handled signal is delivered, before computing 
  stack locations for sys_sigsend(). (fixes race condition
  when runnable processes get signals, and e.g. get scheduled
  before FS sends a reply to unpause(), which can make the
  signal stack location wrong.)
2006-10-25 11:29:43 +00:00
Philip Homburg
baa3ac5853 Fix for 'cleanup: not idle: 2313' bug. 2006-07-25 14:13:09 +00:00
Philip Homburg
773844a816 New interface between PM and FS. 2006-05-11 14:57:23 +00:00
Ben Gras
9b1d4ef233 special case when exiting FS - don't core dump and don't tell FS about it
Because if FS is hanging in a signal, the exit won't work.
This way FS gets exited on e.g. SIGSEGV.
2006-03-10 17:35:55 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
021e3234d8 Jorrit's ... "progress?" 2006-03-10 16:10:05 +00:00
Ben Gras
7967177710 endpoint-aware conversion of servers.
'who', indicating caller number in pm and fs and some other servers, has
been removed in favour of 'who_e' (endpoint) and 'who_p' (proc nr.).

In both PM and FS, isokendpt() convert endpoints to process slot
numbers, returning OK if it was a valid and consistent endpoint number.
okendpt() does the same but panic()s if it doesn't succeed. (In PM,
this is pm_isok..)

pm and fs keep their own records of process endpoints in their proc tables,
which are needed to make kernel calls about those processes.

message field names have changed.

fs drivers are endpoints.

fs now doesn't try to get out of driver deadlock, as the protocol isn't
supposed to let that happen any more. (A warning is printed if ELOCKED
is detected though.)

fproc[].fp_task (indicating which driver the process is suspended on)
became an int.

PM and FS now get endpoint numbers of initial boot processes from the
kernel. These happen to be the same as the old proc numbers, to let
user processes reach them with the old numbers, but FS and PM don't know
that. All new processes after INIT, even after the generation number
wraps around, get endpoint numbers with generation 1 and higher, so
the first instances of the boot processes are the only processes ever
to have endpoint numbers in the old proc number range.

More return code checks of sys_* functions have been added.

IS has become endpoint-aware. Ditched the 'text' and 'data' fields
in the kernel dump (which show locations, not sizes, so aren't terribly
useful) in favour of the endpoint number. Proc number is still visible.

Some other dumps (e.g. dmap, rs) show endpoint numbers now too which got
the formatting changed.

PM reading segments using rw_seg() has changed - it uses other fields
in the message now instead of encoding the segment and process number and
fd in the fd field. For that it uses _read_pm() and _write_pm() which to
_taskcall()s directly in pm/misc.c.

PM now sys_exit()s itself on panic(), instead of sys_abort().

RS also talks in endpoints instead of process numbers.
2006-03-03 10:20:58 +00:00
Ben Gras
c1de7758b7 Jorrit's fixes after reviewing Al's PM chapter 2005-09-01 10:16:07 +00:00
Ben Gras
911ff6a873 Formatting fixes for the book 2005-08-29 16:47:18 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
46c8884e36 Cleanup with gcc. Removed unused variables.
Fixed some uninitialized problems.
2005-08-25 12:05:09 +00:00
Ben Gras
d11b2e4b8c Al's double-blank-line removal request 2005-08-22 15:23:47 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
ab732a37e8 Renamed mm_exit to pm_exit (requested by Al)
Small cleanup in pm_init.
2005-08-10 09:37:54 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
f44725b777 Created new devctl system call to FS. Moved dmap.h header to include/minix/.
Various updates to support dynamically starting servers and suppress output.
2005-08-02 15:29:17 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
d3874a7917 Updated servers according to syslib interface changes. 2005-07-29 15:00:49 +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
Jorrit Herder
5594b767c0 Renamed src/lib/utils to src/lib/sysutil --- because of new src/lib/util 2005-07-19 13:21:51 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
570eac1f53 Renamed system library functionality.
Updated debug dumps of IS server.
2005-07-14 15:16:12 +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
Jorrit Herder
6d23f072f3 Cleaned up src/lib/utils library. Renamed server_ functions to more logical
names. All system processes can now either use panic() or report() from
libutils, or redefine their own function. Assertions are done via the standard
<assert.h> functionality.
2005-06-01 14:31:00 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
a3d2f35993 Fixed minor bug in PM's child time administration. 2005-06-01 08:55:22 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
322ec9ef8b Moved stime, time, times POSIX calls from FS to PM. Removed child time
accounting from kernel (now in PM).  Large amount of files in this commit
is due to system time problems during development.
2005-05-31 09:50:51 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
9646824fce Fixed PM send() failed warning: don't reply to killed process that did reboot.
:  `VS: Enter Log.  Lines beginning with `CVS:' are removed automatically
2005-05-30 09:29:48 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
1ecc6bf3b3 Removed 'system process' magic from PM and FS. 2005-05-13 08:57:08 +00:00
Ben Gras
0e9261ed5a Rename mm (memory manager) to pm (process manager), involved renaming
dir..
2005-05-03 15:35:52 +00:00