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Author SHA1 Message Date
Erik van der Kouwe
57c748b968 Remove ability to pass commands to bootloader 2012-11-22 19:16:17 +01:00
Ben Gras
040362e379 exec() cleanup, generalization, improvement
. make exec() callers (i.e. vfs and rs) determine the
	  memory layout by explicitly reserving regions using
	  mmap() calls on behalf of the exec()ing process,
	  i.e. handling all of the exec logic, thereby eliminating
	  all special exec() knowledge from VM.
	. the new procedure is: clear the exec()ing process
	  first, then call third-party mmap()s to reserve memory, then
	  copy the executable file section contents in, all using callbacks
	  tailored to the caller's way of starting an executable
	. i.e. no more explicit EXEC_NEWMEM-style calls in PM or VM
	  as with rigid 2-section arguments
	. this naturally allows generalizing exec() by simply loading
	  all ELF sections
	. drop/merge of lots of duplicate exec() code into libexec
	. not copying the code sections to vfs and into the executable
	  again is a measurable performance improvement (about 3.3% faster
	  for 'make' in src/servers/)
2012-06-07 15:15:01 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
6f374faca5 Add "expected size" parameter to getsysinfo()
This patch provides basic protection against damage resulting from
differently compiled servers blindly copying tables to one another.
In every getsysinfo() call, the caller is provided with the expected
size of the requested data structure. The callee fails the call if
the expected size does not match the data structure's actual size.
2011-12-11 22:34:14 +01:00
Arun Thomas
350b60661a ELF multiboot support 2011-05-04 18:51:43 +02:00
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
David van Moolenbroek
6c4197f77e PM, VFS: remove unused param.h definitions 2009-10-29 13:29:04 +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
d82e260a90 Support for setitimer(ITIMER_REAL). 2009-08-15 16:09:32 +00:00
Philip Homburg
e9aabcf2f8 Disabled building rescue driver (no longer needed). Moved allocmem from
library to the memory driver. Always put output from within TTY directly on
the console. Removed second include of driver.h from tty.c. Made tty_inrepcode
bigger. First step to move PM and FS calls that are not regular (API)
system calls out of callnr.h (renumbered them, and removed them from the
table.c files). Imported the Minix-vmd uname implementation. This provides
a more stable ABI than the current implementation. Added a bit of security
checking. Unfortunately not nearly enough to get a secure system. Fixed a
bug related to the sizes of the programs in the image (in PM patch_mem_chunks).
2006-05-19 12:19:37 +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
Jorrit Herder
5a9dec8bd2 New signal handling behaviour at PM (services can be killed).
New Shift-F6 dump for RS server at IS.
New getnpid, getnproc, getpproc library calls at PM.
New reincarnation server (basic functionality is there now).
2005-10-12 15:07:38 +00:00
Ben Gras
abb7157175 Merged do_gettimeofday with do_time to save one function call;
adjusted table.c accordingly
2005-08-05 12:44:06 +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
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
2f74381dcc Fixed 'ps' utility: now get process table addresses with getsysinfo() calls.
To be done: get copies of process tables instead of using /dev/(k)mem.
2005-06-06 13:51:50 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
e782e76944 Created new findproc system call to the PM (to replace similar kernel
functionality). Currently working on memory allocation (not yet finished).
2005-06-02 12:43:21 +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
307c825515 New NOTIFY trap (IPC call) to send queued notification messages.
The call works. Permission check, restriction of outstanding notifications
to be added. Low level code to make it work from within interrupt handlers
will be added as well.
2005-05-19 14:05:51 +00:00
Ben Gras
0e9261ed5a Rename mm (memory manager) to pm (process manager), involved renaming
dir..
2005-05-03 15:35:52 +00:00