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Thomas Veerman
de83b2a9d9 VFS: change 'last_dir' to match locking assumption
new_node makes the assumption that when it does last_dir on a path, a
successive advance would not yield a lock on a vmnt, because last_dir
already locked the vmnt. This is true except when last_dir resolves
to a directory on the parent vmnt of the file that was the result of
advance. For example,
 # cd /
 # echo foo > home
where home is on a different (sub) partition than / is (default
install). last_dir would resolve to / and advance would resolve to
/home.

With this change, last_dir resolves to the root node on the /home
partition, making the assumption valid again.
2012-11-26 15:20:18 +00:00
Ben Gras
bcbee7d9e1 RS: fix for fix 2012-11-22 16:25:07 +01:00
Erik van der Kouwe
57c748b968 Remove ability to pass commands to bootloader 2012-11-22 19:16:17 +01:00
Erik van der Kouwe
22fa466268 Restore poweroff to some of it's former glory (on QEMU, at least) 2012-11-21 20:28:37 +01:00
Ben Gras
a89ec8bc3b can't get_block(NO_DEV) any more
. 'anonymous' cache blocks (retrieved with NO_DEV as dev
	  parameter) were used to implement read()s from holes in
	  inodes that should return zeroes
	. this is an awkward special case in the cache code though
	  and there's a more direct way to implement the same functionality:
	  instead of copying from a new, anonymous, zero block, to
	  the user target buffer, simply sys_safememset the user target
	  buffer directly. as this was the only use of this feature,
	  this is all that's needed to simplify the cache code a little.
2012-11-16 16:37:44 +01:00
Ben Gras
2d43bf5807 RS: invoke a shell explicitly for scripts
. don't rely on the scripts to be executable
	  (and they aren't any more)
2012-11-16 16:34:14 +01:00
Ben Gras
d27f8afc45 iso9660fs: initialize buffer cache 2012-11-16 11:09:03 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
dedb53fb10 ipc.h - IPC defined as functions again
- CHOOSETRAP define makes impossible to use some common words
  like send, receive and notify in any other context, for
  instance as members or structures

- any reasonable compiler inlines the static inline functions so
  no extra function call overhead is introduced by this change

- this gets us back to the situation before the SYSCALL/SYSENTER
  change. It is not perfect, but it used to work and still does.
2012-11-15 16:51:59 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
9152e1c5a7 Upgrading build system to new NetBSD revision
The tested targets are the followgin ones:
 * tools
 * distribution
 * sets
 * release

The remaining NetBSD targets have not been disabled nor tested
*at all*. Try them at your own risk, they may reboot the earth.

For all compliant Makefiles, objects and generated files are put in
MAKEOBJDIR, which means you can now keep objects between two branch
switching. Same for DESTDIR, please refer to build.sh options.

Regarding new or modifications of Makefiles a few things:
 * Read share/mk/bsd.README
 * If you add a subdirectory, add a Makefile in it, and have it called
   by the parent through the SUBDIR variable.
 * Do not add arbitrary inclusion which crosses to another branch of
   the hierarchy; If you can't do without it, put a comment on why.
   If possible, do not use inclusion at all.
 * Use as much as possible the infrastructure, it is here to make
   life easier, do not fight it.

Sets and package are now used to track files.
We have one set called "minix", composed of one package called "minix-sys"
2012-11-15 16:07:29 +01:00
David van Moolenbroek
7dd286e6b8 VFS: do not save device node for new regular files
The VFS/FS protocol does not require the file server to supply a
special device node number in response to a REQ_CREATE request, as
this call creates only regular files. Therefore, VFS should not
erroneously save this piece of information from the REQ_CREATE reply
either.
2012-11-15 14:29:59 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
14e470be81 VFS: fix TOCTOU bug in sync 2012-11-14 13:24:53 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
ed23a7a7d2 VFS: fix reboot panic with mounted FUSE FS
Upon reboot VFS semi-exits all processes and unmounts the file system.
However, upon unmount, exiting FUSE file systems might need service from
the file system (due to libc). As the FUSE process is halfway the exit
procedure, it doesn't have a valid root directory and working directory.
Trying to do system calls then triggers a sanity check in VFS.

This fix first exits normal processes which should then allow for
unmounting FUSE file systems. Then VFS exits all processes including
File Servers and unmounts the rest of the file system.
2012-11-14 13:18:16 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
badec36b33 VFS: fix deadlock when out of worker threads
There is a deadlock vulnerability when there are no worker threads
available and all of them blocked on a worker thread that's waiting for a
reply from a driver or a reply from an FS that needs to make a back call. In
these cases the deadlock resolver thread should kick in, but didn't in all
cases. Moreover, POSIX calls from File Servers weren't handled properly
anymore, which also could lead to deadlocks.
2012-11-14 13:12:37 +00:00
Ben Gras
6cf98dbe00 vm: reduce noise in merged pagetable.c 2012-11-09 19:00:46 +01:00
Ben Gras
3771a0833d vm: merge i386 and arm pagetable code 2012-11-09 18:46:03 +01:00
Ben Gras
b1da7fafd0 vm: fix a null dereference on out-of-memory
. 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
2012-11-09 18:36:51 +01:00
David van Moolenbroek
ff84d11216 PM: do not panic if sys_sigsend returns ENOMEM 2012-11-09 16:11:02 +00:00
Ben Gras
196021cd82 drop safemap code 2012-10-30 13:55:42 +01:00
Ben Gras
aefc6db005 vm: fix potential null deref 2012-10-24 19:47:47 +02:00
Ben Gras
bd3cde4571 Move primary cache code to libminixfs.
Add primary cache management feature to libminixfs as mfs and ext2
currently do separately, remove cache code from mfs and ext2, and make
them use the libminixfs interface. This makes all fields of the buf
struct private to libminixfs and FS clients aren't supposed to access
them at all. Only the opaque 'void *data' field (the FS block contents,
used to be called bp) is to be accessed by the FS client.

The main purpose is to implement the interface to the 2ndary vm cache
just once, get rid of some code duplication, and add a little
abstraction to reduce the code inertia of the whole caching business.

Some minor sanity checking and prohibition done by mfs in this code
as removed from the generic primary cache code as a result:
        - checking all inodes are not in use when allocating/resizing
          the cache
        - checking readonly filesystems aren't written to
        - checking the superblock isn't written to on mounted filesystems

The minixfslib code relies on fs_blockstats() in the client filesystem to
return some FS usage information.
2012-10-23 19:48:38 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
46fca87456 VM: munmap fix 2012-10-13 19:08:28 +02:00
Ben Gras
d343041caa VM: make mapping types explicit
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.
2012-10-12 14:52:01 +02:00
Ben Gras
fd4ddef49a VM: munmap used by VM for itself is no longer used 2012-10-12 14:51:35 +02:00
Arun Thomas
471a03a362 ARM support for kernel and vm 2012-10-07 21:38:03 -04:00
Arne Welzel
e35c4f78d2 VFS: fix check_bsf() locking
The check_bsf() macro uses assert(mutex_trylock(&bsf_lock)) and
assumes bsf_lock is locked afterwards. This breaks when compiling
with NOASSERTS="yes". Also: macro to function transition.
2012-09-28 14:57:34 +02:00
Arne Welzel
7e1074732b VFS: resolve unused parameter if NOASSERTS="yes"
If VFS is compiled with NOASSERTS="yes", ctty_opcl() does not
use the op parameter. Change to "non-assert()" sanity check.
2012-09-28 14:57:32 +02:00
Ben Gras
2cdbb3041d procfs: make ipc vectors available 2012-09-26 17:14:14 +02:00
Ben Gras
2d72cbec41 SYSENTER/SYSCALL support
. 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
2012-09-24 15:53:43 +02:00
Ben Gras
8a3b6ca3bb remove unused <tools.h> 2012-09-20 12:24:22 +02:00
Ben Gras
b16aacc7f3 vm: fix failed alloc condition 2012-09-19 22:24:56 +02:00
Ben Gras
bc4c07f4f1 coverity appeasement - redundant check 2012-09-19 17:19:57 +02:00
Ben Gras
60014efb3e vfs: pm_dumpcore: always clean up process
. whenever this function is called, pm will expect
	  the process to be cleaned up
	. so don't abort the process entirely on error
	. fixes a later 'forking on top of in-use child' vfs panic
2012-09-19 17:13:17 +02:00
Ben Gras
25817b0854 vm: change NO_MEM to a more impossible value
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.
2012-09-19 15:31:36 +02:00
Ben Gras
fe6e291f59 vm, kernel, top: report memory usage of vm, kernel 2012-09-18 23:43:52 +02:00
Ben Gras
aa82e375c6 VM: remove dead code 2012-09-18 18:40:57 +02:00
Ben Gras
d526f1a0db some coverity fixes. 2012-09-18 15:11:51 +02:00
Ben Gras
ddf1981004 VM: restore >4k secondary cache functionality
. by storing length in the yielded blocks node again
2012-09-18 13:17:52 +02:00
Ben Gras
ed1af3c86c VM: full munmap
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)
2012-09-18 13:17:52 +02:00
Ben Gras
16c3870b2e VM: abstract datastructures a bit
. a little less duplication in region.c
2012-09-18 13:17:51 +02:00
Ben Gras
0d1f2e6be2 VM: simplify slab allocator
. only keep a list of non-empty, non-full pages with slab objects
	. simplifies alloc/free operations and reduces list management overhead
2012-09-18 13:17:50 +02:00
Ben Gras
19e6dad47b VM: only single page chunks
. 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
2012-09-18 13:17:49 +02:00
Ben Gras
6d7b770761 VM: static data structure for mem allocation
. allocate physical memory using a fixed, pre-allocated bitmap so there
   are no call cycles and it's avilable earlier
2012-09-18 13:17:48 +02:00
Ben Gras
2cb560297c VM: remove unused dma memory support functions from vm
. unused calls / data structures
2012-09-18 13:17:47 +02:00
Ben Gras
8821c73a9e VM: forget about 'holes'
. unused data structures and code
2012-09-18 13:17:46 +02:00
Ben Gras
6410f4b5db VM: some sanitycheck fixes
minor fixes to restore SANITYCHECKS
2012-09-18 13:17:45 +02:00
Thomas Veerman
c087a60ed2 VFS: fix GCC compilation error 2012-09-17 15:29:38 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
edefb7b35f PM: don't deliver signals to VM 2012-09-17 11:01:46 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
3881e732a9 VFS: panic when unmount_all fails 2012-09-17 11:01:46 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
992799b91f VFS: make all IPC asynchronous
By decoupling synchronous drivers from VFS, we are a big step closer to
supporting driver crashes under all circumstances. That is, VFS can't
become stuck on IPC with a synchronous driver (e.g., INET) and can
recover from crashing block drivers during open/close/ioctl or during
communication with an FS.

In order to maintain serialized communication with a synchronous driver,
the communication is wrapped by a mutex on a per driver basis (not major
numbers as there can be multiple majors with identical endpoints). Majors
that share a driver endpoint point to a single mutex object.

In order to support crashes from block drivers, the file reopen tactic
had to be changed; first reopen files associated with the crashed
driver, then send the new driver endpoint to FSes. This solves a
deadlock between the FS and the block driver;
  - VFS would send REQ_NEW_DRIVER to an FS, but he FS only receives it
    after retrying the current request to the newly started driver.
  - The block driver would refuse the retried request until all files
    had been reopened.
  - VFS would reopen files only after getting a reply from the initial
    REQ_NEW_DRIVER.

When a character special driver crashes, all associated files have to
be marked invalid and closed (or reopened if flagged as such). However,
they can only be closed if a thread holds exclusive access to it. To
obtain exclusive access, the worker thread (which handles the new driver
endpoint event from DS) schedules a new job to garbage collect invalid
files. This way, we can signal the worker thread that was talking to the
crashed driver and will release exclusive access to a file associated
with the crashed driver and prevent the garbage collecting worker thread
from dead locking on that file.

Also, when a character special driver crashes, RS will unmap the driver
and remap it upon restart. During unmapping, associated files are marked
invalid instead of waiting for an endpoint up event from DS, as that
event might come later than new read/write/select requests and thus
cause confusion in the freshly started driver.

When locking a filp, the usage counters are no longer checked. The usage
counter can legally go down to zero during filp invalidation while there
are locks pending.

DS events are handled by a separate worker thread instead of the main
thread as reopening files could lead to another crash and a stuck thread.
An additional worker thread is then necessary to unlock it.

Finally, with everything asynchronous a race condition in do_select
surfaced. A select entry was only marked in use after succesfully sending
initial select requests to drivers and having to wait. When multiple
select() calls were handled there was opportunity that these entries
were overwritten. This had as effect that some select results were
ignored (and select() remained blocking instead if returning) or do_select
tried to access filps that were not present (because thrown away by
secondary select()). This bug manifested itself with sendrecs, but was
very hard to reproduce. However, it became awfully easy to trigger with
asynsends only.
2012-09-17 11:01:45 +00:00
Sbastien Boisvert
373cb6526c IPC server: do not loop to find syscall handler
Instead of using a loop to find a matching ipc (inter process
communication) system call type, the offset in the call table can be
simply calculated in constant time.

Also, when the interprocess communication server receives an ipc
system call from a process, ipc should tell VM to watch the process
only once. This patch fixes that also.

(Patch and commit message slightly edited by committer.)
2012-09-10 19:20:03 +02:00
Ben Gras
3c57102616 devman: initialize libvtreefs hooks
. uninitialized cleanup hook was causing devman crashes
	  on reboot, calling uninitialized cleanup hook whenever it
	  didn't happen to be 0
2012-08-31 19:12:49 +02:00
Ben Gras
053fa581b5 vm: remove stack handling for signals
. moved to the kernel as the handling was only
	  reading it; the kernel may as well write it too
2012-08-29 17:31:38 +02:00
Ben Gras
e4ac80eb60 various warning/errorwarning fixes for gcc47
. warnings (sometimes promoted to errors) in servers/ and kernel/
 . -Os for ext2 boot module to make it small enough
2012-08-27 16:19:18 +02:00
Arun Thomas
7ca1ce7968 VM: Add PTF_READ page table flag 2012-08-17 00:17:52 +02:00
Arun Thomas
fc9b3f9bdd VM: allow for 16KB chunk alignment 2012-08-17 00:17:52 +02:00
Arun Thomas
c78b56a9e5 RS: Make PCI code optional 2012-08-17 00:17:51 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
5456f2728e ext2: resolve Coverity warnings 2012-08-14 09:11:19 +00:00
Arun Thomas
697f0d097f Rename sys_vmctl_get_cr3_i386 2012-08-12 23:30:54 +02:00
Arun Thomas
263ec1e885 pm: update for ARM 2012-08-12 23:30:54 +02:00
Ben Gras
31d8526346 libexec: add load_offset feature, used for ld.so
. ld.so is linked at 0 but it can relocate itself; we
	  wish to load ld.so higher though to trap NULL dereferences.
	  if we know we have to execute ld.so, vfs tells libexec to put it
	  higher.
2012-08-12 23:22:54 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
be87fdda3d PM: resolve Coverity warnings 2012-08-09 00:16:35 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
aa5531fc67 IS: resolve Coverity warnings 2012-08-09 00:16:35 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
fd8c6c1d30 IPC: resolve Coverity warnings 2012-08-09 00:16:35 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
8c5d506b8a procfs: resolve Coverity warnings 2012-08-09 00:16:34 +02:00
Ben Gras
b3f47f5835 vm: ignore RS pin (pre-allocate) requests for now
. done by RS to reduce/remove dependency on VM for recovery
	. RS has the default stack size of 64MB since the nosegments
	  change, using a huge amount of unused memory to pre-allocate
	. ignore these requests until actually required (i.e. being able
	  to survive VM crashes)

Thanks to pikpik for investigating why RS was so huge.
2012-08-08 15:51:10 +02:00
Arun Thomas
6723dcfab7 Replace MACHINE/CHIP macros with compiler macros 2012-08-06 17:49:22 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
2d20088881 MFS: fix block estimation computation 2012-08-03 13:25:56 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
9c7bae4e16 LWIP - fix, removed segments
- compiles again
2012-08-03 00:20:34 -07:00
David van Moolenbroek
d18f3a9bc9 ext2: remove -Werror from CFLAGS
This breaks the Coverity build at the moment.
2012-08-01 12:39:14 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
66dbf73049 VFS: fix locking bug in clone_opcl
When VFS runs out of vnodes after closing a vnode in opcl, common_open
will try to unlock a vnode through unlock_filp that has already been
unlocked in clone_opcl. By first obtaining and locking a new vnode this
situation is prevented; if there are no free vnodes, common_open will
unlock a still locked vnode.
2012-07-30 10:01:16 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
f6b0d662b5 VFS: check path components for NAME_MAX length 2012-07-30 09:44:58 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
48237f1730 ext2: use new secondary cache method
This gets rid of the ! emitted by VM when using ext2
2012-07-30 09:44:58 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
6c597561bc EXT2: various fixes
.enable all compile time warnings and make them errors
.refactor functions with unused parameters
.fix null pointer dereference before checking for null
.proper variable initialization
.use safe string copy functions
.fix massive memory corruption bug in fs_getdents
2012-07-30 09:44:58 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
238a9a057b PM: a few Coverity inspired fixes
.initialize variable to prevent negative array indexing
.remove dead code
2012-07-30 09:44:58 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
ca085c16ef procfs: use safe string copy 2012-07-30 09:44:58 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
c21503bdf8 isofs: fixes for coverity defects
.use safe string copy functions
.CD-ROM are always mounted read-only
2012-07-30 09:44:58 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
1c480f749a MFS: fixes for defects reported by Coverity
.use safe string copy
.fix (potential) int overflow in function return
2012-07-30 09:44:58 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
fa9199e049 MFS: getdents fixes
.Use a bigger buffer to hold results
.Do not try to store more data than user buffer can hold
2012-07-30 09:44:57 +00:00
Ben Gras
b6ea15115c kernel: facility for user-visible memory
. map all objects named usermapped_*.o with globally visible
	  pages; usermapped_glo_*.o with the VM 'global' bit on, i.e.
	  permanently in tlb (very scarce resource!)
	. added kinfo, machine, kmessages and loadinfo for a start
	. modified log, tty to make use of the shared messages struct
2012-07-28 20:57:38 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
0b4c154160 VFS: call req_inhibread again 2012-07-19 14:36:51 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
e0742978f1 VFS: do not resolve symlinks in rename(2) 2012-07-18 14:59:45 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
963a10e15a PFS: fix negative array index 2012-07-18 10:05:50 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
0d3ccd8908 VFS: fix coverity defects 2012-07-17 10:29:22 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
fd60f03129 VFS: remove support for sync FS communication 2012-07-17 10:12:53 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
06f49fe167 VFS: prevent buffer overflow
If an FS returns faulty struct dirent data, VFS could overflow
a buffer that holds this data.
2012-07-17 08:49:41 +00:00
Ben Gras
cbcdb838f1 various coverity-inspired fixes
. some strncpy/strcpy to strlcpy conversions
	. new <minix/param.h> to avoid including other minix headers
	  that have colliding definitions with library and commands code,
	  causing parse warnings
	. removed some dead code / assignments
2012-07-16 14:00:56 +02:00
Thomas Veerman
77dbd766c1 VFS: Use safe string copy functions 2012-07-16 10:57:43 +00:00
Ben Gras
50e2064049 No more intel/minix segments.
This commit removes all traces of Minix segments (the text/data/stack
memory map abstraction in the kernel) and significance of Intel segments
(hardware segments like CS, DS that add offsets to all addressing before
page table translation). This ultimately simplifies the memory layout
and addressing and makes the same layout possible on non-Intel
architectures.

There are only two types of addresses in the world now: virtual
and physical; even the kernel and processes have the same virtual
address space. Kernel and user processes can be distinguished at a
glance as processes won't use 0xF0000000 and above.

No static pre-allocated memory sizes exist any more.

Changes to booting:
        . The pre_init.c leaves the kernel and modules exactly as
          they were left by the bootloader in physical memory
        . The kernel starts running using physical addressing,
          loaded at a fixed location given in its linker script by the
          bootloader.  All code and data in this phase are linked to
          this fixed low location.
        . It makes a bootstrap pagetable to map itself to a
          fixed high location (also in linker script) and jumps to
          the high address. All code and data then use this high addressing.
        . All code/data symbols linked at the low addresses is prefixed by
          an objcopy step with __k_unpaged_*, so that that code cannot
          reference highly-linked symbols (which aren't valid yet) or vice
          versa (symbols that aren't valid any more).
        . The two addressing modes are separated in the linker script by
          collecting the unpaged_*.o objects and linking them with low
          addresses, and linking the rest high. Some objects are linked
          twice, once low and once high.
        . The bootstrap phase passes a lot of information (e.g. free memory
          list, physical location of the modules, etc.) using the kinfo
          struct.
        . After this bootstrap the low-linked part is freed.
        . The kernel maps in VM into the bootstrap page table so that VM can
          begin executing. Its first job is to make page tables for all other
          boot processes. So VM runs before RS, and RS gets a fully dynamic,
          VM-managed address space. VM gets its privilege info from RS as usual
          but that happens after RS starts running.
        . Both the kernel loading VM and VM organizing boot processes happen
	  using the libexec logic. This removes the last reason for VM to
	  still know much about exec() and vm/exec.c is gone.

Further Implementation:
        . All segments are based at 0 and have a 4 GB limit.
        . The kernel is mapped in at the top of the virtual address
          space so as not to constrain the user processes.
        . Processes do not use segments from the LDT at all; there are
          no segments in the LDT any more, so no LLDT is needed.
        . The Minix segments T/D/S are gone and so none of the
          user-space or in-kernel copy functions use them. The copy
          functions use a process endpoint of NONE to realize it's
          a physical address, virtual otherwise.
        . The umap call only makes sense to translate a virtual address
          to a physical address now.
        . Segments-related calls like newmap and alloc_segments are gone.
        . All segments-related translation in VM is gone (vir2map etc).
        . Initialization in VM is simpler as no moving around is necessary.
        . VM and all other boot processes can be linked wherever they wish
          and will be mapped in at the right location by the kernel and VM
          respectively.

Other changes:
        . The multiboot code is less special: it does not use mb_print
          for its diagnostics any more but uses printf() as normal, saving
          the output into the diagnostics buffer, only printing to the
          screen using the direct print functions if a panic() occurs.
        . The multiboot code uses the flexible 'free memory map list'
          style to receive the list of free memory if available.
        . The kernel determines the memory layout of the processes to
          a degree: it tells VM where the kernel starts and ends and
          where the kernel wants the top of the process to be. VM then
          uses this entire range, i.e. the stack is right at the top,
          and mmap()ped bits of memory are placed below that downwards,
          and the break grows upwards.

Other Consequences:
        . Every process gets its own page table as address spaces
          can't be separated any more by segments.
        . As all segments are 0-based, there is no distinction between
          virtual and linear addresses, nor between userspace and
          kernel addresses.
        . Less work is done when context switching, leading to a net
          performance increase. (8% faster on my machine for 'make servers'.)
	. The layout and configuration of the GDT makes sysenter and syscall
	  possible.
2012-07-15 22:30:15 +02:00
Ben Gras
cfe1ed4df4 profiling related cleanup
. do not declare any data in <minix/profile.h>
	. addr check no longer necessary
2012-07-15 21:56:55 +02:00
Thomas Veerman
f09c2e014f Use MACHINE_ARCH instead of ARCH 2012-06-18 10:53:35 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
f93afa00e9 Remove MINIXSRCDIR and use NETBSDSRCDIR
NETBSDSRCDIR is used all over the place anyway, and this reduces
our diff with NetBSD a little.
2012-06-18 10:53:35 +00:00
Ben Gras
0fb2f83da9 drop from segments physcopy/vircopy invocations
. sys_vircopy always uses D for both src and dst
	. sys_physcopy uses PHYS_SEG if and only if corresponding
	  endpoint is NONE, so we can derive the mode (PHYS_SEG or D)
	  from the endpoint arg in the kernel, dropping the seg args
	. fields in msg still filled in for backwards compatability,
	  using same NONE-logic in the library
2012-06-18 12:28:40 +00:00
Ben Gras
0e35eb0c6b drop segments from safemap/safeunmap invocations 2012-06-18 12:28:40 +00:00
Kees Jongenburger
51a9903002 Add support in devmand for using config dirs.
Add support in devmand for using configuration directories to
allow 3rd party packages to add configuration items.
2012-06-18 09:29:53 +02:00
Ben Gras
2bfeeed885 drop segment from safecopy invocations
. all invocations were S or D, so can safely be dropped
	  to prepare for the segmentless world
	. still assign D to the SCP_SEG field in the message
	  to make previous kernels usable
2012-06-16 16:22:51 +00:00
Ben Gras
85ff5a947e dumpcore: use ptrace function to trigger a coredump
. dumpcore currently relies on minix segments
	. also ptrace dumpcore fix
2012-06-15 12:13:50 +02:00
Ben Gras
5e38c802d8 pm: ignore notify() from unknown sender
. avoids annoying error message if e.g. buggy drivers
	  send pm notify()s that pm tries to reply() ENOSYS to
2012-06-14 15:36:38 +02:00
Ben Gras
769af57274 further libexec generalization
. new mode for sys_memset: include process so memset can be
	  done in physical or virtual address space.
	. add a mode to mmap() that lets a process allocate uninitialized
	  memory.
	. this allows an exec()er (RS, VFS, etc.) to request uninitialized
	  memory from VM and selectively clear the ranges that don't come
	  from a file, leaving no uninitialized memory left for the process
	  to see.
	. use callbacks for clearing the process, clearing memory in the
	  process, and copying into the process; so that the libexec code
	  can be used from rs, vfs, and in the future, kernel (to load vm)
	  and vm (to load boot-time processes)
2012-06-07 15:15:02 +02:00
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
Ben Gras
41b869d4d6 drop aout support
justification: soon we won't be able to execute sep I&D aouts at
all (because of the vanishing segments), which was the default mode
to generate them so most binaries will be sep I&D.

this makes the vfs/rs exec() unification work simpler.

after unification, common I&D aout could be added back quite simply.
2012-06-07 12:43:16 +02:00