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Cristiano Giuffrida
1f5841c8ed Basic System Event Framework (SEF) with ping and live update.
SYSLIB CHANGES:
- SEF must be used by every system process and is thereby part of the system
library.
- The framework provides a receive() interface (sef_receive) for system
processes to automatically catch known system even messages and process them.
- SEF provides a default behavior for each type of system event, but allows
system processes to register callbacks to override the default behavior.
- Custom (local to the process) or predefined (provided by SEF) callback
implementations can be registered to SEF.
- SEF currently includes support for 2 types of system events:
  1. SEF Ping. The event occurs every time RS sends a ping to figure out
  whether a system process is still alive. The default callback implementation
  provided by SEF is to notify RS back to let it know the process is alive
  and kicking.
  2. SEF Live update. The event occurs every time RS sends a prepare to update
  message to let a system process know an update is available and to prepare
  for it. The live update support is very basic for now. SEF only deals with
  verifying if the prepare state can be supported by the process, dumping the
  state for debugging purposes, and providing an event-driven programming
  model to the process to react to state changes check-in when ready to update.
- SEF should be extended in the future to integrate support for more types of
system events. Ideally, all the cross-cutting concerns should be integrated into
SEF to avoid duplicating code and ease extensibility. Examples include:
  * PM notify messages primarily used at shutdown.
  * SYSTEM notify messages primarily used for signals.
  * CLOCK notify messages used for system alarms.
  * Debug messages. IS could still be in charge of fkey handling but would
  forward the debug message to the target process (e.g. PM, if the user
  requested debug information about PM). SEF would then catch the message and
  do nothing unless the process has registered an appropriate callback to
  deal with the event. This simplifies the programming model to print debug
  information, avoids duplicating code, and reduces the effort to print
  debug information.

SYSTEM PROCESSES CHANGES:
- Every system process registers SEF callbacks it needs to override the default
system behavior and calls sef_startup() right after being started.
- sef_startup() does almost nothing now, but will be extended in the future to
support callbacks of its own to let RS control and synchronize with every
system process at initialization time.
- Every system process calls sef_receive() now rather than receive() directly,
to let SEF handle predefined system events.

RS CHANGES:
- RS supports a basic single-component live update protocol now, as follows:
  * When an update command is issued (via "service update *"), RS notifies the
  target system process to prepare for a specific update state.
  * If the process doesn't respond back in time, the update is aborted.
  * When the process responds back, RS kills it and marks it for refreshing.
  * The process is then automatically restarted as for a buggy process and can
  start running again.
  * Live update is currently prototyped as a controlled failure.
2009-12-21 14:12:21 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
30a7fe5fa9 libdriver changes:
- remove obsolete non-safecopy support
- merge libdriver and libdriver_asyn
- change standard reply model from sendnb to senda
2009-12-02 09:57:48 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
6168bcefa6 Fix bios_wini using wrong size for vector (Bug#280, reported by John Peace) 2009-10-01 16:59:04 +00:00
Ben Gras
89bf7bae27 - tty: only report unrecognized scancodes once; forget about
remembering the origin and cursor position as that feature didn't
   really work properly anyway
 - tty: map in video and font memory using a vm call, access it from C,
   thereby eliminating pesky weird segment calls and assembly to access it,
   and unbreaks loadfont (Roman Ignatov)
 - bios_wini: fix bios_wini by allocating a <1MB buffers for it
 - memory: preallocate ramdisk, makes it a bit faster (and doesn't
   fail halfway if you allocate a huge one)
 - floppy: use <1MB buffer
 - ramdisk proto: because of the 2x1 page reservations, binaries
   got a little fatter and didn't fit on the ramdisk any more.
   increase it.
2009-09-21 14:25:54 +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
9f2f3dd488 don't call mkdep with an absolute path 2007-02-08 16:26:20 +00:00
Ben Gras
8ea438ae93 Retired DEV_{READ,WRITE,GATHER,SCATTER,IOCTL} (safe versions *_S are to
be used and drivers should never receieve these 'unsafe' variants
any more).
2007-02-07 16:22:19 +00:00
Ben Gras
b01aff70d2 use servers/inet/mq.[ch] to queue messages using mq_queue() in
libdriver.  at_wini now queues messages it can't handle it receives when
waiting for an interrupt. this way it can do receive(ANY) and timeouts
should be working again (were broken for VFS, as with the advent of VFS,
at_wini could get requests from a filesystem while it was waiting for an
interrupt - as a hack, the receive() was changed to receive(HARDWARE)).

Added mq.c to libdriver, and made libdriver an actual library that
drivers link with -L../libdriver -ldriver. (So adding files, if
necessary, is easier next time.)
2007-01-12 13:33:12 +00:00
Philip Homburg
bafc45a309 First cut at 64-bit file offsets in block devices for mkfs/fsck. 2006-11-27 14:21:43 +00:00
Ben Gras
7195fe3325 System statistical and call profiling
support by Rogier Meurs <rogier@meurs.org>.
2006-10-30 15:53:38 +00:00
Ben Gras
9d9e14941e At least 8k stack for all drivers so that malloc() works, for grants,
for printf().
2006-08-02 22:51:47 +00:00
Ben Gras
ad6d8a53c8 Understand *_S variants 2006-06-20 08:52:26 +00:00
Ben Gras
f877da3aec endpoint migration for drivers.
mostly renaming message field names to the new names.

tty stored process numbers in chars in tty and pty structs - now ints.
2006-03-03 10:21:45 +00:00
Philip Homburg
c3a88d15d8 Initial root filesystem is now on a ramdisk that is part of the image. 2006-02-15 11:18:21 +00:00
Ben Gras
4102c1b44c Make drivers install signal handlers so they don't die at exit. 2006-01-17 17:43:35 +00:00
Ben Gras
b52c0732d8 openct ioctl in bios_wini driver, needed for sanity check in autopart 2005-09-24 12:26:31 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
067e2bb259 *** empty log message *** 2005-08-25 13:31:35 +00:00
Ben Gras
ae5f1f2286 ata-pci support for at driver.
added a hook in libdriver for HARD_INT messages.
2005-08-25 08:19:11 +00:00
Ben Gras
e2e90b1fdc Remove double-blank lines (Al) 2005-08-22 15:17:42 +00:00
Philip Homburg
c392c177b5 Boot environment option 'bios_remap_first'. Thios option remaps the first
BIOS drive to d7, the second BIOS drive to d0, the third to d1, etc. This
useful for CD-ROM hardisk emulation.
2005-08-15 13:19:02 +00:00
Philip Homburg
a54e0b20ba 'Normal' mode didn't work. 2005-08-11 13:55:06 +00:00
Ben Gras
f26239d1f8 Minor partition() efficiency improvements (don't do regular partitioning
i/o on cd drives)
2005-08-08 12:16:59 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
941b5ebd1c Fix to device table at FS.
BIOS and AT installed in /sbin.
Floppy boot fixed.
2005-08-05 18:57:20 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
e561081545 Miscellaneous clean ups and fixes to the kernel.
Support for FLOPPY in boot image. (Set controller=fd at boot monitor.)
Moved major device numbers to <minix/dmap.h> (maybe rename to dev.h?)
2005-08-04 09:26:36 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
375f6f8754 Miscellaneous cleanups. 2005-08-03 11:53:36 +00:00
Philip Homburg
49c25df569 bios_wini driver 2005-07-29 10:21:04 +00:00