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Erik van der Kouwe
fe07e7c984 Optional IPC logging 2010-06-24 13:31:40 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
360de619c0 No linear addresses in message delivery
- removes p_delivermsg_lin item from the process structure and code
  related to it

- as the send part, the receive does not need to use the
  PHYS_COPY_CATCH() and umap_local() couple.  

- The address space of the target process is installed before
  delivermsg() is called.

- unlike the linear address, the virtual address does not change when
  paging is turned on nor after fork().
2010-06-11 08:16:10 +00:00
Ben Gras
a09a8d4f3e kernel: fix for vm_init that triggered assert(ptproc == newptproc)
- zero cr3 in vm_init() to avoid switch_address_space() not doing anything.

 - add vm_stop() to disable paging on shutdown.
2010-06-07 22:21:45 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
cbc9586c13 Lazy FPU
- FPU context is stored only if conflict between 2 FPU users or while
  exporting context of a process to userspace while it is the active
  user of FPU

- FPU has its owner (fpu_owner) which points to the process whose
  state is currently loaded in FPU

- the FPU exception is only turned on when scheduling a process which
  is not the owner of FPU

- FPU state is restored for the process that generated the FPU
  exception. This process runs immediately without letting scheduler
  to pick a new process to resolve the FPU conflict asap, to minimize
  the FPU thrashing and FPU exception hadler execution

- faster all non-FPU-exception kernel entries as FPU state is not
  checked nor saved

- removed MF_USED_FPU flag, only MF_FPU_INITIALIZED remains to signal
  that a process has used FPU in the past
2010-06-07 07:43:17 +00:00
Ben Gras
2f892aca91 kernel fpu context switching: fix race condition
There seems to have been a broken assumption in the fpu context
restoring code.  It restores the context of the running process, without
guarantee that the current process is the one that will be scheduled.
This caused fpu saving for a different process to be triggered without
fpu hardware being enabled, causing an fpu exception in the kernel. This
practically only shows up with DEBUG_RACE on. Fix my thruby+me.

The fix
 . is to only set the fpu-in-use-by-this-process flag in the
   exception handler, and then take care of fpu restoring when
   actually returning to userspace

And the patch
 . translates fpu saving and restoring to c in arch_system.c,
   getting rid of a juicy chunk of assembly
 . makes osfxsr_feature private to arch_system.c
 . removes most of the arch dependent code from do_sigsend
2010-06-03 11:32:22 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
451a6890d6 scheduling - time quantum in miliseconds
- Currently the cpu time quantum is timer-ticks based. Thus the
  remaining quantum is decreased only if the processes is interrupted
  by a timer tick. As processes block a lot this typically does not
  happen for normal user processes. Also the quantum depends on the
  frequency of the timer.

- This change makes the quantum miliseconds based. Internally the
  miliseconds are translated into cpu cycles. Everytime userspace
  execution is interrupted by kernel the cycles just consumed by the
  current process are deducted from the remaining quantum.

- It makes the quantum system timer frequency independent.

- The boot processes quantum is loosely derived from the tick-based
  quantas and 60Hz timer and subject to future change

- the 64bit arithmetics is a little ugly, will be changes once we have
  compiler support for 64bit integers (soon)
2010-05-25 08:06:14 +00:00
Ben Gras
9ba760e603 kernel: oxpcie serial card support.
ask to map in oxpcie i/o memory and support serial i/o for it in the
kernel. set oxpcie=<address> in boot monitor (retrieve address using
pci_debug=1 output). (no sanity checking is done on the address
currently.) disabled by default.

The change also contains some other minor cleanup (a new serial.h to set
register info common to UART and the OXPCIe card, in-kernel memory
mapping a little more structured and env_get() to get sysenv variables
without knowing about the params_buffer).
2010-05-19 10:00:02 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
b90c2d7026 rename of mode/context switching functions
- this patch only renames schedcheck() to switch_to_user(),
  cycles_accounting_stop() to context_stop() and restart() to
  +restore_user_context()

- the motivation is that since the introduction of schedcheck() it has
  been abused for many things. It deserves a better name.  It should
  express the fact that from the moment we call the function we are in
  the process of switching to user.

- cycles_accounting_stop() was originally a single purpose function.
  As this function is called at were convenient places it is used in
  for other things too, e.g. (un)locking the kernel. Thus it deserves
  a better name too.

- using the old name, restart() does not call schedcheck(), however
  calls to restart are replaced by calls to schedcheck()
  [switch_to_user] and it calls restart() [restore_user_context]
2010-05-18 13:00:39 +00:00
Ben Gras
c5c25e7abc kernel/vm: change pde table info from single buffer to explicit per-process.
makes code in kernel more readable, and allows better sanity checking on
using the pde info.
2010-05-12 08:31:05 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
57a88ce708 debugging - printing processes on serial
- this patch moves the former printslot() from arch_system.c to
  debug.c and reimplements it slightly. The output is not changed,
  however, the process information is printed in a separate function
  print_proc() in debug.c as such a function is also handy in other
  situations and should be publicly available when debugging.
2010-05-03 17:37:18 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
d106968d77 Remove useless symbol declarations from headers, make symbols local where possible, add some explicit initialization to global variables. 2010-04-22 07:49:40 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
86a23c1fbd Remove U16_t and most other similar types. Rewrite functions to ansi-style
declaration if necessary.
2010-04-21 11:05:22 +00:00
Cristiano Giuffrida
48c6bb79f4 Driver refactory for live update and crash recovery.
SYSLIB CHANGES:
- DS calls to publish / retrieve labels consider endpoints instead of u32_t.

VFS CHANGES:
- mapdriver() only adds an entry in the dmap table in VFS.
- dev_up() is only executed upon reception of a driver up event.

INET CHANGES:
- INET no longer searches for existing drivers instances at startup.
- A newtwork driver is (re)initialized upon reception of a driver up event.
- Networking startup is now race-free by design. No need to waste 5 seconds
at startup any more.

DRIVER CHANGES:
- Every driver publishes driver up events when starting for the first time or
in case of restart when recovery actions must be taken in the upper layers.
- Driver up events are published by drivers through DS. 
- For regular drivers, VFS is normally the only subscriber, but not necessarily.
For instance, when the filter driver is in use, it must subscribe to driver
up events to initiate recovery.
- For network drivers, inet is the only subscriber for now.
- Every VFS driver is statically linked with libdriver, every network driver
is statically linked with libnetdriver.

DRIVER LIBRARIES CHANGES:
- Libdriver is extended to provide generic receive() and ds_publish() interfaces
for VFS drivers.
- driver_receive() is a wrapper for sef_receive() also used in driver_task()
to discard spurious messages that were meant to be delivered to a previous
version of the driver.
- driver_receive_mq() is the same as driver_receive() but integrates support
for queued messages.
- driver_announce() publishes a driver up event for VFS drivers and marks
the driver as initialized and expecting a DEV_OPEN message.
- Libnetdriver is introduced to provide similar receive() and ds_publish()
interfaces for network drivers (netdriver_announce() and netdriver_receive()).
- Network drivers all support live update with no state transfer now.

KERNEL CHANGES:
- Added kernel call statectl for state management. Used by driver_announce() to
unblock eventual callers sendrecing to the driver.
2010-04-08 13:41:35 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
94a81c840a Removed unused variables, added const where possible. 2010-04-07 11:25:51 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
a774cc832f do_ipc() rearrangements
this patch does not add or change any functionality of do_ipc(), it
only makes things a little cleaner (hopefully).

Until now do_ipc() was responsible for handling all ipc calls. The
catch is that SENDA is fairly different which results in some ugly
code like this typecasting and variables naming which does not make
much sense for SENDA and makes the code hard to read.

result = mini_senda(caller_ptr, (asynmsg_t *)m_ptr, (size_t)src_dst_e);

As it is called directly from assembly, the new do_ipc() takes as
input values of 3 registers in reg_t variables (it used to be 4,
however, bit_map wasn't used so I removed it), does the checks common
to all ipc calls and call the appropriate handler either for
do_sync_ipc() (all except SENDA) or mini_senda() (for SENDA) while
typecasting the reg_t values correctly. As a result, handling SENDA
differences in do_sync_ipc() is no more needed. Also the code that
uses msg_size variable is improved a little bit.

arch_do_syscall() is simplified too.
2010-04-06 11:24:26 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
4865e3f4f9 More use of endpoint_t. Other code cleanup. 2010-03-30 14:07:15 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
b4cf88a04f Userspace scheduling
- cotributed by Bjorn Swift

- In this first phase, scheduling is moved from the kernel to the PM
  server. The next steps are to a) moving scheduling to its own server
  and b) include useful information in the "out of quantum" message,
  so that the scheduler can make use of this information.

- The kernel process table now keeps record of who is responsible for
  scheduling each process (p_scheduler). When this pointer is NULL,
  the process will be scheduled by the kernel. If such a process runs
  out of quantum, the kernel will simply renew its quantum an requeue
  it.

- When PM loads, it will take over scheduling of all running
  processes, except system processes, using sys_schedctl().
  Essentially, this only results in taking over init. As children
  inherit a scheduler from their parent, user space programs forked by
  init will inherit PM (for now) as their scheduler.

 - Once a process has been assigned a scheduler, and runs out of
   quantum, its RTS_NO_QUANTUM flag will be set and the process
   dequeued. The kernel will send a message to the scheduler, on the
   process' behalf, informing the scheduler that it has run out of
   quantum. The scheduler can take what ever action it pleases, based
   on its policy, and then reschedule the process using the
   sys_schedule() system call.

- Balance queues does not work as before. While the old in-kernel
  function used to renew the quantum of processes in the highest
  priority run queue, the user-space implementation only acts on
  processes that have been bumped down to a lower priority queue.
  This approach reacts slower to changes than the old one, but saves
  us sending a sys_schedule message for each process every time we
  balance the queues. Currently, when processes are moved up a
  priority queue, their quantum is also renewed, but this can be
  fiddled with.

- do_nice has been removed from kernel. PM answers to get- and
  setpriority calls, updates it's own nice variable as well as the
  max_run_queue. This will be refactored once scheduling is moved to a
  separate server. We will probably have PM update it's local nice
  value and then send a message to whoever is scheduling the process.

- changes to fix an issue in do_fork() where processes could run out
  of quantum but bypassing the code path that handles it correctly.
  The future plan is to remove the policy from do_fork() and implement
  it in userspace too.
2010-03-29 11:07:20 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
98493805fd Lots of const correctness. 2010-03-27 14:31:00 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
12ef495cac atomicity fix when enabling paging
- before enabling paging VM asks kernel to resize its segments. This
  may cause kernel to segfault if APIC is used and an interrupt
  happens between this and paging enabled. As these are 2 separate
  vmctl calls it is not atomic. This patch fixes this problem. VM does
  not ask kernel to resize the segments in a separate call anymore.
  The new segments limit is part of the "enable paging" call. It
  generalizes this call in such a way that more information can be
  passed as need be or the information may be completely different if
  another architecture requires this.
2010-03-22 07:42:52 +00:00
Ben Gras
0937d6c367 re-establish kernel assert()s.
use the regular <assert.h> assert() instead of vmassert() in
kernel. throw out some #if 0 code. fix a few assert() conditions.
enable by default.
2010-03-10 13:00:05 +00:00
Arun Thomas
1f9ce647cf Move archtypes.h, fpu.h, and stackframe.h
Move archtypes.h to include/ dir, since several servers require it. Move
fpu.h and stackframe.h to arch-specific header directory. Make source
files and makefiles aware of the new header locations.
2010-03-09 09:41:14 +00:00
Ben Gras
35a108b911 panic() cleanup.
this change
   - makes panic() variadic, doing full printf() formatting -
     no more NO_NUM, and no more separate printf() statements
     needed to print extra info (or something in hex) before panicing
   - unifies panic() - same panic() name and usage for everyone -
     vm, kernel and rest have different names/syntax currently
     in order to implement their own luxuries, but no longer
   - throws out the 1st argument, to make source less noisy.
     the panic() in syslib retrieves the server name from the kernel
     so it should be clear enough who is panicing; e.g.
         panic("sigaction failed: %d", errno);
     looks like:
         at_wini(73130): panic: sigaction failed: 0
         syslib:panic.c: stacktrace: 0x74dc 0x2025 0x100a
   - throws out report() - printf() is more convenient and powerful
   - harmonizes/fixes the use of panic() - there were a few places
     that used printf-style formatting (didn't work) and newlines
     (messes up the formatting) in panic()
   - throws out a few per-server panic() functions
   - cleans up a tie-in of tty with panic()

merging printf() and panic() statements to be done incrementally.
2010-03-05 15:05:11 +00:00
Ben Gras
e6cb76a2e2 no more kprintf - kernel uses libsys printf now, only kputc is special
to the kernel.
2010-03-03 15:45:01 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
1b56fdb33c Time accounting based on TSC
- as thre are still KERNEL and IDLE entries, time accounting for
  kernel and idle time works the same as for any other process

- everytime we stop accounting for the currently running process,
  kernel or idle, we read the TSC counter and increment the p_cycles
  entry.

- the process cycles inherently include some of the kernel cycles as
  we can stop accounting for the process only after we save its
  context and we start accounting just before we restore its context

- this assumes that the system does not scale the CPU frequency which
  will be true for ... long time ;-)
2010-02-10 15:36:54 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
c6fec6866f No locking in kernel code
- No locking in RTS_(UN)SET macros

- No lock_notify()

- Removed unused lock_send()

- No lock/unlock macros anymore
2010-02-09 15:26:58 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
ebba20a65d No CLOCK task
- no kernel tasks are runnable

- clock initialization moved to the end of main()

- the rest of the body of clock_task() is moved to bsp_timer_int_handler() as
  for now we are going to handle this on the bootstrap cpu. A change later is
  possible.
2010-02-09 15:22:43 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
728f0f0c49 Removal of the system task
* Userspace change to use the new kernel calls

	- _taskcall(SYSTASK...) changed to _kernel_call(...)

	- int 32 reused for the kernel calls

	- _do_kernel_call() to make the trap to kernel

	- kernel_call() to make the actuall kernel call from C using
	  _do_kernel_call()

	- unlike ipc call the kernel call always succeeds as kernel is
	  always available, however, kernel may return an error

* Kernel side implementation of kernel calls

	- the SYSTEm task does not run, only the proc table entry is
	  preserved

	- every data_copy(SYSTEM is no data_copy(KERNEL

	- "locking" is an empty operation now as everything runs in
	  kernel

	- sys_task() is replaced by kernel_call() which copies the
	  message into kernel, dispatches the call to its handler and
	  finishes by either copying the results back to userspace (if
	  need be) or by suspending the process because of VM

	- suspended processes are later made runnable once the memory
	  issue is resolved, picked up by the scheduler and only at
	  this time the call is resumed (in fact restarted) which does
	  not need to copy the message from userspace as the message
	  is already saved in the process structure.

	- no ned for the vmrestart queue, the scheduler will restart
	  the system calls

	- no special case in do_vmctl(), all requests remove the
	  RTS_VMREQUEST flag
2010-02-09 15:20:09 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
5e57818431 copy_msg_from_user() and copy_msg_to_user()
- copies a mesage from/to userspace without need of translating
  addresses

- the assumption is that the address space is installed, i.e. ldt and
  cr3 are loaded correctly

- if a pagefault or a general protection occurs while copying from
  userland to kernel (or vice versa) and error is returned which gives
  the caller a chance to respond in a proper way

- error happens _only_ because of a wrong user pointer if the function
  is used correctly

- if the prerequisites of the function do no hold, the function will
  most likely fail as the user address becomes random
2010-02-09 15:15:45 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
ad9ba944d1 Early address space switch
- switch_address_space() implements a switch of the user address space
  for the destination process

- this makes memory of this process easily accessible, e.g. a pointer
  valid in the userspace can be used with a little complexity to
  access the process's memory

- the switch does not happed only just before we return to userspace,
  however, it happens right after we know which process we are going
  to schedule. This happens before we start processing the misc flags
  of this process so its memory is available

- if the process becomes not runnable while processing the mics flags
  we pick a new process and we switch the address space again which
  introduces possibly a little bit more overhead, however, it is
  hopefully hidden by reducing the overheads when we actually access
  the memory
2010-02-09 15:13:52 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
b14a86ca5c Sys calls are called ipc calls now
- the syscalls are pretty much just ipc calls, however, sendrec() is
  used to implement system task (sys) calls

- sendrec() won't be used anymore for this, therefore ipc calls will
  become pure ipc calls
2010-02-09 15:13:07 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
8a03d497b8 System task initialization moved to main()
- the system task initialization code does not really need to be part
  of the system task process. An earlier initialization in kernel is
  cleaner as it does not only initialize the syscalls but also irq
  hooks etc.
2010-02-09 15:12:20 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
cca24d06d8 This patch removes the global variables who_p and who_e from the
kernel (sys task).  The main reason is that these would have to become
cpu local variables on SMP.  Once the system task is not a task but a
genuine part of the kernel there is even less reason to have these
extra variables as proc_ptr will already contain all neccessary
information. In addition converting who_e to the process pointer and
back again all the time will be avoided.

Although proc_ptr will contain all important information, accessing it
as a cpu local variable will be fairly expensive, hence the value
would be assigned to some on stack local variable. Therefore it is
better to add the 'caller' argument to the syscall handlers to pass
the value on stack anyway. It also clearly denotes on who's behalf is
the syscall being executed.

This patch also ANSIfies the syscall function headers.

Last but not least, it also fixes a potential bug in virtual_copy_f()
in case the check is disabled. So far the function in case of a
failure could possible reuse an old who_p in case this function had
not been called from the system task.

virtual_copy_f() takes the caller as a parameter too. In case the
checking is disabled, the caller must be NULL and non NULL if it is
enabled as we must be able to suspend the caller.
2010-02-03 09:04:48 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
477b616fe8 Fixed a number of complaints about missing return statements.
Some cases were fixed by declaring the function void, others were fixed
by adding a return <value> statement, thereby avoiding potentially
incorrect behavior (usually in error handling).
Some enum correctness in boot.c.
2010-01-28 13:17:07 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
c8a11b5453 Fixed some type inconsistencies in the kernel. 2010-01-26 12:26:06 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
a701e290f7 Removed unused symbols.
Made some functions PRIVATE, including ones that aren't used anywhere.
2010-01-25 18:13:48 +00:00
Cristiano Giuffrida
c5b309ff07 Merge of Wu's GSOC 09 branch (src.20090525.r4372.wu)
Main changes:
- COW optimization for safecopy.
- safemap, a grant-based interface for sharing memory regions between processes.
- Integration with safemap and complete rework of DS, supporting new data types
  natively (labels, memory ranges, memory mapped ranges).
- For further information:
  http://wiki.minix3.org/en/SummerOfCode2009/MemoryGrants

Additional changes not included in the original Wu's branch:
- Fixed unhandled case in VM when using COW optimization for safecopy in case
  of a block that has already been shared as SMAP.
- Better interface and naming scheme for sys_saferevmap and ds_retrieve_map
  calls.
- Better input checking in syslib: check for page alignment when creating
  memory mapping grants.
- DS notifies subscribers when an entry is deleted.
- Documented the behavior of indirect grants in case of memory mapping.
- Test suite in /usr/src/test/safeperf|safecopy|safemap|ds/* reworked
  and extended.
- Minor fixes and general cleanup.
- TO-DO: Grant ids should be generated and managed the way endpoints are to make
sure grant slots are never misreused.
2010-01-14 15:24:16 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
fce9fd4b4e Add 'getidle' CPU utilization measurement infrastructure 2009-12-02 11:52:26 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
8a44a44cb9 Local APIC
- local APIC timer used as the source of time

- PIC is still used as the hw interrupt controller as we don't have
  enough info without ACPI or MPS to set up IO APICs

- remapping of APIC when switching paging on, uses the new mechanism
  to tell VM what phys areas to map in kernel's virtual space

- one more step to SMP

based on code by Arun C.
2009-11-16 21:41:44 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
ad4dcaab71 Idle task never runs
- idle task becomes a pseudo task which is never scheduled. It is never put on
  any run queue and never enters userspace. An entry for this task still remains
  in the process table for time accounting

- Instead of panicing if there is not process to schedule, pick_proc() returns
  NULL which is a signal to put the cpu in an idle state and set everything in
  such a way that after receiving and interrupt it looks like idle task was
  preempted

- idle task is set non-preemptible to avoid handling in the timer interrupt code
  which make userspace scheduling simpler as idle task does not need to be
  handled as a special case.
2009-11-12 08:42:18 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
b3b0a18403 allow kernel to tell VM extra physical addresses it wants mapped in.
used in the future for mapping in local APIC memory.
2009-11-11 12:07:06 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
ae75f9d4e5 Removal of the executable flag from files that cannot be executed
- 755 -> 644
2009-11-09 10:26:00 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
ebbce7507b Complete ovehaul of mode switching code
- after a trap to kernel, the code automatically switches to kernel
  stack, in the future local to the CPU

- k_reenter variable replaced by a test whether the CS is kernel cs or
  not. The information is passed further if needed. Removes a global
  variable which would need to be cpu local

- no need for global variables describing the exception or trap
  context. This information is kept on stack and a pointer to this
  structure is passed to the C code as a single structure

- removed loadedcr3 variable and its use replaced by reading the %cr3
  register

- no need to redisable interrupts in restart() as they are already
  disabled.

- unified handling of traps that push and don't push errorcode

- removed save() function as the process context is not saved directly
  to process table but saved as required by the trap code. Essentially
  it means that save() code is inlined everywhere not only in the
  exception handling routine

- returning from syscall is more arch independent - it sets the retger
  in C

- top of the x86 stack contains the current CPU id and pointer to the
  currently scheduled process (the one right interrupted) so the mode
  switch code can find where to save the context without need to use
  proc_ptr which will be cpu local in the future and therefore
  difficult to access in assembler and expensive to access in general

- some more clean up of level0 code. No need to read-back the argument
  passed in
  %eax from the proc structure. The mode switch code does not clobber
  %the general registers and hence we can just call what is in %eax

- many assebly macros in sconst.h as they will be reused by the apic
  assembly
2009-11-06 09:08:26 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
f2a1f21a39 Clock task split
- preemption handled in the clock timer interrupt handler, not in the clock task

- more achitecture independent clock timer handling code

- smp ready as each CPU can have its own timer
2009-11-06 09:04:15 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
cf854041ce Hardware interrupts code path cleanup
- the PIC master and slave irq handlers don't pass the irq hook pointer but just
  the irq number. It gives a little bit more information to the C handler as the
  irq number is not lost

- the irq code path is more achitecture independent. i386 hw interrupts are
  called irq and whereever the code is arch independent enough hw_intr_
  functions are called to mask/unmask interrupts

- the legacy PIC is not the only possible interrupt controller in the x86 world,
  therefore the intr_(un)mask functions were renamed to signal their
  functionality explicitly. APIC will add their own.

- masking and unmasking PIC interrupt lines is removed from assembler and all
  the functionality is rewriten in C and moved to i8259.c

- interrupt handlers have to unmask the interrupt line if all irq handlers are
  done. Assembler does not do it anymore
2009-11-04 13:24:56 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
f814fe41be Kernel: add support for indirect grants 2009-11-02 22:30:37 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
f89388c241 Kernel, servers: remove unused proto.h definitions 2009-10-31 14:11:50 +00:00
Ben Gras
fe35879325 - panic if there's no runnable process
- more basic sanity check before recursive enter check (data segment)
 - try to jump to boot monitor instantly on recursive panic
2009-10-03 11:30:35 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
6539c356c6 idle_task() declared 3x in kernel/proto.h. 2 declarations removed 2009-10-01 07:59:15 +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
cd8b915ed9 Primary goal for these changes is:
- no longer have kernel have its own page table that is loaded
    on every kernel entry (trap, interrupt, exception). the primary
    purpose is to reduce the number of required reloads.
Result:
  - kernel can only access memory of process that was running when
    kernel was entered
  - kernel must be mapped into every process page table, so traps to
    kernel keep working
Problem:
  - kernel must often access memory of arbitrary processes (e.g. send
    arbitrary processes messages); this can't happen directly any more;
    usually because that process' page table isn't loaded at all, sometimes
    because that memory isn't mapped in at all, sometimes because it isn't
    mapped in read-write.
So:
  - kernel must be able to map in memory of any process, in its own
    address space.
Implementation:
  - VM and kernel share a range of memory in which addresses of
    all page tables of all processes are available. This has two purposes:
      . Kernel has to know what data to copy in order to map in a range
      . Kernel has to know where to write the data in order to map it in
    That last point is because kernel has to write in the currently loaded
    page table.
  - Processes and kernel are separated through segments; kernel segments
    haven't changed.
  - The kernel keeps the process whose page table is currently loaded
    in 'ptproc.'
  - If it wants to map in a range of memory, it writes the value of the
    page directory entry for that range into the page directory entry
    in the currently loaded map. There is a slot reserved for such
    purposes. The kernel can then access this memory directly.
  - In order to do this, its segment has been increased (and the
    segments of processes start where it ends).
  - In the pagefault handler, detect if the kernel is doing
    'trappable' memory access (i.e. a pagefault isn't a fatal
     error) and if so,
       - set the saved instruction pointer to phys_copy_fault,
	 breaking out of phys_copy
       - set the saved eax register to the address of the page
	 fault, both for sanity checking and for checking in
	 which of the two ranges that phys_copy was called
	 with the fault occured
  - Some boot-time processes do not have their own page table,
    and are mapped in with the kernel, and separated with
    segments. The kernel detects this using HASPT. If such a
    process has to be scheduled, any page table will work and
    no page table switch is done.

Major changes in kernel are
  - When accessing user processes memory, kernel no longer
    explicitly checks before it does so if that memory is OK.
    It simply makes the mapping (if necessary), tries to do the
    operation, and traps the pagefault if that memory isn't present;
    if that happens, the copy function returns EFAULT.
    So all of the CHECKRANGE_OR_SUSPEND macros are gone.
  - Kernel no longer has to copy/read and parse page tables.
  - A message copying optimisation: when messages are copied, and
    the recipient isn't mapped in, they are copied into a buffer
    in the kernel. This is done in QueueMess. The next time
    the recipient is scheduled, this message is copied into
    its memory. This happens in schedcheck().
    This eliminates the mapping/copying step for messages, and makes
    it easier to deliver messages. This eliminates soft_notify.
  - Kernel no longer creates a page table at all, so the vm_setbuf
    and pagetable writing in memory.c is gone.

Minor changes in kernel are
  - ipc_stats thrown out, wasn't used
  - misc flags all renamed to MF_*
  - NOREC_* macros to enter and leave functions that should not
    be called recursively; just sanity checks really
  - code to fully decode segment selectors and descriptors
    to print on exceptions
  - lots of vmassert()s added, only executed if DEBUG_VMASSERT is 1
2009-09-21 14:31:52 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
2e293ce7c0 system_init() renamed to arch_init()
- a better name for architecture specific init function

- some of x86 init code must execute in protected mode

- prot_init() removed from this function and still called in cstart() Imho this
  should be called from the architecture specific assembly not cstart. cstart
  perform Minix monitor specific tasks and will be touched once another
  bootloader is in use, e.g. booting via tftp, therefore we keep it as is for
  now.

- this is a backport from the SMP code which requires this. Merging will be simpler
2009-08-30 14:55:30 +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
b8b8f537bd IPC privileges fixes
Kernel:
o Remove s_ipc_sendrec, instead using s_ipc_to for all send primitives
o Centralize s_ipc_to bit manipulation,
  - disallowing assignment of bits pointing to unused priv structs;
  - preventing send-to-self by not setting bit for own priv struct;
  - preserving send mask matrix symmetry in all cases
o Add IPC send mask checks to SENDA, which were missing entirely somehow
o Slightly improve IPC stats accounting for SENDA
o Remove SYSTEM from user processes' send mask
o Half-fix the dependency between boot image order and process numbers,
  - correcting the table order of the boot processes;
  - documenting the order requirement needed for proper send masks;
  - warning at boot time if the order is violated

RS:
o Add support in /etc/drivers.conf for servers that talk to user processes,
  - disallowing IPC to user processes if no "ipc" field is present
  - adding a special "USER" label to explicitly allow IPC to user processes
o Always apply IPC masks when specified; remove -i flag from service(8)
o Use kernel send mask symmetry to delay adding IPC permissions for labels
  that do not exist yet, adding them to that label's process upon creation
o Add VM to ipc permissions list for rtl8139 and fxp in drivers.conf

Left to future fixes:
o Removal of the table order vs process numbers dependency altogether,
  possibly using per-process send list structures as used for SYSTEM calls
o Proper assignment of send masks to boot processes;
  some of the assigned (~0) masks are much wider than necessary
o Proper assignment of IPC send masks for many more servers in drivers.conf
o Removal of the debugging warning about the now legitimate case where RS's
  add_forward_ipc cannot find the IPC destination's label yet
2009-07-02 16:25:31 +00:00
Ben Gras
9647fbc94e moved type and constants for random data to include file;
added consistency check in random; added source of randomness
internal to random using timing; only retrieve random bins that are full.
2009-04-02 15:24:44 +00:00
Ben Gras
3cc092ff06 . new kernel call sysctl for generic unprivileged system operations;
now used for printing diagnostic messages through the kernel message
   buffer. this lets processes print diagnostics without sending messages
   to tty and log directly, simplifying the message protocol a lot and
   reducing difficulties with deadlocks and other situations in which
   diagnostics are blackholed (e.g. grants don't work). this makes
   DIAGNOSTICS(_S), ASYN_DIAGNOSTICS and DIAG_REPL obsolete, although tty
   and log still accept the codes for 'old' binaries. This also simplifies
   diagnostics in several servers and drivers - only tty needs its own
   kputc() now.
 . simplifications in vfs, and some effort to get the vnode references
   right (consistent) even during shutdown. m_mounted_on is now NULL
   for root filesystems (!) (the original and new root), a less awkward
   special case than 'm_mounted_on == m_root_node'. root now has exactly
   one reference, to root, if no files are open, just like all other
   filesystems. m_driver_e is unused.
2009-01-26 17:43:59 +00:00
Ben Gras
7740d0379c no longer in kernel 2009-01-09 16:35:25 +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
cab8f526de Fixed some lose ends in the serial line debug dump code. 2007-04-23 15:59:16 +00:00
Philip Homburg
8eb27a714e More debug output. Dump kernel process on serial line. Directly put
text in video memory.
2007-04-23 13:36:11 +00:00
Ben Gras
6f77685609 Split of architecture-dependent and -independent functions for i386,
mainly in the kernel and headers. This split based on work by
Ingmar Alting <iaalting@cs.vu.nl> done for his Minix PowerPC architecture
port.

 . kernel does not program the interrupt controller directly, do any
   other architecture-dependent operations, or contain assembly any more,
   but uses architecture-dependent functions in arch/$(ARCH)/.
 . architecture-dependent constants and types defined in arch/$(ARCH)/include.
 . <ibm/portio.h> moved to <minix/portio.h>, as they have become, for now,
   architecture-independent functions.
 . int86, sdevio, readbios, and iopenable are now i386-specific kernel calls
   and live in arch/i386/do_* now.
 . i386 arch now supports even less 86 code; e.g. mpx86.s and klib86.s have
   gone, and 'machine.protected' is gone (and always taken to be 1 in i386).
   If 86 support is to return, it should be a new architecture.
 . prototypes for the architecture-dependent functions defined in
   kernel/arch/$(ARCH)/*.c but used in kernel/ are in kernel/proto.h
 . /etc/make.conf included in makefiles and shell scripts that need to
   know the building architecture; it defines ARCH=<arch>, currently only
   i386.
 . some basic per-architecture build support outside of the kernel (lib)
 . in clock.c, only dequeue a process if it was ready
 . fixes for new include files

files deleted:
 . mpx/klib.s - only for choosing between mpx/klib86 and -386
 . klib86.s - only for 86

i386-specific files files moved (or arch-dependent stuff moved) to arch/i386/:
 . mpx386.s (entry point)
 . klib386.s
 . sconst.h
 . exception.c
 . protect.c
 . protect.h
 . i8269.c
2006-12-22 15:22:27 +00:00
Ben Gras
407eefe63a Compile fix 2006-06-29 14:23:33 +00:00
Ben Gras
f1222a09a6 Make stack traces on exceptions possible. 2006-06-29 13:35:27 +00:00
Ben Gras
b89c6634f5 Use endpoint_t. New prototypes for related to grants and safecopy functions. 2006-06-20 09:57:00 +00:00
Philip Homburg
15b8fe54a8 Better initialization of the memory map of processes that are part of the
image. Removed NO_MAP flag.
2006-05-11 14:49:46 +00:00
Philip Homburg
7f861650b0 Use the sysutil library's printf code also for the kernel. 2006-03-15 16:15:23 +00:00
Philip Homburg
c1da6e6e24 Allow a process to kill itself. Remove the endpoint of a process that kills
itself before reporting the singal to pm.
2006-03-15 12:01:59 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
021e3234d8 Jorrit's ... "progress?" 2006-03-10 16:10:05 +00:00
Ben Gras
1335d5d700 'proc number' is process slot, 'endpoint' are generation-aware process
instance numbers, encoded and decoded using macros in <minix/endpoint.h>.

proc number -> endpoint migration
  . proc_nr in the interrupt hook is now an endpoint, proc_nr_e.
  . m_source for messages and notifies is now an endpoint, instead of
    proc number.
  . isokendpt() converts an endpoint to a process number, returns
    success (but fails if the process number is out of range, the
    process slot is not a living process, or the given endpoint
    number does not match the endpoint number in the process slot,
    indicating an old process).
  . okendpt() is the same as isokendpt(), but panic()s if the conversion
    fails. This is mainly used for decoding message.m_source endpoints,
    and other endpoint numbers in kernel data structures, which should
    always be correct.
  . if DEBUG_ENABLE_IPC_WARNINGS is enabled, isokendpt() and okendpt()
    get passed the __FILE__ and __LINE__ of the calling lines, and
    print messages about what is wrong with the endpoint number
    (out of range proc, empty proc, or inconsistent endpoint number),
    with the caller, making finding where the conversion failed easy
    without having to include code for every call to print where things
    went wrong. Sometimes this is harmless (wrong arg to a kernel call),
    sometimes it's a fatal internal inconsistency (bogus m_source).
  . some process table fields have been appended an _e to indicate it's
    become and endpoint.
  . process endpoint is stored in p_endpoint, without generation number.
    it turns out the kernel never needs the generation number, except
    when fork()ing, so it's decoded then.
  . kernel calls all take endpoints as arguments, not proc numbers.
    the one exception is sys_fork(), which needs to know in which slot
    to put the child.
2006-03-03 10:00:02 +00:00
Philip Homburg
9bee3f4b08 IOPL, VM, and serial debug output (disabled). 2005-09-30 12:54:59 +00:00
Ben Gras
5ae6f98dea Andy's formatting fixes. 2005-09-11 16:44:06 +00:00
Ben Gras
d11b2e4b8c Al's double-blank-line removal request 2005-08-22 15:23:47 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
a01645b788 New scheduling code in kernel. Work in progress.
Round-robin within one priority queue works fine.
Ageing algorithm to be done.
2005-08-19 16:43:28 +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
0946d128cd - Kernel call handlers cleaned up. More strict checking of input parameters.
- Moved generic_handler() from system.c to system/do_irqctl.c.
- Set privileges of system processes somewhat stricter.
2005-07-29 15:26:23 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
fe0dcb5c00 AT driver is not modified (debugging only);
TTY: select and revive with new notify and FS call back;
kernel: removed old notify code; removed ugly prepare_shutdown timer
kputc: don't send to FS if PRINTF_PROC fails
2005-07-27 14:32:16 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
8866b4d0ef Kernel changes:
- reinstalled priority changing, now in sched() and unready()
- reinstalled check on message buffer in sys_call()
- reinstalled check in send masks in sys_call()
- changed do_fork() to get new privilege structure for SYS_PROCs
- removed some processes from boot image---will be dynamically started later
2005-07-26 12:48:34 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
f0594a9e6d - Fixed comments in various system call handlers. Work in progress on new
sys_privctl() call to dynamically start servers and drivers.

- Shutdown sequence slightly adjusted: called as watchdog timer to let the
  busy sys_abort() call from the PM return first.

- Changed umap_bios() to have more restrictive check: BIOS memory is now
  allowed in BIOS_MEM_BEGIN to END (interrupt vectors) and BASE_MEM_TOP
  to UPPER_MEM_END. Hopefully this keeps QEMU and Bochs happy.
2005-07-21 18:36:40 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
c0718054e9 Various fixes and improvements.
- fixed bug that caused IDLE to panic (irq hook inconsistency);
- kprintf() now accepts multiple arguments; moved to utility.c;
- prepare_shutdown() signals system processes with SIGKSTOP;
- phys_fill() renamed to phys_memset(), argument order changed;
- kmemset() removed in favor of phys_kmemset();
- kstrncpy() removed in favor of phys_copy();
- katoi, kstrncmp replaced by normal library procedure again;
- rm_irq_handler() interface changed (simply pass hook pointer);
2005-07-20 15:25:38 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
1d7bdd4ab1 *** empty log message *** 2005-07-19 15:01:47 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
198c976f7e System processes can be signaled; signals are transformed in SYS_EVENT message
that passes signal map along. This mechanisms is also used for nonuser signals
like SIGKMESS, SIGKSTOP, SIGKSIG.

Revised comments of many system call handlers. Renamed setpriority to nice.
2005-07-19 12:21:36 +00:00
Philip Homburg
7d4e914618 Random number generator 2005-07-18 15:40:24 +00:00
Ben Gras
42e6d20afe Changed phys_zero to phys_fill, which accepts a 4-byte argument saying what
to fill with. Changed prototype and call to match.
2005-07-18 12:18:16 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
42ab148155 Reorganized system call library; uses separate file per call now.
New configuration header file to include/ exclude functionality.
Extracted privileged features from struct proc and create new struct priv.
Renamed various system calls for readability.
2005-07-14 15:12:12 +00:00
Ben Gras
f96645a4eb Fixed a bug in kstrncpy() that caused mayhem whenever the buffer to be
copied into was the same size as the source string - it will keep on
filling with zeroes forever. This was a signed/unsigned bug, fixed by
making the kstrncpy argument ssize_t instead of size_t. This bug was
triggered by Chris Young <teddga@earthlink.net>, by dazzling coincedence -
changing OS_VERSION into something with one more character (exactly the
same size as the buffer in the kinfo struct).

Also noticed that the kstrncpy() call didn't null-terminate the strings
if necessary, also fixed.
2005-07-13 14:46:11 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
bac6068857 Rewrite of process scheduling:
- current and maximum priority per process;
- quantum size and current ticks left per process;
- max number of full quantums in a row allow
  (otherwise current priority is decremented)
2005-06-30 15:55:19 +00:00
Ben Gras
3eeff022fb Added function read_cpu_flags() that returns current cpu flags as a
long.  This is used to check for interrupts being disabled at the time
of a lock() call, if enabled in config.h. The number of times this
happens is then counted in the kinfo structure. These events (recursive
lockings) lead to nasty race conditions.
2005-06-20 14:53:13 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
7279bb68ef Applied MINIX 2.0.4 pathes provides by Al Woodhull. 2005-06-17 13:00:04 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
e0a98a4d65 * Fixed bug relating to nested locking in interrupt handlers. The nested lock
caused interrupts to be reenabled (due to unlock), which caused a race. The
problems were especially visible on slower machines.
* Relocated free memory parsing to process manager. This saved quite some
code at the kernel level. Text size was reduced by about 650 bytes.
* Removed locks for updating the realtime in the clock's main loop and the
get_uptime function. Interrupts are no longer reentrant, so realtime is
immediately updated.
2005-06-17 09:09:54 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
0e2a7a9730 Kernel cleanup.
Reduced kernel size by 512KB by moving private buffer into cstart() function.
Replaced assertions with erroneous return values. Removed assertions relating
to isuserp(rp), since all processes should become user processes; system
processes are now treated similar to other processes.
2005-06-07 12:34:25 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
f2a85e58d9 Various updates.
* Removed some variants of the SYS_GETINFO calls from the kernel;
  replaced them with new PM and utils libary functionality. Fixed
  bugs in utils library that used old get_kenv() variant.
* Implemented a buffer in the kernel to gather random data.
  Memory driver periodically checks this for /dev/random.
  A better random algorithm can now be implemented in the driver.
  Removed SYS_RANDOM; the SYS_GETINFO call is used instead.
* Remove SYS_KMALLOC from the kernel. Memory allocation can now
  be done at the process manager with new 'other' library functions.
2005-06-03 13:55:06 +00:00
Ben Gras
c977bd8709 Added args to lock() and unlock() to tell them apart, for use
when lock timing is enabled in minix/config.h.

Added phys_zero() routine to klib386.s that zeroes a range of memory, and
added corresponding system call.
2005-06-01 09:37:52 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
c2be104821 Improved NOTIFY system: fixed a minor error, ignore pending notifications
on SENDREC system calls. To be done: resource (buffer pool) management;
make it structurally impossible to run out of buffers.
2005-05-27 12:44:14 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
77c3213948 Optimized scheduling code. Old code is still available withing DEAD_CODE
and NEW_SCHED_Q definitions. Some minor problems are being traced at the
moment. This commit is meant to backup my files.
  --- Jorrit
2005-05-26 13:17:57 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
0899f82ab2 Fixed some minor issues with the NOTIFY call. 2005-05-24 14:35:58 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
ccd17ecfed New NOTIFY system call! Queued at kernel. Duplicate messages (with same source
and type) are overwritten with newer flags/ arguments. The interface from
within the kernel is lock_notify(). User processes can make a system call with
notify(). NOTIFY fully replaces the old notification mechanism.
2005-05-24 10:06:17 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
614f49b557 Fixed some comments and reorganized some code.
Fixed minor bug in notify() function.
2005-05-18 10:36:23 +00:00
Ben Gras
d0c3e8f818 . added rm_irq_handler which un-links an irq handler from the linked
list of handlers, callable by irqctl system call
 . workaround for hanging keyboard bug after shutdown.. if key is pressed
   during or after shutdown procedure, keyboard stops working. It looks like
   irq 1 gets stuck high if no keyboard reading is done (e.g. because the
   irq is masked or tty driver has exited). Workaround is to leave irqs
   enabled until the last second, and call shutdown() immediately after the
   last driver has stopped (tty task). This way the chance of an unserviced
   interrupt occuring is negligible.
2005-05-12 16:06:37 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
fbe1641bd3 User-space networking!
- RTL8139 driver moved to user-space;
- PCI code moved to user-space;
Fixed IRQ hook dump at IS server.
2005-05-11 09:02:00 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
ac0995259d *** empty log message *** 2005-05-02 14:30:04 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
89ac678b9b *** empty log message *** 2005-04-29 15:36:43 +00:00