. generalize libexec slightly to get some more necessary information
from ELF files, e.g. the interpreter
. execute dynamically linked executables when exec()ed by VFS
. switch to netbsd variant of elf32.h exclusively, solves some
conflicting headers
patch my fdmanana:
As recommended by the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Developer's
Manual Volume 3A, the GDT and IDT base addresses should be aligned on an
8 byte boundary to yield better processor performance.
. remove some call cycles by low-level functions invoking printf(); e.g.
send_sig() gets a return value that the caller should check
. reason: very-early-phase printf() would trigger a printf() causing
infinite recursion -> GPF
. move serial initialization a little earlier so DEBUG_EXTRA works for
serial earlier (e.g. its first instance, for "cstart")
. closes tracker item 583:
System Fails to Complete Startup with Verbose 2 and 3 Boot Parameters,
reported by Stephen Hatton / pikpik.
You might have to update the compiler-rt package! See UPDATING.
. the purpose of this -L was solely to find compiler-rt, which contains
runtime support code for clang-compiled binaries
. this also makes all other packaged libraries visible, however
. it is cleaner to isolate the base system from packages, and so
compiler-rt puts itself in /usr/pkg/compiler-rt/lib/ too, which the
base system henceforth uses exclusively
. e.g. this solves a link failure when libfetch is installed as a
package
. the new compiler-rt package also puts itself in /usr/pkg/lib for 'old'
systems; that is harmless. The benefit of 'new' systems is that the other
packages are hidden.
remove some old minix-userland-specific stuff
. /etc/ttytab as a file, and minix-compat function (fftyslot()),
replaced by /etc/ttys and new libc functions
. also remove minix-specific nlist(), cuserid(), fttyslot(), v8 regex
functions and <compat/regex.h>
. and remaining minix-only utilities that use them
. also unused <compat/pwd.h> and <compat/syslog.h> and
redundant <sys/sigcontext.h>
On the x86, saving FPU state has the side effect of resetting this
state. In some cases (fork, getcontext), this would cause the state
to be lost. This patch restores the FPU state right after saving it,
except when different state is loaded immediately after.
Previously, user processes could cause a kernel panic upon FPU state
restore, by passing bogus FPU state to the kernel (through e.g.
sigreturn). With this patch, the process is now sent a SIGFPE signal
instead.
There is important information about booting non-ack images in
docs/UPDATING. ack/aout-format images can't be built any more, and
booting clang/ELF-format ones is a little different. Updating to the
new boot monitor is recommended.
Changes in this commit:
. drop boot monitor -> allowing dropping ack support
. facility to copy ELF boot files to /boot so that old boot monitor
can still boot fairly easily, see UPDATING
. no more ack-format libraries -> single-case libraries
. some cleanup of OBJECT_FMT, COMPILER_TYPE, etc cases
. drop several ack toolchain commands, but not all support
commands (e.g. aal is gone but acksize is not yet).
. a few libc files moved to netbsd libc dir
. new /bin/date as minix date used code in libc/
. test compile fix
. harmonize includes
. /usr/lib is no longer special: without ack, /usr/lib plays no
kind of special bootstrapping role any more and bootstrapping
is done exclusively through packages, so releases depend even
less on the state of the machine making them now.
. rename nbsd_lib* to lib*
. reduce mtree
. we cannot use the boot monitor to print the system diag buffer
. for serial, we do nothing, just reset, everything is already printed
. for not-serial, we print the current diag buffer using direct video
memory access from the kernel
- this patch fixes a deadlock which may occur if we get a
spurious interrupt while calibrating clocks during the boot
time. Since we never handle interrupts while in the kernel
(BKL locked) the interrupt code locks the lock. This is a
different situation, a corner case, boot time only. We do not
return to userspace but to the kernel, so the BKL is not
unlocked. So we need irq handler which leaves the BKL
unlocked. The clock handler does it already, this patch adds
a dummy spurious irq handler for the same reason. It is better
to handle the situation this way to keep the normal runtime
code simple.
- this is a temporary change which makes images compiled for SMP
boot in SMP mode by default.
- this change is needed until we can configure the multiboot
images from the boot loader again.
User processes can send signals with number up to _NSIG. There are a few
signal numbers above that used by the kernel, but should explicitly not
be included in the range or range checks in PM will fail.
The system processes use a different version of sigaddset, sigdelset,
sigemptyset, sigfillset, and sigismember which does not include a range
check on signal numbers (as opposed to the normal functions used by normal
processes).
This patch unbreaks test37 when the boot image is compiled with GCC/Clang.
- we must not deliver messages from/to unstable address spaces.
In such a case, we must postpone the delivery. To make sute
that a process which is expecting an asynchronous message does
not starve, we must remember that we skipped delivery of some
messages and we must try to deliver again once the source
address space is stable again.
- when kernel copies from userspace, it must be sure that the TLB
entries are not stale and thus the referenced memory is correct
- everytime we change a process' address space we set p_stale_tlb
bits for all CPUs.
- Whenever a cpu finds its bit set when it wants to access the
process' memory, it refreshes the TLB
- it is more conservative than it needs to be but it has low
overhead than checking precisely
- two CPUs can issue IPI to each other now without any hazzard
- we must be able to handle synchronous scheduling IPIs from
other CPUs when we are waiting for attention from another one.
Otherwise we might livelock.
- necessary barriers to prevent reordering
- has_pending() takes a special argument that tells the code
whether we are scanning for asynchronous message or something
else.
- has_pending() is not used directly anymore
- the new functions are wrappings around has_pending() to make
the use more comfortable.
- these functions should become static inline eventually
Remove .ident sections, and force separations of .text and
.data sections into separate program headers, for the benefit
of the check done by MINIX boot monitor in multiboot mode.
