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Author SHA1 Message Date
Erik van der Kouwe
498d7d8a4c Don't use kernel responses in servers 2010-06-24 07:37:26 +00:00
Cristiano Giuffrida
cb176df60f New RS and new signal handling for system processes.
UPDATING INFO:
20100317:
        /usr/src/etc/system.conf updated to ignore default kernel calls: copy
        it (or merge it) to /etc/system.conf.
        The hello driver (/dev/hello) added to the distribution:
        # cd /usr/src/commands/scripts && make clean install
        # cd /dev && MAKEDEV hello

KERNEL CHANGES:
- Generic signal handling support. The kernel no longer assumes PM as a signal
manager for every process. The signal manager of a given process can now be
specified in its privilege slot. When a signal has to be delivered, the kernel
performs the lookup and forwards the signal to the appropriate signal manager.
PM is the default signal manager for user processes, RS is the default signal
manager for system processes. To enable ptrace()ing for system processes, it
is sufficient to change the default signal manager to PM. This will temporarily
disable crash recovery, though.
- sys_exit() is now split into sys_exit() (i.e. exit() for system processes,
which generates a self-termination signal), and sys_clear() (i.e. used by PM
to ask the kernel to clear a process slot when a process exits).
- Added a new kernel call (i.e. sys_update()) to swap two process slots and
implement live update.

PM CHANGES:
- Posix signal handling is no longer allowed for system processes. System
signals are split into two fixed categories: termination and non-termination
signals. When a non-termination signaled is processed, PM transforms the signal
into an IPC message and delivers the message to the system process. When a
termination signal is processed, PM terminates the process.
- PM no longer assumes itself as the signal manager for system processes. It now
makes sure that every system signal goes through the kernel before being
actually processes. The kernel will then dispatch the signal to the appropriate
signal manager which may or may not be PM.

SYSLIB CHANGES:
- Simplified SEF init and LU callbacks.
- Added additional predefined SEF callbacks to debug crash recovery and
live update.
- Fixed a temporary ack in the SEF init protocol. SEF init reply is now
completely synchronous.
- Added SEF signal event type to provide a uniform interface for system
processes to deal with signals. A sef_cb_signal_handler() callback is
available for system processes to handle every received signal. A
sef_cb_signal_manager() callback is used by signal managers to process
system signals on behalf of the kernel.
- Fixed a few bugs with memory mapping and DS.

VM CHANGES:
- Page faults and memory requests coming from the kernel are now implemented
using signals.
- Added a new VM call to swap two process slots and implement live update.
- The call is used by RS at update time and in turn invokes the kernel call
sys_update().

RS CHANGES:
- RS has been reworked with a better functional decomposition.
- Better kernel call masks. com.h now defines the set of very basic kernel calls
every system service is allowed to use. This makes system.conf simpler and
easier to maintain. In addition, this guarantees a higher level of isolation
for system libraries that use one or more kernel calls internally (e.g. printf).
- RS is the default signal manager for system processes. By default, RS
intercepts every signal delivered to every system process. This makes crash
recovery possible before bringing PM and friends in the loop.
- RS now supports fast rollback when something goes wrong while initializing
the new version during a live update.
- Live update is now implemented by keeping the two versions side-by-side and
swapping the process slots when the old version is ready to update.
- Crash recovery is now implemented by keeping the two versions side-by-side
and cleaning up the old version only when the recovery process is complete.

DS CHANGES:
- Fixed a bug when the process doing ds_publish() or ds_delete() is not known
by DS.
- Fixed the completely broken support for strings. String publishing is now
implemented in the system library and simply wraps publishing of memory ranges.
Ideally, we should adopt a similar approach for other data types as well.
- Test suite fixed.

DRIVER CHANGES:
- The hello driver has been added to the Minix distribution to demonstrate basic
live update and crash recovery functionalities.
- Other drivers have been adapted to conform the new SEF interface.
2010-03-17 01:15:29 +00:00
Ben Gras
adf0b6fb26 No more E{SRC,DST}DIED errno's, replaced by EDEADSRCDST.
The callers don't care about the difference and had to check 3 error
codes instead of one.
2010-03-03 15:47:16 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
850f392c86 Fix typo in ENOPSUP definition 2010-01-20 16:36:48 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
aac4b7923f Add ENOTSUP error code 2010-01-07 09:53:31 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
c42de8045f Added EILSEQ, based on newsgroup post by Leith 2009-12-31 11:48:08 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
c6cce1823d Portability: POSIXize some of inet's error codes 2009-11-28 13:18:33 +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
Ben Gras
8a54d267f0 - VM_KERN_NOPAGEZERO feature is gone
- sys_getbiosbuffer feature is gone (from kernel; available from vm)
- bump version number because munmap() calls that newly compiled binaries
  will do trigger an ugly (but harmless) error message in older VM's
- some new VM calls and flags, the new IPC calls
- some new CR0 register bits
- added files for shared memory
2009-09-21 14:23:10 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
47a2bfeddd small errno.h corrections 2009-08-18 09:26:51 +00:00
Philip Homburg
e674f1a54f Added ERESTART. 2008-02-21 15:58:26 +00:00
Philip Homburg
d24a880003 Added EOPNOTSUPP and better error handling in accept. 2006-09-14 13:48:41 +00:00
Philip Homburg
fa6f63c3cb New errors and defines for socket options. 2006-02-17 13:43:50 +00:00
Ben Gras
a3752a3a51 Fix 2005-11-01 13:15:44 +00:00
Ben Gras
4c648c343e Giovanni's symlink patches (includes only) 2005-10-31 14:14:54 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
e6c1aeade0 New IPC error codes: ESRCDIED, EDSTDIED, ETRAPDENIED.
New getsysinfo type to get DS store contents from IS.
New Data Store (DS) server message types and arguments.
2005-10-20 20:34:34 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
f587fe41e5 Changed EDEADDST to EDEADSRCDST 2005-10-05 09:52:54 +00:00
Philip Homburg
440668c645 Added ELOOP 2005-09-30 12:39:12 +00:00
Ben Gras
d11b2e4b8c Al's double-blank-line removal request 2005-08-22 15:23:47 +00:00
Philip Homburg
501634d5ab Added EALREADY and EMSGSIZE. 2005-07-27 11:43:28 +00:00
Philip Homburg
11cbb6faae Many changes to simplify porting applications. 2005-07-11 13:00:43 +00:00
Jorrit Herder
0899f82ab2 Fixed some minor issues with the NOTIFY call. 2005-05-24 14:35:58 +00:00
Ben Gras
9865aeaa79 Initial revision 2005-04-21 14:53:53 +00:00