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David van Moolenbroek
665198b4c2 Rewrite character driver protocol
As a side effect, remove the clone style, as the normal device style
supports device cloning now.

Change-Id: Ie82d1ef0385514a04a8faa139129a617895780b5
2014-03-01 09:04:52 +01:00
David van Moolenbroek
2e9f4d0198 VFS: properly cancel select queries on unpause
Change-Id: I16e71db3f5c1bcc7ba6045bc9f02b13d71dc31eb
2014-02-18 11:25:03 +01:00
Xiaoguang Sun
20e6c9329f Change function prototype to use endpoint_t instead of int 2013-04-23 17:15:15 +02:00
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
Ben Gras
6a73e85ad1 retire _PROTOTYPE
. only good for obsolete K&R support
	. also remove a stray ansi.h and the proto cmd
2012-03-25 16:17:10 +02:00
Thomas Veerman
80c4685324 VFS: replace VFS with AVFS 2012-02-13 16:53:21 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
aba392e630 Clean up and fix multiple bugs in select:
- Remove redundant code.
 - Always wait for the initial reply from an asynchronous select request,
   even if the select has been satisfied on another file descriptor or
   was canceled due to a serious error.
 - Restart asynchronous selects if upon reply from the driver turns out
   that there are deferred operations (and do not forget we're still
   interested in the results of the deferred operations).
 - Do not hang a non-blocking select when another blocking select on
   the same filp is still blocking.
 - Split blocking operations in read, write, and exceptions (i.e.,
   blocking on read does not imply the write will block as well).
 - Some loops would iterate over OPEN_MAX file descriptors instead of
   the "highest" file descriptor.
 - Use proper internal error return values.
 - A secondary reply from a synchronous driver is essentially the same
   as from an asynchronous driver (the only difference being how the 
   answer is received). Merge.
 - Return proper error code after a driver failure.
 - Auto-detect whether a driver is synchronous or asynchronous.
 - Remove some code duplication.
 - Clean up code (coding style, add missing comments, put all select
   related code together).
2011-04-13 13:25:34 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
bc314bda91 Remove the types Dev_t, _mnx_Gui, _mnx_Uid, and similar.
Use ANSI-style function declarations where necessary.
2010-04-13 10:58:41 +00:00
Cristiano Giuffrida
65ef539739 Driver mapping refactory.
VFS CHANGES:
- dmap table no longer statically initialized in VFS
- Dropped FSSIGNON svrctl call no longer used by INET

INET CHANGES:
- INET announces its presence to VFS just like any other driver

RS CHANGES:
- The boot image dev table contains all the data to initialize VFS' dmap table
- RS interface supports asynchronous up and update operations now
- RS interface extended to support driver style and flags
2010-04-09 21:56:44 +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
David van Moolenbroek
b31119abf5 Mount updates:
- allow mounting with "none" block device
- allow unmounting by mountpoint
- make VFS aware of file system process labels
- allow m3_ca1 to use the full available message size
- use *printf in u/mount(1), as mount(2) uses it already
- fix reference leaks for some mount error cases in VFS
2010-01-12 23:08:50 +00:00
Philip Homburg
d9a9b727e2 Added dmap_async_driver and dmap_sel_filp fields. Support for asynch character
drivers (needs cleaning up).
2008-02-22 15:01:00 +00:00
Philip Homburg
f46319037b New VFS interface 2007-08-07 12:52:47 +00:00