After some research we found that the stack pointer on ARM platforms must be
at least double word aligned (See: "Procedure Call Standard for the ARM
Architecture" - 5.2.1.1). Since a 'call' on ARM will not result in a stack pointer
change (like on x86), the current behavior resulted in a 4 Byte aligned stack
only.
Follow up to #1043
This commit generalizes the bit array in 'base/util/bit_array.h',
so that it can be used in a statically, when the array size is known
at compile time, or dynamically. It uses the dynamic approach of the
bit array for a more generalized version of the packet allocator,
formerly only used by NIC session clients. The more generic packet
allocator is used by the block cache to circumvent the allocation
deadlock described in issue #1059.
Fixes#1059
Base libraries are already contained within ldso.lib.so. Remove unnecessary
filtering from 'dep_lib.mk', make ldso depend on base libs.
Issue #1017
Issue #989
This patch make the handling of resizing the virtual framebuffer more
consistent. Liquid_fb keeps track of two sizes. The "next size" is the
size of the framebuffer handed out via the next call of 'dataspace'.
The "designated size" is the size as demanded by the user. The latter
size may be updated more often than the "next" size, depending on the
responsiveness of the framebuffer client to mode-change signals.
The patch also removes the synchronization with refresh calls because
the synchronization made the flickering artifacts worse when executing
nitpicker within liquid_fb. So it was not properly working anyway.
In the future, we might reimplement such a synchronization mechanism
when switching to the server API.
Issue #1056
As the initial main-thread stack is not used for the whole main-thread life
anymore but only for the initialization of the Genode environment it can be
downsized to 32Kb for all architectures.
ref #989
For a main thread a thread object is created by the CRT0 before _main gets
called so that _main can already run in a generic environment that, e.g.,
catches stack overflows as a page-fault instead of corrupting the BSS.
Additionally dynamic programs have only one CRT0 - the one of the LDSO -
which does the initialization for both LDSO and program.
ref #989
Normally for intptr_t the printf format PRIiPTR should be used. As Genode
printf doens't support this format we cast it to long int (intptr_t is int
for 32 bit and long int for 64 bit).
ref #989
This patch adds accessors to obtain the buffer of an attribute value,
which is useful to avoid the copying-out of such information by
maintaining pointers into the XML string as meta data.
There exist different default setups for a specific autoconf version:
* autoconf
* autoconf$(VERSION)
* autoconf-$(VERSION)
As of now, only the second option is recognized by the check in tool_chain.
This patch ensures that if one of those is present in the correct
version, it will be found and used in the build process.
Fixes#1053.
With this patch, the liquid_fb title bar height gets reserved at the top of the
screen, so if a Qt application wants to position a window at (0,0), there's
still enough space to show the title bar above.
Issue #1054.
This utility allows for the manual placement of objects without the need
to have a global placement new operation nor the need for type-specific
new operators.
Issue #989
The trace_fs server provides access to a Trace_session by using a
File_system_session as frontend.
Each trace subject is represented by a directory ('thread_name.subject')
that contains specific files ('active', 'cleanup', 'enable', 'events',
'buffer_size' and 'policy'), which are used to control the tracing
process of the thread as well as storing the content of its trace
buffer.
The tracing of a thread is only activated if there is a valid policy
installed and the intend to trace the subject was made clear by writing
'1' to the 'enable' file.
The tracing of a thread may be deactived by writing a '0' to the
'enable' file.
A policy may be changed by overwriting the currently used one. In this
case the old policy is replaced by the new policy and is automatically
utilize.
Writing a value to the 'buffer_size' file changes the appointed size of
the trace buffer. This value is only evaluted by reactivating the
tracing process.
The content of the trace buffer may be accessed by reading from the
'events' file. Throughout all tracing session new trace events are
appended to this file.
Nodes of UNTRACED subjects are kept as long as they do not change their
tracing state to DEAD. In this case all nodes are removed from the
file system. Subjects that were traced before and are now UNTRACED will
only be removed by writing '1' to the 'cleanup' file - even if they
are DEAD by now.
To use the trace_fs a config similar to the following may be used:
! <start name="trace_fs">
! <resource name="RAM" quantum="128M"/>
! <provides><service name="File_system"/></provides>
! <config>
! <policy label="noux -> trace" interval="1000" subject_limit="512" trace_quota="64M" />
! </config>
! </start>
'interval' sets the periode in which the Trace_session is polled. The
time is given in milliseconds.
'subject_limit' speficies how many trace subject should by acquired at
most when the Trace_session is polled.
'trace_quota' is the amount of quota the trace_fs should use for the
Trace_session connection. The remaing amount of RAM quota will be used
for the actual nodes of the file system and the 'policy' as well as the
'events' files.
In addiition there are 'buffer_size' and 'buffer_size_limit' that define
the initial and the upper limit of the size of a trace buffer.
Tracing of parent processes or rather threads may be enabled by setting
'parent_levels' to a value greater than '0' (though this attribute is
available, the trace session component within core still lacks support
for it).
A ready-to-use runscript can by found in 'ports/run/noux_trace_fs.run'.
Fixes#1049.
Until now, block drivers had to deal with a pointer to the client
session component, e.g.: to acknowledge block packets already processed.
When a session was closed, the driver object wasn't informed explicitly,
which leads to defensive programming, or lastly to a race-condition in
test-blk-srv. To prevent from this class of errors, the pointer is now
private to the generic block driver base class, and not accessible to
the concrete driver implementation. Moreover, the driver gets explicitly
informed when a session got invalidated.
Ref #113
This block cache component acts as a block device for a single client.
It uses fixed 4K blocks as caching granularity, thereby implicitly reads
ahead whenever a client requests lesser amount of blocks. Currently,
it only supports a least-recently-used replacement policy.
Fixes#113
When using the server framework, it might happen that the main thread
tries to forward a signal to the entrypoint, while the context of that
signal is already destroyed. In that case the main thread will get an
ipc error exception as result.
Related to #113
Instead of terminating tool/tool_chain when finding the first
missing tool, this patch runs all checks to completion before
bailing out. This eases finding missing programs, because the
user has to run the script only once to get a list of all missing
software.
Fixes#1046Fixes#1047
On 64-bit platforms Qt's JavaScript engine tries to reserve 1GiB of
virtual memory via 'mmap()', to be backed by physical memory on demand.
Genode's 'mmap()' implementation currently does not support on-demand
allocation of physical memory and tries to allocate the whole amount at
once, which is usually far more than needed.
With this patch, the amount to be reserved gets decreased to 32MiB.
Fixes#1041.
The x86_64 ABI requires the stack pointer to be 16-byte aligned before the
call of a function and decreased by 8 at the function entrypoint (after
the return address has been pushed to the stack).
Currently, when a new Genode thread gets created, the initial stack
pointer is aligned to 16 byte. On Genode/Linux, the thread entry function
is entered by a 'call' instruction, so the stack pointer alignment at the
function entrypoint is correct. On Fiasco.OC and NOVA, however, the thread
entry function gets executed without a return address being pushed to the
stack, so at the function entrypoint the stack pointer is still aligned to
16 byte, which can cause problems with compiler-generated SSE
instructions.
With this patch, the stack pointer given to a new thread gets aligned to
16 bytes and decreased by 8 by default, since most of the currently
supported base platforms execute the thread entry function without pushing
a return address to the stack. For base-linux, the stack pointer gets
realigned to 16 bytes before the thread entry function gets called.
Fixes#1043.
