Instead of having a generic "virt_qemu" board use "virt_qemu_<arch>" in
order to have a clean distinction between boards. Current supported
boards are "virt_qemu_arm_v7a", "virt_qemu_arm_v8a", and
"virt_qemu_riscv".
issue #4034
The link dissolve timeout is updated for every packet, which leads to
trigger_once() RPCs that only marginally change the scheduled timeout but
significantly slow down the packet throughput.
genodelabs/genode#4555
acpica and the Intel display driver tries to use the Intel Opregion
simultaneously on Genode, which is not supported nor wanted for IO_MEM region as
which it is handled.
Attempts to remove the access to the region was not successful, since some
SSDT table contains ACPI AML code which is executed regularly and read/write
the Opregion.
The patch adds support to read in a copy of the Intel Opregion done by the
acpi_drv component. The copy was sufficient to make the Intel display driver
working to find and lookup the Intel VBT (video bios table) information to
setup all connectors on a Fujitsu U7411 docking station.
Fixes#4531
Build description files that feature both an actual target and
CUSTOM_TARGET_DEPS happen to re-link the target each time whenever one
of the CUSTOM_TARGET_DEPS is phony, e.g., gems/src/app/menu_view/.
The re-linking of the actual target is of course not desired. By
triggering the creation of CUSTOM_TARGET_DEPS from 'all:' instead of
'$(TARGET)', the specified files do not implicitly become link
dependencies of the target.
Issue #3972
There is a race between the trace subject doing the buffer
initialization and the monitor trying to iterate the buffer entries. If
the monitor tries to iterate entries of an uninitialized buffer, it will
read the very first entry twice. The monitor should therefore only start
iteration when the buffer has been initialised.
genodelabs/genode#4513
After reverting unused ranges during allocator destruction
'_meta_data.free_empty_blocks' may lead to more unused ranges because
meta data blocks maybe freed where the meta data for the blocks is
managed by other meta data blocks. This leads to dangling allocation
warnings which are caused by meta data. Therefore, we call
'_revert_unused_ranges' and 'free_empty_blocks' until no more ranges
can be freed.
issue #4466
Compared to the bytewise memset, a wordwise memset (or even multi-word)
achieves a speedup of ~6.
On Zynq-7000/Cortex-A9:
317 MiB/s -> 2040 MiB/s
On base-linux x86_64:
3580 MiB/s -> 23700 MiB/s
genodelabs/genode#4456
Preloading a few cache lines ahead brings a significant speedup in
memcpy throughput. Note, the particular (optimal) value was empirically
determined on a Cortex-A9 (Zynq-7000) SoC @ 666Mhz. It is best combined
with L2 prefetching enabled (including double linefills and prefetch
offset 7). Yet, even without L2 prefetching this seems to be the sweet
spot.
genodelabs/genode#4456
The implementation is not in use any more. Furthermore, on typical ARM
cores such as the Cortex-A9, the cached read appears to be the
bottleneck rather than instruction density. On a Zynq-7000 SoC, the vfp
implementation performed significantly worse than the standard load/store
multiple implementation with preloading.
genodelabs/genode#4456
This patch makes the trace-subject state as reflected to the trace
monitor more accurate.
Until now, a subject could be in UNTRACED or TRACED state. In reality,
however, there exists an intermediate state after the trace monitor
called 'trace' for the subject but before the subject locally activated
the tracing (done when passing a trace point). This intermediate state
was reflected as UNTRACED. Consequently, threads that never pass a trace
point (e.g., just waiting for I/O) would remain to appear as UNTRACED
even after enabling its tracing by the trace monitor. This is confusing.
This patch replaces the former UNTRACED and TRACED states by three
distinct states:
UNATTACHED prior any call of 'trace'
ATTACHED after a trace monitor called 'trace'
but before the tracing is active
TRACE tracing is active
Fixes#4447
The new macros GENODE_TRACE_TSC and GENODE_TRACE_TSC_NAMED complement
the existing GENODE_LOG_TSC and GENODE_LOG_TSC_NAMED macros to simplify
TSC measurements at a low overhead of the trace mechanism.
Split the trace buffer into two partitions in order to prevent overwriting
of entries when the consumer is too slow. See file comment in buffer.h.
genodelabs/genode#4434
This commit simplifies the current implementation by overloading the
length field with a padding indicator in addition to the zero-length
head entry. This simplifies the iteration semantics as it eliminates
the need for determining whether a zero-length entries is the actual
head of the buffer or a padding at the buffer end.
genodelabs/genode#4434
When committing a new entry, the buffer wrapped if the last entry fit
perfectly into the buffer. Otherwise, the length field of the next entry
was set to 0 to mark the new head. Yet, if there was still some padding but not
enough to hold the length field of another entry, we ended up with a
headless buffer.
genodelabs/genode#4430
Since the head of the buffer is marked by a zero-length entry, we must
only write the length field if a new head was set. Otherwise, the
consumer might already read the new entry and not find the new head as a stop
condition.
genodelabs/genode#4430
* Switch from the legacy usb_host driver to the new PC version
in recipes and automated tests
* Update documentation snippets
* Remove outdated, unused usb_rndis run-script
Fixgenodelabs/genode#4416
XML allows attribute values like <node attr="\"/>. The XML parser
wrongly reflects this case as 'Invalid_syntax'. This behavior stems from
the implicit use of the 'end_of_quote' function, which considers the
sequence of '\"' as a quoted '"' rather than the end of a quoted string.
The patch solves this problem by making the 'end_of_quote' part of
the tokenizer's scanner policy.
The patch removes the 'end_of_quote' function from 'util/string.h'
because it is not universal, and to avoid the ambiguity with
'SCANNER_POLICY::end_of_quote'.
Fixes#4431
When a PD owns the right to ask for a RAM dataspace's `dma_addr` it is
concurrently constrained to use allocations of a specific physical RAM area.
This commit further limits this area by removing RAM page frame zero.
Otherwise the return value of `dma_addr` for such a dataspace would be
erroneously interpreted as a fault, because zero is currently the error
return value of `dma_addr`.
Fixgenodelabs/genode#4428
This patch cuts the superfluous dependency of abi.so files from the
library dependencies of the corresponding lib.so file. ABIs depend
only on symbol files.
Prior this patch, the second step of the following sequence would
wrongly re-build the abi.so file.
arm_v6$ make init
arm_v6$ make init KERNEL=hw
As the KERNEL argument does not affect the ABI, the abi.so should
better not be created twice.
Issue #4408
Genode linker does not support .gnu.hash tables so they will never be
used. Tell the linker not to bother producing them. This should reduce
the size of Genode ELF files a tiny bit without loosing anything
important in the process.
Fixes#4423
This does not affect default Genode builds as far as I can tell. There
is always at least one global static CTOR which seems to be coming from
one of the GCC runtime libs bundled in the toolchain. The problem became
visible for me only after I've replated GCC runtime with LLVM based
one. In such setup I often see binaries that do not have any static ctors.
Such binaries end up crashing Genode ld.lib.so.
Make sure the code does handle empty constructors array.
Fixes#4422
The official way to obtain DMA addresses for RAM dataspaces is
the RPC function 'Pd_session::dma_addr' now. User-level device drivers
should not call this function directly but use the 'Platform_session'
interface of the platform driver instead.
Fixes#2243
To make room for the re-newed usb_host_drv basing on Linux 5.14 and
the re-newed lx_kit/lx_emul we have to move the depot recipe and
consistently name the old drivers with a legacy_ prefix.
Ref genodelabs/genode#4416
This patch removes the implicit build of ld-$(KERNEL) by the generic
ld.mk file because the kernel-specific dynamic linker is unreachable
when building a regular binary archive.
Issue #4320
When 'KERNEL' is specified, let the generic (pseudo) target of
lib/mk/ld.mk trigger the build of the actual dynamic linker named after
the used kernel. This way, we become able to remove the magic
linker-build step from the boot-image stage of the run tool.
Issue #4320
This patch applies the existing "privatization" of transitive
shared-library dependencies from static lib dependencies to shared lib
dependencies. It thereby improves the consistency of binaries created in
a regular build directory with binaries created in depot archives.
Issue #4408
This patch enhances the PD-session interface with the support needed for
user-level device drivers performing DMA. Both RPC functions are
intended for the direct use by the platform driver only. If invoked for
PDs that lack the managing-system role, the operations have no effect.
The 'dma_addr()' RPC function allows the platform driver to request the
DMA address of a given RAM dataspace. It is meant to replace the
'Dataspace::phys_addr' RPC function.
The 'attach_dma' RPC function adds the given dataspace to the device
PD's I/O page table. It replaces the former heuristics of marking DMA
buffers as uncached RAM on x86.
With this patch, the UNCACHED attribute of RAM dataspaces is no longer
used to distinguish DMA buffers from regular RAM dataspaces.
Issue #2243
* renamed rpi pic to Bcm2835_pic
* renamed rpi3 pic to Bcm2837_pic
* added bcm2837 control for setting prescaler value (to fix timer_accuracy)
* changed handling of all interrupts for rpi3 by cascading to bcm2835 pic
* rpi3 irq controller base address made consistent with rpi
* added usb controller memory region for pic on rpi3 (for SOF interrupts)
Ref #3415
When used by the 'Allocator_avl' the slab allocator's backing store is
dynamically disabled and re-enabled while adding/freeing ranges.
However, during those operations, slab entries can be freed. This,
in turn, can result in the release of a slab block (when the freed slab
entry happens to be the last entry of the block). In this corner case,
'Slab::_release_backing_store' operation has no effect because no
backing-store allocator is set. As a result, the block is no longer
referenced but not physically freed.
The patch fixes the problem by skipping '_free_curr_sb' whenever
no backing store is defined. So the completely empty block remains
in the working set.
Thanks to Peter for reporting and fixing this issue!
Fixes#4367
Fix some trivial cases where the signedness of the constant value does
not match the signedness of type the code expects to see. GCC can be
asked to warn about those by passing Wsign-covnersion flag.
Issue #4354
As far as I can tell this is not raised by any released GCC versions.
Clang 13 on the other hand warns about it due to implicit-int-conversion
warning which is automatically enabled together with Wconversion. The
problem is relatively simple, shifting access_t value does not always
produce result which is also of access_t type. For example, if access_t
is uint16_t, shifting it will produce integer result. This can be
observed even with GCC. Building the following C++ example will fail:
#include <type_traits>
#include <stdint.h>
int test() {
uint16_t a = 0xabcd;
static_assert(std::is_same_v<decltype(a<<1), uint16_t>);
return 0;
}
Changing uint16_t in the static_assert to int, will allow the code to
build.
Make such int to access_t implicit conversion explicit to allow the code
to be compiled with both GCC and clang.
Issue #4354
This patch improves the robustness of the CPU-affinity handling.
- The types in base/affinity.h received the accessors
'Location::within(space)' and 'Affinity::valid', which alleviates
the fiddling with coordinates when sanity checking the values,
in init or core.
- The 'Affinity::Location::valid' method got removed because its
meaning was too vague. For sanity checks of affinity configurations,
the new 'within' method is approriate. In cases where only the x,y
values are used for selecting a physical CPU (during thread creation),
the validity check (width*height > 0) was not meaningful anyway.
- The 'Affinity::Location::from_xml' requires a 'Affinity::Space'
as argument because a location always relates to the bounds of
a specific space. This function now implements the selection of
whole rows or columns, which has previously a feature of the
sandbox library only.
- Whenever the sandbox library (init) encounters an invalid affinity
configuration, it prints a warning message as a diagnostic aid.
- A new 'Affinity::unrestricted' function constructs an affinity that
covers the whole affinity space. The named functions clarifies
the meaning over the previous use of the default constructor.
- Core's CPU service denies session requests with an invalid
affinity parameter. Previously, it would fall back to an
unrestricted affinity.
Issue #4300
Instead of using a bitfield for storing rwx and skip boolean value,
take a boolean instead. This fixes a note giv]en by GCC 9.1 about
changes semantics of bitfields given as parameter by value on ARM.
Ref #4344
The requested guest-physical memory range may comprise multiple attached
dataspace regions, which must all be detached. This is not required for
the current vbox5 implementation, but for vbox6 as the current API
suggests these semantics.
This commit can be seen as intermediate fix as a real fix should change
the API to prevent long-running detach loops in core that may lock out
requests by other components.
* Only give managing_system permission when all parent nodes of the
corresponding component agree in doing so.
* Move the physical memory constrains heuristic from sandbox library to core
Fix#4335
This patch changes the 'Allocator' interface to the use of 'Attempt'
return values instead of using exceptions for propagating errors.
To largely uphold compatibility with components using the original
exception-based interface - in particluar use cases where an 'Allocator'
is passed to the 'new' operator - the traditional 'alloc' is still
supported. But it existes merely as a wrapper around the new
'try_alloc'.
Issue #4324
This patch replaces the 'Ram_allocator::alloc' RPC function by a
'try_alloc' function, which reflects errors as 'Attempt' return value
instead of an exception.
Issue #4322
Issue #3612
The new 'update_list_model_from_xml' function template simplifies the
use of the list model utility by alleviating the need for implementing a
custom policy class for each model. Instead, the transformation is done
using a few lambda functions given directly as arguments.
Issue #4317
Always instantiating a network device with id `net0`, removes the need to call
append_qemu_nic_args in run scripts unless we want to add forwarding
rules.
genodelabs/genode#4311
Allow specifying additional qemu arguments for externally supported boards
(e.g. zynq_qemu) by adding a `qemu_args` file in the board-property directory.
The syntax of the qemu_args file is as follows:
- Arguments can appear in a single line or in multiple lines as the
lines will be appended (separated by a whitespace) to the global
qemu_args variable.
- If the line is prepended with a `foobar:` expression. The arguments
are only added if the foobar spec is present.
Note, that a `-m` argument specified in the qemu_args file will
override the arguments provided by the run scripts.
genodelabs/genode#4311
When rebasing my local branch on top of sculpt-21.10 tag I've noticed
two problems.
The code in new_delete.cc does not include new header file. This works
fine with GCC, but fails with clang because std::align_val_t type is
not defined anywhere according to clang. It looks like GCC pulls this
header indirectly somehow.
The second problem can be seen if one disallows undefined symbols in
executables and shared_libraries. This can be seen with both GCC and
clang by adding --no-undefined to LD_OPT. With such change in place core
fails to link due to:
ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: operator delete(void*, std::align_val_t)
>>> referenced by thread.h:448 (/home/tworaz/devel/genode/repos/base-hw/src/core/kernel/thread.h:448)
>>> thread.o:(Kernel::Core_main_thread::~Core_main_thread()) in archive debug/core-hw-virt_qemu.a
>>> referenced by thread.h:448 (/home/tworaz/devel/genode/repos/base-hw/src/core/kernel/thread.h:448)
>>> thread.o:(non-virtual thunk to Kernel::Core_main_thread::~Core_main_thread()) in archive debug/core-hw-virt_qemu.a
>>> did you mean: operator delete(void*, unsigned long, std::align_val_t)
>>> defined in: debug/core-hw-virt_qemu.a(supc++.o)
If the code would somehow manage call such undefined symbol it'd crash.
Since I generally prefer link time failures to runtime crashes I link
all genode binaries with --no-undefined.
To fix this problem just add a dummy implementation of missing delete
operator.
Fixes#4298
Alignas should be placed before the type. Placing it after it works for
GCC, but fails when building the same codee with clang. The error
message is:
reconstructible.h:48:27: error: 'alignas' attribute cannot be applied to types
char _space[sizeof(MT)] alignas(sizeof(addr_t));
^
Issue #4298
The new 'Env::try_session' method mirrors the existing 'Env::session'
without implicitly handling exceptions of the types 'Out_of_ram',
'Out_of_caps', 'Insufficient_ram_quota', and 'Insufficient_cap_quota'.
It enables runtime environments like init to reflect those exceptions to
their children instead of paying the costs of implicit session-quota
upgrades out of the own pocket.
By changing the 'Parent_service' to use 'try_session', this patch fixes
a resource-exhaustion problem of init in Sculpt OS that occurred when
the GPU multiplexer created a large batch of IO_MEM sessions, with each
session requiring a second attempt with the session quota upgraded by
4 KiB.
Issue #3767
Using 'alignas' in declarations might cause GCC to request for an
implementation of 'operator delete(void*, unsigned long, std::align_val_t)'
although it might actually never be called. This commit adds a dummy
implementation to 'cxx/new_delete.cc' that does nothing more than printing an
error to the log that a proper implementation is missing. This approach is
coherent with our treatment of other global delete operators.
Ref #4217
If one has an object X that has a minimum alignment requirement specified
through 'alignas' this requirement is normally inherited by objects that have
object X as member, and by those that have objects as member that have X as
member, and so on... . However, this chain used to get silently interrupted
(dropping the minimum alignment requirement to 8 again) at objects that are
managed with Genode::Reconstructible or Genode::Constructible. In order to fix
this, the commit ensures that Genode::Reconstructible (and therefore also
Genode::Constructible) has at least the minimum alignment requirement (using
'alignas') as the object it manages.
Ref #4217
* Disable trace source and release ownership on subject destruction.
* Note, since the policy module is also destroyed on descruction of the
session component, the traced component must not access the policy
module when acknowledging the disabled state (else: page fault).
Fixesgenodelabs/genode#4247
Introduce two new cache maintainance functions:
* cache_clean_invalidate_data
* cache_invalidate_data
used to flush or invalidate data-cache lines.
Both functions are typically empty, accept for the ARM architecture.
The commit provides implementations for the base-hw kernel, and Fiasco.OC.
Fixes#4207
When loading shared libraries via the 'Shared_object' interface display
all additionaly loaded libraries in case 'ld_verbose' is configured. Up
until now, only the loaded library was displayed. In order to determine
if a dependend library had arlready been loaded prior to loading the
'Shared_object' the reference counter is used.
fixes#4147
This patch adds support for running Genode/Linux on the AARCH64
architecture.
- The kernel-agnostic startup code (crt0) had to be extended to
capture the initial stack pointer, which the Linux kernel uses
to pass the process environment. This is in line with the
existing startup code for x86_32 and x86_64.
- The link order of the host libraries linked to lx_hybrid
programs had to be adjusted such that libgcc appears at last
because the other libraries depend on symbols provided by
libgcc.
- When using AARCH64 Linux as host, one can execute run scripts
via 'make run/<script> KERNEL=linux BOARD=linux' now.
Issue #4136
When we allowed symbol resolution during exceptions, we used the shared
object lock to protect ELF object list manipulation (e.g., dlopen,
dclose) when executing exception unwinding code in the linker.
Unfortunately, sometimes libraries that are loaded by 'dlopen' may raise
exceptions in the process, leading to a deadlock within the unwind code.
In order to resolve this, we now protect the object list operations
(i.e., enqueue, removal, iteration) by a separate mutex. This allows
the shared object interface to throw exceptions.
issue #4071
This patch unifies the core-internal 'Mapping' type across all base
platforms.
As one minor downside on seL4, the diagnostic error messages when
observing faults other than page faults no longer print the faulting
thread and PD names.
Issue #2243
When the own cap quota of a client does not suffice for a cap upgrade of
an existing session to a server, the client must issue a cap-resource
request to the parent. This logic was already in place for RAM quota but
was missing for cap quota.
Issue #4072
When callback functions of `dl_iterate_phdr` required further jump slot
relocations this lead to a deadlock. Therefore, we allow the resolution
of further symbols from callback functions, but protect the ELF object
list during the iteration, which blocks any dynamic loading (e.g.,
dlopen/dlcose) of shared object by other threads while in program header
iteration.
fixes#4071
This patch changes the 'alloc_aligned' interface as follows:
- The former 'from' and 'to' arguments are replaced by a single
'range' argument.
- The distinction of the use cases of regular allocations vs.
address-constrained allocations is now overed by a dedicated
overload instead of relying on a default argument.
- The 'align' argument has been changed from 'int' to 'unsigned'
to be better compatible with 'addr_t' and 'size_t'.
Fixes#4067
The 'Timer::Session::trigger_periodic' RPC function used to accept 0 as
a way to de-schedule the periodic processing. Several components such as
nitpicker relied on this special case. In "timeout: rework timeout
framework", the value of zero was silently clamped to 1, which has the
opposite effect: triggering signals at the maximum rate. This results in
a visible effect in Sculpt where the leitzentrale-nitpicker instance
produces a constant load of 2% CPU time.
This patch restores the original timer semantics by
- Documenting it in timer_session.h,
- Handling the case explicitly in the timer implementation, and
- Replacing the silent clamping of the unexpected value 0 passed
to the timeout framework by a diagnostic error message.
Issue #3884
This patch fixes a corner case where a child is destructed while a
asynchronous close request to a sibling server is still pending.
The child immediately discarded the session ID as the end of the
close-session processing, assuming that this ID is never to be needed
again. The session-state continues to exist to handle asynchrous close
protocol with the server.
However, if the child is destructed at this point (before the server
responded to the session request), the destruction of the child would
not cover the discharging of the session state because the session state
was no longer be part of the client's ID space. So once the asynchronous
close response from the server came in, the session state contained
stale information, in particular a stale closed_callback pointer.
The patch fixes the problem by deferring the discarding of the client ID
to the point where the session state is actually destructed. So the
session of a pending close response is covered by the child destructor.
Thanks to Pirmin Duss for reporting this issue along with a test
scenario for reproducing it!
Fixes#4039
Do not link base and core libraries into on large relocatable .o file,
which is linked later to core - causing long link times. Create an
independent library archive out of the base and core libraries that can
be linked faster.
issue #4027
With this commit libcrypto does not use ARM NEON extension as long as
SPECS includes "neon". arm_v7a does declare "neon" per default while
arm_v8a does.
Issue #3773
- remove Spike/BBL support in favour of Qemu (>=4.2.1)
- add 'riscv_qemu' board, remove 'spike' board'
- update to privileged ISA v1.10 (from v1.9.1)
- use direct system calls for privileged core threads (they call into
the kernel and don't use mode changing system calls, i.e. 'ecall',
semantics)
- use 'OpenSBI' semtantics for SBI calls (to machine mode) instead of
BBL
issue #4012
By first removing unused ranges, implicitly meta data allocations are freed
up. This leads to more unused slab blocks and freed up meta data allocations
in the avl tree.
Issue #4014
