The new API emphasizes control over the vCPU data by granting access
through the Vcpu::with_state() method, which makes sure that the vCPU is
stopped, invokes the supplied function with a reference to the VM state
and resumes the vCPU if the function returns true.
The old Vcpu::run(), Vcpu::pause() and Vcpu::state() methods are removed
in favor of the new API. Execution of the vCPU is now interrupted by
sending a native Genode Signal to its Vcpu_handler, which will run the
VMM's exit handling method. When this method retrieves the vCPU state by
calling Vcpu::with_state(), the outside interruption is detected and on
x86 a recall exit is injected into the state to signal the vCPU
interruption / pause request to the VMM's vCPU handler.
Ref #4968
This patch ultimatedly removes format strings from Genode's base API.
Users of the former base/snprintf.h and base/console.h headers may
use the free-standing 'format' library hosted in the ports repository.
Fixes#2064Fixes#3869
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 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
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
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
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
This commit restores the diag feature for selecting diagnostic output of
services provided by core. This feature became unavailable with commit
"base: remove dependency from deprecated APIs", which hard-wired the
diag flag for core services to false.
To control this feature, three possible policies can be expressed in a
routing target of init's configuration:
* Forcing silence by specifying 'diag="no"'
* Enabling diagnostics by specifying 'diag="yes"'
* Forwarding the preference of the client by omitting the 'diag'
attribute
Fixes#3962
* get rid of alarm abstraction
* get rid of Timeout::Time type
* get rid of pointer arguments
* get rid of _discard_timeout indirection
* get rid of 65th bit in stored time values
* get rid of Timeout_scheduler interface
* get rid of uninitialized deadlines
* get rid of default arguments
* get rid of Timeout::_periodic
* get rid of Timeout::Raw
* use list abstraction
* only one interface for timeout handlers
* rework locking scheme to be smp safe
* move all method definitions to CC file
* name mutexes more accurate
* fix when & how to set time-source timeout
* fix deadlocks
Fixes#3884
This patch untangles the interplay of the base library and the libc
during the exit handling.
- The CXA ABI for the atexit handling is now provided by the libc.
For plain Genode components without libc dependency, __cxa_atexit
is a no-op, which is consistent with Genode's notion of components.
- The 'abort' implementation of the base library no longer calls
'genode_exit' but merely 'sleep_forever'. This way, the cxx library
no longer depends on a 'genode_exit' implementation.
- The libc provides 'atexit' support by storing metadata on the
libc kernel's heap now, thereby eliminating the former bounded
maximum number of atexit handlers.
- Shared-library dtors are no longer called via the atexit mechanism
by explicitly by the dynamic linker. This slightly changes the
call order of destructors (adjustment of the ldso test). Functions
marked as destructors are called after the atexit handlers now.
- The libc executes atexit handlers in the application context,
which supports the I/O operations in those handles, in particular
the closing of file descriptors.
Fixes#3851
- base/cancelable_lock.h becomes base/lock.h
- all members become private within base/lock.h
- solely Mutex and Blockade are friends to use base/lock.h
Fixes#3819
This commit puts all C++ runtime/support symbols of ld.lib.so in a
dedicated section of base/lib/symbols/ld and mirrors the section to
libports/lib/symbols/libc. So, the libc ABI resolves potential C++
runtime dependencies of base-ABI-agnostic components at link time. The
runtime resolution is done by the linker by symbol lookup in ld.lib.so.
Issue #3720
The mutex class is more restrictive in usage compared to
Genode::Lock.
- At initialiation time it is ever unlocked.
- No thread is permitted to lock twice. Warn about it
in case it happens.
- Only the lock onwer is permitted to unlock the mutex.
Warn about it and don't unlock the mutex in case it happens.
Issue #3612
This patch extends the interface of the dynamic linker with the ability
to replace the running binary executable by another one. It is
designated for the implementation of execve. The interface consists of
two new functions.
'Dynamic_linker::keep' marks the specified shared object as unloadable.
This can be used to pin a set of libraries (i.e., the libc) within the
local address space while replacing the binary and other higher-level
libraries.
'Dynamic_linker::respawn' unloads the current binary, loads the one
specifed as first argument, and looks up the entry point symbol of the
new binary, which would be "main" for POSIX programs.
In addition to implementing the new interface, the patch adjusts the
linker at various places that previously assumed the binary to be
constant over runtime.
Issue #3481
This patch enhances the 'base/shared_object.h' interface of the dynamic
linker with the function 'for_each_loaded_object', which allows the
caller to obtain information about the currently loaded binary and
shared libraries.
The new interface is a base mechanism needed for implementing 'fork' in
the libc.
Issue #3478
This enforces the use of unsigned 64-bit values for time in the duration type,
the timeout framework, the timer session, the userland timer-drivers, and the
alarm framework on all platforms. The commit also adapts the code that uses
these tools accross all basic repositories (base, base-*, os. gems, libports,
ports, dde_*) to use unsigned 64-bit values for time as well as far as this
does not imply profound modifications.
Fixes#3208
Track the dataspaces used by attach and add handling of flushing VM space
when dataspace gets destroyed (not triggered via the vm_session interface).
Issue #3111
This patch adds the items necessary for building Genode components with
stack protection enabled, but it is not initialized at runtime. They are
provided at the moment as a convenience and do not implement a security
feature.
Fix#3066
The notion of a RAM session does not exist anymore. Hence, we have to
adjust the name of 'init_env_ram_session'. Since this change modifies
the ABI, it comes as separate commit.
Issue #2407
- support to create multiple vCPUs
- support to implement Vm_session methods client side within base library
- adjust muen specific virtualbox4 version to compile/link
Issue #3111
Integrate the code of the Alarm framework directly into the Timeout
framework. The former Alarm-framework methods are all private to the
corresponding classes of the Timeout framework and get prefixed with
'_alarm__'. The latter avoids name clashes and makes it easier to
simplify the code later.
Issue #2704
With this patch, init responds to the exit of a child by closing all
sessions of the child. E.g., if a child is a GUI application, its
nitpicker session is closed at the time of exit, not at the time when
the start node disappears from init's configuration.
Since this change requires a modification of the 'Genode::Child' class,
it takes the chance to make the child-destruction less brutal. The
new version ensures that all threads of the destructed subsystem are
destructed before other sessions, in particular PD sessions. This
eliminates spurious page-fault warnings during the child destruction.
On Fiasco.OC, closing the CPU session of a thread while being called by
the thread causes a deadlock. Hence, we skip the eager destruction of
CPU sessions on this kernel.
Related to issue #2659
