This patch moves the os/config examples to their respective run scripts,
removes some of them, and moves the priority example to the src/init
directory (where other examples are located).
Additionally, this patch adapts the OKL4-specific priority.run test to
the recent changes of the timer interface.
This base platform is no longer maintained.
For supporting the Microblaze CPU in the future, we might consider
integrating support for this architecture into base-hw. Currently
though, there does not seem to be any demand for it.
With the change of the Timer::Session interface, all scenarios that use
the timer use core's SIGNAL service. So we need to route sessions
accordingly.
In addition to the adaptation to the changed timer, this patch removes
some stale examples that predate the run tool and are no longer used.
This patch simplifies the way of how Genode's base libraries are
organized. Originally, the base API was implemented in the form of many
small libraries such as 'thread', 'env', 'server', etc. Most of them
used to consist of only a small number of files. Because those libraries
are incorporated in any build, the checking of their inter-dependencies
made the build process more verbose than desired. Also, the number of
libraries and their roles (core only, non-core only, shared by both core
and non-core) were not easy to capture.
Hereby, the base libraries have been reduced to the following few
libraries:
- startup.mk contains the startup code for normal Genode processes.
On some platform, core is able to use the library as well.
- base-common.mk contains the parts of the base library that are
identical by core and non-core processes.
- base.mk contains the complete base API implementation for non-core
processes
Consequently, the 'LIBS' declaration in 'target.mk' files becomes
simpler as well. In the most simple case, only the 'base' library must
be mentioned.
Fixes#18
With the use of the new timer interface, each timer client uses signals.
Hence, programs that have not used signals before will consume slightly
more quota. This is the case for the moon test (triggered on foc_x64_64
only).
The distinction between 'ipc.h' and 'ipc_generic.h' is no more. The only
use case for platform-specific extensions of the IPC support was the
marshalling of capabilities. However, this case is accommodated by a
function interface ('_marshal_capability', '_unmarshal_capability'). By
moving the implementation of these functions from the headers into the
respective ipc libraries, we can abandon the platform-specific 'ipc.h'
headers.
By using the build system's library-selection mechanism instead of many
timer targets with different 'REQUIRES' declarations, this patch reduces
the noise of the build system. For all platforms, the target at
'os/src/drivers/timer' is built. The target, in turn, depends on a
'timer' library, which is platform-specific. The various library
description files are located under 'os/lib/mk/<platform>'. The common
bits are contained in 'os/lib/mk/timer.inc'.
The 'Timer::Session::msleep' function is one of the last occurrences of
long-blocking RPC calls. Synchronous blocking RPC interfaces turned out
to be constant source of trouble and code complexity. I.e., a timer
client that also wants to respond to non-timer events was forced to be a
multi-threaded process. This patch replaces the blocking 'msleep' call
by a mechanism for programming timeouts and receiving wakeup signals in
an asynchronous fashion. Thereby signals originating from the timer can
be handled along with signals from other signal sources by a single
thread.
The changed interface has been tested on Linux, L4/Fiasco, OKL4, NOVA,
L4ka::Pistachio, Codezero, Fiasco.OC, and hw_pbxa9. Furthermore, this
patch adds the timer test to autopilot.
Fixes#1
Cap_sessions and portals created via the sessions are nowadays freed up during
c++ object destruction. Because of that the exception portals for a vCPU thread
get be revoked as soon as the cap_session object leaves its scope.
Keep one cap_session for the whole lifetime of the vmm to avoid disappearing
exception portals.
Related to #582.
The setup now uses nitpicker and nit_fb to display several instances of
vancouver. The guest OS binaries must be supplied in the
'<build-dir>/bin' directory manually.
Furthermore, the patch lets launchpad pass Block, Nic, and Rtc to the
parent.
Vancouver can now assign block devices to guests using the Block
interface. The machine has to be configured to use a specified drive,
which could be theoretically routed to different partitions or services
via policy definitions. Currently the USB driver only supports one
device. Genode's AHCI driver is untested.
If the session quota is too low, random pagefaults can occur on the
stack.
According to @Nils-TUD, it is necessary to protect the DiskCommit
messages with a lock against deadlocking with the timer. Observations
showed that this mitigates some problems with Gentoo on real hardware.
Vancouver is now able to use the Intel 82576 device model from NUL to
give VMs access to the network via the nic_bridge service. In order to
integrate the device model, it had to be renamed to i82576 due to XML
limitations. This is done by a patch applied via the 'make prepare'
mechanism.
Although current network card models in Vancouver panic if they can't
get a MAC address, the OP_GET_MAC hostop now fails gracefully in the
case where no nic_drv or nic_bridge is available.
The guest VM can now be provided with a framebuffer and keyboard input.
Mouse positioning of the guest is a problem. Because the PS2 model applies
some calculations to the movement values, it can happen that overflows mess
with the cursor. Therefore the handling was changed and only movements of 1
and -1 are sent. Since absolute positioning is not possible with PS2, we
have to live with this limitation until USB HID is implemented.
For the framebuffer size in Vancouver the configuration value in the machine
XML node is used. It is possible to map the corresponding memory area
directly to the guest, regardless if it is from nitpicker,
liquid_framebuffer or vesa_drv. The guest is provided with two modes (text
mode 3 and graphics mode 0x114 (0x314 in Linux).
Pressing LWIN+END while a VM has focus resets the virtual machine. Also,
RESET and DEBUG key presses will not be forwarded to the VM anymore.
It is possible to dump a VM's state by pressing LWIN+INS keys.
The text console is able to detect idle mode, unmaps the buffer from the
guest and stops interpreting. Upon the next pagefault in this area, it
resumes operation again. The code uses a simple checksum mechanism instead
of a large buffer and memcmp to detect an idle text console. False
positives don't matter very much.
When an EPT/NPT fault occurs during IDT vectoring, the original event must
be reinjected. Additionally we may have to inject an IRQ window if another
event is already pending.
core does not use POSIX threads when built for the 'lx_hybrid_x86'
platform, so we need to reserve the thread-context area via a segment in
the program to prevent clashes with vdso and shared libraries.
Fixes#639.
