The 'file_size' type denotes the size of files on disk in bytes. On
32-bit architectures it is larger than the size_t, which refers to
in-memory object sizes.
Whereas the use of 'file_size' is appropriate for ftruncate and seek, it
is not a suitable type for the parameters of read/write operations
because those operations refer to in-memory buffers.
This patch replaces the use of 'file_size' by size_t. However, since it
affects all sites where the read/write interface is uses, it takes the
opportunity to replace the C-style (pointer, size) arguments by
'Byte_range_ptr' and 'Const_byte_range_ptr'.
Issue #4706
Change the abstraction from buffers to video RAM (VRAM). The notion of
buffers can be provided at the client side (e.g., Mesa) and multiple
buffers can be there be associated to one VRAM area, thus saving
resources (meta data overhead) when allocating many buffers. A VRAM area
can also be mapped to one single buffer as before for clients or drivers
that do not take advantage of this feature.
issue #4713
This patch improves the Readonly_file::read method such that the
capacity of the specified buffer is used as upper bound for the read
operation instead of VFS-internal I/O buffer sizes. This relieves the
caller from implementing a read loop in most cases.
As a step away from C-ish use of the API, the patch deprecates the old
'read' method that takes the buffer as char *, size_t arguments.
Fixes#4745
The new utility returns a key code for a passed name and is implemented
by linear search, which is slow but sufficient in situations like config
updates.
Issue #4748
* Update links from forward rules only with forward rules and links from
transport-routing rules only with transport-routing rules. Besides raising
the performance of the code, this also fixes a former bug that allowed
forward-rule links to falsely stay active because of a transport-routing
rule that matched the client destination ip and port.
* Don't use good-case exceptions for updating TCP/UDP links on re-configuration
of the router.
* Make conditions when to dismiss a forward rule easier to read.
* Introduces != operator to the public Port class in the net library.
* Fix unnecessary log message that a link was dismissed when only a potentially
matching forward rule turned out to be not matching.
* Apply Genode coding style to if statements with a single body statement.
Fix#4728
The old 'Io_response_handler::io_progress_response' interface has been
replaced by the 'Vfs::Env::User::wakeup_vfs_user' (issue #4697). The
remaining 'read_ready_response' method is now hosted in the
appropriately named 'Read_ready_response_handler'.
Issue #4706
By adding a 'write_ready' interface following the lines of the existing
'read_ready', VFS plugins become able to propagate the (de-)saturation
of I/O buffers to the VFS user. This information is important when using
a non-blocking file descriptor for writing into a TCP socket. Once the
application observes EAGAIN, it expects a subsequent 'select' call to
return as soon as new I/O buffer space becomes available.
Before this patch, the select call would always return under this
condition, causing an unnecessarily busy write loop.
Issue #4697
The new interface is meant to replace the 'Vfs::Io_response_handler'.
In contrast to the 'Io_response_handler', which had to be called
on a 'Vfs_handle', the new interface does not require any specific
'Vfs_handle'. It is merely meant to prompt the VFS user (like the libc)
to re-attempt stalled I/O operations but it does not provide any
immediate hint, about which of the handles have become ready for
reading/writing.
Issue #4697
This patch removes the 'Insufficient_buffer' exception by returning the
WRITE_ERR_WOULD_BLOCK result value instead. It also eliminates the
superfluous WRITE_ERR_AGAIN and WRITE_ERR_INTERRUPT codes.
Issue #4697
This patch fosters the batching of network packets transferred by the
lwIP stack over the NIC connection. It replaces the eager submission of
the packet-stream's data-flow signals by explicit wakeup notifications.
The commit also increases the NIC session's buffer size from 128 to 1024
packets.
Issue #4697
...and tighten constness in adjacent code parts.
The VFS-internal synchronization via mutexes is no longer needed because
the access to the VFS is serialized by the VFS client, i.e., the libc.
Issue #4697
This patch facilitates the batching of I/O operations in the VFS library
by replacing the implicit wakeup of remote peer (via the traditional
packet-stream interface like 'submit_packet') by explicit wakeup
signalling.
The wakeup signalling is triggered not before the VFS user settles down.
E.g., for libc-based applications, this is the case if the libc goes
idle, waiting for external I/O.
In the case of a busy writer to a non-blocking file descriptor or socket
(e.g., lighttpd), the remote peers are woken up once a write operation
yields an out-count of 0.
The deferring of wakeup signals is accommodated by the new 'Remote_io'
mechanism (vfs/remote_io.h) that is designated to be used by all VFS
plugins that interact with asynchronous Genode services for I/O.
Issue #4697
The change of the queue size from 16 to 32 has negligible costs (4 KiB
instead of 2 KiB for the packet-stream queues) while facilitating the
batching of many small consecutive write operations.
Issue #4697
This is required for scenarios in which a device appears at a later
point in time. If the ROM is not updated, the device_by_type() method may
operate on an outdated dataspace and never find the device it is waiting for.
To prevent caching side-effects of USB DMA memory taken from the packet stream
all allocations of USB packets need to be on separated cachelines at least.
Fixgenodelabs/genode#4655
This patch equips the pin-driver framework with support for the
time-multiplexed operation of a pin as output or input. This is needed
when implementing I2C communication via a bit-banging driver.
To operate pin in both directions, a driver obtains both a pin-state and
a pin-control session for the same pin. The pin-state session can be
used to sense the current pin state. The control session allows the
client to set the pin to high or low (using the 'state' method), or to
set it to high-impedance via the 'yield' method. Once switched to
high-impedance, the pin can be used as input.
Issue genodelabs/genode-allwinner#10
On-demand initialization prevents read-write operations on BARs of
invalid devices at construction time, which may result in surprising
behavior later on, for example, when resetting X260 notebooks via ACPI
information.
Instead of allowing the client to set a caching attribute
in the io_mem() call of the device interface, which was
only used to decide in between of the memory being
write-combined or not, remove it from the API.
Instead use the information delivered by the devices ROM,
whether memory from a PCI BAR is prefetchable or not,
to decide whether it is mapped write-combined or not.
Ref genodelabs/genode#4578
Memory descriptors in PCI BARs have a prefetchable bit, which can
be used to optimize memory access when setting, e.g. write-combined
in page-table entries.
Ref genodelabs/genode#4578
In case of the GPU multiplexer, we need to delegate MMIO memory
to the framebuffer client in form of a managed dataspace. To be
able to attach a given Platform::Device::Mmio object to a region map
we need to access its capability.
Ref genodelabs/genode#4578
In case a driver is waiting for data, is should only investigate 'pos'.
It should not advance the ring in any way until there is data available.
issue #4609
This patch splits the querying of the number of directory entries from
the directory's 'status' information. Subsuming the number of directory
entries as part of the status makes 'stat' calls too costly for some
file systems that need to read a directory for determining the number of
entries. So when stat'ing the entries of one directory that contains sub
directories, all entries of each sub directory are visited.
Thanks to Cedric Degea for pointing out this performance bottleneck!
With this change, the 'status' function returns a 'Status::size' value
of 0 when called for a directory handle.
Fixes#4603
The `with_sub_node` method is renamed to `with_optional_sub_node` to
better reflect that the non-existence of a sub node with the desired type is
ignored.
At the same time, the new `with_sub_node` now takes a second functor that is
called when no sub node of the desired type exists.
genodelabs/genode#4600
By using the new functions provided by the base API, this patch removes
the dependency of several components from include/decorator/xml_utils.h.
Issue #4584
