Clang correctly asserts this private member variable is not used
anywhere in the code. I'm not sure what the intention of the code is,
might be this is a part of some unfinished feature. This patch just does
the minimum amount of work to allow the code to build with clang. If
required I can also drop the parent_levels constructor argument and
clean up the call sites.
Issue #3950
The msg argument in Genode::Rpc_dispatcher::_read_arg is not used. GCC
does not care about this, but clang does and prints a warning regaring
this. Silence it by removing unused argument name.
fixup! base: Silence unused arg warning in rpc_server.h
The control area is constructed during session creation and the caller can
handle the Out_of_* exception by increasing the quota by the next attempt.
Fixes#3917
Instead of the generic name, call the PCI driver 'pci_audio_drv'.
This is preliminary clean-up work before introducing the USB audio
driver.
Issue #3929.
This path fixes a void cast used to silence unused return value warning.
Its a common pattern to use void cast to do that. The code uses void *
cast instead. It works for GCC, but clang complains about this.
Issue #3938
Clang is rather picky about this and prints the following warning when
compiling new_delete.cc:
error: function previously declared with an explicit exception
specification redeclared with an implicit exception specification
[-Werror,-Wimplicit-exception-spec-mismatch]
Issue #3938
This was discovered when building the code with clang instead of GCC. In
this setup the run/ping on base-hw/arm_v8a/virt_qemu would crash
on shutdown due to uncaught Deref_unconstructed_object exception thrown
for Genode::Reconstructible<Genode::Account<Genode::Ram_quota>>. The
specific instance throwing this exception was
Pd_session_component::_ram_account. My investigation exposed the
following problem:
1. The Pd_session_component has a _sliced_heap member backed by
_constrained_ram_alloc which in turn uses Pd_session_component itself
as its Ram_allocator.
2. When ~Pd_session_component is called it first destroys _ram_account,
followed by _signal_broker.
3. The signal broker holds a reference to
Pd_session_component::_sliced_heap as Signal_broker::_md_alloc.
4. The base-hw implementation of ~Signal_broker destroys some contexts
and does this by calling Genode::destroy on some slabs using the
_md_alloc (ref to Pd_session_component::_sliced_heap).
5. The Genode::Slab calls the Ram_allocator::free which ends up calling
Pd_session_component::free.
6. The Pd_session_component::free can among other things call replenish
method on Pd_session_component::_ram_account which has already been
freed at this point.
From my POV calling replenish at this point is basically an undefined
behavior. The Genode::Constructible holding the Genode::Account was
already detroyed at this point. GCC builds happen to somehow manage to
go through the -> operator call without raising any alarms, while clang
builds trip on the _check_constructed() call.
This fix moves the _ram_account a bit higher in class declaration to
ensure its destroyed after _sliced_heap. This seems like the simpliest
solution for this problem.
Fixes#3941
To enable the interaction of a VMM with the kernel directly,
a hidden RPC gets introduced. It allows a kernel-specific
base-library implementation of the Vm_session::Client to request
a kernel-specific capability to address a VCPU, e.g., to
run/stop it.
Ref #3926
At least on some PIT-based platforms (x86_32 + pistachio/okl4/sel4), we run
into trouble with the reworked timeout framework that now proccesses all
pending timeouts before calling their handlers. This order change leads to a
higher rate of handling of short periodic timeouts in the timer driver which
can cause lower prioritized components to starve. Especially, if submitting
signals (from timer to client) isn't cheap (as is the case on qemu + pistachio
for example).
Issue #3884
* 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
The quota for the argument buffer is already accounted by using the
Attached_ram_dataspace _argument_buffer, which uses the Constraint_ram_allocator
_ram, which uses the Ram_quota_guard from the Session_object. Running on
Sculpt with more than 1000 Subject_info objects/trace IDs the memory
waste become noticeable.
By now, the enumeration of peripheral interrupts on Raspberry Pi 1 was
different in between base-hw kernel and Fiasco.OC. Therefore, hacks were
needed in every driver to request the correct interrupt number dependent
on the kernel. Before reproducing the same in the platform driver for rpi,
we can more easily use the same enumeration with base-hw.
Ref #3864
Introduce the managing_system privilege for components like the
platform_driver to allow it to call system management functionality
that is reserved by kernel or special firmware, e.g., ARM Trusted Firmware.
The former RAM resource configuration attribute `constrain_phys`,
which enabled to constrain the region of physical RAM to be used,
gets replaced by the new, broader managing_system configuration
attribute of a `start` node. It gets enforced by the sandbox library.
Ref #3816
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
* enable all common warnings through default value of CC_ADA_WARN
* treat warnings like errors through default value of CC_ADA_WARN_STRICT
* enable almost all style checks through default value of CC_ADA_WARN_STRICT
* style fixes for aes_cbc_4k
* disable strict warnings and style checks for libsparkcrypto and spark lib
Ref #3848
This remove the call to Io_progress_handler::handle_io_progress() from
wait_and_dispatch_one_io_signal() to prevent unexpected nesting
I/O-progress handling in case of custom dispatch loops (e.g., in libc).
The original intention of Io_progress_handler was to inform the
entrypoint just before blocking in the entrypoint loop.
Issue #2635
- 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
_timestamp() returns CPU local values which may not be in sync with _ts
taken from another CPU. Be robust and don't produce wraparound/negative
timeout values.
Issue #3657
- Since Genode::strncpy is not 100% compatible with the POSIX
strncpy function, better use a distinct name.
- Remove bogus return value from the function, easing the potential
enforcement of mandatory return-value checks later.
Fixes#3752
The former ldso-startup static library (now called ldso_so_support) is
used to spice each shared object/library with local support code for the
dynamic linker (execution of static constructors and ARM-EABI).
Therefore, the library must be statically linked to each dynamic
library.
As a result recipes for dynamic libraries must always depend on the "so"
API, which makes ldso_so_support.mk and so_support.c available
independent of "base". Additionally, ldso_so_support is also provided in
the libc API to cut the dependency early for libc/posix libraries.
Issue #3720
This patch fixes the handling of the corner case where the allocation of
a trace buffer throws 'Out_of_caps' or 'Out_of_ram'. Under this
circumstance, the '_buffer' would still be flagged with the 'size',
which prevented any subsequent allocation attempt. This patch fixes the
problem by initializing the 'size' after the potentially throwing
allocation.
The problem triggered with the test-trace_logger after the accounting of
core's TRACE service (replacing the 'Allocator_guard' by
'Constrained_ram_allocator') became more accurate.
Related to issue #3750
The 'WHITESPACE' case of the _calc_len method wrongly accessed the
character before checking upper bound of the token. The problem is fixed
by switching the order of both conditions.
Fixes#3756
This patch removes old 'Allocator_guard' utility and replaces its use
with the modern 'Constrained_ram_allocator'.
The adjustment of core in this respect has the side effect of a more
accurate capability accounting in core's CPU, TRACE, and RM services.
In particular, the dataspace capabilities needed for core-internal
allocations via the 'Sliced_heap' are accounted to the client now.
The same goes for nitpicker and nic_dump as other former users of the
allocator guard. Hence, the patch also touches code at the client and
server sides related to these services.
The only remaining user of the 'Allocator_guard' is the Intel GPU
driver. As the adaptation of this component would be too invasive
without testing, this patch leaves this component unchanged by keeping a
copy of the 'allocator_guard.h' locally at the component.
Fixes#3750
This patch largely reverts the commit "base: lay groundwork for
base-linux caps change" because the use of 'epoll' instead of 'select'
alleviated the need to allocate large FD sets, which motivated the
introduction of the 'Native_context' hook.
Related to issue #3581
If trace is enabled for component than an attempt to put message into
trace buffer is performed using log_output policy. If it succeeds than
message is not put to logs using log service.
Fixes#3714
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 former scheme left open a race window between
_process_incoming_signals() and wait_and_dispatch_one_io_signal()
resulting in both threads calling block_for_signal() and blocking
forever with one unprocessed signal.
Fixes#3704
This is needed to execute the tool-chain scenario on base-nova.
Otherwise, the fork mechanism stumbles upon a region conflict
between ldso allocations and the application heap.
Fixes#3706
This commit fixes the following issues regarding cache maintainance
under ARM:
* read out I-, and D-cache line size at runtime and use the correct one
* remove 'update_data_region' call from unprivileged syscalls
* rename 'update_instr_region' syscall to 'cache_coherent_region' to
reflect what it doing, namely make I-, and D-cache coherent
* restrict 'cache_coherent_region' syscall to one page at a time
* lookup the region given in a 'cache_coherent_region' syscall in the
page-table of the PD to prevent machine exceptions in the kernel
* only clean D-cache lines, do not invalidate them when pages where
added on Cortex-A8 and ARMv6 (MMU sees phys. memory here)
* remove unused code relicts of cache maintainance
In addition it introduces per architecture memory clearance functions
used by core, when preparing new dataspaces. Thereby, it optimizes:
* on ARMv7 using per-word assignments
* on ARMv8 using cacheline zeroing
* on x86_64 using 'rept stosq' assembler instruction
Fix#3685
Formerly, _next was always updated to the last free'd allocation, which
left large gaps on alloc/free bursts. Now, we try keep allocation
density high from the start of the array and ensure that allocations
happen at the lowest available index in the bit array.
Fixes#3679
This patch makes the 'with_raw_node' method more useful in situations
where content of an Xml_node is fed into an Xml_generator, i.e., the
rules report/rom mechanism of the window layouter.
The applicant_to_wake_up() member must be initialized to 0 to keep the
same semantic as before the change by
"base: add mutex as derivate of lock"
Issue #3662
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
If the root child requests a LOG service with the label "unlabeled" then
return a LOG session that logs unprefixed messages. This allows a external
test controller to recognize log messages produced by a blessed component.
By writing out all dangling characters at destruction time, the
'Buffered_output' utility can be used as a local variable rather
than a long-living object.
The new utility can be used to revert quoted XML attribute values.
Such quoting is needed whenever an attribute value can contain '"'
characters. E.g., in the menu_view's <label text="..."> widget.
Issue #1757
If the ROM service returned in invalid dataspace, reflect this condition
via a size of zero instead of triggering an exception of type
'Reconstructible<Attached_dataspace>::Deref_unconstructed_object'.
Issue #3606
The XML parser used to rely in C++ exceptions while parsing, which is an
artifact from the initial implementation. This patch reworks the code such
that exceptions are avoided in the common cases.
Fixes#3605
This patch changes the code of '_alloc_two_blocks_metadata' to not
leak the result of a partial allocation in the out parameters of
the method. This eases the reasoning about the absence of a
use-atfer-free problem (there was none).
Even though the call of map.metadata is known to always return a valid
pointer (because the meta data is assigned in the code just above),
better add an explicit nullptr check.
This commit uses CUSTOM_HOST_CC/CUSTOM_HOST_CXX instead of hardcoded
commands and introduces HOST_DEV_PREFIX.
Original patch by Roman Iten and Pirmin Duss.
Issue #3466
This patch removes the global variable 'blocker', which was expected to
be constructed via the global ctors. This mechanism, however, is not
used for the base library, which resulted in the use of an unconstructed
object. Specifically, the spinlock of the 'Lock' of the 'Registry'
defaulted to the LOCKED state (value 0), which eventually would lead to
a deadlock in the contention case of the cxa guard.
I could observe this deadlock once on during the component startup on
base-linux during the construction of the 'startup_lock'.
This patch fixes the problem by explicitly initializing the registry
of blockers via an init function.
Issue #2299
Issue #3578
Make sure that at least entry is present in the .dynamic section, so the
PT_DYNAMIC segment points to something valid in case there are no
dynamic symbols.
issue #3537
This patch removes ldso's builtin policy of removing any path elements
prepending the ROM module name. Instead, the ROM name is used as is.
This clears the way to access different ROM modules that share the same
name but are stored at different directories behind an fs_rom (e.g.,
/bin/bash vs. /usr/local/bin/bash).
Issue #3500
The allocation of regions within the linker area is normally left to the
best-fit 'Allocator_avl', which happens to populate the linker area
starting with the binary followed by all loaded libraried with no gaps
in between.
When replacing the binary during execve, however, we need to ensure that
the new binary does not conflict with any library that stays resident
during execve. This patch tweaks the linker's region allocation scheme
such that these libraries are placed at the end of the linker area.
Issue #3481
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 is a follow-up commit for "ld: load dynamic linker at static
address on Linux". It suppresses the stderr output of 'dd' when marking
the ELF binary as executable.
Issue #3479
This patch enables the fork.run script to run on base-linux. It should
be regarded as an interim solution, however, because the randomization
performed by the Linux kernel may still - by chance - produce a
situation where one of the libc's malloc heap regions intersects with
another dataspace dynamically attached to the child.
The better solution would be to make the 'Region_map_mmap'
implementation not depend on the kernel's allocation policy by using a
locally implemented allocator.
Issue #3478
The new 'Heap::for_each_region' method provides information about the
heap's used virtual-memory regions. This method allows for the
mirroring of the heap state as needed by 'fork'.
Issue #3478
By specifying the config attribute 'check_ctors="no"', the dynamic
linker won't abort the program on a missing call of
'Env::exec_static_constructors'. This is the case for forked programs
where the ctors were already executed by the forking program prior the
fork operation.
Issue #3478
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 patch handles the case where a PD's cap quota becomes exhausted
on the attempt to transfer caps via 'Env::pd().transfer_quota'. The
solution mirrors the existing code for RAM quota.
Prior this patch, the 'transfer_quota' operation would trigger an
'Out_of_caps' exception.
The warning falsely detected cases where shared objects where loaded before
exec_static_constructors() was called as unneeded even in cases were the
binary itself contained static globals.
The commit also removes one redundant call to exec_static_constructors()
from the block tester.
The lazy-timer test depends on the faster-timer handler to be executed
before the fast timeout occurs, which was pretty hard to achieve on Qemu
and a busy host machine. Therefore, I increased the fast-to-faster
timeout ratio from 50/25 ms to 200/25 ms and set the test runtime to
4000 ms.
* added global offset table relative loading for global symbols
* removed 'initial_sp' and 'initial_x0' because they are currently not
used on this platform. If required they are easy to resurrect.
issue #3260
Components like kernel, core, and bootstrap that are built for a
specific board need to reside inside the same architectural dependent
build directory. For instance there are sel4, foc, and hw kernel builds
for imx6q_sabrelite and imx7d_sabre, which have to reside inside the same
arm_v7 build directory.
This commit names those components explicitely, and adapts the run-tool to it.
Fix#3316
Previously, only Invalid_dataspace, Region_conflict, and Out_of_ram were
handled for both allocate and attach with the same handlers. However,
both operations can also throw Out_of_caps and for all exceptions during
attach, the dataspace must be freed again whereas this is not the case
when the exception occured during allocate.
Issue #2953
Instead of retieving the information about the underlying platform from
the configuration, check the running kernel from the platform_info. This
commit removes the undocumented "acpi" config attribute.
* Make target binaries independent of board SPECS
* Name binaries of one architecture unambigously
* Extend include path to match board specifics
* Adapt run-scripts to use the right binary
Ref #2190
Ref #3180
With the new fact that plain time values are always 64 bit unsigned, the
timestamp type is never bigger than the plain time type. Therefore, a code path
in the curr_time interpolation that treated this condition is not neccessary
anymore.
Ref #3208
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
Issue #3111
remove_range may deny to the job on memory pressure or insane ranges,
which ends up in an endless loop when the Avl allocator is in destruction.
Since the Avl gets destructed, solely the memory free up is of importance,
not the correct range adjustments during remove_range.
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
Handles corner case when addr + size becomes exactly 0. Before the commit
the function returned that sum is not part of the range, which is wrong.
Issue #3111
The old inline assembly provided two output operands that were afterwards
combined for a return value. However, the second output operand isn't
necessary when using the "Acquiring a Lock" example-code of the ARM manual
"Barrier Litmus Tests and Cookbook". This saves two logical operations
per acquisition try. Additionally better documentation is now provided.
Fixes#1292
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
If a component is being destroyed just before it calls `exit()` at its
parent, the `exit()` call causes an `Ipc_error` exception, which leads to
an `abort()` loop with repeated error messages, because `abort()` calls
`exit()` too. Catching the exception in `Expanding_parent_client::exit()`
avoids this problem.
Fixes#3228
* Introduces pending_signal syscall to check for new signals for the
calling thread without blocking
* Implements pending_signal in the base-library specific for hw to use the
new syscall
Fix#3217
The "schedule_post_signal_hook" method of the Genode::Entrypoint class
is problematic because the signal hook can be scheduled and replaced
multiple times during the signal dispatch cycle. Add an alternative to
this method with "register_io_progress_handler" and the "Post_signal_
hook" class with "Io_progress_handler". The difference being an
"Io_progress_handler" may be registered once during the lifetime of an
entrypoint to prevent arbitrary libraries from replacing a pending hook.
The "register_io_progress_handler" remains as a deprecated API, and is
now invoked for every I/O signal received and only for I/O signals
rather than for any signal.
Ref #3132
The zynq nic_drv also depends on hw, we therefore adapted the folder
structure for clarity. Also renamed the binary to 'zynq_nic_drv' to
prevent conflicts and to allow removing the cadence_gem spec.
Issue #3179
This commit removes APIs that were previously marked as deprecated. This
change has the following implications:
- The use of the global 'env()' accessor is not possible anymore.
- Boolean accessor methods are no longer prefixed with 'is_'. E.g.,
instead of 'is_valid()', use 'valid()'.
- The last traces of 'Ram_session' are gone now. The 'Env::ram()'
accessor returns the 'Ram_allocator' interface, which is a subset of
the 'Pd_session' interface.
- All connection constructors need the 'Env' as argument.
- The 'Reporter' constructor needs an 'Env' argument now because the
reporter creates a report connection.
- The old overload 'Child_policy::resolve_session_request' that returned
a 'Service' does not exist anymore.
- The base/printf.h header has been removed, use base/log.h instead.
- The old notion of 'Signal_dispatcher' is gone. Use 'Signal_handler'.
- Transitional headers like os/server.h, cap_session/,
volatile_object.h, os/attached*_dataspace.h, signal_rpc_dispatcher.h
have been removed.
- The distinction between 'Thread_state' and 'Thread_state_base' does
not exist anymore.
- The header cpu_thread/capability.h along with the type definition of
'Cpu_thread_capability' has been removed. Use the type
'Thread_capability' define in cpu_session/cpu_session.h instead.
- Several XML utilities (i.e., at os/include/decorator) could be removed
because their functionality is nowadays covered by util/xml_node.h.
- The 'os/ram_session_guard.h' has been removed.
Use 'Constrained_ram_allocator' provided by base/ram_allocator.h instead.
Issue #1987
This is a follow-up commit of "base/core: use references instead of
pointers". Because the 'Rm_root::_upgrade_session' implementation
lacked the 'override' keyword, my overzealous change of the pointer
argument went unnoticed.
This commit fixes the depot_rom (cached_fs_rom) failure in Sculpt.
When cached_fs_rom attempted to create a new managed dataspace while the
RM session quota was depleted, it tried to upgrade the session (via
Rm_connection::create). However, the upgraded resources never reached
the actual session because the default 'Root_component::_upgrade_session'
was called instead of 'Rm_root::_upgrade_session'.
Issue #3135
This patch adjusts the implementation of the base library and core such
that the code no longer relies on deprecated APIs except for very few
cases, mainly to keep those deprecated APIs in tact for now.
The most prominent changes are:
- Removing the use of base/printf.h
- Removing of the log backend for printf. The 'Console' with the
format-string parser is still there along with 'snprintf.h' because
the latter is still used at a few places, most prominently the
'Connection' classes.
- Removing the notion of a RAM session, which does not exist in
Genode anymore. Still the types were preserved (by typedefs to
PD session) to keep up compatibility. But this transition should
come to an end now.
- Slight rennovation of core's tracing service, e.g., the use of an
Attached_dataspace as the Argument_buffer.
- Reducing the reliance on global accessors like deprecated_env() or
core_env(). Still there is a longish way to go to eliminate all such
calls. A useful pattern (or at least a stop-gap solution) is to
pass the 'Env' to the individual compilation units via init functions.
- Avoiding the use of the old 'Child_policy::resolve_session_request'
interface that returned a 'Service' instead of a 'Route'.
Issue #1987
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
The minimal-footprint Ada runtime for implementing library-like
functionality in SPARK is now called "spark" runtime.
The full Ada runtime for entire components written in Ada and using the
libc as glue to the underlying system will move to the world repository
as "ada" runtime.
Issue #3144
This patch replaces the former prominent use of pointers by references
wherever feasible. This has the following benefits:
* The contract between caller and callee becomes more obvious. When
passing a reference, the contract says that the argument cannot be
a null pointer. The caller is responsible to ensure that. Therefore,
the use of reference eliminates the need to add defensive null-pointer
checks at the callee site, which sometimes merely exist to be on the
safe side. The bottom line is that the code becomes easier to follow.
* Reference members must be initialized via an object initializer,
which promotes a programming style that avoids intermediate object-
construction states. Within core, there are still a few pointers
as member variables left though. E.g., caused by the late association
of 'Platform_thread' objects with their 'Platform_pd' objects.
* If no pointers are present as member variables, we don't need to
manually provide declarations of a private copy constructor and
an assignment operator to avoid -Weffc++ errors "class ... has
pointer data members [-Werror=effc++]".
This patch also changes a few system bindings on NOVA and Fiasco.OC,
e.g., the return value of the global 'cap_map' accessor has become a
reference. Hence, the patch touches a few places outside of core.
Fixes#3135
The new method allows for the construction of a meta-data object inside
the reserved space of the allocator's meta data. It thereby alleviates
the need to copy the meta data object (via the assignment operator) as
done by the traditional 'metadata' setter method. This, in turn, allows
one to use non-copyable objects (like objects with constant member
variables) as meta data.
This patch moves the removal of the signal context from the
'_platform_finish_dissolve' to the '_platform_begin_dissolve'
method. This is needed because the removal involves taking
the signal-registry lock. The latter must adhere the same
locking order as the code path used for signal delivery.
Fixes#3109
The former 'Genode::Timed_semaphore' mechanism is moved to the private
part of the two remaining users, namely dde_rump and the libc. Note
there are now two private copies of 'timed_semaphore.h'. This should be
regarded as an interim step until the use of this mechanism is removed
from both users.
This patch also cleans up the mechanism from legacy Genode API calls and
global side effects (alarm-thread singleton). The test/timed_semaphore
is now located at the libports repository as it now tests a mechanism of
the libc. The former timed_semaphore library is no more.
Fixes#3121
