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
Depending on the client and use-case the current minimal timeout
value of 5 ms could be too high, lowering it to 1 ms stays within
the limit imposed by most timer drivers.
Issue #4990.
The last character should only be skipped if a `\0` or `\n` is found. If
the string ends without such a character or the maximum line length is
hit, we do not skip the last character.
Fixesgenodelabs/genode#4985
Since component.cc is no longer linked to core, we can also remove
entrypoint.cc, which was merely a dependency of component.cc.
Related to issue #4784
* Replaces bool access types with uint8_t access types
* Ensures, that the framework always uses the smalles possible uint type
for the return value wherever a bitfield is read and returned to the user.
Ref #4924
This patch restricts 'Region_map::attach_executable' to create read-only
mappings, while offering the option to map the full rights using a new
'attach_rwx' method.
The 'attach_rwx' method is now used by the dynamic linker to explicitly
attach the linker area with full rwx rights. With the old page-fault
handling code, the execute flag was evaluated only for leaf dataspaces,
not for managed dataspaces while traversing region-map hierarchies.
With the new page-fault handling code, the execute bit is downgraded
to no-execute when passing a managed dataspace that is not attached
as executable.
Issue #4920
This patch replaces the former 'address_space' accessor by a new
'with_address_space' interface that grants access to the region map of
the child's address space, but limits the interface lifetime to the
scope of the caller.
Issue #4917
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
The new 'Connection' constructor accepts the session label, affinity,
and args as constructor arguments. The session arguments are passed as a
'Genode::String'. This allows for side-stepping the need for rendering a
format string passed to 'Env::session'.
Issue #2064
When creating an Irq connection to a component (not core), e.g. a pin
driver, we typically need a to provide a session label in order to apply
a session policy and to distinguish multiple sessions from the same
component.
genodelabs/genode#4606
The new 'Dictionary' provides an easy way to access objects using
strings as key. The 'String' received the 'operator >' to simplify the
organization of strings in an AVL tree.
The patch removes the former definition of the 'operator >' from the
platform driver because it would be ambigious now.
Fixes#4610
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
