This should actually never happen. However if it happens, be a bit robuster
and don't provide the memory for re-use (which causes tons of other trouble
afterwards).
Issue #2505
There are hardware timers whose frequency can't be expressed as
ticks-per-microsecond integer-value because only a ticks-per-millisecond
integer-value is precise enough. We don't want to use expensive
floating-point values here but nonetheless want to translate from ticks
to time with microseconds precision. Thus, we split the input in two and
translate both parts separately. This way, we can raise precision by
shifting the values to their optimal bit position. Afterwards, the results
are shifted back and merged together again.
As this algorithm is not so trivial anymore and used by at least three
timer drivers (base-hw/x86_64, base-hw/cortex_a9, timer/pit), move it to a
generic header to avoid redundancy.
Ref #2400
When building Genode on a Linux system running in a Xen Dom0, the 'xen'
run target can run a Genode scenario in a Xen DomU.
Usage: in build/x86_*/etc/build.conf, define:
RUN_OPT = --include boot_dir/$(KERNEL) --include image/iso --include power_on/xen --include log/xen --include power_off/xen
The Xen DomU runs in HVM mode and loads Genode from an ISO image. Serial
log output is printed to the console and graphical output is shown in an
SDL window.
The Xen DomU ist managed using the 'xl' command line tool and it is
possible to add configuration options in the 'xen_args' variable in a run
script. Common options are:
- disabling the graphical output:
append xen_args { sdl="0" }
- configuring a network device:
append xen_args { vif=\["model=e1000,mac=02:00:00:00:01:01,bridge=xenbr0"\] }
- configuring USB input devices:
append xen_args { usbdevice=\["mouse","keyboard"\] }
Note: the 'xl' tool requires super-user permissions and interactive
password input can be troublesome in combination with 'expect' and is not
practical for automatic tests. For this reason, the current implementation
assumes that no password input is needed when running 'sudo xl', which can
be achieved by creating a file '/etc/sudoers.d/xl' with the content
'user ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/xl'
(where 'user' is the Linux user name).
Fixes#2504
When running core as the kernel inside every component, a separate
stack area for core is needed that is different from the user-land
component's one.
Ref #2091
Acquire Signal_context objects locks via Object_pool::apply() in the
context of the entrpyoint thread, instead in the context of the calling
thread.
Fixes#2485
- Fix fatal exception handling so that stack traces are dumped
- Add 'include/nim' directories to Nim module search path
- Enable release optimizations for release builds
Fix#2493
This patch removes the assertion about the unexpected call of
'block_for_signal' within core. On Linux, this call is actually
expected because of the handling of SIGCHLD signals by core.
A boot module with size 0 previously made Core crash with a page fault in
Region_map_component::attach. This patch prevents the creation of ROM-FS
entries for such modules.
Ref #2490
For most base platforms (except linux and sel4), the initialization of
boot modules is the same. Thus, merge this default implementation in the
new unit base/src/core/platform_rom_modules.cc.
Ref #2490
In Region_map_component::attach, storing the metadata for a region may
throw an exception. Catch it and throw an Invalid_dataspace exception.
Ref #2490
This is helpful for disabling messages in etc/tools.conf by
setting it to e.g.
MSG_LINK = @true ""
This results in much shorter and less cluttered logs in automatic
builds.
- factor out Rm_client::pager lambda code into utility
Region_map_component::create_map_item
- use utility to find/lookup physical addresses to be mapped eagerly
Issue #2209
Platform_pd "_pd" uses a allocator for, which relies on the mapped RAM
dataspace within core. Unfortunately the RAM dataspaces are already freed up
during _ram_ds_factory destruction, which may lead to trouble if accessed
afterwards.
Issue #2451
This patch sets the -march complile flag in spec/arm_v7a.mk, which
enables us to build depot archives for the 'arm_v7a' architecture.
It also removes copy-pasted comments that offer no valuable insights but
contain grammar errors.
This patch decouples the error handling of the quota transfers
and the actual session creation. In the previous version, an error in
the 'initiate_request' phase would leave the local scope via an
exception without disarming the transfer guard objects. This way,
the guard destructors would attempt the returning of session quota in
addition to the explicit call of '_revert_quota_and_destroy' as done in
the error handling of the 'initiate_request' operation.
In the presence of a session-creation error in the 'initiate_request'
phase, session quota would eventually be returned twice. This patch
removes the intertwined error handling of both phases in a way that the
guards of the first phase (quota transfer) are no longer present in the
second phase (initiate_request).
This patch makes sure that the initial PD session limit (as defined by
the client-provided session quota) is preserved over the entire lifetime
of the PD session. That means, it cannot be transferred to other PD
sessions. Otherwise, it may be impossive to hand back all the static
session quota to the PD-session client at session-destruction time
because parts of the initial quota would no longer belong to the
session.
Note that the initial limit can still be used for allocations within the
PD session as those allocations are automatically reverted at
session-destruction time.
The implementations of the lock and C++ guards tests depend on
thread-execution priorities, which produces false negatives of the whole
thread test on platforms without priority support.
The recently implemented capability resource trading scheme unfortunately
broke the automated capability memory upgrade mechanism needed by base-hw
kernel/core. This commit splits the capability memory upgrade mechanism
from the PD session ram_quota upgrade, and moves that functionality
into a separate Pd_session::Native_pd interface.
Ref #2398
