This depot package is the runtime for rtc_drv and system_rtc server with
coordinated update of system and hardware RTC via reports. It replaces
drivers_rtc which was never freestanding drivers package and, therefore,
has to be accompanied with a running platform_drv etc.
Fixes#3680
- use two disks with two partitions each
- one disk uses MBR and one GPT
- connect one 'part_block' to each disk
- run 'block_tester' and 'test-block-client' connecting to one partiion
on each disk
- x86 uses 'ahci_drv' as disk back-end, Linux 'lx_block'
- on autopilot enable for Qemu only
issue #3671
net:
* increase queue size to 1024 (more stable on Linux)
* use mac address from Nic session instead of random one
* handle data that is larger than rx descriptor correctly (copy less)
* clear descriptor header (12 bytes) on rx
generic:
* always use 'avail_idx' (tx and rx)
* added barriers when reading/writing queues (TMP)
Ref #3620
We do not use the VMM with several CPUs until now.
On the other hand there is a dead-lock due to the
generic timer calling the cpu handler function explicitly,
which already holds the lock. For the time-being remove the lock.
Ref #3620
- use Job API as block connection back end
- use Request_stream API as front end
- use Mmio framework for gpt and mbr parsing
- implement sync correctly
fixes#3652
When specifying "/" or "" as rel_path to the 'Directory' constructor,
the constructed directory should refer to the same directory. The
implementation of the join utility did not consider this corner case. It
occurred during the attempt to use fs_query with "/" given as path.
This patch also adds a Directory::Entry::dir accessor that returns true
if the entry is a directory.
Fixes#3630
- Remove dated 'Block::Driver' front end and implement
'Block::Request_stream' front end
- Remove all dynamic memory allocations but DMA memory allocations
- Remove 'Platform_hba' and implement platform specific functions in
'spec/<platform>/*'
- Ata and Atapi don't inherit from 'Port' any more, but are a member of
'Port' as a protocol implementation
- Use platform driver for MMIO mappings (x86)
- Exchange stateful initialization of Ata/Atapi with a sequential
initialization using 'wait_for_any' and 'retry' patterns
- Fix Atapi initialization by setting the byte count limit
- Set FIS receive base only when Cmd::FRE is disabled and Cmd::FR is 0
- Put everything in namespaces ('Ahci', 'Ata', or 'Atapi')
- Ata decides during read/write operations to use native-command queuing
or normal DMA requests
- Remove port claiming logic (is now done via 'Constructibles')
fixes#3636
The ARP destination MAC was set to the Ethernet source MAC which is not
necessarily the MAC of the other ARP peer. Instead use the ARP source MAC of
the ARP request.
Especially the initial reset ended up with an unusable keyboard in rare
cases before. This commit disables keyboard and mouse handling of i8042
during command sequences according to a note from
https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-12.html
An invalid ROM dataspace can occur, for example, when requesting a ROM
from the report_rom service before the first report was posted. Such a
<rom> node can still be useful if it's dynamic. E.g., it can be watched.
Hence, the corner case of an invalid ROM dataspace should be gracefully
handled instead of causing an abort.
Issue #3606
This patch adds a special variant of a 'Content_producer' called
'Xml_producer', which allows the direct use of an 'Xml_generator'
for generating the ROM-module content.
This patch extracts the child-management functionality from the init
component into a new library called "sandbox". The library API is
located at 'os/include/os/sandbox.h'.
The sandbox API allows for the interaction of the component with the
sandboxed children by providing locally implemented services. This
mechanism is illustrated by the new test at os/src/test/sandbox.
Issue #3601
This patch extends the 'Buffered_xml' utility with a new constructor
that fills the buffer with the output of an 'Xml_generator'. It thereby
presents an easy way to generate XML to be consumed locally.
The patch also add a deprecation mark to the original 'xml' accessor
because copying 'Xml_node' objects (here as return value) is dangerous.
The new 'with_xml_node' method should instead be used to access the XML
content stored in the buffer.
Fixes#3602
`volatile` effectively prevents instruction reordering by the compiler
and fixes an issue with -O3 compiled components.
Note, this commit does not address further arguments regarding memory
barriers and volatile voiced in issue #693.
Issue #693
This patch addresses a corner case where the nitpicker focus is not
solely defined by mouse clicks or (exclusively) by a window manager, but
by a policy component that takes mouse clicks and other policy (e.g.,
a lock screen) into account. It ensures that each click that follows a
focus change (however initiated) results in a new "clicked" report even
when the report looks the same. To allow the policy component to
uniquely distiguish subsequent reports, the report features a new
'version' attribute.
Fixes#3493
This is a follow-up patch for issue #1784 that solves two
inconsistencies.
- The Vfs::Timestamp::INVALID matches File_system::Timestamp::INVALID
- The Noux libc plugin tests for Timestamp::INVALID instead of a
positive value.
The patch fixes the mtime info as shown in directory listings in
Sculpt's inspect window.
This patch let the VFS server reflect the session policy via the
writeable bit in directory entries instead of merely forwarding the bit
from the respective VFS plugin. This way, all files originating from a
read-only file-system session automatically appear in directory listings
as read-only files.
Related to issue #3507
This patch prevents the driver from translating Insufficient_ram_quota
and Insufficient_cap_quota exceptions to Service_denied exceptions at
session-creation time. This enables the client to respond to such a
condition by retrying the session creation with increased session quota.
Add a new plugin for creating pipes between pairs of VFS handles. It is
intended to replace the libc_pipe plugin, one of the last remaining libc
plugins.
In contrast to the libc_pipe plugin, this plugin defers cross-handle
notification until I/O signal handling rather than block and unblock
readers using a semaphore. This is a performance regression in the case
of multiple threads blocking on a pipe, but shall be an intermediate
mechanism pending renovations within the libc VFS and threading layers.
As a side effect, threads blocked on a pipe might not be resumed until
the main thread suspends and dispatches I/O signals.
The "test-libc_pipe" test has been adjusted to use the VFS pipe plugin
and tests both local pipes and pipes hosted remotely in the VFS server.
Merge adaptations (such as EOF handling, adjustment to VFS/libc
interface changes) by Norman Feske.
Fix#2303
This patch reworks the VFS server to become easier to understand.
- The packet-stream handling is hidden from the node types.
- Introduced the notion of a "job" as an abstraction from the raw packet
stream.
- The processing of requests is split into three phases:
(1) accepting new jobs,
(2) the execution of jobs, and
(3) the delivery of acknowledgements.
- There is no longer a global fifo of pending nodes. Instead, each
session has a fifo of "active" nodes, which are nodes that wait
for the completion of jobs.
- The Io_node type no longer uses virtual functions as hooks for
the derrived classes. Instead, it provides a number of utility
functions.
- The control flow of the 'Io_progress_handler' is now the same as
for the session-local packet-stream handler.
- Removed dependency from 'file_system/node.h', which is a relic
from the ram_fs.
While reworking the code, the following semantic changes were made
additionally.
- The handling of SEEK_TAIL no longer overwrites the file content at the
end of the file.
- Removed diagnostic message at session-creation time.
- Write loop for continuous files
Issue #3547
Issue #2303
This change allows for the conversion of directory entries in place
(i.e., in the VFS server) and anticipates the potential future merge of
both types into one.
Issue #3547
This patch equips the VFS terminal file system with the ability to
detect user interrupts in the incoming data stream, and propagate this
information via the new pseudo file '.terminal/interrupts'. Each time,
the user presses control-c in the terminal, the value stored in this
pseudo file is increased. Thereby, a VFS client can watch this file to
get notified about the occurrences of user interrupts.
Fixes#3546
The scratch buffer is now allocated from the heap and is shared
between the test as they are executed in a serial fashion. This
change saves memory as the test are constructed at start-up.
Fixes#3539.
This patch adds support for watch notifications for the
'Readonly_value_file_system', which is often used by VFS plugins to
implement pseudo files. It thereby enables VFS clients to respond to
VFS-plugin events (think of terminal resize) dynamically.
Fixes#3523
Uplink labels were stored in the uplink objects as reference. As uplink objects
may be re-used on re-configuration to avoid unnecessary closing and re-opening
of NIC sessions, the label reference could get invalid as the object that
stored the label content didn't get re-used. Thus, the label is now copied to
the uplink object.
Fixes#3529
This adds two new boolean attributes to the <report> tag of the NIC router
configuration 'link_state' and 'link_state_triggers'. The former decides
whether to report the link state of each NIC interface (downlink, uplinks) at
the NIC router. The other decides whether to trigger reporting each time the
link state of an interface changes.
Fixes#3527
If a MAC address was once allocated for a downlink and during the further
creation of the downlink an exception caused the creation to be aborted, the
NIC router didn't free the MAC address again.
Ref #3525
The handling of exceptions during session creation implies freeing and
detaching the RAM DS behind the session env and session component. But this
was done using the session env located in the same RAM DS, which must
lead to problems. Now, the session env from the RAM DS is copied to the stack
and the operations are done on this temporary instance instead.
Ref #3525
When the construction of a member of Packet_stream_*::Rpc_object after
the _cap member threw an exception, the object was not dissolved from
the entrypoint although the Rpc_object vanished at this point. This was
because the call to 'manage()' happened in the initializer list (for the
_cap member instantiation). The destruction of the _cap member then did
not dissolve the object.
This first fix moves the call to 'manage()' into the constructor body
after the instantiation of all other members. A more sophisticated fix
would use some kind of 'Managed_object' life-time guard that manages an
object on construction and dissolves on destruction.
Ref #3525
When re-configuring a domain from using a static IP config to using a dynamic
IP config, attached interfaces didn't react with doing DHCP discover. This bug
is fixed now and the nic_router_flood test was adapted in a way that it tests
the described behavior.
Fix#3518
Nowadays, we use standard command-line tools like vim to edit init
configurations dynamically, which alleviates the need for a custom CLI.
The CLI-monitor component was too limited for use cases like Sculpt
anyway.
The patch also removes the ancient (and untested for long time)
terminal_mux.run script, which used to be the only remaining user of the
CLI monitor.
Issue #3512
This driver manually checks if the RAM quota is big enough for the
Lan9118 nic session component. The problem is Root_component::_create
from which Root_component::_create_session gets called does already
check this. No need to account for it twice.
Fixes#3514
This patch extends the 'File_system::Status',
'File_system::Directory_entry', and the related 'Vfs' types with
the following additional information:
- Distinction between continuous and transactional files (Node_type)
(issue #3507)
- Readable, writeable, and executable attributes (Node_rwx),
replacing the former 'mode' bits
(issue #3030)
The types 'Node_rwx', 'Node_type' are defined twice,
once for the VFS (vfs/types.h) and once for the 'File_system'
session (file_system_session/file_system_session.h).
Similarly, there is a direct correspondance between
'Vfs::Directory_service::Dirent' and 'File_system::Directory_entry'.
This duplication of types follows the existing pattern of keeping the
VFS and file-system session independent from each other.
Moving the handling into the input-session clients enables more
sophisticated implementations (like Qt5) to apply key-symbol based
handling of those modifiers like correct CTRL-A with QWERTY and AZERTY
layouts and distinction of CTRL-J and Return.
Issue #3483
The API still exports 32-bit address and size values only, which works
as the actual MMIO resources are allocated in platform_drv internally.
Fixes#3494
Map ACPI tables entirely as one dataspaces (not page-by-page). Note, the
current approach does only merge overlapping but not consecutive I/O
memory regions, which would reduce the amount of capabilities required
even further.
Fixes#3495
This adds complete character-generator configurations for English (US),
German (Germany and Switzerland), and French (France and Switzerland).
The configs are manually amended and stripped-down versions of
xkb2ifcfg generated configs.
Issue #3483
The Press event is actually a Press_char event with a default codepoint.
The default codepoint is now
Codepoint { Codepoint::INVALID } /* value 0xfffe */
in contrast to
Codepoint { Input::Event::INVALID } /* value 0 */
Issue #3483
A client may register a signal handler to be notified whenever the
RTC value was changed, i.e., a mis-configured clock was synchronized,
by calling 'set_sigh()'.
Issue #3450
This patch enhances part_block with support for parsing the AHDI
partition scheme, and the detection of the GEMDOS variant of FAT as used
by Atari TOS. As a side effect of the implementation, the patch improves
the MBR parsing code by avoiding pointers and using const qualifiers.
Fixes#3470
The rtc_drv on x86 can now by used to also set the RTC. If the config
attribute 'allow_setting_rtc' is set to 'yes' the driver will update
the RTC from the content of the 'set-rtc' ROM module. A valid ROM must
contain a top node with the following attributes: 'year', 'month',
'day', 'hour', 'minute' and 'second'.
* Only rudimentary checking of the provided values is done.
* '12H' mode is not supported.
Fixes#3438.
When setting the config attribute 'match_labels="yes"', the clipboard
performs plausibility checks for copy and paste operations against the
nitpicker focus.
Issue #3437
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.
If a path element cannot be watched because it does not exist yet, the next
available parent directory is watched to detect the creation of the missing
path element. If a missing path element got created just between the failed
watch request for the element and the successful watch request for its parent
directory, the creation of the path element could remain unnoticed.
With this commit, 'fs_rom' tries to watch a path element again if the watch
request for its parent directory was successful.
Fixes#3398
On some platforms (foc+pbxa9, hw+imx53_qsb_tz, hw+rpi) the default buffer size
is to much for the RAM available on the board. Thus, decrease the buffer size
and therefore the number of polls for these platforms only.
Fixes#3354
Moreover, express current requirement to hw API, which was missing until now.
Originally, in the board-specific build directory of imx53_qsb the
"KERNEL" variable was preset with "hw". Therefore, it was not perceived
that this dependency is required.
Ref #3316
When enabling the 'keep_going' config attribute, the component will
carry on in case a child exited with an error. In addition, if the
'restart' attribute is set it will start executing the children from
the beginning.
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 package buildable for ARM too
* Move usb library to src targets for explicitly named targets
* adapt remaining run-scripts to use the correctly named usb drivers
Ref #2190
* 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
When there are too many PCI devices, the Expanding_reporter regenerates
the report. However, this doesn't reset the BDF counter used to iterate
over the devices. This results in starting the new report after the PCI
device that triggered the report buffer overflow. This commit fixes the
issue by putting the BDF counter initialization inside the lambda
function used to generate the report.
Fixes#3317
To enable the use of uncached DMA buffers as RX and TX communication
buffers in between driver (service) and client, introduce a cache
attribute in the constructor of Nic::Session_component
Ref #3291
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
- Added 'io_buffer' attribute, default is 4M
- Added 'batch' attribute, specifying the number of jobs used
in parallel, default is 1 (sequential)
- Removed 'synchronous' attribute (use batch of 1 instead)
- Added 'copy' attribute (default "yes")
- Print number of signals ("triggered")
Issue #3283
This patch equips the 'Block::Connection' with a framework API for the
implementation of robust block-session clients that perform block I/O in
an asynchronous fashion.
An application-defined 'JOB' type, inherited from 'Connection::Job',
encapsulates the application's context information associated with a
block operation.
The lifecycle of the jobs is implemented by the 'Connection' and driven
by the application's invokation of 'Connection::update_jobs'. The
'update_jobs' mechanism takes three hook functions as arguments, which
implement the applications-defined policy for producing and consuming
data, and for the completion of jobs.
Issue #3283
As a preparatory step for introducing the new block-client API, we have
to turn the 'Block::Connection' into a class template. The template
argument will be used to tie an application-defined job type to the
block connection.
Issue #3283
This patch adds support for manually triggering the wakeup of the packet
sink by the source. This way, a packet source becomes able to marshal
batches of submissions or unmarshal batches of acknowledgements before
yielding the control over to the sink.
Issue #3283
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
This patch removes the blocking Block::Session::sync RPC function and
adds the asynchronous operations SYNC and TRIM to the block session's
packet-stream interface.
Even though the patch adjusts all block components to the interface
change, the components keep the former blocking handling of sync
internally for now because of the design of the 'Block::Driver'
interface. This old interface is not worth changing. We should instead
migrate the block servers step by step to the new
'Block::Request_stream' API.
Fixes#3274
The new request tag allows a block-session client to uniquely correlate
acknowledgements with outstanding requests. Until now, this was possible
for read and write operations by taking the value of the request's
packet-stream offset. However, SYNC and TRIM requests do not carry any
packet-stream payload and thereby lack meaningful offset values. By
introducing the notion of a 'tag', we can support multiple outstanding
requests of any type and don't need to overload the meaning of the
'offset' value.
Issue #3274
This patch splits the 'Request' definition into smaller types that are
suitable for the client-side API too.
The new 'Operation' type comprises the block operation's type (opcode)
and the operation's arguments (block number, block count).
The former 'Request::operation_defined' is now 'Operation::valid'.
The 'Request' aggregates an 'Operation', which changes its object
layout.
Note that this commit relaxes the bit-precise definition of 'Request' to
facilitate the use of 'unsigned long' where appropriate, in particular
for the request tag (which should correspond to an 'Id_space::Id'). The
originally bit-precise definition was pursued to allow the sharing of
the 'Request' type between SPARK and C++ code. However, it turns out
that defining a native type in each language and a (set of) converting
constructors is a more natural approach.
Issue #3283
When receiving a terminal signal, the uart device model has to
take all characters out of the stream. Otherwise, characters
might never arrive at the VM. This was not recognized before,
because it was used with a quite slow UART only, which obviously
never achieved to send more characters at once.
Ref #3278
A small terminal-client tool, which expects a specific line(-start),
and then sends a specified line to the other side. Optionally,
it prints all received lines to its LOG service.
Ref #3278
This patch renames 'wakeup_client' to 'wakeup_client_if_needed' to
clarify that the method triggers signals only when needed, not on every
call.
The name 'wakeup_client' is prone to misguide users to call the function
conditionally as an optimization, thereby complicating the code, but to
no effect.
Fixes#3279
This patch replaces the formerly fixed 2 KiB data alignment within the
packet-stream buffer by a server-defined alignment. This has two
benefits.
First, when using block servers that provide small block sizes like 512
bytes, we avoid fragmenting the packet-stream buffer, which occurs when
aligning 512-byte requests at 2 KiB boundaries. This reduces meta data
costs for the packet-stream allocator and also allows fitting more
requests into the buffer.
Second, block drivers with alignment constraints dictated by the
hardware can now pass those constraints to the client, thereby easing
the use of zero-copy DMA directly into the packet stream.
The alignment is determined by the Block::Session_client at construction
time and applied by the Block::Session_client::alloc_packet method.
Block-session clients should always use this method, not the 'alloc_packet'
method of the packet stream (tx source) directly. The latter merely
applies a default alignment of 2 KiB.
At the server side, the alignment is automatically checked by
block/component.h (old API) and block/request_stream.h (new API).
Issue #3274
This patch modernizes the 'Block::Session::info' interface. Instead of
using out parameters, the 'init' RPC function returns a compound 'Info'
object now. The rather complicated 'Operations' struct is replaced by
a 'writeable' attribute in the 'Info' object.
Fixes#3275
Disconnecting a client and connecting an other to the sd_card_drv
on imx6 results in a "Completion host signal timed out" error in
the newly connected client.
Fixes#3272
Replace the I/O response handler that is passed to the VFS at
construction with an object that is dynamically attached to handles.
This object shall also accept read-ready notifications, and plugins are
encouraged to keep handles awaiting ready-ready notifications separate
from handles that await I/O progress.
Replace the use of handle lists in plugins with handle queues, this
makes the code easier to understand and the ordering of notifications to
the application more explicit.
These changes replace the use of the Post_signal_hook from all VFS
plugins, applications must assume that read-ready and I/O notifications
occur during I/O signal dispatch and use an Io_progress_handler at its
entrypoints to defer response until after signal dispatching.
Fix#3257
Issue #3111
- enable vt-x in kernel configuration
Kernel patches:
- add unrestricted guest support
- avoid kernel boot failure when vt-x is not available
- avoid nullpointer in kernel when vcpu is not fully setup
- avoid vcpu scheduling bug which causes starvation on same/below prio level
- save efer register correctly from guest
The new configuration attributes <tcp-forward to_port="123" /> and
<udp-forward to_port="123" /> enable manipulating the destination port of
port-forwarded packets.
Fixes#3237
The "Vfs::Vfs_handle" type should not contain any public members that
can be initialized by the VFS internally and by the application, so
remove inheritance from the "Genode::list::Element" class. The VFS
plugins must instead use lists of "Vfs::Vfs_handle" sub-classes, the
lifetime of which are always managed by the plugin.
Ref #3036
This is a safeguard against accidentally taking the 'Ack' interface as a
value instead of a reference.
The 'Payload' interface should also not be copied (and potentially
stored) because it contains a pointer.
This patch reworks the 'Session_component::destroy' to cope become
robust against a client-provided invalid view handle. The code did not
consider that 'Handle_registry::has_handle' may throw.
Thanks to Alexander Boettcher for reporting and the initial fix.
Fixes#3232
Without this patch, a version change of an already exited child would not
trigger the restart of the child because the version is evaluated as
late as the child configuration, but only if the child has not exited
yet.
This patch evaluates the version at the earlier stage where the identity
of the child (its name) is checked against the new configuration.
Fixes#3226
The disk image contains an extended partition table now that would
have been parsed incorrectly in the past. While there remove the unused
gpt BLOB (test-part_block_gpt has its own raw archive).
Issue #3223.
The new 'transfer' function interface defines how pixel/alpha values
sampled from texture are applied to a destination pixel, similar to the
role of a fragment shader in GPU-based rendering. The transfer function
can be customized by defining custom pixel types, which may be (but
don't need to be) derived from 'Pixel_rgba'.
Issue #3221
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
Make the size of the packet buffer at the VFS File_system client
configurable. This allows larger reads to be completed in a single
packet cycle.
Example: <vfs> <fs buffer_size="512K"/> </vfs>
Fix#3167
1) A session request gets denied if there is no matching session policy.
(The <defaul-policy/> tag can be used for the former default behavior)
2) A session request gets denied if the MAC address is given through the
matching policy but this address cannot be allocated.
3) A session request gets denied if the MAC address is not given through the
matching policy and it is also not possible to allocate one.
Issue #3040
