If the DMA memory allocation alignment is unfortunate (not natural size
aligned), the IOMMU (AMD/INTEL) may not use larger(super) pages with effects
on the page table walk frequency and TLB caching.
Issue #4820
We repeatedly experience issues with XHCI handoff in the USB host driver
at runtime on modern systems. Mostly, these issues manifest as
initialization delays with very high CPU load. Investigations show that
during this time the handoff MMIO write does not return, which hints the
firmware driver enters some spinning loop. I suspect the enabled IOMMU
does not play well with the firmware due to insufficient RMRR
information.
Therefore, we disable USB handoff in Sculpt via the driver manager (as
we do for dedicated devices already in other contexts). Note, UHCI and
EHCI handoff is still done in the platform driver and succeeds on all
our test hardware.
Issue #4820
This split allows us to cross-compile all arm_v8a packages needed for
'goa build' by creating pkg/arm_v8a/goa.
The components featured on pkg/goa-linux are solely needed for 'goa
run'. As they contain a number of lx/hybrid components, pkg/goa-linux
must be complied on Linux running on the target architecture.
Fixes a regression with the cbe_init_trust_anchor component that prevented
reacting to a failed unlock attempt in the File Vault. The regression was
caused by new semantics in the vfs that did not allow for using the file
operation result as indicator for whether the unlock attempt failed or
succeeded. The correct and hereby applied approach is to check for the data
read from the file after having written the unlock command. The data reads
either "ok" or "failed".
Before scheduling we check if the execlist is empty. When many clients
are present, the bits might not be cleared by hardware yet. Before the
watchdog timer would trigger, because we scheduled nothing. Now we try
serval times, even if this fails, we still schedule because in the worst
case only a preemption would happen.
issue #4820
Commit "vbox: avoid uncaught nic Empty_ack_queue exception" introduced a
performance regression due to packet retransmission because of faulty
GSO segment handling. As fixing the GSO handling is fairly complex, we
disable GSO until a fix was developed.
Issue #4820
Issue #4821
This patch mitigates potential busy feedback effects when evaluating the
reports produced by 'depot_deploy' in a closed control loop. Reports
are now generated only if the deployment state has changed.
Issue #4818
This patch marks a child as incomplete if one of the ROM modules listed
in its blueprint is missing. This, in turn, triggers the update system
in Sculpt, which then tries to download the missing pieces.
Issue #4818
By managing downloads issued by the deploy subsystem via the
'Download_queue', failed downloads (e.g., due to HTTP error 404) are
properly tracked and don't cause infinite re-attempts.
Issue #4818
This patch promotes the event of an exiting child to become immediately
reported, reducing delays for management components that watch the exit
status of children.
Fixes#4814
This patch replaces the former 'nic_drv' and 'nic_drv_dtb' functions
by a more general 'nic_driver_routes' function that can return one or
multiple platform-specific ROM routes for NIC-driver binaries and dtb
files. This allows for supplying customizations for the wifi driver
as well. E.g., on the PinePhone, this hook can be used to handle the
renaming of the 'wifi_drv' to 'a64_wifi_drv'.
Related to issue #4813 and issue genodelabs/genode-allwinner#17.
The wifi VFS plugin is solely there to provide a hook for calling
'Lx_kit::initialize()' prior to the static ctors. As the corresponding
symbol can be resolved at run-time there is no need to add the
library as a build-time dependency.
Issue #4813
The device-tree binary is normally required on ARM-based platforms
where as on x86 it is omitted. The platform-specific DTB helper
provides a generic interface for accssing the DTB and needs to be
implemented on each platform.
Issue #4813
The SDIO connected wireless device on the PinePhone is not available
on start-up, which leads to the supplicant failing to initalize
'wlan0'. Normally the supplicant would be used in a way that handling
devices that appear at run-time happens gracefully.
Rather than supporting this behavior we defer the start-up of the
supplicant until the device could be openend successfully for now.
Issue #4813
The MAC address device report should be published once the device is
available. Since this may happen at a later time we have to check the
call.
Issue #4813
This commit introduces support for building the WLAN driver for ARM
platforms. It makes the WPA supplicant and its support libraries
available for all platforms. It also seperates the PCI parts to
accommodate platforms where other bus protocols are used.
Issue #4813
The driver was only tested with an "Atheros AR9462 Rev:2" [168c:0034]
device using the 'wifi.run' run script.
Note: for it to work MSI may not be used as otherwise interrupts do not
work. Using an IOMMU leads to the following fault:
[ 0] IOMMU:0xffffffff817eb0b0 FRR:0 FR:0x22 BDF:4:0:0 FI:0xb0000000000000 (0)
Issue #4813
The way the 'struct page' management is currently implemented it is
not safe to rely on it in case allocations share the same page. This
is in particular true where the virtual address is obtained by
querying the page object for maintaining the CPU caches.
Issue #4813
Optionally log scheduling-context execution time in addition to the
thread-context. This may be relevant on kernel platforms that do not
schedule threads on their own CPU share only but implement some kind of
donation scheme, for example, NOVA.
Usage
<config sc_time="yes" ...> ... </config>
Fixes#4805
This commit updates the used firmware images for the iwlwifi device
to latest available ones (supported by the current 6.1.x driver).
It also removes old firmware images that by now are not used anymore.
Fixes#4807.
Unfortunately, the change of "depot: remove empty config from
pkg/nano3d" broke the manual deployment of the nano3d demo because no
<config> is provided in this case.
This patch splits pkg/nano3d into two variants. The regular nano3d pkg
comes with an empty <config/> node as before. The unconfigured_nano3d
pkg does not feature any <config/> node and can thereby be configured
via a ROM route to a dynamic-rom service.
This patch equips the depot_download subsystem with the option to
explicitly skip the signature verification for downloads by specifying
the attribute 'verify="no"' for an <installation> item. This is useful
in scenarios where the lack of integrity of downloaded content does not
pose a risk, e.g., for untrusted applications that are rigidly
sandboxed, or during development.
Note that this option does not entirely discarge the signature checking.
Whenever an download has dependencies that are verifyable - for
which the public key exists in the depot - the dependencies are still
verified. This allows untrusted content to depend of verifyable content
while protecting the integrity the verifyable content.
Issue #4804
This patch adds the 'Verify' argument to all download-related interfaces
in order to control the checking of signatures for downloads. Note that
it does not change the sculpt_manager's existing built-in policy of
always checking signatures.
Issue #4804
This patch moves the interfaces needed for the interactive addition of runtime
components from the 'Popup_dialog' to the 'model/component.h'. So those
interfaces are no longer tied to one specific view implementation.
This free-standing function is meant to gradually replace
'Dialog::match_sub_dialog' interface, which relies on the caching of
the hover state. The new function is more flexible because dialogs do no
longer need to inherit 'Dialog'.
The missing else statements resulted in the addition of a
superfluous <archive> node when installing an <index>, causing
warning messages by the depot-download subsytem.
This patch adds the ability to specify an optional 'as' attribute in a
<rom> module declarion of a runtime file.
<runtime ...>
...
<content>
<rom label="camera-pinephone.dtb" as="dtb"/>
...
</content>
</runtime>
If specified, The depot-deploy tool uses the provided attribute value to
hand out the ROM 'camera-pinephone.dtb' under the label 'dtb' to the
subsystem.
Recent devices are configured with 4096 RX pages that lead to an
increased memory usage. For the moment lower the amount to 2048
and treat in potientially lower throughput for more conservative
memory consumption.
Fixes#4801.
For Windows guests, it's crucial to configure the paravirtualization
provider in .vbox6 like follows. Otherwise, the TSC calibration fails
(issue #4726) and the CPU frequency (in task manager) is bogus.
<Paravirt provider="HyperV"/>
Fixes#4726
The get_cycles() call within the test doesn't apply to RDTSC
access when running on ARM but to arch_timer_read_counter, which
is an empty function pointer. By setting it to a function that
returns Genode::Trace::timestamp() we can enable the test for ARM.
Issue #4775
- move metadata specific to isochronous transfers from the descriptor
into the content of USB-session packets
- restore support for 32 in-flight packets in the USB C API
Fixes#4749
Now, block_devices are reported earliest right after the devices ROM was
parsed and neither AHCI nor NVMe were found. If one or both devices were
found, the report is deferred after all expected reports arrived.
Issue #4791
Previously the 'partitions' report was implicitly generated after
parsing the partition-table by accessing the referenced reporter
object.
Now the report is explicitly created by calling the 'generate_report'
member function. At this point we no longer have access to all
required information so the 'Partition' class was extended to
accommodate for the data needed by MBR as well as GPT reports.
Fixes#4786.
