This patch simplifies the way of how Genode's base libraries are
organized. Originally, the base API was implemented in the form of many
small libraries such as 'thread', 'env', 'server', etc. Most of them
used to consist of only a small number of files. Because those libraries
are incorporated in any build, the checking of their inter-dependencies
made the build process more verbose than desired. Also, the number of
libraries and their roles (core only, non-core only, shared by both core
and non-core) were not easy to capture.
Hereby, the base libraries have been reduced to the following few
libraries:
- startup.mk contains the startup code for normal Genode processes.
On some platform, core is able to use the library as well.
- base-common.mk contains the parts of the base library that are
identical by core and non-core processes.
- base.mk contains the complete base API implementation for non-core
processes
Consequently, the 'LIBS' declaration in 'target.mk' files becomes
simpler as well. In the most simple case, only the 'base' library must
be mentioned.
Fixes#18
Some shared libraries of the host system contain search paths for finding
other needed shared libraries. These paths get evaluated only by a native
linker. To find all needed shared libraries, with this patch, the host
linker is used to link hybrid applications.
Fixes#645.
With this patch hybrid applications get linked with the Genode GCC's
'crtbegin.o' and 'crtend.o' files instead of the host GCC's versions
to avoid compatibility problems. This only affects the 'linux_x86'
platform, since on the 'lx_hybrid_x86' platform the Genode GCC is the
host GCC.
Fixes#550.
Using the host compiler in this case seems to be an artifact from an
older change. On x86_64, this approach ended in unsable hybrid binaries
due to incompatible handling of non-trivial return values, i.e.
structures. See '-freg-struct-return' in GCC manual page:
"[...] If there is no standard convention, GCC defaults to
-fpcc-struct-return, except on targets where GCC is the principal
compiler. In those cases, we can choose the standard, and we chose
the more efficient register return alternative."
In other words: All x86_64 Linux systems break the ABI standard :-(
This patch simplifies the system call bindings. The common syscall
bindings in 'src/platform/' have been reduced to the syscalls needed by
non-core programs. The additional syscalls that are needed solely by
core have been moved to 'src/core/include/core_linux_syscalls.h'.
Furthermore, the resource path is not used outside of core anymore.
Hence, we could get rid of the rpath library. The resource-path code has
been moved to 'src/core/include/resource_path.h'. The IPC-related parts
of 'src/platform' have been moved to the IPC library. So there is now a
clean separation between low-level syscall bindings (in 'src/platform')
and higher-level code.
The code for the socket-descriptor registry is now located in the
'src/base/ipc/socket_descriptor_registry.h' header. The interface is
separated from 'ipc.cc' because core needs to access the registry from
outside the ipc library.
Without this patch the compilation failed with:
/usr/bin/ld: main.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against
`vtable for Genode::Dataspace' can not be used when making a shared object;
recompile with -fPIC
main.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[6]: *** [init] Error 1
For this patch the use of the hardening tool chain must be indicated
using the "hardening_tool_chain" SPECS entry within the file
<build>/etc/specs.conf
Fixes#79
This commit unifies the policy name for the template argument for
Native_capability_tpl to Cap_dst_policy, like suggested by Norman in the
discussion resulting from issue #145. Moreover, it takes the memcpy
operation for copying a Native_capability out of the template, which is
included by a significant bunch of files, and separates it in a library,
analog to the suggestion in issue #145.
Move the definition of '_GNU_SOURCE' from 'import-lx_hybrid.mk' to
'import-syscall.mk' because this definition may (potentially) affect all
programs that include Linux headers installed on the host - not only
hybrid Linux/Genode programs. Fixes#52
- Let hybrid Linux/Genode programs use POSIX threads for the
implementation of the Thread API.
- Prevent linkage of cxx library to hybrid Linux/Genode programs because
the cxx functionality is covered by glibc.
