Internally libyuv uses malloc & free for short time dynamic memory
allocation during image transformation. The converted images are
such large, that the Libc allocator will create and destroy new Genode
dataspace per image. In time sensitive code paths, the overhead can be
noticeable by the caller of the image transformation.
The patch adds the option to register callbacks in the libyuv library to
implement the image allocation by users of the library. They may implement
caching strategies to avoid the overhead, e.g. as seen with qemu-usb and
the webcam model.
This little library implements rudimentary format-string support. It is
useful for porting 3rd-party code that ought not depend on a full libc.
Issue #2064
This patch fosters the batching of network packets transferred by the
lwIP stack over the NIC connection. It replaces the eager submission of
the packet-stream's data-flow signals by explicit wakeup notifications.
The commit also increases the NIC session's buffer size from 128 to 1024
packets.
Issue #4697
Since the lwip library is used only by the vfs_lwip plugin, this patch
moves the Genode-specific support code local to the VFS plugin, easing
further simplification and allowing for a tighter integration with the
VFS plugin.
The recipes for api/lwip and src/vfs_lwip stay separate as both parts
use different licenses.
Issue #4697
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
The contrib code is updated from 2.4.1 to version 5.2.0 and the used
device-model is changed to QEMU xHCI. Due to this change older guests
OSes, namely Windows 7, that relied on the NEC xHCI device-model will
not work anymore.
The 'Qemu::Controller' interface was extended by an 'info' method, which
returns the vendor and product ID. This allows for removing the
hard-coded values in the VirtualBox glue code.
Issue #4018.
The former implemention assumed that the guest physical memory is
mapped continously. This, however, is not true. Writing larger
files to an USB stick with a Windows 10 guest would therefore lead
to data corruption.
The current implementation uses a bounce buffer to copy the data
to and from the guest physical memory and leaves dealing with the
memory mappings entirely up to the VMM.
Fixes#4017.
The fds in O_APPEND state may have changed by the child. The local seek
state needs to be valid/current for the next to be forked child, which seek
state is set by File_descriptor_allocator::generate_info().
Issue #3991
* get rid of alarm abstraction
* get rid of Timeout::Time type
* get rid of pointer arguments
* get rid of _discard_timeout indirection
* get rid of 65th bit in stored time values
* get rid of Timeout_scheduler interface
* get rid of uninitialized deadlines
* get rid of default arguments
* get rid of Timeout::_periodic
* get rid of Timeout::Raw
* use list abstraction
* only one interface for timeout handlers
* rework locking scheme to be smp safe
* move all method definitions to CC file
* name mutexes more accurate
* fix when & how to set time-source timeout
* fix deadlocks
Fixes#3884
There is a type mismatch as in the FreeBSD contrib code the type of the
request is 'unsigned long'. So far, only I/O controls where the request
falls into the signed range where used and this was not a problem.
Some of the SNDCTL requests, however, have the bit set.
Fixes#3887.
Generated a separate 'config.h' for arm, arm_64, x86_32, x86_64 for the
current version (6.1.2) of GMP. This became necessary because
configurations differ for each architecture.
'config.h' generaton on x86_64 host in'gmp-6.1.2' directory:
for x86_64 (native):
! configure
for x86_32:
! configure --host=x86-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
for arm:
! configure --host=arm-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu \
! CC=/usr/local/gcc-linaro-arm/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc ABI=32
for arm_v8:
! configure --host=aarch64-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu \
! CC=/usr/local/gcc-linaro/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc ABI=64
issue #3598
This is important to issue sync requests for written-to files.
As the closing must be performed by an atexit handler, it happens at a
time _after_ libc plugins are destructed. Consequently an FD allocated
by such a plugin results in a close error, which in turn, does not
destruct the FD. We ultimatedly end up in an infinte loop of
re-attempting the close. For this reason, the patch changes 'close' to
be robust against this special case.
This is generally not a problem because libc plugins are phased out.
However, at present, the libc_noux plugin is still important. With the
changed 'close' in place, there occurred an error message "Error: close:
close not implemented" at the exit of each noux program. This patch
removes the error printing from the libc plugin mechansim to avoid this
noise. The error messages are not important anyway because the
deprecation of the libc plugin interface.
Issue #3578
- Close FDs marked with the close-on-execve flag
(needed for 'make', which sets the flag for the pipe-in
FD of forked children)
- Update binary name on execve to use as ROM for subsequent fork
- Enable vfork as an alias for fork (needed by make)
- Purge line buffers for output streams during execve because they
may be allocated at the allocation heap, which does not survive
the execve call.
- Consider short-lived processes that may exit while the parent still
blocks in the fork call.
With these changes, the website generator of genodians.org works without
the need for the Noux runtime.
Issue #3578
fd > FD_SETSIZE cannot use 'select' or 'poll' within our libc.
Therefore, we added a bit allocator in order to allocate fd < FD_SETSIZE
(1024).
fixes#3568
This patch is the first step of re-organizing the internal structure of
the libc. The original version involved many direct calls of global
functions (often with side effects) across compilation units, which
made the control flow (e.g., the initialization sequence) hard to
follow.
The new version replaces those ad-hoc interactions with dedicated
interfaces (like suspend.h, resume.h, select.h, current_time.h). The
underlying facilities are provided by the central Libc::Kernel and
selectively propagated to the various compilation units. The latter is
done by a sequence of 'init_*' calls, which eventually will be replaced
by constructor calls.
The addition of new headers increases the chance for name clashes with
existing (public) headers. To disambiguate libc-internal header files
from public headers, this patch moves the former into a new 'internal/'
subdirectory. This makes the include directives easier to follow and the
libc's source-tree structure more tidy.
There are still a few legacies left, which cannot easily be removed
right now (e.g., because noux relies on them). However, the patch moves
those bad apples to legacy.h and legacy.cc, which highlights the
deprecation of those functions.
Issue #3497
