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
Check that there is enough room for a typed item on the
UTCB. Otherwise deny to add the item and return false.
Enable explicitly a return unused warning to get the right
attention.
The UTCB of the thread cleaning up thread objects has been unmapped.
However the UTCB of the destroyed thread must be unmapped.
Objects must explicitly be made unreachable before cleaning up. The
server and pager objects must be unreachable before they can be freed.
Both object types are threads. Revoking the thread(EC) cap on NOVA
doesn't mean that the thread stops executing. All portals pointing to a
thread are still reachable by clients even if the last EC cap is gone in
user land. So it must be taken care that no portals are pointing anymore
to a thread when the associated objects are getting destroyed. This
commit handles this.
Additionally, even if the last portal is gone - there can be still an
ongoing request handled by such server/pager object/threads. For each
such object an additional portal is created. This object is called
'cleanup portal' and is only local to the object. After all portals are
revoked the cleanup portal is called. When the call returns we know that
nobody is anymore handled by the object since all remotely available
portals are gone.
Fixes#20
Use git to get recent kernels from github. Adjust NOVA patch to compile
with recent github version. Patch and use makefile of NOVA microkernel
to avoid duplicated (and outdated) makefile in Genode
Furthermore, this patch adds support for using NOVA on x86_64. The
generic part of the syscall bindings has been moved to
'base-nova/include/nova/syscall-generic.h'. The 32/64-bit specific
parts are located at 'base-nova/include/32bit/nova/syscalls.h' and
'base-nova/include/64bit/nova/syscalls.h' respectively.
On x86_64, the run environment boots qemu using the Pulsar boot loader
because GRUB legacy does not support booting 64bit ELF executables.
In addition to the NOVA-specific changes in base-nova, this patch
rectifies compile-time warnings or build errors in the 'ports' and
'libports' repositories that are related to NOVA x86_64 (i.e., Vancouver
builds for 32bit only and needed an adaptation to NOVAs changed
bindings)
Fixes#233, fixes#234
In 'Fs_file_system::open()' the call of '_fs.dir()' can throw a
'File_system::Lookup_failed' exception, which gets explicitly caught
with this patch.
Fixes#246.
This patch adds a new "terminal" file system type to Noux, which allows to
create a "character device" file that is connected to a Genode 'Terminal'
service.
The 'Terminal' session created by the file system has the label
"noux(terminal_fs)" to distinguish it from the 'Terminal' session
created by Noux itself.
Fixes#244.
This patch extends the RAM session interface with the ability to
allocate DMA buffers. The client specifies the type of RAM dataspace to
allocate via the new 'cached' argument of the 'Ram_session::alloc()'
function. By default, 'cached' is true, which correponds to the common
case and the original behavior. When setting 'cached' to 'false', core
takes the precautions needed to register the memory as uncached in the
page table of each process that has the dataspace attached.
Currently, the support for allocating DMA buffers is implemented for
Fiasco.OC only. On x86 platforms, it is generally not needed. But on
platforms with more relaxed cache coherence (such as ARM), user-level
device drivers should always use uncacheable memory for DMA transactions.
When creating a 'Child' object with an already active entrypoint,
session requests may arrive as soon as the '_process' is created. We
have to make sure that at least all parts of the 'Child' object needed
for serving 'session' requests are constructed. This is particularly
important for the '_policy' member.
The sysio's struct fields need to be properly set on each syscall. This
fixes a bug where the wrong fd is used after the first sendto syscall.
Also the minimal buffer size calculation uses the wrong size.
Fixes#235.
When sigma0 runs on a lower priority than the rest of the threads in the
system it might come to the point that while answering a page fault or
I/O memory area request the timeslice of the caller (core-pager) gets
fully consumed. As long as other threads are still executable and don't block
sigma0 won't do progress anymore, because it runs at the lowest priority.
This commit simply sets sigma0's priority to the highest in the system.
When invoking the bootstrap build in the L4RE build-system to create
a single elf-image containing all needed files to boot a scenario, don't
use the 'ENTRY' variable, but 'E' variable instead. Otherwise 'ENTRY'
might get overridden (dependent on the make-version). Moreover, using
'E' seems to be the way L4Re is expecting it has to be invoked.
Fixes#226
We are using bison to generate certain files when preparing the libc.
However the yacc(1) wrapper script is used instead of calling bison
directly which does not work if bison is not installed but the original
yacc(1).
Fixes#225. Fixes#227.
When core requests all RAM from sigma0 it normally unmaps page 0 so that
null-pointer dereferences are detected by a pagefault. The unmap syscall
in the Fiasco.OC base platform was used insufficiently in this particular
case.
The media player has been traded for the persistent storage topic
because the latter one naturally builds upon the just recently added
file-system interface. Furthermore, we defer the live CD until July as
we realized that we first need to overhaul low-level components such as
USB before the new live system can be expected to work as intended.
modexp512 and rc4-md5 code were missing for x86_64. The files are now
generated on openssl-prepare and will be used when building for x86_64.
Fixes#224.
By now the gmp-library works builds on x86/32bit only. The mpfr library
depends on gmp, so make both library dependent on the corresponding platform
variables. Look at the discussion of issue #135.
Use terminals for LOG output of L4Android scenario, as well as a terminal
session for the Linux terminal. Now everything can be used interactively
on one screen: the Linux/Android framebuffer, the Linux console, and the
LOG-output of L4Linux.
Introduce process global spin-lock for Cap_index's reference-counter
to avoid non-atomic increment/decrement of the counter. Here, we don't
use a static Spinlock object, because it's constructor wouldn't be
initialized before used for the first time.
The following fixes partly solve the problems triggered by the noux stress
test introduced by nfeske in issue #208.
* The check whether a capability exists in the Cap_map, and its insertion,
has to be done atomically
* While removing a capability it is looked up in the Cap_map via its id,
check whether the found capability pointer is the same like the looked up,
otherwise the wrong capability gets freed
* When a local capability is un- resp. marshalled, only the local pointer
gets transfered, not the redundant capability id
* Introduce several assertions and warnings to facilitate debugging