If we ran out of capabilities indexes, the bit allocator throws an exception.
If this happens the code seems to hang and nothing happens.
Instead one could catch the exception and print some diagnostic message.
This would be nice, but don't work. Printing some diagnostic message itself
tries to do potentially IPC and will allocate new capability indexes at
least for the receive window.
So, catch the exception and let the thread die, so at least the instruction
pointer is left as trace to identify the reason of the trouble.
Fixes#625
Add functionality to lookup an object and lock it. Additional the case is
handled that a object may be already in-destruction and the lookup will deny
returning the object.
The object_pool generalize the lookup and lock functionality of the rpc_server
and serve as base for following up patches to fix dangling pointer issues.
The IPC-server object exists solely on the stack of the entrypoint
thread and, therefore, would never be destructed as the thread is just
killed. Now, the object is explicitly destructed in the entrypoint
destructor. An alternative solution could instruct the entrypoint thread
the terminate, which would automatically cleanup its stack.
The object pool is assumed to be empty on destruction of the entrypoint.
If not, we warn and at least dissolve all RPC objects.
Implement shared IRQs using 'Irq_proxy' class.
Nova: Added global worker 'Irq_thread' support in core and adapted Irq_session.
FOC: Adapted IRQ session code, x86 has shared IRQ support, ARM uses the old
model. Read and set 'mode' argument (from MADT) in 'Irq_session'.
OKL4: Use generic 'Irq_proxy'
Fixes issue #390
The cpu_session interface fails to be virtualized by gdb_monitor because
platform-nova uses an extended nova_cpu_session interface.
The problem was that threads have been created directly at core without
knowledge of gdb_monitor. This lead to the situation that gdb_monitor didn't
know of all threads to be debugged.
Tunnel the additional parameters required on base-nova through the state()
call of the cpu_session interface before the thread actual is started.
Patch prevents following bugs:
* In sleep_forever the thread return from semaphore down if cap is revoked
during destruction of a thread. This causes an endless loop consuming time
not available for other threads.
* In lock_helper and cap_sel_alloc the thread return from the lock() method
even if the semaphore down call failed because of an revoked semaphore.
This lead to the situation that a thread subject to de-construction returns
from the lock method, but not holding the lock, entering the critical section
and modifying state inside the critical section. Another thread in parallel
already in the critical section or entering the critical section also
modifies the state. This lead to curious bugs ...
* thread_nova, thread_start, irq_session
Detect early bugs if the SM is gone unexpectedly where it should never
happen.
It now can hold a right bit used during IPC to demote rights of the to be
transfered capability.
The local_name field in the native_capability type is not needed anymore
in NOVA. Simplify the class, remove it from constructors and adapt all
invocations in base-nova.
Unfortunately local_name in struct Raw is still used in generic base code
(process.cc, reload_parent_cap.cc), however has no effect in base-nova.
MsgBuf has to keep the number of received capabilities in order
to free/know correctly unused and unwanted capabilities. Explicitly
call rcv_msg->post_ipc to store this information in a MsgBuf.
Don't reset rcv_msg in ipc.cc, since this is used during
un-marshalling of caps in ipc.h afterwards. The MsgBuf is reseted when its
de-constructor is called.
Invoke cancel_blocking before calling the
cleanup portal of the rpc_entrypoint. If a rpc_entrypoint
is blocked in a semaphore the cleanup call gets
stuck forever.
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
