As mentioned in the last commit, with processes owning spaces, there was
a weird extra space in the "kernel" process that owns the kernel
threads. Now we use that space as the global kernel space, and don't
create a separate one.
vm_space and page_table continue to take over duties from
page_manager:
- creation and deletion of address spaces / pml4s
- cross-address-space copies for endpoints
- taking over pml4 ownership from process
Also fixed the bug where the wrong process was being set in the cpu
data.
To solve: now the kernel process has its own vm_space which is not
g_kernel_space.
This is the first commit of several reworking the VM system. The main
focus is replacing page_manager's global functionality with objects
representing individual VM spaces. The main changes in this commit were:
- Adding the (as yet unused) vm_area object, which will be the main
point of control for programs to allocate or share memory.
- Replace the old vm_space with a new one based on state in its page
tables. They will also be containers for vm_areas.
- vm_space takes over from page_manager as the page fault handler
- Commented out the page walking in memory_bootstrap; I'll probably need
to recreate this functionality, but it was broken as it was.
- Split out the page_table.h implementations from page_manager.cpp into
the new page_table.cpp, updated it, and added page_table::iterator as
well.
Add an iterator type to kutil::map, and allow for each loops. Also
unify the compare() signature expected by sorting containers, and fixes
to adding and sorting in kutil::vector.
Replace linearly-indexed vector of handles with new kutil::map. Also
provide thread::current() and process::current() accessors so that every
syscall doesn't need to include the scheduler to deduce the current
process.
The buffer cache will try to clean up a returned buffer by unmapping it,
but it may have only been committed without ever getting mapped. Allow
for page_out to handle non-fully mapped regions.
Defer from calling process::thread_exited() in scheduler::prune() if the
thread in question is the currently-executing thread, so that we don't
blow away the stack we're executing on. The next call to prune will pick
up the exited thread.
The "fake" stdout channel is now being passed in the new j6_process_init
structure to processes, and nulldrv now uses it to print a message to
the console.
Multiple changes regarding channels. Mainly channels are now stream
based and can handle partial reads or writes. Channels now use the
kernel buffers area with the related buffer_cache. Added a fake stdout
stream channel and kernel task to read its contents to the screen in
preparation for handing channels as stdin/stdout to processes.
Renamed and genericized the stack_cache class to manage any address
range area of buffers or memory regions. Removed singleton and created
some globals that map to different address regions (kernel stacks,
kernel buffers).
Tags: vmem virtual memeory
When committing an area of vmem and splitting from a larger block, the
block that is returned was set to the unknown state, and the leading
block was incorrectly set to the desired state.
Also remove extra unused thread ctor.
The bootloader now creates all PD tables in kernel space, so remove
memory_bootstrap.cpp code that dealt with cases where there was no PD
for a given range, and kassert that all PDs exist.
Also deal with the case where the final PD exists, which never committed
the last address range.
We were previously allocating kernel stacks as large objects on the
heap. Now keep track of areas of the kernel stack area that are in use,
and allocate them from there. Also required actually implementing
vm_space::commit(). This still needs more work.
The scheduler singleton was getting constructed twice, once at static
time and then again in main(). Make the singleton a pointer so we only
construct it once.
Previously we added startup_bonus to work around a segfault happening
when we preemted a newly created process instead of letting it give up
the CPU. Bug is not longer occuring, though that makes me nervous.
Add a system call to assert signals on a given object, only within the
range of user-settable signals. Also made object_wait return
immediately if any of the given signals are already set.
Add the channel object for sending messages between threads. Currently
no good of passing channels to other threads, but global variables in a
single process work. Currently channels are slow and do double copies,
need to refine more.
Tags: ipc
Implement the syscalls necessary for threads to create other threads in
their same process. This involved rearranging a number of syscalls, as
well as implementing object_wait and a basic implementation of a
process' list of handles.
The TCB is always stored at a constant offset within the thread object.
So instead of carrying an extra pointer, just implement thread::from_tcb
to get the thread.
Re-implent the concept of processes as separate from threads, and as a
kobject API object. Also improve scheduler::prune which was doing some
unnecessary iterations.
Calling `spinwait()` was hanging due to improper computation of the
clock rate because justin did a dumb at math. Also the period can be
greater than 1ns, so the clock's units were updated to microseconds.
A few updates to scheduler policies:
* Grant processes a startup timeslice bonus for time spent loading the
process
* Grant processes a small fraction of a timeslice for yielding the CPU
with time left
Create a clock class which can be queried for current timestamp in
nanoseconds. Also implements a simple HPET class as one possible clock
source.
Tags: time
The scheduler again tracks remaining timeslice. Timeslices are bigger,
but once a process uses all of its timeslice, it's demoted and
replenished at the next priority. The scheduler also tracks the last
time a process ran, and promotes it if it's been starved for twice its
full timeslice.
TODO: replenish a small amount of timeslice each time a process is run,
so that more interactive processes keep their priorities.
Instead of many timer interrupts and decrementing a process' remaining
quanta, change to setting a single timer for when a process should be
preempted. If it uses its whole timeslice, demote it. If it uses less
than half before blocking, promote it. Determine timeslice based on
priority as well.
This change also required changing the apic timer interface to be purely
interval (in microseconds) based instead of its previous interval/tick
hybrid.
The bip buffer implementation was not initializing it's write-state
member, which was causing logs to always fail when the logger was not in
immediate mode.
Removing the `allocator.h` file defining the `kutil::allocator`
interface, now that explicit allocators are not being passed around.
Also removed the unused `frame_allocator::raw_allocator` class and
`kutil::invalid_allocator` object.
Tags: memory
Reformat the cpu_features.inc file and add the `in_hv` feature that is
supposedly set by hypervisors when running in emulation. QEMU does not
set it.
Tags: cpuid
Look up the global constructor list that the linker outputs, and run
them all. Required creation of the `kutil::no_construct` template for
objects that are constructed before the global constructors are run.
Also split the `memory_initialize` function into two - one for just
those objects that need to happen before the global ctors, and one
after.
Tags: memory c++
Many kernel objects had to keep a hold of refrences to allocators in
order to pass them on down the call chain. Remove those explicit
refrences and use `operator new`, `operator delete`, and define new
`kalloc` and `kfree`.
Also remove `slab_allocator` and replace it with a new mixin for slab
allocation, `slab_allocated`, that overrides `operator new` and
`operator free` for its subclass.
Remove some no longer used related headers, `buddy_allocator.h` and
`address_manager.h`
Tags: memory
The last bug getting back to par with master - looks like there might be
threading issues with the logger task at the moment. Turning it off for
now.
Tags: log bug todo
There were a few lingering bugs due to places where 510/511 were
hard-coded as the kernel-space PML4 entries. These are now constants
defined in kernel_memory.h instead.
Tags: boot memory paging
GDB works far better now with QEMU's `-S` flag. No longer does it
complain about changing the target from 32 to 64 bits. Get rid of the
old `waiting` loop and `sleep` call in the GDB config for the kernel.
Tags: debugging
The `kernel_main()` had a lot change out from under it with the
bootloader changes. This change brings most of it back in line with the
new kernel arguments.
Tags: pml4 paging boot
