In prep for the coming change to keep log entries as a true ring buffer,
move the log buffer from bss into its own memory section.
Related changes in this commit:
- New vm_area_ring, which maps a set of pages twice to allow easy linear
reading of data from a ring buffer when it wraps around the end.
- logger_init() went away, and the logger ctor is called from
mem::initialize()
- Instead of an event object, the logger just has a bare wait_queue
- util::counted::from template type changed slightly to allow easy
conversion from an intptr_t as well as a pointer
- Previously added debugcon_logger code removed - this will be added in
a separate file in a followup commit
Instead of handles / capabilities having numeric ids that are only valid
for the owning process, they are now global in a system capabilities
table. This will allow for specifying capabilities in IPC that doesn't
need to be kernel-controlled.
Processes will still need to be granted access to given capabilities,
but that can become a simpler system call than the current method of
sending them through mailbox messages (and worse, having to translate
every one into a new capability like was the case before). In order to
track which handles a process has access to, a new node_set based on
node_map allows for an efficient storage and lookup of handles.
Created a new util/node_map.h that implements a map that grows in-place.
Now this is used for tracking blocks' size orders, instead of a header
at the start of the memory block. This allows the whole buddy block to
be allocated, allowing for page-aligned (or greater) blocks to be
requested from the heap.
The return of slab_allocated! Now after the kutil/util/kernel giant
cleanup, this belongs squarely in the kernel, and works much better
there. Slabs are allocated via a bump pointer into a new kernel VMA,
instead of using kalloc() or allocating pages directly.
