This commit adds the 6s shell, and a bunch of supporting work for it.
Major changes include:
- New shell.yaml manifest to give 6s control of the TTY instead of
srv.logger
- Changes to mailbox syscalls to add max handles array size separate
from input size. Also reversed the meaning of the similar data size
argument in those syscalls. (Using the second arg as the max array
size and the first as the current valid size allows for the auto
verify code to verify handles properly, and simplifies user-side
code.)
- New util::unique_ptr smart pointer class similar to std::unique_ptr
- New ipc::message format that uses util::unique_ptr to manage ownership
and lifetimes and avoid extra copying.
- The service locator protocol now supports multiple handles per entry
- Channels got a major overhaul. They are now split into two VMAs, each
containing a mutex, a condition, and a util::bip_buffer. The order of
the VMAs determines which end of the pipe you're on. (ie, the creator
swaps them before handing them to the other thread.) Their API also
changed to be similar to that of util::bip_buffer, to avoid extra
copies.
- util::bip_buffer now keeps its state and its buffer together, so that
there are no pointers. This allows multiple processes to share them in
shared memory, like in channels.
- The UART driver changed from keeping buffers for the serial ports to
just keeping a channel, and the serial port objects read/write
directly from/to the channel.
Known issues:
- The shell doesn't actually do anything yet. It echos its input back to
the serial line and injects a prompt on new lines.
- The shell is one character behind in printing back to the serial line.
The UART driver would constantly hang in unpredictable spots. Turns out
it could get into a situation where it was stuck in a loop unable to
read more from the receive channel, and/or write to the serial port
buffer. Now we use a ring buffer to read as much as possible from the
receive channel, write as much as possible to the serial port buffer,
and move on without looping.
User code can now set the log area and severity of log messages. This also updates the j6_log
syscall to take these parameters, but removes all calls to it except through j6::syslog().
This change allows the `vma_map` and `vma_create_map` syscalls to map to
addresses other than the one specified, and therefore makes the address
parameter to those syscalls `inout` in order to return the mapped
address.
Also add the `exact` flag for specifying that mapping needs to be done
at the exact address given. If the mapping collides with another, the
new `j6_err_collision` error is returned.
This is the first of two rather big changes to clean up includes
throughout the project. In this commit, the implicit semi-dependency on
libc that bonnibel adds to every module is removed. Previously, I was
sloppy with includes of libc headers and include directory order. Now,
the freestanding headers from libc are split out into libc_free, and an
implicit real dependency is added onto this module, unless `no_libc` is
set to `True`. The full libc needs to be explicitly specified as a
dependency to be used.
Several things needed to change in order to do this:
- Many places use `memset` or `memcpy` that cannot depend on libc. The
kernel has basic implementations of them itself for this reason. Now
those functions are moved into the lower-level `j6/memutils.h`, and
libc merely references them. Other modules are now free to reference
those functions from libj6 instead.
- The kernel's `assert.h` was renamed kassert.h (matching its `kassert`
function) so that the new `util/assert.h` can use `__has_include` to
detect it and make sure the `assert` macro is usable in libutil code.
- Several implementation header files under `__libj6/` also moved under
the new libc_free.
- A new `include_phase` property has been added to modules for Bonnibel,
which can be "normal" (default) or "late" which uses `-idirafter`
instead of `-I` for includes.
- Since `<utility>` and `<new>` are not freestanding, implementations of
`remove_reference`, `forward`, `move`, and `swap` were added to the
`util` namespace to replace those from `std`, and `util/new.h` was
added to declare `operator new` and `operator delete`.
When keeping track of addresses to give to the kernel for channel shared
memory, double the channel's size since the kernel will double-map the
area as a ring buffer.
This commit does a number of things to start the transition of channels
from kernel to user space:
- Remove channel objects / syscalls from the kernel
- Add mutex type in libj6
- Add condition type in libj6
- Add a `ring` type flag for VMA syscalls to create ring buffers
- Implement a rudimentary shared memory channel using all of the above
