This change adds a new interface DSL for specifying objects (with
methods) and interfaces (that expose objects, and optionally have their
own methods).
Significant changes:
- Add the new scripts/definitions Python module to parse the DSL
- Add the new definitions directory containing DSL definition files
- Use cog to generate syscall-related code in kernel and libj6
- Unify ordering of pointer + length pairs in interfaces
This change moves Bonnibel from a separate project into the jsix tree,
and alters the project configuration to be jsix-specific. (I stopped
using bonnibel for any other projects, so it's far easier to make it a
custom generator for jsix.) The build system now also uses actual python
code in `*.module` files to configure modules instead of TOML files.
Target configs (boot, kernel-mode, user-mode) now moved to separate TOML
files under `configs/` and can inherit from one another.
When setting a radix other than 10, the j6stack command will start
adding the wrong values - make sure to specify a radix for the offset
explicitly.
Also show the frame pointer for each frame with the j6bt command, and
don't throw exceptions if the name of the block is unknown.
Added the command "j6tw <pml4> <addr>" which takes any arguments that
evaluate to addresses or integers. It displays the full breakdown of the
page table walk for the given address, with flags.
Improve the j6stack command in two ways: first, swap the order of the
arguments, as depth is much more likely to be changed. Second, on any
exception accessing memory in the stack, print the exception and
continue instead of failing the whole command.
Create a script that builds a simple-to-read symbol table from the
output of `nm`. Include running that script over the kernel in the
build, and including that output in the initrd.
Tags: callstack debugging
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
There are a lot of under the hood changes here:
- Move syscalls to be a dispatch table, defined by syscalls.inc
- Don't need a full process state (push_all) in syscalls now
- In push_all, define REGS instead of using offsets
- Save TWO stack pointers as well as current saved stack pointer in TCB:
- rsp0 is the base of the kernel stack for interrupts
- rsp3 is the saved user stack from cpu_data
- Update syscall numbers in nulldrv
- Some asm-debugging enhancements to the gdb script
- fork() still not working
- Scheduler now has multiple linked_lists of processes at different
priorities
- Process structure improvements
- scheduler::tick() and scheduler::schedule() separation
Added the cpptoml library (and license), and moved to using that for
the initrd manifest. It's now possible to specify the `executable`
flag for files, and the kernel correctly only launches new processes
for the initrd files marked `executable`.
- Create initrd library to support definitions and loading
- Allow tools compiled for the host machine to be built by wscript
- Create makerd tool to build initrd from manifest
- Move screenfont to initrd, so don't load framebuffer initially
