There are now 2 separate classes for almost the same object type:
- EnumerableDeviceIdentifier, which is used in the enumeration code for
all PCI host controller classes. This is allowed to be moved and
copied, as it doesn't support ref-counting.
- DeviceIdentifier, which inherits from EnumerableDeviceIdentifier. This
class uses ref-counting, and is not allowed to be copied. It has a
spinlock member in its structure to allow safely executing complicated
IO sequences on a PCI device and its space configuration.
There's a static method that allows a quick conversion from
EnumerableDeviceIdentifier to DeviceIdentifier while creating a
NonnullRefPtr out of it.
The reason for doing this is for the sake of integrity and reliablity of
the system in 2 places:
- Ensure that "complicated" tasks that rely on manipulating PCI device
registers are done in a safe manner. For example, determining a PCI
BAR space size requires multiple read and writes to the same register,
and if another CPU tries to do something else with our selected
register, then the result will be a catastrophe.
- Allow the PCI API to have a united form around a shared object which
actually holds much more data than the PCI::Address structure. This is
fundamental if we want to do certain types of optimizations, and be
able to support more features of the PCI bus in the foreseeable
future.
This patch already has several implications:
- All PCI::Device(s) hold a reference to a DeviceIdentifier structure
being given originally from the PCI::Access singleton. This means that
all instances of DeviceIdentifier structures are located in one place,
and all references are pointing to that location. This ensures that
locking the operation spinlock will take effect in all the appropriate
places.
- We no longer support adding PCI host controllers and then immediately
allow for enumerating it with a lambda function. It was found that
this method is extremely broken and too much complicated to work
reliably with the new paradigm being introduced in this patch. This
means that for Volume Management Devices (Intel VMD devices), we
simply first enumerate the PCI bus for such devices in the storage
code, and if we find a device, we attach it in the PCI::Access method
which will scan for devices behind that bridge and will add new
DeviceIdentifier(s) objects to its internal Vector. Afterwards, we
just continue as usual with scanning for actual storage controllers,
so we will find a corresponding NVMe controllers if there were any
behind that VMD bridge.
These instances were detected by searching for files that include
Kernel/Debug.h, but don't match the regex:
\\bdbgln_if\(|_DEBUG\\b
This regex is pessimistic, so there might be more files that don't check
for any real *_DEBUG macro. There seem to be no corner cases anyway.
In theory, one might use LibCPP to detect things like this
automatically, but let's do this one step after another.
Until now, our kernel has reimplemented a number of AK classes to
provide automatic internal locking:
- RefPtr
- NonnullRefPtr
- WeakPtr
- Weakable
This patch renames the Kernel classes so that they can coexist with
the original AK classes:
- RefPtr => LockRefPtr
- NonnullRefPtr => NonnullLockRefPtr
- WeakPtr => LockWeakPtr
- Weakable => LockWeakable
The goal here is to eventually get rid of the Lock* classes in favor of
using external locking.
