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.
This enforces us to remove duplicated code across the SysFS code. This
results in great simplification of how the SysFS works now, because we
enforce one way to treat SysFSDirectory objects.
Each of these strings would previously rely on StringView's char const*
constructor overload, which would call __builtin_strlen on the string.
Since we now have operator ""sv, we can replace these with much simpler
versions. This opens the door to being able to remove
StringView(char const*).
No functional changes.
In a previous commit I moved everything into the new subdirectories in
FileSystem/SysFS directory without trying to actually make changes in
the code itself too much. Now it's time to split the code to make it
more readable and understandable, hence this change occurs now.
Function-local `static constexpr` variables can be `constexpr`. This
can reduce memory consumption, binary size, and offer additional
compiler optimizations.
These changes result in a stripped x86_64 kernel binary size reduction
of 592 bytes.
This mostly just moved the problem, as a lot of the callers are not
capable of propagating the errors themselves, but it's a step in the
right direction.
Using the phrase "create" doesn't give information on whether the object
must be allocated or a failure to do so can be handled gracefully.
Therefore, we must use better phrase for such purpose, so "must_create"
for the allocate-and-construct static methods is definitely good choice.
Instead, allocate before constructing the object and pass NonnullOwnPtr
of KString to the object if needed. Some classes can determine their
names as they have a known attribute to look for or have a static name.
We now use AK::Error and AK::ErrorOr<T> in both kernel and userspace!
This was a slightly tedious refactoring that took a long time, so it's
not unlikely that some bugs crept in.
Nevertheless, it does pass basic functionality testing, and it's just
real nice to finally see the same pattern in all contexts. :^)
Both should reside in the SysFS firmware directory which is normally
located in /sys/firmware.
Also, apply some OOM-safety patterns when creating the BIOS and ACPI
directories.
This will somwhat help unify them also under the same SysFS directory in
the commit.
Also, it feels much more like this change reflects the reality that both
ACPI and the BIOS are part of the firmware on x86 computers.