When delivering urgent signals to the current thread
we need to check if we should be unblocked, and if not
we need to yield to another process.
We also need to make sure that we suppress context switches
during Process::exec() so that we don't clobber the registers
that it sets up (eip mainly) by a context switch. To be able
to do that we add the concept of a critical section, which are
similar to Process::m_in_irq but different in that they can be
requested at any time. Calls to Scheduler::yield and
Scheduler::donate_to will return instantly without triggering
a context switch, but the processor will then asynchronously
trigger a context switch once the critical section is left.
This was supposed to be the foundation for some kind of pre-kernel
environment, but nobody is working on it right now, so let's move
everything back into the kernel and remove all the confusion.
Ultimately we should not panic just because we can't fully commit a VM
region (by populating it with physical pages.)
This patch handles some of the situations where commit() can fail.
This caused us to report one purged page per occurrence of the shared
zero page in a purgeable memory region, despite it being a no-op.
Thanks to Sergey for spotting the bad assertion removal that led to
this being found!
This memory range was set up using 2MB pages by the code in boot.S.
Because of that, the kernel image protection code didn't work, since it
assumed 4KB pages.
We now switch to 4KB pages during MemoryManager initialization. This
makes the kernel image protection code work correctly again. :^)
Also, duplicate data in dbg() and klog() calls were removed.
In addition, leakage of virtual address to kernel log is prevented.
This is done by replacing kprintf() calls to dbg() calls with the
leaked data instead.
Also, other kprintf() calls were replaced with klog().
This patch reduces the number of code paths that lead to the allocation
of a Region object. It's quite hard to follow the various ways in which
this can happen, so this is an effort to simplify.
It's now up to the caller to provide a VMObject when constructing a new
Region object. This will make it easier to handle things going wrong,
like allocation failures, etc.
The kernel sampling profiler will walk thread stacks during the timer
tick handler. Since it's not safe to trigger page faults during IRQ's,
we now avoid this by checking the page tables manually before accessing
each stack location.
We're not equipped to deal with page faults during an IRQ handler,
so add an assertion so we can immediately tell what's wrong.
This is why profiling sometimes hangs the system -- walking the stack
of the profiled thread causes a page fault and things fall apart.
This patch adds a globally shared zero-filled PhysicalPage that will
be mapped into every slot of every zero-filled AnonymousVMObject until
that page is written to, achieving CoW-like zero-filled pages.
Initial testing show that this doesn't actually achieve any sharing yet
but it seems like a good design regardless, since it may reduce the
number of page faults taken by programs.
If you look at the refcount of MM.shared_zero_page() it will have quite
a high refcount, but that's just because everything maps it everywhere.
If you want to see the "real" refcount, you can build with the
MAP_SHARED_ZERO_PAGE_LAZILY flag, and we'll defer mapping of the shared
zero page until the first NP read fault.
I've left this behavior behind a flag for future testing of this code.
This was only used by HashTable::dump() which I used when doing the
first HashTable implementation. Removing this allows us to also remove
most includes of <AK/kstdio.h>.
Previously we were only checking that each of the virtual pages in the
specified range were valid.
This made it possible to pass in negative buffer sizes to some syscalls
as long as (address) and (address+size) were on the same page.
Previously it was not possible for this function to fail. You could
exploit this by triggering the creation of a VMObject whose physical
memory range would wrap around the 32-bit limit.
It was quite easy to map kernel memory into userspace and read/write
whatever you wanted in it.
Test: Kernel/bxvga-mmap-kernel-into-userspace.cpp
When using dbg() in the kernel, the output is automatically prefixed
with [Process(PID:TID)]. This makes it a lot easier to understand which
thread is generating the output.
This patch also cleans up some common logging messages and removes the
now-unnecessary "dbg() << *current << ..." pattern.
We don't need to have this method anymore. It was a hack that was used
in many components in the system but currently we use better methods to
create virtual memory mappings. To prevent any further use of this
method it's best to just remove it completely.
Also, the APIC code is disabled for now since it doesn't help booting
the system, and is broken since it relies on identity mapping to exist
in the first 1MB. Any call to the APIC code will result in assertion
failed.
In addition to that, the name of the method which is responsible to
create an identity mapping between 1MB to 2MB was changed, to be more
precise about its purpose.
uintptr_t is 32-bit or 64-bit depending on the target platform.
This will help us write pointer size agnostic code so that when the day
comes that we want to do a 64-bit port, we'll be in better shape.
Instead of restoring CR3 to the current process's paging scope when a
ProcessPagingScope goes out of scope, we now restore exactly whatever
the CR3 value was when we created the ProcessPagingScope.
This fixes breakage in situations where a process ends up with nested
ProcessPagingScopes. This was making profiling very fragile, and with
this change it's now possible to profile g++! :^)
