This patch adds a vDSO-like mechanism for exposing the current time as
an array of per-clock-source timestamps.
LibC's clock_gettime() calls sys$map_time_page() to map the kernel's
"time page" into the process address space (at a random address, ofc.)
This is only done on first call, and from then on the timestamps are
fetched from the time page.
This first patch only adds support for CLOCK_REALTIME, but eventually
we should be able to support all clock sources this way and get rid of
sys$clock_gettime() in the kernel entirely. :^)
Accesses are synchronized using two atomic integers that are incremented
at the start and finish of the kernel's time page update cycle.
Leave interrupts enabled so that we can still process IRQs. Critical
sections should only prevent preemption by another thread.
Co-authored-by: Tom <tomut@yahoo.com>
By making these functions static we close a window where we could get
preempted after calling Processor::current() and move to another
processor.
Co-authored-by: Tom <tomut@yahoo.com>
This can happen if the symbol is part of a switch-case, and not
a function, which would previously have made the disassembly view
appear empty.
Now we disassemble the containing function, starting at the given label
and continuing up until the last captured instruction.
These integer => pointer => integer conversions were technically prone
to UB, since they were used as offsets (which are perfectly fine to be
zero), but we calculated them with pointer arithmetic. This made Clang
insert pointer overflow UBSAN checks, which trigger in case of a zero
result.
With this change, LaunchServer will always return an empty list of file
handlers for special files e.g. sockets and devices. Before this change,
TextEditor was always returned as a default handler for these files.
This removes Pipes dependency on the UHCIController by introducing a
controller base class. This will be used to implement other controllers
such as OHCI.
Additionally, there can be multiple instances of a UHCI controller.
For example, multiple UHCI instances can be required for systems with
EHCI controllers. EHCI relies on using multiple of either UHCI or OHCI
controllers to drive USB 1.x devices.
This means UHCIController can no longer be a singleton. Multiple
instances of it can now be created and passed to the device and then to
the pipe.
To handle finding and creating these instances, USBManagement has been
introduced. It has the same pattern as the other management classes
such as NetworkManagement.
Port2 logic was errantly using `portsc1` registers, meaning that
the port wouldn't be reset properly. In effect, this puts devices
connected to Port2 in an undefined state.
This sets the --with-shared switch for the configure script so that
ncurses is compiled as a shared library in addition the default which is
a static library.
Without the --with-shared switch ncurses will only be compiled as a
static library.
To properly set the environment variables LOCAL_LDFLAGS and
LOCAL_LDFLAGS2, a case in the configure script had to be updated to
include '*serenity*'.
This is a tiny difference and only changes anything for primitives in
strict mode. However this is tested in test262 and can be noticed by
overriding toString of primitive values.
This does now require one to wrap an object in a Value to call invoke
but all code using invoke has been migrated.
Processing SMP messages outside of non-SMP mode is a waste of time,
and now that we don't rely on the side effects of calling the message
processing function, let's stop calling it entirely. :^)
We were previously relying on a side effect of the critical section in
smp_process_pending_messages(): when exiting that section, it would
process any pending deferred calls.
Instead of relying on that, make the deferred invocations explicit by
calling deferred_call_execute_pending() in exit_trap().
This ensures that deferred calls get processed before entering the
scheduler at the end of exit_trap(). Since thread unblocking happens
via deferred calls, the threads don't have to wait until the next
scheduling opportunity when they could be ready *now*. :^)
This was the main reason Tom's SMP branch ran slowly in non-SMP mode.
Enter a critical section in Processor::exit_trap so that processing
SMP messages doesn't enable interrupts upon leaving. We need to delay
this until the end where we call into the Scheduler if exiting the
trap results in being outside of a critical section and irq handler.
Co-authored-by: Tom <tomut@yahoo.com>
First off: unregister the region from MemoryManager before unmapping it.
The order of operations here was a bit strange, presumably to avoid a
situation where a fault would happen while unmapping, and the fault
handler would find the MemoryManager region list in an invalid state.
Unregistering it before unmapping sidesteps the whole problem, and
allows us to easily fix another problem: a deadlock could occur due
to inconsistent acquisition order (PageDirectory must come before MM.)
We don't want to be holding the MM lock if it's a user region and we
have to consult the page directory, since that can lead to a deadlock
if we don't already have the page directory lock.
- Use the receiver's per-CPU entry in the message, instead of the
sender's. (Using the sender's entry wasn't safe for broadcast
messages since the same entry ended up on multiple message queues.)
- Retry the CAS until it *succeeds* instead of *fails*. This closes a
race window, and also ensures a correct return value. The return value
is used by the caller to decide whether to broadcast an IPI.
This was the main reason smp=on was so slow. We had CPUs busy-waiting
until someone else triggered an IPI and moved things along.
- Add a CPU pause hint to the spin loop. :^)
It may happen that CPU A manages to page in from the same inode
while we're just entering the same page fault handler on CPU B.
Handle it gracefully by checking if the data has already been paged in
(instead of VERIFY'ing that it hasn't) and then remap the page if that's
the case.
Due to a boolean mistake in smp_return_to_pool(), we didn't retry
pushing the message onto the freelist after a failed attempt.
This caused the message pool to eventually become completely empty
after enough contentious access attempts.
This patch also adds a pause hint to the CPU in the failed attempt
code path.
