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.
All users which relied on the default constructor use a None lock rank
for now. This will make it easier to in the future remove LockRank and
actually annotate the ranks by searching for None.
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.
Currently CursorStyle enum handles both the styles and the steadiness or
blinking of the terminal caret, which doubles the amount of its entries.
This commit changes CursorStyle to CursorShape and moves the blinking
option to a seperate boolean value.
We should first enable the VirtualConsole and then enable graphical
mode, to ensure proper display output on the switched-to virtual console
that has been chosen. When de-activating graphical mode, we do the
de-activating first then enable the VirtualConsole to ensure proper text
output on screen.
Contrary to the past, we don't attempt to assume the real name of a TTY
device, but instead, we generate a pseudo name only when needed to do so
which is still OK because we don't break abstraction layer rules and we
still can provide userspace with the required information.
The obsolete ttyname and ptsname syscalls are removed.
LibC doesn't rely on these anymore, and it helps simplifying the Kernel
in many places, so it's an overall an improvement.
In addition to that, /proc/PID/tty node is removed too as it is not
needed anymore by userspace to get the attached TTY of a process, as
/dev/tty (which is already a character device) represents that as well.
This ioctl operation will allow userspace to determine the index number
of a MasterPTY after opening /dev/ptmx and actually getting an internal
file descriptor of MasterPTY.
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.
When doing the last unref() on a listed-ref-counted object, we keep
the list locked while mutating the ref count. The destructor itself
is invoked after unlocking the list.
This was racy with weakable classes, since their weak pointer factory
still pointed to the object after we'd decided to destroy it. That
opened a small time window where someone could try to strong-ref a weak
pointer to an object after it was removed from the list, but just before
the destructor got invoked.
This patch closes the race window by explicitly revoking all weak
pointers while the list is locked.
Previously we would crash the process immediately when a promise
violation was found during a syscall. This is error prone, as we
don't unwind the stack. This means that in certain cases we can
leak resources, like an OwnPtr / RefPtr tracked on the stack. Or
even leak a lock acquired in a ScopeLockLocker.
To remedy this situation we move the promise violation handling to
the syscall handler, right before we return to user space. This
allows the code to follow the normal unwind path, and grantees
there is no longer any cleanup that needs to occur.
The Process::require_promise() and Process::require_no_promises()
functions were modified to return ErrorOr<void> so we enforce that
the errors are always propagated by the caller.
This change lays the foundation for making the require_promise return
an error hand handling the process abort outside of the syscall
implementations, to avoid cases where we would leak resources.
It also has the advantage that it makes removes a gs pointer read
to look up the current thread, then process for every syscall. We
can instead go through the Process this pointer in most cases.
This is required for SlavePTY's custom unref handler to function
correctly, as otherwise a SlavePTY held in a File RefPtr would call
the base's (RefCounted<>) unref method instead of SlavePTY's version.
It looks like type types are small enough that there is no padding.
So there didn't happen to be an info leak here, but lets zero initialize
just to be on the safe side, and make auditing easier.
Since RefCounted automatically calls a method named `will_be_destoyed`
on classes that have one, so there's no need to have a custom
implementation of unref in File.
This will allow File and it's descendants to use RefCounted instead of
having a custom implementation of unref. (Since RefCounted calls
will_be_destroyed automatically)
This commit also removes an erroneous call to `before_removing` in
AHCIPort, this is a duplicate call, as the only reference to the device
is immediately dropped following the call, which in turns calls
`before_removing` via File::unref.
This was a premature optimization from the early days of SerenityOS.
The eternal heap was a simple bump pointer allocator over a static
byte array. My original idea was to avoid heap fragmentation and improve
data locality, but both ideas were rooted in cargo culting, not data.
We would reserve 4 MiB at boot and only ended up using ~256 KiB, wasting
the rest.
This patch replaces all kmalloc_eternal() usage by regular kmalloc().
This fixes at least half of our LibC includes in the kernel. The source
of truth for errno codes and their description strings now lives in
Kernel/API/POSIX/errno.h as an enumeration, which LibC includes.
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. :^)
This removes some code dupe from the constructors.
By removing this duplicate constructor we can utilize the main
VirtualConsole::create factory implementation and call that from the
VirtualConsole::create_with_preset_log factory method.
Found due to smelly code in InodeFile::absolute_path.
In particular, this replaces the following misleading methods:
File::absolute_path
This method *never* returns an actual path, and if called on an
InodeFile (which is impossible), it would VERIFY_NOT_REACHED().
OpenFileDescription::try_serialize_absolute_path
OpenFileDescription::absolute_path
These methods do not guarantee to return an actual path (just like the
other method), and just like Custody::absolute_path they do not
guarantee accuracy. In particular, just renaming the method made a
TOCTOU bug obvious.
The new method signatures use KResultOr, just like
try_serialize_absolute_path() already did.
Some ports (like `bc` with history enabled) sensibly set the termios
character size to 8 bits.
Previously, we left the character size value (given by the bitmask
CSIZE) as zero by default (meaning 5 bits per character), and returned
ENOTIMPL whenever someone modified it. This was dumb.
Previously there was a mix of returning plain strings and returning
explicit string views using `operator ""sv`. This change switches them
all to standardized on `operator ""sv` as it avoids a call to strlen.
This singleton simplifies many aspects that we struggled with before:
1. There's no need to make derived classes of Device expose the
constructor as public anymore. The singleton is a friend of them, so he
can call the constructor. This solves the issue with try_create_device
helper neatly, hopefully for good.
2. Getting a reference of the NullDevice is now being done from this
singleton, which means that NullDevice no longer needs to use its own
singleton, and we can apply the try_create_device helper on it too :)
3. We can now defer registration completely after the Device constructor
which means the Device constructor is merely assigning the major and
minor numbers of the Device, and the try_create_device helper ensures it
calls the after_inserting method immediately after construction. This
creates a great opportunity to make registration more OOM-safe.
