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Liav A
b096f39e92 Documentation: Update the kernel development guide on FixedStringBuffer
The following changes take effect:
1. Annotate FixedStringBuffer => `FixedStringBuffer` in many places.
2. Remove non-existing helpers for FixedStringBuffers. I added them
previously but even then they were removed in a following fixup so these
references were never valid. Therefore let's just put a vague reference
to the fact that we have some helpers for this class in the Kernel, and
let people to figure out quickly by themselves for this topic.
3. Put a sentence to explain that FixedStringBuffer objects are not only
being used in syscall handling code, but also for storing actual data in
both the Thread and Process classes as well.
2023-08-12 11:46:38 -06:00
Liav A
1f88109d78 Documentation/Kernel: Explain why and when to use FixedCharBuffers 2023-08-09 21:06:54 -06:00
Annie Song
cbdb5f926c Documentation: Correct some typos found in kernel markdown files 2023-05-06 08:01:26 +01:00
Liav A
ed67a877a3 Kernel+SystemServer+Base: Introduce the RAMFS filesystem
This filesystem is based on the code of the long-lived TmpFS. It differs
from that filesystem in one keypoint - its root inode doesn't have a
sticky bit on it.

Therefore, we mount it on /dev, to ensure only root can modify files on
that directory. In addition to that, /tmp is mounted directly in the
SystemServer main (start) code, so it's no longer specified in the fstab
file. We ensure that /tmp has a sticky bit and has the value 0777 for
root directory permissions, which is certainly a special case when using
RAM-backed (and in general other) filesystems.

Because of these 2 changes, it's no longer needed to maintain the TmpFS
filesystem, hence it's removed (renamed to RAMFS), because the RAMFS
represents the purpose of this filesystem in a much better way - it
relies on being backed by RAM "storage", and therefore it's easy to
conclude it's temporary and volatile, so its content is gone on either
system shutdown or unmounting of the filesystem.
2023-02-04 15:32:45 -07:00
Nico Weber
7aa9413b53 Documentation: Fix a few typos 2022-12-27 15:58:39 -08:00
Liav A
968e1a6efc Documentation: Add a note on paths in the kernel development guidelines
Add a note on hardcoded paths so everyone know that this is not an
appropriate thing to do when writing kernel code.
2022-12-09 22:59:50 -07:00
Liav A
71536e91c5 Documentation: Add a document about TmpFS 2022-11-25 14:43:28 -07:00
Liav A
9e7d099678 Documentation: Add guidelines document for kernel development 2022-11-25 22:34:32 +01:00
Liav A
a1d1f7566f Documentation: Add initial document about the Kernel graphics subsystem 2022-10-12 15:00:53 +01:00
Liav A
f46cc90f82 Documentation: Add a document about the Kernel IOWindow concept 2022-09-23 17:22:15 +01:00
Nico Weber
cd7ec294db Documentation: Fix grammar-o in ProcFSIndexing.md 2021-10-01 01:06:40 +01:00
Brian Gianforcaro
bb58a4d943 Kernel: Make all Spinlocks use u8 for storage, remove template
The default template argument is only used in one place, and it
looks like it was probably just an oversight. The rest of the Kernel
code all uses u8 as the type. So lets make that the default and remove
the unused template argument, as there doesn't seem to be a reason to
allow the size to be customizable.
2021-09-05 20:46:02 +02:00
Liav A
23a8cd1021 Documentation: Fix a few typos in the ProcFS Indexing document 2021-08-13 08:01:55 +02:00
Liav A
7ba991dc37 Kernel: Steer away from heap allocations for ProcFS process data
Instead, use more static patterns to acquire that sort of data.
2021-08-12 20:57:32 +02:00
Siddhant Rao
566d3cb393 Documentation: Correct some typos in kernel and browser docs 2021-06-02 18:02:59 +02:00
Liav A
10c747f2be Documentation: Add explanation about AHCI locking 2021-05-31 18:28:25 +01:00