Instead of letting the user to determine whether framebuffer devices
will be created (which is useless because they are gone by now), let's
simplify the flow by allowing the user to choose between full, limited
or disabled functionality. The determination happens only once, so, if
the user decided to disable graphics support, the initialize method
exits immediately. If limited functionality is chosen, then a generic
DisplayConnector is initialized with the preset framebuffer resolution,
if present, and then the initialize method exits. As a default, the code
proceeds to initialize all drivers as usual.
This change allow the user to request the kernel to not use any PCI
resources/devices at all.
Also, don't try to initialize devices that rely on PCI if disabled.
As we don't currently support MSI(X) interrupts, it could be an issue
to boot on some newer hardware. NVMe devices support polling mode
where the driver actively polls for completion instead of waiting for
an interrupt.
This allows forcing the use of only the framebuffer set up by the
bootloader and skips instantiating devices for any other graphics
cards that may be present.
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 small change allows to use the IOAPIC by default without to enable
SMP mode, which emulates Uni-Processor setup with IOAPIC instead of
using the PIC.
This opens the opportunity to utilize other types of interrupts like MSI
and MSI-X interrupts.
'bootmode' now only controls which set of services are started by
SystemServer, so it is more appropriate to rename it to system_mode, and
no longer validate it in the Kernel.
Bootmode used to control framebuffers, panic behavior, and SystemServer.
This patch factors framebuffer control into a separate flag.
Note that the combination 'bootmode=self-test fbdev=on' leads to
unexpected behavior, which can only be fixed in a later commit.
This patch converts all the usage of AK::String around sys$execve() to
using KString instead, allowing us to catch and propagate OOM errors.
It also required changing the kernel CommandLine helper class to return
a vector of KString for the userspace init program arguments.
A couple of things were changed:
1. Semantic changes - PCI segments are now called PCI domains, to better
match what they are really. It's also the name that Linux gave, and it
seems that Wikipedia also uses this name.
We also remove PCI::ChangeableAddress, because it was used in the past
but now it's no longer being used.
2. There are no WindowedMMIOAccess or MMIOAccess classes anymore, as
they made a bunch of unnecessary complexity. Instead, Windowed access is
removed entirely (this was tested, but never was benchmarked), so we are
left with IO access and memory access options. The memory access option
is essentially mapping the PCI bus (from the chosen PCI domain), to
virtual memory as-is. This means that unless needed, at any time, there
is only one PCI bus being mapped, and this is changed if access to
another PCI bus in the same PCI domain is needed. For now, we don't
support mapping of different PCI buses from different PCI domains at the
same time, because basically it's still a non-issue for most machines
out there.
2. OOM-safety is increased, especially when constructing the Access
object. It means that we pre-allocating any needed resources, and we try
to find PCI domains (if requested to initialize memory access) after we
attempt to construct the Access object, so it's possible to fail at this
point "gracefully".
3. All PCI API functions are now separated into a different header file,
which means only "clients" of the PCI subsystem API will need to include
that header file.
4. Functional changes - we only allow now to enumerate the bus after
a hardware scan. This means that the old method "enumerate_hardware"
is removed, so, when initializing an Access object, the initializing
function must call rescan on it to force it to find devices. This makes
it possible to fail rescan, and also to defer it after construction from
both OOM-safety terms and hotplug capabilities.
This typo / bug in the Traits<T> implementation for StringView caused
AK::HashMap methods to return a `String` when looking up values out of
a hash map of type HashTable<StringView,StringView>.
This change fixes the typo, and fixes the only consumer, the kernel
Commandline class.
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.
The kernel panic handler now parses the kernels boot_mode to decide how
to handle the panic. So the previous logic could end up in an panic loop
until we blew out the kernel stack.
Instead only validate the kernel's boot mode once per boot, after
initializing the kernel command line.
The current CommandLine API unfortunately allocates Strings just to
query the presence of arguments on the command line. Switch the API
to use StringView instead to reduce the number of String allocations.
This was proved to be a problematic option. I tested this option on
bare metal AHCI controller, and if we didn't reset the controller, the
firmware (SeaBIOS) could leave the controller state not clean, so an
plugged device signature was in place although the specific port had no
plugged device after rebooting.
Therefore, we need to ensure we use the controller in a clean state
always.
In addition to that, the Complete option was renamed to Aggressive, as
it represents better the consequences of choosing this option.
This is by default left empty, so people won't run the kernel in a mode
which they didn't want to. The embedded string will override the
supplied commandline from the bootloader, which is good for debugging
sessions.
This change seemed important for me, because I debug the kernel on bare
metal with iPXE, and every change to the commandline meant that I needed
rewrite a new iPXE USB image with a modified iPXE script.
As we removed the support of VBE modesetting that was done by GRUB early
on boot, we need to determine if we can modeset the resolution with our
drivers, and if not, we should enable text mode and ensure that
SystemServer knows about it too.
Also, SystemServer should first check if there's a framebuffer device
node, which is an indication that text mode was not even if it was
requested. Then, if it doesn't find it, it should check what boot_mode
argument the user specified (in case it's self-test). This way if we
try to use bochs-display device (which is not VGA compatible) and
request a text mode, it will not honor the request and will continue
with graphical mode.
Also try to print critical messages with mininum memory allocations
possible.
In LibVT, We make the implementation flexible for kernel-specific
methods that are implemented in ConsoleImpl class.
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
This command line flag can be used to disable VirtIO support on
certain configurations (native windows) where interfacing with
virtio devices can cause qemu to freeze.
Helps with bare metal debugging, as we can't be sure our implementation
will work with a given machine.
As reported by someone on Discord, their machine hangs when we attempt
the dummy transfer.
The first one is for disabling the PS2 controller, the other one is for
disabling physical storage enumeration.
We can't be sure any machine will work with our implementation,
therefore this will help us to test more machines.
Now the kernel supports 2 ECAM access methods.
MMIOAccess was renamed to WindowedMMIOAccess and is what we had until
now - each device that is detected on boot is assigned to a
memory-mapped window, so IO operations on multiple devices can occur
simultaneously due to creating multiple virtual mappings, hence the name
is a memory-mapped window.
This commit adds a new class called MMIOAccess (not to be confused with
the old MMIOAccess class). This class creates one memory-mapped window.
On each IO operation on a configuration space of a device, it maps the
requested PCI bus region to that window. Therefore it holds a SpinLock
during the operation to ensure that no other PCI bus region was mapped
during the call.
A user can choose to either use PCI ECAM with memory-mapped window
for each device, or for an entire bus. By default, the kernel prefers to
map the entire PCI bus region.
Apparently we don't enable PCI ECAM (MMIO access to the PCI
configuration space) even if we can. This is a regression, as it was
enabled in the past and in unknown time it was regressed.
The CommandLine::is_mmio_enabled method was renamed to
CommandLine::is_pci_ecam_enabled to better represent the meaning
of this method and what it determines.
Also, an UNMAP_AFTER_INIT macro was removed from a method
in the MMIOAccess class as it halted the system when the kernel
tried to access devices after the boot process.
This reverts commit cfc2f33dcb.
We can't actually change the IRQ line value and expect the device
to work with it (this was my mistake).
That register is R/W so the firmware can figure out IRQ routing and put
the correct value and write it to the Interrupt line register.
As a compromise, if the fimrware decided to set the IRQ line to be 7,
or something else we can't deal with, the user can simply force the code
to work with IRQ 11, with the boot argument "force_ahci_irq_11" being
set to "on".
Instead of blindly resetting every AHCI port, let's just reset only the
controller by default. The user can still request to reset everything
with a new kernel boot argument called ahci_reset_mode which is set
by default to "controller", so the code will only invoke an HBA reset.
This kernel boot argument can be set to 3 different values:
1. "controller" - reset the HBA and skip resetting AHCI ports
2. "none" - don't reset anything, so we rely on the firmware to
initialize the AHCI HBA and ports for us.
3. "complete" - reset the AHCI HBA and ports.
The full system profiling functionality is useful for profiling the
boot performance of the system. Add a new kernel boot option to start
the system with profiling enabled. This lets you disable and view a
profile once the system is booted.
You can use it by running:
```
$ run.sh qcmd boot_prof
```
Previously all of the CommandLine parsing was spread out around the
Kernel. Instead move it all into the Kernel CommandLine class, and
expose a strongly typed API for querying the state of options.
- If there is no VMWare backdoor, don't allocate memory for it.
- Remove the "unsupported" state, instead just don't instantiate.
- Move the command-line parsing from init to the driver.
- Move mouse packet reception from PS2MouseDevice to VMWareBackdoor.
