As of ~April 2021 the Meta/build-image-grub.sh script no longer works
for me (on Fedora 34) and fails with the following error:
/usr/sbin/grub2-install: warning: ../grub-core/partmap/msdos.c:403:
your core.img is unusually large. It won't fit in the embedding
area.
/usr/sbin/grub2-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB
can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However,
blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
/usr/sbin/grub2-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
Changing the size of the boot partition from 32 kiB to 1 MiB (2048
sectors) fixes the issue. This is also described in the following Ubuntu
grub2 bug (as well as 40 duplicates!) from 2012, which suggests the same
fix: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1059827
The Arch Linux wiki also uses 1 MiB in their BIOS/MBR examples for
parted: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Parted
I'm not sure why this suddenly stopped working, however I was able to
boot with an image created with this change applied.
For whatever reason, symbolication was doing an O(n) walk of all the
symbols, despite having sorted them beforehand.
Changing this to a binary_search() makes symbolication noticeably
faster and improves Profiler startup time.
We were using ELF::Image::section(0) to indicate the "undefined"
section, when what we really wanted was just Optional<Section>.
So let's use Optional instead. :^)
By using fstatat during file system analyzation instead of lstat, we
reduce the amount of work the kernel has to do for each stat call.
During profiling it came up that the kernel was spending a lot of time
resolving paths. Because each call to stat passed an absolute path the
kernel had to do the same work over and over again.
When using relative paths the kernel only has to resolve the relative
part as it can reuse the already resolved path of the base directory.
The function fstatat can do the same thing as the stat and lstat
functions. However, it can be passed the file descriptor of a directory
which will be used when as the starting point for relative paths. This
is contrary to stat and lstat which use the current working directory as
the starting for relative paths.
It's technically not specified by POSIX, but it appears most Unix-like
systems worth mentioning put those definitions there. Also, it's more
logical since the dev_t type is defined there.
Instead of parsing untrusted and potentially malicious image files in
the ImageViewer GUI process, take advantage of the ImageDecoder service
that we already have on the system to sandbox the decode.
This prevents bugs in our image decoding libraries from being used as
an exploitation vector when viewing files in ImageViewer.
Previously you could pass anything (e.g a text file) to ImageDecoder and
it would "succeed" in decoding it and give you back a 0-frame result.
Let's consider that state a failure instead.
Single-process Browser forces a connection to these services early on,
to avoid having to unveil their paths. I'm suspicious of the benefits
of this (and the comment about it wasn't even accurate) but let's keep
it for now.
In multi-process mode, there's no need to do this, and in fact it was
causing us to spawn two extra totally unused processes.
Previously we didn't retransmit lost TCP packets which would cause
connections to hang if packets were lost. Also we now time out
TCP connections after a number of retransmission attempts.
This wakes up NetworkTask every 500 milliseconds so that it can send
pending delayed TCP ACKs and isn't forced to send all of them early
when it goes to sleep like it did before.
When establishing the connection we should send ACKs right away so
as to not delay the connection process. This didn't previously
matter because we'd flush all delayed ACKs when NetworkTask waits
for incoming packets.
Ideally we would never allocate under a spinlock, as it has many
performance and potentially functionality (deadlock) pitfalls.
We violate that rule in many places today, but we need a tool to track
them all down and fix them. This change introduces a new macro option
named `KMALLOC_VERIFY_NO_SPINLOCK_HELD` which can catch these
situations at runtime via an assert.
The Cpp LanguageServer tests can be run with: CppLanguageServer -t
The tests now only cover some very simple autocomplete and
"find declaration" use cases, but it's a start :)
Creating a ByteBuffer involves two allocations:
-One for the ByteBufferImpl object
-Another one for the actual byte buffer
This changes the ByteBuffer and ByteBufferImpl classes
so only one allocation is necessary.
Avoid holding the sockets_by_tuple lock while allocating the TCPSocket.
While checking if the list contains the item we can also hold the lock
in shared mode, as we are only reading the hash table.
In addition the call to from_tuple appears to be superfluous, as we
created the socket, so we should be able to just return it directly.
This avoids the recursive lock acquisition, as well as the unnecessary
hash table lookups.
