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().
In order to reduce our reliance on __builtin_{ffs, clz, ctz, popcount},
this commit removes all calls to these functions and replaces them with
the equivalent functions in AK/BuiltinWrappers.h.
Instead of repeating ourselves with the pattern of waiting for some
condition to be met, we can have a general method for this task,
and then we can provide the retry count, the required delay and a lambda
function for the checked condition.
Don't use interrupts when trying to reset a device that is connected to
a port on the AHCI controller, and instead poll for changes in status to
break out from the loop. At the worst case scenario we can wait 0.01
seconds for each SATA reset.
Don't use interrupts when trying to identify a device that is connected
to a port on the AHCI controller, and instead poll for changes in status
to end the transaction.
Not only this simplifies the initialization sequence, it ensures that
for whatever reason the controller doesn't send an IRQ, we are never
getting stuck at this point.
Like what happened with the PCI and USB code, this feels like the right
thing to do because we can improve on the ATA capabilities and keep it
distinguished from the rest of the subsystem.
