Tomas Hruby [Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:57:35 +0000 (15:57 +0000)]
gas2ack
- an asmconv based tool for conversion from GNU ia32 assembly to ACK assembly
- in contrast to asmconv it is a one way tool only
- as the GNU assembly in Minix does not prefix global C symbols with _ gas2ack
detects such symbols and prefixes them to be compliant with the ACK convention
- gas2ack preserves comments and unexpanded macros
- bunch of fixes to the asmconv GNU->ACK direction
- support of more instructions that ACK does not know but are in use in Minix
- it is meant as a temporary solution as long as ACK will be a supported
compiler for the core system
Ground work for larger file systems, and miscellaneous fixes:
- MFS and mkfs(1) now perform extra sanity checks
- fsck(1) can now deal with inode tables extending beyond the file
system's first 4GB
- badblocks(8) no longer writes out the superblock for no reason
- mkfs(1) no longer crashes when given no parameters
- more(1) no longer crashes when standard output is redirected
Ben Gras [Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:23:04 +0000 (14:23 +0000)]
- reverse order of transfer command and DMA initiation - fixes DMA problem
that some hardware had
- clear DMA_ST_INT after DMA - fixes infinite number of interrupts
that some hardware had
- initial ATAPI DMA implementation, doesn't actually increase performance
on my test hardware so possibly not right yet, disabled by default
Add more identifiers to drivers.conf for orinoco and rtl8137.
Increase RSS_NR_PCI_ID and remove dumplicate reference
to /etc/drivers.conf; each such reference uses _PATH_DRIVERS_CONF
from <minix/paths.h> now.
Ben Gras [Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:47:23 +0000 (15:47 +0000)]
really revert endpoint_t -> int
debugging info on panic: decode segment selectors and descriptors, now moved
to arch-specific part, prototypes added; sanity checking in debug.h made
optional with vmassert().
Ben Gras [Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:22:31 +0000 (15:22 +0000)]
thanks to tomas: fix for level0() race condition - global variable can
be used concurrently. pass the function in eax instead; this gets rid
of the global variable. also execute the function directly if we're
already trapped into the kernel.
revert of u32_t endpoint_t to int (some code assumes endpoints are
negative for negative slot numbers).
Ben Gras [Sat, 3 Oct 2009 12:17:46 +0000 (12:17 +0000)]
- exact magic values for entered/nonentered states in recursive enter check
- read_*() functions to read segment selector values
- decode loaded segments on panic
Ben Gras [Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:30:35 +0000 (11:30 +0000)]
- panic if there's no runnable process
- more basic sanity check before recursive enter check (data segment)
- try to jump to boot monitor instantly on recursive panic
PM delay call infrastructure improvements
- allow PM to tell sys_runctl() whether to use delay call feature
- only use this feature in PM for delivering signals - not for exits
- do better error checking in PM on sys_runctl() calls
- rename SIGKREADY to SIGNDELAY
Ben Gras [Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:11:22 +0000 (13:11 +0000)]
- retrieve binary packages and sources from webserver to make a release, incrementally using wget
(so wget required)
- don't build List file again, but use webserver List file and filter it
Merge of David's ptrace branch. Summary:
o Support for ptrace T_ATTACH/T_DETACH and T_SYSCALL
o PM signal handling logic should now work properly, even with debuggers
being present
o Asynchronous PM/VFS protocol, full IPC support for senda(), and
AMF_NOREPLY senda() flag
DETAILS
Process stop and delay call handling of PM:
o Added sys_runctl() kernel call with sys_stop() and sys_resume()
aliases, for PM to stop and resume a process
o Added exception for sending/syscall-traced processes to sys_runctl(),
and matching SIGKREADY pseudo-signal to PM
o Fixed PM signal logic to deal with requests from a process after
stopping it (so-called "delay calls"), using the SIGKREADY facility
o Fixed various PM panics due to race conditions with delay calls versus
VFS calls
o Removed special PRIO_STOP priority value
o Added SYS_LOCK RTS kernel flag, to stop an individual process from
running while modifying its process structure
Signal and debugger handling in PM:
o Fixed debugger signals being dropped if a second signal arrives when
the debugger has not retrieved the first one
o Fixed debugger signals being sent to the debugger more than once
o Fixed debugger signals unpausing process in VFS; removed PM_UNPAUSE_TR
protocol message
o Detached debugger signals from general signal logic and from being
blocked on VFS calls, meaning that even VFS can now be traced
o Fixed debugger being unable to receive more than one pending signal in
one process stop
o Fixed signal delivery being delayed needlessly when multiple signals
are pending
o Fixed wait test for tracer, which was returning for children that were
not waited for
o Removed second parallel pending call from PM to VFS for any process
o Fixed process becoming runnable between exec() and debugger trap
o Added support for notifying the debugger before the parent when a
debugged child exits
o Fixed debugger death causing child to remain stopped forever
o Fixed consistently incorrect use of _NSIG
Extensions to ptrace():
o Added T_ATTACH and T_DETACH ptrace request, to attach and detach a
debugger to and from a process
o Added T_SYSCALL ptrace request, to trace system calls
o Added T_SETOPT ptrace request, to set trace options
o Added TO_TRACEFORK trace option, to attach automatically to children
of a traced process
o Added TO_ALTEXEC trace option, to send SIGSTOP instead of SIGTRAP upon
a successful exec() of the tracee
o Extended T_GETUSER ptrace support to allow retrieving a process's priv
structure
o Removed T_STOP ptrace request again, as it does not help implementing
debuggers properly
o Added MINIX3-specific ptrace test (test42)
o Added proper manual page for ptrace(2)
Asynchronous PM/VFS interface:
o Fixed asynchronous messages not being checked when receive() is called
with an endpoint other than ANY
o Added AMF_NOREPLY senda() flag, preventing such messages from
satisfying the receive part of a sendrec()
o Added asynsend3() that takes optional flags; asynsend() is now a
#define passing in 0 as third parameter
o Made PM/VFS protocol asynchronous; reintroduced tell_fs()
o Made PM_BASE request/reply number range unique
o Hacked in a horrible temporary workaround into RS to deal with newly
revealed RS-PM-VFS race condition triangle until VFS is asynchronous
System signal handling:
o Fixed shutdown logic of device drivers; removed old SIGKSTOP signal
o Removed is-superuser check from PM's do_procstat() (aka getsigset())
o Added sigset macros to allow system processes to deal with the full
signal set, rather than just the POSIX subset
Miscellaneous PM fixes:
o Split do_getset into do_get and do_set, merging common code and making
structure clearer
o Fixed setpriority() being able to put to sleep processes using an
invalid parameter, or revive zombie processes
o Made find_proc() global; removed obsolete proc_from_pid()
o Cleanup here and there
Also included:
o Fixed false-positive boot order kernel warning
o Removed last traces of old NOTIFY_FROM code
THINGS OF POSSIBLE INTEREST
o It should now be possible to run PM at any priority, even lower than
user processes
o No assumptions are made about communication speed between PM and VFS,
although communication must be FIFO
o A debugger will now receive incoming debuggee signals at kill time
only; the process may not yet be fully stopped
o A first step has been made towards making the SYSTEM task preemptible
Tomas Hruby [Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:13:41 +0000 (20:13 +0000)]
Mostly a revert of r5306. com.h defines MAX_NR_TASKS value which replaces
NR_TASKS in the endpoint macros. MAX_NR_TASKS defines the maximal number of
kernel tasks. It is unlikely that we will ever need this many tasks as the goal
is not to have such a difference in the future. For now it makes possible to
remove the limiting NR_TASKS from the endpoint code.
Tomas Hruby [Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:47:56 +0000 (18:47 +0000)]
Removed macros that depend on NOTIFY_FROM from servers and drivers. They
determine the information defined by these macros from the m_source field of the
notify message.
Tomas Hruby [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:00:59 +0000 (16:00 +0000)]
ps fix
It removes the no more existing marcos (XPIPE XPOPEN XDOPEN XLOCK XSELECT) and
replaces them with the new ones from servers/vfs/const.h No more dependency on
NR_TASKS macro.
Fixed compilation errors in ps.c and rs/manager.c. The former was fixed by disabling code using no-longer-existant flags and the latter by removing the spurious parameter i from sys_privctl