Now that the infrastructure of the Graphics subsystem is quite stable,
it is time to try to fix a long-standing problem, which is the lack of
locking on display connector devices. Reading and writing from multiple
processes to a framebuffer controlled by the display connector is not a
huge problem - it could be solved with POSIX locking.
The real problem is some program that will try to do ioctl operations on
a display connector without the WindowServer being aware of that which
can lead to very bad situations, for example - assuming a framebuffer is
encoded at a known resolution and certain display timings, but another
process changed the ModeSetting of the display connector, leading to
inconsistency on the properties of the current ModeSetting.
To solve this, there's a new "master" ioctl to take "ownership" and
another one to release that ownership of a display connector device. To
ensure we will not hold a Process object forever just because it has an
ownership over a display connector, we hold it with a weak reference,
and if the process is gone, someone else can take an ownership.
This header file represents the entire interface between the kernel and
userland, and as such, no longer should be called FB.h but something
that represents the whole graphics subsystem.
`sigsuspend` was previously implemented using a poll on an empty set of
file descriptors. However, this broke quite a few assumptions in
`SelectBlocker`, as it verifies at least one file descriptor to be
ready after waking up and as it relies on being notified by the file
descriptor.
A bare-bones `sigsuspend` may also be implemented by relying on any of
the `sigwait` functions, but as `sigsuspend` features several (currently
unimplemented) restrictions on how returns work, it is a syscall on its
own.
Previously the routing table did not store the route flags. This
adds basic support and exposes them in the /proc directory so that a
userspace caller can query the route and identify the type of each
route.
This ioctl is more appropriate when the hardware supports flushing of
the entire framebuffer, so we use that instead of the previous default
FB_IOCTL_FLUSH_HEAD_BUFFERS ioctl.
Such mechanism will be used by the Intel Graphics driver, because we
lack support of changing the resolution on this driver currently, so,
when WindowServer will try to mode-set the display then it will fail,
and will use the safe mode-setting call instead to be able to show
something on screen.
Previously the system had no concept of assigning different routes for
different destination addresses as the default gateway IP address was
directly assigned to a network adapter. This default gateway was
statically assigned and any update would remove the previously existing
route.
This patch is a beginning step towards implementing #180. It implements
a simple global routing table that is referenced during the routing
process. With this implementation it is now possible for a user or
service (i.e. DHCP) to dynamically add routes to the table.
The routing table will select the most specific route when possible. It
will select any direct match between the destination and routing entry
addresses. If the destination address overlaps between multiple entries,
the Kernel will use the longest prefix match, or the longest number of
matching bits between the destination address and the routing address.
In the event that there is no entries found for a specific destination
address, this implementation supports entries for a default route to be
set for any specified interface.
This is a small first step towards enhancing the system's routing
capabilities. Future enhancements would include referencing a
configuration file at boot to load pre-defined static routes.
This syscall ends up disabling interrupts while changing the time,
and the clock is a global resource anyway, so preventing threads in the
same process from running wouldn't solve anything.
