Before we start disabling acquisition of the big process lock for
specific syscalls, make sure to document and assert that all the
lock is held during all syscalls.
There are cases where we want to conditionally take a lock, but still
would like to use an RAII type to make sure we don't leak the lock.
This was previously impossible to do with `MutexLocker` due to it's
design. This commit tweaks the design to allow the object to be
initialized to an "empty" state without a lock associated, so it does
nothing, and then later a lock can be "attached" to the locker.
I realized that the get_lock() API's where also unused, and would no
longer make sense for empty locks, so they were removed.
Move these to MM to simplify the flow of the syscall handler.
While here, also make sure we hold the process space lock for
the duration of the validation to avoid potential issues where
another thread attempts to modify the process space during the
validation. This will allow us to move the validation out of the
big process lock scope in a future change.
Additionally utilize the new no_lock variants of functions to avoid
unnecessary recursive process space spinlock acquisitions.
Currently all syscalls run under the Process:m_big_lock, which is an
obvious bottleneck. Long term we would like to remove the big lock and
replace it with the required fine grained locking.
To facilitate this goal we need a way of gradually decomposing the big
lock into the all of the required fine grained locks. This commit
introduces instrumentation to the syscall table, allowing the big lock
requirement to be toggled on/off per syscall.
Eventually when we are finished, no syscall will required the big lock,
and we'll be able to remove all of this instrumentation.
The entire process is not needed, just require the user to pass in the
Space. Also provide no_lock variant to use when you already have the
VM/Space lock acquired, to avoid unnecessary recursive spinlock
acquisitions.
Depending on the exact layout of the .ksyms section the kernel would
fail to boot because the kernel_load_end variable didn't account for the
section's size.
The non CPU specific code of the kernel shouldn't need to deal with
architecture specific registers, and should instead deal with an
abstract view of the machine. This allows us to remove a variety of
architecture specific ifdefs and helps keep the code slightly more
portable.
We do this by exposing the abstract representation of instruction
pointer, stack pointer, base pointer, return register, etc on the
RegisterState struct.
Allocate all the RX buffers in one big memory region (and same for TX.)
This removes 38 lines from every crash dump (and just seems like a
reasonable idea in general.)
We need to cast physical addresses to PhysicalPtr instead of FlatPtr,
which is currently always 64 bits. However, if one day we were to
support 32 bit non-pae mode then it would also truncate appropriately.
This switches tracking CPU usage to more accurately measure time in
user and kernel land using either the TSC or another time source.
This will also come in handy when implementing a tickless kernel mode.
As threads come and go, we can't simply account for how many time
slices the threads at any given point may have been using. We need to
also account for threads that have since disappeared. This means we
also need to track how many time slices we have expired globally.
However, because this doesn't account for context switches outside of
the system timer tick values may still be under-reported. To solve this
we will need to track more accurate time information on each context
switch.
This also fixes top's cpu usage calculation which was still based on
the number of context switches.
Fixes#6473
This adds a ".profile" extension to perfcore files written by the
Kernel. Also, the process name is now visible in the perfcore filename.
Furthermore, this patch adds error handling for the case where the
filename generated by the Kernel is already taken. In that case, a digit
will be added to the filename (before the extension).
This also adds some more error logging to dump_perfcore().
This implements a simple bootloader that is capable of loading ELF64
kernel images. It does this by using QEMU/GRUB to load the kernel image
from disk and pass it to our bootloader as a Multiboot module.
The bootloader then parses the ELF image and sets it up appropriately.
The kernel's entry point is a C++ function with architecture-native
code.
Co-authored-by: Liav A <liavalb@gmail.com>
