This sets up the RPi::Timer to trigger an interurpt every 4ms using one
of the comparators. The actual time is calculated by looking at the main
counter of the RPi::Timer using the Timer::update_time function.
A stub for Scheduler::timer_tick is also added, since the TimeManagement
code now calls the function.
This change ensures that the scheduler doesn't depend on a platform
specific or arch-specific code when it initializes itself, but rather we
ensure that in compile-time we will generate the appropriate code to
find the correct arch-specific current time methods.
Nobody uses this because the x86 prekernel environment is corrupting the
ramdisk image prior to running the actual kernel. In the future we can
ensure that the prekernel doesn't corrupt the ramdisk if we want to
bring support back. In addition to that, we could just use a RAM based
filesystem to load whatever is needed like in Linux, without the need of
additional filesystem driver.
For the mentioned corruption problem, look at issue #9893.
This class is intended to replace all IOAddress usages in the Kernel
codebase altogether. The idea is to ensure IO can be done in
arch-specific manner that is determined mostly in compile-time, but to
still be able to use most of the Kernel code in non-x86 builds. Specific
devices that rely on x86-specific IO instructions are already placed in
the Arch/x86 directory and are omitted for non-x86 builds.
The reason this works so well is the fact that x86 IO space acts in a
similar fashion to the traditional memory space being available in most
CPU architectures - the x86 IO space is essentially just an array of
bytes like the physical memory address space, but requires x86 IO
instructions to load and store data. Therefore, many devices allow host
software to interact with the hardware registers in both ways, with a
noticeable trend even in the modern x86 hardware to move away from the
old x86 IO space to exclusively using memory-mapped IO.
Therefore, the IOWindow class encapsulates both methods for x86 builds.
The idea is to allow PCI devices to be used in either way in x86 builds,
so when trying to map an IOWindow on a PCI BAR, the Kernel will try to
find the proper method being declared with the PCI BAR flags.
For old PCI hardware on non-x86 builds this might turn into a problem as
we can't use port mapped IO, so the Kernel will gracefully fail with
ENOTSUP error code if that's the case, as there's really nothing we can
do within such case.
For general IO, the read{8,16,32} and write{8,16,32} methods are
available as a convenient API for other places in the Kernel. There are
simply no direct 64-bit IO API methods yet, as it's not needed right now
and is not considered to be Arch-agnostic too - the x86 IO space doesn't
support generating 64 bit cycle on IO bus and instead requires two 2
32-bit accesses. If for whatever reason it appears to be necessary to do
IO in such manner, it could probably be added with some neat tricks to
do so. It is recommended to use Memory::TypedMapping struct if direct 64
bit IO is actually needed.
The APICTimer, HPET and RTC (the RTC timer is in the context of the PC
RTC here) are timers that exist only in x86 platforms, therefore, we
move the handling code and the initialization code to the Arch/x86/Time
directory. Other related code patterns in the TimeManagement singleton
and in the Random.cpp file are guarded with #ifdef to ensure they are
only compiled for x86 builds.
The new VGAIOArbiter class is now responsible to conduct x86-specific
instructions to control VGA hardware from the old ISA ports. This allows
us to ensure the GraphicsManagement code doesn't use x86-specific code,
thus allowing it to be compiled within non-x86 kernel builds.
The code in init.cpp is specific to the x86 initialization sequence, so
move it to the Arch/x86 directory in the same fashion like the aarch64
pattern.
The PIC and APIC code are specific to x86 platforms, so move them out of
the general Interrupts directory to Arch/x86/common/Interrupts directory
instead.
That code heavily relies on x86-specific instructions, and while other
CPU architectures and platforms can have PCI IDE controllers, currently
we don't support those, so this code is a special case which needs to be
in the Arch/x86 directory.
In the future it could be put back to the original place when we make it
more generic and suitable for other platforms.
The i8042 controller with its attached devices, the PS2 keyboard and
mouse, rely on x86-specific IO instructions to work. Therefore, move
them to the Arch/x86 directory to make it easier to omit the handling
code of these devices.
The ISA IDE controller code makes sense to be compiled in a x86 build as
it relies on access to the x86 IO space. For other architectures, we can
just omit the code as there's no way we can use that code again.
To ensure we can omit the code easily, we move it to the Arch/x86
directory.
The VMWare backdoor handling code involves many x86-specific
instructions and therefore should be in the Arch/x86 directory. This
ensures we can easily omit the code in compile-time for non-x86 builds.
It seems more correct to let each platform to define its own sequence of
initialization of the PCI bus, so let's remove the #if flags and just
put the entire Initializer.cpp file in the appropriate code directory.
The simple PCI::HostBridge class implements access to the PCI
configuration space by using x86 IO instructions. Therefore, it should
be put in the Arch/x86/PCI directory so it can be easily omitted for
non-x86 builds.
kprintf should not really care about the hardware-specific details of
each UART or serial port out there, so instead of using x86 specific
instructions, let's ensure that we will compile only the relevant code
for debug output for a targeted-specific platform.
The RTC and CMOS are currently only supported for x86 platforms and use
specific x86 instructions to produce only certain x86 plaform operations
and results, therefore, we move them to the Arch/x86 specific directory.
Many code patterns and hardware procedures rely on reliable delay in the
microseconds granularity, and since they are using such delays which are
valid cases, but should not rely on x86 specific code, we allow to
determine in compile time the proper platform-specific code to use to
invoke such delays.
We move QEMU and VirtualBox shutdown sequences to a separate file, as
well as moving the i8042 reboot code sequence too to another file.
This allows us to abstract specific methods from the power state node
code of the SysFS filesystem, to allow other architectures to put their
methods there too in the future.
Before of this patch, we supported two methods to address a boot device:
1. Specifying root=/dev/hdXY, where X is a-z letter which corresponds to
a boot device, and Y as number from 1 to 16, to indicate the partition
number, which can be omitted to instruct the kernel to use a raw device
rather than a partition on a raw device.
2. Specifying root=PARTUUID: with a GUID string of a GUID partition. In
case of existing storage device with GPT partitions, this is most likely
the safest option to ensure booting from persistent storage.
While option 2 is more advanced and reliable, the first option has 2
caveats:
1. The string prefix "/dev/hd" doesn't mean anything beside a convention
on Linux installations, that was taken into use in Serenity. In Serenity
we don't mount DevTmpFS before we mount the boot device on /, so the
kernel doesn't really access /dev anyway, so this convention is only a
big misleading relic that can easily make the user to assume we access
/dev early on boot.
2. This convention although resemble the simple linux convention, is
quite limited in specifying a correct boot device across hardware setup
changes, so option 2 was recommended to ensure the system is always
bootable.
With these caveats in mind, this commit tries to fix the problem with
adding more addressing options as well as to remove the first option
being mentioned above of addressing.
To sum it up, there are 4 addressing options:
1. Hardware relative address - Each instance of StorageController is
assigned with a index number relative to the type of hardware it handles
which makes it possible to address storage devices with a prefix of the
commandset ("ata" for ATA, "nvme" for NVMe, "ramdisk" for Plain memory),
and then the number for the parent controller relative hardware index,
another number LUN target_id, and a third number for LUN disk_id.
2. LUN address - Similar to the previous option, but instead we rely on
the parent controller absolute index for the first number.
3. Block device major and minor numbers - by specifying the major and
minor numbers, the kernel can simply try to get the corresponding block
device and use it as the boot device.
4. GUID string, in the same fashion like before, so the user use the
"PARTUUID:" string prefix and add the GUID of the GPT partition.
For the new address modes 1 and 2, the user can choose to also specify a
partition out of the selected boot device. To do that, the user needs to
append the semicolon character and then add the string "partX" where X
is to be changed for the partition number. We start counting from 0, and
therefore the first partition number is 0 and not 1 in the kernel boot
argument.
Now that the Spinlock code is not dependent on architectural specific
code anymore, we can move it back to the Locking folder. This also means
that the Spinlock implemenation is now used for the aarch64 kernel.
This commit adds the concept of an InterruptsState to the kernel. This
will be used to make the Spinlock code architecture independent. A new
Processor.cpp file is added such that we don't have to duplicate the
code.
This patch adds a new object to hold a Process's user credentials:
- UID, EUID, SUID
- GID, EGID, SGID, extra GIDs
Credentials are immutable and child processes initially inherit the
Credentials object from their parent.
Whenever a process changes one or more of its user/group IDs, a new
Credentials object is constructed.
Any code that wants to inspect and act on a set of credentials can now
do so without worrying about data races.
Unlike Clang, GCC does not support 8-byte atomics on i686 with the
-mno-80387 flag set, so until that is fixed, implement a minimal set of
atomics that are currently required.
We don't really support ATAPI (SCSI packets over ATA channels) and it's
uncertain if we ever will support such type of media. For this reason,
there's basically no reason to keep this code.
If we ever introduce ATAPI support into the Kernel, we can simply put
this back into the codebase.
Everything in Kernel/Storage/Partition but DiskPartition has been moved
into LibPartiton. This makes the Partition directory unnecessary so
DiskPartition is moved up into Kernel/Storage.
