It is now possible to unmount file systems from the VFS via `umount`.
It works via looking up the `fsid` of the filesystem from the `Inode`'s
metatdata so I'm not sure how fragile it is. It seems to work for now
though as something to get us going.
This patch adds the mprotect() syscall to allow changing the protection
flags for memory regions. We don't do any region splitting/merging yet,
so this only works on whole mmap() regions.
Added a "crash -r" flag to verify that we crash when you attempt to
write to read-only memory. :^)
This is not perfect as it uses a lot of VM, but since the buffers are
supposed to be temporary it's not super terrible.
This could be improved by giving back the unused VM to the kernel's
RangeAllocator after finishing the buffer building.
In the userspace, this mimics the Linux pipe2() syscall;
in the kernel, the Process::sys$pipe() now always accepts
a flags argument, the no-argument pipe() syscall is now a
userspace wrapper over pipe2().
It is now possible to mount ext2 `DiskDevice` devices under Serenity on
any folder in the root filesystem. Currently any user can do this with
any permissions. There's a fair amount of assumptions made here too,
that might not be too good, but can be worked on in the future. This is
a good start to allow more dynamic operation under the OS itself.
It is also currently impossible to unmount and such, and devices will
fail to mount in Linux as the FS 'needs to be cleaned'. I'll work on
getting `umount` done ASAP to rectify this (as well as working on less
assumption-making in the mount syscall. We don't want to just be able
to mount DiskDevices!). This could probably be fixed with some `-t`
flag or something similar.
Processes can now have an icon assigned, which is essentially a 16x16 RGBA32
bitmap exposed as a shared buffer ID.
You set the icon ID by calling set_process_icon(int) and the icon ID will be
exposed through /proc/all.
To make this work, I added a mechanism for making shared buffers globally
accessible. For safety reasons, each app seals the icon buffer before making
it global.
Right now the first call to GWindow::set_icon() is what determines the
process icon. We'll probably change this in the future. :^)
This makes assertion failures generate backtraces again. Sorry to everyone
who suffered from the lack of backtraces lately. :^)
We share code with the /proc/PID/stack implementation. You can now get the
current backtrace for a Thread via Thread::backtrace(), and all the traces
for a Process via Process::backtrace().
The syscall is quite simple:
int watch_file(const char* path, int path_length);
It returns a file descriptor referring to a "InodeWatcher" object in the
kernel. It becomes readable whenever something changes about the inode.
Currently this is implemented by hooking the "metadata dirty bit" in
Inode which isn't perfect, but it's a start. :^)
The "stddbg" stream was a cute idea but we never ended up using it in
practice, so let's simplify this and implement userspace dbgprintf() on top
of a simple dbgputch() syscall instead.
This makes debugging LibC startup a little bit easier. :^)
This is very simple but already very useful. Now you're able to call to
dump_backtrace() from anywhere userspace to get a nice symbolicated
backtrace in the debugger output. :^)
Generate a special page containing the "return from signal" trampoline code
on startup and then route signalled threads to it. This avoids a page
allocation in every process that ever receives a signal.
Region now has is_user_accessible(), which informs the memory manager how
to map these pages. Previously, we were just passing a "bool user_allowed"
to various functions and I'm not at all sure that any of that was correct.
All the Region constructors are now hidden, and you must go through one of
these helpers to construct a region:
- Region::create_user_accessible(...)
- Region::create_kernel_only(...)
That ensures that we don't accidentally create a Region without specifying
user accessibility. :^)
Rolling with the theme of adding a dialog to shutdown the machine, it is
probably nice to have a way to reboot the machine without performing a full
system powerdown.
A reboot program has been added to `/bin/` as well as a corresponding
`syscall` (SC_reboot). This syscall works by attempting to pulse the 8042
keyboard controller. Note that this is NOT supported on new machines, and
should only be a fallback until we have proper ACPI support.
The implementation causes a triple fault in QEMU, which then restarts the
system. The filesystems are locked and synchronized before this occurs,
so there shouldn't be any corruption etctera.
This allows us to seal a buffer *before* anyone else has access to it
(well, ok, the creating process still does, but you can't win them all).
It also means that a SharedBuffer can be shared with multiple clients:
all you need is to have access to it to share it on again.
This makes waitpid() return when a child process is stopped via a signal.
Use this in Shell to catch stopped children and return control to the
command line. :^)
Fixes#298.
This is obviously more readable. If we ever run into a situation where
ref count churn is actually causing trouble in the future, we can deal with
it then. For now, let's keep it simple. :^)
Instead of computing the path length inside the syscall handler, let the
caller do that work. This allows us to implement to new variants of open()
and creat(), called open_with_path_length() and creat_with_path_length().
These are suitable for use with e.g StringView.
String&& is just not very practical. Also return const String& when the
returned string is a member variable. The call site is free to make a copy
if he wants, but otherwise we can avoid the retain count churn.
After reading a bunch of POSIX specs, I've learned that a file descriptor
is the number that refers to a file description, not the description itself.
So this patch renames FileDescriptor to FileDescription, and Process now has
FileDescription* file_description(int fd).
The current working directory is now stored as a custody. Likewise for a
process executable file. This unbreaks /proc/PID/fd which has not been
working since we made the filesystem bigger.
This still needs a bunch of work, for instance when renaming or removing
a file somewhere, we have to update the relevant custody links.
Right now, we allow anything inside a user to raise or lower any other process's
priority. This feels simple enough to me. Linux disallows raising, but
that's annoying in practice.
Also run it across the whole tree to get everything using the One True Style.
We don't yet run this in an automated fashion as it's a little slow, but
there is a snippet to do so in makeall.sh.
Since we transition to a new PageDirectory on exec(), we need a matching
RangeAllocator to go with the new directory. Instead of juggling this in
Process and MemoryManager, simply attach the RangeAllocator to the
PageDirectory instead.
Fixes#61.
There are now two thread lists, one for runnable threads and one for non-
runnable threads. Thread::set_state() is responsible for moving threads
between the lists.
Each thread also has a back-pointer to the list it's currently in.
These functions were doing exactly the same thing for range allocation, so
share that code in an allocate_range() helper.
Region allocation will now also fail if range allocation fails, which means
that mmap() can actually fail without falling apart. Exciting times!
This replaces the previous virtual address allocator which was basically
just "m_next_address += size;"
With this in place, virtual addresses can get reused, which cuts down on
the number of page tables created. When we implement ASLR some day, we'll
probably have to do page table deallocation, but for now page tables are
only deallocated once the process dies.
