I believe this to be safe, as the main thing that LockRefPtr provides
over RefPtr is safe copying from a shared LockRefPtr instance. I've
inspected the uses of RefPtr<PhysicalPage> and it seems they're all
guarded by external locking. Some of it is less obvious, but this is
an area where we're making continuous headway.
Until now, our kernel has reimplemented a number of AK classes to
provide automatic internal locking:
- RefPtr
- NonnullRefPtr
- WeakPtr
- Weakable
This patch renames the Kernel classes so that they can coexist with
the original AK classes:
- RefPtr => LockRefPtr
- NonnullRefPtr => NonnullLockRefPtr
- WeakPtr => LockWeakPtr
- Weakable => LockWeakable
The goal here is to eventually get rid of the Lock* classes in favor of
using external locking.
All users which relied on the default constructor use a None lock rank
for now. This will make it easier to in the future remove LockRank and
actually annotate the ranks by searching for None.
This new type of VMObject will be used to coordinate switching safely
from graphical mode to text mode and vice-versa, by supplying a way to
remap all Regions that were created with this object, so mappings can be
changed according to the given state of system mode. This makes it quite
easy to give applications like WindowServer the feeling of having full
access to the framebuffer device from a DisplayConnector, but still keep
the Kernel in control to be able to safely switch to text console.
These infallible resource factory functions were only there to ease the
conversion to the new factory functions. Since all child classes of
VMObject now use the fallible resource factory functions, we don't
need the infallible versions anymore.
This commit moves the allocation of the resources required for VMObject
from its constructors to the constructors of its child classes.
We're making this change to give the child classes the chance to expose
the fallibility of the allocation.
We now use AK::Error and AK::ErrorOr<T> in both kernel and userspace!
This was a slightly tedious refactoring that took a long time, so it's
not unlikely that some bugs crept in.
Nevertheless, it does pass basic functionality testing, and it's just
real nice to finally see the same pattern in all contexts. :^)
The VMObject class now manages its own instance list (it was previously
a member of MemoryManager.) Removal from the list is done safely on the
last unref(), closing a race window in the previous implementation.
Note that VMObject::all_instances() now has its own lock instead of
using the global MM lock.
This makes for nicer handling of errors compared to checking whether a
RefPtr is null. Additionally, this will give way to return different
types of errors in the future.
