I feel like this concept might be useful in more places. It's very naive
right now and uses dynamically growing buffers. It should really use static
size buffers and never kmalloc().
...by adding a new class called Ext2Inode that inherits CoreInode.
The idea is that a vnode will wrap a CoreInode rather than InodeIdentifier.
Each CoreInode subclass can keep whatever caches they like.
Right now, Ext2Inode caches the list of block indices since it can be very
expensive to retrieve.
I was surprised to find that dup()'ed fds don't share the close-on-exec flag.
That means it has to be stored separately from the FileDescriptor object.
Pass the file name in a stack-allocated buffer instead of using an AK::String
when iterating directories. This dramatically reduces the amount of cycles
spent traversing the filesystem.
Skip over entirely full buckets when scanning for a big-enough memory slot.
This means I can postpone writing a better kmalloc() for a while longer! :^)
The ELF loader was doing huge amounts of unnecessary work.
Got rid of the "export symbols" and relocation passes since we don't need them.
They were useful things when bringing up the ELF loading code.
Also added a simple TSC-based Stopwatch RAII thingy to help debug performance issues.
After I made stdio buffered, we were dropping anything unflushed on exit.
Since /bin/clear just prints out some escape sequences without a newline,
the entire buffer was being discarded.
Also add VirtualConsole::clear() that handles clearing of background VC's.
Instead of memcpy'ing the entire screen every time we press enter at the
bottom, use the VGA start address register to make a "view" onto the
underlying memory that moves downward as we scroll.
Eventually we run out of memory and have to reset to the start of the
buffer. That's when we memcpy everything. It would be cool if there was
some way to get the hardware to act like a ring buffer with automatic
wrapping here but I don't know how to do that.
I didn't even put the { } properly around everything that would leak.
Let's make sure this works correctly by splitting out the work into a
helper called do_exec().
- Process::exec() needs to restore the original paging scope when called
on a non-current process.
- Add missing InterruptDisabler guards around g_processes access.
- Only flush the TLB when modifying the active page tables.
This is really sweet! :^) The four instances of /bin/sh spawned at
startup now share their read-only text pages.
There are problems and limitations here, and plenty of room for
improvement. But it kinda works.
All right, we can now mmap() a file and it gets magically paged in from fs
in response to an NP page fault. This is really cool :^)
I need to refactor this to support sharing of read-only file-backed pages,
but it's cool to just have something working.
First of all, change sys$mmap to take a struct SC_mmap_params since our
sycsall calling convention can't handle more than 3 arguments.
This exposed a bug in Syscall::invoke() needing to use clobber lists.
It was a bit confusing to debug. :^)
