This syscall sends a signal to other threads or itself. This mechanism
is already guarded by locking mechanisms, and widely used within the
kernel without help from the big lock.
...and also make the Process tick counters clock_t instead of u32.
It seems harmless to get interrupted in the middle of reading these
counters and reporting slightly fewer ticks in some category.
Expand the following types from 32-bit to 64-bit:
- blkcnt_t
- blksize_t
- dev_t
- nlink_t
- suseconds_t
- clock_t
This matches their size on other 64-bit systems.
This syscall is only concerned with the current thread (except in the
case of a pledge violation, when it will add some details about that
to the process coredump metadata. That stuff is already serialized.)
This syscall operates on the file descriptor table, and on individual
open file descriptions. Both of those are already protected by scoped
locking mechanisms.
This syscall had a TOCTOU where it checked the peer's PPID before
locking the protected data (where the PPID is stored).
After closing the race window, we can mark the syscall as not needing
the big lock.
It makes much more sense to have these actions being performed via the
prctl syscall, as they both require 2 plain arguments to be passed to
the syscall layer, and in contrast to most syscalls, we don't get in
these removed syscalls an automatic representation of Userspace<T>, but
two FlatPtr(s) to perform casting on them in the prctl syscall which is
suited to what has been done in the removed syscalls.
Also, it makes sense to have these actions in the prctl syscall, because
they are strongly related to the process control concept of the prctl
syscall.
Any userspace cpp file that included <syscall.h> would end up with
a large glob of Kernel headers included, all the way down to
Kernel/Arch/x86_64/CPU.h and friends.
Only the kernel needs RegisterState, so hide it from userspace.
This allows us to get rid of an include to LibC/sys/ttydefaults.h in the
Kernel TTY implementation.
Also, move ttydefchars static const struct to another file called
Kernel/API/ttydefaultschars.h, so it could be used too in the Kernel TTY
implementation without the need to include anything from LibC.
Instead of using a special case of the annotate_mapping syscall, let's
introduce a new prctl option to disallow further annotations of Regions
as new syscall Region(s).
This is necessary to support the wayland protocol.
I also moved the CMSG_* macros to the kernel API since they are used in
both kernel and userspace.
this does not break ntpquery/SCM_TIMESTAMP.
This replaces manually grabbing the thread's main lock.
This lets us remove the `get_thread_name` and `set_thread_name` syscalls
from the big lock. :^)
This patch removes the x86 mechanism for calling syscalls, favoring
the more modern syscall instruction. It also moves architecture
dependent code from functions that are meant to be architecture
agnostic therefore paving the way for adding more architectures.
This header has always been fundamentally a Kernel API file. Move it
where it belongs. Include it directly in Kernel files, and make
Userland applications include it via sys/ioctl.h rather than directly.
Reduce inclusion of limits.h as much as possible at the same time.
This does mean that kmalloc.h is now including Kernel/API/POSIX/limits.h
instead of LibC/limits.h, but the scope could be limited a lot more.
Basically every file in the kernel includes kmalloc.h, and needs the
limits.h include for PAGE_SIZE.
Before this patch, Core::SessionManagement::parse_path_with_sid() would
figure out the root session ID by sifting through /sys/kernel/processes.
That file can take quite a while to generate (sometimes up to 40ms on my
machine, which is a problem on its own!) and with no caching, many of
our programs were effectively doing this multiple times on startup when
unveiling something in /tmp/session/%sid/
While we should find ways to make generating /sys/kernel/processes fast
again, this patch addresses the specific problem by introducing a new
syscall: sys$get_root_session_id(). This extracts the root session ID
by looking directly at the process table and takes <1ms instead of 40ms.
This cuts WebContent process startup time by ~100ms on my machine. :^)
