Apparently on VirtualBox the keyboard device refused to complete the
reset sequence. With longer delays and more attempts before giving up,
it seems like the problem is gone.
If we crashed in the middle of mapping in Regions, some of the regions
may not have a page directory yet, and will result in a crash when
Region::remap() is called.
We were frequently dropping packets when downloading large files.
Then we had to wait for TCP retransmission which slowed things down.
This patch dramatically improves E1000 throughput by increasing the
number of RX/TX buffers from 32/8 to 256/256.
The largest chunk of JavaScript from Discord now downloads in roughly
1 second instead of 7 seconds. :^)
If someone specifically wants contiguous memory in the low-physical-
address-for-DMA range ("super pages"), they can use the
allocate_dma_buffer_pages() helper.
Not only does it makes the code more robust and correct as it allows
error propagation, it allows us to enforce timeouts on waiting loops so
we don't hang forever, by waiting for the i8042 controller to respond to
us.
Therefore, it makes the i8042 more resilient against faulty hardware and
bad behaving chipsets out there.
If we don't do so, we just hang forever because we assume there's i8042
controller in the system, which is not a valid assumption for modern PC
hardware.
If the bootloader that loaded us is providing a framebuffer details from
the Multiboot protocol then we can instantiate a framebuffer console.
Otherwise, we should use a text mode console, assuming that the BIOS and
the bootloader didn't try to modeset the screen resolution so we have is
a VGA 80x25 text mode being displayed on screen.
Since "boot_framebuffer_console" is no longer a good representative as a
global variable name, it's changed to g_boot_console to match the fact
that it can be assigned with a text mode console and not framebuffer
console if needed.
Not sure how it's useful to do so, let's not assert if something tries
to disable it. If we will use TextModeConsole as a boot console, that
console will be disabled after loading an appropriate console to replace
it.
Instead, we can construct this type of object without having to
instantiate a VGACompatibleAdapter object first.
This can help instantiate such console very early on boot to aid debug
issues on bare metal hardware.
Function-local `static constexpr` variables can be `constexpr`. This
can reduce memory consumption, binary size, and offer additional
compiler optimizations.
These changes result in a stripped x86_64 kernel binary size reduction
of 592 bytes.
This is not ASCII-betical because `_` comes after all the uppercase
characters. Treating `_` as a ` ` (space character), these lists are
now alphabetical.
The global variable use in these functions is super thread-unsafe and
means that any concurrent calls to sprintf or fprintf in a process
could race with each other and end up writing unexpected results.
We can just replace the function + global variable with a lambda that
captures the relevant argument when calling printf_internal instead.
Rename the bound socket accessor from socket() to bound_socket().
Also return RefPtr<LocalSocket> instead of a raw pointer, to make it
harder for callers to mess up.
Previously we would return a bytes written value of 0 if the writing end
of the socket was full. Now we either exit with EAGAIN if the socket
description is non-blocking, or block until the description can be
written to.
This is mostly a copy of the conditions in sys$write but with the "total
nwritten" parts removed as sys$sendmsg does not have that.
1. When receiving FIN while in FinWait1, we now reply with ACK
in addition to the FinWait1->Closing transition.
2. When receiving FIN|ACK while in FinWait1, we now reply with
ACK and transition from FinWait1->TimeWait.
3. When receiving FIN while in FinWait2, we now reply with ACK.
When GraphicsManagement initializes the drivers we can disable the
bootloader framebuffer console. Right now we don't yet fully destroy
the no longer needed console as it may be in use by another CPU.
Instead of seeing a black screen until GraphicsManagement was fully
initialized, this allows us to see the console output much earlier.
So, if the bootloader provided us with a framebuffer, set up a console
as early as possible.
The GenericFramebufferConsoleImpl class implements the logic without
taking into account any other details such as synchronization. The
GenericFramebufferConsole class then is a simple wrapper around
GenericFramebufferConsoleImpl that takes care of synchronization.
This allows us to re-use this implementation with e.g. different
synchronization schemes.
As make<T> is infallible, it really should not be used anywhere in the
Kernel. Instead replace with fallible `new (nothrow)` calls, that will
eventually be error-propagated.
