We no longer disable interrupts around the whole affair.
Since MM manages per-process data structures, this works quite smoothly now.
Only procfs had to be tweaked with an InterruptDisabler.
I'm still playing around with finding a style that I like.
This is starting to feel pleasing to the eye. I guess this is how long
it took me to break free from the habit of my previous Qt/WK coding style.
I spent some time stuck on a problem where processes would clobber each
other's stacks. Took me a moment to figure out that their stacks
were allocated in the sub-4MB linear address range which is shared
between all processes. Oops!
We now make three VirtualConsoles at boot: tty0, tty1, and tty2.
We launch an instance of /bin/sh in each one.
You switch between them with Alt+1/2/3
How very very cool :^)
The SpinLock was all backwards and didn't actually work. Fixing it exposed
how wrong most of the locking here is.
I need to come up with a better granularity here.
I also added a generator cache to FileHandle. This way, multiple
reads to a generated file (i.e in a synthfs) can transparently
handle multiple calls to read() without the contents changing
between calls.
The cache is discarded at EOF (or when the FileHandle is destroyed.)
FileHandle gets a hasDataAvailableForRead() getter.
If this returns true in sys$read(), the task will block(BlockedRead) + yield.
The fd blocked on is stored in Task::m_fdBlockedOnRead.
The scheduler then looks at the state of that fd during the unblock phase.
This makes "sh" restful. :^)
There's still some problem with the kernel not surviving the colonel task
getting scheduled. I need to figure that out and fix it.
It's implemented as a separate process. How cute is that.
Tasks now have a current working directory. Spawned tasks inherit their
parent task's working directory.
Currently everyone just uses "/" as there's no way to chdir().
Add a separate lock to protect the VFS. I think this might be a good idea.
I'm not sure it's a good approach though. I'll fiddle with it as I go along.
It's really fun to figure out all these things on my own.
- Turn Keyboard into a CharacterDevice (85,1) at /dev/keyboard.
- Implement MM::unmapRegionsForTask() and MM::unmapRegion()
- Save SS correctly on interrupt.
- Add a simple Spawn syscall for launching another process.
- Move a bunch of IO syscall debug output behind DEBUG_IO.
- Have ASSERT do a "cli" immediately when failing.
This makes the output look proper every time.
- Implement a bunch of syscalls in LibC.
- Add a simple shell ("sh"). All it can do now is read a line
of text from /dev/keyboard and then try launching the specified
executable by calling spawn().
There are definitely bugs in here, but we're moving on forward.
- More work on funneling console output through Console.
- init() now breaks off into a separate task ASAP.
- ..this leaves the "colonel" task as a simple hlt idle loop.
- Mask all IRQs on startup (except IRQ2 for slave passthru)
- Fix underallocation bug in Task::allocateRegion().
- Remember how many times each Task has been scheduled.
The panel and scheduling banner are disabled until I get things
working nicely in the (brave) new Console world.
This leaves interrupts enabled while we're in the kernel, which is
precisely what we want.
This uncovered a horrendous problem with kernel tasks silently
overflowing their stacks. For now I've simply increased the stack size
but I need a more MMU-y solution for this eventually.
We load /_hello.o which just prints out a simple message.
It executes inside the kernel itself, so no fancy userspace process
or anything, but this is still so cool!
