We now have these API's in <Kernel/Random.h>:
- get_fast_random_bytes(u8* buffer, size_t buffer_size)
- get_good_random_bytes(u8* buffer, size_t buffer_size)
- get_fast_random<T>()
- get_good_random<T>()
Internally they both use x86 RDRAND if available, otherwise they fall
back to the same LCG we had in RandomDevice all along.
The main purpose of this patch is to give kernel code a way to better
express its needs for random data.
Randomness is something that will require a lot more work, but this is
hopefully a step in the right direction.
The new PCI subsystem is initialized during runtime.
PCI::Initializer is supposed to be called during early boot, to
perform a few tests, and initialize the proper configuration space
access mechanism. Kernel boot parameters can be specified by a user to
determine what tests will occur, to aid debugging on problematic
machines.
After that, PCI::Initializer should be dismissed.
PCI::IOAccess is a class that is derived from PCI::Access
class and implements PCI configuration space access mechanism via x86
IO ports.
PCI::MMIOAccess is a class that is derived from PCI::Access
and implements PCI configurtaion space access mechanism via memory
access.
The new PCI subsystem also supports determination of IO/MMIO space
needed by a device by checking a given BAR.
In addition, Every device or component that use the PCI subsystem has
changed to match the last changes.
Okay, one "dunce hat" point for me. The new PTY majors conflicted with
PATAChannel. Now they are 200 for master and 201 for slave, not used
by anything else.. I hope!
Instead of waking up repeatedly to check if a disk operation has
finished, use a WaitQueue and wake it up in the IRQ handler.
This simplifies the device driver a bit, and makes it more responsive
as well :^)
The kernel is now no longer identity mapped to the bottom 8MiB of
memory, and is now mapped at the higher address of `0xc0000000`.
The lower ~1MiB of memory (from GRUB's mmap), however is still
identity mapped to provide an easy way for the kernel to get
physical pages for things such as DMA etc. These could later be
mapped to the higher address too, as I'm not too sure how to
go about doing this elegantly without a lot of address subtractions.
Also added an option in the run script to force PIO operation mode with
the IDE controller.
In addition, we're no longer limited to PIIX3 and PIIX4 chipsets for DMA
Now that the SystemMonitor queries which open files can be read and written to,
having can_read()/can_write() unconditionally call ASSERT_NOT_REACHED() leads
to system crashes when inspecting the WindowServer.
Instead, just return true from can_read()/can_write() (indicating that the
read()/write() syscalls should not block) and return -EINVAL when trying to
actually read from or write to these devices.
This helps aid debugging of issues such as #695, where the bridge chip
that controls IDE is NOT a PIIX3/4 compatible controller. Instead of
just hanging when the DMA registers can't be accessed, the system will
inform the user that no valid IDE controller has been found. In this
case, the system will not attempt to initialise the DMA registers and
instead use PIO mode.
Fixed an issue with operator precedence in calls to `send_byte()`, in
which a value of `1` was being sent to the function. This had the
nasty side-effect of selecting the slave drive if the value of
`head` was equal to one. A read/write would fail in the case, as
it would attempt to read from the slave drive (not good).
I've also added a seek to the top of the read/write code, which seems
to have fixed an issue with Linux not detecting the disk images after
they have been unmounted from Serenity. This isn't specified in the
datasheet, but a few other drivers have it so we should too :^)
Also added a script to handle creation of GPT partitioned disk (with
GRUB config file). Block limit will be used to disallow potential access
to other partitions.
This was a workaround to be able to build on case-insensitive file
systems where it might get confused about <string.h> vs <String.h>.
Let's just not support building that way, so String.h can have an
objectively nicer name. :^)
The alternate status register is not part of the same set of registers
as all the other stuff.
Also rename wait_400ns() to io_delay() since we had no guarantee that
it was waiting for 400ns..
Motor Enable now selects the correct drive. The ternary
operations were backwards. QEMU doesn't care (obviously) but
on a real PC, the drive doesn't actually ever get selected...
This implements a very basic VGA device using the information provided
to us by the bootloader in the multiboot header. This allows Serenity to
boot to the desktop on basically any halfway modern system.
The complication is around /proc/sys/ variables, which were attached
to inodes. Now they're their own thing, and the corresponding inodes
are lazily created (as all other ProcFS inodes are) and simply refer
to them by index.
Our logic for using the ATA_CMD_CACHE_FLUSH functionality was a bit wrong,
and now it's better.
The ATA spec says these two things:
> The device shall enter the interrupt pending state when:
> 1) any command except a PIO data-in command reaches command completion
> successfully;
> ...
> The device shall exit the interrupt pending state when:
> 1) the device is selected, BSY is cleared to zero, and the Status
> register is read;
This means that our sequence of actions was probably never going to work.
We were waiting in a loop checking the status register until it left the
busy state, _then_ waiting for an interrupt. Unfortunately by checking the
status register, we were _clearing_ the interrupt we were about to wait
for.
Now we just wait for the interrupt - we don't poll the status register at
all. This also means that once we get our `wait_for_irq` method sorted out
we'll spend a bunch less CPU time waiting for things to complete.
Apparently we need to poll the drive for its status after each sector we
read if we're not doing DMA. Previously we only did it at the start,
which resulted in every sector after the first in a batch having 12 bytes
of garbage on the end. This manifested as silent read corruption.
Since this key number doesn't appear to collide with anything on the
US keymap, I was thinking we could get away with supporting a hybrid
US/UK keymap. :^)
InodeVMObject is a VMObject with an underlying Inode in the filesystem.
AnonymousVMObject has no Inode.
I'm happy that InodeVMObject::inode() can now return Inode& instead of
VMObject::inode() return Inode*. :^)
