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Author SHA1 Message Date
Liav A.
cb10f70394 Kernel: Change internal handling of filesystem-specific options
Instead of using a raw `KBuffer` and letting each implementation to
populating the specific flags on its own, we change things so we only
let each FileSystem implementation to validate the flag and its value
but then store it in a HashMap which its key is the flag name and
the value is a special new class called `FileSystemSpecificOption`
which wraps around `AK::Variant<...>`.

This approach has multiple advantages over the previous:
- It allows runtime inspection of what the user has set on a `MountFile`
  description for a specific filesystem.
- It ensures accidental overriding of filesystem specific option that
  was already set is not possible
- It removes ugly casting of a `KBuffer` contents to a strongly-typed
  values. Instead, a strongly-typed `AK::Variant` is used which ensures
  we always get a value without doing any casting.

Please note that we have removed support for ASCII string-oriented flags
as there were no actual use cases, and supporting such type would make
`FileSystemSpecificOption` more complicated unnecessarily for now.
2024-08-03 20:35:06 +02:00
Dan Klishch
5ed7cd6e32 Everywhere: Use east const in more places
These changes are compatible with clang-format 16 and will be mandatory
when we eventually bump clang-format version. So, since there are no
real downsides, let's commit them now.
2024-04-19 06:31:19 -04:00
Liav A
d8b514873f Kernel: Use FixedStringBuffer for fixed-length strings in syscalls
Using the kernel stack is preferable, especially when the examined
strings should be limited to a reasonable length.

This is a small improvement, because if we don't actually move these
strings then we don't need to own heap allocations for them during the
syscall handler function scope.

In addition to that, some kernel strings are known to be limited, like
the hostname string, for these strings we also can use FixedStringBuffer
to store and copy to and from these buffers, without using any heap
allocations at all.
2023-08-09 21:06:54 -06:00
Liav A
23a7ccf607 Kernel+LibCore+LibC: Split the mount syscall into multiple syscalls
This is a preparation before we can create a usable mechanism to use
filesystem-specific mount flags.
To keep some compatibility with userland code, LibC and LibCore mount
functions are kept being usable, but now instead of doing an "atomic"
syscall, they do multiple syscalls to perform the complete procedure of
mounting a filesystem.

The FileBackedFileSystem IntrusiveList in the VFS code is now changed to
be protected by a Mutex, because when we mount a new filesystem, we need
to check if a filesystem is already created for a given source_fd so we
do a scan for that OpenFileDescription in that list. If we fail to find
an already-created filesystem we create a new one and register it in the
list if we successfully mounted it. We use a Mutex because we might need
to initiate disk access during the filesystem creation, which will take
other mutexes in other parts of the kernel, therefore making it not
possible to take a spinlock while doing this.
2023-07-02 01:04:51 +02:00