sys$fork() now clones all writable regions with per-page COW bits.
The pages are then mapped read-only and we handle a PF by COWing the pages.
This is quite delightful. Obviously there's lots of work to do still,
and it needs better data structures, but the general concept works.
This turned out way better than the old code. ELF loading is now quite
straightforward, and we don't need the weird concept of subregions anymore.
Next step is to respect the is_writable flag.
We no longer disable interrupts around the whole affair.
Since MM manages per-process data structures, this works quite smoothly now.
Only procfs had to be tweaked with an InterruptDisabler.
I added an RAII helper called OtherTaskPagingScope. While present,
it switches the kernel over to using another task's page directory.
This is perfect for e.g walking the stack in /proc/PID/stack.
I spent some time stuck on a problem where processes would clobber each
other's stacks. Took me a moment to figure out that their stacks
were allocated in the sub-4MB linear address range which is shared
between all processes. Oops!
This isn't finished but I'll commit as I go. We need to get to where context
switching only needs to change CR3 and everything's ready to go.
My basic idea is:
- The first 4 kB is off-limits. This catches null dereferences.
- Up to the 4 MB mark is identity-mapped and kernel-only.
- The rest is available to everyone!
While the first 4 MB is only available to the kernel, it's still mapped in
every process, for convenience when entering the kernel.
We now make three VirtualConsoles at boot: tty0, tty1, and tty2.
We launch an instance of /bin/sh in each one.
You switch between them with Alt+1/2/3
How very very cool :^)
- sys$readlink + readlink()
- Add a /proc/PID/exe symlink to the process's executable.
- Print symlink contents in ls output.
- Some work on plumbing options into VFS::open().
Sweet, now we can look at all the zones (physical memory) currently in play.
Building the procfs files with ksprintf and rickety buffer presizing feels
pretty shoddy but I'll fix it up eventually.
This shows some info about the MM. Right now it's just the zone count
and the number of free physical pages. Lots more can be added.
Also added "exit" to sh so we can nest shells and exit from them.
I also noticed that we were leaking all the physical pages, so fixed that.
This took me a couple hours. :^)
The ELF loading code now allocates a single region for the entire
file and creates virtual memory mappings for the sections as needed.
Very nice!
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.)
I added a dead-simple malloc that only allows allocations < 4096 bytes.
It just forwards the request to mmap() every time.
I also added simplified versions of opendir() and readdir().
The naive spinlock was not nearly enough to protect kmalloc from
reentrancy problems.
I don't want to deal with coming up with a fancy lock for kmalloc
right now, so I made an InterruptDisabler thingy instead.
It does CLI and then STI iff interrupts were previously enabled.
- putch syscall now directly calls Console::putChar().
- /proc/summary includes some info about kmalloc stats.
- Syscall entry is guarded by a simple spinlock.
- Unmap regions for crashed tasks.
