The signal trampoline was previously in kernelspace memory, but with
a special exception to make it user-accessible.
This patch moves it into each process's regular address space so we
can stop supporting user-allowed memory above 0xc0000000.
This patch adds Space, a class representing a process's address space.
- Each Process has a Space.
- The Space owns the PageDirectory and all Regions in the Process.
This allows us to reorganize sys$execve() so that it constructs and
populates a new Space fully before committing to it.
Previously, we would construct the new address space while still
running in the old one, and encountering an error meant we had to do
tedious and error-prone rollback.
Those problems are now gone, replaced by what's hopefully a set of much
smaller problems and missing cleanups. :^)
Wrap thread creation in a Thread::try_create() helper that first
allocates a kernel stack region. If that allocation fails, we propagate
an ENOMEM error to the caller.
This avoids the situation where a thread is half-constructed, without a
valid kernel stack, and avoids having to do messy cleanup in that case.
There's no need for this to be generic and support running from an
arbitrary thread context. Perf events are always generated from within
the thread being profiled, so take advantage of that to simplify the
code. Also use Vector capacity to avoid heap allocations.
This allows us to get rid of the thread lists in SchedulerData.
Also, instead of iterating over all threads to find a thread by id,
just use a lookup table. In the rare case of having to iterate over
all threads, just iterate the lookup table.
Rather than walking all Thread instances and putting them into
a vector to be sorted by priority, queue them into priority sorted
linked lists as soon as they become ready to be executed.
Attempt to wake idle processors to get threads to be scheduled more quickly.
We don't want to wait until the next timer tick if we have processors that
aren't doing anything.
This allows us to determine what the previous mode (user or kernel)
was, e.g. in the timer interrupt. This is used e.g. to determine
whether a signal handler should be set up.
Fixes#5096
Let's force callers to provide a VM range when allocating a region.
This makes ENOMEM error handling more visible and removes implicit
VM allocation which felt a bit magical.
This was done with the help of several scripts, I dump them here to
easily find them later:
awk '/#ifdef/ { print "#cmakedefine01 "$2 }' AK/Debug.h.in
for debug_macro in $(awk '/#ifdef/ { print $2 }' AK/Debug.h.in)
do
find . \( -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.h' -o -name '*.in' \) -not -path './Toolchain/*' -not -path './Build/*' -exec sed -i -E 's/#ifdef '$debug_macro'/#if '$debug_macro'/' {} \;
done
# Remember to remove WRAPPER_GERNERATOR_DEBUG from the list.
awk '/#cmake/ { print "set("$2" ON)" }' AK/Debug.h.in
It was possible to signal a process while it was paging in an inode
backed VM object. This would cause the inode read to EINTR, and the
page fault handler would assert.
Solve this by simply not unblocking threads due to signals if they are
currently busy handling a page fault. This is probably not the best way
to solve this issue, so I've added a FIXME to that effect.
These changes are arbitrarily divided into multiple commits to make it
easier to find potentially introduced bugs with git bisect.
This commit touches some dbg() calls which are enclosed in macros. This
should be fine because with the new constexpr stuff, we ensure that the
stuff actually compiles.
Problem:
- Many constructors are defined as `{}` rather than using the ` =
default` compiler-provided constructor.
- Some types provide an implicit conversion operator from `nullptr_t`
instead of requiring the caller to default construct. This violates
the C++ Core Guidelines suggestion to declare single-argument
constructors explicit
(https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines#c46-by-default-declare-single-argument-constructors-explicit).
Solution:
- Change default constructors to use the compiler-provided default
constructor.
- Remove implicit conversion operators from `nullptr_t` and change
usage to enforce type consistency without conversion.
This patch merges the profiling functionality in the kernel with the
performance events mechanism. A profiler sample is now just another
perf event, rather than a dedicated thing.
Since perf events were already per-process, this now makes profiling
per-process as well.
Processes with perf events would already write out a perfcore.PID file
to the current directory on death, but since we may want to profile
a process and then let it continue running, recorded perf events can
now be accessed at any time via /proc/PID/perf_events.
This patch also adds information about process memory regions to the
perfcore JSON format. This removes the need to supply a core dump to
the Profiler app for symbolication, and so the "profiler coredump"
mechanism is removed entirely.
There's still a hard limit of 4MB worth of perf events per process,
so this is by no means a perfect final design, but it's a nice step
forward for both simplicity and stability.
Fixes#4848Fixes#4849
If the allocation fails (e.g ENOMEM) we want to simply return an error
from sys$execve() and continue executing the current executable.
This patch also moves make_userspace_stack_for_main_thread() out of the
Thread class since it had nothing in particular to do with Thread.
Now that the CrashDaemon symbolicates crashes in userspace, let's take
this one step further and stop trying to symbolicate userspace programs
in the kernel at all.
This implements a number of changes related to time:
* If a HPET is present, it is now used only as a system timer, unless
the Local APIC timer is used (in which case the HPET timer will not
trigger any interrupts at all).
* If a HPET is present, the current time can now be as accurate as the
chip can be, independently from the system timer. We now query the
HPET main counter for the current time in CPU #0's system timer
interrupt, and use that as a base line. If a high precision time is
queried, that base line is used in combination with quering the HPET
timer directly, which should give a much more accurate time stamp at
the expense of more overhead. For faster time stamps, the more coarse
value based on the last interrupt will be returned. This also means
that any missed interrupts should not cause the time to drift.
* The default system interrupt rate is reduced to about 250 per second.
* Fix calculation of Thread CPU usage by using the amount of ticks they
used rather than the number of times a context switch happened.
* Implement CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE and use it
for most cases where precise timestamps are not needed.
Problem:
- `(void)` simply casts the expression to void. This is understood to
indicate that it is ignored, but this is really a compiler trick to
get the compiler to not generate a warning.
Solution:
- Use the `[[maybe_unused]]` attribute to indicate the value is unused.
Note:
- Functions taking a `(void)` argument list have also been changed to
`()` because this is not needed and shows up in the same grep
command.
We need to account for how many shared lock instances the current
thread owns, so that we can properly release such references when
yielding execution.
We also need to release the process lock when donating.
When a process crashes, we generate a coredump file and write it in
/tmp/coredumps/.
The coredump file is an ELF file of type ET_CORE.
It contains a segment for every userspace memory region of the process,
and an additional PT_NOTE segment that contains the registers state for
each thread, and a additional data about memory regions
(e.g their name).
When the main executable needs an interpreter, we load the requested
interpreter program, and pass to it an open file decsriptor to the main
executable via the auxiliary vector.
Note that we do not allocate a TLS region for the interpreter.
This prevents zombies created by multi-threaded applications and brings
our model back to closer to what other OSs do.
This also means that SIGSTOP needs to halt all threads, and SIGCONT needs
to resume those threads.
Fix some problems with join blocks where the joining thread block
condition was added twice, which lead to a crash when trying to
unblock that condition a second time.
Deferred block condition evaluation by File objects were also not
properly keeping the File object alive, which lead to some random
crashes and corruption problems.
Other problems were caused by the fact that the Queued state didn't
handle signals/interruptions consistently. To solve these issues we
remove this state entirely, along with Thread::wait_on and change
the WaitQueue into a BlockCondition instead.
Also, deliver signals even if there isn't going to be a context switch
to another thread.
Fixes#4336 and #4330
This allows us to use blocking timeouts with either monotonic or
real time for all blockers. Which means that clock_nanosleep()
now also supports CLOCK_REALTIME.
Also, switch alarm() to use CLOCK_REALTIME as per specification.
This changes the Thread::wait_on function to not enable interrupts
upon leaving, which caused some problems with page fault handlers
and in other situations. It may now be called from critical
sections, with interrupts enabled or disabled, and returns to the
same state.
This also requires some fixes to Lock. To aid debugging, a new
define LOCK_DEBUG is added that enables checking for Lock leaks
upon finalization of a Thread.
This makes the Scheduler a lot leaner by not having to evaluate
block conditions every time it is invoked. Instead evaluate them as
the states change, and unblock threads at that point.
This also implements some more waitid/waitpid/wait features and
behavior. For example, WUNTRACED and WNOWAIT are now supported. And
wait will now not return EINTR when SIGCHLD is delivered at the
same time.
This adds the ability to pass a pointer to kernel thread/process.
Also add the ability to use a closure as thread function, which
allows passing information to a kernel thread more easily.
Use the TimerQueue to expire blocking operations, which is one less thing
the Scheduler needs to check on every iteration.
Also, add a BlockTimeout class that will automatically handle relative or
absolute timeouts as well as overriding timeouts (e.g. socket timeouts)
more consistently.
Also, rework the TimerQueue class to be able to fire events from
any processor, which requires Timer to be RefCounted. Also allow
creating id-less timers for use by blocking operations.
We should never resume a thread by directly setting it to Running state.
Instead, if a thread was in Running state when stopped, record the state
as Runnable.
Fixes#4150
The time returned by sys$clock_gettime() was not aligned with the delay
calculations in sys$clock_nanosleep(). This patch fixes that by taking
the system's ticks_per_second value into account in both functions.
This patch also removes the need for Thread::sleep_until() and uses
Thread::sleep() for both absolute and relative sleeps.
This was causing the nesalizer emulator port to sleep for a negative
amount of time at the end of each frame, making it run way too fast.
This makes most operations thread safe, especially so that they
can safely be used in the Kernel. This includes obtaining a strong
reference from a weak reference, which now requires an explicit
call to WeakPtr::strong_ref(). Another major change is that
Weakable::make_weak_ref() may require the explicit target type.
Previously we used reinterpret_cast in WeakPtr, assuming that it
can be properly converted. But WeakPtr does not necessarily have
the knowledge to be able to do this. Instead, we now ask the class
itself to deliver a WeakPtr to the type that we want.
Also, WeakLink is no longer specific to a target type. The reason
for this is that we want to be able to safely convert e.g. WeakPtr<T>
to WeakPtr<U>, and before this we just reinterpret_cast the internal
WeakLink<T> to WeakLink<U>, which is a bold assumption that it would
actually produce the correct code. Instead, WeakLink now operates
on just a raw pointer and we only make those constructors/operators
available if we can verify that it can be safely cast.
In order to guarantee thread safety, we now use the least significant
bit in the pointer for locking purposes. This also means that only
properly aligned pointers can be used.
g_scheduler_lock cannot safely be acquired after Thread::m_lock
because another processor may already hold g_scheduler_lock and wait
for the same Thread::m_lock.
Similar to Process, we need to make Thread refcounted. This will solve
problems that will appear once we schedule threads on more than one
processor. This allows us to hold onto threads without necessarily
holding the scheduler lock for the entire duration.
The thread joining logic hadn't been updated to account for the subtle
differences introduced by software context switching. This fixes several
race conditions related to thread destruction and joining, as well as
finalization which did not properly account for detached state and the
fact that threads can be joined after termination as long as they're not
detached.
Fixes#3596
There are plenty of places in the kernel that aren't
checking if they actually got their allocation.
This fixes some of them, but definitely not all.
Fixes#3390Fixes#3391
Also, let's make find_one_free_page() return nullptr
if it doesn't get a free index. This stops the kernel
crashing when out of memory and allows memory purging
to take place again.
Fixes#3487
Since the CPU already does almost all necessary validation steps
for us, we don't really need to attempt to do this. Doing it
ourselves doesn't really work very reliably, because we'd have to
account for other processors modifying virtual memory, and we'd
have to account for e.g. pages not being able to be allocated
due to insufficient resources.
So change the copy_to/from_user (and associated helper functions)
to use the new safe_memcpy, which will return whether it succeeded
or not. The only manual validation step needed (which the CPU
can't perform for us) is making sure the pointers provided by user
mode aren't pointing to kernel mappings.
To make it easier to read/write from/to either kernel or user mode
data add the UserOrKernelBuffer helper class, which will internally
either use copy_from/to_user or directly memcpy, or pass the data
through directly using a temporary buffer on the stack.
Last but not least we need to keep syscall params trivial as we
need to copy them from/to user mode using copy_from/to_user.
Since "rings" typically refer to code execution and user processes
can also execute in ring 0, rename these functions to more accurately
describe what they mean: kernel processes and user processes.
In c3d231616c we added the atomic variable
m_have_any_unmasked_pending_signals tracking the state of pending signals.
Add helper functions that automatically update this variable as needed.
We need to wait until a thread is fully set up and ready for running
before attempting to deliver a signal. Otherwise we may not have a
user stack yet.
Also, remove the Skip0SchedulerPasses and Skip1SchedulerPass thread
states that we don't really need anymore with software context switching.
Fixes the kernel crash reported in #3419
Add an ExpandableHeap and switch kmalloc to use it, which allows
for the kmalloc heap to grow as needed.
In order to make heap expansion to work, we keep around a 1 MiB backup
memory region, because creating a region would require space in the
same heap. This means, the heap will grow as soon as the reported
utilization is less than 1 MiB. It will also return memory if an entire
subheap is no longer needed, although that is rarely possible.
Previously we were putting strings at the bottom of the allocated stack
region, and pointer arrays (argv, env, auxv) at the top. There was no
reason for this other than "it seemed easier to do it that way at the
time I wrote it."
This patch packs the strings and pointer vectors into the same area at
the top of the stack.
This reduces the memory footprint of all programs by 4 KiB. :^)
This enables a nice warning in case a function becomes dead code. Also, in case
of signal_trampoline_dummy, marking it external (non-static) prevents it from
being 'optimized away', which would lead to surprising and weird linker errors.
I found these places by using -Wmissing-declarations.
The Kernel still shows these issues, which I think are false-positives,
but don't want to touch:
- Kernel/Arch/i386/CPU.cpp:1081:17: void Kernel::enter_thread_context(Kernel::Thread*, Kernel::Thread*)
- Kernel/Arch/i386/CPU.cpp:1170:17: void Kernel::context_first_init(Kernel::Thread*, Kernel::Thread*, Kernel::TrapFrame*)
- Kernel/Arch/i386/CPU.cpp:1304:16: u32 Kernel::do_init_context(Kernel::Thread*, u32)
- Kernel/Arch/i386/CPU.cpp:1347:17: void Kernel::pre_init_finished()
- Kernel/Arch/i386/CPU.cpp:1360:17: void Kernel::post_init_finished()
No idea, not gonna touch it.
- Kernel/init.cpp:104:30: void Kernel::init()
- Kernel/init.cpp:167:30: void Kernel::init_ap(u32, Kernel::Processor*)
- Kernel/init.cpp:184:17: void Kernel::init_finished(u32)
Called by boot.S.
- Kernel/init.cpp:383:16: int Kernel::__cxa_atexit(void (*)(void*), void*, void*)
- Kernel/StdLib.cpp:285:19: void __cxa_pure_virtual()
- Kernel/StdLib.cpp:300:19: void __stack_chk_fail()
- Kernel/StdLib.cpp:305:19: void __stack_chk_fail_local()
Not sure how to tell the compiler that the compiler is already using them.
Also, maybe __cxa_atexit should go into StdLib.cpp?
- Kernel/Modules/TestModule.cpp:31:17: void module_init()
- Kernel/Modules/TestModule.cpp:40:17: void module_fini()
Could maybe go into a new header. This would also provide type-checking for new modules.
We need to always return from Thread::wait_on, even when a thread
is being killed. This is necessary so that the kernel call stack
can clean up and release references held by it. Then, right before
transitioning back to user mode, we check if the thread is
supposed to die, and at that point change the thread state to
Dying to prevent further scheduling of this thread.
This addresses some possible resource leaks similar to #3073
This compiles, and contains exactly the same bugs as before.
The regex 'FIXME: PID/' should reveal all markers that I left behind, including:
- Incomplete conversion
- Issues or things that look fishy
- Actual bugs that will go wrong during runtime
If a thread is waiting but getting killed, we need to dequeue
the thread from the WaitQueue so that a potential wake before
finalization doesn't happen.
Allow passing in an optional timeout to Thread::block and move
the timeout check out of Thread::Blocker. This way all Blockers
implicitly support timeouts and don't need to implement it
themselves. Do however allow them to override timeouts (e.g.
for sockets).
We need to have a Thread lock to protect threading related
operations, such as Thread::m_blocker which is used in
Thread::block.
Also, if a Thread::Blocker indicates that it should be
unblocking immediately, don't actually block the Thread
and instead return immediately in Thread::block.
This fixes a regression introduced by the new software context
switching where the Kernel would not deliver a signal unless the
process is making system calls. This is because the TSS no longer
updates the CS value, so the scheduler never considered delivery
as the process always appeared to be in kernel mode. With software
context switching we can just set up the signal trampoline at
any time and when the processor returns back to user mode it'll
get executed. This should fix e.g. killing programs that are
stuck in some tight loop that doesn't make any system calls and
is only pre-empted by the timer interrupt.
Fixes#2958
By making the Process class RefCounted we don't really need
ProcessInspectionHandle anymore. This also fixes some race
conditions where a Process may be deleted while still being
used by ProcFS.
Also make sure to acquire the Process' lock when accessing
regions.
Last but not least, there's no reason why a thread can't be
scheduled while being inspected, though in practice it won't
happen anyway because the scheduler lock is held at the same
time.
Because Thread::sleep is an internal interface, it's easy to check that there
are only few callers: Process::sys$sleep, usleep, and nanosleep are happy
with this increased size, because now they support the entire range of their
arguments (assuming small-ish values for ticks_per_second()).
SyncTask doesn't care.
Note that the old behavior wasn't "cap out at 388 days", which would have been
reasonable. Instead, the code resulted in unsigned overflow, meaning that a
very long sleep would "on average" end after about 194 days, sometimes much
quicker.
We now have BlockResult::WokeNormally and BlockResult::NotBlocked,
both of which indicate no error. We can no longer just check for
BlockResult::WokeNormally and assume anything else must be an
interruption.
The AT_* entries are placed after the environment variables, so that
they can be found by iterating until the end of the envp array, and then
going even further beyond :^)
We can now properly initialize all processors without
crashing by sending SMP IPI messages to synchronize memory
between processors.
We now initialize the APs once we have the scheduler running.
This is so that we can process IPI messages from the other
cores.
Also rework interrupt handling a bit so that it's more of a
1:1 mapping. We need to allocate non-sharable interrupts for
IPIs.
This also fixes the occasional hang/crash because all
CPUs now synchronize memory with each other.
The short-circuit path added for waiting on a queue that already had a
pending wake was able to return with interrupts disabled, which breaks
the API contract of wait_on() always returning with IF=1.
Fix this by adding a way to override the restored IF in ScopedCritical.
If WaitQueue::wake_all, WaitQueue::wake_one, or WaitQueue::wake_n
is called but nobody is currently waiting, we should remember that
fact and prevent someone from waiting after such a request. This
solves a race condition where the Finalizer thread is notified
to finalize a thread, but it is not (yet) waiting on this queue.
Fixes#2693
These changes solve a number of problems with the software
context swithcing:
* The scheduler lock really should be held throughout context switches
* Transitioning from the initial (idle) thread to another needs to
hold the scheduler lock
* Transitioning from a dying thread to another also needs to hold
the scheduler lock
* Dying threads cannot necessarily be finalized if they haven't
switched out of it yet, so flag them as active while a processor
is running it (the Running state may be switched to Dying while
it still is actually running)
The Lock class still permits no reason, but for everything else
require a reason to be passed to Thread::wait_on. This makes it
easier to diagnose why a Thread is in Queued state.
If we're trying to walk the stack for another thread, we can
no longer retreive the EBP register from Thread::m_tss. Instead,
we need to look at the top of the kernel stack, because all threads
not currently running were last in kernel mode. Context switches
now always trigger a brief switch to kernel mode, and Thread::m_tss
only is used to save ESP and EIP.
Fixes#2678
When delivering urgent signals to the current thread
we need to check if we should be unblocked, and if not
we need to yield to another process.
We also need to make sure that we suppress context switches
during Process::exec() so that we don't clobber the registers
that it sets up (eip mainly) by a context switch. To be able
to do that we add the concept of a critical section, which are
similar to Process::m_in_irq but different in that they can be
requested at any time. Calls to Scheduler::yield and
Scheduler::donate_to will return instantly without triggering
a context switch, but the processor will then asynchronously
trigger a context switch once the critical section is left.
If these methods get inlined, the compiler is able to statically eliminate most
of the assertions. Alas, it doesn't realize this, and believes inlining them to
be too expensive. So give it a strong hint that it's not the case.
This *decreases* the kernel binary size.
The public consumers of the timer API shouldn't need to know
the how timer id's are tracked internally. Expose a typedef
instead to allow the internal implementation to be protected
from potential churn in the future.
It's also just good API design.
This change plumbs a new optional timeout option to wait_on.
The timeout is enabled by enqueing a timer on the timer queue
while we are waiting. We can then see if we were woken up or
timed out by checking if we are still on the wait queue or not.
PT_SETTREGS sets the regsiters of the traced thread. It can only be
used when the tracee is stopped.
Also, refactor ptrace.
The implementation was getting long and cluttered the alraedy large
Process.cpp file.
This commit moves the bulk of the implementation to Kernel/Ptrace.cpp,
and factors out peek & poke to separate methods of the Process class.
Before this commit, m_blocker was only set to null in Thread::block,
after the thread has been unblocked.
Starting with this commit, m_blocker is also set to null in
Thread::unblock.
This change will allow us to implement a missing feature of the PT_TRACE
command of the ptrace syscall - stopping the traced thread when it
exits the execve syscall.
That feature will be implemented by sending a blocking SIGSTOP to the
traced thread after it has executed the execve logic and before it
starts executing the new program in userspace.
However, since Process::exec arranges the tss to return to userspace
(the so-called "yield-teleport"), the code in Thread::block that should
be run after the thread unblocks, and sets m_blocker to null, never
actually runs.
Setting m_blocker to null in Thread::unblock allows us to avoid an
incorrect state where the thread is in a Running state but conatins a
pointer to a Blocker.
We now store the previous thread state in m_stop_state for all
transitions to the Stopped state via Thread::set_state.
Fixes#1752 whereupon resuming a thread that was stopped with SIGTSTP,
the previous state of the thread is not remembered correctly, resulting
in m_stop_state == State::Invalid and the associated assertion fails.
This commit adds a basic implementation of
the ptrace syscall, which allows one process
(the tracer) to control another process (the tracee).
While a process is being traced, it is stopped whenever a signal is
received (other than SIGCONT).
The tracer can start tracing another thread with PT_ATTACH,
which causes the tracee to stop.
From there, the tracer can use PT_CONTINUE
to continue the execution of the tracee,
or use other request codes (which haven't been implemented yet)
to modify the state of the tracee.
Additional request codes are PT_SYSCALL, which causes the tracee to
continue exection but stop at the next entry or exit from a syscall,
and PT_GETREGS which fethces the last saved register set of the tracee
(can be used to inspect syscall arguments and return value).
A special request code is PT_TRACE_ME, which is issued by the tracee
and causes it to stop when it calls execve and wait for the
tracer to attach.
Also, duplicate data in dbg() and klog() calls were removed.
In addition, leakage of virtual address to kernel log is prevented.
This is done by replacing kprintf() calls to dbg() calls with the
leaked data instead.
Also, other kprintf() calls were replaced with klog().
Previously we would map the entire executable of a program in its own
address space (but make it unavailable to userspace code.)
This patch removes that and changes the symbolication code to remap
the executable on demand (and into the kernel's own address space
instead of the process address space.)
This opens up a couple of further simplifications that will follow.
When stopping a thread with the SIGSTOP signal, we now store the thread
state in Thread::m_stop_state. That state is then restored on SIGCONT.
This fixes an issue where previously-blocked threads would unblock
upon resume. Now they simply resume in the Blocked state, and it's up
to the regular unblocking mechanism to unblock them.
Fixes#1326.
We don't have to log the process name/PID/TID, dbg() automatically adds
that as a prefix to every line.
Also we don't have to do .characters() on Strings passed to dbg() :^)
set_interrupted_by_death was never called whenever a thread that had
a joiner died, so the joiner remained with the joinee pointer there,
resulting in an assertion fail in JoinBlocker: m_joinee pointed to
a freed task, filled with garbage.
Thread::current->m_joinee may not be valid after the unblock
Properly return the joinee exit value to the joiner thread.
This allows a process wich has more than 1 thread to call exec, even
from a thread. This kills all the other threads, but it won't wait for
them to finish, just makes sure that they are not in a running/runable
state.
In the case where a thread does exec, the new program PID will be the
thread TID, to keep the PID == TID in the new process.
This introduces a new function inside the Process class,
kill_threads_except_self which is called on exit() too (exit with
multiple threads wasn't properly working either).
Inside the Lock class, there is the need for a new function,
clear_waiters, which removes all the waiters from the
Process::big_lock. This is needed since after a exit/exec, there should
be no other threads waiting for this lock, the threads should be simply
killed. Only queued threads should wait for this lock at this point,
since blocked threads are handled in set_should_die.
The kernel sampling profiler will walk thread stacks during the timer
tick handler. Since it's not safe to trigger page faults during IRQ's,
we now avoid this by checking the page tables manually before accessing
each stack location.
Before putting itself back on the wait queue, the finalizer task will
now check if there's more work to do, and if so, do it first. :^)
This patch also puts a bunch of process/thread debug logging behind
PROCESS_DEBUG and THREAD_DEBUG since it was unbearable to debug this
stuff with all the spam.
While I was bringing up multitasking, I put the current PID in the SS2
(ring 2 stack segment) slot of the TSS. This was so I could see which
PID was currently running when just inspecting the CPU state.
When using dbg() in the kernel, the output is automatically prefixed
with [Process(PID:TID)]. This makes it a lot easier to understand which
thread is generating the output.
This patch also cleans up some common logging messages and removes the
now-unnecessary "dbg() << *current << ..." pattern.
uintptr_t is 32-bit or 64-bit depending on the target platform.
This will help us write pointer size agnostic code so that when the day
comes that we want to do a 64-bit port, we'll be in better shape.
As suggested by Joshua, this commit adds the 2-clause BSD license as a
comment block to the top of every source file.
For the first pass, I've just added myself for simplicity. I encourage
everyone to add themselves as copyright holders of any file they've
added or modified in some significant way. If I've added myself in
error somewhere, feel free to replace it with the appropriate copyright
holder instead.
Going forward, all new source files should include a license header.
This is needed to eliminate a race in Thread::wait_on() where we'd
otherwise have to wait until after unlocking the process lock before
we can disable interrupts.
There was a time window between releasing Lock::m_lock and calling into
the lock's WaitQueue where someone else could take m_lock and bring two
threads into a deadlock situation.
Fix this issue by holding Lock::m_lock until interrupts are disabled by
either Thread::wait_on() or WaitQueue::wake_one().
When the current thread is backtracing itself, we now start walking the
stack from the current EBP register value, instead of the TSS one.
Now SystemMonitor always appears to be running Thread::backtrace() when
sampled, which makes perfect sense. :^)
The join_thread() syscall is not supposed to be interruptible by
signals, but it was. And since the process death mechanism piggybacked
on signal interrupts, it was possible to interrupt a pthread_join() by
killing the process that was doing it, leading to confusing due to some
assumptions being made by Thread::finalize() for threads that have a
pending joiner.
This patch fixes the issue by making "interrupted by death" a distinct
block result separate from "interrupted by signal". Then we handle that
state in join_thread() and tidy things up so that thread finalization
doesn't get confused by the pending joiner being gone.
Test: Tests/Kernel/null-deref-crash-during-pthread_join.cpp
Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is an x86 CPU feature that
prevents the kernel from accessing userspace memory. With SMAP enabled,
trying to read/write a userspace memory address while in the kernel
will now generate a page fault.
Since it's sometimes necessary to read/write userspace memory, there
are two new instructions that quickly switch the protection on/off:
STAC (disables protection) and CLAC (enables protection.)
These are exposed in kernel code via the stac() and clac() helpers.
There's also a SmapDisabler RAII object that can be used to ensure
that you don't forget to re-enable protection before returning to
userspace code.
THis patch also adds copy_to_user(), copy_from_user() and memset_user()
which are the "correct" way of doing things. These functions allow us
to briefly disable protection for a specific purpose, and then turn it
back on immediately after it's done. Going forward all kernel code
should be moved to using these and all uses of SmapDisabler are to be
considered FIXME's.
Note that we're not realizing the full potential of this feature since
I've used SmapDisabler quite liberally in this initial bring-up patch.
