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Timestamp:
2011-12-19T17:30:39Z (12 years ago)
Author:
Martin Decky <martin@…>
Branches:
lfn, master, serial, ticket/834-toolchain-update, topic/msim-upgrade, topic/simplify-dev-export
Children:
58f6229
Parents:
24cf31f1
Message:

Remove the two-phase way of creating virtual memory areas (first asking for a mappable address and then mapping it) which was prone to race conditions when two or more calls to as_get_mappable_page() and as_area_create() were interleaved. This for example caused the e1k driver to randomly fail.

The memory area related syscalls and IPC calls have all been altered to accept a special value (void *) -1, representing a demand to atomically search for a mappable address space "hole" and map to it.

Individual changes:

  • IPC_M_SHARE_OUT: the destination address space area is supplied by the kernel, the callee only specifies the lower bound

(the address is returned to the callee via a pointer in an IPC reply argument)

  • IPC_M_SHARE_IN: the destination address space ares is supplied by the kernel, the callee only specifies the lower bound

(the address is returned to the caller as usual via an IPC argument)

  • SYS_AS_GET_UNMAPPED_AREA was removed
  • dummy implementations of SYS_PHYSMEM_UNMAP and SYS_IOSPACE_DISABLE were added for the sake of symmetry (they do nothing yet)
  • SYS_PHYSMEM_MAP and SYS_DMAMEM_MAP were altered to accept (void *) -1 as address space area base and a lower bound
  • kernel as_area_create() and as_area_share() were altered to accept (void *) -1 as address space area base and a lower bound
  • uspace libraries and programs were altered to reflect the new API
File:
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  • uspace/srv/bd/part/mbr_part/mbr_part.c

    r24cf31f1 rfbcdeb8  
    425425        }
    426426
    427         fs_va = as_get_mappable_page(comm_size);
    428         if (fs_va == NULL) {
     427        (void) async_share_out_finalize(callid, &fs_va);
     428        if (fs_va == (void *) -1) {
    429429                async_answer_0(callid, EHANGUP);
    430430                return;
    431431        }
    432 
    433         (void) async_share_out_finalize(callid, fs_va);
    434432
    435433        while (1) {
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