Changeset fbcdeb8 in mainline for abi/include/syscall.h

Timestamp:

2011-12-19T17:30:39Z (13 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:

• abi/include/syscall.h (modified) (2 diffs)

abi/include/syscall.h

@@ -60 +60 @@
         SYS_AS_AREA_CHANGE_FLAGS,
         SYS_AS_AREA_DESTROY,
-        SYS_AS_GET_UNMAPPED_AREA,
         
         SYS_PAGE_FIND_MAPPING,
@@ -85 +84 @@
         SYS_DEVICE_ASSIGN_DEVNO,
         SYS_PHYSMEM_MAP,
+        SYS_PHYSMEM_UNMAP,
         SYS_DMAMEM_MAP,
         SYS_DMAMEM_UNMAP,
         SYS_IOSPACE_ENABLE,
+        SYS_IOSPACE_DISABLE,
         SYS_IRQ_REGISTER,
         SYS_IRQ_UNREGISTER,