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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2014-02-26 12:32:06 +0100
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<zacts> or both?
<braunr> probably netbsd drivers
<zacts> and if netbsd, will it utilize rump?
+
+[[open_issues/user-space_device_drivers]], *External Projects*, *The Anykernel
+and Rump Kernels*.
+
<braunr> i don't know yet
<zacts> ok
<braunr> device drivers and networking will arrive late
@@ -2691,3 +2696,592 @@ freenode, #hurd, 2013-10-24*:
<braunr> my plan for x15 is to make this "label" part of received messages
<braunr> which means you need to change the format of messages
<braunr> that is what i call a big change
+
+
+### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-10-31
+
+ <antrik> neal: you mentioned you want to use Genode as a base... what
+ exactly would you want to build on top of it, different than what the
+ Genode folks are doing?
+
+[[Genode]].
+
+ <neal> antrik: I want to build a secure operating system.
+ <neal> antrik: One focused on user security.
+
+ <neal> braunr: You mean revoke individual send rights?
+ <neal> braunr: Or, what do you mean?
+ <neal> Or do you mean the ability to receive anotification on revocation?
+ <braunr> neal: yes, revoking individual send rights
+ <neal> I don't think it is needed in practice.
+ <braunr> neal: ok
+ <neal> But, you need a membrane object
+ <neal> Here's the idea:
+ <braunr> like a peropen ?
+ <neal> you have say a file server
+ <neal> and a proxy
+ <neal> a process only talks to the file server via the proxy
+ <neal> for the proxy to revoke access to the file object it gave out, it
+ needs to either use your revoke
+ <neal> interpose on all ipcs (which is expensive)
+ <neal> or use a proxy object/membrane
+ <neal> which basically forwards messages to the underlying object
+ <braunr> isn't that also interposing ?
+ <neal> of course
+ <neal> but if it is done in the kernel, it is fast
+ <braunr> ah in the kernel
+ <neal> you just walk a linked list
+ <braunr> what's the difference with a peropen object ?
+ <neal> That's another option
+ <neal> you use a peropen and then provide a call to force the per-open to
+ be closed
+ <neal> so the proxy now invokes the server
+ <neal> the issue here is that the proxy has to trust the server
+ <braunr> yes
+ <braunr> how can you not trust servers ?
+ <neal> that is, if the intent is to prevent further communication between
+ the server and the process, the server may ignore the request
+ <neal> in this case, you probably trust the server
+ <braunr> hum
+ <neal> but it could be that you have two processes communicating
+ <braunr> if the intent is to prevent communication, doesn't the client just
+ need to humm not communicate ? :)
+ <neal> the point is that the two processes are colluding
+ <braunr> what are these two processes ?
+ <neal> I'm not sure this case is of practical relevance
+ <braunr> ok
+ <neal> https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs513/2002sp/L10.html
+ <braunr> thanks
+
+
+### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-11-14
+
+ <antrik> neal: hm... I was under the impression that the Genode themselves
+ are also interested in user security... what is missing from their
+ version that you want to add?
+ <antrik> err... the Genode folks
+ <neal> antrik: I'm missing some context
+ <antrik> neal: a while back you said that you want to build a secure system
+ on top of Genode
+ <neal> yes
+ <neal> the fact that they are doing what I want is great
+ <neal> but there is more to a secure system than an operating system
+ <antrik> ah, so it's about applications+
+ <antrik> ?
+ <neal> yes, that is part of it
+ <neal> it's also about secure messaging
+ <neal> and hiding "meta-data"
+ <braunr> i'm still wondering how you envision the powerbox
+ <neal> when a program wants the user to select a file, it makes an upcall
+ to the power box application
+ <antrik> braunr: you can probably find some paper from Shapiro ;-)
+ <braunr> well, sure, it looks easy
+ <braunr> but is there always a power box application ?
+ <braunr> is there always a guarantee there won't be recursive calls made by
+ that application ?
+ <braunr> how does it integrate with the various interfaces a system can
+ have ?
+ <neal> there is always a power box application
+ <neal> I don't know what you mean by recursive calls
+ <braunr> aer techniques such as remembering for some time like sudo does
+ applicable to a powerbox application ?
+ <neal> if you mean many calls, then it is possible to rate limit it
+ <braunr> well, the powerbox will use messaging itself
+ <braunr> is it always privileged ?
+ <braunr> privileged enough
+ <neal> it is privileged such like the X11 display manager is privileged and
+ can see all of the video content
+ <braunr> what else other than accessing a file would it be used for ?
+ <braunr> one case i think of is accessing the address space of another
+ application, in debuggers
+ <braunr> 14:56 < neal> there is always a power box application
+ <braunr> what would it be when logging on a terminal ?
+ <antrik> braunr: when running pure command line tools, you can already pass
+ the authority as part of the command line. however, I'm wondering whether
+ it really makes sense to apply this to traditional shell tools...
+ <braunr> that's one of my concerns
+ <braunr> when does it really make sense ?
+ <antrik> for interactive use (opening new files from within a running
+ program), I don't think it can be accomplished in a pure terminal
+ interaction model...
+ <braunr> and you say "you pass the authority"
+ <antrik> braunr: it makes sense for interactive applications
+ <braunr> i thought the point of the powerbox is precisely not to do that
+ <antrik> no, it's still possible and often reasonable to pass some initial
+ authority on startup. the powerbox is only necessary when further access
+ needs to be provided at runtime
+ <braunr> ok
+ <neal> the power box enable dynamic delegation of authority, as antrik said
+ <braunr> ok
+ <braunr> but how practical is it ?
+ <neal> applications whose required authority is known apriori and
+ max(required authority) is approximately min(required authority) can be
+ handled with static policies
+ <braunr> don't application sometimes need a lot of additional authority ?
+ <braunr> ok
+ <antrik> actally, thinking about it, a powerbox should also be possible on
+ a simple terminal, if we make sure the application doesn't get full
+ control of the terminal, but rather allow the powerbox to temporarily
+ take over input/output without the application being able to
+ interpose... so not quite a traditional UNIX terminal, but close enough
+ I'd say
+ <braunr> the terminal itself maybe ?
+ <antrik> hm... that would avoid having to implement a more generic
+ multiplexing approach -- but it would mix things that are normally quite
+ orthogonal...
+ <antrik> BTW, I personally believe terminals need to get smarter anyways
+ :-)
+ <braunr> ok
+ <antrik> the traditional fully linear dialog has some nice properties; but
+ it is also pretty limited, leading to usability problems soon. I have
+ some vague ideas for an approach that still looks mostly like a linear
+ dialog, but is actually more structured
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-11-04
+
+ <braunr> yes the learning curve [of the Hurd] is too hard
+ <braunr> that's an entry barrier
+ <braunr> this is why i use well known posix-like (or other well
+ established) apis in x15
+ <braunr> also why i intend to make port rights blend into file descriptors
+ <teythoon> right
+ <braunr> well
+ <braunr> the real reason is efficiency
+ <braunr> but matching existing practices is very good too
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-11-08
+
+ <gnufreex> braunr, how is work on x-15 progressing? Is there some site to
+ check what is new?
+ <braunr> gnufreex: stalled for 2 months
+ <braunr> i'm working on the hurd for now, will get back to it later
+ <braunr> no site
+ <braunr> well
+ <gnufreex> so, you hit some design problem, or what? I mean why stalled
+ <braunr> http://git.sceen.net/rbraun/x15.git/ :p
+ <gnufreex> Thanks
+ <braunr> something like that yes
+ <braunr> i came across
+ http://darnassus.sceen.net/~rbraun/radixvm_scalable_address_spaces_for_multithreaded_applications.pdf
+ <gnufreex> I read that, I think I found it on Hurd site.
+ <braunr> and since x15 aims at being performant and scalable, it seems like
+ a major feature to bring in
+ <braunr> but it's not simple to integrate
+ <gnufreex> So you want to add that?
+ <braunr> gnufreex: yes
+ <gnufreex> branur, but what are the problems?
+ <braunr> ?
+ <braunr> ah
+ <braunr> you really want to know ? :)
+ <gnufreex> Well... yeah
+ <braunr> you need to know both x15 and radixvm for that
+ <braunr> for one, refcache, as described in the radixvm paper, doesn't seem
+ scalable
+ <braunr> it is in practice in their experiments, but only because they
+ didn't push some parameters too high
+ <braunr> so i need to rethink it
+ <gnufreex> I don't know x15... but I read radixvm paper
+ <braunr> next, the bsd-like vm used by x15 uses a red-black tree to store
+ memory areas, which doesn't need external storage
+ <braunr> radixvm as implemented in xv6 is only used for user processes, not
+ the kernel
+ <braunr> which means the kernel allocator is a separate implementation, as
+ it's done in linux
+ <braunr> x15 uses the same implementation for both the kernel and user maps
+ <braunr> which results in a recursion problem
+ <braunr> because a radix tree uses external nodes that must be dynamically
+ allocated
+ <gnufreex> so you would pretty much need to rewrite x15
+ <braunr> no
+ <braunr> just vm/
+ <braunr> and $arch/pmap
+ <braunr> and yes, pmap needs to handle per-core page tables
+ <braunr> something i wanted to add already but couldn't because of similar
+ recursion problems
+ <gnufreex> Yeah, vm system... but what else did you do with x15... it is at
+ early stage...
+ <braunr> multithreading
+ <gnufreex> That doesn't need to be rewriten?
+ <braunr> no
+ <gnufreex> Ok... good.
+ <braunr> physical memory allocation neither
+ <braunr> only virtual memory
+ <gnufreex> is x15 in runable state? I mean in virtual machine?
+ <braunr> you can start it
+ <braunr> but you won't go far :)
+ <gnufreex> What do you use as development platform?
+ <braunr> it basically detects memory and processors, starts idle, migration
+ and worker threads, and leaves
+ <gnufreex> Is it compilable on fedora 19
+ <braunr> probably
+ <braunr> i use debian stable
+ <braunr> and unstable on the hurd
+ <gnufreex> ok, I will probably try it in KVM...
+ <braunr> better do it on real hardware too in case you find a bug
+ <gnufreex> I cant make new partition now... it seems my hard drive is
+ dying. When I get a new one I will try on real harware.
+ <braunr> you don't need a new partition
+ <braunr> the reason radixvm is important is twofold
+ <braunr> 1/ ipc will probably make use of the core vm operations used by
+ mmap and munmap
+ <braunr> 2/ no other system currently provides scalable
+ mmap/munmap/mprotect
+ <gnufreex> Yes, that would make x15 pretty special...
+ <gnufreex> But I read somewhere that you wanted to implement RCU during
+ summer
+ <gnufreex> Did you do that?
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-11-12
+
+ <braunr> neal: about secure operating systems
+ <braunr> i assume you consider clients providing their own memory a strong
+ requirement for that, right ?
+ <neal> no
+ <neal> I'm less interested in availability
+ <neal> or performance guarantees
+ <braunr> ok
+ <braunr> but
+ <braunr> i thought it was a requirement to avoid denial of service
+ <neal> of course
+ <braunr> then why don't you consider it required ?
+ <neal> I want something working in a reasonable amount of time :)
+ <braunr> agreed
+ <neal> more seriously:
+ <neal> my primary requirement is that a program cannot access information
+ that the user has not authorized it to access
+ <braunr> ok
+ <neal> the requirement that you are suggesting is that a program be able to
+ access information that the user has authorized it to access
+ <neal> this is availability
+ <braunr> i'm not following
+ <braunr> what's the difference ?
+ <neal> assume we have two programs: A and B
+ <neal> on Unix, if they run under the same uid, they access access each
+ other files
+ <neal> I want to fix this
+ <braunr> ok, that's not explicit authorization
+ <braunr> but is that what you mean ?
+ <neal> Now, assuming that A cannot access B's data and vice versa
+ <neal> we have an availability problem
+ <neal> A could prevent B from accessing its data
+ <neal> via a DoS attach
+ <neal> I'm not going to try to fix that.
+ <braunr> ok
+ <braunr> and how do you intend to allow A to access B's data ?
+ <braunr> i guess the powerbox mentioned in the critique
+ <braunr> but do you have a more precise description about something
+ practical to use ?
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-11-14
+
+In context of [[hurd/libports]], *Open Issues*, *IRC, freenode, #hurd,
+2013-11-14*.
+
+ <braunr> fyi, x15 will not provide port renaming
+ <braunr> teythoon: also, i'm considering enforcing port names to be as
+ close as possible to 0 when being allocated as part of the interface
+ <braunr> what do you think about that ?
+ <teythoon> braunr: that's probably wise, yes
+ <teythoon> you could hand out receive ports close to 0 and send ports close
+ to ~0
+ <braunr> teythoon: what for ?
+ <teythoon> well, if one stores only one kind in an array, it won't waste as
+ much space
+ <braunr> this also means you need to separate receive from send rights in
+ the interface
+ <braunr> so that you know where to look for them
+ <braunr> i'm not sure it's worth the effort
+ <braunr> using the same code for them both looks more efficient
+ <braunr> the right lookup code is probably one of the hottest path in the
+ system
+ <teythoon> right
+ <neal> one of the nice things about not reusing port names is that it helps
+ catch bugs
+ <neal> you don't want to accidently send a message to the wrong recipient
+ <braunr> how could you, if the same name at different times denotes
+ different rights ?
+ <neal> you forget to clean up something
+ <braunr> if you don't clean, how could you get the same name for a right
+ you didn't release ?
+ <neal> that's not hard to do :)
+ <neal> ah, you cleaned up the port right but not the name
+ <braunr> ah ok
+ <neal> destroy the port and forget that a thread is still working on a
+ response
+ <neal> the data structure says use the port at index X
+ <neal> X is reallocated in the mean time
+ <teythoon> excuse my ignorance, but gnumach *is* reusing port names, isn't
+ it?
+ <braunr> that policy is why i'm not sure i want to enforce allocation
+ policy in the interface :/
+ <neal> This is not about a security property of the system
+ <neal> this is about failing fast
+ <neal> you want to fail as close to the source of the problem as possible
+ <braunr> we could make the kernel use different allocation policies for
+ names, to catch bugs, yes
+ <neal> make the index X valid again and you've potentially masked the bug
+ <teythoon> braunr: if you were to merge your radix tree implementation into
+ gnumach and replace the splay tree with it, would that make using renamed
+ ports fast enough so we can just rename all receive ports doing away with
+ the extra lookup like mach-defpager does ?
+ <braunr> i don't think so
+ <braunr> the radix tree code is able to compress its size when keys are
+ close to 0
+ <braunr> using addresses would add 1, 2, maybe 3 levels of internal nodes
+ <braunr> for every right
+ <braunr> we could use a true integer hash table for that though
+ <braunr> hm no, hurd packages crash ... :/
+ <teythoon> but malloc allocates stuff in a contigious space, so the
+ pointers should be similar in the most significant bits
+ <braunr> if you use malloc, yes
+ <teythoon> sure
+ <teythoon> but that'd make the radix tree representation compact, no?
+ <braunr> it could
+ <braunr> the current code only compresses near 0
+ <teythoon> oh
+ <braunr> better compression could be implemented though
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-11-21
+
+ <teythoon> have you seen liburcu ?
+ <braunr> a bit, yes
+ <teythoon> it might be worth investigating to use it in some servers
+ <braunr> it is
+ <teythoon> the proc server comes to mind
+ <braunr> personally, i think all hurd servers should use rcu
+ <braunr> libports should use rcu
+ <teythoon> yes
+ <braunr> lockless synchronization should be a major feature of x15/propel
+ <braunr> present even during message passing
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-12-09
+
+ <braunr> improving our page cache with arc would be great
+ <braunr> it's on the todo list for x15 :>
+ <braunr> not sure you referred to virtual memory management though
+ <braunr> (actually, it's CAR, not ARC that is planned for x15)
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-12-30
+
+ <braunr> zacts: http://darnassus.sceen.net/~rbraun/x15/qemu_x15.sh
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2014-01-03
+
+ <braunr> oh, btw, i've started working on x15 again :>
+ <teythoon> saw that :)
+ <braunr> first item on the list: per-cpu page tables
+ <braunr> the magic that will make ipc extremely scalable :)
+ <teythoon> i'm worried about your approach tbh
+ <braunr> too much overhead ?
+ <teythoon> not on any technical level
+ <teythoon> but haven
+ <braunr> ?
+ <teythoon> 't there been enough reimplementation efforts that got nowhere ?
+ <braunr> oh that
+ <teythoon> ^^
+ <braunr> well, i have personal constraints and frustrations with the
+ existing code, and my goal isn't to actually produce anything serious
+ until it actually gets there
+ <braunr> which, yes, it might not
+ <braunr> really, i'm doing it for fun
+ <teythoon> well sure
+ <teythoon> that's a damn good reason ;)
+ <braunr> and if it ever reaches a state where it can actually be used to
+ run stuff, i would be very happy
+ <braunr> and considering how it's done, i'm pretty sure things could be
+ built a lot faster on such a system
+ <teythoon> but you need to reimplement all the userspace servers as well,
+ and the libc stuff
+ <braunr> yes
+ <teythoon> do you plan to reimplement this from scratch or do you have
+ plans to 'bootstrap' propel from hurd ?
+ <braunr> from scratch
+ <teythoon> well... i'm not sure that this is feasible or even a good
+ idea. that's what i meant in a nutshell i guess.
+ <braunr> i'm familiar with that criticism
+ <braunr> and you may be right
+ <braunr> this is also why i keep working on the hurd at the same time
+ <teythoon> we could also talk about making hurd more easily portable
+ <braunr> portable with regard to what ?
+ <teythoon> evolving hurd and mach to the point where it might be feasible
+ to port hurd to another ukernel
+ <braunr> not so easy
+ <teythoon> i know
+ <braunr> i'm not even sure i would want that
+ <braunr> well, since the hurd isn't optimized at all, why not
+ <teythoon> why would it neccessarily hinder optimization ?
+ <braunr> because in practice, it's rare for a microkernel to provide all
+ the features the hurd would require to run really well
+ <braunr> the most severe issue being that they either provide asynchronous
+ ipc, used for signals, or only synchronous ipc, making signal and other
+ event-driven code hard to emulate (usually requiring separate threads)
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2014-01-20
+
+[[translate_fd_or_port_to_file_name]]:
+
+ <teythoon> i wonder if it would not be best to add a description to mach
+ tasks
+ <braunr> i think it would
+ <teythoon> to aid fixing these kind of issues
+ <braunr> in x15, i actually add descriptions (names) to all kernel objects
+ <teythoon> that's probably a good idea, yes
+ <braunr> well, not all, but many
+
+ <braunr> i'd like to push x15 this year
+ <braunr> it currently is the only design of a truely scalable microkernel
+ that i know of
+ <azeem_> push how?
+ <braunr> spend time on it
+ <azeem_> k
+ <azeem_> do you think it will make sense to solicit outside contributions
+ at one point?
+ <braunr> yes
+ <braunr> the roadmap is vm system -> ipc system -> userspace (including RPC
+ handling)
+ <braunr> once we can actually do things in userspace, the priority will be
+ getting a shell with glibc
+ <braunr> people will be able to help "easily" at that point
+ <azeem_> just wondering, apart from scalability, did you write it for
+ performance, for hackability, or something else?
+ <braunr> it's basically the hurd architecture, including improvements from
+ the critique, with performance and scalability in mind
+ <azeem_> ok
+ <braunr> the main improvements i think of currently are resource
+ containers, lexical .. resolution, and lists of trusted users with which
+ to communicate
+ <braunr> it's strongly oriented for posix compatibility though
+ <teythoon> sounds nice, i like it already ;)
+ <azeem_> is it compatible with Mach to some degree?
+ <braunr> so things like running without an identity will be forbidden in
+ the default system personality
+ <braunr> no, not compatible with mach at all
+ <azeem_> this sounds like it is doing more than Mach did
+ <azeem_> braunr: ah, ok
+ <braunr> it's not "x15mach" any more :)
+ <azeem_> right, I missed out on that
+
+
+### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2014-01-21
+
+ <braunr> i also don't write anything that would prevent real-time
+ <teythoon> b/c that's a potential market for such an operating system ?
+ <braunr> yes
+ <teythoon> well, i can't say i don't like the sound of that ;)
+ <braunr> the ipc interface should be close to that of qnx
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2014-02-23
+
+ <cluck> braunr: have you looked at genode?
+ <cluck> braunr: i sometimes wonder how hard it'd be to port hurd atop it
+ because i find some similarities with what l4/fiasco/viengos provided
+ <braunr> cluck: i have, but genode seems a bit too far from posix for our
+ tastes
+ <cluck> (and yes, i realize we'd be getting farther from the hw)
+ <braunr> ah you really mean running the hurd on top of it
+ <braunr> i personally don't like the idea
+ <cluck> braunr: well, true, but their noux implementation proves it's not a
+ dealbreaker
+ <cluck> braunr: at least initially that'd be the best implementation
+ approach, no? as time went on integrating hurd servers more tightly at a
+ lower level makes sense but doing so from the get go would be foolhardy
+ <cluck> braunr: or am i missing something obvious?
+ <braunr> cluck: why would it be ?
+ <cluck> braunr: going by what happened with l4 it's too much code to port
+ and optimize at once
+ <braunr> cluck: i don't think it is
+ <braunr> cluck: problems with l4 didn't have much to do with "too much
+ code"
+ <cluck> braunr: i won't debate that, you have more experience than me with
+ hurd code. anyway that's how i'd go about it, first get it all running
+ then get it running fast. breakage is bad
+ <braunr> and you think moving from something like linux or genode to an
+ implementation closer to hardware won't break things ?
+ <cluck> braunr: yes, i read the paper, obvious unexpected shortcomings but
+ even had them not been there the paradigms are too different and creating
+ proper mappings from one model to the other would at least be time
+ consuming
+ <braunr> ye
+ <braunr> yes
+ <braunr> i'm convinved the simple approach of a small microkernel with the
+ proper interfacen along with the corresponding sysdeps layer in glibc
+ would be enough to get a small hurd like system quickly
+ <braunr> experience with other systems shows how to directly optimize a lot
+ of things from the start, without much effort
+
+ <cluck> braunr: sorry. back to our talk, i mentioned genode because of the
+ nice features it has that'd be useful on hurd
+ <braunr> cluck: which ones do you refer to ?
+ <cluck> braunr: the security model is the biggest one
+ <braunr> how does it differ from the hurd, except for revocation ?
+ <cluck> braunr: then there's the ease of portability
+ <braunr> ?
+ <cluck> braunr: it's more strict
+ <braunr> how would that help us ?
+ <cluck> braunr: if hurd was running atop it we'd get extra platforms
+ supported almost for free whenever they did (since we'd be using the same
+ primitives)
+ <braunr> why not choose the underlying microkernel directly ?
+ <cluck> call me crazy but i believe code reuse is a good thing, i see
+ little point in duplicating existing code just because you can
+ <braunr> what part of genode should be reused then ?
+ <cluck> that's what got me thinking about genode in the first place,
+ ideologically they share a lot (if not most) of hurd's goals and code
+ wise they feel close enough to make a merge of sorts not seem crazy talk,
+ thus my asking if i'm missing something obvious
+ <braunr> i think the design is incompatible with our goals of posix
+ compatibility
+ <cluck> braunr: oh, ok.
+ <cluck> braunr: i was assuming that wasn't an issue, as i mentioned before
+ they have noux already and if hurd's servers got ported they'd provide
+ whatever else that was missing
+ <braunr> noux looks like a unix server for binary compatibility
+ <braunr> i'm not sure it is but that's what the description makes me think
+ <braunr> and if it really, then it's no different than running linux on top
+ of an hypervisor
+ <braunr> ok it's not for binary compatibility but it definitely is a
+ (partial) unix server
+ <braunr> i much prefer the way the hurd is posix compliant without any
+ additional layer for compatibility or virtualization
+ <cluck> braunr: noux is a runtime, as i understand it there's no binary
+ compatibility just source (ie library/api calls)
+ <braunr> yes i corrected that just now
+ <cluck> sorry, i'm having lag issues
+ <braunr> no worries
+ <cluck> braunr: anyway, how's x15 coming along? still far from being a
+ practical replacement?
+ <braunr> yes .. :(
+ <braunr> and it's not a replacement
+ <cluck> (for mach)
+ <braunr> no
+ <cluck> huh?
+ <braunr> it's not a replacement for the hurd
+ <braunr> err, for mach
+ <cluck> braunr: i thought you were writing it to be compatible with mach's
+ interfaces
+ <braunr> no
+ <braunr> it used to be that way
+ <braunr> but no
+ <cluck> braunr: what changed?
+ <braunr> mach ipc is too ccmplicated
+ <braunr> complicated*
+ <braunr> its supposed benefit (of allowing the creation of computer
+ clusters for single system images) are outdated and not very interesting
+ <braunr> it's error prone
+ <braunr> and it incurrs more overhead than it should
+ <cluck> no arguing there
+ <cluck> braunr: are you still targeting being able to run hurd atop x15 or
+ is it just your pet project now?
+ <braunr> i don't intend the hurd to run on top of it
+ <braunr> the reason it's a rewrite is to fix a whole bunch of major issues
+ in one go
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/debugging.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/debugging.mdwn
index 7e7cfb4e..cf02471d 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/debugging.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/debugging.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 Free Software
-Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Free
+Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ update its display buffer anymore under certain conditions.
# Halting the CPU and Examining Registers
-IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-07-14:
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-07-14
<braunr> one ugly trick i use when printf isn't available is to halt the
cpu
@@ -146,7 +146,22 @@ IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-07-14:
# Serial Console
-IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-11-13:
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-11-13
<youpi> use console=com0
<youpi> to activate the console on the first serial port
+
+
+# `ud2` instruction
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-10-31
+
+ [master-x86_64]
+ <phcoder> GNU Mach 1.3.99
+ <phcoder> Running on xen-3.0-x86_64.
+ <phcoder> AT386 boot: physical memory from 0x0 to 0x40000000
+ <youpi> \o/
+ <phcoder> well when loaded through pvgrub2 i hangs without any message
+ <phcoder> any pointers on debugging?
+ <youpi> I usually put the ud2 instruction along the path to see where it
+ crashes
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface.mdwn
index b2451887..bfcb9ea6 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013, 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -14,3 +14,39 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
[[!map pages="microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/*"
show=title]]
+
+
+# Proposed
+
+## Futex
+
+### Patches on bug-hurd
+
+### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2014-01-20
+
+ <teythoon> braunr: i meant to ask about the futex stuff
+ <teythoon> what do you mean when you talk about the interface ?
+ <teythoon> i imagined something like this
+ <braunr> more precisely ?
+ <teythoon> for shared futexes, do not use a pointer, but a right
+ referencing a memory object, and the offset ?
+ <braunr> why not a pointer ?
+ <braunr> well, an address
+ <teythoon> that's how it's currently done, right ?
+ <teythoon> in marins prototype i mean
+ <braunr> yes
+ <braunr> it's a task/address pair
+ <teythoon> so the only concern is the access in the kernel ?
+ <braunr> hum not only no
+ <braunr> or yes, but there are multiple ways to access
+ <teythoon> i meant to say this, for me, it would be very helpful if you
+ were more explicit when you describe how you picture something
+ <braunr> i thought i did it clearly
+ <braunr> i even agree with what roland describes
+ <braunr> which looks even clearer
+ <braunr> also, i said i didn't picture it completely
+ <braunr> :)
+ <braunr> i didn't want to work on that, only review
+ <teythoon> sure, but what might be clear to you is most likely not that
+ clear to me
+ <braunr> ok
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/device/time.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/device/time.mdwn
index d1e9a488..18681f21 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/device/time.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/device/time.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013, 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -16,3 +16,89 @@ Typically available as `/dev/time`, [[hurd/translator/storeio]].
Using that, [[hurd/libshouldbeinlibc]]'s `<maptime.h>` provides `maptime_map`
and `maptime_read`, see the [[hurd/reference_manual]]. Candidate for
replacement with [[open_issues/vDSO]] code?
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-11-20
+
+ <teythoon> braunr: about the mach device interface, if i open a device, and
+ then create a memory mapping using device_map, does that increment the
+ open count of the device ?
+ <teythoon> can i call device_close w/o destroying the mapping directly
+ after mapping it ?
+ <antrik> teythoon: I have a vague recollection that the mapping (or more
+ precisely, the memory object) is not bound to the open once
+ established... but don't take my word on it -- it's been some years since
+ I played with that stuff :-)
+ <teythoon> antrik: yes, that would actually match my expectation
+ <braunr> hum
+ <braunr> normally, mapping increments the usage count of the resource
+ mapped, but not the open count
+ <braunr> i don't know if that's the case for mach devices
+ <braunr> teythoon: which mach device btw ?
+ <teythoon> time
+ <teythoon> libshouldbeinlibc/maptime.c line ~53
+ <teythoon> the device is opened but never closed
+ <braunr> is that a problem ?
+ <teythoon> not sure, but I'd think so, yes
+ <braunr> why ?
+ <teythoon> the open count is incremented each time
+ <braunr> at map time ?
+ <braunr> ah no, since that's your question
+ <braunr> the open count is normally decremented when the send right for the
+ device is destroyed, which occurs when tasks exit
+ <teythoon> hm
+ <teythoon> but wouldn't only important long running servers use the mach
+ device ?
+ <braunr> all tasks do
+ <braunr> a simple call to gettimeofday will use it
+ <teythoon> well, but only privileged processes may get teh device master
+ port
+ <braunr> the device is probably accessible through some other method
+ <teythoon> yes. /dev/time
+ <teythoon> err, have you looked at the function ? ;)
+ <braunr> no
+ <braunr> which one ?
+ <teythoon> maptime_map
+ <braunr> i did once but quickly
+ <teythoon> if use_mach_dev, the mach device is used, /dev/time otherwise
+ <braunr> gettimeofday apparently uses __host_get_time
+ <braunr> mhmm
+ <braunr> ok so i was wrong
+ <braunr> the time device, whether it is the mach or the hurd one, seems to
+ be mapped only by translators
+ <braunr> 14:10 < teythoon> but wouldn't only important long running servers
+ use the mach device ?
+ <braunr> so yes :)
+ <teythoon> so we should close the device
+ <braunr> why ?
+ <teythoon> to prevent an overflow in the open count
+ <braunr> when is it open multiple times ?
+ <teythoon> isn't it ? maybe /me lacks some context ;)
+ <braunr> it's called once at init time
+ <teythoon> well, ok then
+ <braunr> gettimeofday-like functions then only read the mapped memory
+ <braunr> at least, that's how it's done in the servers i've looked at such
+ as pfinet
+ <teythoon> makes sense, yes
+ <braunr> something i learnt from experience and failures: check the problem
+ actually exists before fixing it :p
+ <teythoon> well, if the memory mapping is independent of the device, then
+ there is a problem
+ <teythoon> the device is kept open for no reason
+ <braunr> teythoon: if you can determine that the device doesn't need to
+ stay open for the mapping to remain, then you can close it
+ <braunr> otherwise, it's such a minor leak that we don't care at all
+ <braunr> i wouldn't even consider it a leak more than a small static
+ variable used at init time only
+ <teythoon> looks like, yes
+ <teythoon> also, it's only in the rootfs translator
+ <braunr> ?
+ <teythoon> only the root filesystem uses the mach device directly
+ <braunr> ok
+ <braunr> well, /dev/time too right ?
+ <teythoon> yes, but that is a storeio translator that does not use this
+ code
+ <braunr> yes
+ <braunr> hm
+ <teythoon> only the root filesystem uses the mach device directly *using
+ this function*
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print.mdwn
index a169e92e..d03c9674 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013, 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -88,3 +88,33 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
the caller's address space without going through a special copy-from-user
function
<braunr> not very portable
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-11-25
+
+ <teythoon> can we get the mach_printf function somewhere so that it's
+ easier to use please ?
+ <braunr> well
+ <braunr> i'm not comfortable with that
+ <teythoon> y not ?
+ <braunr> i don't consider mach_print being part of the interface yet
+ <teythoon> ...
+ <braunr> it's really a debugging call
+ <braunr> not always available
+ <teythoon> so what, let it fail if it is not
+ <braunr> ok
+ <braunr> i should change it first
+ <braunr> pass a size argument
+ <braunr> and do a proper copyin
+ <teythoon> cool, thanks :)
+ <braunr> then we could add that printf function in libshouldbeinlibc i
+ guess
+ <teythoon> that'd be nice, yes
+ <braunr> hm
+ <braunr> that would make only hurd servers able to use it though
+ <braunr> unless we preload it
+ <teythoon> well, i thought it's a staging area for libc ?
+ <braunr> in theory yes, in practice some functions have been stuck there
+ for ages
+ <braunr> we'll discuss that with youpi and tschwinge
+ <braunr> and pinotree
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen.mdwn
index c6023786..a8a1fcbf 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014 Free Software
+Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -96,6 +96,176 @@ Download http://youpibouh.thefreecat.org/hurd-xen/pv-grub.gz into /boot, and use
extra is now the path to the grub config file.
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-11-09
+
+ <phcoder> youpi: would a limitation of 32 modules to hurd in pvgrub2 be a
+ problem?
+ <phcoder> *31
+ <youpi> phcoder: probably not
+ <phcoder> youpi: ok
+
+ <phcoder> youpi: gnumach goes into infinite loop with "warning: nsec
+ 0x000096dae65d2697 < lastnsec 0x000096db11dee20d". Second value stays
+ constant, first value loops from 0x000096da14968a59 to
+ 0x000096db08bf359e. Not sure if the problem is on GRUB or gnumach ide
+ <youpi> loops?!
+ <youpi> that's the time coming from the hypervisor
+ <youpi> not a problem from GRUB anyway
+ <phcoder> Yes, loops in steps of around 0x40 and comes back regularly.
+ <youpi> Mmm, maybe it could be grub not properly setting up
+ hyp_shared_info.vcpu_info[], actually
+ <youpi> i.e. the mfn in boot_info.shared_info
+ <phcoder> I don't think we write to shared page at all
+ <phcoder> could gnumach suffer from overflow on fast CPU?
+ <phcoder> next_start.shared_info = grub_xen_start_page_addr->shared_info;
+ <phcoder> And shared_info is machine address, so no need to adjust it
+ <phcoder> tsc_shift can be negative. Does gnumach handle this?
+ <youpi> yes
+ <youpi> here it's the base which doesn't change, actually
+ <phcoder> Do you mean this: system_time =
+ time->system_time; ?
+ <phcoder> But wait: ((delta * (unsigned64_t) mul) >> 32)
+ <phcoder> this overflows after 2^32 nanoseconds
+ <phcoder> which is about 4 seconds
+ <phcoder> I think this is the mistake
+ <phcoder> which is more or less what I see
+ <phcoder> Let me make a patch
+ <youpi> does xen have some tickless feature now?
+ <youpi> I'd expect the clock to get updated at least sometimes during 4
+ seconds :)
+ <phcoder> Hm, can't compile master:
+ <phcoder> ./include/mach/xen.h:52:18: error: ‘MACH2PHYS_VIRT_START_PAE’
+ undeclared (first use in this function)
+ <phcoder> #define PFN_LIST MACH2PHYS_VIRT_START_PAE
+ <phcoder> Here is the patch: http://paste.debian.net/64857/
+ <youpi> it's defined in xen/public/arch-x86/xen-x86_32.h
+ <phcoder> yes it is. Let's see why it's not included
+ <phcoder> Hm, for some reason it pulls 64-bit headers in
+ <youpi> how do you cross-compile?
+ <youpi> I use
+ <youpi> ./configure --host=i686-gnu CC='gcc -m32' LD='ld -melf_i386'
+ <phcoder> Yes. GRUB adds those itself
+ <phcoder> youpi: confirmed: my patch solves the problem
+ <phcoder> any yes: I tried with unpatched master and it fails
+ <youpi> ok
+ <youpi> phcoder: thanks!
+
+ <phcoder> Now I get plenty of "getcwd: cannot access parent directories:
+ Inappropriate file type or format". But I don't think it's grub-related
+ <youpi> what do you get before that?
+ <youpi> perhaps ext2fs doesn't get properly initialized
+ <youpi> which module commande line do you get in the boot log?
+ <youpi> perhaps it's simply a typo in there
+ <phcoder> http://paste.debian.net/64865/
+ <youpi> $(task-create) $(task-resume) is missing at the end of the ext2fs
+ line indeed
+ <youpi> in your paste it stops at $(
+ <phcoder> this is at the end of my console. I believe it to be
+ cosmetic. Let me reset console to some sane state
+ <youpi> ok
+ <youpi> the spurious event at the start is probably worth checking up
+ <youpi> it looks like events that pvgrub2 should have eaten
+ <youpi> (in its own drivers, before finishing shutting them down)
+ <phcoder> when redirecting console to file: http://paste.debian.net/64868/
+ <phcoder> could swapon have sth to do with it?
+ <youpi> I'd be surprised
+ <phcoder> my guess it's because I use older userland (debian about May) and
+ new kernel (fresh from master)
+ <youpi> the kernel hasn't really changed
+ <youpi> you could rebuild the may-debian kernel with your patch to make
+ sure
+ <youpi> but probably better trying to fix swapon first, at least
+ <youpi> (even if that'd surprise me)
+ <youpi> "trying fixiing* swapon", actually
+ <youpi> it makes a difference :)
+ <phcoder> We actually never eat event on evtchn, we look into buffers to
+ check for response
+ <youpi> ah, that's why
+ <youpi> you should really eat the events too
+ <youpi> in principle it wouldn't hurt not to, but you'd probably get
+ surprises
+
+ <phcoder> youpi: would doing EVTCHNOP_reset at the end be enough?
+ <youpi> possibly, I don't know that one
+ <youpi> looks like a good thing to do before handing control, indeed
+ <youpi> /* Clear pending event to avoid unexpected behavior on
+ re-bind. */
+ <youpi> evtchn_port_clear_pending(d1, chn1);
+ <youpi> yes, it does clear the pending events
+ <phcoder> http://paste.debian.net/64870/
+ <phcoder> I did this: http://paste.debian.net/64871/
+ <youpi> well, closing the event channels would be a good idea too
+ <youpi> (reset does not only clear pending events, it also closes the event
+ channels)
+ <phcoder> well we can't close console one. So it leave to close disk ones
+ (the ones we allocated)
+ <phcoder> http://paste.debian.net/64875/
+ <phcoder> New log: http://paste.debian.net/64876/ (swapon fixed, given 1G
+ of memory)
+ <youpi> ok, so it really is something else
+ <phcoder> looks like there is a space after $(task-resume) but can't tell
+ if it's real or comes from message
+ <phcoder> tottally artefact
+
+ <phcoder> youpi: this happens when booted in qemu with old kernel now. Now
+ my bet is on weird fs corruption or because I accessed it with Linux in
+ rw. In any case I feel like it's time to call it a port and commit
+ <youpi> I'd say so, yes
+ <phcoder> Let's look what's remaining: vfb, vkbd and vif: don't need them
+ for first port commit. Hm, there is an issue of default configfile. What
+ is pvgrub default behaviour?
+ <youpi> iirc it just enters the shell
+ <youpi> I had implemented vfb and vkbd to get the graphical support, but
+ that's optional indeed
+ <youpi> vif is useful for netboot only
+ <youpi> ah, no, by default it runs dhcp --with-configfile
+ <phcoder> youpi: port committed to trunk
+ <youpi> \o/
+ <youpi> I was lamenting for 5 years that that wasn't happening :)
+ <youpi> Citrix could have asked one of his engineers to work on it, really
+ <phcoder> documentation on using the port is still missing though
+ <youpi> amazon EC2 users will be happy to upgrade from pv-grub to pv-grub2
+ :)
+ <youpi> I asked some amazon guy at SuperComputing whether he knew how many
+ people were using pv-grub, but he told me that was customer private
+ information
+ <phcoder> Another interesting idea would be to switch between 64-bit and
+ 32-bit domains somehow
+ <youpi> yes, we were discussing about it at XenSource when I implemented
+ pv-grub
+ <youpi> that's not really an easy thing
+ <youpi> pvh would probably help there, again
+ <youpi> in the end, we considered that it was usually not hard to select a
+ 32bit or 64bit pv-grub depending on the userland bitness
+ <youpi> we considered adding a hypercall to change the bitness of a domU,
+ but that's really involved
+ <phcoder> Well when you discussed i386 domains were still around
+ <phcoder> now it's only PAE and amd64 and they are very similar. Only few
+ gdt differ
+ <youpi> well, switching from 32-PAE to 64 is not *so* hard
+ <youpi> since a 32bit-loaded OS can fit in 64bit
+ <youpi> the converse is more questionable of course
+ <phcoder> yes
+ <youpi> still, it's really not easy for the hypervisor
+ <youpi> it'd mean converting stuff here and there
+ <youpi> most probably missing things here and there :)
+ <phcoder> Ok, not that important anyway
+ <youpi> we felt it was too dangerous to promise the feature as working :)
+ <youpi> heh, 5000 lines patch, just like my patch adding support to Mach :)
+ <phcoder> BTW do you know how to check if kernel supports dom0 ? Apparently
+ there is feature "privilegied" and dom0 kernels are supposed to have it
+ in notes but my linux one doesn't even though I'm in xen now
+ <youpi> it's XENFEAT_dom0
+ <youpi> called dom0 in the notes
+ <phcoder> http://paste.debian.net/64894/
+ <youpi> well, maybe the hypervisor doesn't actually check it's there
+ <youpi> phcoder: what does grub-mkstandalone?
+ <phcoder> puts all modules in memdisk which is embed into core
+ <youpi> ah, ok
+ <youpi> we didn't have to care about that in grub1 indeed :)
+
+
# Partitions
You will need the following notation for the gnumach root= parameter:
@@ -108,6 +278,23 @@ You will also need to use the parted storeio module for the /dev entries, for in
settrans -fgap /dev/hd0s1 /hurd/storeio -T typed part:1:device:hd0
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-11-09
+
+ <phcoder> youpi: now I get "hd0: dom0's VBD 768
+ (/home/phcoder/diskimg/debian-hurd-20130504.img,w) 3001MB"
+ <phcoder> but "start ext2fs: ext2fs: device:hd0s1: No such device or
+ address"
+ <phcoder> disk = [
+ 'file:/home/phcoder/diskimg/debian-hurd-20130504.img,hda,w' ]
+ <phcoder> Hm, using "disk = [ 'phy:loop0,hda1,w' ]" instead worked (loop0
+ is an offset loop)
+ <youpi> yes, xen disks don't support partitioning
+ <youpi> and we haven't migrated userland to userland partitioning yet
+
+[[hurd/libstore/part]].
+
+
# Miscellaneous
[[Internals]].
@@ -125,3 +312,20 @@ IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-06-08
<braunr> youpi: does xen provide disk caching options ?
<youpi> through a blktap, probably
<braunr> ok
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-11-09
+
+ <phcoder> youpi: debian-hurd-20130504.img apparently has a kernel without
+ xen note. Do I have to do sth special to get xen kernel?
+ <youpi> phcoder: there's the -xen package for that
+ <youpi> I haven't made the kernel hybrid
+ <phcoder> youpi: easiest way is probably to have different entry
+ points. You could even just link both of them at different addresses and
+ then glue together though it's not very efficient
+ <youpi> it's also about all the privileged operations that have to be
+ replaced with PV operations
+ <youpi> PVH will help with that regard
+
+ <phcoder> youpi: btw, I recommend compiling xen kernel for 686 and drop
+ non-pae
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects/clean_up_the_code.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects/clean_up_the_code.mdwn
index 89a27b01..0ca6d91e 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects/clean_up_the_code.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects/clean_up_the_code.mdwn
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 Free Software
-Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014
+Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
-is included in the section entitled
-[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
[[!tag open_issue_gnumach]]
@@ -130,3 +130,106 @@ further files (also exported ones) that serve no real value, but are being
<mcsim> this parameter has name data_count
<braunr> that's one of the reasons mach is confusing
<braunr> i can't really tell you why, it's messy :/
+
+
+# [[open_issues/Code_Analysis]], *Coverity*
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2014-02-03
+
+ <teythoon> braunr: at the end of kmem_cache_error the comment says 'never
+ reached'. i do not believe that to be true...
+ <braunr> teythoon: yes, this is a mistake
+ <braunr> those kmem_error calls were panics in the original version
+ <braunr> the comment was left over
+ <braunr> or rather, the panic equivalent not added
+
+
+### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2014-02-04
+
+ <teythoon> braunr: but the code relies uppon the fact that kmem_cache_error
+ does not return
+ <teythoon> the fact that it doesn't upsets static analysis tools
+ <teythoon>
+ http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/qa/gnumach/scan-build/2014-01-17/report-DfjC43.html#Path9
+ <braunr> 21:20 < braunr> or rather, the panic equivalent not added
+ <braunr> teythoon: you're right
+ <braunr> it needs to be fixed
+ <teythoon> i setup a coverity project for gnu mach
+ <teythoon> it's interesting
+ <teythoon> very enterprisy >,<
+ <braunr> teythoon: heh
+ <teythoon> braunr: i assume kmem_error is supposed to panic
+ <teythoon> if so, i'd propose to use panic instead of printf in that macro
+ definition
+ <braunr> yes
+ <braunr> teythoon: again, that's how it's done in the original
+ implementation
+ <teythoon> and fix kmem_cache_error to use kmem_warn near the top of the
+ function
+ <braunr> teythoon: i suggest you use the x15 variant as a reference
+ (http://git.sceen.net/rbraun/x15.git/blob/HEAD:/kern/kmem.c)
+ <teythoon> right
+
+
+### IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2014-02-05
+
+ <pere> ah, cool. <URL: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/1307 >
+ is now in place. :)
+ <teythoon> pere: it was you who made me create the coverity project
+ <teythoon> and it was most fruitful already
+ <pere> glad to hear that. :)
+ <pere> while the mach thread made me discover scan-build, which
+ seem promising but have way to few rules.
+ <pere> teythoon: btw, could I get access to the mach coverity
+ status?
+ <teythoon> pere: sure
+ <pere> I've used up all my 'join project' slots, so I suspect you
+ have to invite me. try pere@hungry.com
+ <teythoon> pere: ok
+ <teythoon> pere: i'm fuzzy about the roles
+ <teythoon> what kind of invite shall i send you ?
+ <pere> not sure either.
+ <teythoon> ok
+ <pere> contributor/* would be fine for me. want to check the
+ details, not just the overview.
+ <teythoon> oh
+ * pere looked up the role description
+ <teythoon> do you have a link ?
+ <teythoon> i can always change the role afaics
+ <pere> go to the member list, found it there.
+ <pere> (the link is project specific, it seem.
+ <teythoon> right, found it
+ <pere> gah, it gave me a new user. :(
+ <pere> I assumed I would be allowed to accept the invite using my
+ normal user.
+ <pere> can you try again with pere-github@hungry.com, which
+ hopefully will hook the invite to my github authenticated user?
+ <teythoon> sure
+ <pere> were you allowed to invite that address?
+ <pere> ah, I got it in my dashboard without having to do anything
+ more.
+ <pere> heh, the email I got claimed the user would not be created
+ unless I provided a password, but given the member list for mach,
+ I fail to see how that could be true.
+
+
+### IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2014-02-06
+
+ <teythoon> pere: your coverity invitations are still saying 'not
+ accepted', did neither work ?
+ <pere> teythoon: one worked just fine. I got access. the other I
+ did not accept.
+ <teythoon> pere: good :)
+
+
+### IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2014-02-25
+
+ <pere> I am quite impressed with the defect density of Mach, <URL:
+ https://scan.coverity.com/projects/1307 >. :)
+ <pere> 12 outstanding issues (but 54 dismissed was surprisingly
+ high :).
+ <youpi> pere: 54 dismissed because that's a pattern generated by
+ mig
+ <youpi> repeated dozens of times
+
+[[!tag open_issue_mig]]
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/mig/documentation.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/mig/documentation.mdwn
index e6bd1bb9..96731a5d 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/mig/documentation.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/mig/documentation.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013
-Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013,
+2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -99,3 +99,15 @@ pp. 67--77."
<braunr> simple (but optimized) scatter-gather
<braunr> it makes sense for mig since mach messages do include
serialization metadata such as types
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-11-01
+
+ <gnu_srs> Is it possible to call server functions from user space? What
+ about functions returning MIG_NO_REPLY?
+ <neal> gnu_srs: server functions are only called from user space...
+ <neal> gnu_srs: Normally, servers use a server loop. When an RPC comes it,
+ it is processed and the processing returns some values that the server
+ loop returns to the client.
+ <neal> If the server wants to return the thread to the thread pool without
+ responding to the RPC, it uses MIG_NO_REPLY.