These changes are compatible with clang-format 16 and will be mandatory
when we eventually bump clang-format version. So, since there are no
real downsides, let's commit them now.
This device is a block device that allows a user to effectively treat an
Inode as a block device.
The static construction method is given an OpenFileDescription reference
but validates that:
- The description has a valid custody (so it's not some arbitrary file).
Failing this requirement will yield EINVAL.
- The description custody points to an Inode which is a regular file, as
we only support (seekable) regular files. Failing this requirement
will yield ENOTSUP.
LoopDevice can be used to mount a regular file on the filesystem like
other supported types of (physical) block devices.
There's no need to have separate syscall for this kind of functionality,
as we can just have a device node in /dev, called "beep", that allows
writing tone generation packets to emulate the same behavior.
In addition to that, we remove LibC sysbeep function, as this function
was never being used by any C program nor it was standardized in any
way.
Instead, we move the userspace implementation to LibCore.
Userspace initially didn't have any sort of mechanism to handle
device hotplug (either removing or inserting a device).
This meant that after a short term of scanning all known devices, by
fetching device events (DeviceEvent packets) from /dev/devctl, we
basically never try to read it again after SystemServer initialization
code.
To accommodate hotplug needs, we change SystemServer by ensuring it will
generate a known set of device nodes at their location during the its
main initialization code. This includes devices like /dev/mem, /dev/zero
and /dev/full, etc.
The actual responsible userspace program to handle hotplug events is a
new userspace program called DeviceMapper, with following key points:
- Its current task is to to constantly read the /dev/devctl device node.
Because we already created generic devices, we only handle devices
that are dynamically-generated in nature, like storage devices, audio
channels, etc.
- Since dynamically-generated device nodes could have an infinite minor
numbers, but major numbers are decoded to a device type, we create an
internal registry based on two structures - DeviceNodeFamily, and
RegisteredDeviceNode. DeviceNodeFamily objects are attached in the
main logic code, when handling a DeviceEvent device insertion packet.
A DeviceNodeFamily object has an internal HashTable to hold objects of
RegisteredDeviceNode class.
- Because some device nodes could still share the same major number (TTY
and serial TTY devices), we have two modes of allocation - limited
allocation (so a range is defined for a major number), or infinite
range. Therefore, two (or more) separate DeviceNodeFamily objects can
can exist albeit sharing the same major number, but they are required
to allocate from a different minor numbers' range to ensure there are
no collisions.
- As for KCOV, we handle this device differently. In case the user
compiled the kernel with such support - this happens to be a singular
device node that we usually don't need, so it's dynamically-generated
too, and because it has only one instance, we don't register it in our
internal registry to not make it complicated needlessly.
The Kernel code is modified to allow proper blocking in case of no
events in the DeviceControlDevice class, because otherwise we will need
to poll periodically the device to check if a new event is available,
which would waste CPU time for no good reason.
