l4-hackers May 2012

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16 discussions

Fiasco.OC: sigma0 stucks in ipc-path
by Stefan kalkowski 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

Dear kernel-hackers, I think I came along a problem in the IPC-path of Fiasco.OC sometimes in the past, but it was somehow hard to reproduce. But now I've an example that quite reliable triggers the issue. The symptom in the past, and in the concrete example was that our roottask in Genode (called core) was requesting memory from sigma0, either implicitly just by touching some memory-area, like a ROM-module loaded by the bootloader, or explicitly by using the sigma0-protocol, e.g. to request … [View More]I/O memory for the framebuffer. After that the request was received by sigma0, and also processed, but the answer never reached the faulter/client in this case the core-pager thread. The typical picture in the kernel-debugger then looks like the following: http://pastebin.com/cFvn1NV2 sigma0 is marked as ready, but it still stucks in the ipc-syscall. By instrumenting the kernel I could break down the point where sigma0 never returns. It is when trying to establishing the actual mapping in 'Thread::transfer_msg_items' in file src/kern/thread-ipc.cc. The spot is the following: ``` cpu_lock.clear(); L4_error err = fpage_map(snd->space(), sfp, rcv->space(), L4_fpage(buf->d), item->b, &rl); cpu_lock.lock(); ``` After the cpu lock is given away, sigma0 never aquires it back successfully. It looks to me like a race-condition, nevertheless simply letting the lock being locked doesn't solved the problem ;-). Maybe given your insight knowledge, you're much faster in tracking the problem down to its root? I've to add, that the problem occurred on x86 as well as ARM, on different QEMU versions, as well as real hardware. I also could reproduce it with slightly older versions of Fiasco.OC, and in different development stages of Genode. Nevertheless, it was never that reliable to reproduce. The current example which reproduces it reliable at least with my QEMU (qemu-kvm-0.14.0) version. You can find in form of an ISO-image here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/82567292/avplay.iso You can try the iso-image like the following: qemu -no-kvm -m 256 -soundhw all -serial mon:stdio -cdrom avplay.iso Or, if you've to build it on your own, here is my topic branch, including the avplay run-script that triggers the problem: https://github.com/skalk/genode/tree/fiasco.oc-ipc-issue To compile and run it yourself you've to do the following steps (after installing the genode toolchain from http://genode.org/download/tool-chain): git clone git@github.com:skalk/genode.git cd genode git checkout -b issue origin/fiasco.oc-ipc-issue git clone git@github.com:genodelabs/linux_drivers.git make -C base-foc prepare make -C libports prepare PKG="libav libc sdl zlib" tool/create_builddir foc_x86_32 BUILD_DIR=build sed -i "/#REPOSITORIES.*libports/s/#//" build/etc/build.conf sed -i "/#REPOSITORIES.*linux_drivers/s/#//" build/etc/build.conf make -C build run/avplay Thank you in advance & best regards! Stefan [View Less]

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[l4ankh] Problems with fixed l4ankh
by Timur 03 Jun '12

03 Jun '12

Hi! I had fixed the l4ankh driver and after that it started to work properly. Now only thread is used to receive packets. In lines 158-162 we clear the rcv buffer: that is necessary to be done as after opening a session we start to receive packets that should not be served; otherwise the response time will be quite slow. This is not the best solution, but I do not have time to make it better. Now I face the following problem: the driver in ankh (I use 8139cp) stops receiving packets after … [View More]

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I have a question about L4Linux
by Ednilson Ricardo 03 Jun '12

03 Jun '12

Hello, I have some doubts about the L4Linux, can you help me? *** What are the purposes of L4Linux?Hardware subjaecnte that OS (capacity and types of memory, processor, bus, etc.).*** With this operating system can work? What capacity and type of hardware it runs? What is the architecture that it needs to function? the type of memory itworks? processors that it works, buses, and everything involved in the operating system. What it needs hardware to run? What type of application it serves?… [View More]

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Debugging l4linux + l4re
by Haohui Mai 03 Jun '12

03 Jun '12

Hi folks, I'm running mag + L4Linux on a real machine that doesn't have a serial port. It's really difficult to debug -- I'm wondering if there're any ways to open a new window under mag, and to redirect all serial port I/O to that window? It would be really helpful for debugging. I appreciate if anyone could share if he happens wrote this program before, or giving me some suggestions. Your help is appreciated! ~Haohui

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Ankh network
by Johan Dams 31 May '12

31 May '12

Hi. I've noticed that when sending more than one pbuf in low_level_output() that each pbuf gets sent individually over the network and is being treated as individual packets. I 'fixed' this problem by copying the different pbufs into one buffer and sending this buffer in one go (basically as a test to verify the issue). I guess the problem has to do with how l4ankh_send() calls l4shmc_rb_sender_commit_packet() after each pbuf instead of waiting until all pbufs of the packet in question are … [View More]

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PowerPC support
by G S Madhusudan 31 May '12

31 May '12

This is in reply to Oliver Horst's posting on PPC support. I am running a research program to develop variants of L4 for use in India at IIT-Madras. http://www.iitm.ac.in/ Our target platforms are Freescale QorIQ processors (P2041, P4080 and T4240 - with hypervisor support) and Cortex A9 processors. We will initially use std dev boards but we are also developing our own custom HW. As someone pointed out it helps if someone has knowledge of PPC and kernels. I have been hacking open source … [View More]

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Using pthread on L4/Fiasco
by 석현철 23 May '12

23 May '12

Thank you. I made a stupid mistake. When I added “REQUIRES_LIBS = libpthread” into Makefile, I modified three Makefiles. There are hello/Makefile, hello/server/Makefile, and hello/server/src/Makefile. I tested one by one. But I found I made a mistake. At last try, I wrote REQUIRES = libpthread instead of REQUIRES_LIBS = libpthread on hello/server/src/Makefile. After correcting my mistake, I can test pthread application. Thank you! Marcus Hyunchul Seok.

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Using pthread on L4/Fiasco
by 석현철 23 May '12

23 May '12

Hi. Hackers I’m trying to use pthread in an application which runs on L4. I modified “main.c” in Hello application, including “#include <pthread.h>”. And when I compiled L4Re, I got error messages: main.o: In function `main': /root/l4re-core-2011081207/src/l4/pkg/hello/server/src/main.c:39: undefined reference to `pthread_create' /root/l4re-core-2011081207/src/l4/pkg/hello/server/src/main.c:44: undefined reference to `pthread_join' make[5]: *** [hello] Error 1 I … [View More]

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[Announcement] Karma VMM first public release
by Matthias Lange 18 May '12

18 May '12

We are happy to announce the first public release of the Karma Virtual Machine Monitor [0]. Karma is a virtual machine monitor (VMM) that runs Linux in a virtual machine on top of the Fiasco.OC [1] microkernel. Its main design directives are speed and simplicity. Unlike KVM, VirtualBox or VMWare, Karma does no emulation, but resorts to aggressive paravirtualization and therefore has low complexity and shows superior performance for a number of benchmarks. Karma requires hardware assisted CPU … [View More]

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Booting L4/Fiasco + L4Re on PC
by 석현철 16 May '12

16 May '12

Hello. I’ve tried to boot L4/Fiasco on PC. I followed the directions for building from both “http://os.inf.tu-dresden. de/fiasco/build.html” and “http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4Re/build.html” And I could run L4/Fiasco on QEMU. Now I hope I want to boot L4 on PC environment. As I searched, it can be done through GRUB. (But, I am not convinced that it is right way.) Anyway, I’ve tried to boot L4 by using GRUB. I use Ubuntu Linux for compiling L4/Fiasco and L4Re. In this, there … [View More]

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