Change Semaphore -> ThreadBlocker
This was not a semaphore, I just named it one because I didn't know
what semaphore was. I have meant to change this sooner, but it was in
no way urgent :D
Implement SMP events. Processors can now be sent SMP events through
IPIs. SMP events can be sent either to a single processor or broadcasted
to every processor.
PageTable::{map_page,map_range,unmap_page,unmap_range}() now send SMP
event to invalidate TLB caches for the changed pages.
Scheduler no longer uses a global run queue. Each processor has its own
scheduler that keeps track of the load on the processor. Once every
second schedulers do load balancing. Schedulers have no access to other
processors' schedulers, they just see approximate loads. If scheduler
decides that it has too much load, it will send a thread to another
processor through a SMP event.
Schedulers are currently run using the timer interrupt on BSB. This
should be not the case, and each processor should use its LAPIC timer
for interrupts. There is no reason to broadcast SMP event to all
processors when BSB gets timer interrupt.
Old scheduler only achieved 20% idle load on qemu. That was probably a
very inefficient implementation. This new scheduler seems to average
around 1% idle load. This is much closer to what I would expect. On my
own laptop idle load seems to be only around 0.5% on each processor.
/dev/keyboard and /dev/mouse can be read for events from any attached
keyboard or mouse respectively. This makes device hot-plugging support
pretty much automatic for TTY, GUI, and whatever takes input.
PS/2 code is now kind of messed up, but it works. Keyboards and mice are
now an abstract class that is automatically exposed to userspace. This
will make adding USB input much nicer.
Keycodes are easier to handle as you need only one keyboard layout
for keycodes. Otherwise you would need to implement keyboard layout
for every keyboard driver in every language.
Command sending+response reading is now synchronized. This allows
bochs to properly initialize both mouse and keyboard simultaneously.
Also status register is checked EVERY time read/write to other IO
ports is performed.
This code has very ugly file parsing code. I have to create API
for reading files line by line in kernel space...
This allows users to open framebuffer/input files without root.
Mounting has to be moved to userspace soon. It makes no sense to
hard code permissions for every (device) file.
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