We now make sure the thread starts up and sets its id. There was a race
condition where a process could create a thread and immediately try to
join it. If the thread had not initialized itself the join would fail
with EINVAL as we passed -1 as its id.
`sleep` is now implemented in terms of `nanosleep`. `nanosleep` is now
more precise and handles overflow when calculating wakeup time. I don't
think anything was depending on this, but I could see a program sleeping
for max time to block until signal.
Prior to this I was just blindly rebasing the current TSC stats every
once in a while. Now I check for drift and scale the multiplier
accordingly to keep the timer from drifting
Banos is a stable WIP C driver API that is supposed to provide a simple
interface to interact with the kernel and load the modules dynamically.
It is WIP and atm this just implements module loading with a custom
banos_install syscall. Banos will not try to substitute parts of the
kernel instead it will just expose kernel functionality via a stable
BINARY API. Meaning binaries (should) remain forward and backward
compatible on a binary level.
Banos modules work similarly to those in linux, you expose symbols via
BANOS_EXPORT which allows you to export a name + addr paired symbol.
It puts it in the .banos-export section. Drivers provide metadata about
themselves in the REQUIRED .banos-driver section. Symbols are resolved
at runtime. The kernel exposes the driver functionality via the same
.banos-export export mechanism.
Banos modules are elf RELOCATABLE files (object files) which have
partial linking (only banos symbols should remain). Modules will
eventually define dependencies, will export symbols and will allow you
to build a complex object hierarchy.
This patch adds the banos_install syscall which takes in the driver
image to install and may only be executed by super users. The API
doesn't validate already loaded modules, as thats something the
userspace MAY choose to keep track of. Multi-instance functionality
shall be implemented via driver specific behaviuor (exposed in the dev
filesystem or some other means).
Modules are supposed to allow you to alter kernel behavior and extend
it, allowing you to create filesystems, drivers, networking
modifications, schedulers, probers, and more (hopefully) whilst
remaining binary compatible with any version of the kernel (again,
hopefully).
