Ben Pfaff [Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:45:27 +0000 (17:45 +0000)]
Irq 7 is special. It is not just the parallel port. It can also be a
"spurious" irq, one that is not associated with any particular device.
Real hardware can generate spurious irqs for various reasons (try
Google for details), but it never occurred to me that simulated
hardware would ever do so.
However, it can, at least under Bochs. Pintos programs the PIT to
interrupt at 100 Hz. The PIT does so by generating a output signal
that stays high most of the time but drops low for a single clock
cycle 100 times per second. The low-to-high transition causes the
timer interrupt.
The problem occurs when we've been doing work with interrupts
disabled, causing a timer interrupt to be delayed. If we enable
interrupts on the same clock cycle as the PIT's high-to-low
transition, we will still get an interrupt, because the interrupt
controller latched the presence of an interrupt. However, when the
CPU attempts to determine the irq number, the interrupt controller
sees that all of its incoming interrupt lines are low. Thus, it
reports irq 7 to the CPU, and we end up with an interrupt 0x27.
It doesn't happen very often, because there's only a 1-cycle window,
and it requires that we do a good deal of work with interrupts off,
and it can only happen if no other interrupts (e.g. serial) are
pending. But it's darned annoying when it happens.
Here's a filtered excerpt from a Bochs log with debugging enabled
where you can see the problem. The first interrupt (32 or 0x20) is
properly a timer interrupt, because irq line 0 is high. The second
interrupt (39 or 0x27) is the spurious one; you can see that irq line
0 went low on the same cycle.
00080033515d[PIC ] IRQ line 4 now low
00080033827d[PIC ] IRQ line 4 now high
00080033970d[PIC ] IRQ line 0 now low
00080033971d[PIC ] IRQ line 0 now high
00080033989d[PIC ] IRQ line 4 now low
00080034068d[CPU ] interrupt(): vector = 32, INT = 0, EXT = 1
00080043970d[PIC ] IRQ line 0 now low
00080043971d[PIC ] IRQ line 0 now high
00080053971d[PIC ] IRQ line 0 now low
00080053971d[PIC ] IRQ line 0 now high
00080063971d[PIC ] IRQ line 0 now low
00080063972d[PIC ] IRQ line 0 now high
00080073971d[PIC ] IRQ line 0 now low
00080073972d[PIC ] IRQ line 0 now high
00080083971d[PIC ] IRQ line 0 now low
00080083971d[CPU ] interrupt(): vector = 39, INT = 0, EXT = 1
00080083972d[PIC ] IRQ line 0 now high
00080084538d[PIC ] IRQ line 4 now high
This change causes irqs 7 and 15 (0x27 and 0x2f) to be ignored when no
handler is provided.
Problem reported by Godmar Back.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:11:52 +0000 (13:11 +0000)]
Update.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:59:05 +0000 (12:59 +0000)]
Minor doc improvements.
From Godmar Back.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:36:41 +0000 (12:36 +0000)]
Make list_entry, hash_entry more type-safe.
Suggestion from Godmar Back.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:15:11 +0000 (12:15 +0000)]
Fix confusing spacing in example
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:12:05 +0000 (15:12 +0000)]
Create idle thread with minimum priority.
Suggested by Godmar Back.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:59:41 +0000 (14:59 +0000)]
Change "Memory Barriers" to "Optimization Barriers".
Thanks to Joshua Haberman for pointing out the issue.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:43:09 +0000 (21:43 +0000)]
Move assignment to _end_kernel_text inside .rodata.
Without this change, any orphan, read-only sections (such as .eh_frame
from libgcc) will be placed by GNU ld between .rodata and
_end_kernel_text. The result is that _end_kernel_text gets pushed
into the middle of a page that now contains some read-only and some
read/write data. After paging_init() marks that page read-only, the
first write to it (in intr_init() in my case) causes Pintos to go
ka-boom!
With this change, orphan read-only sections just don't get marked
read-only in the page tables. Big deal.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:26:35 +0000 (20:26 +0000)]
Fix two bugs in the base Pintos code:
1. Idle thread doesn't get initialized well: it hangs around on the
ready list until we have idle time. Fix by using a semaphore to
make sure the idle thread gets initialized.
2. After idle thread does get initialized, it can get put back on the
ready list if you yield from the timer interrupt. Fix by not ever
putting the idle thread on the ready list.
Plus fix a bug in the sample solution that tends to mask #2:
3. Doesn't yield from timer interrupt when unblocking a thread. Fix
by yielding from timer interrupt when unblocking a thread (of
higher priority).
Also, fix something that confused students:
4. Rename enable_mlfqs to thread_mlfqs and move it to thread.c (to
reduce confusion about where it is declared), and heavily comment
to ensure that students know when it gets initialized.
These problems were drawn to my attention by Godmar Back. Thanks!
Godmar Back [Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:40:40 +0000 (11:40 +0000)]
fixed left-over, now-wrong comment about how decrease in numeric priority means increase in effective priority
Godmar Back [Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:32:27 +0000 (02:32 +0000)]
fixed typo in wrong iterator example
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 9 Sep 2006 16:53:56 +0000 (16:53 +0000)]
Fix issue reported by Godmar Back:
I may have found a problem with the triple fault patch, though I don't
know how to solve it.
If you add a *(int *)0=42 right after paging_init(), but before
intr_init(), gdb will just hang:
...
where it hangs while Pintos prints:
Triple fault: stopping for gdb
Triple fault: stopping for gdb
Triple fault: stopping for gdb
Triple fault: stopping for gdb
Triple fault: stopping for gdb
Triple fault: stopping for gdb
Triple fault: stopping for gdb
Triple fault: stopping for gdb
Triple fault: stopping for gdb
Triple fault: stopping for gdb
Triple fault: stopping for gdb
etc.
It stops properly if I don't next-step (that is, if I just let it run.)
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 9 Sep 2006 16:52:39 +0000 (16:52 +0000)]
Convert tabs to spaces to make cut-and-paste to interactive shell
work.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Sep 2006 00:51:17 +0000 (00:51 +0000)]
Make kernel code pages read-only.
From Godmar Back, with changes.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Sep 2006 00:50:31 +0000 (00:50 +0000)]
Clarify summary section.
Ben Pfaff [Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:38:16 +0000 (21:38 +0000)]
Change several "die"s to "fail"s in read_tar.
Reported by Haobo Xu <haoboxu@stanford.edu>.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:48:47 +0000 (16:48 +0000)]
B5: Include "open by a process" as a reason to disallow removing a
directory.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:27:07 +0000 (18:27 +0000)]
Minor wording improvement.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:23:38 +0000 (17:23 +0000)]
A2: We want to see the work in the calculation, not just the final
result.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:09:14 +0000 (17:09 +0000)]
May also consult course staff.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:47:41 +0000 (16:47 +0000)]
make_tar_archive() needs to initialize `success'.
Thanks to "Morgan" <theatomicbob@excite.com> for reporting this bug.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 4 Aug 2006 20:46:26 +0000 (20:46 +0000)]
Clarify length.
Ben Pfaff [Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:56:44 +0000 (21:56 +0000)]
Fix comment.
Ben Pfaff [Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:53:47 +0000 (21:53 +0000)]
Fix comment.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:05:37 +0000 (02:05 +0000)]
Improve comment on sema_down.
Thanks to Haobo Xu for pointing this out.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:56:03 +0000 (00:56 +0000)]
Add an identifier to each question in the design document templates,
so that they are easier to refer to individually.
Ben Pfaff [Sun, 9 Jul 2006 17:55:06 +0000 (17:55 +0000)]
Add a label for each question.
Ben Pfaff [Sun, 9 Jul 2006 15:10:00 +0000 (15:10 +0000)]
Fix typo.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 8 Jul 2006 18:56:36 +0000 (18:56 +0000)]
"woken up" => "awakened"
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 8 Jul 2006 18:15:14 +0000 (18:15 +0000)]
Add additional explanation to the spontaneous reboot output.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 7 Jul 2006 20:54:50 +0000 (20:54 +0000)]
Make requirements consistent with doc template wording.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 7 Jul 2006 18:53:30 +0000 (18:53 +0000)]
Point out that all_list and all_elem don't exist in the tree we provide.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 7 Jul 2006 01:52:28 +0000 (01:52 +0000)]
New FAQ.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 7 Jul 2006 01:14:13 +0000 (01:14 +0000)]
Fix summary.
Thanks to Samanth Lingampalli <samanthl@stanford.edu> and Haobo Xu
<haoboxu@stanford.edu> for input.
Ben Pfaff [Sun, 2 Jul 2006 16:52:58 +0000 (16:52 +0000)]
Don't say that the design doc itself is 50% of the grade.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:51:42 +0000 (00:51 +0000)]
Use test -f because Solaris sh does not support -e.
(Idiots can't read POSIX spec I guess.)
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:52:52 +0000 (21:52 +0000)]
Recommend zcat piping into tar x, instead of tar xzf, because some of
the Leland machines don't have GNU tar and thus don't support "z".
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:50:53 +0000 (21:50 +0000)]
Allow user fault messages in output in bad-* tests.
Add "pass;" at end of each bad-* test checker script.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:59:18 +0000 (00:59 +0000)]
@ need to be escaped.
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:00:20 +0000 (16:00 +0000)]
Add some comments.
From chris@seberino.org.
Ben Pfaff [Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:53:09 +0000 (16:53 +0000)]
Point out that the tarball does not include the doc directory.
From chris@seberino.org.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 10 Jun 2006 20:09:25 +0000 (20:09 +0000)]
Capitalize QEMU properly.
From chris@seberino.org.
Godmar Back [Wed, 7 Jun 2006 22:09:19 +0000 (22:09 +0000)]
added bad-jump/read/write bad-jump2/read2/write2 to check that process
that attempt to execute/read/write NULL or a kernel address, resp., are
properly terminated.
Godmar Back [Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:48:38 +0000 (12:48 +0000)]
defined 'test_name' for msg()/vmsg() to work properly
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 2 Jun 2006 22:13:31 +0000 (22:13 +0000)]
Make quoting consistent.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 2 Jun 2006 22:10:36 +0000 (22:10 +0000)]
Point to installation instructions.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 2 Jun 2006 22:06:51 +0000 (22:06 +0000)]
Replace GSX Server support with VMware Player support.
Fully support serial terminal with Player.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 1 Jun 2006 22:17:39 +0000 (22:17 +0000)]
Add installation chapter to manual. Remove now-redundant files from
src/utils, src/misc.
Update copyright years in license. Add license to manual.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 1 Jun 2006 21:54:30 +0000 (21:54 +0000)]
Fix typos.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:11:00 +0000 (20:11 +0000)]
Add support for "keyboard" input over the serial port.
Revise documentation accordingly.
Revise reference solution accordingly.
Change real Return key to produce \r, to match what is received on
serial port.
Update shell example program to expect \r at end of file.
Modify testing makefiles to supply /dev/null as input.
Add squish-pty help program to deal with Bochs,
and modify "pintos" to use it.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:07:45 +0000 (20:07 +0000)]
Don't put white space before call to $(eval) because that makes GNU
make 3.80 on vine barf.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 1 Jun 2006 15:03:40 +0000 (15:03 +0000)]
Increase timeout for MLFQS tests to 480 seconds, which is necessary
sometimes.
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 31 May 2006 18:26:36 +0000 (18:26 +0000)]
Add utils to CLEAN_SUBDIRS.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 30 May 2006 21:35:27 +0000 (21:35 +0000)]
Fix two bugs:
- If -s used with GSX, really don't provide serial port.
- Call File::Temp::cleanup() inside eval to cope with old versions
of File::Temp that didn't have cleanup.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 30 May 2006 21:33:10 +0000 (21:33 +0000)]
Fix stupidity in last check-in.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 30 May 2006 20:27:07 +0000 (20:27 +0000)]
Add patch to support serial terminals under Solaris.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 30 May 2006 20:26:03 +0000 (20:26 +0000)]
Add priority-donate-lower to rubric.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 30 May 2006 20:25:40 +0000 (20:25 +0000)]
Reduce number of simultaneously waking threads to 3,
in lieu of increasing instructions-per-second (ips) for Bochs.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 30 May 2006 20:18:24 +0000 (20:18 +0000)]
When using -k, make sure to flush all of the subprocess's output to
stdout, even after the subprocess has died.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 30 May 2006 19:25:32 +0000 (19:25 +0000)]
Make stdout unbuffered while filtering output.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 27 May 2006 20:57:13 +0000 (20:57 +0000)]
Comment.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 27 May 2006 20:21:09 +0000 (20:21 +0000)]
Add "-k" option to pintos script. When used, pintos will scan the
serial output for key words like "Kernel PANIC" and, if found,
terminate the run. This is useful for making sure that things like
triple faults or recursive panics don't waste a lot of time by finally
terminating only upon a timeout that might be as much as 10 minutes.
Add "-k" to the command line used in the test scripts.
Also, pintos now saves and restores the terminal settings across the
call to the simulator. This is because qemu turns off local echo and
doesn't restore it if killed by a signal.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 27 May 2006 20:10:32 +0000 (20:10 +0000)]
Put "abort" in "User process abort" in all caps, analogous to "Kernel
PANIC".
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 27 May 2006 16:27:04 +0000 (16:27 +0000)]
Disable networking when running qemu,
to suppress prompt for sudo password (if enabled).
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 27 May 2006 00:06:54 +0000 (00:06 +0000)]
Add file system persistence tests:
Change Make.tests to invoke pintos a second time for the extended
filesys tests, and in that run to tar up the file system contents and
copy it out.
Update grading scripts to check the generated tarballs.
Update documentation.
Update documented requirements for remove() of a directory to give
basically the options offered by POSIX, and update the tests to check
for these behaviors.
Remove dir-lsdir test, which no longer made sense given that readdir
is used so heavily in other tests.
Merge dir-mk-vine and dir-rm-vine tests into a single dir-vine test,
which is now much more stringent.
Merge dir-rm-cwd-cd and dir-rm-cwd into a single dir-rm-cwd test,
which is now much more stringent.
Check that a non-empty directory cannot be removed.
Update scoring rubrics.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 26 May 2006 20:59:59 +0000 (20:59 +0000)]
Make the default simulator qemu for project 2...4,
instead of just doing so in tests/Makefile.
Update documentation to match.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 26 May 2006 19:50:57 +0000 (19:50 +0000)]
qemu is much faster than Bochs.
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 24 May 2006 20:18:05 +0000 (20:18 +0000)]
Enclose kernel command line arguments that contain spaces in quotes
when printing.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 23 May 2006 16:33:22 +0000 (16:33 +0000)]
Add EXIT_FAILURE, EXIT_SUCCESS to syscall.h,
and use them in the example programs.
Add comments to syscall.h.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 22 May 2006 18:47:19 +0000 (18:47 +0000)]
File system project updates:
Require support for . and ...
Add inumber system call, so getcwd can be implemented,
and inode_get_inumber() function.
Implement these features in the reference solution.
Add "pwd" example program and require explanation of it in design
document.
Implement "cd" in shell.
Add -l option to "ls" example program.
Describe interpretation of unusual file names.
Remove filesys_self_test().
Update TODO.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 22 May 2006 17:52:28 +0000 (17:52 +0000)]
Add test that compiles the examples.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 22 May 2006 17:51:46 +0000 (17:51 +0000)]
Wording.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 22 May 2006 01:45:13 +0000 (01:45 +0000)]
Fix comment style.
Ben Pfaff [Sun, 21 May 2006 02:11:51 +0000 (02:11 +0000)]
Remove obsolete files.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 20 May 2006 22:43:50 +0000 (22:43 +0000)]
Wordsmithing.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 20 May 2006 22:29:26 +0000 (22:29 +0000)]
Wordsmithing.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 20 May 2006 22:29:16 +0000 (22:29 +0000)]
Update bibliography.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 20 May 2006 22:18:36 +0000 (22:18 +0000)]
Wordsmithing.
Document block allocator functions.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 20 May 2006 22:00:32 +0000 (22:00 +0000)]
Comment.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 20 May 2006 21:29:04 +0000 (21:29 +0000)]
Wordsmithing.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 20 May 2006 20:45:40 +0000 (20:45 +0000)]
Wordsmithing.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 20 May 2006 20:01:15 +0000 (20:01 +0000)]
Comment.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 20 May 2006 19:56:27 +0000 (19:56 +0000)]
Wordsmithing.
Cite papers on semaphores, monitors.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 20 May 2006 17:33:48 +0000 (17:33 +0000)]
Wordsmithing.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 20 May 2006 17:27:02 +0000 (17:27 +0000)]
Wordsmithing.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 20 May 2006 17:17:25 +0000 (17:17 +0000)]
Wordsmithing.
Update description of main()'s calling order.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 19 May 2006 23:41:59 +0000 (23:41 +0000)]
Consistently spell "file name" and "file system" as two words.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 19 May 2006 20:43:25 +0000 (20:43 +0000)]
Add file_get_inode() for symmetry with dir_get_inode().
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 19 May 2006 20:39:54 +0000 (20:39 +0000)]
Comments.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 19 May 2006 20:38:50 +0000 (20:38 +0000)]
Replace lsdir system call by readdir, isdir system calls,
which are far less offensive to good taste.
Add dir_get_inode() and dir_readdir() functions.
Remove dir_list(), filesys_list(). The latter was unused.
Update project documentation, solutions, and tests.
Rewrite "ls" example program to use the new interface, and add the
ability to specify a directory name and a "long format" feature.
Add "cd" command to shell.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 19 May 2006 20:03:10 +0000 (20:03 +0000)]
Improve readability.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 19 May 2006 17:44:13 +0000 (17:44 +0000)]
Improve automatic test failure interpretation by extending backtrace
to the binary that failed.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 19 May 2006 16:50:19 +0000 (16:50 +0000)]
Remove unused variable.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 19 May 2006 14:39:47 +0000 (14:39 +0000)]
Ignore mcat.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 19 May 2006 04:47:28 +0000 (04:47 +0000)]
Make directory interface more like file interface.
In reference solution, push locking up to inode layer, simplifying
changes to directory code.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 19 May 2006 03:18:59 +0000 (03:18 +0000)]
Wording.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 19 May 2006 03:17:28 +0000 (03:17 +0000)]
Fix menu.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 19 May 2006 03:17:09 +0000 (03:17 +0000)]
Wording.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 18 May 2006 19:47:22 +0000 (19:47 +0000)]
Wording.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 18 May 2006 19:47:04 +0000 (19:47 +0000)]
Wording.