pintos-anon
18 years agoAdd hash_apply() function.
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:36:53 +0000 (18:36 +0000)]
Add hash_apply() function.
Revise hash_clear(), hash_delete() to take destructor function
argument.
Fully document hash table.

18 years agoAlways round up disk sizes to multiple of a cylinder,
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 3 Jan 2006 20:20:18 +0000 (20:20 +0000)]
Always round up disk sizes to multiple of a cylinder,
because Bochs 2.2.5 requires that.
Based on patch from Godmar Back.

18 years agoMove mmap consistency FAQ into assignment description.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:03:46 +0000 (17:03 +0000)]
Move mmap consistency FAQ into assignment description.

18 years agoPartial mmap'd pages need not be lazy loaded.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:00:02 +0000 (17:00 +0000)]
Partial mmap'd pages need not be lazy loaded.

18 years agoGet rid of -rndpg option for now, because none of the tests use it.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:50:59 +0000 (16:50 +0000)]
Get rid of -rndpg option for now, because none of the tests use it.
In the future it may make sense to reintroduce it (and test it).

18 years agoClarification.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:51:30 +0000 (20:51 +0000)]
Clarification.

18 years agoMention that keyboard input does not work with "pintos -v".
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:49:13 +0000 (20:49 +0000)]
Mention that keyboard input does not work with "pintos -v".

18 years agoClarification.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:47:21 +0000 (20:47 +0000)]
Clarification.

18 years agoMention that process_wait() can be changed to an infinite loop
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:44:27 +0000 (20:44 +0000)]
Mention that process_wait() can be changed to an infinite loop
temporarily.

18 years agoFix formula.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 22 Dec 2005 01:18:35 +0000 (01:18 +0000)]
Fix formula.

18 years agoUse -Wdeclaration-after-statement.
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:48:57 +0000 (23:48 +0000)]
Use -Wdeclaration-after-statement.

18 years agoDon't need GCC patch anymore because we don't use Intel syntax.
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:48:40 +0000 (23:48 +0000)]
Don't need GCC patch anymore because we don't use Intel syntax.

18 years agoComments.
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:46:05 +0000 (23:46 +0000)]
Comments.

18 years agoUse AT&T syntax instead of Intel.
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:44:35 +0000 (23:44 +0000)]
Use AT&T syntax instead of Intel.

18 years agoDon't use -I- because GCC 4.0 complains.
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:35:07 +0000 (22:35 +0000)]
Don't use -I- because GCC 4.0 complains.
(Can't use -iquote because GCC 3.x doesn't have it.)

18 years agoAdd cast to silence new warning in GCC 4.0.
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:31:36 +0000 (22:31 +0000)]
Add cast to silence new warning in GCC 4.0.

18 years agoUse bool vars instead of bits for shift keys.
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 21 Dec 2005 04:56:23 +0000 (04:56 +0000)]
Use bool vars instead of bits for shift keys.

18 years agoRevise "Design" description.
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 21 Dec 2005 03:21:33 +0000 (03:21 +0000)]
Revise "Design" description.
Based on Ben Sapp <bensapp@stanford.edu> comments.

18 years agoClarify "invalid PID".
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 21 Dec 2005 01:00:32 +0000 (01:00 +0000)]
Clarify "invalid PID".
Thanks to "Kevin Hart" <kevin.hart@hp.com> for question.

18 years agoClarify function comment.
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:58:30 +0000 (00:58 +0000)]
Clarify function comment.
Via Ben Sapp <bensapp@stanford.edu>.

18 years agoAdd "suggested order of implementation" section.
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:56:06 +0000 (00:56 +0000)]
Add "suggested order of implementation" section.

18 years agoClarify that multithreaded processes not supported.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:45:09 +0000 (23:45 +0000)]
Clarify that multithreaded processes not supported.

18 years agoClarify.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:41:15 +0000 (23:41 +0000)]
Clarify.

18 years agoAdd suggested implementations for filesys syscalls.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:39:13 +0000 (23:39 +0000)]
Add suggested implementations for filesys syscalls.
Clarify write syscall description.

18 years agoClarify that struct intr_frame is on the kernel stack.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:24:52 +0000 (23:24 +0000)]
Clarify that struct intr_frame is on the kernel stack.
Thanks to "Kevin Hart" <kevin.hart@hp.com> for the question.

18 years agoClarifications.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:21:15 +0000 (23:21 +0000)]
Clarifications.
Pointer to instructions for debugging user programs.

18 years agoAllow .png as alternate for ASCII art.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:58:44 +0000 (22:58 +0000)]
Allow .png as alternate for ASCII art.

18 years agoClarify that the idle thread does not receive recent_cpu.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:54:51 +0000 (22:54 +0000)]
Clarify that the idle thread does not receive recent_cpu.

18 years agoWording.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:52:01 +0000 (22:52 +0000)]
Wording.

18 years agoIt's okay to use a single sorted queue for MLFQS.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:32:05 +0000 (22:32 +0000)]
It's okay to use a single sorted queue for MLFQS.

18 years agoSuggest order of operations for recent_cpu calculation.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:26:13 +0000 (22:26 +0000)]
Suggest order of operations for recent_cpu calculation.
Thanks to "Jeff Sun" <precisely@gmail.com> for report.

18 years agoSuggest 17.14 instead of 21.10 because the extra precision may be
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:15:44 +0000 (22:15 +0000)]
Suggest 17.14 instead of 21.10 because the extra precision may be
necessary for some implementations.
Thanks to Matt Page <mpage@stanford.edu> and "Jeff Sun"
<precisely@gmail.com> for the suggestion.

18 years agoExplain why it sometimes looks like pass() fails.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:27:33 +0000 (21:27 +0000)]
Explain why it sometimes looks like pass() fails.

18 years agoMake backtrace chop long filenames to just the last few characters.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:11:42 +0000 (21:11 +0000)]
Make backtrace chop long filenames to just the last few characters.

18 years agoWording.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:47:43 +0000 (20:47 +0000)]
Wording.

18 years agoAdd CVS Locking to menu.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:47:21 +0000 (20:47 +0000)]
Add CVS Locking to menu.

18 years agoIgnore pintos.text.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:47:01 +0000 (20:47 +0000)]
Ignore pintos.text.

18 years agoBe slightly more lenient.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:46:38 +0000 (20:46 +0000)]
Be slightly more lenient.

18 years agoIgnore *.d.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:45:41 +0000 (20:45 +0000)]
Ignore *.d.

18 years agoClarifications.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:44:39 +0000 (20:44 +0000)]
Clarifications.
Add FAQ for how to run tests.

18 years agoAdd summary of scheduler.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:42:15 +0000 (20:42 +0000)]
Add summary of scheduler.

18 years agoComment idle thread more thoroughly.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:03:51 +0000 (20:03 +0000)]
Comment idle thread more thoroughly.
Thanks to "Kevin Hart" <kevin.hart@hp.com> for asking questions.

18 years agoFix description of rounding to nearest in fixed point to take into
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:47:32 +0000 (19:47 +0000)]
Fix description of rounding to nearest in fixed point to take into
account negative numbers.  Thanks to Nishit Sureshchandra Shah
<nishit@stanford.edu> for the correction.

18 years agoClarify that adding code where interrupts are already disabled may be
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:35:50 +0000 (18:35 +0000)]
Clarify that adding code where interrupts are already disabled may be
necessary.

18 years agoWording clarifications.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:30:03 +0000 (18:30 +0000)]
Wording clarifications.

18 years agoTalk about CVS locks.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:17:30 +0000 (18:17 +0000)]
Talk about CVS locks.

18 years agoWording clarifications.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:03:02 +0000 (18:03 +0000)]
Wording clarifications.

18 years agoClarifying comment.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:02:50 +0000 (18:02 +0000)]
Clarifying comment.

18 years agoAdd comment that gdb and pintos have to run on the same machine.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:33:37 +0000 (07:33 +0000)]
Add comment that gdb and pintos have to run on the same machine.

18 years agoMention that aklog and/or logging out and back in may be necessary to
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:28:19 +0000 (07:28 +0000)]
Mention that aklog and/or logging out and back in may be necessary to
gain new group membership.

18 years agoRevising "Setting Up CVS" section.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:19:43 +0000 (07:19 +0000)]
Revising "Setting Up CVS" section.
Need to `fs setacl' $HOME also.
Add summary of commands.

18 years agoAdd plaintext target.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:17:48 +0000 (07:17 +0000)]
Add plaintext target.

18 years agoCheck for the compiler's availability early in the `make' run, in
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:27:07 +0000 (06:27 +0000)]
Check for the compiler's availability early in the `make' run, in
Make.config, and give a warning that points to the documentation if we
can't find it.
Also, modify other Makefiles so that Make.config is only included
once, so that the message is only printed once.

18 years agoAdd some clarifications to address question from "Kevin Hart"
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 04:17:18 +0000 (04:17 +0000)]
Add some clarifications to address question from "Kevin Hart"
<kevin.hart@hp.com>.

18 years agoDon't use ! in shell--Solaris sh doesn't support it.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 03:27:15 +0000 (03:27 +0000)]
Don't use ! in shell--Solaris sh doesn't support it.

18 years agoCall qemu with "-nics 0" to avoid calling any network initialization
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:26:27 +0000 (00:26 +0000)]
Call qemu with "-nics 0" to avoid calling any network initialization
script.

18 years agoRevert Intel-style assembly back to AT&T-style.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:25:23 +0000 (00:25 +0000)]
Revert Intel-style assembly back to AT&T-style.
The Intel-style assembly found too many bugs in GAS
and the GAS folks actually changed behavior on us
for lidt, lgdt.

18 years agoFix fencepost error in strstr().
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:47:18 +0000 (06:47 +0000)]
Fix fencepost error in strstr().
Thanks to Bryan Branstetter for bug and fix.

19 years agoFix typo.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 2 Aug 2005 02:15:36 +0000 (02:15 +0000)]
Fix typo.

19 years agoAdd another possible ordering of lines.
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:25:12 +0000 (18:25 +0000)]
Add another possible ordering of lines.
Needed by project submitted by Mike Brown <mbrown@vmware.com>.

19 years agoFix bug reported by Mike Brown <mbrown@vmware.com>, in which a
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:40:23 +0000 (17:40 +0000)]
Fix bug reported by Mike Brown <mbrown@vmware.com>, in which a
secondary device was always detected on an IDE channel that had a
primary device.  Both qemu and Bochs report error/lbam/lbah register
values that are invalid for a device that exists in such a situation,
but GSX Server reports 1/0/0, which indicates a valid device.
Fortunately, GSX Server does report a useful value in the status
register, so the bug fix adds a check for that value also.

19 years agoAdd CVS instructions.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Jul 2005 05:56:25 +0000 (05:56 +0000)]
Add CVS instructions.

19 years agoAllow disks to come from build/ directory as well as current
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:49:47 +0000 (21:49 +0000)]
Allow disks to come from build/ directory as well as current
directory, by default.

19 years agoEliminate race condition in timer_print_stats() found by Sorav's
Ben Pfaff [Wed, 6 Jul 2005 20:45:36 +0000 (20:45 +0000)]
Eliminate race condition in timer_print_stats() found by Sorav's
Checkbochs tool.

19 years agoAdd comment.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 4 Jul 2005 00:06:43 +0000 (00:06 +0000)]
Add comment.

19 years agoClarify use of thread_get_nice() and thread_set_nice().
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 4 Jul 2005 00:04:24 +0000 (00:04 +0000)]
Clarify use of thread_get_nice() and thread_set_nice().
Thanks to "Bruce Schechter" <bruce@schechter.com> for pointing the
ambiguity.

19 years agoReword paragraph.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:09:56 +0000 (20:09 +0000)]
Reword paragraph.

19 years agoFix Mendel's name.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:09:26 +0000 (20:09 +0000)]
Fix Mendel's name.

19 years agoFix bug that shifted mlfqs-recent-1 output by 1 second.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:07:41 +0000 (21:07 +0000)]
Fix bug that shifted mlfqs-recent-1 output by 1 second.
Thanks to Atif Faheem for reporting this bug.

19 years agoRevise.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 27 Jun 2005 20:01:13 +0000 (20:01 +0000)]
Revise.

19 years agoClarify that scheduler data updates are synchronous with the timer.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 27 Jun 2005 19:58:08 +0000 (19:58 +0000)]
Clarify that scheduler data updates are synchronous with the timer.

19 years agoFix cond_wait prototype. Thanks to ASIF Erayath Thekke Valappil
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:26:07 +0000 (15:26 +0000)]
Fix cond_wait prototype.  Thanks to ASIF Erayath Thekke Valappil
<etv@stanford.edu>.

19 years agoInitialize start_time. Thanks to Ankur Goyal <angoyal@stanford.edu> .
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:19:51 +0000 (15:19 +0000)]
Initialize start_time.  Thanks to Ankur Goyal <angoyal@stanford.edu> .

19 years ago"thread_sleep" -> "timer_sleep"
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:14:31 +0000 (15:14 +0000)]
"thread_sleep" -> "timer_sleep"

19 years agoFix summary table. Thanks to leith <eleith@stanford.edu>.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:13:04 +0000 (15:13 +0000)]
Fix summary table.  Thanks to leith <eleith@stanford.edu>.

19 years agoMake <STRONG> use boldface.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 03:44:25 +0000 (03:44 +0000)]
Make <STRONG> use boldface.

19 years agoBe specific about `nice' range.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 03:37:32 +0000 (03:37 +0000)]
Be specific about `nice' range.

19 years agoEmphasize backquotes.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 03:25:31 +0000 (03:25 +0000)]
Emphasize backquotes.
Put class bin dir at beginning of path.

19 years agoFix wording in priority donation section.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:39:18 +0000 (01:39 +0000)]
Fix wording in priority donation section.

19 years agoIncrease mmap-shuffle, page-shuffle timeouts further.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:15:22 +0000 (14:15 +0000)]
Increase mmap-shuffle, page-shuffle timeouts further.

19 years agoCheck for no warnings in grade report.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:43:31 +0000 (06:43 +0000)]
Check for no warnings in grade report.

19 years agoMake page-merge-seq, page-merge-par even longer.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:42:58 +0000 (06:42 +0000)]
Make page-merge-seq, page-merge-par even longer.

19 years agoAdd priority-donate-nest.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:28:16 +0000 (06:28 +0000)]
Add priority-donate-nest.

19 years agoFix stupid bug.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:23:40 +0000 (06:23 +0000)]
Fix stupid bug.

19 years agoCheck that `grade' reports are perfect.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:51:10 +0000 (05:51 +0000)]
Check that `grade' reports are perfect.

19 years agoUse temporary file instead of reference to string
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:38:43 +0000 (05:38 +0000)]
Use temporary file instead of reference to string
on open() because old Perl doesn't support the latter.

19 years agoPrint message for perfect score.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:37:46 +0000 (05:37 +0000)]
Print message for perfect score.

19 years agoFix rubric files.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:32:39 +0000 (05:32 +0000)]
Fix rubric files.

19 years agoIncrease syn-read timeout even more.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:01:59 +0000 (05:01 +0000)]
Increase syn-read timeout even more.

19 years agoIncrease syn-read timeout.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:36:15 +0000 (04:36 +0000)]
Increase syn-read timeout.

19 years agoDeal with `wc -l' putting spaces in the output.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:08:53 +0000 (04:08 +0000)]
Deal with `wc -l' putting spaces in the output.

19 years agotexi2html doesn't support @verbatiminclude, so kluge it.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 03:59:08 +0000 (03:59 +0000)]
texi2html doesn't support @verbatiminclude, so kluge it.

19 years agoShorten lines.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 03:58:16 +0000 (03:58 +0000)]
Shorten lines.

19 years agoUntabify to fix Texinfo expansion.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 03:57:12 +0000 (03:57 +0000)]
Untabify to fix Texinfo expansion.

19 years agoUpdate spacing.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 01:26:44 +0000 (01:26 +0000)]
Update spacing.

19 years agoAdd reference to mcp example.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:42:40 +0000 (00:42 +0000)]
Add reference to mcp example.

19 years agoAdd some more examples.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:41:29 +0000 (00:41 +0000)]
Add some more examples.

19 years agoUse qemu where appropriate and available.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:40:36 +0000 (00:40 +0000)]
Use qemu where appropriate and available.
Use $(MAKE) consistently.

19 years agoIncrease page-linear timeout.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:32:24 +0000 (00:32 +0000)]
Increase page-linear timeout.

19 years agoUpdate for modified test.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:32:12 +0000 (00:32 +0000)]
Update for modified test.