SOCK_CTRL is added to provide special control over network drivers
and daemons. Currently, SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_STREAM perform this control,
but these use socket resources. In the case of usersocket in particular,
this is a waste of the device's limited socket resources.
The function is not relevant any longer, remove it. Also remove
save_addrenv_t, the parameter taken by up_addrenv_restore.
Implement addrenv_select() / addrenv_restore() to handle the temporary
instantiation of address environments, e.g. when a process is being
created.
There is currently a big problem in the address environment handling which
is that the address environment is released too soon when the process is
exiting. The current MMU mappings will always be the exiting process's, which means
the system needs them AT LEAST until the next context switch happens. If
the next thread is a kernel thread, the address environment is needed for
longer.
Kernel threads "lend" the address environment of the previous user process.
This is beneficial in two ways:
- The kernel processes do not need an allocated address environment
- When a context switch happens from user -> kernel or kernel -> kernel,
the TLB does not need to be flushed. This must be done only when
changing to a different user address environment.
Another issue is when a new process is created; the address environment
of the new process must be temporarily instantiated by up_addrenv_select().
However, the system scheduler does not know that the process has a different
address environment to its own and when / if a context restore happens, the
wrong MMU page directory is restored and the process will either crash or
do something horribly wrong.
The following changes are needed to fix the issues:
- Add mm_curr which is the current address environment of the process
- Add a reference counter to safeguard the address environment
- Whenever an address environment is mapped to MMU, its reference counter
is incremented
- Whenever and address environment is unmapped from MMU, its reference
counter is decremented, and tested. If no more references -> drop the
address environment and release the memory as well
- To limit the context switch delay, the address environment is freed in
a separate low priority clean-up thread (LPWORK)
- When a process temporarily instantiates another process's address
environment, the scheduler will now know of this and will restore the
correct mappings to MMU
Why is this not causing more noticeable issues ? The problem only happens
under the aforementioned special conditions, and if a context switch or
IRQ occurs during this time.
Detach the address environment handling from the group structure to the
tcb. This is preparation to fix rare cases where the system (MMU) is left
without a valid page directory, e.g. when a process exits.
sim/rpserver
NuttShell (NSH) NuttX-12.0.0
server> cu
_assert: Current Version: NuttX server 12.0.0 3ead669e7a-dirty Feb 2 2023 23:53:48 sim
_assert: Assertion failed : at file: libs/libc/misc/lib_mutex.c:303 task: cu 0x5662fff4
Signed-off-by: chao an <anchao@xiaomi.com>
NuttX kernel should not use the syscall functions, especially after
enabling CONFIG_SCHED_INSTRUMENTATION_SYSCALL, all system functions
will be traced to backend, which will impact system performance.
Signed-off-by: chao an <anchao@xiaomi.com>
First configure nuttx to support ipv4 and ipv6 dual stack,
then start two simulators and run Iperf ipv4 udp speed test,
unaligned access exception to sockaddr_in occours.
The root cause is that struct sockaddr_storage isn't set to
the desired alignment.
Signed-off-by: luojun1 <luojun1@xiaomi.com>
