Multi-core is slightly broken when using the latest version of spin
(0.9.2). I believe this is because Once used to do SeqCst loads/stores
everywhere, which might have made any possible data race much harder to
come by.
Currently, there are some things that need to be set up by userspace
that the kernel previously did. These include telling firmware when the
I/O APIC is used, and most importantly, shutting down the system.
The former is not particularly important, but for the latter I think
that we could implement this using a "shutdown pipe". Essentially it
will be a file that triggers an event shutting down, which would be used
to notify to acpid that the kernel is requesting a shutdown.
Because the way we were using inline assembly was technically incorrect
and breaking the laws of rust
This *finally* compiles. That doesn't mean it works!
Since even a very basic ptrace can be nice to have, I thought I would split
the, perhaps rather big, ptrace project up in multiple PRs to make as few
changes as necessary in each. This PR contains the initial registry modifying
bits and only a very basic security measure. Letting this out to the community
should be good for spotting bugs and maybe getting some hype ;)
Most of this was generated by the absolutely extraordinary `cargo fix`
subcommand. There were still 2 errors and a few warnings to patch up,
but compared to the normal 600+ errors, I'd say the fixer did a damn
good job! I'm also amazed that I could still start the VM after this,
I half expected some kinds of runtime failure...
Jeremy Soller