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Genode at FOSDEM (5th of February)
by Norman Feske 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

Hello everyone, during the upcoming weekend, the (virtual) FOSDEM 2022 conference will be held. It will feature another instance of our beloved Developer Room for Microkernel and Component-based Systems, this year organized by Martin Decky and Sebastian Sumpf: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/microkernel_and_component_based_os/ Among the packed schedule, the following talk is specifically about Genode: 11:50 CET "Genode meets the Pinephone" by Norman Feske https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/nfeske/ In this talk, I will present our recent work of combining Genode with the Pinephone. It will also feature a short demo of the current state. The entire FOSDEM is free for everyone interested. Just tune in! Cheers Norman -- Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske Genode Labs https://www.genode-labs.com · https://genode.org Genode Labs GmbH · Amtsgericht Dresden · HRB 28424 · Sitz Dresden Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth

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SulptOS with Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265
by Lonnie Cumberland 01 Feb '22

01 Feb '22

Hello All, I am testing out Sculpt on my Intel NUC i7 and although it seems to boot, it runs rather slow as well as will not find the wireless network card that is built into the NUC (Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265) I am wondering if there are any updates on the wireless card detection for SculptOS. Also, I was thinking about the desktop and GUI (Nitpicker) and was wondering how hard it might be to change out the graphics to something more "themeable" like LVGL (https://lvgl.io/) but am still learning for which Genode might have these capabilities. Best Regards, Lonnie

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Roadmap 2022
by Norman Feske 01 Feb '22

01 Feb '22

Dear Genode community, it is the time of the year again to reflect and make plans for the foreseeable future. Hereby, I'd like to kick off our traditional brainstorming about Genode's road map for the year ahead of us. What happened in the previous episode... ---------------------------------------- I have two perspectives to share. One is the look at Genode as our project, and the other one is my personal view. Let's start with the first one. When reviewing the past twelve months, I am immensely proud of the accomplishments of our team. Together, we conquered the territory of GPU support that was ridden with uncertainties and seemed almost impenetrable when we started. Now, our Intel GPU multiplexer has landed in Sculpt like it always belonged there. The next highlight was witnessing the puzzle pieces of our new Linux device-driver environment coming together, replacing former confusion and chaos with knowledge and order, ultimately uncovering the treasure of Linux drivers for Genode with very little friction. The third highlight was witnessing the growing sophistication of Genode-native workloads, with the media features of the Chromium-based browser on 64-bit ARM being the most impressive example. Apart from the apparent functional benefits for Genode and Sculpt OS, this is the long outstanding validation of some arguably risky design decisions we took many year ago, in particular the role and architecture of the VFS and its interplay with the libc. When reviewing the road map for 2021 [1], some items remained uncovered. In particular the seL4-related topics became stale. One year ago when I assembled the road map, there was a tangible prospect of a paying customer funding this work. However, those plans were repeatedly deferred and we don't know whether or when they will come to fruition. I was too optimistic. Also, there are some items that have seen healthy doses of progress - like the topics related to Ada/SPARK or Goa - but received less attention than anticipated. On the other hand, the four releases [2,3,4,5] of this year covered quite a few topics not advertised at the road map, e.g., webcam support, Xilinx Zynq, or RISC-V. Priorities shift. That's fine. [1] https://genode.org/about/road-map [2] https://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/21.02 [3] https://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/21.05 [4] https://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/21.08 [5] https://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/21.11 >From my personal perspective, I've wholly enjoyed the work on the Pinephone as documented in my "Pine fun" article series at Genodians.org [6]. Much of the enjoyment came from the _process_, in particular the co-development of the new DDE-Linux together with Stefan, the mutual cross-validation of ideas and code, and our joint sense of great care. Granted, feature-wise, I missed my original goal of being able to issue phone calls with Genode on the Pinephone by now. But the collateral effects of the work in terms of tooling (dts_extract), interfaces (Genode-C-API), and documentation ("Genode Platforms") deserved the attention they got. [6] https://genodians.org What's up for next year? ------------------------ I'm in full swing with the Pinephone. So I will keep moving full steam ahead. With the touchscreen and display tamed now, the next topics are telephony, mobile-data connectivity, Sculpt, browser, and a simple user interface. Over the year, I will increasingly focus on non-functional aspects as well, in particular power management (battery life) and quality of service (UI latency, audio latency). By the end of the year, I want to be able to casually use a video-chat solution like Jitsi on the phone. Besides the Pinephone, I am planning to simplify and solidify Genode's base framework by gradually removing complexity (like C++ exceptions [7]), increasing the strictness of the coding style (like the aftermath of [8]), and attending the most-neglected corners of our issue tracker [9]. [7] https://genodians.org/nfeske/2021-11-26-attempt-no-exceptions [8] https://genodians.org/nfeske/2021-12-07-wconversion [9] https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues What about you? --------------- My point of view outlined above is only one way to look at the picture. Now I would be interested in your perspective! What's your reflection of Genode's past year? What are the topics you deem as most interesting to work on? Do you already have tangible plans you can share with us? Are there road blocks that stand in the way of your plans? What is your vision of using Genode at the end of 2022? I hope that this posting spawns a fruitful discussion of potential topics for the next episode. Please be considerate to avoid dropping mere proposals or wish lists. It's best to present suggestions together with actionable steps that you are willing to take. In mid of January, I am going to update the official road map. Cheers, Norman -- Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske Genode Labs https://www.genode-labs.com · https://genode.org Genode Labs GmbH · Amtsgericht Dresden · HRB 28424 · Sitz Dresden Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth

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Intel's Memory Protection Keys
by Sid Agrawal 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Hi, I want to use Intel's MPK in my project with Genode. A grep of the source code did not yield anything obvious. >From what I know about Intel's MPKs, I should be able to piggyback on the kernel's capability to manipulate the page table. The "keys" reside in the top 4 bits of the translation in the PTE. So maybe I do not need any special support from Genode or seL4, for that matter. But I just wanted to run it by the group to see if I missed something. Or if someone has tried this before. Best, Sidhartha Agrawal sid-agrawal.ca

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how to allow execution of bash scripts inside genode
by Alexander Tormasov 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

based on combination of tool_chain_auto.run and ssh.run I am able to run an instance with toolchain and login into it I am able to create file using vim with some commands, like this: echo ok if I try to execute it inside genode bash (eg in /home/build) - I do receive the following: in ssh client : bash-4.4# vim c bash-4.4# ls -la total 1 -rwx------ 1 root 0 1004 Jan 1 2022 c drwx------ 1 root 0 144 Jan 1 1970 depot bash-4.4# ./c bash: ./c: No such file or directory bash-4.4# bash -c ./c bash: ./c: No such file or directory bash-4.4# bash -c c bash: c: command not found or, if I add this to beginning #!/bin/sh echo ok bash: ./c: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: No such file or directory in log: [init -> /bin/bash -> 12] Error: ROM-session creation failed (ram_quota=6144, cap_quota=3, label="/home/build/c") [init -> /bin/bash -> 12] Error: Could not open ROM session for "/home/build/c" [init -> /bin/bash -> 12] Warning: execve: executable binary inaccessible as ROM module I suspect that I need to allow execution via dynamic run file. or may be I need to add some attributes in run file for this dir? Sincerely, Alexander

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lwext4_fs test fail on ftruncate()
by Alexander Tormasov 13 Jan '22

13 Jan '22

I am trying to run lwext4_fs.run from world repo it gives the following error on linux/x86_64 ... [init -> test-libc_vfs] calling open(file_name4, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY) file_name=test4.tst [init -> test-libc_vfs] open(file_name4, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY) succeeded [init -> test-libc_vfs] calling ftruncate(fd, 100) [init -> test-libc_vfs] ftruncate(fd, 100) succeeded [init -> test-libc_vfs] calling close(fd) [init -> test-libc_vfs] close(fd) succeeded [init -> test-libc_vfs] calling stat(file_name4, &stat_buf) file_name=test4.tst [init -> test-libc_vfs] stat(file_name4, &stat_buf) failed, ret=0, errno=2 [init -> test-libc_vfs] Error: Uncaught exception of type 'Test_failed' [init -> test-libc_vfs] Warning: abort called - thread: ep ^Cmake: *** [Makefile:396: run/lwext4_fs] Error 130 can this error could be ignored? is lwext4 port somhow usable in general on 21.11? can I utilise it as a main fs inside genode to store compilation results in rw mode? Sincerely, Alexander

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native gcc and external image mount example
by Alexander Tormasov 13 Jan '22

13 Jan '22

Hi! I am considering native (not cross compilation) support of golang inside genode. I made two first steps - port golang runtime using cross compilation via genode toolchain and check it with tcp support inside qemu x86_64/arm64. Now I want to run gccgo and related binutils (files from gcc like gccgo/go1/as/ld/etc) natively inside genode using qemu. do anyone have an example to run gcc inside genode? I remember that sometimes ago it was mentioned, while I did not find any test in repos/ I can build it using "make noux/gcc_x86» - but any examples how to utilise it inside genode image? like to compile and run «helloworld.c» inside? Also I need a persistent partition (eg linux loopback image) to be mounted via qemu. Do we have any examples how I can create such image, attach it to qemu, mount/umount it inside? I need this to keep compiled code inside qemu. preferably with file system with journalling support if any (ext3/4? not talking about btrfs) Alexander

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Questions about Address Space, Scheduling and CSpace
by Sid Agrawal 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Hi, I am using Genode with the seL4 backend for my research and have questions about some of the core's services. Address Space: -------------------- 1. Referring to section 3.4.4 from the Genode foundation's book. I am not sure I follow how using a different RM for the stack segment helps us provide buffers in between stacks of different threads in a PD. 2. A PD is defined as Address Space and CSpace. I wondered if it is possible to have multiple address spaces inside a PD. The RM for each of these different Address spaces would still be separate capabilities in the singular CSpace for that PD. This way, a thread can potentially jump across different address spaces like [1, 2]. Or multiple threads can have slightly different address spaces. 3. Where am I going with this? I am trying to implement a new type of thread. In this thread(let's call it thread-stack), each thread's stack will be completely isolated from the other threads. That is, threads will not have access to each other's stacks. They will still share the code-section, library, and heap sections. This is a toy idea, so I can get my hand dirty with the Genode basics. I think everything I need to implement is already there in Genode but wanted to get your opinion. 4. Are they any helper functions to clone an entire address space? Replicate the page table hierarchy with the same underlying page frames. Scheduling: --------------- Since scheduling is done inside the kernel in seL4, I think we might be limited to the options exposed by the kernel, but I still wanted to run it by you guys to see if I am missing anything. 1. Using the notion of Affinity, I can restrict a thread to run on a particular CPU, but is there a way to restrict other threads from running on a given CPU. I am exploring isolating two threads by ensuring that they run on separate cores. 2. Is there a way to restrict the time slices given to a particular thread. I am thinking of something like cgroups. I see that seL4 has the MCS kernel, which shares some of the motivations. But I think Genode does not support the MCS sel4 kernel. Debugging Capability Spaces: --------------------------------------- 1. Is the CSpace for a PD the same as CSpace in seL4, or is there a different notion of Cspace in Genode? 2. Is there an easy way to print the entire CSpace for debugging purposes? Thanks a lot. Sid sid-agrawal.ca [1] Light-Weight Contexts: An OS Abstraction for Safety and Performance | USENIX [2] SpaceJMP: Programming with Multiple Virtual Address Space | ACM SIGPLAN

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sel4 and compilation with/without optimisation
by Alexander Tormasov 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

found «interesting» problem with compilation of genode: compilation of sel4 failed due to optimisation flag. I already reported this around 2 years ago [3] in short, during compilation of sel4 library in the build/x86_64/var/libcache/kernel-sel4-pc it generates «on the fly» file kernel_final.c which should generate kernel_final.s file. what’s happens: kernel_final.c do contains something similar to below (take a look to x86_flush_rsb() in original code [2], simplify here): typedef unsigned long word_t; static inline void x86_flush_rsb(void) { word_t iter = 32; __asm__ volatile( "pause\n" : [iter]"+r"(iter) : [stack_amount]"i"(sizeof(word_t) * iter) : "cc" ); } void c_handle_vmexit() { if (1) { x86_flush_rsb(); } } code like this works perfectly ok genode-x86-gcc -S -O1 -o kernel_final.s t.c while code genode-x86-gcc -S -o kernel_final.s t.c or genode-x86-gcc -S -O0 -o kernel_final.s t.c does not! t.c: In function ‘x86_flush_rsb’: t.c:7:5: warning: ‘asm’ operand 1 probably does not match constraints 7 | __asm__ volatile( | ^~~~~~~ t.c:7:5: error: impossible constraint in ‘asm’ What’s happens: asm code inside function do have this kind of input parameters : [stack_amount]"i"(sizeof(word_t) * iter) IMHO (I am not sure for 100%) «i» mean immediate constant which should be known in advance while «iter» above is a variable updated in output! as stated in [1]: ‘i’ An immediate integer operand (one with constant value) is allowed. This includes symbolic constants whose values will be known only at assembly time or later. Gcc with any optimisation level do drop this code because original function which call x86_flush_rsb (c_handle_vmexit) does not used at all and being removed during optimisation. So, if you during debug add something like CFLAGS= as an env or make variable with -O0 - you are doomed! this is true for current 10.3 and previous 9 gcc compilers… This is not a part of genode code while problem happens in port sources [2]. I am not even sure how I can post an issue. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Simple-Constraints.html#Simple-Constrain… [2] contrib/sel4-9ab19376285d865052c2b5021560306306bf19a8/src/kernel/sel4/include/arch/x86/arch/machine.h [3] https://lists.genode.org/pipermail/users/2020-August/007193.html Alexander

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