base-linux IRQ session

[Christian Helmuth]

Hello Johannes,

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 01:36:09PM +0100, Johannes Kliemann wrote:
> I'm currently implementing the IRQ session on base-linux.
> If I understood the Foundations book correctly interrupts are waiting in
> a separate thread that locks when it is waiting and continues (and calls
> the handler) once an interrupt is triggered.

The core-internal implementation depends on the base platform. On NOVA
and FOC, the Irq_object (which is a thread) is never started, ie.,
does not execute an entry function. Other platforms (e.g., OKL4) use
the Irq_object thread to implement a interrupt-wait-and-signal loop.

> According to this I have implemented a kernel module [1] that triggers
> interrupts via reads on a device file. The interrupt can be registered
> via ioctl on the file descriptor and the a blocking read is called that
> returns once the registered interrupts has been triggered.
> 
> I have looked into the implementations of base-nova and base-hw but
> didn't completely understand it. As far as I understood the session
> component implements the session and only requires the interrupt number
> and a signal handler.
> The Irq_object implements the waiting thread but I didn't see where it
> is waiting for the interrupt.
> Also as far as I could see it the actual interrupt capability stays
> inside the session in core and only the signal handler capability is
> passed to the component.

I suggest you refer to OKL4

  base-okl4/src/core/irq_session_component.cc

and implement an Irq_object working similarly with a entry() function
that uses Irq_object::_wait_for_irq() (which blocks in read(dev_fd))
and signals IRQ occurence by Genode::Signal_transmitter(_sig_cap).submit(1)

> Is my understanding of this correct? And is there any further
> documentation on this?

Unfortunately, there's only few documentation of the core internals.
To get up-to-date information I suggest looking at the code and asking
here or even on Freenode

  http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=%23genode&uio=d4

Regards
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