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CAmkES Version camkes-3.9.0 Release

Announcing the release of camkes-3.9.0 with the following changes:

camkes-3.9.0 2020-10-26 Using seL4 version 12.0.0

Changes

Below is a lightly edited list of all PRs merged into master for this release.

  • Enforce system-V stack ordering for libc.
    • This allows musllibc to initialise and infer the location of auxv from envp consistently.
  • Add uint64_t and int64_t types to language.
    • This introduced two new data types into the CAmkES language to support larger types.
  • Remove elf.h, now defined in sel4runtime.
  • CAmkES,rumprun: fix tls management implementation:
    • .tdata* and .tbss* linker symbol declarations are suppressed until the final link step.
  • Fix generate_seL4_SignalRecv in Context.py and update rpc-connector.c template accordingly.
    • seL4SignalRecv only exists on MCS, split the two calls for compatibility.
  • Save preprocessed camkes files to allow for easier debugging.
  • CMake: Skip fetching gpio list for pc99 platforms.
    • Most PC99 platforms do not have GPIO pins.
  • Support for running odroidc2 in camkes-arm-vm. Get the IRQ trigger type through the interrupt node in the dts.
  • Add gpio query engine.
    • The engine takes in a YAML file containing a list of GPIO pins and sorts out the ‘gpio’ queries so that the connector templates for the seL4GPIOServer can generate the appropriate structures and functions.
  • Add option CAmkESNoFPUByDefault.
    • By enabling CAmkESNoFPUByDefault camkes will compile all user-level libraries (except musllibc) with compilation flags to not use the FPU. A component that wishes to use the FPU must override the flags itself.
  • Update seL4InitHardware template for api change.
    • The configuration name for the list of devices to bind is now a component attribute instead of an interface attribute.
  • libsel4camkes Support registering DMA memory that is both cached and uncached.
  • Add sel4bench dependency into camkes/templates to allow for cycle counting.
  • component.common.c: use correct label for dma pool.
    • When calling register_shared_variable from a component context the label needs to be provided.
  • Add seL4DTBHW connector. This connector variant is similar to seL4DTBHardware, but takes a hardware component on the from end.
  • seL4DTBHardware bug fix, use global interface name. This prevents the allocator from throwing an error when the same interface name is used in a different component.
  • CAmkES connector extensions + DMA improvements:
    • libsel4camkes: Implement DMA cache for Arm
    • component.common.c: Support additional DMA setting. Allow setting the cache and base paddr value of the DMA pool.
    • Add single_threaded attribute which when set adds the seL4SingleThreadedComponent templates.
    • Allow connectors to declare CMake libraries for each end of the connection. This allows a connector to have most of its implementation in a library and only use the template for initialisation and configuration.
    • camkes-gen.cmake: Create component target stub. This is equivalent to creating a Component with no customization but would still contain things based on its CAmkES definition, such as connector artifacts.
  • Component.common.c: Move init() to C constructor
    • Connectors that don’t use threads use runtime constructors for their initialisation.
  • Libsel4camkes: camkes_call_hardware_init_modules Provide this public function for starting hardware modules that have been registered.
  • Add global_rpc_endpoint_badges macro.
    • This macro assigns badges for different connectors that share the global-rpc-endpoint object for a component instance.
  • Libsel4camkes: irq backend for global-connectors. This adds a way for calling registered IRQ notification handlers for connectors that don’t have their own threads.
  • Add seL4DMASharedData connector and add appropriate library functionality in libsel4camkes.
    • This connector sets up a dataport connector that is added to the DMA pool that the camkes runtime tracks for each component.
  • Add support for connector header files and component header templates.
    • A connector can now define template header files that will be included by camkes.h. Similarly, component header templates will be instantiated and then automatically included by camkes.h.
  • Support creating TCB pools and assigning domains to them in camkes templates.
    • Assign domain IDs for TCBs in the thread pool based on values provided by the config option array values.
  • Generalise jinja linter to support non-camkes use cases. The Jinja linter can now be used on any arbitrary Jinja template.
  • Add support in libsel4camkes for matching interrupts even if they are defined with different base types.
  • Add interface registration to libsel4camkes via interface_registration.h as part of the driver framework.
  • Revive graph.dot output file for each asssembly. This can be loaded with a program like xdot to view a diagram of the camkes system.
  • Virtqueues:
    • Add virtqueue recieve.
    • Set virtqueue size on creation to the number of rings and descriptor tables have.
    • Add virtqueue_get_client_id macro for automatically assigning client IDs to distinguish different virtqueue channels within a single component instance.
    • Link channel ID to name, this allows components to bind to channels via naming them rather than knowing their IDs.
  • Add Arm irq type support to seL4HardwareInterrupt template. This allows IRQs on Arm to have the trigger mode and target core configured.
  • Allow size to be number as well as a string in marshal.c template.
  • Add global_endpoint_badges macro used by the global-endpoints mechanism to assign badge values based on a full system composition.
  • Make public allocate_badges method which is used to standardize badge allocation across many connectors.
  • Add support for a component definition to specify a template C source file. This file will be passed through the template tool before passed to the C compiler.
    • This is how components can allocate objects required from a loader without having to define special connector types.
  • Add msgqueue mechanism which allows componets to sent messages. This is essentially another layer ontop of the virtqueue functionality.
  • Accept Red Hat ARM cross-compilers in check_deps.py.
  • Simplify the logic for combining the connections in the stage9 parser. This improves processing times.
  • camkes-tool:
    • Add priority to muslc so that its initialsation comes after camkes. This relates to recent changes in sel4runtime.
    • Add an interface dataport_caps for accessing dataport caps that is used by the seL4SharedDataWithCaps template.
  • Tools: define camkes_tool_processing when running the C preprocessor.
  • Remove template keyword from camkes language.
    • This is driven by wanting to make it easier to extend camkes generation build rules with more inputs than a single template file and make it possible better manage non-template code that needs to run when generating templates.

Upgrade Notes

Full changelog

Use git log camkes-3.8.0..camkes-3.9.0 in https://github.com/seL4/camkes-tool

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