patch for various things

[Bas Wijnen]

Hi,

I have been reading through some of the source code and documentation, and
fixed some things which I think were wrong.  I put them in one big patch,
which is probably not good, so tell me which parts should not be in there and
I'll remove them :-)

Parts which are not trivial are quoted below, with an explanation of why I
think it should be changed.

I'll not bother writing a ChangeLog entry yet, because I don't expect it to be
accepted unchanged.

Parts with comments:

Here I'd expect a "+ 1" is needed, because it should contain the trailing
'\0'.  However, I'm not sure since it can be compensated.  If this is the
case, there should be a comment about this.

Index: wortel/ia32-cmain.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/hurd/hurd-l4/wortel/ia32-cmain.c,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -p -r1.11 ia32-cmain.c
--- wortel/ia32-cmain.c 26 Apr 2004 21:15:21 -0000      1.11
+++ wortel/ia32-cmain.c 31 May 2004 23:21:22 -0000
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ find_components (void)
       /* Add the argument string of the first module to the list of
         unused pages.  */
       add_unused_area ((l4_word_t) mod[0].string,
-                      strlen ((char *) mod[0].string));
+                      strlen ((char *) mod[0].string) + 1);
 
       mods_count = mbi->mods_count - 1;
       if (mods_count > MOD_NUMBER)

Here I'd think a non-numerical error message is better, just like many others
in the same file.  There are also quite some which use "(l4_error_code >> 1) &
7", which makes no sense at all to me, because I didn't check the error codes.
Is there a reason why those are also not printed with l4_strerror?

Index: wortel/wortel.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/hurd/hurd-l4/wortel/wortel.c,v
retrieving revision 1.29
diff -u -p -r1.29 wortel.c
--- wortel/wortel.c     26 Apr 2004 21:15:21 -0000      1.29
+++ wortel/wortel.c     31 May 2004 23:21:32 -0000
@@ -331,8 +331,8 @@ start_physmem (void)
 
   ret = l4_thread_start (physmem, 0, mods[MOD_PHYSMEM].ip);
   if (!ret)
-    panic ("Sending startup message to physmem thread failed: %u",
-          l4_error_code ());
+    panic ("Sending startup message to physmem thread failed: %s",
+          l4_strerror (l4_error_code ()));
 
   /* Set up the extra threads for physmem.  FIXME: UTCB location has
      the same issues as described above.  */


This panic seems to be copy-pasted from serve_bootstrap_requests.  In
serve_requests a MSG_SHUTDOWN would not be an error I'd think, and even if it
is, the message shouldn't be that the bootstrap failed.

@@ -1096,7 +1096,7 @@ serve_requests (void)
          continue;
        }
       else if (label == WORTEL_MSG_SHUTDOWN)
-       panic ("Bootstrap failed");
+       shutdown ();
       else
        panic ("Invalid message with tag 0x%x", msg_tag);
     }

The complete patch (with apart from the above some textual fixes) is attached.

Thanks,
Bas Wijnen

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