#lang racket/base ;; Virtualized operating system. (require racket/match) (require racket/list) (provide ;; Waiting for messages (struct-out suspension) (struct-out message-handler) ;; Kernel requests (struct-out kernel-mode-transition) ;; Constructing, accessing and running VMs make-vm vm? run-vm nested-vm default-pattern-predicate ;; Grounding out the infinite tower of VMs (struct-out ground-event-pattern) (struct-out ground-event-value) ground-vm ) ;; Each VM hosts 0 or more *multiplexed* processes. Each process has ;; its own state record. In between schedulings, a process consists of ;; 1 or more message handlers. A message handler is a pair of a message ;; recogniser and a procedure taking a message and a process state to a ;; new process state. ;; ;; Each VM provides a *communication bus* for its processes to ;; use. The communication bus is the only form of IPC the VM provides. ;; ;; Some processes *relay* messages out from the VM to other ;; VMs. Because the "tree" of VMs so formed has to be a tree - See ;; Shivers & Might 2006 for a discussion of this - we gather together ;; all the interactions between the supervenient VM and its support VM ;; into a single channel of communication. The relaying processes are, ;; in effect, device-drivers, providing application-specific ;; communication services to other processes in the VM. ;; ;; We split processes into "user" processes, permitted only to spawn ;; other user processes and send messages on the VM's bus, and ;; "kernel" processes, permitted also to spawn other kernel processes ;; and send messages to the VM's container. ;; ;; Time plays an interesting role in a distributed system: if the ;; medium messages are sent through isn't cooperative enough to let us ;; know of a failed conversational participant, our only recourse is ;; /timeout/. Therefore, we require every level of the machine to ;; support timeouts, though we do not require such timeouts to be tied ;; to real, wall-clock time: simulated time is just fine. This helps ;; with testability. ;; ;; Racket's alarm-evt is almost the right design for timeouts: its ;; synchronisation value should be the (or some) value of the clock ;; after the asked-for time. That way it serves as timeout and ;; clock-reader in one. ;; VMs are parameterised over: ;; - the type of messages carried on the bus, Message ;; - the type of patterns over Messages, MessagePattern ;; - the type of messages to other VMs, MetaMessage ;; - the type of patterns over MetaMessages, MetaMessagePattern ;; A PatternPredicate is a (MessagePattern Message -> Boolean), used ;; to match a message against a pattern. ;; A VM is a (vm ListBagOf ;; QueueOf ;; TODO: make unordered? ;; QueueOf ;; TODO: make unordered? ;; QueueOf). (struct vm (suspensions pending-messages pending-meta-messages pending-processes pattern-predicate meta-pattern-predicate) #:transparent) ;; A TrapK is a X -> InterruptK, representing a suspended process ;; waiting for some information from the VM before it can continue. ;; An InterruptK is a ;; ProcessState -> KernelModeTransition ;; representing a suspended process that can run instantly without ;; waiting for more information from the VM. The input is the state of ;; the process, and the output is the information passed back to the ;; VM when the process yields the CPU. ;; A BootK is a ( -> KernelModeTransition), representing either a ;; fresh process or a previously-suspended process just about to ;; resume. ;; A Suspension is a ;; (suspension ProcessState ;; Maybe ;; ListBagOf ;; ListBagOf). ;; To poll the kernel, include a non-#f InterruptK. (struct suspension (state k message-handlers meta-message-handlers) #:transparent) ;; A HID is a per-VM unique value, used to identify specific ;; MetaMessageHandlers. Here, we use gensyms, though an alternative ;; (and purer) approach would be to keep a counter in the VM and use ;; that to construct IDs. ;; A MessageHandler is one of ;; -- (message-handler MessagePattern TrapK) (struct message-handler (pattern k) #:transparent) ;; A KernelModeTransition is a ;; (kernel-mode-transition Suspension ;; ListBagOf ;; ListBagOf ;; ListBagOf) ;; representing the suspension of the transitioning process, a list of ;; messages to emit at both this VM's and its container's level, and a ;; list of new processes to create and schedule. (struct kernel-mode-transition (suspension messages meta-messages new-processes) #:transparent) ;; A ListBagOf is a ListOf with the additional constraint that ;; order isn't meaningful. ;; TODO: is timeout really primitive? If so, isn't presence primitive? ;; TODO: what about metatimeout? ;; TODO: what about spawn-meta-process etc? Come back to this later. ;; TODO: enforce user-mode restrictions ;; TODO: timeouts ;; BootK -> VM (define (make-vm boot #:pattern-predicate [pattern-predicate default-pattern-predicate] #:meta-pattern-predicate [meta-pattern-predicate default-pattern-predicate]) (vm (list) (list) (list) (cons boot (list)) pattern-predicate meta-pattern-predicate)) ;; VM -> KernelModeTransition ;; (A kind of Meta-InterruptK) (define (run-vm state) (let* ((state (requeue-pollers state)) (state (run-runnables state)) (state (dispatch-messages state)) (meta-messages (reverse (vm-pending-meta-messages state))) (meta-handlers (append-map extract-downward-meta-message-handlers (vm-suspensions state))) (poller-k (and (should-poll? state) run-vm)) ;; only block if there's nothing left to do (state (struct-copy vm state [pending-meta-messages (list)]))) (kernel-mode-transition (suspension state poller-k meta-handlers '()) meta-messages '() '()))) (define (requeue-pollers state) (foldl (lambda (susp state) (if (suspension-polling? susp) (enqueue-runnable (lambda () ((suspension-k susp) (suspension-state susp))) state) (enqueue-suspension susp state))) (struct-copy vm state [suspensions '()]) (vm-suspensions state))) (define (run-runnables state) (foldl (lambda (r state) (perform-transition (r) state)) (struct-copy vm state [pending-processes (list)]) (reverse (vm-pending-processes state)))) (define (dispatch-messages state) (foldl dispatch-message (struct-copy vm state [pending-messages (list)]) (reverse (vm-pending-messages state)))) (define (extract-downward-meta-message-handlers susp) (for/list ([mmh (suspension-meta-message-handlers susp)]) (message-handler (message-handler-pattern mmh) (dispatch-meta-message mmh)))) (define (((dispatch-meta-message mmh) message) state) (run-vm (foldl (match-suspension message (vm-meta-pattern-predicate state) suspension-meta-message-handlers) (struct-copy vm state [suspensions '()]) (vm-suspensions state)))) ;; KernelModeTransition VM -> VM (define (perform-transition transition state) (match transition [(kernel-mode-transition new-suspension messages meta-messages new-processes) (let* ((state (foldl enqueue-message state messages)) (state (foldl enqueue-runnable state new-processes)) (state (enqueue-suspension new-suspension state)) (state (foldl enqueue-meta-message state meta-messages))) state)] [other (error 'vm "Processes must return a kernel-mode-transition struct; got ~v" other)])) (define (enqueue-message message state) (struct-copy vm state [pending-messages (cons message (vm-pending-messages state))])) (define (enqueue-runnable r state) (struct-copy vm state [pending-processes (cons r (vm-pending-processes state))])) (define (enqueue-suspension susp state) (match susp [(suspension _ #f '() '()) ;; dead process because no continuations offered state] [(suspension _ _ _ _) (struct-copy vm state [suspensions (cons susp (vm-suspensions state))])])) (define (enqueue-meta-message message state) (struct-copy vm state [pending-meta-messages (cons message (vm-pending-meta-messages state))])) (define (dispatch-message message state) (foldl (match-suspension message (vm-pattern-predicate state) suspension-message-handlers) (struct-copy vm state [suspensions '()]) (vm-suspensions state))) (define ((match-suspension message apply-pattern handlers-getter) susp state) (let search-handlers ((message-handlers (handlers-getter susp))) (cond [(null? message-handlers) ;; No handler matched this message. Put the suspension ;; back on the list for some future message. (enqueue-suspension susp state)] [(apply-pattern (message-handler-pattern (car message-handlers)) message) (define trapk (message-handler-k (car message-handlers))) (define interruptk (trapk message)) (perform-transition (interruptk (suspension-state susp)) state)] [else (search-handlers (cdr message-handlers))]))) (define (suspension-polling? susp) (not (eq? (suspension-k susp) #f))) ;; VM -> Boolean ;; When should a VM block? When it has no runnables, no pending ;; messages, and no polling suspensions. Otherwise, it should poll. (define (should-poll? state) (or (not (null? (vm-pending-processes state))) (not (null? (vm-pending-messages state))) (ormap suspension-polling? (vm-suspensions state)))) (define (nested-vm boot #:pattern-predicate [pattern-predicate default-pattern-predicate] #:meta-pattern-predicate [meta-pattern-predicate default-pattern-predicate]) (lambda () (run-vm (make-vm boot #:pattern-predicate pattern-predicate #:meta-pattern-predicate meta-pattern-predicate)))) (define default-pattern-predicate (lambda (p m) (p m))) ;;--------------------------------------------------------------------------- (define (nested-vm-inert? sub) (match sub [(suspension (vm _ '() '() '() _ _) #f '() '()) ;; Inert iff not waiting for any messages or metamessages, and ;; with no internal work left to do. #t] [_ #f])) (struct ground-event-pattern (tag evt) #:transparent) (struct ground-event-value (tag val) #:transparent) (define (match-ground-event p m) (equal? (ground-event-pattern-tag p) (ground-event-value-tag m))) ;; PatternPredicate ( -> KernelModeTransition ) -> Void ;; In this context, ;; Message = a thunk ;; MessagePattern = evt? ;; MetaMessage, MetaMessagePattern = not defined because there's no outer level ;; Runs its argument VM until it becomes (provably) inert. (define (ground-vm boot #:pattern-predicate [pattern-predicate default-pattern-predicate]) (let loop ((transition (run-vm (make-vm boot #:pattern-predicate pattern-predicate #:meta-pattern-predicate match-ground-event)))) (for-each (lambda (thunk) (thunk)) (kernel-mode-transition-messages transition)) (when (not (nested-vm-inert? (kernel-mode-transition-suspension transition))) (match transition [(kernel-mode-transition (suspension new-state polling-k message-handlers '()) _ '() '()) (define inbound-messages (map (match-lambda [(message-handler (ground-event-pattern tag evt) k) (wrap-evt evt (lambda (v) (cons (ground-event-value tag v) k)))]) message-handlers)) (match-define (cons inbound-value inbound-continuation) (apply sync (wrap-evt (if polling-k always-evt never-evt) (lambda (v) (cons (ground-event-value 'idle (void)) (lambda (dummy) polling-k)))) inbound-messages)) (loop ((inbound-continuation inbound-value) new-state))] [_ (error 'ground-vm "Outermost VM may not spawn new siblings or send or receive metamessages")]))))