Kernel: Add a Finalizer process to take care of dying processes.

Instead of processes themselves getting scheduled to finish dying,
let's have a Finalizer process that wakes up whenever someone is dying.
This way we can do all kinds of lock-taking in process cleanup without
risking reentering the scheduler.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Kernel/init.cpp b/Kernel/init.cpp
index 47f0018357..545d94357d 100644
--- a/Kernel/init.cpp
+++ b/Kernel/init.cpp
@@ -187,6 +187,14 @@ void init()
             sleep(10 * TICKS_PER_SECOND);
         }
     });
+    Process::create_kernel_process("Finalizer", [] {
+        g_finalizer = current;
+        for (;;) {
+            Process::finalize_dying_processes();
+            current->block(Process::BlockedLurking);
+            Scheduler::yield();
+        }
+    });
 
     Scheduler::pick_next();