Vibrio

Virbio is the user-space library that provides most of the functionality necessary to run applications in user-space. It is found in lib/vibrio.

Memory

The user-space memory manager provides a malloc and free like interface for C code and a GlobalAlloc implementation for rust programs. We rely on the same allocator that the kernel uses for small--medium sized blocks (between 0 and 2 MiB). Everything else is mapped directly by allocating memory with the map syscall.

RumpRT

A rumpkernels is a componentized NetBSD kernel that can run in many different environments. It contains file systems, a POSIX system call interface, many PCI device drivers, a SCSI protocol stack, virtio, a TCP/IP stack, libc and libpthread and more.

Vibrio has a rumprt module which provides the necessary low-level interface to run a rumpkernel inside a user-space process (e.g., the rumpuser API and some more). This has the advantage that it's possible to run many POSIX compatible programs out of the box without building a fully-fledged POSIX compatibility layer into NrOS.

Vibrio dependency graph

Vibrio uses the following crates / dependencies:

vibrio
├── arrayvec
├── bitflags
├── crossbeam-utils
├── cstr_core
├── hashbrown
├── kpi
├── lazy_static
├── lineup
├── log
├── rawtime
├── rumpkernel
├── serde_cbor
├── slabmalloc
├── spin
└── x86