to handle per-thread information. Since our pthread_setspecific()
implementation calls calloc(3) to allocate per-thread specific data
storage, things get complicated.
Switch the allocator to use bare mmap(2). There is some loss of the
allocated page, since e.g. on amd64, PTHREAD_KEYS_MAX * sizeof(struct
pthread_specific_elem) is 3K (it actually spans whole page due to
padding), but I believe it is more acceptable than additional code for
specialized allocator().
The alternatives would either to make the specific data array be part of
the struct thread, or use internal bindings to call the libc malloc,
avoiding interposing.
Also do the style pass over the thr_spec.c, esp. simplify the
conditionals nesting by returning early when an error detected.
Remove trivial comments.
Found by: yuri@rawbw.com
PR: 200138
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
fixes a NULL-dereference of curthread when libstdc+ initializes
the exception handling globals on archs we can't use GNU TLS due
to lack of support in binutils 2.15 (i.e. arm and sparc64), yet,
thus making threaded C++ programs compiled with GCC 4.2.1 work
again on these archs.
Reviewed by: davidxu
MFC after: 3 days
1. fast simple type mutex.
2. __thread tls works.
3. asynchronous cancellation works ( using signal ).
4. thread synchronization is fully based on umtx, mainly, condition
variable and other synchronization objects were rewritten by using
umtx directly. those objects can be shared between processes via
shared memory, it has to change ABI which does not happen yet.
5. default stack size is increased to 1M on 32 bits platform, 2M for
64 bits platform.
As the result, some mysql super-smack benchmarks show performance is
improved massivly.
Okayed by: jeff, mtm, rwatson, scottl
_get_curthread(). This is similar to the kernel's curthread. Doing
this saves stack overhead and is more convenient to the programmer.
- Pass the pointer to the newly created thread to _thread_init().
- Remove _get_curthread_slow().
