The equivalent function is now named thread_create(). Mention
kthread_add() where it is also relevant.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38180
To prevent umtx.h polluting by future changes split it on two headers:
umtx.h - ABI header for userspace;
umtxvar.h - the kernel staff.
While here fix umtx_key_match style.
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31248
MFC after: 2 weeks
This permits these routines to use special logic for initializing MD
kthread state.
For the kproc case, this required moving the logic to set these flags
from kproc_create() into do_fork().
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29207
Exec and exit are same as corresponding eventhandler hooks.
Thread exit hook is called somewhat earlier, while thread is still
owned by the process and enough context is available. Note that the
process lock is owned when the hook is called.
Reviewed by: markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27309
Eliminate recursion from most thread_lock consumers. Return from
sched_add() without the thread_lock held. This eliminates unnecessary
atomics and lock word loads as well as reducing the hold time for
scheduler locks. This will eventually allow for lockless remote adds.
Discussed with: kib
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: pho
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22626
Doing so removes the dependency on proctree lock from sysctl process list
export which further reduces contention during poudriere -j 128 runs.
Reviewed by: kib (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17825
By logging all threads and processes 'pmc filter'
can now filter on process or thread name, relieving
the user of the burden of determining which tid or
pid was which when the sample was taken.
% pmc filter -T if_io_tqg -P nginx pmc.log pmc-iflib.log
% pmc filter -x -T idle pmc.log pmc-noidle.log
Add a new "interleave" allocation policy which stripes pages across
domains with a stride or width keeping contiguity within a multi-page
region.
Move the kernel to the dedicated numbered cpuset #2 making it possible
to assign kernel threads and memory policy separately from user. This
also eliminates the need for the complicated interrupt binding code.
Add a sysctl API for viewing and manipulating domainsets. Refactor some
of the cpuset_t manipulation code using the generic bitset type so that
it can be used for both. This probably belongs in a dedicated subr file.
Attempt to improve the include situation.
Reviewed by: kib
Discussed with: jhb (cpuset parts)
Tested by: pho (before review feedback)
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14839
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
processes which combine kernel and non-kernel threads, e.g. nfsd. For
such processes, termination of a kthread must recheck signal delivery
among other threads according to masks.
Reported and tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
threads, to make it less confusing and using modern kernel terms.
Rename the functions to reflect current use of the functions, instead
of the historic KSE conventions:
cpu_set_fork_handler -> cpu_fork_kthread_handler (for kthreads)
cpu_set_upcall -> cpu_copy_thread (for forks)
cpu_set_upcall_kse -> cpu_set_upcall (for new threads creation)
Reviewed by: jhb (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Approved by: re (hrs)
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6731
On CloudABI, the rights bits returned by cap_rights_get() match up with
the operations that you can actually perform on the file descriptor.
Limiting the rights is good, because it makes it easier to get uniform
behaviour across different operating systems. If process descriptors on
FreeBSD would suddenly gain support for any new file operation, this
wouldn't become exposed to CloudABI processes without first extending
the rights.
Extend fork1() to gain a 'struct filecaps' argument that allows you to
construct process descriptors with custom rights. Use this in
cloudabi_sys_proc_fork() to limit the rights to just fstat() and
pdwait().
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/freebsd
SIGCHLD signal, should keep full 32 bits of the status passed to the
_exit(2).
Split the combined p_xstat of the struct proc into the separate exit
status p_xexit for normal process exit, and signalled termination
information p_xsig. Kernel-visible macro KW_EXITCODE() reconstructs
old p_xstat from p_xexit and p_xsig. p_xexit contains complete status
and copied out into si_status.
Requested by: Joerg Schilling
Reviewed by: jilles (previous version), pho
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Thread credentials are maintained as follows: each thread has a pointer to
creds and a reference on them. The pointer is compared with proc's creds on
userspace<->kernel boundary and updated if needed.
This patch introduces a counter which can be compared instead, so that more
structures can use this scheme without adding more comparisons on the boundary.
currently a spin lock. Apparently, the only reason for this is that
umtx_thread_exit() is called under the process spinlock, which put the
requirement on the umtx_lock. Note that the witness static order list
is wrong for the umtx_lock, umtx_lock is explicitely before any thread
lock, so it is also before sleepq locks.
Change umtx_lock to be the sleepable mutex. For the reason above, the
calls to umtx_thread_exit() are moved from thread_exit() earlier in
each caller, when the process spin lock is not yet taken.
Discussed with: jhb
Tested by: pho (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 weeks
When an existing process is provided, the thread selected to use
to initialize the new thread could have exited and be reaped.
Acquire the proc lock earlier to ensure the thread remains valid.
Reviewed by: jhb, julian (previous version)
MFC after: 3 days
the cached name used for KTR_SCHED traces when a thread's name changes.
This way KTR_SCHED traces (and thus schedgraph) will notice when a thread's
name changes, most commonly via execve().
MFC after: 2 weeks
set on the new thread. This prevents the thread from inadvertently
inheriting affinity from a random sibling.
Submitted by: attilio
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 week
A "process descriptor" file descriptor is used to manage processes
without using the PID namespace. This is required for Capsicum's
Capability Mode, where the PID namespace is unavailable.
New system calls pdfork(2) and pdkill(2) offer the functional equivalents
of fork(2) and kill(2). pdgetpid(2) allows querying the PID of the remote
process for debugging purposes. The currently-unimplemented pdwait(2) will,
in the future, allow querying rusage/exit status. In the interim, poll(2)
may be used to check (and wait for) process termination.
When a process is referenced by a process descriptor, it does not issue
SIGCHLD to the parent, making it suitable for use in libraries---a common
scenario when using library compartmentalisation from within large
applications (such as web browsers). Some observers may note a similarity
to Mach task ports; process descriptors provide a subset of this behaviour,
but in a UNIX style.
This feature is enabled by "options PROCDESC", but as with several other
Capsicum kernel features, is not enabled by default in GENERIC 9.0.
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
Approved by: re (kib), mentor (rwatson)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
to match the desired priority in td_priority. Otherwise the first time
thread0 used a borrowed priority it would drop down to PUSER instead of
PVM.
- Explicitly initialize the starting priority of new kprocs to PVM to
avoid inheriting some random priority from thread0.
MFC after: 2 weeks
rwlock to protect the table. In old code, thread lookup is done with
process lock held, to find a thread, kernel has to iterate through
process and thread list, this is quite inefficient.
With this change, test shows in extreme case performance is
dramatically improved.
Earlier patch was reviewed by: jhb, julian
In the current code, the locking is completely broken and may lead
easilly to deadlocks. Fix it by using the proc_mtx, linked to the
suspending thread, as lock for the operation. Keep using the
thread_lock for setting and reading the flag even if it is not entirely
necessary (atomic ops may do it as well, but this way the code is more
readable).
- Fix a deadlock within kthread_suspend().
The suspender should not sleep on a different channel wrt the suspended
thread, or, otherwise, the awaker should wakeup both. Uniform the
interface to what the kproc_* counterparts do (sleeping on the same
channel).
- Change the kthread_suspend_check() prototype.
kthread_suspend_check() always assumes curthread and must only refer to
it, so skip the thread pointer as it may be easilly mistaken.
If curthread is not a kthread, the system will panic.
In collabouration with: jhb
Tested by: Giovanni Trematerra
<giovanni dot trematerra at gmail dot com>
MFC: 2 weeks
Remove the altkstacks, instead instantiate threads with kernel stack
allocated with the right size from the start. For the thread that has
kernel stack cached, verify that requested stack size is equial to the
actual, and reallocate the stack if sizes differ [1].
This fixes the bug introduced by r173361 that was committed several days
after r173004 and consisted of kthread_add(9) ignoring the non-default
kernel stack size.
Also, r173361 removed the caching of the kernel stacks for a non-first
thread in the process. Introduce separate kernel stack cache that keeps
some limited amount of preallocated kernel stacks to lower the latency
of thread allocation. Add vm_lowmem handler to prune the cache on
low memory condition. This way, system with reasonable amount of the
threads get lower latency of thread creation, while still not exhausting
significant portion of KVA for unused kstacks.
Submitted by: peter [1]
Discussed with: jhb, julian, peter
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: pho (and retested according to new test scenarious)
MFC after: 1 week
allocated with the right size from the start. For the thread that has
kernel stack cached, verify that requested stack size is equial to the
actual, and reallocate the stack if sizes differ [1].
This fixes the bug introduced by r173361 that was committed several days
after r173004 and consisted of kthread_add(9) ignoring the non-default
kernel stack size.
Also, r173361 removed the caching of the kernel stacks for a non-first
thread in the process. Introduce separate kernel stack cache that keeps
some limited amount of preallocated kernel stacks to lower the latency
of thread allocation. Add vm_lowmem handler to prune the cache on
low memory condition. This way, system with reasonable amount of the
threads get lower latency of thread creation, while still not exhausting
significant portion of KVA for unused kstacks.
Submitted by: peter [1]
Discussed with: jhb, julian, peter
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 week
requiring the per-process spinlock to only requiring the process lock.
- Reflect these changes in the proc.h documentation and consumers throughout
the kernel. This is a substantial reduction in locking cost for these
fields and was made possible by recent changes to threading support.
