Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
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.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
Add a clock_nanosleep() syscall, as specified by POSIX.
Make nanosleep() a wrapper around it.
Attach the clock_nanosleep test from NetBSD. Adjust it for the
FreeBSD behavior of updating rmtp only when interrupted by a signal.
I believe this to be POSIX-compliant, since POSIX mentions the rmtp
parameter only in the paragraph about EINTR. This is also what
Linux does. (NetBSD updates rmtp unconditionally.)
Copy the whole nanosleep.2 man page from NetBSD because it is complete
and closely resembles the POSIX description. Edit, polish, and reword it
a bit, being sure to keep any relevant text from the FreeBSD page.
Reviewed by: kib, ngie, jilles
MFC after: 3 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Dell EMC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10020
do not participate in the global symbols namespace, but rtld locks are
still replaced and functions are interposed. In particular,
__pthread_map_stacks_exec is resolved to the libc version. If a
library is loaded later, which requires adjustment of the stack
protection mode, rtld calls into libc __pthread_map_stacks_exec due to
the symbols scope. The libc version might recurse into binder and
recursively acquire rtld bind lock, causing the hang.
Make libc __pthread_map_stacks_exec() interposed, which synchronizes
rtld locks and version of the stack exec hook when libthr loaded,
regardless of the symbol scope control or symbol resolution order.
The __pthread_map_stacks_exec() symbol is removed from the private
version in libthr since libc symbol now operates correctly in presence
of libthr.
Reported and tested by: markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
pwrite(2) syscalls are wrapped to provide compatibility with pre-7.x
kernels which required padding before the off_t parameter. The
fcntl(2) contains compatibility code to handle kernels before the
struct flock was changed during the 8.x CURRENT development. The
shims were reasonable to allow easier revert to the older kernel at
that time.
Now, two or three major releases later, shims do not serve any
purpose. Such old kernels cannot handle current libc, so revert the
compatibility code.
Make padded syscalls support conditional under the COMPAT6 config
option. For COMPAT32, the syscalls were under COMPAT6 already.
Remove WITHOUT_SYSCALL_COMPAT build option, which only purpose was to
(partially) disable the removed shims.
Reviewed by: jhb, imp (previous versions)
Discussed with: peter
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
waitid() function is required to be cancellable by the standard. The
wait6() and ppoll() follow the other syscalls in their groups.
Reviewed by: jhb, jilles (previous versions)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Note that to cancel blocked kevent(2) call, changelist must be empty,
since we cannot cancel a call which already made changes to the
process state. And in reverse, call which only makes changes to the
kqueue state, without waiting for an event, is not cancellable. This
makes a natural usage model to migrate kqueue loop to support
cancellation, where existing single kevent(2) call must be split into
two: first uncancellable update of kqueue, then cancellable wait for
events.
Note that this is ABI-incompatible change, but it is believed that
there is no cancel-safe code that relies on kevent(2) not being a
cancellation point. Option to preserve the ABI would be to keep
kevent(2) as is, but add new call with flags to specify cancellation
behaviour, which only value seems to add complications.
Suggested and reviewed by: jilles
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
particular, stdio locking was affected.
Reported and tested by: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 days
cancellation-handling code in the libthr. Translate some syscalls
into their more generic counterpart, and remove translated syscalls
from the table.
List of the affected syscalls:
creat, open -> openat
raise -> thr_kill
sleep, usleep -> nanosleep
pause -> sigsuspend
wait, wait3, waitpid -> wait4
Suggested and reviewed by: jilles (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
though GOT, by staticizing and hiding. Add setter for
__error_selector to hide it as well.
Suggested and reviewed by: jilles
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
(or loading a dso linked to libthr.so into process which was not
linked against threading library).
- Remove libthr interposers of the libc functions, including
__error(). Instead, functions calls are indirected through the
interposing table, similar to how pthread stubs in libc are already
done. Libc by default points either to syscall trampolines or to
existing libc implementations. On libthr load, libthr rewrites the
pointers to the cancellable implementations already in libthr. The
interposition table is separate from pthreads stubs indirection
table to not pull pthreads stubs into static binaries.
- Postpone the malloc(3) internal mutexes initialization until libthr
is loaded. This avoids recursion between calloc(3) and static
pthread_mutex_t initialization.
- Reinstall signal handlers with wrapper on libthr load. The
_rtld_is_dlopened(3) is used to avoid useless calls to sigaction(2)
when libthr is statically referenced from the main binary.
In the process, fix openat(2), swapcontext(2) and setcontext(2)
interposing. The libc symbols were exported at different versions
than libthr interposers. Export both libc and libthr versions from
libc now, with default set to the higher version from libthr.
Remove unused and disconnected swapcontext(3) userspace implementation
from libc/gen.
No objections from: deischen
Tested by: pho, antoine (exp-run) (previous versions)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
The accept4() function, compared to accept(), allows setting the new file
descriptor atomically close-on-exec and explicitly controlling the
non-blocking status on the new socket. (Note that the latter point means
that accept() is not equivalent to any form of accept4().)
The linuxulator's accept4 implementation leaves a race window where the new
file descriptor is not close-on-exec because it calls sys_accept(). This
implementation leaves no such race window (by using falloc() flags). The
linuxulator could be fixed and simplified by using the new code.
Like accept(), accept4() is async-signal-safe, a cancellation point and
permitted in capability mode.
some cases we want to improve:
1) if a thread signal got a signal while in cancellation point,
it is possible the TDP_WAKEUP may be eaten by signal handler
if the handler called some interruptibly system calls.
2) In signal handler, we want to disable cancellation.
3) When thread holding some low level locks, it is better to
disable signal, those code need not to worry reentrancy,
sigprocmask system call is avoided because it is a bit expensive.
The signal handler wrapper works in this way:
1) libthr installs its signal handler if user code invokes sigaction
to install its handler, the user handler is recorded in internal
array.
2) when a signal is delivered, libthr's signal handler is invoke,
libthr checks if thread holds some low level lock or is in critical
region, if it is true, the signal is buffered, and all signals are
masked, once the thread leaves critical region, correct signal
mask is restored and buffered signal is processed.
3) before user signal handler is invoked, cancellation is temporarily
disabled, after user signal handler is returned, cancellation state
is restored, and pending cancellation is rescheduled.
which does not know what is the state of interrupted system call, for
example, open() system call opened a file and the thread is still cancelled,
result is descriptor leak, there are other problems which can cause resource
leak or undeterminable side effect when a thread is cancelled. However, this
is no longer true in new implementation.
In defering mode, a thread is canceled if cancellation request is pending and
later the thread enters a cancellation point, otherwise, a later
pthread_cancel() just causes SIGCANCEL to be sent to the target thread, and
causes target thread to abort system call, userland code in libthr then checks
cancellation state, and cancels the thread if needed. For example, the
cancellation point open(), the thread may be canceled at start,
but later, if it opened a file descriptor, it is not canceled, this avoids
file handle leak. Another example is read(), a thread may be canceled at start
of the function, but later, if it read some bytes from a socket, the thread
is not canceled, the caller then can decide if it should still enable cancelling
or disable it and continue reading data until it thinks it has read all
bytes of a packet, and keeps a protocol stream in health state, if user ignores
partly reading of a packet without disabling cancellation, then second iteration
of read loop cause the thread to be cancelled.
An exception is that the close() cancellation point always closes a file handle
despite whether the thread is cancelled or not.
The old mechanism is still kept, for a functions which is not so easily to
fix a cancellation problem, the rough mechanism is used.
Reviewed by: kib@
well-known race condition, which elimination was the reason for the
function appearance in first place. If sigmask supplied as argument to
pselect() enables a signal, the signal might be delivered before thread
called select(2), causing lost wakeup. Reimplement pselect() in kernel,
making change of sigmask and sleep atomic.
Since signal shall be delivered to the usermode, but sigmask restored,
set TDP_OLDMASK and save old mask in td_oldsigmask. The TDP_OLDMASK
should be cleared by ast() in case signal was not gelivered during
syscall execution.
Reviewed by: davidxu
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 month
wait(), waitpid() and usleep(), they are internal versions and
should not be cancellation points.
2. Make wait3() as a cancellation point.
3. Move raise() and pause() into file thr_sig.c.
4. Add functions _sigsuspend, _sigwait, _sigtimedwait and _sigwaitinfo,
remove SIGCANCEL bit in wait-set for those functions, the signal is
used internally to implement thread cancellation.
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
followed are: Only 3 functions (pthread_cancel, pthread_setcancelstate,
pthread_setcanceltype) are required to be async-signal-safe by POSIX. None of
the rest of the pthread api is required to be async-signal-safe. This means
that only the three mentioned functions are safe to use from inside
signal handlers.
However, there are certain system/libc calls that are
cancellation points that a caller may call from within a signal handler,
and since they are cancellation points calls have to be made into libthr
to test for cancellation and exit the thread if necessary. So, the
cancellation test and thread exit code paths must be async-signal-safe
as well. A summary of the changes follows:
o Almost all of the code paths that masked signals, as well as locking the
pthread structure now lock only the pthread structure.
o Signals are masked (and left that way) as soon as a thread enters
pthread_exit().
o The active and dead threads locks now explicitly require that signals
are masked.
o Access to the isdead field of the pthread structure is protected by both
the active and dead list locks for writing. Either one is sufficient for
reading.
o The thread state and type fields have been combined into one three-state
switch to make it easier to read without requiring a lock. It doesn't need
a lock for writing (and therefore for reading either) because only the
current thread can write to it and it is an integer value.
o The thread state field of the pthread structure has been eliminated. It
was an unnecessary field that mostly duplicated the flags field, but
required additional locking that would make a lot more code paths require
signal masking. Any truly unique values (such as PS_DEAD) have been
reborn as separate members of the pthread structure.
o Since the mutex and condvar pthread functions are not async-signal-safe
there is no need to muck about with the wait queues when handling
a signal ...
o ... which also removes the need for wrapping signal handlers and sigaction(2).
o The condvar and mutex async-cancellation code had to be revised as a result
of some of these changes, which resulted in semi-unrelated changes which
would have been difficult to work on as a separate commit, so they are
included as well.
The only part of the changes I am worried about is related to locking for
the pthread joining fields. But, I will take a closer look at them once this
mega-patch is committed.
sigprocmask no longer needs to be wrapped.
o raise(3) is applied to the calling thread in a threaded program.
o In the sigaction wrapper reference the correct structure.
o Don't treat SIGTHR especially anymore (infact it won't exist in
a little while).
