These functions are intended to be used to drop a lock and then reacquire
it when doing an sleep such as msleep(9). Both functions accept a
'struct lock_object *' as their first parameter. The 'lc_unlock' function
returns an integer that is then passed as the second paramter to the
subsequent 'lc_lock' function. This can be used to communicate state.
For example, sx locks and rwlocks use this to indicate if the lock was
share/read locked vs exclusive/write locked.
Currently, spin mutexes and lockmgr locks do not provide working lc_lock
and lc_unlock functions.
and optimize away unused stack values. The 48 bytes that the lock_profile_object
adds to the stack evidently has a measurable performance impact on certain workloads.
- Fix missing initialization in kern_rwlock.c causing bogus times to be collected
- Move updates to the lock hash to after the lock is released for spin mutexes,
sleep mutexes, and sx locks
- Add new kernel build option LOCK_PROFILE_FAST - only update lock profiling
statistics when an acquisition is contended. This reduces the overhead of
LOCK_PROFILING to increasing system time by 20%-25% which on
"make -j8 kernel-toolchain" on a dual woodcrest is unmeasurable in terms
of wall-clock time. Contrast this to enabling lock profiling without
LOCK_PROFILE_FAST and I see a 5x-6x slowdown in wall-clock time.
- only collect timestamps when a lock is contested - this reduces the overhead
of collecting profiles from 20x to 5x
- remove unused function from subr_lock.c
- generalize cnt_hold and cnt_lock statistics to be kept for all locks
- NOTE: rwlock profiling generates invalid statistics (and most likely always has)
someone familiar with that should review
wait (time waited to acquire) and hold times for *all* kernel locks. If
the architecture has a system synchronized TSC, the profiling code will
use that - thereby minimizing profiling overhead. Large chunks of profiling
code have been moved out of line, the overhead measured on the T1 for when
it is compiled in but not enabled is < 1%.
Approved by: scottl (standing in for mentor rwatson)
Reviewed by: des and jhb
that it operates on lockmgr and sx locks. This can be useful for tracking
down vnode deadlocks in VFS for example. Note that this command is a bit
more fragile than 'show lockchain' as we have to poke around at the
wait channel of a thread to see if it points to either a struct lock or
a condition variable inside of a struct sx. If td_wchan points to
something unmapped, then this command will terminate early due to a fault,
but no harm will be done.
a count of all non-spin locks, not just lockmgr locks. This can give us a
much cheaper way to see if we have any locks held (such as when returning
to userland via userret()) without requiring WITNESS.
MFC after: 1 week
lock_obj objects:
- Add new lock_init() and lock_destroy() functions to setup and teardown
lock_object objects including KTR logging and registering with WITNESS.
- Move all the handling of LO_INITIALIZED out of witness and the various
lock init functions into lock_init() and lock_destroy().
- Remove the constants for static indices into the lock_classes[] array
and change the code outside of subr_lock.c to use LOCK_CLASS to compare
against a known lock class.
- Move the 'show lock' ddb function and lock_classes[] array out of
kern_mutex.c over to subr_lock.c.
struct sx). Instead of storing a direct pointer to a our lock_class
struct in lock_object, reserve 4 bits in the lo_flags field to serve as an
index into a global lock_classes array that contains pointers to the lock
classes. Only debugging code such as WITNESS or INVARIANTS checks and KTR
logging need to access the lock_class member, so this shouldn't add any
overhead to production kernels. It might add some slight overhead to
kernels using those debug options however.
As with the previous set of changes to lock_object, this is going to
completely obliterate the kernel ABI, so be sure to recompile all your
modules.
class, then it displays various information about the lock and calls a
new function pointer in lock_class (lc_ddb_show) to dump class-specific
information about the lock as well (such as the owner of a mutex or
xlock'ed sx lock). This is easier than staring at hex dumps of locks to
figure out who owns the lock, etc. Note that extending lock_class doesn't
affect the ABI for any kernel modules as the only code that deals with
lock_class structures directly is kern_mutex.c, kern_sx.c, and witness.
MFC after: 1 week
- witness_lock() is split into two pieces: witness_checkorder() and
witness_lock(). Witness_checkorder() determines if acquiring a specified
lock at the time it is called would result in a lock order. It
optionally adds a new lock order relationship as well. witness_lock()
updates witness's data structures to assume that a lock has been acquired
by stick a new lock instance in the appropriate lock instance list.
- The mutex and sx lock functions now call checkorder() prior to trying to
acquire a lock and continue to call witness_lock() after the acquire is
completed. This will let witness catch a deadlock before it happens
rather than trying to do so after the threads have deadlocked (i.e. never
actually report it).
- A new function witness_defineorder() has been added that adds a lock
order between two locks at runtime without having to acquire the locks.
If the lock order cannot be added it will return an error. This function
is available to programmers via the WITNESS_DEFINEORDER() macro which
accepts either two mutexes or two sx locks as its arguments.
- A few simple wrapper macros were added to allow developers to call
witness_checkorder() anywhere as a way of enforcing locking assertions
in code that might acquire a certain lock in some situations. The
macros are: witness_check_{mutex,shared_sx,exclusive_sx} and take an
appropriate lock as the sole argument.
- The code to remove a lock instance from a lock list in witness_unlock()
was unnested by using a goto to vastly improve the readability of this
function.
multiple mutex pools with different options and sizes. Mutex pools can
be created with either the default sleep mutexes or with spin mutexes.
A dynamically created mutex pool can now be destroyed if it is no longer
needed.
Create two pools by default, one that matches the existing pool that
uses the MTX_NOWITNESS option that should be used for building higher
level locks, and a new pool with witness checking enabled.
Modify the users of the existing mutex pool to use the appropriate pool
in the new implementation.
Reviewed by: jhb
locks to be able to setup a SYSINIT call. This helps in places where
a lock is needed to protect some data, but the data is not truly
associated with a subsystem that can properly initialize it's lock.
The macros use the mtx_sysinit() and sx_sysinit() functions,
respectively, as the handler argument to SYSINIT().
Reviewed by: alfred, jhb, smp@
off to witness_init() making the check for double intializating a lock by
testing the LO_INITIALIZED flag moot. Workaround this by checking the
LO_INITIALIZED flag ourself before we bzero the lock structure.
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
- The sx assertions don't actually need the internal sx mutex lock, so
don't bother doing so.
- Add a new assertion SX_ASSERT_LOCKED() that asserts that either a
shared or exclusive lock should be held. This assertion should be used
instead of SX_ASSERT_SLOCKED() in almost all cases.
- Adjust some KASSERT()'s to include file and line information.
- Use the new witness_assert() function in the WITNESS case for sx slock
asserts to verify that the current thread actually owns a slock.
struct lock_instance that is stored in the per-process and per-CPU lock
lists. Previously, the lock lists just kept a pointer to each lock held.
That pointer is now replaced by a lock instance which contains a pointer
to the lock object, the file and line of the last acquisition of a lock,
and various flags about a lock including its recursion count.
- If we sleep while holding a sleepable lock, then mark that lock instance
as having slept and ignore any lock order violations that occur while
acquiring Giant when we wake up with slept locks. This is ok because of
Giant's special nature.
- Allow witness to differentiate between shared and exclusive locks and
unlocks of a lock. Witness will now detect the case when a lock is
acquired first in one mode and then in another. Mutexes are always
locked and unlocked exclusively. Witness will also now detect the case
where a process attempts to unlock a shared lock while holding an
exclusive lock and vice versa.
- Fix a bug in the lock list implementation where we used the wrong
constant to detect the case where a lock list entry was full.
- Introduce lock classes and lock objects. Each lock class specifies a
name and set of flags (or properties) shared by all locks of a given
type. Currently there are three lock classes: spin mutexes, sleep
mutexes, and sx locks. A lock object specifies properties of an
additional lock along with a lock name and all of the extra stuff needed
to make witness work with a given lock. This abstract lock stuff is
defined in sys/lock.h. The lockmgr constants, types, and prototypes have
been moved to sys/lockmgr.h. For temporary backwards compatability,
sys/lock.h includes sys/lockmgr.h.
- Replace proc->p_spinlocks with a per-CPU list, PCPU(spinlocks), of spin
locks held. By making this per-cpu, we do not have to jump through
magic hoops to deal with sched_lock changing ownership during context
switches.
- Replace proc->p_heldmtx, formerly a list of held sleep mutexes, with
proc->p_sleeplocks, which is a list of held sleep locks including sleep
mutexes and sx locks.
- Add helper macros for logging lock events via the KTR_LOCK KTR logging
level so that the log messages are consistent.
- Add some new flags that can be passed to mtx_init():
- MTX_NOWITNESS - specifies that this lock should be ignored by witness.
This is used for the mutex that blocks a sx lock for example.
- MTX_QUIET - this is not new, but you can pass this to mtx_init() now
and no events will be logged for this lock, so that one doesn't have
to change all the individual mtx_lock/unlock() operations.
- All lock objects maintain an initialized flag. Use this flag to export
a mtx_initialized() macro that can be safely called from drivers. Also,
we on longer walk the all_mtx list if MUTEX_DEBUG is defined as witness
performs the corresponding checks using the initialized flag.
- The lock order reversal messages have been improved to output slightly
more accurate file and line numbers.
INVARIANTS case, define the actual KASSERT() in _SX_ASSERT_[SX]LOCKED
macros that are used in the sx code itself and convert the
SX_ASSERT_[SX]LOCKED macros to simple wrappers that grab the mutex for the
duration of the check.
- Add sx_xholder member to sx struct which is used for INVARIANTS-enabled
assertions. It indicates the thread that presently owns the xlock.
- Add some assertions to the sx lock code that will detect the fatal
API abuse:
xlock --> xlock
xlock --> slock
which now works thanks to sx_xholder.
Notice that the remaining two problematic cases:
slock --> xlock
slock --> slock (a little less problematic, but still recursion)
will need to be handled by witness eventually, as they are more
involved.
Reviewed by: jhb, jake, jasone
