in init_main_thread. Also don't initialize lock and lockuser again for initial
thread, it is already done by _thr_alloc().
Reviewed by: deischen
Approved by: re (scottl)
signal handling mode, there is no chance to handle the signal, something
must be wrong in the library, just call kse_thr_interrupt to dump its core.
I have the code for a long time, but forgot to commit it.
Aside from the POSIX requirements for pthread_atfork(), when
fork()ing, take the malloc lock to keep malloc state consistent
in the child.
Reviewed by: davidxu
can clear the pointer to mutex, not the thread doing mutex
handoff. Because _mutex_lock_backout does not hold scheduler
lock while testing THR_FLAGS_IN_SYNCQ and then reading mutex
pointer, it is possible mutex owner begin to unlock and
handoff the mutex to the current thread, and mutex pointer
will be cleared to NULL before current thread reading it, so
current thread will end up with deferencing a NULL pointer,
Fix the race by making mutex waiters to clear their mutex pointers.
While I am here, also save inherited priority in mutex for
PTHREAD_PRIO_INERIT mutex in mutex_trylock_common just like what
we did in mutex_lock_common.
for interrupted field.
Also in _thr_sig_handler, retrieve current signal mask from kernel not
from ucp, the later is pre-unioned mask, not current signal mask.
pthread_md.h. This commit only moves the definition; it does not
change it for any of the platforms. This more easily allows 64-bit
architectures (in particular) to pick a slightly larger stack size.
to avoid potential memory leak, also fix a bug in pthread_create, contention
scope should be inherited when PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED is set, and also check
right field for PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED, scheduling inherit flag is in sched_inherit.
2. Execute hooks registered by atexit() on thread stack but not on scheduler
stack.
3. Simplify some code in _kse_single_thread by calling xxx_destroy functions.
Reviewed by: deischen
should be a value past to pthread_attr_setguardsize, not a rounded up value.
Also fix a stack size matching bug in thr_stack.c, now stack matching code
uses number of pages but not bytes length to match stack size, so for example,
size 512 bytes and size 513 bytes should both match 1 page stack size.
Reviewed by: deischen
a shared library or any other dyanmic allocated data block, once
pthread_once_t is initialized, a mutex is allocated, if we unload the
shared library or free those data block, then there is no way to deallocate
the mutex, result is memory leak.
To fix this problem, we don't use mutex field in pthread_once_t, instead,
we use its state field and an internal mutex and conditional variable in
libkse to do any synchronization, we introduce a third state IN_PROGRESS to
wait if another thread is already in invoking init_routine().
Also while I am here, make pthread_once() conformed to pthread cancellation
point specification.
Reviewed by: deischen
instead of long types for low-level locks.
Add prototypes for some internal libc functions that are
wrapped by the library as cancellation points.
Add memory barriers to alpha atomic swap functions (submitted
by davidxu).
Requested by: bde
critical region, we wrap some syscalls for thread cancellation point, and
when syscalls returns, we call _thr_leave_cancellation_point, at the time
if a signal comes in, it would be buffered, and when the thread leaves
_thr_leave_cancellation_point, buffered signals will be processed, to avoid
messing up normal syscall errno, we should save and restore errno around
signal handling code.
yet, so we can protect some locking code from being interrupted by signal
handling. When KSE mode is turned on, reset the thread flag to scope process
except we are running in 1:1 mode which we needn't turn it off.
Also remove some unused member variables in structure kse.
Tested by: deischen
otherwise masks all signals until fork() returns, in child process,
we reset library state before restoring signal masks until we reach
a safe to point.
Reviewed by: deischen
makecontext(). We only supply 3, not 4. This is mostly harmless,
except that on ia64 the garbage can include NaT bits, resulting
in NaT consumption faults.
archs that can (or are required to) have per-thread registers.
Tested on i386, amd64; marcel is testing on ia64 and will
have some follow-up commits.
Reviewed by: davidxu
This eliminates ping-ponging of locks, where the idle KSE wakes
up only to find the lock it needs is being held. This gives
little or no gain to M:N mode but greatly speeds up 1:1 mode.
Reviewed & Tested by: davidxu
handed-off/signaled to a higher priority thread. Note that when
there are idle KSEs that could run the higher priority thread,
we still add the preemption point because it seems to take the
kernel a while to schedule an idle KSE. The drawbacks are that
threads will be swapped more often between CPUs (KSEs) and
that there will be an extra userland context switch (the idle
KSE is still woken and will probably resume the preempted
thread). We'll revisit this if and when idle CPU/KSE wakeup
times improve.
Inspired by: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Reviewed by: davidxu
is system bound thread and when it is blocked, no upcall is generated.
o Add ability to libkse to allow it run in pure 1:1 threading mode,
defining SYSTEM_SCOPE_ONLY in Makefile can turn on this option.
o Eliminate code for installing dummy signal handler for sigwait call.
o Add hash table to find thread.
Reviewed by: deischen
its waitset, but if the signal is not masked by the thread, the signal
can interrupt the thread and signal action can be invoked by the thread,
sigwait should return with errno set to EINTR.
Also save and restore thread internal state(timeout and interrupted)
around signal handler invoking.
signals were changed in kernel, it will retrieve the pending set and
try to find a thread to dispatch the signal. The dispatching process
can be rolled back if the signal is no longer in kernel.
o Create two functions _thr_signal_init() and _thr_signal_deinit(),
all signal action settings are retrieved from kernel when threading
mode is turned on, after a fork(), child process will reset them to
user settings by calling _thr_signal_deinit(). when threading mode
is not turned on, all signal operations are direct past to kernel.
o When a thread generated a synchoronous signals and its context returned
from completed list, UTS will retrieve the signal from its mailbox and try
to deliver the signal to thread.
o Context signal mask is now only used when delivering signals, thread's
current signal mask is always the one in pthread structure.
o Remove have_signals field in pthread structure, replace it with
psf_valid in pthread_signal_frame. when psf_valid is true, in context
switch time, thread will backout itself from some mutex/condition
internal queues, then begin to process signals. when a thread is not
at blocked state and running, check_pending indicates there are signals
for the thread, after preempted and then resumed time, UTS will try to
deliver signals to the thread.
o At signal delivering time, not only pending signals in thread will be
scanned, process's pending signals will be scanned too.
o Change sigwait code a bit, remove field sigwait in pthread_wait_data,
replace it with oldsigmask in pthread structure, when a thread calls
sigwait(), its current signal mask is backuped to oldsigmask, and waitset
is copied to its signal mask and when the thread gets a signal in the
waitset range, its current signal mask is restored from oldsigmask,
these are done in atomic fashion.
o Two additional POSIX APIs are implemented, sigwaitinfo() and sigtimedwait().
o Signal code locking is better than previous, there is fewer race conditions.
o Temporary disable most of code in _kse_single_thread as it is not safe
after fork().
platforms the compiler warns about incompatible integer/pointer casts
and on ia64 this generally is bad news. We know that what we're doing
here is valid/correct, so suppress the warning. No functional change.
Sleeps better: marcel
by moving the definition of struct ksd to pthread_md.h and removing
the inclusion of ksd.h from thr_private.h (which has the definition
of struct kse and kse_critical_t). This allows ksd.h to have inline
functions that use struct kse and kse_critical_t and generally
yields a cleaner implementation at the cost of not having all ksd
related types/definitions in one header.
Implement the ksd functionality on ia64 by using inline functions
and permanently remove ksd.c from the ia64 specific makefile.
This change does not clean up the i386 specific version of ksd.h.
NOTE: The ksd code on ia64 abuses the tp register in the same way
as it is abused in libthr in that it is incompatible with the
runtime specification. This will be address when support for TLS
hits the tree.
_ksd_readandclear_tmbx to be function-like. That way we
can define them as inline functions or create prototypes
for them.
This change allows the ksd interface on ia64 to be fully
inlined.
the chance of getting the same thread id when allocating a
new thread is reduced. This won't work if the application
creates a new thread for every time a thread exits, but
we're still within the allowances of POSIX.
path, making them suitable for direct use by the dynamic loader.
Register libpthread-specific locking API with rtld on startup.
This still has some rough edges with signals which should be
addresses later.
Approved by: re (scottl)
is called and the application is not threaded. This works around
a problem when an application that hasn't yet become threaded
tries to jump out of a signal handler.
Reported by: mbr
Approved by: re@ (rwatson)
low-level lock used by the libpthread implementation. In the
future, we'll eliminate spinlocks from libc but that will wait
until after 5.1-release.
Don't call an application signal handler if the handler is
the same as the library-installed handler. This seems to
be possible after a fork and is the cause of konsole hangs.
Approved by: re@ (jhb)
a lock is being waitied on.
Fix a races in join and cancellation.
When trying to wait on a CV and the library is not yet
threaded, make it threaded so that waiting actually works.
When trying to nanosleep() and we're not threaded, just
call the system call nanosleep instead of adding the thread
to the wait queue.
Clean up adding/removing new threads to the "all threads queue",
assigning them unique ids, and tracking how many active threads
there are. Do it all when the thread is added to the scheduling
queue instead of making pthread_create() know how to do it.
Fix a race where a thread could be marked for signal delivery
but it could be exited before we actually add the signal to it.
Other minor cleanups and bug fixes.
Submitted by: davidxu
Approved by: re@ (blanket for libpthread)
be external (initialize()!).
Remove cancellation points from _pthread_cond_wait and
_pthread_cond_timedwait (single underscore versions are
libc private functions). Point the weak reference(!) for
these functions to the versions with cancellation points.
Approved by: re@(blanket till 5/19)
Pointed out by: kan (cancellation point bug)
lock held (_thr_sched_switch_unlocked()) and use this to avoid
dropping the scheduler lock and having the scheduler retake the
same lock again.
Add a better way of detecting if a low-level lock is in use.
When switching out a thread due to blocking in the UTS, don't
switch to the KSE's scheduler stack only to switch back to
another thread. If possible switch to the new thread directly
from the old thread and avoid the overhead of the extra
context switch.
Check for pending signals on a thread when entering the scheduler
and add them to the threads signal frame. This includes some
other minor signal fixes.
Most of this was a joint effor between davidxu and myself.
Reviewed by: davidxu
Approved by: re@ (blanket for libpthread)
a thread lock).
Better protect access to thread state while searching for
threads to handle a signal.
Better protect access to process pending signals while processing
a thread in sigwait().
Submitted by: davidxu
KSEs when it's thread exits; allow the GC handler to do that.
o Make spinlock/spinlock critical regions.
The following were submitted by davidxu
o Alow thr_switch() to take a null mailbox argument.
o Better protect cancellation checks.
o Don't set KSE specific data when creating new KSEs; rely on the
first upcall of the KSE to set it.
o Add the ability to set the maximum concurrency level and do this
automatically. We should have a way to enable/disable this with
some sort of tunable because some applications may not want this
to be the default.
o Hold the scheduling lock across thread switch calls.
o If scheduling of a thread fails, make sure to remove it from the list
of active threads.
o Better protect accesses to a joining threads when the target thread is
exited and detached.
o Remove some macro definitions that are now provided by <sys/kse.h>.
o Don't leave the library in threaded mode if creation of the initial
KSE fails.
o Wakeup idle KSEs when there are threads ready to run.
o Maintain the number of threads active in the priority queue.
While I'm here, use the TAILQ_FOREACH macro instead of a more
manual method which was inherited from libc_r (so we could
remove elements from the list which isn't needed for libpthread).
Submitted by: Kazuaki Oda <kaakun@highway.ne.jp>
provided by Sergey A. Osokin <osa@freebsd.org.ru>.
In order to test this on a single CPU machine, you need to:
sysctl kern.threads.debug=1
sysctl kern.threads.virtual_cpu=2
lock level is 0. Thus far, the threads implementation doesn't use
mutexes or condition variables so the lock level should be 0.
Save the return value when trying to schedule a new thread and
use this to return an error from pthread_create().
Change the max sleep time for an idle KSE to 1 minute from 2 minutes.
Maintain a count of the number of KSEs within a KSEG.
With these changes scope system threads seem to work, but heavy
use of them crash the kernel (supposedly VM bugs).
to be instances where the kernel doesn't properly save and/or
restore it.
Use noupcall and nocompleted flags in the KSE mailbox. These
require kernel changes to work which will be committed sometime
later. Things still work without the changes.
Remove the general kse entry function and use two different
functions -- one for scope system threads and one for scope
process threads. The scope system function is not yet enabled
and we use the same function for all threads at the moment.
Keep a copy of the KSE stack for the case that a KSE runs
a scope system thread and uses the same stack as the thread
(no upcalls are generated, so a separate stack isn't needed).
This isn't enabled yet.
Use a separate field for the KSE waiting flag. It isn't
correct to use the mailbox flags field.
The following fixes were provided by David Xu:
o Initialize condition variable locks with thread versions
of the low-level locking functions instead of the kse versions.
o Enable threading before creating the first thread instead
of after.
o Don't enter critical regions when trying to malloc/free
or call functions that malloc/free.
o Take the scheduling lock when inheriting thread attributes.
o Check the attribute's stack pointer instead of the
attributes stack size for null when allocating a
thread's stack.
o Add a kseg reinit function so we don't have to destroy and
then recreate the same lock.
o Check the return value of kse_create() and return an
appropriate error if it fails.
o Don't forget to destroy a thread's locks when freeing it.
o Examine the correct flags word for checking to see if
a thread is in a synchronization queue.
Things should now work on an SMP kernel.
environment. This includes support for multiple KSEs and KSEGs.
The ability to create more than 1 KSE via pthread_setconcurrency()
is in the works as well as support for PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM threads.
Those should come shortly.
There are still some known issues which davidxu and I are working
on, but it'll make it easier for us by committing what we have.
This library now passes all of the ACE tests that libc_r passes
with the exception of one. It also seems to work OK with KDE
including konqueror, kwrite, etc. I haven't been able to get
mozilla to run due to lack of java plugin, so I'd be interested
to see how it works with that.
Reviewed by: davidxu
more complicated things than just setting the lock to 0.
- Implement stubs for this function in libc and the two threading libraries
that are currently in the tree.
`sigprocmask', `sigaltstack', and `sigwait' as well as to the
prototypes of the apparantly unimplemented functions `sigtimedwait'
and `sigwaitinfo'. This complies with IEEE Std 1003.1-2001.
The new libpthread will provide POSIX threading support using KSE.
These files were previously repo-copied from src/lib/libc_r.
Reviewed by: deischen
Approved by: -arch
at file flags and replace it with functions that will avoid null
pointer checks.
MFC to be done by archie ;-)
PR: 42100
Reviewed by: archie, robert
MFC after: 3 days
