in specific situations. The owner thread must be blocked, and the
borrower can not proceed back to user space with the borrowed KSE.
The borrower will return the KSE on the next context switch where
teh owner wants it back. This removes a lot of possible
race conditions and deadlocks. It is consceivable that the
borrower should inherit the priority of the owner too.
that's another discussion and would be simple to do.
Also, as part of this, the "preallocatd spare thread" is attached to the
thread doing a syscall rather than the KSE. This removes the need to lock
the scheduler when we want to access it, as it's now "at hand".
DDB now shows a lot mor info for threaded proceses though it may need
some optimisation to squeeze it all back into 80 chars again.
(possible JKH project)
Upcalls are now "bound" threads, but "KSE Lending" now means that
other completing syscalls can be completed using that KSE before the upcall
finally makes it back to the UTS. (getting threads OUT OF THE KERNEL is
one of the highest priorities in the KSE system.) The upcall when it happens
will present all the completed syscalls to the KSE for selection.
name instead. (e.g., SLOCK instead of SMTX, TD_ON_LOCK() instead of
TD_ON_MUTEX()) Eventually a turnstile abstraction will be added that
will be shared with mutexes and other types of locks. SLOCK/TDI_LOCK will
be used internally by the turnstile code and will not be specific to
mutexes. Making the change now ensures that turnstiles can be dropped
in at a later date without affecting the ABI of userland applications.
doesn't give them enough stack to do much before blowing away the pcb.
This adds MI and MD code to allow the allocation of an alternate kstack
who's size can be speficied when calling kthread_create. Passing the
value 0 prevents the alternate kstack from being created. Note that the
ia64 MD code is missing for now, and PowerPC was only partially written
due to the pmap.c being incomplete there.
Though this patch does not modify anything to make use of the alternate
kstack, acpi and usb are good candidates.
Reviewed by: jake, peter, jhb
gets signals operating based on a TailQ, and is good enough to run X11,
GNOME, and do job control. There are some intricate parts which could be
more refined to match the sigset_t versions, but those require further
evaluation of directions in which our signal system can expand and contract
to fit our needs.
After this has been in the tree for a while, I will make in kernel API
changes, most notably to trapsignal(9) and sendsig(9), to use ksiginfo
more robustly, such that we can actually pass information with our
(queued) signals to the userland. That will also result in using a
struct ksiginfo pointer, rather than a signal number, in a lot of
kern_sig.c, to refer to an individual pending signal queue member, but
right now there is no defined behaviour for such.
CODAFS is unfinished in this regard because the logic is unclear in
some places.
Sponsored by: New Gold Technology
Reviewed by: bde, tjr, jake [an older version, logic similar]
from stopping another thread from completing a syscall, and this allows it to
release its resources etc. Probably more related commits to follow (at least
one I know of)
Initial concept by: julian, dillon
Submitted by: davidxu
- Use ucontext_t's to store KSE thread state.
- Synthesize state for the UTS upon each upcall, rather than
saving and copying a trapframe.
- Deliver signals to KSE-aware processes via upcall.
- Rename kse mailbox structure fields to be more BSD-like.
- Store the UTS's stack in struct proc in a stack_t.
Reviewed by: bde, deischen, julian
Approved by: -arch
next step is to allow > 1 to be allocated per process. This would give
multi-processor threads. (when the rest of the infrastructure is
in place)
While doing this I noticed libkvm and sys/kern/kern_proc.c:fill_kinfo_proc
are diverging more than they should.. corrective action needed soon.
PS_STRINGS and USRSTACK is. This is necessary in order to decode a.out
core dumps. kern_proc.c was already referring to both of these values
but was missing the #include "opt_kstack_pages.h". Make the sysctl
variables visible so that certain kld modules can see how their parent
kernel was configured.
The process allocator now caches and hands out complete process structures
*including substructures* .
i.e. it get's the process structure with the first thread (and soon KSE)
already allocated and attached, all in one hit.
For the average non threaded program (non KSE that is) the allocated thread and its stack remain attached to the process, even when the process is
unused and in the process cache. This saves having to allocate and attach it
later, effectively bringing us (hopefully) close to the efficiency
of pre-KSE systems where these were a single structure.
Reviewed by: davidxu@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org
(I skipped those in contrib/, gnu/ and crypto/)
While I was at it, fixed a lot more found by ispell that I
could identify with certainty to be errors. All of these
were in comments or text, not in actual code.
Suggested by: bde
MFC after: 3 days
SYSCTL_OUT() from blocking while locks are held. This should
only be done when it would be inconvenient to make a temporary copy of
the data and defer calling SYSCTL_OUT() until after the locks are
released.
formulated. The correct states should be:
IDLE: On the idle KSE list for that KSEG
RUNQ: Linked onto the system run queue.
THREAD: Attached to a thread and slaved to whatever state the thread is in.
This means that most places where we were adjusting kse state can go away
as it is just moving around because the thread is..
The only places we need to adjust the KSE state is in transition to and from
the idle and run queues.
Reviewed by: jhb@freebsd.org
pmap_swapin_proc/pmap_swapout_proc functions from the MD pmap code
and use a single equivalent MI version. There are other cleanups
needed still.
While here, use the UMA zone hooks to keep a cache of preinitialized
proc structures handy, just like the thread system does. This eliminates
one dependency on 'struct proc' being persistent even after being freed.
There are some comments about things that can be factored out into
ctor/dtor functions if it is worth it. For now they are mostly just
doing statistics to get a feel of how it is working.
The ability to schedule multiple threads per process
(one one cpu) by making ALL system calls optionally asynchronous.
to come: ia64 and power-pc patches, patches for gdb, test program (in tools)
Reviewed by: Almost everyone who counts
(at various times, peter, jhb, matt, alfred, mini, bernd,
and a cast of thousands)
NOTE: this is still Beta code, and contains lots of debugging stuff.
expect slight instability in signals..
pointer instead of a proc pointer and require the process pointed to
by the second argument to be locked. We now use the thread ucred reference
for the credential checks in p_can*() as a result. p_canfoo() should now
no longer need Giant.
be done internally.
Ensure that no one can fsetown() to a dying process/pgrp. We need
to check the process for P_WEXIT to see if it's exiting. Process
groups are already safe because there is no such thing as a pgrp
zombie, therefore the proctree lock completely protects the pgrp
from having sigio structures associated with it after it runs
funsetownlst.
Add sigio lock to witness list under proctree and allproc, but over
proc and pgrp.
Seigo Tanimura helped with this.
sx lock. Trying to get the lock order between these locks was getting
too complicated as the locking in wait1() was being fixed.
- leavepgrp() now requires an exclusive lock of proctree_lock to be held
when it is called.
- fixjobc() no longer gets a shared lock of proctree_lock now that it
requires an xlock be held by the caller.
- Locking notes in sys/proc.h are adjusted to note that everything that
used to be protected by the pgrpsess_lock is now protected by the
proctree_lock.
is called.
- Change sysctl_out_proc() to require that the process is locked when it
is called and to drop the lock before it returns. If this proves too
complex we can change sysctl_out_proc() to simply acquire the lock at
the very end and have the calling code drop the lock right after it
returns.
- Lock the process we are going to export before the p_cansee() in the
loop in sysctl_kern_proc() and hold the lock until we call
sysctl_out_proc().
- Don't call p_cansee() on the process about to be exported twice in
the aforementioned loop.
most cases NULL is passed, but in some cases such as network driver locks
(which use the MTX_NETWORK_LOCK macro) and UMA zone locks, a name is used.
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
and cpu_critical_exit() and moves associated critical prototypes into their
own header file, <arch>/<arch>/critical.h, which is only included by the
three MI source files that need it.
Backout and re-apply improperly comitted syntactical cleanups made to files
that were still under active development. Backout improperly comitted program
structure changes that moved localized declarations to the top of two
procedures. Partially re-apply one of the program structure changes to
move 'mask' into an intermediate block rather then in three separate
sub-blocks to make the code more readable. Re-integrate bug fixes that Jake
made to the sparc64 code.
Note: In general, developers should not gratuitously move declarations out
of sub-blocks. They are where they are for reasons of structure, grouping,
readability, compiler-localizability, and to avoid developer-introduced bugs
similar to several found in recent years in the VFS and VM code.
Reviewed by: jake
while holding the proc lock, and by holding the pargs structure when
accessing it from outside of the owner.
Submitted by: Jonathan Mini <mini@haikugeek.com>
There is still some locations where the PROC lock should be held
in order to prevent inconsistent views from outside (like the
proc->p_fd fix for kern/vfs_syscalls.c:checkdirs()) that can be
fixed later.
Submitted by: Jonathan Mini <mini@haikugeek.com>
with this flag. Remove the dup_list and dup_ok code from subr_witness. Now
we just check for the flag instead of doing string compares.
Also, switch the process lock, process group lock, and uma per cpu locks over
to this interface. The original mechanism did not work well for uma because
per cpu lock names are unique to each zone.
Approved by: jhb
not removing tabs before "__P((", and not outdenting continuation lines
to preserve non-KNF lining up of code with parentheses. Switch to KNF
formatting and/or rewrap the whole prototype in some cases.
New locks are:
- pgrpsess_lock which locks the whole pgrps and sessions,
- pg_mtx which protects the pgrp members, and
- s_mtx which protects the session members.
Please refer to sys/proc.h for the coverage of these locks.
Changes on the pgrp/session interface:
- pgfind() needs the pgrpsess_lock held.
- The caller of enterpgrp() is responsible to allocate a new pgrp and
session.
- Call enterthispgrp() in order to enter an existing pgrp.
- pgsignal() requires a pgrp lock held.
Reviewed by: jhb, alfred
Tested on: cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org
(which is a quad-CPU machine running -current)
