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4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
John Birrell
54059e9f3f Implementation of an additional state called SIGWAIT (with the previous
one renamed to SIGSUSPEND) to fix sigwait().

Submitted by: Daniel M. Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
1998-09-30 06:27:31 +00:00
John Birrell
42f37683ee Fix for sigwait problem.
Submitted by: Daniel M. Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
PR:           misc/7039
1998-08-25 11:19:14 +00:00
John Birrell
4a027d50c7 Change signal model to match POSIX (i.e. one set of signal handlers
for the process, not a separate set for each thread). By default, the
process now only has signal handlers installed for SIGVTALRM, SIGINFO
and SIGCHLD. The thread kernel signal handler is installed for other
signals on demand. This means that SIG_IGN and SIG_DFL processing is now
left to the kernel, not the thread kernel.

Change the signal dispatch to no longer use a signal thread, and
call the signal handler using the stack of the thread that has the
signal pending.

Change the atomic lock method to use test-and-set asm code with
a yield if blocked. This introduces separate locks for each type
of object instead of blocking signals to prevent a context
switch. It was this blocking of signals that caused the performance
degradation the people have noted.

This is a *big* change!
1998-04-29 09:59:34 +00:00
Julian Elischer
c840cec7c5 Submitted by: John Birrell
uthreads update from the author.
1997-02-05 23:26:09 +00:00