One possible way the recursion can happen is during fork: suppose
that fork is called from early code that did not triggered
jemalloc(3) initialization yet. Then we lock thr_malloc lock, and
call malloc_prefork() that might require initialization of jemalloc
pthread_mutexes, calling into libthr malloc. It is safe to allow
recursion for this occurence.
PR: 252579
Reported by: Vasily Postnicov <shamaz.mazum@gmail.com>
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
When libthr is statically linked into the binary, order of the
constructors execution is not deterministic. It is possible for the
application constructor to use pthread_mutex_* functions before the
libthr initialization was done.
Handle it by:
- making thr_malloc.c locking functions operational when curthread is not
yet set;
- making __thr_malloc_init() idempotent, allowing more than one call to it;
- unconditionally calling __thr_malloc_init() before initializing
a process-private mutex.
Reported and tested by: mmel
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
The need to use libc malloc(3) from some places in libthr always
caused issues. For instance, per-thread key allocation was switched to
use plain mmap(2) to get storage, because some third party mallocs
used keys for implementation of calloc(3).
Even more important, libthr calls calloc(3) during initialization of
pthread mutexes, and jemalloc uses pthread mutexes. Jemalloc provides
some way to both postpone the initialization, and to make
initialization to use specialized allocator, but this is very fragile
and often breaks. See the referenced PR for another example.
Add the small malloc implementation used by rtld, to libthr. Use it in
thr_spec.c and for mutexes initialization. This avoids the issues with
mutual dependencies between malloc and libthr in principle. The
drawback is that some more allocations are not interceptable for
alternate malloc implementations. There should be not too much memory
use from this allocator, and the alternative, direct use of mmap(2) is
obviously worse.
PR: 235211
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18988
