Modern debuggers and process tracers use ptrace() rather than procfs
for debugging. ptrace() has a supserset of functionality available
via procfs and new debugging features are only added to ptrace().
While the two debugging services share some fields in struct proc,
they each use dedicated fields and separate code. This results in
extra complexity to support a feature that hasn't been enabled in the
default install for several years.
PR: 244939 (exp-run)
Reviewed by: kib, mjg (earlier version)
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23837
It was used after sigfastblock_setpend() call in in ast() when current
thread fast-blocks signals. Add a flag to sigfastblock_setpend() to
request reschedule, and remove the direct use of the function from
subr_trap.c
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
On machines with SMAP, fueword executes two serializing instructions
which can be seen in microbenchmarks.
As a measure to restore microbenchmark numbers, only read the word on
the attempt to deliver signal in ast(). If the word is set, signal is
not delivered and word is kept, preventing interruption of
interruptible sleeps by signals until userspace calls
sigfastblock(UNBLOCK) which clears the word.
This way, the spurious EINTR that userspace can see while in critical
section is on first interruptible sleep, if a signal is pending, and
on signal posting. It is believed that it is not important for rtld
and lbithr critical sections. It might be visible for the application
code e.g. for the callback of dl_iterate_phdr(3), but again the belief
is that the non-compliance is acceptable. Most important is that the
retry of the sleeping syscall does not interrupt unless additional
signal is posted.
For now I added the knob kern.sigfastblock_fetch_always to enable the
word read on syscall entry to be able to diagnose possible issues due
to spurious EINTR.
While there, do some code restructuting to have all sigfastblock()
handling located in kern_sig.c.
Reviewed by: jeff
Discussed with: mjg
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23622
This in particular significantly shortens amd64_syscall, which otherwise
keeps jumping forward over 2KB of code in total.
Note some of these branches should be either eliminated altogether or
coalesced.
A new syscall sigfastblock(2) is added which registers a uint32_t
variable as containing the count of blocks for signal delivery. Its
content is read by kernel on each syscall entry and on AST processing,
non-zero count of blocks is interpreted same as the signal mask
blocking all signals.
The biggest downside of the feature that I see is that memory
corruption that affects the registered fast sigblock location, would
cause quite strange application misbehavior. For instance, the process
would be immune to ^C (but killable by SIGKILL).
With consumers (rtld and libthr added), benchmarks do not show a
slow-down of the syscalls in micro-measurements, and macro benchmarks
like buildworld do not demonstrate a difference. Part of the reason is
that buildworld time is dominated by compiler, and clang already links
to libthr. On the other hand, small utilities typically used by shell
scripts have the total number of syscalls cut by half.
The syscall is not exported from the stable libc version namespace on
purpose. It is intended to be used only by our C runtime
implementation internals.
Tested by: pho
Disscussed with: cem, emaste, jilles
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12773
Having a reserved vnode count does not guarantee that getnewvnodes wont
block later. Said blocking partially defeats the purpose of reserving in
the first place.
Preallocate instaed. The only consumer was always passing "1" as count
and never nesting reservations.
Don't hold the scheduler lock while doing context switches. Instead we
unlock after selecting the new thread and switch within a spinlock
section leaving interrupts and preemption disabled to prevent local
concurrency. This means that mi_switch() is entered with the thread
locked but returns without. This dramatically simplifies scheduler
locking because we will not hold the schedlock while spinning on
blocked lock in switch.
This change has not been made to 4BSD but in principle it would be
more straightforward.
Discussed with: markj
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: pho
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22778
Epoch itself doesn't rely on the counter and it is provided
merely for sleeping subsystems to check it.
- In functions that sleep use THREAD_CAN_SLEEP() to assert
correctness. With EPOCH_TRACE compiled print epoch info.
- _sleep() was a wrong place to put the assertion for epoch,
right place is sleepq_add(), as there ways to call the
latter bypassing _sleep().
- Do not increase td_no_sleeping in non-preemptible epochs.
The critical section would trigger all possible safeguards,
no sleeping counter is extraneous.
Reviewed by: kib
This is similar to checks for td_sx_slocks and td_rw_rlocks.
Although td_lk_slocks is an implementation detail, it still makes sense
to validate it.
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Panzura
racct is not enabled by default and even when it is enabled processes are
typically not throttled. The order of checks is left unchanged since
racct_enable will be annotated as __read_frequently, while checking for the
flag in the processes would probably require an extra fetch.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This adds the -U options to pmcstat which will attribute in-kernel samples
back to the user stack that invoked the system call. It is not the default,
because when looking at kernel profiles it is generally more desirable to
merge all instances of a given system call together.
Although heavily revised, this change is directly derived from D7350 by
Jonathan T. Looney.
Obtained from: jtl
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Limelight Networks
A constant stream of readers could completely starve writers and this is not
a hypothetical scenario.
The 'poll2_threads' test from the will-it-scale suite reliably starves writers
even with concurrency < 10 threads.
The problem was run into and diagnosed by dillon@backplane.com
There was next to no change in lock contention profile during -j 128 pkg build,
despite an sx lock being at the top.
Tested by: pho
Read locking is over used in the kernel to guarantee liveness. This API makes
it easy to provide livenes guarantees without atomics.
Includes epoch_test kernel module to stress test the API.
Documentation will follow initial use case.
Test case and improvements to preemption handling in response to discussion
with mjg@
Reviewed by: imp@, shurd@
Approved by: sbruno@
Assert that all such memory is unwired on return to usermode.
The count of the wired memory will be used to detect the copyout mode.
Tested by: pho (as part of the larger patch)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
Initially, only tag files that use BSD 4-Clause "Original" license.
RelNotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13133
in place. To do per-cpu stats, convert all fields that previously were
maintained in the vmmeters that sit in pcpus to counter(9).
- Since some vmmeter stats may be touched at very early stages of boot,
before we have set up UMA and we can do counter_u64_alloc(), provide an
early counter mechanism:
o Leave one spare uint64_t in struct pcpu, named pc_early_dummy_counter.
o Point counter(9) fields of vmmeter to pcpu[0].pc_early_dummy_counter,
so that at early stages of boot, before counters are allocated we already
point to a counter that can be safely written to.
o For sparc64 that required a whole dummy pcpu[MAXCPU] array.
Further related changes:
- Don't include vmmeter.h into pcpu.h.
- vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsout and vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsin changed to 64-bit,
to match kernel representation.
- struct vmmeter hidden under _KERNEL, and only vmstat(1) is an exclusion.
This is based on benno@'s 4-year old patch:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-July/014471.html
Reviewed by: kib, gallatin, marius, lidl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10156
Thread might create a condition for delayed SU cleanup, which creates
a reference to the mount point in td_su, but exit without returning
through userret(), e.g. when terminating due to single-threading or
process exit. In this case, td_su reference is not dropped and mount
point cannot be freed.
Handle the situation by clearing td_su also in the thread destructor
and in exit1(). softdep_ast_cleanup() has to receive the thread as
argument, since e.g. thread destructor is executed in different
context.
Reported and tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
is delivered to vforked child. Issue is that we avoid stopping such
children in issignal() to not block parents. But executed AST, which
ignored stops, leaves the child with the signal pending but no AST
pending.
On first exec after vfork(), call signotify() to handle pending
reenabled signals. Adjust the assert to not check vfork children
until exec.
Reported and tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Despite the implication (process has pending signals -> the current
thread marked for AST and has TDF_NEEDSIGCHK set) is not true due to
other thread might manipulate its signal blocking mask, it should still
hold for the single-threaded processes. Enable check for the condition
for single-threaded case, and replicate it from userret() to ast() as
well, where we check that ast indeed has no signal to deliver.
Note that the check is under DIAGNOSTIC, it is not enabled for INVARIANTS
but !DIAGNOSTIC since it imposes too heavy-weight locking for day-to-day
used debugging kernel.
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
AST must not execute with TDF_SBDRY or TDF_SEINTR/TDF_SERESTART thread
flags set, which is asserted in userret(). As the consequence, -1 return
from cursig() must not be possible.
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
framework allowing to set the suspension policy for the dynamic block.
Extend the currently possible policies of stopping on interruptible
sleeps and ignoring such sleeps by two more: do not suspend at
interruptible sleeps, but interrupt them with either EINTR or ERESTART.
Reviewed by: jilles
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Approved by: re (gjb)
for limiting disk (actually filesystem) IO.
Note that in some cases these limits are not quite precise. It's ok,
as long as it's within some reasonable bounds.
Testing - and review of the code, in particular the VFS and VM parts - is
very welcome.
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5080
Thread credentials are maintained as follows: each thread has a pointer to
creds and a reference on them. The pointer is compared with proc's creds on
userspace<->kernel boundary and updated if needed.
This patch introduces a counter which can be compared instead, so that more
structures can use this scheme without adding more comparisons on the boundary.
limits in the code which is deep in the call stack, and owns several
critical system resources, like vnode locks. Attempt to wait while
the per-mount softupdate thread cleans up the backlog may deadlock,
because the thread might need to lock the same vnode which is owned by
the waiting thread.
Instead of synchronously waiting for the worker, perform the worker'
tickle and pause until the backlog is cleaned, at the safe point
during return from kernel to usermode. A new ast request to call
softdep_ast_cleanup() is created, the SU code now only checks the size
of queue and schedules ast.
There is no ast delivery for the kernel threads, so they are exempted
from the mechanism, except NFS daemon threads. NFS server loop
explicitely checks for the request, and informs the schedule_cleanup()
that it is capable of handling the requests by the process P2_AST_SU
flag. This is needed because nfsd may be the sole cause of the SU
workqueue overflow. But, to not cause nsfd to spawn additional
threads just because we slow down existing workers, only tickle su
threads, without waiting for the backlog cleanup.
Reviewed by: jhb, mckusick
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
remains. Xen is planning to phase out support for PV upstream since it
is harder to maintain and has more overhead. Modern x86 CPUs include
virtualization extensions that support HVM guests instead of PV guests.
In addition, the PV code was i386 only and not as well maintained recently
as the HVM code.
- Remove the i386-only NATIVE option that was used to disable certain
components for PV kernels. These components are now standard as they
are on amd64.
- Remove !XENHVM bits from PV drivers.
- Remove various shims required for XEN (e.g. PT_UPDATES_FLUSH, LOAD_CR3,
etc.)
- Remove duplicate copy of <xen/features.h>.
- Remove unused, i386-only xenstored.h.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2362
Reviewed by: royger
Tested by: royger (i386/amd64 HVM domU and amd64 PVH dom0)
Relnotes: yes
The point of this is to be able to add RACCT (with RACCT_DISABLED)
to GENERIC, to avoid having to rebuild the kernel to use rctl(8).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2369
Reviewed by: kib@
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
faults.
First, for accesses to direct map region should check for the limit by
which direct map is instantiated.
Second, for accesses to the kernel map, success returned from the
kernacc(9) does not guarantee that consequent attempt to read or write
to the checked address succeed, since other thread might invalidate
the address meantime. Add a new thread private flag TDP_DEVMEMIO,
which instructs vm_fault() to return error when fault happens on the
MAP_ENTRY_NOFAULT entry, instead of panicing. The trap handler would
then see a page fault from access, and recover in normal way, making
/dev/mem access safer.
Remove GIANT_REQUIRED from the amd64 memrw(), since it is not needed
and having Giant locked does not solve issues for amd64.
Note that at least the second issue exists on other architectures, and
requires similar patching for md code.
Reported and tested by: clusteradm (gjb, sbruno)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
further refinement is required as some device drivers intended to be
portable over FreeBSD versions rely on __FreeBSD_version to decide whether
to include capability.h.
MFC after: 3 weeks
option, unbreak the lock tracing release semantic by embedding
calls to LOCKSTAT_PROFILE_RELEASE_LOCK() direclty in the inlined
version of the releasing functions for mutex, rwlock and sxlock.
Failing to do so skips the lockstat_probe_func invokation for
unlocking.
- As part of the LOCKSTAT support is inlined in mutex operation, for
kernel compiled without lock debugging options, potentially every
consumer must be compiled including opt_kdtrace.h.
Fix this by moving KDTRACE_HOOKS into opt_global.h and remove the
dependency by opt_kdtrace.h for all files, as now only KDTRACE_FRAMES
is linked there and it is only used as a compile-time stub [0].
[0] immediately shows some new bug as DTRACE-derived support for debug
in sfxge is broken and it was never really tested. As it was not
including correctly opt_kdtrace.h before it was never enabled so it
was kept broken for a while. Fix this by using a protection stub,
leaving sfxge driver authors the responsibility for fixing it
appropriately [1].
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Discussed with: rstone
[0] Reported by: rstone
[1] Discussed with: philip
calls to toggle TDF_SBDRY rather than passing PBDRY to individual sleep
calls.
- Remove the stop_allowed parameters from cursig() and issignal().
issignal() checks TDF_SBDRY directly.
- Remove the PBDRY and SLEEPQ_STOP_ON_BDRY flags.
PBDRY (which simply doesn't make any sense) nor PCATCH (which could
be used by a malicious process to work around the PCPU limit).
Submitted by: Rudo Tomori
Reviewed by: kib
changes in r246417 were incomplete as they did not add explicit calls to
sigdeferstop() around all the places that previously passed SBDRY to
_sleep(). In addition, nfs_getcacheblk() could trigger a write RPC from
getblk() resulting in sigdeferstop() recursing. Rather than manually
deferring stop signals in specific places, change the VFS_*() and VOP_*()
methods to defer stop signals for filesystems which request this behavior
via a new VFCF_SBDRY flag. Note that this has to be a VFC flag rather than
a MNTK flag so that it works properly with VFS_MOUNT() when the mount is
not yet fully constructed. For now, only the NFS clients are set this new
flag in VFS_SET().
A few other related changes:
- Add an assertion to ensure that TDF_SBDRY doesn't leak to userland.
- When a lookup request uses VOP_READLINK() to follow a symlink, mark
the request as being on behalf of the thread performing the lookup
(cnp_thread) rather than using a NULL thread pointer. This causes
NFS to properly handle signals during this VOP on an interruptible
mount.
PR: kern/176179
Reported by: Russell Cattelan (sigdeferstop() recursion)
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 month
executed. This means past the point where userret() is generally
executed.
Skip the td_pinned check if a callchain tracing is currently happening
and add a more robust check to pmc_capture_user_callchain() in order to
catch td_pinned leak past ast() in hwpmc case.
Reported and tested by: fabient
MFC after: 1 week
X-MFC: r240246
counter, without actually allocating the vnodes. The supposed use of
the getnewvnode_reserve(9) is to reclaim enough free vnodes while the
code still does not hold any resources that might be needed during the
reclamation, and to consume the slack later for getnewvnode() calls
made from the innards. After the critical block is finished, the
caller shall free any reserve left, by getnewvnode_drop_reserve(9).
Reviewed by: avg
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 week
TDP_NOSLEEPING leaking from syscallret() to userret() so that also
trap handling is covered. Also, the check on td_locks is not duplicated
between the two functions.
Reported by: avg
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
New kernel events can be added at various location for sampling or counting.
This will for example allow easy system profiling whatever the processor is
with known tools like pmcstat(8).
Simultaneous usage of software PMC and hardware PMC is possible, for example
looking at the lock acquire failure, page fault while sampling on
instructions.
Sponsored by: NETASQ
MFC after: 1 month
patch modifies makesyscalls.sh to prefix all of the non-compatibility
calls (e.g. not linux_, freebsd32_) with sys_ and updates the kernel
entry points and all places in the code that use them. It also
fixes an additional name space collision between the kernel function
psignal and the libc function of the same name by renaming the kernel
psignal kern_psignal(). By introducing this change now we will ease future
MFCs that change syscalls.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: re (bz)
