- Threads lifetime cycle, in particular, counting of the threads in
the process, and interlocking with process mutex and thread lock.
The main reason of this is that turnstile locks are after thread
locks, so you e.g. cannot unlock blockable mutex (think process
mutex) while owning thread lock.
- Virtual and profiling itimers, since the timers activation is done
from the clock interrupt context. Replace the p_slock by p_itimmtx
and PROC_ITIMLOCK().
- Profiling code (profil(2)), for similar reason. Replace the p_slock
by p_profmtx and PROC_PROFLOCK().
- Resource usage accounting. Need for the spinlock there is subtle,
my understanding is that spinlock blocks context switching for the
current thread, which prevents td_runtime and similar fields from
changing (updates are done at the mi_switch()). Replace the p_slock
by p_statmtx and PROC_STATLOCK().
The split is done mostly for code clarity, and should not affect
scalability.
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
reaches 1. The p_numthreads counter is decremented in thread_exit() by
a call to thread_unlink(). This means that the exiting threads may
still execute on other CPUs when thread_single(SINGLE_EXIT) returns.
As result, vmspace could be destroyed while paging structures are
still used on other CPUs by exiting threads.
Delay the return from thread_single(SINGLE_EXIT) until all threads are
really destroyed by thread_stash() after the last switch out. The
p_exitthreads counter already provides the required mechanism, move
the wait from the thread_wait() (which is called from wait(2) code)
into thread_single().
Reported by: many (as "panic: pmap active <addr>")
Reviewed by: alc, jhb
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
instead of at the beginning. This allows an intra process signal
to be sent to the oldest thread with the signal unmasked - which,
if it still exists, is the main thread. This mimics behavior
found in Linux and Solaris.
This includes:
o All directories named *ia64*
o All files named *ia64*
o All ia64-specific code guarded by __ia64__
o All ia64-specific makefile logic
o Mention of ia64 in comments and documentation
This excludes:
o Everything under contrib/
o Everything under crypto/
o sys/xen/interface
o sys/sys/elf_common.h
Discussed at: BSDcan
In its stead use the Solaris / illumos approach of emulating '-' (dash)
in probe names with '__' (two consecutive underscores).
Reviewed by: markj
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
SIGSTOP if stop signals are currently deferred. This can occur if a
process is stopped via SIGSTOP while a thread is running or runnable
but before it has set TDF_SBDRY.
Tested by: pho
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
slot. This eventually results in exhaustion of the tid space, causing
new threads get tid -1 as identifier.
The bad effect of having the thread id equal to -1 is that
UMTX_OP_UMUTEX_WAIT returns EFAULT for a lock owned by such thread,
because casuword cannot distinguish between literal value -1 read from
the address and -1 returned as an indication of faulted
access. _thr_umutex_lock() helper from libthr does not check for
errors from _umtx_op_err(2), causing an infinite loop in
mutex_lock_sleep().
We observed the JVM processes hanging and consuming enormous amount of
system time on machines with approximately 100 days uptime.
Reported by: Mykola Dzham <freebsd levsha org ua>
MFC after: 1 week
trap checks (eg. printtrap()).
Generally this check is not needed anymore, as there is not a legitimate
case where curthread != NULL, after pcpu 0 area has been properly
initialized.
Reviewed by: bde, jhb
MFC after: 1 week
the i/o regions of the vnode data space. The implementation is quite
simple-minded, it uses the list of the lock requests, ordered by
arrival time. Each request may be for read or for write. The
implementation is fair FIFO.
MFC after: 2 month
compatible with the sched provider implemented by Solaris and its open-
source derivatives. Full documentation of the sched provider can be found
on Oracle's DTrace wiki pages.
Note that for compatibility with scripts originally written for Solaris,
serveral probes are defined that will never fire. These probes are defined
to fire when Solaris-specific features perform certain actions. As these
features are not present in FreeBSD, the probes can never fire.
Also, I have added a two probes that are not defined in Solaris, lend-pri
and load-change. These probes have been added to make it possible to
collect schedgraph data with DTrace.
Finally, a few probes are defined in Solaris to take a cpuinfo_t *
argument. As it was not immediately clear to me how to translate that to
FreeBSD, currently those probes are passed NULL in place of a cpuinfo_t *.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Only initialize the per-cpu switchticks and switchtime in sched_throw()
for the very first context switch on APs during boot. This avoids a
small gap between the middle of thread_exit() and sched_throw() where
time is not accounted to any thread.
- In thread_exit(), update the timestamp bookkeeping to track the changes
to mi_switch() introduced by td_rux so that the code once again matches
the comment claiming it is mimicing mi_switch(). Specifically, only
update the per-thread stats directly and depend on ruxagg() to update
p_rux rather than adjusting p_rux directly. While here, move the
timestamp bookkeeping as late in the function as possible.
Reviewed by: bde, kib
MFC after: 1 week
p->p_boundary_count. Race could cause the execve(2) from the threaded
process to hung since thread boundary counter was incorrect and
single-threading never finished.
Reported by: pluknet, pho
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 week
- Hold the proc lock while changing the state from PRS_NEW to PRS_NORMAL
in fork to honor the locking requirements. While here, expand the scope
of the PROC_LOCK() on the new process (p2) to avoid some LORs. Previously
the code was locking the new child process (p2) after it had locked the
parent process (p1). However, when locking two processes, the safe order
is to lock the child first, then the parent.
- Fix various places that were checking p_state against PRS_NEW without
having the process locked to use PROC_LOCK(). Every place was already
locking the process, just after the PRS_NEW check.
- Remove or reduce the use of PROC_SLOCK() for places that were checking
p_state against PRS_NEW. The PROC_LOCK() alone is sufficient for reading
the current state.
- Reorder fill_kinfo_proc() slightly so it only acquires PROC_SLOCK() once.
MFC after: 1 week
file where they are used. Declare the kern.threads sysctl node at the
same location. Since no external use for the variables exists, make them
static.
Discussed with: dchagin
MFC after: 1 week
It is possible a lower priority thread lending priority to higher priority
thread, in old code, it is ignored, however the lending should always be
recorded, add field td_lend_user_pri to fix the problem, if a thread does
not have borrowed priority, its value is PRI_MAX.
MFC after: 1 week
- In thr_exit() and kthread_exit(), only remove thread from
hash if it can directly exit, otherwise let exit1() do it.
- In thread_suspend_check(), fix cleanup code when thread needs
to exit.
This change seems fixed the "Bad link elm " panic found by
Peter Holm.
Stress testing: pho
rwlock to protect the table. In old code, thread lookup is done with
process lock held, to find a thread, kernel has to iterate through
process and thread list, this is quite inefficient.
With this change, test shows in extreme case performance is
dramatically improved.
Earlier patch was reviewed by: jhb, julian
on exit, that is done once in thread_exit() and the second time in
proc_reap(), by clearing td_incruntime.
Use the opportunity to revert to the pre-RUSAGE_THREAD exporting of ruxagg()
instead of ruxagg_locked() and use it from thread_exit().
Diagnosed and tested by: neel
MFC after: 3 days
information for thread to allow calcru1() (re)use.
Rename ruxagg()->ruxagg_locked(), ruxagg_tlock()->ruxagg() [1].
The ruxagg_locked() function no longer clears thread ticks nor
td_incruntime.
Requested by: attilio [1]
Discussed with: attilio, bde
Reviewed by: bde
Based on submission by: Alexander Krizhanovsky <ak natsys-lab com>
MFC after: 1 week
X-MFC-Note: td_rux shall be moved to the end of struct thread
Remove the altkstacks, instead instantiate threads with kernel stack
allocated with the right size from the start. For the thread that has
kernel stack cached, verify that requested stack size is equial to the
actual, and reallocate the stack if sizes differ [1].
This fixes the bug introduced by r173361 that was committed several days
after r173004 and consisted of kthread_add(9) ignoring the non-default
kernel stack size.
Also, r173361 removed the caching of the kernel stacks for a non-first
thread in the process. Introduce separate kernel stack cache that keeps
some limited amount of preallocated kernel stacks to lower the latency
of thread allocation. Add vm_lowmem handler to prune the cache on
low memory condition. This way, system with reasonable amount of the
threads get lower latency of thread creation, while still not exhausting
significant portion of KVA for unused kstacks.
Submitted by: peter [1]
Discussed with: jhb, julian, peter
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: pho (and retested according to new test scenarious)
MFC after: 1 week
allocated with the right size from the start. For the thread that has
kernel stack cached, verify that requested stack size is equial to the
actual, and reallocate the stack if sizes differ [1].
This fixes the bug introduced by r173361 that was committed several days
after r173004 and consisted of kthread_add(9) ignoring the non-default
kernel stack size.
Also, r173361 removed the caching of the kernel stacks for a non-first
thread in the process. Introduce separate kernel stack cache that keeps
some limited amount of preallocated kernel stacks to lower the latency
of thread allocation. Add vm_lowmem handler to prune the cache on
low memory condition. This way, system with reasonable amount of the
threads get lower latency of thread creation, while still not exhausting
significant portion of KVA for unused kstacks.
Submitted by: peter [1]
Discussed with: jhb, julian, peter
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 week
PCATCH, to indicate that thread shall not be stopped upon receipt of
SIGSTOP until it reaches the kernel->usermode boundary.
Also change thread_single(SINGLE_NO_EXIT) to only stop threads at
the user boundary unconditionally.
Tested by: pho
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: re (kensmith)
process that still need to be suspended or exited from thread_single
into the new function calc_remaining().
Tested by: pho
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: re (kensmith)
guarantee that all cpus have acknowledged the cleared enable int by
scheduling the resetting thread on each cpu in succession. Since all
lock profiling happens within a critical section this guarantees that
all cpus have left lock profiling before we clear the datastructures.
- Assert that the per-thread queue of locks lock profiling is aware of
is clear on thread exit. There were several cases where this was not
true that slows lock profiling and leaks information.
- Remove all objects from all lists before clearing any per-cpu
information in reset. Lock profiling objects can migrate between
per-cpu caches and previously these migrated objects could be zero'd
before they'd been removed
Discussed with: attilio
Sponsored by: Nokia
This bring huge amount of changes, I'll enumerate only user-visible changes:
- Delegated Administration
Allows regular users to perform ZFS operations, like file system
creation, snapshot creation, etc.
- L2ARC
Level 2 cache for ZFS - allows to use additional disks for cache.
Huge performance improvements mostly for random read of mostly
static content.
- slog
Allow to use additional disks for ZFS Intent Log to speed up
operations like fsync(2).
- vfs.zfs.super_owner
Allows regular users to perform privileged operations on files stored
on ZFS file systems owned by him. Very careful with this one.
- chflags(2)
Not all the flags are supported. This still needs work.
- ZFSBoot
Support to boot off of ZFS pool. Not finished, AFAIK.
Submitted by: dfr
- Snapshot properties
- New failure modes
Before if write requested failed, system paniced. Now one
can select from one of three failure modes:
- panic - panic on write error
- wait - wait for disk to reappear
- continue - serve read requests if possible, block write requests
- Refquota, refreservation properties
Just quota and reservation properties, but don't count space consumed
by children file systems, clones and snapshots.
- Sparse volumes
ZVOLs that don't reserve space in the pool.
- External attributes
Compatible with extattr(2).
- NFSv4-ACLs
Not sure about the status, might not be complete yet.
Submitted by: trasz
- Creation-time properties
- Regression tests for zpool(8) command.
Obtained from: OpenSolaris
unnecessary, the normal process lock and thread lock are enough. The
spin lock is still needed for process and thread exiting to mimic
single sched_lock.
this eliminates some problems of locking, e.g, a thread lock is needed
but can not be used at that time. Only the process lock is needed now
for new field.
thread_unsuspend_one() needs to optionally wakeup the swapper. Since we
hold the thread lock for that entire function, however, we have to push
that requirement up into the caller.
Found by: rwatson
- Speedup the lock orderings lookup modifying the witness graph from a
linked tree to a matrix. A table lookup caches the lock orderings in
order to make a O(1) access for them. Any witness object has an unique
index withing this lookup cache table.
- Reduce the lock contention on w_mtx acquiring it only when the LOR
actually happens and not in a sane case. In order to do this don't totally
flush lock lists (per-CPU spinlocks list and per-thread sleeplocks list)
but check for ll_count anytime we need to have to verify allocations sanity.
- Introduce the function witness_thread_exit() in the witness namespace which
should verify a thread doesn't hold any witness occurrence why exiting.
- Rename the sysctl debug.witness.graphs into debug.witness.fullgraph and
add debug.witness.badstacks which prints out stacks for LOR revealed.
This is implemented using the stack(9) support, which makes WITNESS to be
dependent by the STACK option or by the DDB (including STACK) option.
- Fix style(9) for src/sys/kern/subr_witness.c
The hash table approach has been developed by Ilya Maykov on the behalf of
Isilon Systems which kindly released the patch.
Jeff Roberson, ported the patch to -CURRENT and fixed w_mtx contention, on the
behalf of Nokia.
Submitted by: Ilya Maykov <ivmaykov at gmail dot com> (Isilon Systems), jeff
Sponsored by: Nokia
routine wakes up proc0 so that proc0 can swap the thread back in.
Historically, this has been done by waking up proc0 directly from
setrunnable() itself via a wakeup(). When waking up a sleeping thread
that was swapped out (the usual case when waking proc0 since only sleeping
threads are eligible to be swapped out), this resulted in a bit of
recursion (e.g. wakeup() -> setrunnable() -> wakeup()).
With sleep queues having separate locks in 6.x and later, this caused a
spin lock LOR (sleepq lock -> sched_lock/thread lock -> sleepq lock).
An attempt was made to fix this in 7.0 by making the proc0 wakeup use
the ithread mechanism for doing the wakeup. However, this required
grabbing proc0's thread lock to perform the wakeup. If proc0 was asleep
elsewhere in the kernel (e.g. waiting for disk I/O), then this degenerated
into the same LOR since the thread lock would be some other sleepq lock.
Fix this by deferring the wakeup of the swapper until after the sleepq
lock held by the upper layer has been locked. The setrunnable() routine
now returns a boolean value to indicate whether or not proc0 needs to be
woken up. The end result is that consumers of the sleepq API such as
*sleep/wakeup, condition variables, sx locks, and lockmgr, have to wakeup
proc0 if they get a non-zero return value from sleepq_abort(),
sleepq_broadcast(), or sleepq_signal().
Discussed with: jeff
Glanced at by: sam
Tested by: Jurgen Weber jurgen - ish com au
MFC after: 2 weeks
variables and sysctl nodes.
- In reset walk the children of kern_sched_stats and reset the counters
via the oid_arg1 pointer. This allows us to add arbitrary counters to
the tree and still reset them properly.
- Define a set of switch types to be passed with flags to mi_switch().
These types are named SWT_*. These types correspond to SCHED_STATS
counters and are automatically handled in this way.
- Make the new SWT_ types more specific than the older switch stats.
There are now stats for idle switches, remote idle wakeups, remote
preemption ithreads idling, etc.
- Add switch statistics for ULE's pickcpu algorithm. These stats include
how much migration there is, how often affinity was successful, how
often threads were migrated to the local cpu on wakeup, etc.
Sponsored by: Nokia
to enter thread_suspend_check().
- Set TDF_ASTPENDING along with TDF_NEEDSUSPCHK so we can move the
thread_suspend_check() to ast() rather than userret().
- Check TDF_NEEDSUSPCHK in the sleepq_catch_signals() optimization so
that we don't miss a suspend request. If this is set use the
expensive signal path.
- Set NEEDSUSPCHK when creating a new thread in thr in case the
creating thread is due to be suspended as well but has not yet.
Reviewed by: davidxu (Authored original patch)
thread_fini(). The schedulers initialize themselves properly during
sched_fork_thread() anyhow. fini is only called when we're returning
the memory to the allocator which surely doesn't care what state the
memory is in.
requiring the per-process spinlock to only requiring the process lock.
- Reflect these changes in the proc.h documentation and consumers throughout
the kernel. This is a substantial reduction in locking cost for these
fields and was made possible by recent changes to threading support.
While the KSE project was quite successful in bringing threading to
FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the kse library was never developed
to its full potential. Backwards compatibility will be provided via
libmap.conf for dynamically linked binaries and static binaries will
be broken.
sched_sleep(). This removes extra thread_lock() acquisition and
allows the scheduler to decide what to do with the static boost.
- Change the priority arguments to cv_* to match sleepq/msleep/etc.
where 0 means no priority change. Catch -1 in cv_broadcastpri() and
convert it to 0 for now.
- Set a flag when sleeping in a way that is compatible with swapping
since direct priority comparisons are meaningless now.
- Add a sysctl to ule, kern.sched.static_boost, that defaults to on which
controls the boost behavior. Turning it off gives better performance
in some workloads but needs more investigation.
- While we're modifying sleepq, change signal and broadcast to both
return with the lock held as the lock was held on enter.
Reviewed by: jhb, peter
and assignment.
- Add a reference to a struct cpuset in each thread that is inherited from
the thread that created it.
- Release the reference when the thread is destroyed.
- Add prototypes for syscalls and macros for manipulating cpusets in
sys/cpuset.h
- Add syscalls to create, get, and set new numbered cpusets:
cpuset(), cpuset_{get,set}id()
- Add syscalls for getting and setting affinity masks for cpusets or
individual threads: cpuid_{get,set}affinity()
- Add types for the 'level' and 'which' parameters for the cpuset. This
will permit expansion of the api to cover cpu masks for other objects
identifiable with an id_t integer. For example, IRQs and Jails may be
coming soon.
- The root set 0 contains all valid cpus. All thread initially belong to
cpuset 1. This permits migrating all threads off of certain cpus to
reserve them for special applications.
Sponsored by: Nokia
Discussed with: arch, rwatson, brooks, davidxu, deischen
Reviewed by: antoine
details from consumers.
- Track individual selecters on a per-descriptor basis such that there
are no longer collisions and after sleeping for events only those
descriptors which triggered events must be rescaned.
- Protect the selinfo (per descriptor) structure with a mtx pool mutex.
mtx pool mutexes were chosen to preserve api compatibility with
existing code which does nothing but bzero() to setup selinfo
structures.
- Use a per-thread wait channel rather than a global wait channel.
- Hide select implementation details in a seltd structure which is
opaque to the rest of the kernel.
- Provide a 'selsocket' interface for those kernel consumers who wish to
select on a socket when they have no fd so they no longer have to
be aware of select implementation details.
Tested by: kris
Reviewed on: arch
the ABI when enabled. There is no longer an embedded lock_profile_object
in each lock. Instead a list of lock_profile_objects is kept per-thread
for each lock it may own. The cnt_hold statistic is now always 0 to
facilitate this.
- Support shared locking by tracking individual lock instances and
statistics in the per-thread per-instance lock_profile_object.
- Make the lock profiling hash table a per-cpu singly linked list with a
per-cpu static lock_prof allocator. This removes the need for an array
of spinlocks and reduces cache contention between cores.
- Use a seperate hash for spinlocks and other locks so that only a
critical_enter() is required and not a spinlock_enter() to modify the
per-cpu tables.
- Count time spent spinning in the lock statistics.
- Remove the LOCK_PROFILE_SHARED option as it is always supported now.
- Specifically drop and release the scheduler locks in both schedulers
since we track owners now.
In collaboration with: Kip Macy
Sponsored by: Nokia
process_fini, thread_ctor, thread_dtor, thread_init, thread_fini. This
will allow us to extend dynamically areas in proc/thread for dtrace ;-)
Reviewed by: rwatson
communicate that it relates to (is called by) thread_alloc()
o Add cpu_thread_free() which is called from thread_free()
to counter-act cpu_thread_alloc().
i386: Have cpu_thread_free() call cpu_thread_clean() to
preserve behaviour.
ia64: Have cpu_thread_free() call mtx_destroy() for the
mutex initialized in cpu_thread_alloc().
PR: ia64/118024
silent NULL pointer dereference in the i386 and sparc64 pmap_pinit()
when the kmem_alloc_nofault() failed to allocate address space. Both
functions now return error instead of panicing or dereferencing NULL.
As consequence, vmspace_exec() and vmspace_unshare() returns the errno
int. struct vmspace arg was added to vm_forkproc() to avoid dealing
with failed allocation when most of the fork1() job is already done.
The kernel stack for the thread is now set up in the thread_alloc(),
that itself may return NULL. Also, allocation of the first process
thread is performed in the fork1() to properly deal with stack
allocation failure. proc_linkup() is separated into proc_linkup()
called from fork1(), and proc_linkup0(), that is used to set up the
kernel process (was known as swapper).
In collaboration with: Peter Holm
Reviewed by: jhb
kthread_add() takes the same parameters as the old kthread_create()
plus a pointer to a process structure, and adds a kernel thread
to that process.
kproc_kthread_add() takes the parameters for kthread_add,
plus a process name and a pointer to a pointer to a process instead of just
a pointer, and if the proc * is NULL, it creates the process to the
specifications required, before adding the thread to it.
All other old kthread_xxx() calls return, but act on (struct thread *)
instead of (struct proc *). One reason to change the name is so that
any old kernel modules that are lying around and expect kthread_create()
to make a process will not just accidentally link.
fix top to show kernel threads by their thread name in -SH mode
add a tdnam formatting option to ps to show thread names.
make all idle threads actual kthreads and put them into their own idled process.
make all interrupt threads kthreads and put them in an interd process
(mainly for aesthetic and accounting reasons)
rename proc 0 to be 'kernel' and it's swapper thread is now 'swapper'
man page fixes to follow.
In particular:
- smp_tlb_mtx is no longer used, so it is axed.
- smp rendezvous lock isn't really a leaf spin-mutex. Its bad placement in
the table, however, has been the source of a false positive LOR reporting
with the dt_lock. However, smp rendezvous lock would have had sched_lock
there for older lock, so it wasn't still a leaf lock.
- allpmaps is only used in ia32 architecture, so it is inserted in the
appropriate stub.
Addictionally:
- kse_zombie_lock is no longer present, so its definition is axed out.
- zombie_lock doesn't need to have an exported symbol, so just let's it be
declared as static.
Tested by: kris
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
Approved by: re
- p_sflag was mostly protected by PROC_LOCK rather than the PROC_SLOCK or
previously the sched_lock. These bugs have existed for some time.
- Allow swapout to try each thread in a process individually and then
swapin the whole process if any of these fail. This allows us to move
most scheduler related swap flags into td_flags.
- Keep ki_sflag for backwards compat but change all in source tools to
use the new and more correct location of P_INMEM.
Reported by: pho
Reviewed by: attilio, kib
Approved by: re (kensmith)
should call uma_zfree() with various spinlock helds. Rearranging the
code would not help here because we cannot break atomicity respect
prcess spinlock, so the only one choice we have is to defer the operation.
In order to do this use a global queue synchronized through the kse_lock
spinlock which is freed at any thread_alloc() / thread_wait() through a
call to thread_reap().
Note that this approach is not ideal as we should want a per-process
list of zombie upcalls, but it follows initial guidelines of KSE authors.
Tested by: jkim, pav
Approved by: jeff, julian
Approved by: re
dangerous races.
Fix this problems adding correct locking for the members of 'struct
kse_upcall' and other struct proc/struct thread related members.
For the moment, just leave ku_mflag and ku_flags "lazy" locked.
While here, cleanup the code removing the function kse_GC() (unused),
and merging upcall_link(), upcall_unlink(), upcall_stash() in their
respective callers (static functions, very short and only called in one
place).
Reported by: pav
Tested by: pav (on some pointyhat cluster nodes)
Approved by: jeff
Approved by: re
Sponsorized by: NGX Italy (http://www.ngx.it)
- Remove unused kse fields from struct proc.
- Group remaining fields and #ifdef KSE them.
- Move some kern_kse.c only prototypes out of proc and into kern_kse.
Discussed with: Julian
- Add a count of exiting threads, p_exitthreads, to struct proc.
- Increment p_exithreads when we set the deadthread in thread_exit().
- When we thread_stash() a deadthread use an atomic to drop the count.
- Spin until the p_exithreads count reaches 0 in thread_wait().
- Lock the last exiting thread momentarily to be certain that it has
exited cpu_throw().
- Restructure thread_wait(). It does not need a loop as there will only
ever be one thread.
Tested by: moose@opera.com
Reported by: kris, moose@opera.com
- Unsafeness on ruadd() in thread_exit()
- Unatomicity of thread_exiit() in the exit1() operations
This patch addresses these problems allocating p_fd as part of the
process and modifying the way it is accessed.
A small chunk of this patch, resolves a race about p_state in kern_wait(),
since we have to be sure about the zombif-ing process.
Submitted by: jeff
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
- Use thread_lock() rather than sched_lock for per-thread scheduling
sychronization.
- Use the per-process spinlock rather than the sched_lock for per-process
scheduling synchronization.
- Move some common code into thread_suspend_switch() to handle the
mechanics of suspending a thread. The locking here is incredibly
convoluted and should be simplified.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
Now, we assume no more sched_lock protection for some of them and use the
distribuited loads method for vmmeter (distribuited through CPUs).
Reviewed by: alc, bde
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
td_ru. This removes the requirement for per-process synchronization in
statclock() and mi_switch(). This was previously supported by
sched_lock which is going away. All modifications to rusage are now
done in the context of the owning thread. reads proceed without locks.
- Aggregate exiting threads rusage in thread_exit() such that the exiting
thread's rusage is not lost.
- Provide a new routine, rufetch() to fetch an aggregate of all rusage
structures from all threads in a process. This routine must be used
in any place requiring a rusage from a process prior to it's exit. The
exited process's rusage is still available via p_ru.
- Aggregate tick statistics only on demand via rufetch() or when a thread
exits. Tick statistics are kept in the thread and protected by sched_lock
until it exits.
Initial patch by: attilio
Reviewed by: attilio, bde (some objections), arch (mostly silent)
Probabilly, a general approach is not the better solution here, so we should
solve the sched_lock protection problems separately.
Requested by: alc
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
vmcnts. This can be used to abstract away pcpu details but also changes
to use atomics for all counters now. This means sched lock is no longer
responsible for protecting counts in the switch routines.
Contributed by: Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>
always 0. Previously we aligned threads on a minimum of 8-byte boundaries.
Note: This changes the uma zone to no longer cache align threads. We
really want the uma zone to do align threads to MAX(16, cache line size)
but there currently isn't a good way to express that to uma.
Submitted by: attilio
GETATTRs being generated - one from lookup()/namei() and the other
from nfs_open() (for cto consistency). This change eliminates the
GETATTR in nfs_open() if an otw GETATTR was done from the namei()
path. Instead of extending the vop interface, we timestamp each attr
load, and use this to detect whether a GETATTR was done from namei()
for this syscall. Introduces a thread-local variable that counts the
syscalls made by the thread and uses <pid, tid, thread syscalls> as
the attrload timestamp. Thanks to jhb@ and peter@ for a discussion on
thread state that could be used as the timestamp with minimal overhead.
Make part of John Birrell's KSE patch permanent..
Specifically, remove:
Any reference of the ksegrp structure. This feature was
never fully utilised and made things overly complicated.
All code in the scheduler that tried to make threaded programs
fair to unthreaded programs. Libpthread processes will already
do this to some extent and libthr processes already disable it.
Also:
Since this makes such a big change to the scheduler(s), take the opportunity
to rename some structures and elements that had to be moved anyhow.
This makes the code a lot more readable.
The ULE scheduler compiles again but I have no idea if it works.
The 4bsd scheduler still reqires a little cleaning and some functions that now do
ALMOST nothing will go away, but I thought I'd do that as a separate commit.
Tested by David Xu, and Dan Eischen using libthr and libpthread.
mutex structure is added as following:
struct umutex {
__lwpid_t m_owner;
uint32_t m_flags;
uint32_t m_ceilings[2];
uint32_t m_spare[4];
};
The m_owner represents owner thread, it is a thread id, in non-contested
case, userland can simply use atomic_cmpset_int to lock the mutex, if the
mutex is contested, high order bit will be set, and userland should do locking
and unlocking via kernel syscall. Flag UMUTEX_PRIO_INHERIT represents
pthread's PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex, which when contention happens, kernel
should do priority propagating. Flag UMUTEX_PRIO_PROTECT indicates it is
pthread's PTHREAD_PRIO_PROTECT mutex, userland should initialize m_owner
to contested state UMUTEX_CONTESTED, then atomic_cmpset_int will be failure
and kernel syscall should be invoked to do locking, this becauses
for such a mutex, kernel should always boost the thread's priority before
it can lock the mutex, m_ceilings is used by PTHREAD_PRIO_PROTECT mutex,
the first element is used to boost thread's priority when it locked the mutex,
second element is used when the mutex is unlocked, the PTHREAD_PRIO_PROTECT
mutex's link list is kept in userland, the m_ceiling[1] is managed by thread
library so kernel needn't allocate memory to keep the link list, when such
a mutex is unlocked, kernel reset m_owner to UMUTEX_CONTESTED.
Flag USYNC_PROCESS_SHARED indicate if the synchronization object is process
shared, if the flag is not set, it saves a vm_map_lookup() call.
The umtx chain is still used as a sleep queue, when a thread is blocked on
PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex, a umtx_pi is allocated to support priority
propagating, it is dynamically allocated and reference count is used,
it is not optimized but works well in my tests, while the umtx chain has
its own locking protocol, the priority propagating protocol are all protected
by sched_lock because priority propagating function is called with sched_lock
held from scheduler.
No visible performance degradation is found which these changes. Some parameter
names in _umtx_op syscall are renamed.
suspension code. When a thread A is going to sleep, it calls
sleepq_catch_signals() to detect any pending signals or thread
suspension request, if nothing happens, it returns without
holding process lock or scheduler lock, this opens a race
window which allows thread B to come in and do process
suspension work, however since A is still at running state,
thread B can do nothing to A, thread A continues, and puts
itself into actually sleeping state, but B has never seen it,
and it sits there forever until B is woken up by other threads
sometimes later(this can be very long delay or never
happen). Fix this bug by forcing sleepq_catch_signals to
return with scheduler lock held.
Fix sleepq_abort() by passing it an interrupted code, previously,
it worked as wakeup_one(), and the interruption can not be
identified correctly by sleep queue code when the sleeping
thread is resumed.
Let thread_suspend_check() returns EINTR or ERESTART, so sleep
queue no longer has to use SIGSTOP as a hack to build a return
value.
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 1 week
remote CPU. While here, abstract thread suspension code into a function
called sig_suspend_threads, the function is called when a process received
a STOP signal.
audit thread exit, but should that happen, this will prevent
unhappiness, as the thread exit system call will never return, and
hence not commit the record.
Pointed out by/with: cognet
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
This should not happen, but with this assert, brueffer and I would
not have spent 45 minutes trying to figure out why he wasn't
seeing audit records with the audit version in CVS.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
- td_ar to struct thread, which holds the in-progress audit record during
a system call.
- p_au to struct proc, which holds per-process audit state, such as the
audit identifier, audit terminal, and process audit masks.
In the earlier implementation, td_ar was added to the zero'd section of
struct thread. In order to facilitate merging to RELENG_6, it has been
moved to the end of the data structure, requiring explicit
initalization in the thread constructor.
Much help from: wsalamon
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
