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Author SHA1 Message Date
Daniel Eischen
f434cd45ed Remove (int) file descriptor locking. It should be up to the
application to provide locking for I/O operations.  This doesn't
break any of my tests, but the old behavior can be restored by
compiling with _FDLOCKS_ENABLED.  This will eventually be removed
when it is obvious it does not cause any problems.

Remove most of flockfile implementation, with the exception of
flockfile_debug.

Make error messages more informational (submitted by Mike Heffner
<spock@techfour.net>, who's now known as mikeh@FreeBSD.org).
2001-02-11 22:07:32 +00:00
Daniel Eischen
e5106342c6 Add weak definitions for wrapped system calls. In general:
_foo - wrapped system call
	foo - weak definition to _foo

and for cancellation points:

	_foo - wrapped system call
	__foo - enter cancellation point, call _foo(), leave
	        cancellation point
	foo - weak definition to __foo

Change use of global _thread_run to call a function to get the
currently running thread.

Make all pthread_foo functions weak definitions to _pthread_foo,
where _pthread_foo is the implementation.  This allows an application
to provide its own pthread functions.

Provide slightly different versions of pthread_mutex_lock and
pthread_mutex_init so that we can tell the difference between
a libc mutex and an application mutex.  Threads holding mutexes
internal to libc should never be allowed to exit, call signal
handlers, or cancel.

Approved by:	-arch
2001-01-24 13:03:38 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
f42abb1fef Use macro API to <sys/queue.h>
Submitted by:	"Peter Avalos" <pavalos@theshell.com>
Reviewed by:	/sbin/md5 [*]

[*] This line appears courtesy of Mr. Warner Losch, all rights reversed.
2000-12-31 10:28:01 +00:00
Daniel Eischen
fbeb36e4bf Implement zero system call thread switching. Performance of
thread switches should be on par with that under scheduler
activations.

  o Timing is achieved through the use of a fixed interval
    timer (ITIMER_PROF) to count scheduling ticks instead
    of retrieving the time-of-day upon every thread switch
    and calculating elapsed real time.

  o Polling for I/O readiness is performed once for each
    scheduling tick instead of every thread switch.

  o The non-signal saving/restoring versions of setjmp/longjmp
    are used to save and restore thread contexts.  This may
    allow the removal of _THREAD_SAFE macros from setjmp()
    and longjmp() - needs more investigation.

Change signal handling so that signals are handled in the
context of the thread that is receiving the signal.  When
signals are dispatched to a thread, a special signal handling
frame is created on top of the target threads stack.  The
frame contains the threads saved state information and a new
context in which the thread can run.  The applications signal
handler is invoked through a wrapper routine that knows how
to restore the threads saved state and unwind to previous
frames.

Fix interruption of threads due to signals.  Some states
were being improperly interrupted while other states were
not being interrupted.  This should fix several PRs.

Signal handlers, which are invoked as a result of a process
signal (not by pthread_kill()), are now called with the
code (or siginfo_t if SA_SIGINFO was set in sa_flags) and
sigcontext_t as received from the process signal handler.

Modify the search for a thread to which a signal is delivered.
The search algorithm is now:

  o First thread found in sigwait() with signal in wait mask.
  o First thread found sigsuspend()'d on the signal.
  o Current thread if signal is unmasked.
  o First thread found with signal unmasked.

Collapse machine dependent support into macros defined in
pthread_private.h.  These should probably eventually be moved
into separate MD files.

Change the range of settable priorities to be compliant with
POSIX (0-31).  The threads library uses higher priorities
internally for real-time threads (not yet implemented) and
threads executing signal handlers.  Real-time threads and
threads running signal handlers add 64 and 32, respectively,
to a threads base priority.

Some other small changes and cleanups.

PR:		17757 18559 21943
Reviewed by:	jasone
2000-10-13 22:12:32 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
e39756439c Back out the previous change to the queue(3) interface.
It was not discussed and should probably not happen.

Requested by:		msmith and others
2000-05-26 02:09:24 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
740a1973a6 Change the way that the queue(3) structures are declared; don't assume that
the type argument to *_HEAD and *_ENTRY is a struct.

Suggested by:	phk
Reviewed by:	phk
Approved by:	mdodd
2000-05-23 20:41:01 +00:00
Jason Evans
0a3fa43c7e Implement continuations to correctly handle [sig|_]longjmp() inside of a
signal handler.  Explicitly check for jumps to anywhere other than the
current stack, since such jumps are undefined according to POSIX.

While we're at it, convert thread cancellation to use continuations, since
it's cleaner than the original cancellation code.

Avoid delivering a signal to a thread twice.  This was a pre-existing bug,
but was likely unexposed until these other changes were made.

Defer signals generated by pthread_kill() so that they can be delivered on
the appropriate stack.  deischen claims that this is unnecessary, which is
likely true, but without this change, pthread_kill() can cause undefined
priority queue states and/or PANICs in [sig|_]longjmp(), so I'm leaving
this in for now.  To compile this code out and exercise the bug, define
the _NO_UNDISPATCH cpp macro.  Defining _PTHREADS_INVARIANTS as well will
cause earlier crashes.

PR:			kern/14685
Collaboration with:	deischen
2000-01-19 07:04:50 +00:00
Daniel Eischen
fc8f3f5bfe Fix problems with cancellation while in critical regions.
o Cancellation flags were not getting properly set/cleared.
  o Loops waiting for internal locks were not being exited
    correctly by a cancelled thread.
  o Minor spelling (cancelation -> cancellation) and formatting
    corrections (missing tab).

Found by:	tg
Reviewed by:	jasone
1999-12-17 00:57:54 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
7285bccf1a add pthread_cancel, obtained from OpenBSD.
eischen (Daniel Eischen) added wrappers to protect against cancled
threads orphaning internal resources.

the cancelability code is still a bit fuzzy but works for test
programs of my own, OpenBSD's and some examples from ORA's books.

add readdir_r to both libc and libc_r

add some 'const' attributes to function parameters

Reviewed by: eischen, jasone
1999-11-28 05:38:13 +00:00
Peter Wemm
7f3dea244c $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 00:22:10 +00:00
Daniel Eischen
fa7c4d5575 Add RCS IDs to those files without them.
Fix copyrights (s/REGENTS/AUTHOR).

Suggested by:	tg
Approved by:	jb
1999-08-05 12:15:30 +00:00
John Birrell
02292f131a In the words of the author:
o The polling mechanism for I/O readiness was changed from
    select() to poll().  In additon, a wrapped version of poll()
    is now provided.

  o The wrapped select routine now converts each fd_set to a
    poll array so that the thread scheduler doesn't have to
    perform a bitwise search for selected fds each time file
    descriptors are polled for I/O readiness.

  o The thread scheduler was modified to use a new queue (_workq)
    for threads that need work.  Threads waiting for I/O readiness
    and spinblocks are added to the work queue in addition to the
    waiting queue.  This reduces the time spent forming/searching
    the array of file descriptors being polled.

  o The waiting queue (_waitingq) is now maintained in order of
    thread wakeup time.  This allows the thread scheduler to
    find the nearest wakeup time by looking at the first thread
    in the queue instead of searching the entire queue.

  o Removed file descriptor locking for select/poll routines.  An
    application should not rely on the threads library for providing
    this locking; if necessary, the application should use mutexes
    to protect selecting/polling of file descriptors.

  o Retrieve and use the kernel clock rate/resolution at startup
    instead of hardcoding the clock resolution to 10 msec (tested
    with kernel running at 1000 HZ).

  o All queues have been changed to use queue.h macros.  These
    include the queues of all threads, dead threads, and threads
    waiting for file descriptor locks.

  o Added reinitialization of the GC mutex and condition variable
    after a fork.  Also prevented reallocation of the ready queue
    after a fork.

  o Prevented the wrapped close routine from closing the thread
    kernel pipes.

  o Initialized file descriptor table for stdio entries at thread
    init.

  o Provided additional flags to indicate to what queues threads
    belong.

  o Moved TAILQ initialization for statically allocated mutex and
    condition variables to after the spinlock.

  o Added dispatching of signals to pthread_kill.  Removing the
    dispatching of signals from thread activation broke sigsuspend
    when pthread_kill was used to send a signal to a thread.

  o Temporarily set the state of a thread to PS_SUSPENDED when it
    is first created and placed in the list of threads so that it
    will not be accidentally scheduled before becoming a member
    of one of the scheduling queues.

  o Change the signal handler to queue signals to the thread kernel
    pipe if the scheduling queues are protected.  When scheduling
    queues are unprotected, signals are then dequeued and handled.

  o Ensured that all installed signal handlers block the scheduling
    signal and that the scheduling signal handler blocks all
    other signals.  This ensures that the signal handler is only
    interruptible for and by non-scheduling signals.  An atomic
    lock is used to decide which instance of the signal handler
    will handle pending signals.

  o Removed _lock_thread_list and _unlock_thread_list as they are
    no longer used to protect the thread list.

  o Added missing RCS IDs to modified files.

  o Added checks for appropriate queue membership and activity when
    adding, removing, and searching the scheduling queues.  These
    checks add very little overhead and are enabled when compiled
    with _PTHREADS_INVARIANTS defined.  Suggested and implemented
    by Tor Egge with some modification by me.

  o Close a race condition in uthread_close.  (Tor Egge)

  o Protect the scheduling queues while modifying them in
    pthread_cond_signal and _thread_fd_unlock.  (Tor Egge)

  o Ensure that when a thread gets a mutex, the mutex is on that
    threads list of owned mutexes.  (Tor Egge)

  o Set the kernel-in-scheduler flag in _thread_kern_sched_state
    and _thread_kern_sched_state_unlock to prevent a scheduling
    signal from calling the scheduler again.  (Tor Egge)

  o Don't use TAILQ_FOREACH macro while searching the waiting
    queue for threads in a sigwait state, because a change of
    state destroys the TAILQ link.  It is actually safe to do
    so, though, because once a sigwaiting thread is found, the
    loop ends and the function returns.  (Tor Egge)

  o When dispatching signals to threads, make the thread inherit
    the signal deferral flag of the currently running thread.
    (Tor Egge)

Submitted by: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> and
              Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@fast.no>
1999-06-20 08:28:48 +00:00
Dmitrij Tejblum
f0f066ec83 Fixed bug, caused threads to wait for locks which nobody hold.
Fixed sign extension bug, caused undefined behavior if FILE live in stack.
1998-09-09 16:50:33 +00:00
Alexander Langer
cecc7b0974 Removed unused variables. 1998-09-07 21:55:01 +00:00
John Birrell
ddc8afd422 Implement compile time debug support instead of tracking file name and
line number every time a file descriptor is locked.

This looks like a big change but it isn't. It should reduce the size
of libc_r and make it run slightly faster.
1998-06-09 23:21:05 +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
John Birrell
d60f0fa60d Change the FILE locking to be by FILE, not by the underlying fd as
it was. Add a FILE_WAIT state and queue threads waiting for a FILE
lock. Start using the sys/queue.h macros instead of the way that MIT
pthreads did it.

Add a thread name to the private thread structure and a non-POSIX
function to set this. This helps (me at least) when sending a SIGINFO
to a threaded process to get a /tmp/uthread.dump to see what the
<expletive deleted> threads are doing this time. It is nice to be
able to recognise (yes, I spell that with an 's' too) which threads
are which.
1998-04-11 07:47:22 +00:00
Julian Elischer
012dfd00b3 Reviewed by: julian
Submitted by:	 john birrel

One version of the pthreads library
another will follow with differnt actions under some cases..
not QUITE complete
1996-01-22 00:23:58 +00:00