the thread kernel into a garbage collector thread which is started when
the fisrt thread is created (other than the initial thread). This
removes the window of opportunity where a context switch will cause a
thread that has locked the malloc spinlock, to enter the thread kernel,
find there is a dead thread and try to free memory, therefore trying
to lock the malloc spinlock against itself.
The garbage collector thread acts just like any other thread, so
instead of having a spinlock to control accesses to the dead thread
list, it uses a mutex and a condition variable so that it can happily
wait to be signalled when a thread exists.
launching an application into space when someone tries to debug it.
The dead thread list now has it's own link pointer, so use that when
reporting the grateful dead.
- Add support of a thread being listed in the dead thread list as well
as the thread list.
- Add a new thread state to make sigwait work properly. (Submitted by
Daniel M. Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>)
- Add global variable for the garbage collector mutex and condition
variable.
- Delete a couple of prototypes that are no longer required.
- Add a prototype for the garbage collector thread.
realloc functions check for recursion within the malloc code itself. In
a thread-safe library, the single spinlock ensures that no two threads
go inside the protected code at the same time. The thread implementation
is responsible for ensuring that the spinlock does in fact protect malloc.
There was a window of opportunity in which this was not the case. I'll fix
that with a commit RSN.
happen when an NFS exported filesystem tries to remove a locally
mounted on directory.
PR: kern/7272
Submitted by: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
for some of the fsinfo RPC fields. It is strictly speaking not
wrong to do this, as the spec says that "it is expected that a
server will make a best effort at supporting all the attributes",
but pretty unusual. You guessed it, it's NT servers that do it.'
Obtained from: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
is being deleted due to an forcible unmount. The problem is
that vgone calls vclean() which then calls calls nfs_inactive()
with VXLOCK set on the vnode. Nfs_inactive() was calling vget()
to get a reference on the vnode, which in turn hung on VXLOCK.
Nfs_inactive() now checks v_usecount to make sure that the vnode
is not coming from vclean() before it does a vget().
is less than NFS_MINPACKET or greater than NFS_MAXPACKET in size, it
barfs and, I think, drops the connection.
However, there's no guarantee that in a multi-fragment RPC, all the
fragments will be at least as large as NFS_MINPACKET.
In fact, with the version of "tclnfs" we have here, which supports NFS
over TCP, at least when built under SunOS 4.1.3 (i.e., with 4.1.3's
user-mode ONC RPC library), I can *repeatably* cause "tclnfs" to send a
request with more than one fragment, one of which is only 8 bytes long.
I just do a 3877-byte write to a file, at an offset of 0.
The check that "slp->ns_reclen" is greater than or equal to
NFS_MINPACKET serves no useful purpose - if the NFS server code can't
handle packets < NFS_MINPACKET bytes, it can't handle them over *any*
protocol, so the check has to be done above the RPC-over-TCP layer - and
should be removed.
Obtained from: Fix from Guy Harris, forwarded by Rick Macklem.
various ports don't complain about it. It also requires that the pkg
registration bits be stick into the Xbin tarball so that they'll be
present in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/pkgreg.tar.gz. The registration tarball
is removed upon first use to prevent it later spamming a genuine build
from ports if inadvertently extracted again.
Presumably VTOP doesn't work for static objects.
The easiest way to get it working was to reserve some space after the
environment strings and copy the bootinfo struct there.
Also, set RB_BOOTINFO, it's needed.
I got the code to load and run an unmolested kernel OK for the first time
with this system a few minutes ago - at last!. I did have to stop it
looking at the floppy though as BTX was trapping a mode 14 fault when
it look for /boot/boot.conf when no disk was in the drive. (I'm booting
from a scsi disk (bios disk 0x80)).
Now to teach it about ELF and modules :-)
