The ability to schedule multiple threads per process
(one one cpu) by making ALL system calls optionally asynchronous.
to come: ia64 and power-pc patches, patches for gdb, test program (in tools)
Reviewed by: Almost everyone who counts
(at various times, peter, jhb, matt, alfred, mini, bernd,
and a cast of thousands)
NOTE: this is still Beta code, and contains lots of debugging stuff.
expect slight instability in signals..
(P_CONTINUED) is set when a stopped process receives a SIGCONT and
cleared after it has notified a parent process that has requested
notification via waitpid(2) with WCONTINUED specified in its options
operand. The status value can be checked with the new WIFCONTINUED()
macro.
Reviewed by: jake
pointer instead of a proc pointer and require the process pointed to
by the second argument to be locked. We now use the thread ucred reference
for the credential checks in p_can*() as a result. p_canfoo() should now
no longer need Giant.
inter-process signalling ceased to preserve and return that value,
instead always returning EPERM. This meant that it was possible
to "probe" the pid space for processes that were not otherwise
visible. This change reverts that reversion.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
.) don't use MAXPATHLEN + 1, fix logic to compensate.
.) style(9) function parameters.
.) fix line wrapping.
.) remove duplicated error and string handling code.
.) don't NUL terminate already NUL terminated string.
.) all string length variables changed from int to size_t.
.) constify variables.
.) catch when corename would be truncated.
.) cast pid_t and uid_t args for format string.
.) add parens around return arguments.
Help and suggestions from: bde
killed by SIGSYS for unimlemented syscalls is bad enough.
Obtained from: Lite2 branch
The Lite2 branch has some other interesting unmerged (?) bits in this
file. They are well hidden among cosmetic regressions.
locks the process.
- Defer other blocking operations such as vrele()'s until after we
release locks.
- execsigs() now requires the proc lock to be held when it is called
rather than locking the process internally.
Turn the sigio sx into a mutex.
Sigio lock is really only needed to protect interrupts from dereferencing
the sigio pointer in an object when the sigio itself is being destroyed.
In order to do this in the most unintrusive manner change pgsigio's
sigio * argument into a **, that way we can lock internally to the
function.
SIGCHLD handler is SIG_IGN. This is a reimplementation of the
problematic revision 1.131 of kern_exit.c. To avoid accessing process
UPAGES, we set a new procsig flag when the SIGCHLD handler is SIG_IGN
and use that instead.
we can use td_ucred.
- In killpg1(), the proc lock is sufficient to check if p_stat is SZOMB
or not. We don't need sched_lock.
- Close some races in psignal(). In psignal() there is a big switch
statement based on p_stat. All the different cases are assuming that
the process (or thread) isn't going to change state out from under it.
To ensure this is true, just lock sched_lock for the entire switch. We
practically held it the entire time already anyways. This also
simplifies the locking somewhat and actually results in fewer lock
operations.
- Allow signotify() to be called with the sched_lock held since psignal()
now does that.
- Use td_ucred in a couple of places.
they aren't in the usual path of execution for syscalls and traps.
The main complication for this is that we have to set flags to control
ast() everywhere that changes the signal mask.
Avoid locking in userret() in most of the remaining cases.
Submitted by: luoqi (first part only, long ago, reorganized by me)
Reminded by: dillon
inline function sigsetmasked() and a new macro SIGPENDING(). CURSIG()
will soon be moved out of the normal path of execution for syscalls and
traps. Then its efficiency will be less important but the new interfaces
will be useful for checking for unmasked pending signals in more places.
Submitted by: luoqi (long ago, in a slightly different form)
Assert that sched_lock is not held in CURSIG().
not removing tabs before "__P((", and not outdenting continuation lines
to preserve non-KNF lining up of code with parentheses. Switch to KNF
formatting and/or rewrap the whole prototype in some cases.
New locks are:
- pgrpsess_lock which locks the whole pgrps and sessions,
- pg_mtx which protects the pgrp members, and
- s_mtx which protects the session members.
Please refer to sys/proc.h for the coverage of these locks.
Changes on the pgrp/session interface:
- pgfind() needs the pgrpsess_lock held.
- The caller of enterpgrp() is responsible to allocate a new pgrp and
session.
- Call enterthispgrp() in order to enter an existing pgrp.
- pgsignal() requires a pgrp lock held.
Reviewed by: jhb, alfred
Tested on: cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org
(which is a quad-CPU machine running -current)
this is a low-functionality change that changes the kernel to access the main
thread of a process via the linked list of threads rather than
assuming that it is embedded in the process. It IS still embeded there
but remove all teh code that assumes that in preparation for the next commit
which will actually move it out.
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, benno rice,
macro. As a result, mandatory signal delivery policies will be
applied consistently across the kernel.
- Note that this subtly changes the protection semantics, and we should
watch out for any resulting breakage. Previously, delivery of SIGIO
in this circumstance was limited to situations where the subject was
privileged, or where one of the subject's (ruid, euid) matched one
of the object's (ruid, euid). In the new scenario, subject (ruid, euid)
are matched against the object's (ruid, svuid), and the object uid's
must be a subset of the subject uid's. Likewise, jail now affects
delivery, and special handling for P_SUGID of the object is present.
This change can always be reversed or tweaked if it proves to disrupt
application behavior substantially.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
mutex releases to not require flags for the cases when preemption is
not allowed:
The purpose of the MTX_NOSWITCH and SWI_NOSWITCH flags is to prevent
switching to a higher priority thread on mutex releease and swi schedule,
respectively when that switch is not safe. Now that the critical section
API maintains a per-thread nesting count, the kernel can easily check
whether or not it should switch without relying on flags from the
programmer. This fixes a few bugs in that all current callers of
swi_sched() used SWI_NOSWITCH, when in fact, only the ones called from
fast interrupt handlers and the swi_sched of softclock needed this flag.
Note that to ensure that swi_sched()'s in clock and fast interrupt
handlers do not switch, these handlers have to be explicitly wrapped
in critical_enter/exit pairs. Presently, just wrapping the handlers is
sufficient, but in the future with the fully preemptive kernel, the
interrupt must be EOI'd before critical_exit() is called. (critical_exit()
can switch due to a deferred preemption in a fully preemptive kernel.)
I've tested the changes to the interrupt code on i386 and alpha. I have
not tested ia64, but the interrupt code is almost identical to the alpha
code, so I expect it will work fine. PowerPC and ARM do not yet have
interrupt code in the tree so they shouldn't be broken. Sparc64 is
broken, but that's been ok'd by jake and tmm who will be fixing the
interrupt code for sparc64 shortly.
Reviewed by: peter
Tested on: i386, alpha
by one - see _SIG_IDX(). Revert part of my mis-correction in kern_sig.c
(but signal 0 still has to be allowed) and fix _SIG_VALID() (it was
rejecting ignal 128).
argument of 0. You cannot return EINVAL for signal 0. This broke
(in 5 minutes of testing) at least ssh-agent and screen.
However, there was a bug in the original code. Signal 128 is not
valid.
Pointy-hat to: des, jhb
confused. Since sa_sigaction and sa_handler alias each other in a
union, the bug was completely harmless. This had been fixed as part
of the SIGCHLD changes in revision 1.125, but it was reverted when
they were backed out in revision 1.126.
transcription during the (pcred,ucred) merge; this was not used for
the kill() system call, so does not affect direct explicit process
signalling.
Pointed out by: fenner
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
me (addition of vn_rdwr_inchunks). The problem Yahoo is solving is that
if you have large process images core dumping, or you have a large number of
forked processes all core dumping at the same time, the original coredump code
would leave the vnode locked throughout. This can cause the directory vnode
to get locked up, which can cause the parent directory vnode to get locked
up, and so on all the way to the root node, locking the entire machine up
for extremely long periods of time.
This patch solves the problem in two ways. First it uses an advisory
non-blocking lock to abort multiple processes trying to core to the same
file. Second (my contribution) it chunks up the writes and uses bwillwrite()
to avoid holding the vnode locked while blocking in the buffer cache.
Submitted by: ps
Reviewed by: dillon
MFC after: 2 weeks
Instead introduce the [M] prefix to existing keywords. e.g.
MSTD is the MP SAFE version of STD. This is prepatory for a
massive Giant lock pushdown. The old MPSAFE keyword made
syscalls.master too messy.
Begin comments MP-Safe procedures with the comment:
/*
* MPSAFE
*/
This comments means that the procedure may be called without
Giant held (The procedure itself may still need to obtain
Giant temporarily to do its thing).
sv_prepsyscall() is now MP SAFE and assumed to be MP SAFE
sv_transtrap() is now MP SAFE and assumed to be MP SAFE
ktrsyscall() and ktrsysret() are now MP SAFE (Giant Pushdown)
trapsignal() is now MP SAFE (Giant Pushdown)
Places which used to do the if (mtx_owned(&Giant)) mtx_unlock(&Giant)
test in syscall[2]() in */*/trap.c now do not. Instead they
explicitly unlock Giant if they previously obtained it, and then
assert that it is no longer held to catch broken system calls.
Rebuild syscall tables.
This paniced my one of my machines one time too many :-( and there is
no sign of a solution in the pipeline. The deltas are still easily
available in cvs. The problem is that if the parent has been swapped
out, the child process cannot grope around in the parent's UPAGES to
see the sigact[] array or it will fault. This probably is a showstopper
for this implementation anyway.
