freebsd-dev/libexec/rtld-elf/alpha/lockdflt.c
John Polstra cf98e66403 Fix a bug which could cause programs with user threads packages to
lock against themselves, causing infinite spinning.  Brian Feldman
found this problem when testing with Mozilla and supplied the fix,
which I have revised slightly.

Here is the failure scenario.  A thread calls dlopen() and acquires
the writer lock.  While the thread still holds the lock, a signal
is delivered and caught.  The signal handler tries to call a function
which hasn't been bound yet.  It thus enters the dynamic linker
and tries to acquire the reader lock.  Since the writer lock is
already held, it will spin forever in the signal handler.  The
thread holding the lock won't be able to progress and release the
lock.

The solution is to block almost all signals while holding the
exclusive lock.

A similar problem could conceivably occur in the opposite order.
Namely, a thread is holding the reader lock and then a signal
handler calls dlopen() or dlclose() and spins waiting for the writer
lock.  We deal with this administratively by proclaiming that signal
handlers aren't allowed to call dlopen() or dlclose().  Actually
we don't have to proclaim a thing, since signal handlers aren't
allowed to call any system functions except those which are explicitly
permitted.

Submitted by:	Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green>
2000-07-17 17:18:13 +00:00

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/*-
* Copyright 1999, 2000 John D. Polstra.
* All rights reserved.
*
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*
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*
* $FreeBSD$
*/
/*
* Thread locking implementation for the dynamic linker.
*
* We use the "simple, non-scalable reader-preference lock" from:
*
* J. M. Mellor-Crummey and M. L. Scott. "Scalable Reader-Writer
* Synchronization for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors." 3rd ACM Symp. on
* Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, April 1991.
*
* In this algorithm the lock is a single word. Its low-order bit is
* set when a writer holds the lock. The remaining high-order bits
* contain a count of readers desiring the lock. The algorithm requires
* atomic "compare_and_store" and "add" operations, which we implement
* using assembly language sequences in "rtld_start.S".
*
* These are spinlocks. When spinning we call nanosleep() for 1
* microsecond each time around the loop. This will most likely yield
* the CPU to other threads (including, we hope, the lockholder) allowing
* them to make some progress.
*/
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include "debug.h"
#include "rtld.h"
/*
* This value of CACHE_LINE_SIZE is conservative. The actual size
* is 32 on the 21064, 21064A, 21066, 21066A, and 21164. It is 64
* on the 21264. Compaq recommends sequestering each lock in its own
* 128-byte block to allow for future implementations with larger
* cache lines.
*/
#define CACHE_LINE_SIZE 128
#define WAFLAG 0x1 /* A writer holds the lock */
#define RC_INCR 0x2 /* Adjusts count of readers desiring lock */
typedef struct Struct_Lock {
volatile int lock;
void *base;
} Lock;
static const struct timespec usec = { 0, 1000 }; /* 1 usec. */
static sigset_t fullsigmask, oldsigmask;
static void *
lock_create(void *context)
{
void *base;
char *p;
uintptr_t r;
Lock *l;
/*
* Arrange for the lock to occupy its own cache line. First, we
* optimistically allocate just a cache line, hoping that malloc
* will give us a well-aligned block of memory. If that doesn't
* work, we allocate a larger block and take a well-aligned cache
* line from it.
*/
base = xmalloc(CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
p = (char *)base;
if ((uintptr_t)p % CACHE_LINE_SIZE != 0) {
free(base);
base = xmalloc(2 * CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
p = (char *)base;
if ((r = (uintptr_t)p % CACHE_LINE_SIZE) != 0)
p += CACHE_LINE_SIZE - r;
}
l = (Lock *)p;
l->base = base;
l->lock = 0;
return l;
}
static void
lock_destroy(void *lock)
{
Lock *l = (Lock *)lock;
free(l->base);
}
static void
rlock_acquire(void *lock)
{
Lock *l = (Lock *)lock;
atomic_add_int(&l->lock, RC_INCR);
while (l->lock & WAFLAG)
nanosleep(&usec, NULL);
}
static void
wlock_acquire(void *lock)
{
Lock *l = (Lock *)lock;
sigset_t tmp_oldsigmask;
for ( ; ; ) {
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &fullsigmask, &tmp_oldsigmask);
if (cmp0_and_store_int(&l->lock, WAFLAG) == 0)
break;
sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &tmp_oldsigmask, NULL);
nanosleep(&usec, NULL);
}
oldsigmask = tmp_oldsigmask;
}
static void
rlock_release(void *lock)
{
Lock *l = (Lock *)lock;
atomic_add_int(&l->lock, -RC_INCR);
}
static void
wlock_release(void *lock)
{
Lock *l = (Lock *)lock;
atomic_add_int(&l->lock, -WAFLAG);
sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &oldsigmask, NULL);
}
void
lockdflt_init(LockInfo *li)
{
li->context = NULL;
li->lock_create = lock_create;
li->rlock_acquire = rlock_acquire;
li->wlock_acquire = wlock_acquire;
li->rlock_release = rlock_release;
li->wlock_release = wlock_release;
li->lock_destroy = lock_destroy;
li->context_destroy = NULL;
/*
* Construct a mask to block all signals except traps which might
* conceivably be generated within the dynamic linker itself.
*/
sigfillset(&fullsigmask);
sigdelset(&fullsigmask, SIGILL);
sigdelset(&fullsigmask, SIGTRAP);
sigdelset(&fullsigmask, SIGABRT);
sigdelset(&fullsigmask, SIGEMT);
sigdelset(&fullsigmask, SIGFPE);
sigdelset(&fullsigmask, SIGBUS);
sigdelset(&fullsigmask, SIGSEGV);
sigdelset(&fullsigmask, SIGSYS);
}