generating a coredump as the result of a signal.
- Fix a bug where we could leak a Giant lock if vn_start_write() failed
in coredump().
Reported by: jmg (2)
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.
by debugger, e.g process is dumping core. Only access p_xthread if
P_STOPPED_TRACE is set, this means thread is ready to exchange signal
with debugger, print a warning if P_STOPPED_TRACE is not set due to
some bugs in other code, if there is.
The patch has been tested by Anish Mistry mistry.7 at osu dot edu, and
is slightly adjusted.
being hold by current thread or ignored by current process,
otherwise, it is very possible the thread will enter an infinite loop
and lead to an administrator's nightmare.
For each child process whose status has been changed, a SIGCHLD instance
is queued, if the signal is stilling pending, and process changed status
several times, signal information is updated to reflect latest process
status. If wait() returns because the status of a child process is
available, pending SIGCHLD signal associated with the child process is
discarded. Any other pending SIGCHLD signals remain pending.
The signal information is allocated at the same time when proc structure
is allocated, if process signal queue is fully filled or there is a memory
shortage, it can still send the signal to process.
There is a booting time tunable kern.sigqueue.queue_sigchild which
can control the behavior, setting it to zero disables the SIGCHLD queueing
feature, the tunable will be removed if the function is proved that it is
stable enough.
Tested on: i386 (SMP and UP)
both proc pointer and thread pointer, if thread pointer is NULL,
tdsignal automatically finds a thread, otherwise it sends signal
to given thread.
Add utility function psignal_event to send a realtime sigevent
to a process according to the delivery requirement specified in
struct sigevent.
convert to or from timeval frequently.
Introduce function itimer_accept() to ack a timer signal in signal
acceptance code, this allows us to return more fresh overrun counter
than at signal generating time. while POSIX says:
"the value returned by timer_getoverrun() shall apply to the most
recent expiration signal delivery or acceptance for the timer,.."
I prefer returning it at acceptance time.
Introduce SIGEV_THREAD_ID notification mode, it is used by thread
libary to request kernel to deliver signal to a specified thread,
and in turn, the thread library may use the mechanism to implement
SIGEV_THREAD which is required by POSIX.
Timer signal is managed by timer code, so it can not fail even if
signal queue is full filled by sigqueue syscall.
2. Introduce flags KSI_EXT and KSI_INS. The flag KSI_EXT allows a ksiginfo
to be managed by outside code, the KSI_INS indicates sigqueue_add should
directly insert passed ksiginfo into queue other than copy it.
changes in MD code are trivial, before this change, trapsignal and
sendsig use discrete parameters, now they uses member fields of
ksiginfo_t structure. For sendsig, this change allows us to pass
POSIX realtime signal value to user code.
2. Remove cpu_thread_siginfo, it is no longer needed because we now always
generate ksiginfo_t data and feed it to libpthread.
3. Add p_sigqueue to proc structure to hold shared signals which were
blocked by all threads in the proc.
4. Add td_sigqueue to thread structure to hold all signals delivered to
thread.
5. i386 and amd64 now return POSIX standard si_code, other arches will
be fixed.
6. In this sigqueue implementation, pending signal set is kept as before,
an extra siginfo list holds additional siginfo_t data for signals.
kernel code uses psignal() still behavior as before, it won't be failed
even under memory pressure, only exception is when deleting a signal,
we should call sigqueue_delete to remove signal from sigqueue but
not SIGDELSET. Current there is no kernel code will deliver a signal
with additional data, so kernel should be as stable as before,
a ksiginfo can carry more information, for example, allow signal to
be delivered but throw away siginfo data if memory is not enough.
SIGKILL and SIGSTOP have fast path in sigqueue_add, because they can
not be caught or masked.
The sigqueue() syscall allows user code to queue a signal to target
process, if resource is unavailable, EAGAIN will be returned as
specification said.
Just before thread exits, signal queue memory will be freed by
sigqueue_flush.
Current, all signals are allowed to be queued, not only realtime signals.
Earlier patch reviewed by: jhb, deischen
Tested on: i386, amd64
Fix a race condition between kern_wait() and thread_stopped().
Problem is in kern_wait(), parent process steps through children list,
once a child process is skipped, and later even if the child is stopped,
parent process still sleeps in msleep(), the race happens if parent
masked SIGCHLD.
Submitted by : Peter Edwards peadar.edwards at gmail dot com
MFC after : 4 days
The main reason for doing this is that the ELF dump handler expects
the thread list to be fixed while the dump header is generated, so an
upcall that occurs at the wrong time can lead to buffer overruns and
other Bad Things.
Another solution would be to grab sched_lock in the ELF dump handler,
but we might as well single-thread, since the process is about to die.
Furthermore, I think this should ensure that the register sets in the
core file are sequentially consistent.
for a signal, because kernel stack is swappable, this causes page fault
in kernel under heavy swapping case. Fix this bug by eliminating unneeded
code.
sleeping, so in do_tdsignal, we no longer need to test td_waitset.
now td_waitset is only used to give a thread higher priority when
delivering signal to multithreads process.
This also fixes a bug:
when a thread in sigwait states was suspended and later resumed
by SIGCONT, it can no longer receive signals belong to waitset.
former is callable from user space and the latter from the kernel one. Make
kernel version take additional argument which tells if the respective call
should check for additional restrictions for sending signals to suid/sugid
applications or not.
Make all emulation layers using non-checked version, since signal numbers in
emulation layers can have different meaning that in native mode and such
protection can cause misbehaviour.
As a result remove LIBTHR from the signals allowed to be delivered to a
suid/sugid application.
Requested (sorta) by: rwatson
MFC after: 2 weeks
nice value above 0, set it to 0 so that it may proceed with haste.
This is especially important on ULE, where adjusting the priority
does not guarantee that a thread will be granted a greater time slice.
so would cause kernel to produce an unkillable process in some cases,
especially, P_STOPPED_SINGLE has a singling thread, turning off the
bit would mess the state.
The removed argument could trivially be derived from the remaining one.
That in turn should be the same as curthread, but it is possible that curthread could be expensive to derive on some syste,s so leave it as an argument.
Having both proc and thread as an argumen tjust gives an opportunity for
them to get out sync.
MFC after: 3 days
a more complete subsystem, and removes the knowlege of how things are
implemented from the drivers. Include locking around filter ops, so a
module like aio will know when not to be unloaded if there are outstanding
knotes using it's filter ops.
Currently, it uses the MTX_DUPOK even though it is not always safe to
aquire duplicate locks. Witness currently doesn't support the ability
to discover if a dup lock is ok (in some cases).
Reviewed by: green, rwatson (both earlier versions)
1. Add tm_lwpid into kse_thr_mailbox to indicate which kernel
thread current user thread is running on. Add tm_dflags into
kse_thr_mailbox, the flags is written by debugger, it tells
UTS and kernel what should be done when the process is being
debugged, current, there two flags TMDF_SSTEP and TMDF_DONOTRUNUSER.
TMDF_SSTEP is used to tell kernel to turn on single stepping,
or turn off if it is not set.
TMDF_DONOTRUNUSER is used to tell kernel to schedule upcall
whenever possible, to UTS, it means do not run the user thread
until debugger clears it, this behaviour is necessary because
gdb wants to resume only one thread when the thread's pc is
at a breakpoint, and thread needs to go forward, in order to
avoid other threads sneak pass the breakpoints, it needs to remove
breakpoint, only wants one thread to go. Also, add km_lwp to
kse_mailbox, the lwp id is copied to kse_thr_mailbox at context
switch time when process is not being debugged, so when process
is attached, debugger can map kernel thread to user thread.
2. Add p_xthread to proc strcuture and td_xsig to thread structure.
p_xthread is used by a thread when it wants to report event
to debugger, every thread can set the pointer, especially, when
it is used in ptracestop, it is the last thread reporting event
will win the race. Every thread has a td_xsig to exchange signal
with debugger, thread uses TDF_XSIG flag to indicate it is reporting
signal to debugger, if the flag is not cleared, thread will keep
retrying until it is cleared by debugger, p_xthread may be
used by debugger to indicate CURRENT thread. The p_xstat is still
in proc structure to keep wait() to work, in future, we may
just use td_xsig.
3. Add TDF_DBSUSPEND flag, the flag is used by debugger to suspend
a thread. When process stops, debugger can set the flag for
thread, thread will check the flag in thread_suspend_check,
enters a loop, unless it is cleared by debugger, process is
detached or process is existing. The flag is also checked in
ptracestop, so debugger can temporarily suspend a thread even
if the thread wants to exchange signal.
4. Current, in ptrace, we always resume all threads, but if a thread
has already a TDF_DBSUSPEND flag set by debugger, it won't run.
Encouraged by: marcel, julian, deischen
tracing process to obtain information about the LWP that caused the
traced process to stop. Debuggers can use this information to select
the thread currently running on the LWP as the current thread.
The request has been made compatible with NetBSD for as much as
possible. This implementation differs from NetBSD in the following
ways:
1. The data argument is allowed to be smaller than the size of the
ptrace_lwpinfo structure known to the kernel, but not 0. This
is opposite to what NetBSD allows. The reason for this is that
we can extend the structure without affecting older binaries.
2. On NetBSD the tracing process is to set the pl_lwpid field to
the Id of the LWP it wants information of. We don't do that.
Our ptrace interface allows passing the LWP Id instead of the
PID. The tracing process is to set the PID to the LWP Id it
wants information of.
3. When the PID is actually the PID of the tracing process, this
request returns the information about the LWP that caused the
process to stop. This was the whole purpose of the request in
the first place.
When the traced process has exited, this request will return the
LWP Id 0, indicating that the process state is not the result of
an event specific to a LWP.
switch to. If a non-NULL thread pointer is passed in, then the CPU will
switch to that thread directly rather than calling choosethread() to pick
a thread to choose to.
- Make sched_switch() aware of idle threads and know to do
TD_SET_CAN_RUN() instead of sticking them on the run queue rather than
requiring all callers of mi_switch() to know to do this if they can be
called from an idlethread.
- Move constants for arguments to mi_switch() and thread_single() out of
the middle of the function prototypes and up above into their own
section.
