pwrite(2) syscalls are wrapped to provide compatibility with pre-7.x
kernels which required padding before the off_t parameter. The
fcntl(2) contains compatibility code to handle kernels before the
struct flock was changed during the 8.x CURRENT development. The
shims were reasonable to allow easier revert to the older kernel at
that time.
Now, two or three major releases later, shims do not serve any
purpose. Such old kernels cannot handle current libc, so revert the
compatibility code.
Make padded syscalls support conditional under the COMPAT6 config
option. For COMPAT32, the syscalls were under COMPAT6 already.
Remove WITHOUT_SYSCALL_COMPAT build option, which only purpose was to
(partially) disable the removed shims.
Reviewed by: jhb, imp (previous versions)
Discussed with: peter
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
waitid() function is required to be cancellable by the standard. The
wait6() and ppoll() follow the other syscalls in their groups.
Reviewed by: jhb, jilles (previous versions)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Note that to cancel blocked kevent(2) call, changelist must be empty,
since we cannot cancel a call which already made changes to the
process state. And in reverse, call which only makes changes to the
kqueue state, without waiting for an event, is not cancellable. This
makes a natural usage model to migrate kqueue loop to support
cancellation, where existing single kevent(2) call must be split into
two: first uncancellable update of kqueue, then cancellable wait for
events.
Note that this is ABI-incompatible change, but it is believed that
there is no cancel-safe code that relies on kevent(2) not being a
cancellation point. Option to preserve the ABI would be to keep
kevent(2) as is, but add new call with flags to specify cancellation
behaviour, which only value seems to add complications.
Suggested and reviewed by: jilles
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
particular, stdio locking was affected.
Reported and tested by: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 days
cancellation-handling code in the libthr. Translate some syscalls
into their more generic counterpart, and remove translated syscalls
from the table.
List of the affected syscalls:
creat, open -> openat
raise -> thr_kill
sleep, usleep -> nanosleep
pause -> sigsuspend
wait, wait3, waitpid -> wait4
Suggested and reviewed by: jilles (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
(or loading a dso linked to libthr.so into process which was not
linked against threading library).
- Remove libthr interposers of the libc functions, including
__error(). Instead, functions calls are indirected through the
interposing table, similar to how pthread stubs in libc are already
done. Libc by default points either to syscall trampolines or to
existing libc implementations. On libthr load, libthr rewrites the
pointers to the cancellable implementations already in libthr. The
interposition table is separate from pthreads stubs indirection
table to not pull pthreads stubs into static binaries.
- Postpone the malloc(3) internal mutexes initialization until libthr
is loaded. This avoids recursion between calloc(3) and static
pthread_mutex_t initialization.
- Reinstall signal handlers with wrapper on libthr load. The
_rtld_is_dlopened(3) is used to avoid useless calls to sigaction(2)
when libthr is statically referenced from the main binary.
In the process, fix openat(2), swapcontext(2) and setcontext(2)
interposing. The libc symbols were exported at different versions
than libthr interposers. Export both libc and libthr versions from
libc now, with default set to the higher version from libthr.
Remove unused and disconnected swapcontext(3) userspace implementation
from libc/gen.
No objections from: deischen
Tested by: pho, antoine (exp-run) (previous versions)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week