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Daniel Eischen
1d013a86ed Fix pthread_suspend_np/pthread_resume_np. For the record, suspending a
thread waiting on an event (I/O, condvar, etc) will, when resumed using
pthread_resume_np, return with EINTR.  For example, suspending and resuming
a thread blocked on read() will not requeue the thread for the read, but
will return -1 with errno = EINTR.  If the suspended thread is in a critical
region, the thread is suspended as soon as it leaves the critical region.

Fix a bogon in pthread_kill() where a signal was being delivered twice
to threads waiting in sigwait().

Reported by (suspend/resume bug):	jdp
Reviewed by:	jasone
2000-03-15 13:59:27 +00:00
Jason Evans
adbd6ee028 Do signal deferral for pthread_kill() as it was done in the old days.
Submitted by:	deischen
2000-01-20 04:46:52 +00:00
Jason Evans
0a3fa43c7e Implement continuations to correctly handle [sig|_]longjmp() inside of a
signal handler.  Explicitly check for jumps to anywhere other than the
current stack, since such jumps are undefined according to POSIX.

While we're at it, convert thread cancellation to use continuations, since
it's cleaner than the original cancellation code.

Avoid delivering a signal to a thread twice.  This was a pre-existing bug,
but was likely unexposed until these other changes were made.

Defer signals generated by pthread_kill() so that they can be delivered on
the appropriate stack.  deischen claims that this is unnecessary, which is
likely true, but without this change, pthread_kill() can cause undefined
priority queue states and/or PANICs in [sig|_]longjmp(), so I'm leaving
this in for now.  To compile this code out and exercise the bug, define
the _NO_UNDISPATCH cpp macro.  Defining _PTHREADS_INVARIANTS as well will
cause earlier crashes.

PR:			kern/14685
Collaboration with:	deischen
2000-01-19 07:04:50 +00:00
Daniel Eischen
8d048bba15 Don't wakeup threads when there is a process signal and no installed
handler.  Thread-to-thread signals (pthread_signal) are treated differently
than process signals; a pthread_signal can wakeup a blocked thread if
a signal handler is not installed for that signal.

Found by:	ACE tests
1999-12-28 18:08:09 +00:00
Daniel Eischen
3dc268f4e7 Fixes for signal handling:
o Don't call signal handlers with the signal handler access lock
    held.
  o Remove pending signals before calling signal handlers.  If
    pending signals were not removed prior to handling them,
    invocation of the handler could cause the handler to be
    called more than once for the same signal.  Found by: JB
  o When SIGCHLD arrives, wake up all threads in PS_WAIT_WAIT
    (wait4).

PR:		bin/15328
Reviewed by:	jasone
1999-12-17 00:56:36 +00:00
Daniel Eischen
4fc937ef8f Change signal handling to conform to POSIX specified semantics.
Before this change, a signal was delivered to each thread that
didn't have the signal masked.  Signals also improperly woke up
threads waiting on I/O.  With this change, signals are now
handled in the following way:

  o If a thread is waiting in a sigwait for the signal,
    then the thread is woken up.

  o If no threads are sigwait'ing on the signal and a
    thread is in a sigsuspend waiting for the signal,
    then the thread is woken up.

  o In the case that no threads are waiting or suspended
    on the signal, then the signal is delivered to the
    first thread we find that has the signal unmasked.

  o If no threads are waiting or suspended on the signal,
    and no threads have the signal unmasked, then the signal
    is added to the process wide pending signal set.  The
    signal will be delivered to the first thread that unmasks
    the signal.

If there is an installed signal handler, it is only invoked
if the chosen thread was not in a sigwait.

In the case that multiple threads are waiting or suspended
on a signal, or multiple threads have the signal unmasked,
we wake up/deliver the signal to the first thread we find.
The above rules still apply.

Reported by:	Scott Hess <scott@avantgo.com>
Reviewed by:	jb, jasone
1999-12-04 22:55:59 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
3cf3c5d9dd sigset_t change (part 5 of 5)
-----------------------------

Most of the userland changes are in libc. For both the alpha
and the i386 setjmp has been changed to accomodate for the
new sigset_t. Internally, libc is mostly rewritten to use the
new syscalls. The exception is in compat-43/sigcompat.c

The POSIX thread library has also been rewritten to use the
new sigset_t. Except, that it currently only handles NSIG
signals instead of the maximum _SIG_MAXSIG. This should not
be a problem because current applications don't use any
signals higher than NSIG.

There are version bumps for the following libraries:
  libdialog
  libreadline
  libc
  libc_r
  libedit
  libftpio
  libss

These libraries either a) have one of the modified structures
visible in the interface, or b) use sigset_t internally and
may cause breakage if new binaries are used against libraries
that don't have the sigset_t change. This not an immediate
issue, but will be as soon as applications start using the
new range to its fullest.

NOTE: libncurses already had an version bump and has not been
      given one now.

NOTE: doscmd is a real casualty and has been disconnected for
      the moment. Reconnection will eventually happen after
      doscmd has been fixed. I'm aware that being the last one
      to touch it, I'm automaticly promoted to being maintainer.
      According to good taste this means that I will receive a
      badge which either will be glued or mechanically stapled,
      drilled or otherwise violently forced onto me :-)

NOTE: pcvt/vttest cannot be compiled with -traditional. The
      change cause sys/types to be included along the way which
      contains the const and volatile modifiers. I don't consider
      this a solution, but more a workaround.
1999-09-29 15:18:46 +00:00
Peter Wemm
7f3dea244c $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 00:22:10 +00:00
Daniel Eischen
fa7c4d5575 Add RCS IDs to those files without them.
Fix copyrights (s/REGENTS/AUTHOR).

Suggested by:	tg
Approved by:	jb
1999-08-05 12:15:30 +00:00
John Birrell
02292f131a In the words of the author:
o The polling mechanism for I/O readiness was changed from
    select() to poll().  In additon, a wrapped version of poll()
    is now provided.

  o The wrapped select routine now converts each fd_set to a
    poll array so that the thread scheduler doesn't have to
    perform a bitwise search for selected fds each time file
    descriptors are polled for I/O readiness.

  o The thread scheduler was modified to use a new queue (_workq)
    for threads that need work.  Threads waiting for I/O readiness
    and spinblocks are added to the work queue in addition to the
    waiting queue.  This reduces the time spent forming/searching
    the array of file descriptors being polled.

  o The waiting queue (_waitingq) is now maintained in order of
    thread wakeup time.  This allows the thread scheduler to
    find the nearest wakeup time by looking at the first thread
    in the queue instead of searching the entire queue.

  o Removed file descriptor locking for select/poll routines.  An
    application should not rely on the threads library for providing
    this locking; if necessary, the application should use mutexes
    to protect selecting/polling of file descriptors.

  o Retrieve and use the kernel clock rate/resolution at startup
    instead of hardcoding the clock resolution to 10 msec (tested
    with kernel running at 1000 HZ).

  o All queues have been changed to use queue.h macros.  These
    include the queues of all threads, dead threads, and threads
    waiting for file descriptor locks.

  o Added reinitialization of the GC mutex and condition variable
    after a fork.  Also prevented reallocation of the ready queue
    after a fork.

  o Prevented the wrapped close routine from closing the thread
    kernel pipes.

  o Initialized file descriptor table for stdio entries at thread
    init.

  o Provided additional flags to indicate to what queues threads
    belong.

  o Moved TAILQ initialization for statically allocated mutex and
    condition variables to after the spinlock.

  o Added dispatching of signals to pthread_kill.  Removing the
    dispatching of signals from thread activation broke sigsuspend
    when pthread_kill was used to send a signal to a thread.

  o Temporarily set the state of a thread to PS_SUSPENDED when it
    is first created and placed in the list of threads so that it
    will not be accidentally scheduled before becoming a member
    of one of the scheduling queues.

  o Change the signal handler to queue signals to the thread kernel
    pipe if the scheduling queues are protected.  When scheduling
    queues are unprotected, signals are then dequeued and handled.

  o Ensured that all installed signal handlers block the scheduling
    signal and that the scheduling signal handler blocks all
    other signals.  This ensures that the signal handler is only
    interruptible for and by non-scheduling signals.  An atomic
    lock is used to decide which instance of the signal handler
    will handle pending signals.

  o Removed _lock_thread_list and _unlock_thread_list as they are
    no longer used to protect the thread list.

  o Added missing RCS IDs to modified files.

  o Added checks for appropriate queue membership and activity when
    adding, removing, and searching the scheduling queues.  These
    checks add very little overhead and are enabled when compiled
    with _PTHREADS_INVARIANTS defined.  Suggested and implemented
    by Tor Egge with some modification by me.

  o Close a race condition in uthread_close.  (Tor Egge)

  o Protect the scheduling queues while modifying them in
    pthread_cond_signal and _thread_fd_unlock.  (Tor Egge)

  o Ensure that when a thread gets a mutex, the mutex is on that
    threads list of owned mutexes.  (Tor Egge)

  o Set the kernel-in-scheduler flag in _thread_kern_sched_state
    and _thread_kern_sched_state_unlock to prevent a scheduling
    signal from calling the scheduler again.  (Tor Egge)

  o Don't use TAILQ_FOREACH macro while searching the waiting
    queue for threads in a sigwait state, because a change of
    state destroys the TAILQ link.  It is actually safe to do
    so, though, because once a sigwaiting thread is found, the
    loop ends and the function returns.  (Tor Egge)

  o When dispatching signals to threads, make the thread inherit
    the signal deferral flag of the currently running thread.
    (Tor Egge)

Submitted by: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> and
              Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@fast.no>
1999-06-20 08:28:48 +00:00
John Birrell
58a7cc5d1b [ The author's description... ]
o Runnable threads are now maintained in priority queues.  The
    implementation requires two things:

      1.) The priority queues must be protected during insertion
          and removal of threads.  Since the kernel scheduler
          must modify the priority queues, a spinlock for
          protection cannot be used.   The functions
          _thread_kern_sched_defer() and _thread_kern_sched_undefer()
          were added to {un}defer kernel scheduler activation.

      2.) A thread (active) priority change can be performed only
          when the thread is removed from the priority queue.  The
          implementation uses a threads active priority when
          inserting it into the queue.

    A by-product is that thread switches are much faster.  A
    separate queue is used for waiting and/or blocked threads,
    and it is searched at most 2 times in the kernel scheduler
    when there are active threads.  It should be possible to
    reduce this to once by combining polling of threads waiting
    on I/O with the loop that looks for timed out threads and
    the minimum timeout value.

  o Functions to defer kernel scheduler activation were added.  These
    are _thread_kern_sched_defer() and _thread_kern_sched_undefer()
    and may be called recursively.  These routines do not block the
    scheduling signal, but latch its occurrence.  The signal handler
    will not call the kernel scheduler when the running thread has
    deferred scheduling, but it will be called when running thread
    undefers scheduling.

  o Added support for _POSIX_THREAD_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING.  All the
    POSIX routines required by this should now be implemented.
    One note, SCHED_OTHER, SCHED_FIFO, and SCHED_RR are required
    to be defined by including pthread.h.  These defines are currently
    in sched.h.  I modified pthread.h to include sched.h but don't
    know if this is the proper thing to do.

  o Added support for priority protection and inheritence mutexes.
    This allows definition of _POSIX_THREAD_PRIO_PROTECT and
    _POSIX_THREAD_PRIO_INHERIT.

  o Added additional error checks required by POSIX for mutexes and
    condition variables.

  o Provided a wrapper for sigpending which is marked as a hidden
    syscall.

  o Added a non-portable function as a debugging aid to allow an
    application to monitor thread context switches.  An application
    can install a routine that gets called everytime a thread
    (explicitly created by the application) gets context switched.
    The routine gets passed the pthread IDs of the threads that are
    being switched in and out.

Submitted by: Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>

Changes by me:

  o Added a PS_SPINBLOCK state to deal with the priority inversion
    problem most often (I think) seen by threads calling malloc/free/realloc.

  o Dispatch signals to the running thread directly rather than at a
    context switch to avoid the situation where the switch never occurs.
1999-03-23 05:07:56 +00:00
John Birrell
54059e9f3f Implementation of an additional state called SIGWAIT (with the previous
one renamed to SIGSUSPEND) to fix sigwait().

Submitted by: Daniel M. Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
1998-09-30 06:27:31 +00:00
Alexander Langer
cecc7b0974 Removed unused variables. 1998-09-07 21:55:01 +00:00
John Birrell
353a159590 Back out most of the last commit. It created problems with sigpause. 1998-08-26 20:50:42 +00:00
John Birrell
42f37683ee Fix for sigwait problem.
Submitted by: Daniel M. Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
PR:           misc/7039
1998-08-25 11:19:14 +00:00
John Birrell
b9148b8a3e Don't allow a SIGCHLD to wake up a thread if the process has the default
signal handler installed for SIGCHLD. The ACE MT_SOCK_Test was hanging
as the result of being interrupted when it didn't expect to be.
1998-06-17 22:29:12 +00:00
John Birrell
d989fc8faa If a thread is waiting on a child process to complete, the SIGCHLD
signal can arrive before the thread is woken from it's wait4. In this
case, don't return an EINTR, just set the thread state to running and
the wait4 wrapper will loop and get the exit status of the process.
1998-06-17 03:53:16 +00:00
John Birrell
aef774b0d5 Remove SA_RESTART from the signal dispatch in user-space since this
seems to be tripping up a lot of applications.
1998-06-10 22:25:18 +00:00
John Birrell
ddc8afd422 Implement compile time debug support instead of tracking file name and
line number every time a file descriptor is locked.

This looks like a big change but it isn't. It should reduce the size
of libc_r and make it run slightly faster.
1998-06-09 23:21:05 +00:00
John Birrell
717d1611f4 I got the last commit back to front. 1998-06-06 07:02:27 +00:00
John Birrell
756534d117 Fix the signal behaviour for internal states which set the thread
state to running despite the SA_RESTART flag which is really just for
syscalls.
1998-06-05 23:31:55 +00:00
John Birrell
d972680a31 Don't restart a syscall when a SIGCHLD is received by a thread waiting
on a child process.
1998-05-31 23:46:01 +00:00
John Birrell
4a027d50c7 Change signal model to match POSIX (i.e. one set of signal handlers
for the process, not a separate set for each thread). By default, the
process now only has signal handlers installed for SIGVTALRM, SIGINFO
and SIGCHLD. The thread kernel signal handler is installed for other
signals on demand. This means that SIG_IGN and SIG_DFL processing is now
left to the kernel, not the thread kernel.

Change the signal dispatch to no longer use a signal thread, and
call the signal handler using the stack of the thread that has the
signal pending.

Change the atomic lock method to use test-and-set asm code with
a yield if blocked. This introduces separate locks for each type
of object instead of blocking signals to prevent a context
switch. It was this blocking of signals that caused the performance
degradation the people have noted.

This is a *big* change!
1998-04-29 09:59:34 +00:00
Julian Elischer
c840cec7c5 Submitted by: John Birrell
uthreads update from the author.
1997-02-05 23:26:09 +00:00
Julian Elischer
0f7d684755 Submitted by: John Birrell <cimaxp1!jb@werple.net.au>
Here are the diffs for libc_r to get it one step closer to P1003.1c
These make most of the thread/mutex/condvar structures opaque to the
user. There are three functions which have been renamed with _np
suffixes because they are extensions to P1003.1c (I did them for JAVA,
which needs to suspend/resume threads and also start threads suspended).

I've created a new header (pthread_np.h) for the non-POSIX stuff.

The egrep tags stuff in /usr/src/lib/libc_r/Makefile that I uncommented
doesn't work. I think its best to delete it. I don't think libc_r needs
tags anyway, 'cause most of the source is in libc which does have tags.

also:

Here's the first batch of man pages for the thread functions.
The diff to /usr/src/lib/libc_r/Makefile removes some stuff that was
inherited from /usr/src/lib/libc/Makefile that should only be done with
libc.

also:

I should have sent this diff with the pthread(3) man page.
It allows people to type

make -DWANT_LIBC_R world

to get libc_r built with the rest of the world. I put this in the
pthread(3) man page.  The default is still not to build libc_r.


also:
The diff attached adds a pthread(3) man page to /usr/src/share/man/man3.
The idea is that without libc_r installed, this man page will give people
enough info to know that they have to build libc_r.
1996-08-20 08:22:01 +00:00
Julian Elischer
012dfd00b3 Reviewed by: julian
Submitted by:	 john birrel

One version of the pthreads library
another will follow with differnt actions under some cases..
not QUITE complete
1996-01-22 00:23:58 +00:00