make pthread_yield() more reliable,
threads always (I hope) preempted at least every 0.1 sec, as intended.
PR: bin/7744
Submitted by: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com>
the thread kernel into a garbage collector thread which is started when
the fisrt thread is created (other than the initial thread). This
removes the window of opportunity where a context switch will cause a
thread that has locked the malloc spinlock, to enter the thread kernel,
find there is a dead thread and try to free memory, therefore trying
to lock the malloc spinlock against itself.
The garbage collector thread acts just like any other thread, so
instead of having a spinlock to control accesses to the dead thread
list, it uses a mutex and a condition variable so that it can happily
wait to be signalled when a thread exists.
launching an application into space when someone tries to debug it.
The dead thread list now has it's own link pointer, so use that when
reporting the grateful dead.
- Add support of a thread being listed in the dead thread list as well
as the thread list.
- Add a new thread state to make sigwait work properly. (Submitted by
Daniel M. Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>)
- Add global variable for the garbage collector mutex and condition
variable.
- Delete a couple of prototypes that are no longer required.
- Add a prototype for the garbage collector thread.
to fork. It is difficult to do real vfork in libc_r, since almost every
operation with file descriptsor changes _thread_fd_table and friends.
popen(3) works much better with this change.
are started instead of init (pid = 1). This allows an embedded
implementation quite like VxWorks, with (possibly) a single threaded
program running instead of init. The neat thing is that the same threaded
process can run in a multi-user workstation environment too.
initialized mutex. Statically initialized mutexes are actually
initialized at first use (pthread_mutex_lock/pthread_mutex_trylock).
To prevent concurrent initialization by multiple threads, all
static initializations are now serialized by a spinlock.
Reviewed by: jb
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.
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.
with -D_LOCK_DEBUG. This adds the file name and line number to each lock
call and these are stored in the spinlock structure. When using debug
mode, the lock function will check if the thread is trying to lock
something it has already locked. This is not supposed to happen because
the lock will be freed too early.
Without lock debug, libc_r should be smaller and slightly faster.
cleanup destructor, so trap this case to prevent me from being being
burnt again by applications that try to do this. With this change, an
application (like one using a mis-configured ACE) will exit the process
after displaying a message quoting the POSIX section that the application
has violated.
is allocated or not, rather than keeping a count and attempting to
know it it is in-use. POSIX says that once a key is deleted, using the
key again results in undefined behaviour.
written without returning to the caller. This only occurs on pipes
where either the number of bytes written is greater than the pipe
buffer or if there is insufficient space in the pipe buffer because the
reader is reading slower than the writer is writing.
