and flags with an sxlock. This leads to a significant and measurable
performance improvement as a result of access to shared locking for
frequent lookup operations, reduced general overhead, and reduced overhead
in the event of contention. All of these are imported for threaded
applications where simultaneous access to a shared file descriptor array
occurs frequently. Kris has reported 2x-4x transaction rate improvements
on 8-core MySQL benchmarks; smaller improvements can be expected for many
workloads as a result of reduced overhead.
- Generally eliminate the distinction between "fast" and regular
acquisisition of the filedesc lock; the plan is that they will now all
be fast. Change all locking instances to either shared or exclusive
locks.
- Correct a bug (pointed out by kib) in fdfree() where previously msleep()
was called without the mutex held; sx_sleep() is now always called with
the sxlock held exclusively.
- Universally hold the struct file lock over changes to struct file,
rather than the filedesc lock or no lock. Always update the f_ops
field last. A further memory barrier is required here in the future
(discussed with jhb).
- Improve locking and reference management in linux_at(), which fails to
properly acquire vnode references before using vnode pointers. Annotate
improper use of vn_fullpath(), which will be replaced at a future date.
In fcntl(), we conservatively acquire an exclusive lock, even though in
some cases a shared lock may be sufficient, which should be revisited.
The dropping of the filedesc lock in fdgrowtable() is no longer required
as the sxlock can be held over the sleep operation; we should consider
removing that (pointed out by attilio).
Tested by: kris
Discussed with: jhb, kris, attilio, jeff
system calls now enter without Giant held, and then in some cases, acquire
Giant explicitly.
Remove a number of other MPSAFE annotations in the credential code and
tweak one or two other adjacent comments.
programs to find out exactly which events were registered and which were
returned... This should be lower in kern_kevent, but that would require
special munging due to locks and the functions used to copyin/copyout
kevents...
If someone wants to teach ktrace how to output pretty kevents, I have a
kevent prety printer that can be used...
than keeping it locked until we exit the function to optimize the case
where the lock would be dropped and later reacquired. The optimization
was broken when kevent's were moved from UFS to VFS and the knote list
lock for a vnode kevent became the lockmgr vnode lock. If one tried
to use a kqueue that contained events for a kqueue fd followed by a vnode,
then the kq global lock would end up being held when the vnode lock was
acquired which could result in sleeping with a mutex held (and subsequent
panics) if the vnode lock was contested.
Reviewed by: jmg
Tested by: ps (on 6.x)
MFC after: 3 days
a race where data could come in before we clear the INFLUX flag, and get
skipped over by knote (and hence never be activated, though it should of
been)...
Found by: glebius & co.
Reviewed by: glebius
MFC after: 3 days
notifications when LIO operations completed. These were the problems
with LIO event complete notification:
- Move all LIO/AIO event notification into one general function
so we don't have bugs in different data paths. This unification
got rid of several notification bugs one of which if kqueue was
used a SIGILL could get sent to the process.
- Change the LIO event accounting to count all AIO request that
could have been split across the fast path and daemon mode.
The prior accounting only kept track of AIO op's in that
mode and not the entire list of operations. This could cause
a bogus LIO event complete notification to occur when all of
the fast path AIO op's completed and not the AIO op's that
ended up queued for the daemon.
Suggestions from: alc
- Introducing the possibility of using locks different than mutexes
for the knlist locking. In order to do this, we add three arguments to
knlist_init() to specify the functions to use to lock, unlock and
check if the lock is owned. If these arguments are NULL, we assume
mtx_lock, mtx_unlock and mtx_owned, respectively.
- Using the vnode lock for the knlist locking, when doing kqueue operations
on a vnode. This way, we don't have to lock the vnode while holding a
mutex, in filt_vfsread.
Reviewed by: jmg
Approved by: re (scottl), scottl (mentor override)
Pointyhat to: ssouhlal
Will be happy: everyone
w/o problems than I was before... This simply brings back the knote_delete
as knlist_delete which will also drop the knote's, instead of just clearing
the list and seeing _ONESHOT...
Fix a race where if a note was _INFLUX and _DETACHED, it could end up being
modified... whoopse..
MFC after: 1 week
Prodded by: ambrisko and dwhite
Use this in all the places where sleeping with the lock held is not
an issue.
The distinction will become significant once we finalize the exact
lock-type to use for this kind of case.
happens when a proc exits, but needs to inform the user that this has
happened.. This also means we can remove the check for detached from
proc and sig f_detach functions as this is doing in kqueue now...
MFC after: 5 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)
Giant conditional on debug.mpsafenet in the socket soo_stat() routine,
unconditionally in vn_statfile() for VFS, and otherwise don't acquire
Giant. Accept an unlocked read in kqueue_stat(), and cryptof_stat() is
a no-op. Don't acquire Giant in fstat() system call.
Note: in fdescfs, fo_stat() is called while holding Giant due to the VFS
stack sitting on top, and therefore there will still be Giant recursion
in this case.
individual file object implementations can optionally acquire Giant if
they require it:
- soo_close(): depends on debug.mpsafenet
- pipe_close(): Giant not acquired
- kqueue_close(): Giant required
- vn_close(): Giant required
- cryptof_close(): Giant required (conservative)
Notes:
Giant is still acquired in close() even when closing MPSAFE objects
due to kqueue requiring Giant in the calling closef() code.
Microbenchmarks indicate that this removal of Giant cuts 3%-3% off
of pipe create/destroy pairs from user space with SMP compiled into
the kernel.
The cryptodev and opencrypto code appears MPSAFE, but I'm unable to
test it extensively and so have left Giant over fo_close(). It can
probably be removed given some testing and review.
generic filesystem events to userspace. Currently only mount and unmount
of filesystems are signalled. Soon to be added, up/down status of NFS.
Introduce a sysctl node used to route requests to/from filesystems
based on filesystem ids.
Introduce a new vfsop, vfs_sysctl(mp, req) that is used as the callback/
entrypoint by the sysctl code to change individual filesystems.
a callout, and use the new callout_drain API to make sure that a callout
has finished before we deallocate memory it is using.
PR: kern/64121
Discussed with: gallatin
in exit1(), make sure the p_klist is empty after sending NOTE_EXIT.
The process won't report fork() or execve() and won't be able to handle
NOTE_SIGNAL knotes anyway.
This fixes some race conditions with do_tdsignal() calling knote() while
the process is exiting.
Reported by: Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at>
MFC after: 1 week
thread being waken up. The thread waken up can run at a priority as
high as after tsleep().
- Replace selwakeup()s with selwakeuppri()s and pass appropriate
priorities.
- Add cv_broadcastpri() which raises the priority of the broadcast
threads. Used by selwakeuppri() if collision occurs.
Not objected in: -arch, -current
Use zpfind() to see if the process became a zombie if pfind() doesn't find it
and if the caller wants to know about process death, so that the caller knows
the process died even if it happened before the kevent was actually registered.
MFC after: 1 week
