The ability to schedule multiple threads per process
(one one cpu) by making ALL system calls optionally asynchronous.
to come: ia64 and power-pc patches, patches for gdb, test program (in tools)
Reviewed by: Almost everyone who counts
(at various times, peter, jhb, matt, alfred, mini, bernd,
and a cast of thousands)
NOTE: this is still Beta code, and contains lots of debugging stuff.
expect slight instability in signals..
out-of-range, drop the file reference before returning. (This error
also exists in the RELENG_4 branch.)
o Eliminate the acquisition and release of Giant in readv()
now that malloc() and free() are callable without Giant.
most cases NULL is passed, but in some cases such as network driver locks
(which use the MTX_NETWORK_LOCK macro) and UMA zone locks, a name is used.
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
This shrinks the size 4 bytes on alpha, down to the same 276 bytes
as all other platforms.
Construct a hack to make old ioctls work on new kernels.
Once world is recompiled only the new and correct sysctls will be
used.
This hack will become annoying around 1st of may to make people
rebuild their worlds and it will be gone before 5.0.
kern/kern_descrip.c:
Aquire Giant in fdrop_locked when file refcount hits zero, this removes
the requirement for the caller to own Giant for the most part.
kern/kern_ktrace.c:
Aquire Giant in ktrgenio, simplifies locking in upper read/write syscalls.
kern/vfs_bio.c:
Aquire Giant in bwillwrite if needed.
kern/sys_generic.c
Giant pushdown, remove Giant for:
read, pread, write and pwrite.
readv and writev aren't done yet because of the possible malloc calls
for iov to uio processing.
kern/sys_socket.c
Grab giant in the socket fo_read/write functions.
kern/vfs_vnops.c
Grab giant in the vnode fo_read/write functions.
Problem:
selwakeup required calling pfind which would cause lock order
reversals with the allproc_lock and the per-process filedesc lock.
Solution:
Instead of recording the pid of the select()'ing process into the
selinfo structure, actually record a pointer to the thread. To
avoid dereferencing a bad address all the selinfo structures that
are in use by a thread are kept in a list hung off the thread
(protected by sellock). When a selwakeup occurs the selinfo is
removed from that threads list, it is also removed on the way out
of select or poll where the thread will traverse its list removing
all the selinfos from its own list.
Problem:
Previously the PROC_LOCK was used to provide the mutual exclusion
needed to ensure proper locking, this couldn't work because there
was a single condvar used for select and poll and condvars can
only be used with a single mutex.
Solution:
Introduce a global mutex 'sellock' which is used to provide mutual
exclusion when recording events to wait on as well as performing
notification when an event occurs.
Interesting note:
schedlock is required to manipulate the per-thread TDF_SELECT
flag, however if given its own field it would not need schedlock,
also because TDF_SELECT is only manipulated under sellock one
doesn't actually use schedlock for syncronization, only to protect
against corruption.
Proc locks are no longer used in select/poll.
Portions contributed by: davidc
other threads as well as speed up the interfaces.
To fix the race and accomplish the speedup, remove selholddrop and
pollholddrop. The entire concept is somewhat bogus because holding
the individual struct file pointers offers us no guarantees that
another thread context won't close it on us thereby removing our
access to our own reference.
Selholddrop and pollholddrop also would do multiple locks and unlocks
of mutexes _per-file_ in the fd arrays to be scanned, this needed to
be sped up.
Instead of using selholddrop and pollholddrop, simply hold the
filedesc lock over the selscan and pollscan functions. This should
protect us against close(2)'s on the files as reduce the multiple
lock/unlock pairs per fd into a single lock over the filedesc.
Seigo Tanimura (tanimura) posted the initial delta.
I've polished it quite a bit reducing the need for locking and
adapting it for KSE.
Locks:
1 mutex in each filedesc
protects all the fields.
protects "struct file" initialization, while a struct file
is being changed from &badfileops -> &pipeops or something
the filedesc should be locked.
1 mutex in each struct file
protects the refcount fields.
doesn't protect anything else.
the flags used for garbage collection have been moved to
f_gcflag which was the FILLER short, this doesn't need
locking because the garbage collection is a single threaded
container.
could likely be made to use a pool mutex.
1 sx lock for the global filelist.
struct file * fhold(struct file *fp);
/* increments reference count on a file */
struct file * fhold_locked(struct file *fp);
/* like fhold but expects file to locked */
struct file * ffind_hold(struct thread *, int fd);
/* finds the struct file in thread, adds one reference and
returns it unlocked */
struct file * ffind_lock(struct thread *, int fd);
/* ffind_hold, but returns file locked */
I still have to smp-safe the fget cruft, I'll get to that asap.
Replace uses of holdfp() with fget*() or fgetvp*() calls as appropriate
introduce fget(), fget_read(), fget_write() - these functions will take
a thread and file descriptor and return a file pointer with its ref
count bumped.
introduce fgetvp(), fgetvp_read(), fgetvp_write() - these functions will
take a thread and file descriptor and return a vref()'d vnode.
*_read() requires that the file pointer be FREAD, *_write that it be
FWRITE.
This continues the cleanup of struct filedesc and struct file access
routines which, when are all through with it, will allow us to then
make the API calls MP safe and be able to move Giant down into the fo_*
functions.
was locked by the proc lock and td_flags is locked by the sched_lock.
The places that read, set, and cleared TDF_SELECT weren't updated, so they
read and modified td_flags w/o holding the sched_lock, meaning that they
could corrupt the per-thread flags field. As an immediate band-aid,
grab sched_lock while reading and manipulating td_flags in relation to
TDF_SELECT. This will probably be cleaned up some later on.
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
- Since polling should not involve sleeping, keep holding a
process lock upon scanning file descriptors.
- Hold a reference to every file descriptor prior to entering
polling loop in order to avoid lock order reversal between
lockmgr and p_mtx upon calling fdrop() in fo_poll().
(NOTE: this work has not been done for netncp and netsmb
yet because a socket itself has no reference counts.)
Reviewed by: jhb
mtx_enter(lock, type) becomes:
mtx_lock(lock) for sleep locks (MTX_DEF-initialized locks)
mtx_lock_spin(lock) for spin locks (MTX_SPIN-initialized)
similarily, for releasing a lock, we now have:
mtx_unlock(lock) for MTX_DEF and mtx_unlock_spin(lock) for MTX_SPIN.
We change the caller interface for the two different types of locks
because the semantics are entirely different for each case, and this
makes it explicitly clear and, at the same time, it rids us of the
extra `type' argument.
The enter->lock and exit->unlock change has been made with the idea
that we're "locking data" and not "entering locked code" in mind.
Further, remove all additional "flags" previously passed to the
lock acquire/release routines with the exception of two:
MTX_QUIET and MTX_NOSWITCH
The functionality of these flags is preserved and they can be passed
to the lock/unlock routines by calling the corresponding wrappers:
mtx_{lock, unlock}_flags(lock, flag(s)) and
mtx_{lock, unlock}_spin_flags(lock, flag(s)) for MTX_DEF and MTX_SPIN
locks, respectively.
Re-inline some lock acq/rel code; in the sleep lock case, we only
inline the _obtain_lock()s in order to ensure that the inlined code
fits into a cache line. In the spin lock case, we inline recursion and
actually only perform a function call if we need to spin. This change
has been made with the idea that we generally tend to avoid spin locks
and that also the spin locks that we do have and are heavily used
(i.e. sched_lock) do recurse, and therefore in an effort to reduce
function call overhead for some architectures (such as alpha), we
inline recursion for this case.
Create a new malloc type for the witness code and retire from using
the M_DEV type. The new type is called M_WITNESS and is only declared
if WITNESS is enabled.
Begin cleaning up some machdep/mutex.h code - specifically updated the
"optimized" inlined code in alpha/mutex.h and wrote MTX_LOCK_SPIN
and MTX_UNLOCK_SPIN asm macros for the i386/mutex.h as we presently
need those.
Finally, caught up to the interface changes in all sys code.
Contributors: jake, jhb, jasone (in no particular order)
the index of the pollfd array to the number of fd's currently open, not
the maximum number of fd's. ie: if you had 0,1,2 open, you could not
use pollfd slots higher than 20. The specs say we only have to support
OPEN_MAX [64] entries but we allow way more than that.
Deal with excessive dirty buffers when msync() syncs non-contiguous
dirty buffers by checking for the case in UFS *before* checking for
clusterability.
Pre-rfork code assumed inherent locking of a process's file descriptor
array. However, with the advent of rfork() the file descriptor table
could be shared between processes. This patch closes over a dozen
serious race conditions related to one thread manipulating the table
(e.g. closing or dup()ing a descriptor) while another is blocked in
an open(), close(), fcntl(), read(), write(), etc...
PR: kern/11629
Discussed with: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
"kern/sys_generic.c:358: warning: cast discards qualifiers from pointer
target type"
The idea for using the uintptr_t intermediate cast for de-constifying
a pointer was hinted at by bde some time ago.
operation or after it. If the ktrace operation was enabled while the
process was blocked doing IO, the race would allow it to pass down
invalid (uninitialized) data and panic later down the call stack.
never expire if poll() or select() was called before the system had been
in multiuser for 1 second. This was caused by only checking to see if
tv_sec was zero rather than checking both tv_sec and tv_usec.
instead of a struct iovec * array and int len. Get rid of stupidly trying
to allocate all of the memory and copyin()ing the entire iovec[], and
instead just do the proper VOP_WRITE() in ktrwrite() using a copy of
the struct uio that the syscall originally used.
This solves the DoS which could easily be performed; to work around the
DoS, one could also remove "options KTRACE" from the kernel. This is
a very strong MFC candidate for 4.1.
Found by: art@OpenBSD.org
