- When a tick occurs on a cpu, iterate from cs_softticks until ticks.
The per-cpu tick processing happens asynchronously with the actual
adjustment of the 'ticks' variable. Sometimes the results may
be visible before the local call and sometimes after. Previously this
could cause a one tick window where we didn't evaluate the bucket.
- In softclock fetch curticks before incrementing cc_softticks so we
don't skip insertions which were made for the current time.
Sponsored by: Nokia
- Move callout thread creation from kern_intr.c to kern_timeout.c
- Call callout_tick() on every processor via hardclock_cpu() rather than
inspecting callout internal details in kern_clock.c.
- Remove callout implementation details from callout.h
- Package up all of the global variables into a per-cpu callout structure.
- Start one thread per-cpu. Threads are not strictly bound. They prefer
to execute on the native cpu but may migrate temporarily if interrupts
are starving callout processing.
- Run all callouts by default in the thread for cpu0 to maintain current
ordering and concurrency guarantees. Many consumers may not properly
handle concurrent execution.
- The new callout_reset_on() api allows specifying a particular cpu to
execute the callout on. This may migrate a callout to a new cpu.
callout_reset() schedules on the last assigned cpu while
callout_reset_curcpu() schedules on the current cpu.
Reviewed by: phk
Sponsored by: Nokia
code.
The bug:
There exists a race condition for timeout/untimeout(9) due to the
way that the softclock thread dequeues timeouts.
The softclock thread sets the c_func and c_arg of the callout to
NULL while holding the callout lock but not Giant. It then drops
the callout lock and acquires Giant.
It is at this point where untimeout(9) on another cpu/thread could
be called.
Since c_arg and c_func are cleared, untimeout(9) does not touch the
callout and returns as if the callout is canceled.
The softclock then tries to acquire Giant and likely blocks due to
the other cpu/thread holding it.
The other cpu/thread then likely deallocates the backing store that
c_arg points to and finishes working and hence drops Giant.
Softclock resumes and acquires giant and calls the function with
the now free'd c_arg and we have corruption/crash.
The fix:
We need to track curr_callout even for timeout(9) (LOCAL_ALLOC)
callouts. We need to free the callout after the softclock processes
it to deal with the race here.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, iedowse
Reviewed by: jhb, iedowse
MFC After: 2 weeks.
sched_sleep(). This removes extra thread_lock() acquisition and
allows the scheduler to decide what to do with the static boost.
- Change the priority arguments to cv_* to match sleepq/msleep/etc.
where 0 means no priority change. Catch -1 in cv_broadcastpri() and
convert it to 0 for now.
- Set a flag when sleeping in a way that is compatible with swapping
since direct priority comparisons are meaningless now.
- Add a sysctl to ule, kern.sched.static_boost, that defaults to on which
controls the boost behavior. Turning it off gives better performance
in some workloads but needs more investigation.
- While we're modifying sleepq, change signal and broadcast to both
return with the lock held as the lock was held on enter.
Reviewed by: jhb, peter
done in consumers code: using locks properties is much more appropriate.
Fix current code doing these bogus checks.
Note: Really, callout are not usable by all !(LC_SPINLOCK | LC_SLEEPABLE)
primitives like rmlocks doesn't implement the generic lock layer
functions, but they can be equipped for this, so the check is still
valid.
Tested by: matteo, kris (earlier version)
Reviewed by: jhb
while the global callout spinlock is not held, and can lead to PF#.
Reported by: dougb, Mark Atkinson <atkin901 at yahoo dot com>
Tested by: dougb
Diagnosed by: jhb
rwlocks in conjuction with callouts. The function does basically what
callout_init_mtx() alredy does with the difference of using a rwlock
as extra argument.
CALLOUT_SHAREDLOCK flag can be used, now, in order to acquire the lock only
in read mode when running the callout handler. It has no effects when used
in conjuction with mtx.
In order to implement this, underlying callout functions have been made
completely lock type-unaware, so accordingly with this, sysctl
debug.to_avg_mtxcalls is now changed in the generic
debug.to_avg_lockcalls.
Note: currently the allowed lock classes are mutexes and rwlocks because
callout handlers run in softclock swi, so they cannot sleep and they
cannot acquire sleepable locks like sx or lockmgr.
Requested by: kmacy, pjd, rwatson
Reviewed by: jhb
the callout_lock spin lock and the sleepqueue spin locks. In the fix,
callout_drain() has to drop the callout_lock so it can acquire the
sleepqueue lock. The state of the callout can change while the
callout_lock is held however (for example, it can be rescheduled via
callout_reset()). The previous code assumed that the only state change
that could happen is that the callout could finish executing. This change
alters callout_drain() to effectively restart and recheck everything
after it acquires the sleepqueue lock thus handling all the possible
states that the callout could be in after any changes while callout_lock
was dropped.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Tested by: kris
could lead to a deadlock).
- sleepq_set_timeout acquires callout_lock (via callout_reset()) only
with sleepq chain lock held
- msleep_spin in _callout_stop_safe lock the sleepqueue chain with
callout_lock held
In order to solve this don't use msleep_spin in _callout_stop_safe() but
use directly sleepqueues as inline msleep_spin code. Rearrange the
wakeup path in order to have it consistent too.
Reported by: kris (via stress2 test suite)
Tested by: Timothy Redaelli <drizzt@gufi.org>
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
Approved by: re
removals, including failures, into the callwheel.
XXX: Most of the CTR() macros are called with callout_lock spin mutex
held, thus won't be logged into file, if KTR_ALQ is used. Moving the
CTR() macros out from the spinlocked code would require copying of all
arguments. I'm too lazy to do this.
callout_drain() logic. We no longer need a separate non-spin mutex to
do sleep/wakeup with, instead we can now just use the one spin mutex to
manage all the callout functionality.
list, set `curr_callout' to NULL. This ensures that we won't attempt
to cancel the current callout if the original callout structure
gets recycled while we wait to acquire Giant.
This is reported to fix an intermittent syscons problem that was
introduced by revision 1.96.
callout is first initialised, using a new function callout_init_mtx().
The callout system will acquire this mutex before calling the callout
function and release it on return.
In addition, the callout system uses the mutex to avoid most of the
complications and race conditions inherent in asynchronous timer
facilities, so mutex-protected callouts have much simpler semantics.
As long as the mutex is held when invoking callout_stop() or
callout_reset(), then these functions will guarantee that the callout
will be stopped, even if softclock() had already begun to process
the callout.
Existing Giant-locked callouts will automatically pick up the new
race-free semantics. This should close a number of race conditions
in the USB code and probably other areas of the kernel too.
There should be no change in behaviour for "MP-safe" callouts; these
still need to use the techniques mentioned in timeout(9) to avoid
race conditions.
callout_reset rather than calling callout_stop. This results in a few
lines of code duplication, but it provides a significant performance
improvement because it avoids recursing on callout_lock.
Requested by: rwatson
2. Document that this means that kernel modules must be rebuilt.
3. While I'm here, fix my sorting error in callout.h
Requested by: many [1], scottl [2], bde [3]
Remove spurious whitespace, add indent protection, fix punctuation,
remove initialization of static variables to zero, put wakeup_ctr
and wakeup_needed in the correct order. (reported by bde)
This doesn't fix all the style bugs I introduced, but the remaining
style bugs make it easier for me to understand what I did here.
callout_stop(), except that if the callout being stopped is currently
in progress, it blocks attempts to reset the callout and waits until the
callout is completed before it returns.
This makes it possible to clean up callout-using code safely, e.g.,
without potentially freeing memory which is still being used by a callout.
Reviewed by: mux, gallatin, rwatson, jhb
functions less noisy: We printf if a new function took longer than
the previous record holder, or of the previous record holder took
more than twice as long as the current record.
deleted in 1.81. Increase the initial timeout limit to 2ms to
eliminate spurious messages of excessive timeouts in the NFS
client code.
Requested by: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Requested by: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Requested by: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
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
timeout callwheel and buffer cache, out of the platform specific areas
and into the machine independant area. i386 and alpha adjusted here.
Other cpus can be fixed piecemeal.
Reviewed by: freebsd-smp, jake
removing the callout entry, return 1. If callout_stop() fails to remove
the callout entry because it is currently executing or has already been
executed, then the function returns 0. The idea was obtained from BSD/OS,
however, BSD/OS changed untimeout(), and I've just changed callout_stop()
to be more conservative.
Obtained from: BSD/OS
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)
