unnecessary, the normal process lock and thread lock are enough. The
spin lock is still needed for process and thread exiting to mimic
single sched_lock.
this eliminates some problems of locking, e.g, a thread lock is needed
but can not be used at that time. Only the process lock is needed now
for new field.
requiring the per-process spinlock to only requiring the process lock.
- Reflect these changes in the proc.h documentation and consumers throughout
the kernel. This is a substantial reduction in locking cost for these
fields and was made possible by recent changes to threading support.
While the KSE project was quite successful in bringing threading to
FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the kse library was never developed
to its full potential. Backwards compatibility will be provided via
libmap.conf for dynamically linked binaries and static binaries will
be broken.
proc_rwmen.
Otherwise copy on write may create an anonymous page that is
not marked as dirty. Since writing data to these pages
in this function also does not dirty these pages they may be
later discarded by the pagedaemon.
- p_sflag was mostly protected by PROC_LOCK rather than the PROC_SLOCK or
previously the sched_lock. These bugs have existed for some time.
- Allow swapout to try each thread in a process individually and then
swapin the whole process if any of these fail. This allows us to move
most scheduler related swap flags into td_flags.
- Keep ki_sflag for backwards compat but change all in source tools to
use the new and more correct location of P_INMEM.
Reported by: pho
Reviewed by: attilio, kib
Approved by: re (kensmith)
- Use thread_lock() rather than sched_lock for per-thread scheduling
sychronization.
- Use the per-process spinlock rather than the sched_lock for per-process
scheduling synchronization.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
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.
- Reorder the events in exit(2) slightly so that we trigger the S_EXIT
stop event earlier. After we have signalled that, we set P_WEXIT and
then wait for any processes with a hold on the vmspace via PHOLD to
release it. PHOLD now KASSERT()'s that P_WEXIT is clear when it is
invoked, and PRELE now does a wakeup if P_WEXIT is set and p_lock drops
to zero.
- Change proc_rwmem() to require that the processing read from has its
vmspace held via PHOLD by the caller and get rid of all the junk to
screw around with the vmspace reference count as we no longer need it.
- In ptrace() and pseudofs(), treat a process with P_WEXIT set as if it
doesn't exist.
- Only do one PHOLD in kern_ptrace() now, and do it earlier so it covers
FIX_SSTEP() (since on alpha at least this can end up calling proc_rwmem()
to clear an earlier single-step simualted via a breakpoint). We only
do one to avoid races. Also, by making the EINVAL error for unknown
requests be part of the default: case in the switch, the various
switch cases can now just break out to return which removes a _lot_ of
duplicated PRELE and proc unlocks, etc. Also, it fixes at least one bug
where a LWP ptrace command could return EINVAL with the proc lock still
held.
- Changed the locking for ptrace_single_step(), ptrace_set_pc(), and
ptrace_clear_single_step() to always be called with the proc lock
held (it was a mixed bag previously). Alpha and arm have to drop
the lock while the mess around with breakpoints, but other archs
avoid extra lock release/acquires in ptrace(). I did have to fix a
couple of other consumers in kern_kse and a few other places to
hold the proc lock and PHOLD.
Tested by: ps (1 mostly, but some bits of 2-4 as well)
MFC after: 1 week
by debugger, e.g process is dumping core. Only access p_xthread if
P_STOPPED_TRACE is set, this means thread is ready to exchange signal
with debugger, print a warning if P_STOPPED_TRACE is not set due to
some bugs in other code, if there is.
The patch has been tested by Anish Mistry mistry.7 at osu dot edu, and
is slightly adjusted.
This is good enough to be able to run a RELENG_4 gdb binary against
a RELENG_4 application, along with various other tools (eg: 4.x gcore).
We use this at work.
ia32_reg.[ch]: handle the 32 bit register file format, used by ptrace,
procfs and core dumps.
procfs_*regs.c: vary the format of proc/XXX/*regs depending on the client
and target application.
procfs_map.c: Don't print a 64 bit value to 32 bit consumers, or their
sscanf fails. They expect an unsigned long.
imgact_elf.c: produce a valid 32 bit coredump for 32 bit apps.
sys_process.c: handle 32 bit consumers debugging 32 bit targets. Note
that 64 bit consumers can still debug 32 bit targets.
IA64 has got stubs for ia32_reg.c.
Known limitations: a 5.x/6.x gdb uses get/setcontext(), which isn't
implemented in the 32/64 wrapper yet. We also make a tiny patch to
gdb pacify it over conflicting formats of ld-elf.so.1.
Approved by: re
- Push down Giant into shmexit(). (Giant is acquired only if the vmspace
contains shm segments.)
- Eliminate the acquisition of Giant from proc_rwmem().
- Reduce the scope of Giant in exit1(), uncovering the destruction of the
address space.
tracing process to obtain information about the LWP that caused the
traced process to stop. Debuggers can use this information to select
the thread currently running on the LWP as the current thread.
The request has been made compatible with NetBSD for as much as
possible. This implementation differs from NetBSD in the following
ways:
1. The data argument is allowed to be smaller than the size of the
ptrace_lwpinfo structure known to the kernel, but not 0. This
is opposite to what NetBSD allows. The reason for this is that
we can extend the structure without affecting older binaries.
2. On NetBSD the tracing process is to set the pl_lwpid field to
the Id of the LWP it wants information of. We don't do that.
Our ptrace interface allows passing the LWP Id instead of the
PID. The tracing process is to set the PID to the LWP Id it
wants information of.
3. When the PID is actually the PID of the tracing process, this
request returns the information about the LWP that caused the
process to stop. This was the whole purpose of the request in
the first place.
When the traced process has exited, this request will return the
LWP Id 0, indicating that the process state is not the result of
an event specific to a LWP.
- ptrace_single_step() is no longer called with the proc lock held, so
don't try to unlock it and then relock it.
- Push Giant down into proc_rwmem() instead of forcing all the consumers
(including Alpha breakpoint support) to explicitly wrap calls to
proc_rwmem() with Giant.
Tested by: kensmith
ptrace_set_pc(), and cpu_ptrace() so that those functions are free to
acquire Giant, sleep, etc. We already do a PHOLD/PRELE around them so
that it is safe to sleep inside of these routines if necessary. This
allows ptrace() to be marked MP safe again as it no longer triggers lock
order reversals on Alpha.
Tested by: wilko
set to SIGCHLD. This avoids the creation of orphaned Linux-threaded
zombies that init is unable to reap. This can occur when the parent
process sets its SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN. Fix a similar situation in the
PT_DETACH code.
Tested by: "Steven Hartland" <killing AT multiplay.co.uk>
check for permissions, do it for all requests, not the known requests.
Later when we actually service the request we deal with the invalid
requests we previously caught earlier.
This commit changes the behaviour of the ptrace(2) interface for
boundary cases such as an unknown request without proper permissions.
Previously we would return EINVAL. Now we return EBUSY or EPERM.
Platforms need to define __HAVE_PTRACE_MACHDEP when they have MD
requests. This makes the prototype of cpu_ptrace() visible and
introduces a call to this function for all requests greater or
equal to PT_FIRSTMACH.
Silence on: audit
ioctls.
In the particular case of ptrace(), this commit more-or-less reverts
revision 1.53 of sys_process.c, which appears to have been erroneous.
Reviewed by: iedowse, jhb
a reference to the containing object. The purpose of the reference
being to prevent the destruction of the object and an attempt to free
the wired page. (Wired pages can't be freed.) Unfortunately, this
approach does not work. Some operations, like fork(2) that call
vm_object_split(), can move the wired page to a difference object,
thereby making the reference pointless and opening the possibility
of the wired page being freed.
A solution is to use vm_page_hold() in place of vm_page_wire(). Held
pages can be freed. They are moved to a special hold queue until the
hold is released.
Submitted by: tegge
