- strip out the nasty PIC_PROLOGUE/EPILOGUE stuff, since we dont have
to lose a register in PIC mode anymore (we use %rip-relative addressing).
- update for C register argument passing conventions.
- convert 32 bit to 64 bit register sizes etc.
Note that the syscall instruction clobbers %rcx, which is inconvenient
because it is the fourth syscall argument, so we use %r10 (another scratch
register) for the 4th syscall arg instead (I picked %r10 to be the same as
NetBSD). int 0x80 is still possible though, and it uses %rcx as usual.
Note that the syscall style syscall does *NOT* preserve all the registers,
unlike int 0x80. We do not preserve the scratch registers except for
%rdi and %rsi. int 0x80 does preserve everything but the return values.
technique) so that we don't wind up calling into an application's
version if the application defines them.
Inspired by: qpopper's interfering and buggy version of strlcpy
a thread lock).
Better protect access to thread state while searching for
threads to handle a signal.
Better protect access to process pending signals while processing
a thread in sigwait().
Submitted by: davidxu
KSEs when it's thread exits; allow the GC handler to do that.
o Make spinlock/spinlock critical regions.
The following were submitted by davidxu
o Alow thr_switch() to take a null mailbox argument.
o Better protect cancellation checks.
o Don't set KSE specific data when creating new KSEs; rely on the
first upcall of the KSE to set it.
o Add the ability to set the maximum concurrency level and do this
automatically. We should have a way to enable/disable this with
some sort of tunable because some applications may not want this
to be the default.
o Hold the scheduling lock across thread switch calls.
o If scheduling of a thread fails, make sure to remove it from the list
of active threads.
o Better protect accesses to a joining threads when the target thread is
exited and detached.
o Remove some macro definitions that are now provided by <sys/kse.h>.
o Don't leave the library in threaded mode if creation of the initial
KSE fails.
o Wakeup idle KSEs when there are threads ready to run.
o Maintain the number of threads active in the priority queue.
While I'm here, use the TAILQ_FOREACH macro instead of a more
manual method which was inherited from libc_r (so we could
remove elements from the list which isn't needed for libpthread).
Submitted by: Kazuaki Oda <kaakun@highway.ne.jp>
