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jhb
76c1ae2002 When checking to see if a process has exceeded its time limit, flag the
process as over the limit when its time is >= to the limit rather than >
the limit.  Technically, if p->p_rux.rux_runtime.sec == p->p_pcpulimit
and p->p_rux.rux_runtime.frac == 0, the process hasn't exceeded the limit
yet.  However, having the fraction exactly equal to 0 is rather rare, and
it is not worth the overhead to handle that edge case.  With just the >
comparison, the process would have to exceed its limit by almost a second
before it was killed.

PR:		kern/83192
Submitted by:	Maciej Zawadzinski mzawadzinski at gmail dot com
Reviewed by:	bde
MFC after:	1 week
2005-11-28 19:09:08 +00:00
ups
acfce18a2a Use low level constructs borrowed from interrupt threads to wait for
work in proc0.
Remove the TDP_WAKEPROC0 workaround.
2005-05-23 23:01:53 +00:00
ups
7bac02c146 Sprinkle some volatile magic and rearrange things a bit to avoid race
conditions in critical_exit now that it no longer blocks interrupts.

Reviewed by:	jhb
2005-04-08 03:37:53 +00:00
jhb
c5e6b72803 Don't recursively panic when we call mi_switch() in a critical section,
even though calling mi_switch() after a panic is likely a bug anyway as
the recursive panic only serves to make things worse.
2005-03-31 20:36:44 +00:00
jhb
7b611b0cb2 Stop explicitly touching td_base_pri outside of the scheduler and simply
set a thread's priority via sched_prio() when that is the desired action.
The schedulers will start managing td_base_pri internally shortly.
2004-12-30 20:29:58 +00:00
jeff
c2b9649e7a - Define KTR points for KTR_SCHED. 2004-12-26 00:14:21 +00:00
davidxu
9188104a8f Unlock mutex if PDROP was set by caller. 2004-11-27 11:43:31 +00:00
scottl
e049505e4b If a process needs to be swapped in, wakeup the swapper from within
critical_exit as the process is getting scheduled to run.  This is subotimal
but for now avoid the LOR between the scheduler and the sleepq systems.
This is a 5.3 candidate.

Submitted by: davidxu
MFC After: 3 days
2004-10-16 06:38:22 +00:00
jhb
a8c1c80ef5 Refine the turnstile and sleep queue interfaces just a bit:
- Add a new _lock() call to each API that locks the associated chain lock
  for a lock_object pointer or wait channel.  The _lookup() functions now
  require that the chain lock be locked via _lock() when they are called.
- Change sleepq_add(), turnstile_wait() and turnstile_claim() to lookup
  the associated queue structure internally via _lookup() rather than
  accepting a pointer from the caller.  For turnstiles, this means that
  the actual lookup of the turnstile in the hash table is only done when
  the thread actually blocks rather than being done on each loop iteration
  in _mtx_lock_sleep().  For sleep queues, this means that sleepq_lookup()
  is no longer used outside of the sleep queue code except to implement an
  assertion in cv_destroy().
- Change sleepq_broadcast() and sleepq_signal() to require that the chain
  lock is already required.  For condition variables, this lets the
  cv_broadcast() and cv_signal() functions lock the sleep queue chain lock
  while testing the waiters count.  This means that the waiters count
  internal to condition variables is no longer protected by the interlock
  mutex and cv_broadcast() and cv_signal() now no longer require that the
  interlock be held when they are called.  This lets consumers of condition
  variables drop the lock before waking other threads which can result in
  fewer context switches.

MFC after:	1 month
2004-10-12 18:36:20 +00:00
jhb
ce2d3f89af Rework how we store process times in the kernel such that we always store
the raw values including for child process statistics and only compute the
system and user timevals on demand.

- Fix the various kern_wait() syscall wrappers to only pass in a rusage
  pointer if they are going to use the result.
- Add a kern_getrusage() function for the ABI syscalls to use so that they
  don't have to play stackgap games to call getrusage().
- Fix the svr4_sys_times() syscall to just call calcru() to calculate the
  times it needs rather than calling getrusage() twice with associated
  stackgap, etc.
- Add a new rusage_ext structure to store raw time stats such as tick counts
  for user, system, and interrupt time as well as a bintime of the total
  runtime.  A new p_rux field in struct proc replaces the same inline fields
  from struct proc (i.e. p_[isu]ticks, p_[isu]u, and p_runtime).  A new p_crux
  field in struct proc contains the "raw" child time usage statistics.
  ruadd() has been changed to handle adding the associated rusage_ext
  structures as well as the values in rusage.  Effectively, the values in
  rusage_ext replace the ru_utime and ru_stime values in struct rusage.  These
  two fields in struct rusage are no longer used in the kernel.
- calcru() has been split into a static worker function calcru1() that
  calculates appropriate timevals for user and system time as well as updating
  the rux_[isu]u fields of a passed in rusage_ext structure.  calcru() uses a
  copy of the process' p_rux structure to compute the timevals after updating
  the runtime appropriately if any of the threads in that process are
  currently executing.  It also now only locks sched_lock internally while
  doing the rux_runtime fixup.  calcru() now only requires the caller to
  hold the proc lock and calcru1() only requires the proc lock internally.
  calcru() also no longer allows callers to ask for an interrupt timeval
  since none of them actually did.
- calcru() now correctly handles threads executing on other CPUs.
- A new calccru() function computes the child system and user timevals by
  calling calcru1() on p_crux.  Note that this means that any code that wants
  child times must now call this function rather than reading from p_cru
  directly.  This function also requires the proc lock.
- This finishes the locking for rusage and friends so some of the Giant locks
  in exit1() and kern_wait() are now gone.
- The locking in ttyinfo() has been tweaked so that a shared lock of the
  proctree lock is used to protect the process group rather than the process
  group lock.  By holding this lock until the end of the function we now
  ensure that the process/thread that we pick to dump info about will no
  longer vanish while we are trying to output its info to the console.

Submitted by:	bde (mostly)
MFC after:	1 month
2004-10-05 18:51:11 +00:00
julian
6461286b21 clean up thread runq accounting a bit.
MFC after:	3 days
2004-09-16 07:12:59 +00:00
julian
9993c65718 Add some code to allow threads to nominat a sibling to run if theyu are going to sleep.
MFC after:	1 week
2004-09-10 21:04:38 +00:00
julian
5813d27029 Refactor a bunch of scheduler code to give basically the same behaviour
but with slightly cleaned up interfaces.

The KSE structure has become the same as the "per thread scheduler
private data" structure. In order to not make the diffs too great
one is #defined as the other at this time.

The KSE (or td_sched) structure is  now allocated per thread and has no
allocation code of its own.

Concurrency for a KSEGRP is now kept track of via a simple pair of counters
rather than using KSE structures as tokens.

Since the KSE structure is different in each scheduler, kern_switch.c
is now included at the end of each scheduler. Nothing outside the
scheduler knows the contents of the KSE (aka td_sched) structure.

The fields in the ksegrp structure that are to do with the scheduler's
queueing mechanisms are now moved to the kg_sched structure.
(per ksegrp scheduler private data structure). In other words how the
scheduler queues and keeps track of threads is no-one's business except
the scheduler's. This should allow people to write experimental
schedulers with completely different internal structuring.

A scheduler call sched_set_concurrency(kg, N) has been added that
notifies teh scheduler that no more than N threads from that ksegrp
should be allowed to be on concurrently scheduled. This is also
used to enforce 'fainess' at this time so that a ksegrp with
10000 threads can not swamp a the run queue and force out a process
with 1 thread, since the current code will not set the concurrency above
NCPU, and both schedulers will not allow more than that many
onto the system run queue at a time. Each scheduler should eventualy develop
their own methods to do this now that they are effectively separated.

Rejig libthr's kernel interface to follow the same code paths as
linkse for scope system threads. This has slightly hurt libthr's performance
but I will work to recover as much of it as I can.

Thread exit code has been cleaned up greatly.
exit and exec code now transitions a process back to
'standard non-threaded mode' before taking the next step.
Reviewed by:	scottl, peter
MFC after:	1 week
2004-09-05 02:09:54 +00:00
jhb
9e08178eb7 Now that the return value semantics of cv's for multithreaded processes
have been unified with that of msleep(9), further refine the sleepq
interface and consolidate some duplicated code:
- Move the pre-sleep checks for theaded processes into a
  thread_sleep_check() function in kern_thread.c.
- Move all handling of TDF_SINTR to be internal to subr_sleepqueue.c.
  Specifically, if a thread is awakened by something other than a signal
  while checking for signals before going to sleep, clear TDF_SINTR in
  sleepq_catch_signals().  This removes a sched_lock lock/unlock combo in
  that edge case during an interruptible sleep.  Also, fix
  sleepq_check_signals() to properly handle the condition if TDF_SINTR is
  clear rather than requiring the callers of the sleepq API to notice
  this edge case and call a non-_sig variant of sleepq_wait().
- Clarify the flags arguments to sleepq_add(), sleepq_signal() and
  sleepq_broadcast() by creating an explicit submask for sleepq types.
  Also, add an explicit SLEEPQ_MSLEEP type rather than a magic number of
  0.  Also, add a SLEEPQ_INTERRUPTIBLE flag for use with sleepq_add() and
  move the setting of TDF_SINTR to sleepq_add() if this flag is set rather
  than sleepq_catch_signals().  Note that it is the caller's responsibility
  to ensure that sleepq_catch_signals() is called if and only if this flag
  is passed to the preceeding sleepq_add().  Note that this also removes a
  sched_lock lock/unlock pair from sleepq_catch_signals().  It also ensures
  that for an interruptible sleep, TDF_SINTR is always set when
  TD_ON_SLEEPQ() is true.
2004-08-19 11:31:42 +00:00
julian
61fada7840 Increase the amount of data exported by KTR in the KTR_RUNQ setting.
This extra data is needed to really follow what is going on in the
threaded case.
2004-08-09 18:21:12 +00:00
jhb
f513ad537c Workaround a possible deadlock on SMP due to a spin lock LOR by disabling
the immediate awakening of proc0 (scheduler kproc, controls swapping
processes in and out).  The scheduler process periodically awakens already,
so this will not result in processes not being swapped in, there will just
be more latency in between a thread being made runnable and the scheduler
waking up to swap the affected process back in.
2004-08-04 20:24:40 +00:00
davidxu
5610a7e068 Use P_SINGLE_EXIT to check single-threading case, P_WEXIT is not for that
purpose.
2004-07-28 06:30:52 +00:00
jhb
0cb3276d57 - Move TDF_OWEPREEMPT, TDF_OWEUPC, and TDF_USTATCLOCK over to td_pflags
since they are only accessed by curthread and thus do not need any
  locking.
- Move pr_addr and pr_ticks out of struct uprof (which is per-process)
  and directly into struct thread as td_profil_addr and td_profil_ticks
  as these variables are really per-thread.  (They are used to defer an
  addupc_intr() that was too "hard" until ast()).
2004-07-16 21:04:55 +00:00
marcel
a9ad69d5af Update for the KDB framework:
o  Make debugging code conditional upon KDB instead of DDB.
o  Call kdb_enter() instead of Debugger().
o  Call kdb_backtrace() instead of db_print_backtrace() or backtrace().

kern_mutex.c:
o  Replace checks for db_active with checks for kdb_active and make
   them unconditional.

kern_shutdown.c:
o  s/DDB_UNATTENDED/KDB_UNATTENDED/g
o  s/DDB_TRACE/KDB_TRACE/g
o  Save the TID of the thread doing the kernel dump so the debugger
   knows which thread to select as the current when debugging the
   kernel core file.
o  Clear kdb_active instead of db_active and do so unconditionally.
o  Remove backtrace() implementation.

kern_synch.c:
o  Call kdb_reenter() instead of db_error().
2004-07-10 21:36:01 +00:00
jhb
696704716d Implement preemption of kernel threads natively in the scheduler rather
than as one-off hacks in various other parts of the kernel:
- Add a function maybe_preempt() that is called from sched_add() to
  determine if a thread about to be added to a run queue should be
  preempted to directly.  If it is not safe to preempt or if the new
  thread does not have a high enough priority, then the function returns
  false and sched_add() adds the thread to the run queue.  If the thread
  should be preempted to but the current thread is in a nested critical
  section, then the flag TDF_OWEPREEMPT is set and the thread is added
  to the run queue.  Otherwise, mi_switch() is called immediately and the
  thread is never added to the run queue since it is switch to directly.
  When exiting an outermost critical section, if TDF_OWEPREEMPT is set,
  then clear it and call mi_switch() to perform the deferred preemption.
- Remove explicit preemption from ithread_schedule() as calling
  setrunqueue() now does all the correct work.  This also removes the
  do_switch argument from ithread_schedule().
- Do not use the manual preemption code in mtx_unlock if the architecture
  supports native preemption.
- Don't call mi_switch() in a loop during shutdown to give ithreads a
  chance to run if the architecture supports native preemption since
  the ithreads will just preempt DELAY().
- Don't call mi_switch() from the page zeroing idle thread for
  architectures that support native preemption as it is unnecessary.
- Native preemption is enabled on the same archs that supported ithread
  preemption, namely alpha, i386, and amd64.

This change should largely be a NOP for the default case as committed
except that we will do fewer context switches in a few cases and will
avoid the run queues completely when preempting.

Approved by:	scottl (with his re@ hat)
2004-07-02 20:21:44 +00:00
jhb
1b16b181d1 - Change mi_switch() and sched_switch() to accept an optional thread to
switch to.  If a non-NULL thread pointer is passed in, then the CPU will
  switch to that thread directly rather than calling choosethread() to pick
  a thread to choose to.
- Make sched_switch() aware of idle threads and know to do
  TD_SET_CAN_RUN() instead of sticking them on the run queue rather than
  requiring all callers of mi_switch() to know to do this if they can be
  called from an idlethread.
- Move constants for arguments to mi_switch() and thread_single() out of
  the middle of the function prototypes and up above into their own
  section.
2004-07-02 19:09:50 +00:00
jhb
4dab07ef95 Remove the signal_caught argument from sleepq_timedwait() as it was
effectively always zero.
2004-06-28 18:57:06 +00:00
tjr
24fcba21fb Remove a stale and misleading comment. 2004-06-07 09:35:00 +00:00
bde
802b835b3d Fixed some common printf format errors. Don't assume that "struct foo *"
is "void *" (it isn't) or that the default promotion of pid_t is int.
Instead, assume that casting "struct foo *" to "void *" and printing the
result with %p is useful, and that all pid_t's are representable as longs.

Fixed some minor style bugs (mainly spelling errors in comments).
2004-05-14 20:51:42 +00:00
imp
74cf37bd00 Remove advertising clause from University of California Regent's license,
per letter dated July 22, 1999.

Approved by: core
2004-04-05 21:03:37 +00:00
jhb
c754b5af47 - Remove old sleep queues.
- Remove sleepqueue argument from sleepq_set_timeout() since it is not
  used.
2004-03-12 19:06:18 +00:00
rwatson
8ff4e76430 Mark loadaverage callout as CALLOUT_MPSAFE.
Reviewed by:	jhb
2004-03-08 22:01:19 +00:00
jhb
93c4123deb Correct handling of PDROP in msleep() to just skip the mtx_lock() rather
than clear the lock pointer so that sleepq_add() still gets the correct
lock pointer and doesn't bogusly trip an assertion.
2004-03-02 14:58:33 +00:00
jhb
d25301c858 Switch the sleep/wakeup and condition variable implementations to use the
sleep queue interface:
- Sleep queues attempt to merge some of the benefits of both sleep queues
  and condition variables.  Having sleep qeueus in a hash table avoids
  having to allocate a queue head for each wait channel.  Thus, struct cv
  has shrunk down to just a single char * pointer now.  However, the
  hash table does not hold threads directly, but queue heads.  This means
  that once you have located a queue in the hash bucket, you no longer have
  to walk the rest of the hash chain looking for threads.  Instead, you have
  a list of all the threads sleeping on that wait channel.
- Outside of the sleepq code and the sleep/cv code the kernel no longer
  differentiates between cv's and sleep/wakeup.  For example, calls to
  abortsleep() and cv_abort() are replaced with a call to sleepq_abort().
  Thus, the TDF_CVWAITQ flag is removed.  Also, calls to unsleep() and
  cv_waitq_remove() have been replaced with calls to sleepq_remove().
- The sched_sleep() function no longer accepts a priority argument as
  sleep's no longer inherently bump the priority.  Instead, this is soley
  a propery of msleep() which explicitly calls sched_prio() before
  blocking.
- The TDF_ONSLEEPQ flag has been dropped as it was never used.  The
  associated TDF_SET_ONSLEEPQ and TDF_CLR_ON_SLEEPQ macros have also been
  dropped and replaced with a single explicit clearing of td_wchan.
  TD_SET_ONSLEEPQ() would really have only made sense if it had taken
  the wait channel and message as arguments anyway.  Now that that only
  happens in one place, a macro would be overkill.
2004-02-27 18:52:44 +00:00
jeff
75249cf38e - Revert rev 1.240 we no longer need a kthread for loadav(). 2004-02-01 05:37:36 +00:00
jeff
adc4a3ea82 - Use sched_load() rather than grabbing the sx lock and traversing the proc
table to discover the load.
2004-02-01 02:51:33 +00:00
jhb
114683f922 Move the loadav() callout into its own kthread since it uses allproc_lock
which is a sleepable lock and thus is not safe to acquire from a callout
routine.
2004-01-28 20:44:41 +00:00
jeff
2f38f1df6a - Use a unique string for the sched_setup SYSINIT and rename sched_setup to
synch_setup.  The schedulers use the sched_setup function name.
2004-01-25 07:49:45 +00:00
jeff
c85cdc3d0f - Add a flags parameter to mi_switch. The value of flags may be SW_VOL or
SW_INVOL.  Assert that one of these is set in mi_switch() and propery
   adjust the rusage statistics.  This is to simplify the large number of
   users of this interface which were previously all required to adjust the
   proper counter prior to calling mi_switch().  This also facilitates more
   switch and locking optimizations.
 - Change all callers of mi_switch() to pass the appropriate paramter and
   remove direct references to the process statistics.
2004-01-25 03:54:52 +00:00
bde
f03fdf4e6f Removed mostly-dead code for setting switchtime after the idle loop
clobbers this variable.  Long ago, when the idle loop wasn't in a
process, it set switchtime.tv_sec to zero to indicate that the time
needs to be read after the idle loop finishes.  The special case for
this isn't needed now that there is an idle process (for each CPU).
The time is read in the normal way when the idle process is switched
away from.  The seconds component of the time is only zero for the
first second after the uptime is set, and the mostly-dead code was only
executed during this time.  (This was slightly broken by using uptimes
instead of times relative to the Epoch -- in the original version the
seconds component of the time was only 0 for the first second after
the Epoch.)

In mi_switch(), moved the setting of switchticks to just after the
first (and now only) setting of switchtime.  This setting used to be
delayed since a late setting was needed for the idle case and an early
setting was not needed.  Now the early setting is needed so that
fork_exit() doesn't need to set either switchtime or switchticks.
Removed now-completely-rotted comment attached to this.  Most of the
code described by the comment had already moved to sched_switch().
2003-10-29 15:23:09 +00:00
jeff
4aea3a9433 - Collapse sched_switchin() and sched_switchout() into sched_switch(). Now
mi_switch() calls sched_switch() which calls cpu_switch().  This is
   actually one less function call than it had been.
2003-10-16 08:53:46 +00:00
bms
0f917818e6 Add a pre-emption counter, td_generation, so that threads can notice
when they have been pre-empted by other threads. This is bumped from
within mi_switch() every time a context switch takes place.

Discussed with:	pete
2003-10-05 09:35:08 +00:00
jeff
db2419a0a1 - On my Pentium4-M laptop, invalpg takes ~1100 cycles if the page is found in
the TLB and ~1600 if it is not.  Therefore, it is more effecient to
   invalidate the TLB after operations that use CMAP rather than before.
 - So that the tlb is invalidated prior to switching off of a processor, we
   must change the switchin functions to switchout functions.
 - Remove td_switchout from the thread and move it to the x86 pcb.
 - Move the code that calls switchout into swtch.s.  These changes make this
   optimization truely x86 specific.
2003-09-30 08:11:36 +00:00
sam
59ff2ad5c7 Change instances of callout_init that specify MPSAFE behaviour to
use CALLOUT_MPSAFE instead of "1" for the second parameter.  This
does not change the behaviour; it just makes the intent more clear.
2003-08-19 17:51:11 +00:00
jhb
837193af8e - Various style fixes in both code and comments.
- Update some stale comments.
- Sort a couple of includes.
- Only set 'newcpu' in updatepri() if we use it.
- No functional changes.

Obtained from:	bde (via an old diff I got a long time ago)
2003-08-15 21:29:06 +00:00
grehan
e6a3a6744e Update powerpc to use the (old thread,new thread) calling convention
for cpu_throw() and cpu_switch().
2003-08-14 03:56:24 +00:00
jhb
1c016824f1 - Convert Alpha over to the new calling conventions for cpu_throw() and
cpu_switch() where both the old and new threads are passed in as
  arguments.  Only powerpc uses the old conventions now.
- Update comments in the Alpha swtch.s to reflect KSE changes.

Tested by:	obrien, marcel
2003-08-12 19:33:36 +00:00
peter
fb79192cce unifdef -DLAZY_SWITCH and start to tidy up the associated glue. 2003-07-10 01:02:59 +00:00
davidxu
788b1fc17a o Change kse_thr_interrupt to allow send a signal to a specified thread,
or unblock a thread in kernel, and allow UTS to specify whether syscall
  should be restarted.
o Add ability for UTS to monitor signal comes in and removed from process,
  the flag PS_SIGEVENT is used to indicate the events.
o Add a KMF_WAITSIGEVENT for KSE mailbox flag, UTS call kse_release with
  this flag set to wait for above signal event.
o For SA based thread, kernel masks all signal in its signal mask, let
  UTS to use kse_thr_interrupt interrupt a thread, and install a signal
  frame in userland for the thread.
o Add a tm_syncsig in thread mailbox, when a hardware trap occurs,
  it is used to deliver synchronous signal to userland, and upcall
  is schedule, so UTS can process the synchronous signal for the thread.

Reviewed by: julian (mentor)
2003-06-28 08:29:05 +00:00
peter
6df8dff079 Tidy up leftover lazy_switch instrumentation that is no longer needed.
This cleans up some #ifdef hell.
2003-06-27 22:39:14 +00:00
davidxu
abb4420bbe Rename P_THREADED to P_SA. P_SA means a process is using scheduler
activations.
2003-06-15 00:31:24 +00:00
obrien
3b8fff9e4c Use __FBSDID(). 2003-06-11 00:56:59 +00:00
phk
108e10f649 Add a couple of XXX comments where the intent is not clear.
Found by:       FlexeLint
2003-05-31 20:13:58 +00:00
marcel
5d3af2c5ab Revamp of the syscall path, exception and context handling. The
prime objectives are:
o  Implement a syscall path based on the epc inststruction (see
   sys/ia64/ia64/syscall.s).
o  Revisit the places were we need to save and restore registers
   and define those contexts in terms of the register sets (see
   sys/ia64/include/_regset.h).

Secundairy objectives:
o  Remove the requirement to use contigmalloc for kernel stacks.
o  Better handling of the high FP registers for SMP systems.
o  Switch to the new cpu_switch() and cpu_throw() semantics.
o  Add a good unwinder to reconstruct contexts for the rare
   cases we need to (see sys/contrib/ia64/libuwx)

Many files are affected by this change. Functionally it boils
down to:
o  The EPC syscall doesn't preserve registers it does not need
   to preserve and places the arguments differently on the stack.
   This affects libc and truss.
o  The address of the kernel page directory (kptdir) had to
   be unstaticized for use by the nested TLB fault handler.
   The name has been changed to ia64_kptdir to avoid conflicts.
   The renaming affects libkvm.
o  The trapframe only contains the special registers and the
   scratch registers. For syscalls using the EPC syscall path
   no scratch registers are saved. This affects all places where
   the trapframe is accessed. Most notably the unaligned access
   handler, the signal delivery code and the debugger.
o  Context switching only partly saves the special registers
   and the preserved registers. This affects cpu_switch() and
   triggered the move to the new semantics, which additionally
   affects cpu_throw().
o  The high FP registers are either in the PCB or on some
   CPU. context switching for them is done lazily. This affects
   trap().
o  The mcontext has room for all registers, but not all of them
   have to be defined in all cases. This mostly affects signal
   delivery code now. The *context syscalls are as of yet still
   unimplemented.

Many details went into the removal of the requirement to use
contigmalloc for kernel stacks. The details are mostly CPU
specific and limited to exception_save() and exception_restore().
The few places where we create, destroy or switch stacks were
mostly simplified by not having to construct physical addresses
and additionally saving the virtual addresses for later use.

Besides more efficient context saving and restoring, which of
course yields a noticable speedup, this also fixes the dreaded
SMP bootup problem as a side-effect. The details of which are
still not fully understood.

This change includes all the necessary backward compatibility
code to have it handle older userland binaries that use the
break instruction for syscalls. Support for break-based syscalls
has been pessimized in favor of a clean implementation. Due to
the overall better performance of the kernel, this will still
be notived as an improvement if it's noticed at all.

Approved by: re@ (jhb)
2003-05-16 21:26:42 +00:00
jhb
89a4eb17de - Merge struct procsig with struct sigacts.
- Move struct sigacts out of the u-area and malloc() it using the
  M_SUBPROC malloc bucket.
- Add a small sigacts_*() API for managing sigacts structures: sigacts_alloc(),
  sigacts_free(), sigacts_copy(), sigacts_share(), and sigacts_shared().
- Remove the p_sigignore, p_sigacts, and p_sigcatch macros.
- Add a mutex to struct sigacts that protects all the members of the struct.
- Add sigacts locking.
- Remove Giant from nosys(), kill(), killpg(), and kern_sigaction() now
  that sigacts is locked.
- Several in-kernel functions such as psignal(), tdsignal(), trapsignal(),
  and thread_stopped() are now MP safe.

Reviewed by:	arch@
Approved by:	re (rwatson)
2003-05-13 20:36:02 +00:00