I've added a structure, kernel-private, to represent a pending or in-delivery
signal, called `ksiginfo'. It is roughly analogous to the basic information
that is exported by the POSIX interface 'siginfo_t', but more basic. I've
added functions to allocate these structures, and further to wrap all signal
operations using them.
Once the operations are wrapped, I've added a TailQ (see queue(3)) of these
structures to 'struct proc', and all pending signals are in that TailQ. When
a signal is being delivered, it is dequeued from the list. Once I finish
the spreading of ksiginfo throughout the tree, the dequeued structure will be
delivered to the process in question, whereas currently and normally, the
signal number is what is used.
gets signals operating based on a TailQ, and is good enough to run X11,
GNOME, and do job control. There are some intricate parts which could be
more refined to match the sigset_t versions, but those require further
evaluation of directions in which our signal system can expand and contract
to fit our needs.
After this has been in the tree for a while, I will make in kernel API
changes, most notably to trapsignal(9) and sendsig(9), to use ksiginfo
more robustly, such that we can actually pass information with our
(queued) signals to the userland. That will also result in using a
struct ksiginfo pointer, rather than a signal number, in a lot of
kern_sig.c, to refer to an individual pending signal queue member, but
right now there is no defined behaviour for such.
CODAFS is unfinished in this regard because the logic is unclear in
some places.
Sponsored by: New Gold Technology
Reviewed by: bde, tjr, jake [an older version, logic similar]
- Use ucontext_t's to store KSE thread state.
- Synthesize state for the UTS upon each upcall, rather than
saving and copying a trapframe.
- Deliver signals to KSE-aware processes via upcall.
- Rename kse mailbox structure fields to be more BSD-like.
- Store the UTS's stack in struct proc in a stack_t.
Reviewed by: bde, deischen, julian
Approved by: -arch
next step is to allow > 1 to be allocated per process. This would give
multi-processor threads. (when the rest of the infrastructure is
in place)
While doing this I noticed libkvm and sys/kern/kern_proc.c:fill_kinfo_proc
are diverging more than they should.. corrective action needed soon.
s/SNGL/SINGLE/
s/SNGLE/SINGLE/
Fix abbreviation for P_STOPPED_* etc flags, in original code they were
inconsistent and difficult to distinguish between them.
Approved by: julian (mentor)
PCATCH means 'if we get a signal, interrupt me!" and tsleep returns
either EINTR or ERESTART depending on the circumstances. ERESTART is
"special" because it causes the system call to fail, but right as it
returns back to userland it tells the trap handler to move %eip back a
bit so that userland will immediately re-run the syscall.
This is a syscall restart. It only works for things like read() etc where
nothing has changed yet. Note that *userland* is tricked into restarting
the syscall by the kernel. The kernel doesn't actually do the restart. It
is deadly for things like select, poll, nanosleep etc where it might cause
the elapsed time to be reset and start again from scratch. So those
syscalls do this to prevent userland rerunning the syscall:
if (error == ERESTART) error = EINTR;
Fake "signals" like SIGTSTP from ^Z etc do not normally invoke userland
signal handlers. But, in -current, the PCATCH *is* being triggered and
tsleep is returning ERESTART, and the syscall is aborted even though no
userland signal handler was run.
That is the fault here. We're triggering the PCATCH in cases that we
shouldn't. ie: it is being triggered on *any* signal processing, rather
than the case where the signal is posted to userland.
--- Peter
The work of psignal() is a patchwork of special case required by the process
debugging and job-control facilities...
--- Kirk McKusick
"The design and impelementation of the 4.4BSD Operating system"
Page 105
in STABLE source, when psignal is posting a STOP signal to sleeping
process and the signal action of the process is SIG_DFL, system will
directly change the process state from SSLEEP to SSTOP, and when
SIGCONT is posted to the stopped process, if it finds that the process
is still on sleep queue, the process state will be restored to SSLEEP,
and won't wakeup the process.
this commit mimics the behaviour in STABLE source tree.
Reviewed by: Jon Mini, Tim Robbins, Peter Wemm
Approved by: julian@freebsd.org (mentor)
a kernel-internal kern_*() version and a wrapper that is called via
the syscall vector table. For paths and structure pointers, the
internal version either takes a uio_seg parameter or requires the
caller to copyin() the data to kernel memory as appropiate. This
will permit emulation layers to use these syscalls without having
to copy out translated arguments to the stack gap.
Discussed on: -arch
Review/suggestions: bde, jhb, peter, marcel
We need to rethink a bit of this and it doesn't matter if
we break the KSE test program for now as long
as non-KSE programs act as expected.
Submitted by: David Xu <bsddiy@yahoo.com>
(this guy's just asking to get hit with a commit bit..)
I'm not sure what happenned to the original setting of the P_CONTINUED
flag. it appears to have been lost in the paper shuffling...
Submitted by: David Xu <bsddiy@yahoo.com>
Make idle process state more consistant.
Add an assert on thread state.
Clean up idleproc/mi_switch() interaction.
Use a local instead of referencing curthread 7 times in a row
(I've been told curthread can be expensive on some architectures)
Remove some commented out code.
Add a little commented out code (completion coming soon)
Reviewed by: jhb@freebsd.org
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..
(P_CONTINUED) is set when a stopped process receives a SIGCONT and
cleared after it has notified a parent process that has requested
notification via waitpid(2) with WCONTINUED specified in its options
operand. The status value can be checked with the new WIFCONTINUED()
macro.
Reviewed by: jake
pointer instead of a proc pointer and require the process pointed to
by the second argument to be locked. We now use the thread ucred reference
for the credential checks in p_can*() as a result. p_canfoo() should now
no longer need Giant.
inter-process signalling ceased to preserve and return that value,
instead always returning EPERM. This meant that it was possible
to "probe" the pid space for processes that were not otherwise
visible. This change reverts that reversion.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
.) don't use MAXPATHLEN + 1, fix logic to compensate.
.) style(9) function parameters.
.) fix line wrapping.
.) remove duplicated error and string handling code.
.) don't NUL terminate already NUL terminated string.
.) all string length variables changed from int to size_t.
.) constify variables.
.) catch when corename would be truncated.
.) cast pid_t and uid_t args for format string.
.) add parens around return arguments.
Help and suggestions from: bde
killed by SIGSYS for unimlemented syscalls is bad enough.
Obtained from: Lite2 branch
The Lite2 branch has some other interesting unmerged (?) bits in this
file. They are well hidden among cosmetic regressions.
locks the process.
- Defer other blocking operations such as vrele()'s until after we
release locks.
- execsigs() now requires the proc lock to be held when it is called
rather than locking the process internally.
Turn the sigio sx into a mutex.
Sigio lock is really only needed to protect interrupts from dereferencing
the sigio pointer in an object when the sigio itself is being destroyed.
In order to do this in the most unintrusive manner change pgsigio's
sigio * argument into a **, that way we can lock internally to the
function.
SIGCHLD handler is SIG_IGN. This is a reimplementation of the
problematic revision 1.131 of kern_exit.c. To avoid accessing process
UPAGES, we set a new procsig flag when the SIGCHLD handler is SIG_IGN
and use that instead.
we can use td_ucred.
- In killpg1(), the proc lock is sufficient to check if p_stat is SZOMB
or not. We don't need sched_lock.
- Close some races in psignal(). In psignal() there is a big switch
statement based on p_stat. All the different cases are assuming that
the process (or thread) isn't going to change state out from under it.
To ensure this is true, just lock sched_lock for the entire switch. We
practically held it the entire time already anyways. This also
simplifies the locking somewhat and actually results in fewer lock
operations.
- Allow signotify() to be called with the sched_lock held since psignal()
now does that.
- Use td_ucred in a couple of places.
they aren't in the usual path of execution for syscalls and traps.
The main complication for this is that we have to set flags to control
ast() everywhere that changes the signal mask.
Avoid locking in userret() in most of the remaining cases.
Submitted by: luoqi (first part only, long ago, reorganized by me)
Reminded by: dillon
inline function sigsetmasked() and a new macro SIGPENDING(). CURSIG()
will soon be moved out of the normal path of execution for syscalls and
traps. Then its efficiency will be less important but the new interfaces
will be useful for checking for unmasked pending signals in more places.
Submitted by: luoqi (long ago, in a slightly different form)
Assert that sched_lock is not held in CURSIG().
not removing tabs before "__P((", and not outdenting continuation lines
to preserve non-KNF lining up of code with parentheses. Switch to KNF
formatting and/or rewrap the whole prototype in some cases.
New locks are:
- pgrpsess_lock which locks the whole pgrps and sessions,
- pg_mtx which protects the pgrp members, and
- s_mtx which protects the session members.
Please refer to sys/proc.h for the coverage of these locks.
Changes on the pgrp/session interface:
- pgfind() needs the pgrpsess_lock held.
- The caller of enterpgrp() is responsible to allocate a new pgrp and
session.
- Call enterthispgrp() in order to enter an existing pgrp.
- pgsignal() requires a pgrp lock held.
Reviewed by: jhb, alfred
Tested on: cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org
(which is a quad-CPU machine running -current)
this is a low-functionality change that changes the kernel to access the main
thread of a process via the linked list of threads rather than
assuming that it is embedded in the process. It IS still embeded there
but remove all teh code that assumes that in preparation for the next commit
which will actually move it out.
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, benno rice,