Commit Graph

370 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Hans Petter Selasky
2077229b56 Allow pause_sbt() to catch signals during sleep by passing C_CATCH flag.
Define pause_sig() function macro helper similarly to other kernel functions
which catch signals. Update outdated function description.

Discussed with:	kib@
MFC after:	1 week
Sponsored by:	Mellanox Technologies
2018-03-03 18:36:38 +00:00
Hans Petter Selasky
54fc03834a Correct the return code from pause() during cold startup from zero to
EWOULDBLOCK. This also matches the description in pause(9).

Discussed with:	kib@
MFC after:	1 week
Sponsored by:	Mellanox Technologies
2018-03-03 18:12:21 +00:00
Alexander Kabaev
151ba7933a Do pass removing some write-only variables from the kernel.
This reduces noise when kernel is compiled by newer GCC versions,
such as one used by external toolchain ports.

Reviewed by: kib, andrew(sys/arm and sys/arm64), emaste(partial), erj(partial)
Reviewed by: jhb (sys/dev/pci/* sys/kern/vfs_aio.c and sys/kern/kern_synch.c)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10385
2017-12-25 04:48:39 +00:00
Pedro F. Giffuni
51369649b0 sys: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.

Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
2017-11-20 19:43:44 +00:00
Gleb Smirnoff
83c9dea1ba - Remove 'struct vmmeter' from 'struct pcpu', leaving only global vmmeter
in place.  To do per-cpu stats, convert all fields that previously were
  maintained in the vmmeters that sit in pcpus to counter(9).
- Since some vmmeter stats may be touched at very early stages of boot,
  before we have set up UMA and we can do counter_u64_alloc(), provide an
  early counter mechanism:
  o Leave one spare uint64_t in struct pcpu, named pc_early_dummy_counter.
  o Point counter(9) fields of vmmeter to pcpu[0].pc_early_dummy_counter,
    so that at early stages of boot, before counters are allocated we already
    point to a counter that can be safely written to.
  o For sparc64 that required a whole dummy pcpu[MAXCPU] array.

Further related changes:
- Don't include vmmeter.h into pcpu.h.
- vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsout and vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsin changed to 64-bit,
  to match kernel representation.
- struct vmmeter hidden under _KERNEL, and only vmstat(1) is an exclusion.

This is based on benno@'s 4-year old patch:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-July/014471.html

Reviewed by:	kib, gallatin, marius, lidl
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10156
2017-04-17 17:34:47 +00:00
Andriy Gapon
20c69e76b4 dtrace sched:::preempt should fire only when there is preemption
The probe fire on any thread switch before.

Reviewed by:	markj
MFC after:	1 week
Sponsored by:	Panzura
2017-03-25 19:08:51 +00:00
Andriy Gapon
afa0a46cfd move thread switch tracing from mi_switch to sched_switch
This is done so that the thread state changes during the switch
are not confused with the thread state changes reported when the thread
spins on a lock.

Here is an example, three consecutive entries for the same thread (from top to
bottom):

  KTRGRAPH group:"thread", id:"zio_write_intr_3 tid 100260", state:"sleep", attributes: prio:84, wmesg:"-", lockname:"(null)"
  KTRGRAPH group:"thread", id:"zio_write_intr_3 tid 100260", state:"spinning", attributes: lockname:"sched lock 1"
  KTRGRAPH group:"thread", id:"zio_write_intr_3 tid 100260", state:"running", attributes: none

The above trace could leave an impression that the final state of
the thread was "running".
After this change the sleep state will be reported after the "spinning"
and "running" states reported for the sched lock.

Reviewed by:	jhb, markj
MFC after:	1 week
Sponsored by:	Panzura
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9961
2017-03-23 08:57:04 +00:00
Mateusz Guzik
91fa47076d Introduce SCHEDULER_STOPPED_TD for use when the thread pointer was already read
Sprinkle in few places.
2017-02-17 06:45:04 +00:00
Ed Maste
bf9ebe74e2 disambiguate msleep KASSERT diagnostics
Previously "panic: msleep" could happen for a few different reasons.
Break the KASSERTs out into individual cases to identify the failing
condition. Found during the investigation that resulted in r308288.

Reviewed by:	kib, jhb
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8604
2017-01-16 20:34:42 +00:00
John Baldwin
99bc7e4123 Don't spin in pause() during early boot for kthreads other than thread0.
pause() uses a spin loop to simulate a sleep during early boot.  However,
we only need this for thread0 to get far enough in the boot process to
enable timers (at which point pause() can sleep).  For other kthreads,
sleeping in pause() is ok as the callout will be scheduled and will
eventually fire once thread0 initializes timers.

Tested by: 	Steven Kargl
Sleuthing by:	markj
MFC after:	1 week
Sponsored by:	Netflix
2016-12-20 19:44:44 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
75409ce1dd Remove remnants of the recursive sleep support. Instead assert that
we never try to sleep while the thread is on a sleepqueue.

Reviewed by:	jhb
Tested by:	pho
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	1 week
Differential revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8422
2016-11-02 20:57:20 +00:00
Ed Maste
69a2875821 Renumber license clauses in sys/kern to avoid skipping #3 2016-09-15 13:16:20 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
93ccd6bf87 Get rid of struct proc p_sched and struct thread td_sched pointers.
p_sched is unused.

The struct td_sched is always co-allocated with the struct thread,
except for the thread0.  Avoid useless indirection, instead calculate
td_sched location using simple pointer arithmetic in td_get_sched(9).
For thread0, which is statically allocated, create a structure to
emulate layout of the dynamic allocation.

Reviewed by:	jhb (previous version)
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6711
2016-06-05 17:04:03 +00:00
Hans Petter Selasky
bc64e52679 Use DELAY() instead of _sleep() when SCHEDULER_STOPPED() is set inside
pause_sbt(). This allows pause() to continue working during a panic()
which is not invoking KDB. This is useful when debugging graphics
drivers using the LinuxKPI.

Obtained from:	kmacy @
MFC after:	1 week
2016-05-23 10:31:54 +00:00
Pedro F. Giffuni
55e0987aea sys: extend use of the howmany() macro when available.
We have a howmany() macro in the <sys/param.h> header that is
convenient to re-use as it makes things easier to read.
2016-04-26 15:38:17 +00:00
John Baldwin
b4f1d267b7 Rework handling of thread sleeps before timers are working.
Previously, calls to *sleep() and cv_*wait*() immediately returned during
early boot.  Instead, permit threads that request a sleep without a
timeout to sleep as wakeup() works during early boot.  Sleeps with
timeouts are harder to emulate without working timers, so just punt and
panic explicitly if any thread tries to use those before timers are
working.  Any threads that depend on timeouts should either wait until
SI_SUB_KICK_SCHEDULER to start or they should use DELAY() until timers
are available.

Until APs are started earlier this should be a no-op as other kthreads
shouldn't get a chance to start running until after timers are working
regardless of when they were created.

Reviewed by:	kib
Sponsored by:	Netflix
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5724
2016-03-31 18:10:29 +00:00
Conrad Meyer
c975a5d359 Add td_swinvoltick to track last involuntary context switch
Expose in DDB via "show thread."

Reviewed by:	markj
Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon Storage Division
2016-03-25 19:35:29 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
69baeadc31 Remove several write-only variables, all reported by the gcc 4.9
buildkernel run.

Some of them were write-only under some kernel options, e.g. variables
keeping values only used by CTR() macros.  It costs nothing to the
code readability and correctness to eliminate the warnings in those
cases too by removing the local cached values used only for
single-access.

Review:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2665
Reviewed by:	rodrigc
Looked at by:	bjk
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	1 week
2015-05-29 13:24:17 +00:00
Jung-uk Kim
fd90e2ed54 CALLOUT_MPSAFE has lost its meaning since r141428, i.e., for more than ten
years for head.  However, it is continuously misused as the mpsafe argument
for callout_init(9).  Deprecate the flag and clean up callout_init() calls
to make them more consistent.

Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2613
Reviewed by:	jhb
MFC after:	2 weeks
2015-05-22 17:05:21 +00:00
John Baldwin
ed95805e90 Remove support for Xen PV domU kernels. Support for HVM domU kernels
remains.  Xen is planning to phase out support for PV upstream since it
is harder to maintain and has more overhead.  Modern x86 CPUs include
virtualization extensions that support HVM guests instead of PV guests.
In addition, the PV code was i386 only and not as well maintained recently
as the HVM code.
- Remove the i386-only NATIVE option that was used to disable certain
  components for PV kernels.  These components are now standard as they
  are on amd64.
- Remove !XENHVM bits from PV drivers.
- Remove various shims required for XEN (e.g. PT_UPDATES_FLUSH, LOAD_CR3,
  etc.)
- Remove duplicate copy of <xen/features.h>.
- Remove unused, i386-only xenstored.h.

Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2362
Reviewed by:	royger
Tested by:	royger (i386/amd64 HVM domU and amd64 PVH dom0)
Relnotes:	yes
2015-04-30 15:48:48 +00:00
Mark Johnston
38563f7c92 Remove unimplemented sched provider probes.
They were added for compatibility with the sched provider in Solaris and
illumos, but our sched provider is already incompatible since it uses native
types, so there isn't much point in keeping them around.

Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2167
Reviewed by:	rpaulo
2015-04-18 20:36:58 +00:00
Hans Petter Selasky
a115fb62ed Revert for r277213:
FreeBSD developers need more time to review patches in the surrounding
areas like the TCP stack which are using MPSAFE callouts to restore
distribution of callouts on multiple CPUs.

Bump the __FreeBSD_version instead of reverting it.

Suggested by:		kmacy, adrian, glebius and kib
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1438
2015-01-22 11:12:42 +00:00
Hans Petter Selasky
1a26c3c047 Major callout subsystem cleanup and rewrite:
- Close a migration race where callout_reset() failed to set the
  CALLOUT_ACTIVE flag.
- Callout callback functions are now allowed to be protected by
  spinlocks.
- Switching the callout CPU number cannot always be done on a
  per-callout basis. See the updated timeout(9) manual page for more
  information.
- The timeout(9) manual page has been updated to reflect how all the
  functions inside the callout API are working. The manual page has
  been made function oriented to make it easier to deduce how each of
  the functions making up the callout API are working without having
  to first read the whole manual page. Group all functions into a
  handful of sections which should give a quick top-level overview
  when the different functions should be used.
- The CALLOUT_SHAREDLOCK flag and its functionality has been removed
  to reduce the complexity in the callout code and to avoid problems
  about atomically stopping callouts via callout_stop(). If someone
  needs it, it can be re-added. From my quick grep there are no
  CALLOUT_SHAREDLOCK clients in the kernel.
- A new callout API function named "callout_drain_async()" has been
  added. See the updated timeout(9) manual page for a complete
  description.
- Update the callout clients in the "kern/" folder to use the callout
  API properly, like cv_timedwait(). Previously there was some custom
  sleepqueue code in the callout subsystem, which has been removed,
  because we now allow callouts to be protected by spinlocks. This
  allows us to tear down the callout like done with regular mutexes,
  and a "td_slpmutex" has been added to "struct thread" to atomically
  teardown the "td_slpcallout". Further the "TDF_TIMOFAIL" and
  "SWT_SLEEPQTIMO" states can now be completely removed. Currently
  they are marked as available and will be cleaned up in a follow up
  commit.
- Bump the __FreeBSD_version to indicate kernel modules need
  recompilation.
- There has been several reports that this patch "seems to squash a
  serious bug leading to a callout timeout and panic".

Kernel build testing:	all architectures were built
MFC after:		2 weeks
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1438
Sponsored by:		Mellanox Technologies
Reviewed by:		jhb, adrian, sbruno and emaste
2015-01-15 15:32:30 +00:00
Hans Petter Selasky
f0188618f2 Fix multiple incorrect SYSCTL arguments in the kernel:
- Wrong integer type was specified.

- Wrong or missing "access" specifier. The "access" specifier
sometimes included the SYSCTL type, which it should not, except for
procedural SYSCTL nodes.

- Logical OR where binary OR was expected.

- Properly assert the "access" argument passed to all SYSCTL macros,
using the CTASSERT macro. This applies to both static- and dynamically
created SYSCTLs.

- Properly assert the the data type for both static and dynamic
SYSCTLs. In the case of static SYSCTLs we only assert that the data
pointed to by the SYSCTL data pointer has the correct size, hence
there is no easy way to assert types in the C language outside a
C-function.

- Rewrote some code which doesn't pass a constant "access" specifier
when creating dynamic SYSCTL nodes, which is now a requirement.

- Updated "EXAMPLES" section in SYSCTL manual page.

MFC after:	3 days
Sponsored by:	Mellanox Technologies
2014-10-21 07:31:21 +00:00
Jean-Sébastien Pédron
ffea80b445 pause_sbt(): Take the cold path (ie. use DELAY()) if KDB is active
This fixes a panic in the i915 driver when one uses debug.kdb.enter=1
under vt(4).

PR:		193269
Reported by:	emaste@
Submitted by:	avg@
MFC after:	3 days
2014-09-08 08:44:50 +00:00
Andriy Gapon
55050ab560 use saner calculations in should_yield
This is based on feedback from bde.

MFC after:	6 days
2013-11-26 14:00:50 +00:00
Andriy Gapon
d9fae5ab88 dtrace sdt: remove the ugly sname parameter of SDT_PROBE_DEFINE
In its stead use the Solaris / illumos approach of emulating '-' (dash)
in probe names with '__' (two consecutive underscores).

Reviewed by:	markj
MFC after:	3 weeks
2013-11-26 08:46:27 +00:00
Attilio Rao
54366c0bd7 - For kernel compiled only with KDTRACE_HOOKS and not any lock debugging
option, unbreak the lock tracing release semantic by embedding
  calls to LOCKSTAT_PROFILE_RELEASE_LOCK() direclty in the inlined
  version of the releasing functions for mutex, rwlock and sxlock.
  Failing to do so skips the lockstat_probe_func invokation for
  unlocking.
- As part of the LOCKSTAT support is inlined in mutex operation, for
  kernel compiled without lock debugging options, potentially every
  consumer must be compiled including opt_kdtrace.h.
  Fix this by moving KDTRACE_HOOKS into opt_global.h and remove the
  dependency by opt_kdtrace.h for all files, as now only KDTRACE_FRAMES
  is linked there and it is only used as a compile-time stub [0].

[0] immediately shows some new bug as DTRACE-derived support for debug
in sfxge is broken and it was never really tested.  As it was not
including correctly opt_kdtrace.h before it was never enabled so it
was kept broken for a while.  Fix this by using a protection stub,
leaving sfxge driver authors the responsibility for fixing it
appropriately [1].

Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon storage division
Discussed with:	rstone
[0] Reported by:	rstone
[1] Discussed with:	philip
2013-11-25 07:38:45 +00:00
Alexander Motin
ea4af9c09a Make load average sampling asynchronous to hardclock ticks. This improves
measurement of load caused by time-related events still using hardclock.
For example, without this change dummynet, scheduling events each hardclock
tick, was always miscounted as load of 1.

There is still aliasing with events delayed by the new precision mechanism,
but it probably can't be avoided without moving this sampling from using
callout to some lower-level code or handling it in some other special way.

Reviewed by:	davide
Approved by:	re (marius)
2013-09-24 07:03:16 +00:00
Davide Italiano
7faf4d90e8 Fix lc_lock/lc_unlock() support for rmlocks held in shared mode. With
current lock classes KPI it was really difficult because there was no
way to pass an rmtracker object to the lock/unlock routines. In order
to accomplish the task, modify the aforementioned functions so that
they can return (or pass as argument) an uinptr_t, which is in the rm
case used to hold a pointer to struct rm_priotracker for current
thread. As an added bonus, this fixes rm_sleep() in the rm shared
case, which right now can communicate priotracker structure between
lc_unlock()/lc_lock().

Suggested by:	jhb
Reviewed by:	jhb
Approved by:	re (delphij)
2013-09-20 23:06:21 +00:00
Hans Petter Selasky
5a280dbdd6 Simplify pause_sbt() logic. Don't call DELAY() if remainder is less
than or equal to zero.
2013-08-30 10:39:56 +00:00
Olivier Houchard
662423aeaf Don't call sleepinit() from proc0_init(), make it a SYSINIT instead.
vmem needs the sleepq locks to be initialized when free'ing kva, so we want it
called as early as possible.
2013-08-09 23:13:52 +00:00
Andriy Gapon
d6fc869ebd should_yield: protect from td_swvoltick being uninitialized or too stale
The distance between ticks and td_swvoltick should be calculated as
an unsigned number.  Previously we could end up comparing a negative
number with hogticks in which case should_yield() would give incorrect
answer.

We should probably ensure that td_swvoltick is properly initialized.

Sponsored by:	HybridCluster
MFC after:	5 days
2013-07-09 09:01:44 +00:00
Davide Italiano
7563068847 Correct the comment above _sleep() function which still mentions 'timo'
instead of 'sbintime_t'.

Reported by:	kan
2013-06-28 21:04:15 +00:00
John Baldwin
3cf3b9f097 Partially revert r195702. Deferring stops is now implemented via a set of
calls to toggle TDF_SBDRY rather than passing PBDRY to individual sleep
calls.
- Remove the stop_allowed parameters from cursig() and issignal().
  issignal() checks TDF_SBDRY directly.
- Remove the PBDRY and SLEEPQ_STOP_ON_BDRY flags.
2013-03-18 17:23:58 +00:00
Alexander Motin
0dbf17e6eb Make kern_nanosleep() and pause_sbt() to use per-CPU sleep queues.
This removes significant sleep queue lock congestion on multithreaded
microbenchmarks, making them scale to multiple CPUs almost linearly.
2013-03-12 06:58:49 +00:00
Davide Italiano
24e48c6d5b MFcalloutng:
Introduce sbt variants of msleep(), msleep_spin(), pause(), tsleep() in
the KPI, allowing to specify timeout in 'sbintime_t' rather than ticks.

Sponsored by:	Google Summer of Code 2012, iXsystems inc.
Tested by:	flo, marius, ian, markj, Fabian Keil
2013-03-04 12:48:41 +00:00
Davide Italiano
dbd2e1677f MFcalloutng (r244355):
Make loadavg calculation callout direct. There are several reasons for it:
 - it is very simple and doesn't worth context switch to SWI;
 - since SWI is no longer used here, we can remove twelve years old hack,
excluding this SWI from from the loadavg statistics;
 - it fixes problem when eventtimer (HPET) shares interrupt with some other
device, and that interrupt thread counted as permanent loadavg of 1; now
loadavg accounted before that interrupt thread is scheduled.

Sponsored by:	Google Summer of Code 2012, iXsystems inc.
Tested by:	flo, marius, ian, Fabian Keil, markj
2013-03-04 11:22:19 +00:00
Benjamin Kaduk
5e9723e271 Fix some minor inaccuracies introduced in r243251.
Also correct the comment in kern_synch.c which was the source of the
problematic text.

Reviewed by:	kib (previous version)
Approved by:	hrs (mentor)
2013-01-05 00:23:26 +00:00
Ryan Stone
b3e9e682cf Implement the DTrace sched provider. This implementation aims to be
compatible with the sched provider implemented by Solaris and its open-
source derivatives.  Full documentation of the sched provider can be found
on Oracle's DTrace wiki pages.

Note that for compatibility with scripts originally written for Solaris,
serveral probes are defined that will never fire.  These probes are defined
to fire when Solaris-specific features perform certain actions.  As these
features are not present in FreeBSD, the probes can never fire.

Also, I have added a two probes that are not defined in Solaris, lend-pri
and load-change.  These probes have been added to make it possible to
collect schedgraph data with DTrace.

Finally, a few probes are defined in Solaris to take a cpuinfo_t *
argument.  As it was not immediately clear to me how to translate that to
FreeBSD, currently those probes are passed NULL in place of a cpuinfo_t *.

Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-05-15 01:30:25 +00:00
John Baldwin
88bf5036fc Include the associated wait channel message for context switch ktrace
records.  kdump supports both the old and new messages.

Submitted by:	Andrey Zonov  andrey zonov org
MFC after:	1 week
2012-04-20 15:32:36 +00:00
Andriy Gapon
353705930f panic: add a switch and infrastructure for stopping other CPUs in SMP case
Historical behavior of letting other CPUs merily go on is a default for
time being.  The new behavior can be switched on via
kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic tunable and sysctl.

Stopping of the CPUs has (at least) the following benefits:
- more of the system state at panic time is preserved intact
- threads and interrupts do not interfere with dumping of the system
  state

Only one thread runs uninterrupted after panic if stop_scheduler_on_panic
is set.  That thread might call code that is also used in normal context
and that code might use locks to prevent concurrent execution of certain
parts.  Those locks might be held by the stopped threads and would never
be released.  To work around this issue, it was decided that instead of
explicit checks for panic context, we would rather put those checks
inside the locking primitives.

This change has substantial portions written and re-written by attilio
and kib at various times.  Other changes are heavily based on the ideas
and patches submitted by jhb and mdf.  bde has provided many insights
into the details and history of the current code.

The new behavior may cause problems for systems that use a USB keyboard
for interfacing with system console.  This is because of some unusual
locking patterns in the ukbd code which have to be used because on one
hand ukbd is below syscons, but on the other hand it has to interface
with other usb code that uses regular mutexes/Giant for its concurrency
protection.  Dumping to USB-connected disks may also be affected.

PR:			amd64/139614 (at least)
In cooperation with:	attilio, jhb, kib, mdf
Discussed with:		arch@, bde
Tested by:		Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>,
			gnn,
			Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>,
			glebius,
			Andrew Boyer <aboyer@averesystems.com>
			(various versions of the patch)
MFC after:		3 months (or never)
2011-12-11 21:02:01 +00:00
Hans Petter Selasky
494b6fec82 Make sure the description of pause() is
equivalent to its implementation.
No code change.

Suggested by:	Bruce Evans
MFC after:	3 days
2011-12-03 15:51:15 +00:00
Hans Petter Selasky
9e3ae31c7a Given that the typical usage of pause() is pause("zzz", hz / N), where N can
be greater than hz in some cases, simply ignore a timeout value of zero.

Suggested by:	Bruce Evans
MFC after:	1 week
2011-11-20 08:36:18 +00:00
Hans Petter Selasky
f1a1612fc2 Minor style change:
Simplify the description of pause() and shorten the KASSERT message in pause.
Also add a clamp for the timo argument in the non-KASSERT case.

Suggested by:	Bruce Evans
MFC after:	1 week
2011-11-20 08:29:23 +00:00
Hans Petter Selasky
3ddd1777d5 Simplify the usb_pause_mtx() function by factoring out the generic parts
to the kernel's pause() function. The pause() function can now be used
when cold != 0. Also assert that the timeout in system ticks must be
positive.

Suggested by:	Bruce Evans
MFC after:	1 week
2011-11-19 11:17:27 +00:00
Kip Macy
8451d0dd78 In order to maximize the re-usability of kernel code in user space this
patch modifies makesyscalls.sh to prefix all of the non-compatibility
calls (e.g. not linux_, freebsd32_) with sys_ and updates the kernel
entry points and all places in the code that use them. It also
fixes an additional name space collision between the kernel function
psignal and the libc function of the same name by renaming the kernel
psignal kern_psignal(). By introducing this change now we will ease future
MFCs that change syscalls.

Reviewed by:	rwatson
Approved by:	re (bz)
2011-09-16 13:58:51 +00:00
John Baldwin
211d4a2c42 Simplify a stale assertion. We have not called mi_switch() from a nested
critical section during a preemption for several years.

MFC after:	1 week
2011-05-24 13:17:08 +00:00
Matthew D Fleming
3d08a76bbc Use a name instead of a magic number for kern_yield(9) when the priority
should not change.  Fetch the td_user_pri under the thread lock.  This
is probably not necessary but a magic number also seems preferable to
knowing the implementation details here.

Requested by:	Jason Behmer < jason DOT behmer AT isilon DOT com >
2011-05-13 05:27:58 +00:00
Matthew D Fleming
e7ceb1e99b Based on discussions on the svn-src mailing list, rework r218195:
- entirely eliminate some calls to uio_yeild() as being unnecessary,
   such as in a sysctl handler.

 - move should_yield() and maybe_yield() to kern_synch.c and move the
   prototypes from sys/uio.h to sys/proc.h

 - add a slightly more generic kern_yield() that can replace the
   functionality of uio_yield().

 - replace source uses of uio_yield() with the functional equivalent,
   or in some cases do not change the thread priority when switching.

 - fix a logic inversion bug in vlrureclaim(), pointed out by bde@.

 - instead of using the per-cpu last switched ticks, use a per thread
   variable for should_yield().  With PREEMPTION, the only reasonable
   use of this is to determine if a lock has been held a long time and
   relinquish it.  Without PREEMPTION, this is essentially the same as
   the per-cpu variable.
2011-02-08 00:16:36 +00:00