struct proc as p_tracecred alongside the current cache of the vnode in
p_tracep. This credential is then used for all later ktrace operations on
this file rather than using the credential of the current thread at the
time of each ktrace event.
- Now that we have multiple ktrace-related items in struct proc that are
pointers, rename p_tracep to p_tracevp to make it less ambiguous.
Requested by: rwatson (1)
- If SYSCTL_OUT() fails in sysctl_kern_proc_args(), return the error
instead of ignoring it if we have new arguments for the process.
- If the new arguments for a process are too long, return ENOMEM instead of
returning success but not doing the actual copy.
Submitted by: bde
hold hold it across the check to avoid extra lock operations in the
common case.
- Copy in the new args to a temporary pargs structure before we drop the
reference to the old one. Thus, if the copyin() fails, the process
arguments are unchanged rather than being deleted. Also, p_args is no
longer NULL during the sysctl operation.
- Provide a routine in sched_4bsd to add this functionality.
- Use sched_pctcpu() in kern_proc, which is the one place outside of
sched_4bsd where the old pctcpu value was accessed directly.
Approved by: re
data in the scheduler independant structures (proc, ksegrp, kse, thread).
- Implement unused stubs for this mechanism in sched_4bsd.
Approved by: re
Reviewed by: luigi, trb
Tested on: x86, alpha
Add code to free KSEs and KSEGRPs on exit.
Sort KSE prototypes in proc.h.
Add the missing kse_exit() syscall.
ksetest now does not leak KSEs and KSEGRPS.
Submitted by: (parts) davidxu
processes forked with RFTHREAD.
- Use a goto to a label for common code when exiting from fork1() in case
of an error.
- Move the RFTHREAD linkage setup code later in fork since the ppeers_lock
cannot be locked while holding a proc lock. Handle the race of a task
leader exiting and killing its peers while a peer is forking a new child.
In that case, go ahead and let the peer process proceed normally as the
parent is about to kill it. However, the task leader may have already
gone to sleep to wait for the peers to die, so the new child process may
not receive a SIGKILL from the task leader. Rather than try to destruct
the new child process, just go ahead and send it a SIGKILL directly and
add it to the p_peers list. This ensures that the task leader will wait
until both the peer process doing the fork() and the new child process
have received their KILL signals and exited.
Discussed with: truckman (earlier versions)
in specific situations. The owner thread must be blocked, and the
borrower can not proceed back to user space with the borrowed KSE.
The borrower will return the KSE on the next context switch where
teh owner wants it back. This removes a lot of possible
race conditions and deadlocks. It is consceivable that the
borrower should inherit the priority of the owner too.
that's another discussion and would be simple to do.
Also, as part of this, the "preallocatd spare thread" is attached to the
thread doing a syscall rather than the KSE. This removes the need to lock
the scheduler when we want to access it, as it's now "at hand".
DDB now shows a lot mor info for threaded proceses though it may need
some optimisation to squeeze it all back into 80 chars again.
(possible JKH project)
Upcalls are now "bound" threads, but "KSE Lending" now means that
other completing syscalls can be completed using that KSE before the upcall
finally makes it back to the UTS. (getting threads OUT OF THE KERNEL is
one of the highest priorities in the KSE system.) The upcall when it happens
will present all the completed syscalls to the KSE for selection.
name instead. (e.g., SLOCK instead of SMTX, TD_ON_LOCK() instead of
TD_ON_MUTEX()) Eventually a turnstile abstraction will be added that
will be shared with mutexes and other types of locks. SLOCK/TDI_LOCK will
be used internally by the turnstile code and will not be specific to
mutexes. Making the change now ensures that turnstiles can be dropped
in at a later date without affecting the ABI of userland applications.
doesn't give them enough stack to do much before blowing away the pcb.
This adds MI and MD code to allow the allocation of an alternate kstack
who's size can be speficied when calling kthread_create. Passing the
value 0 prevents the alternate kstack from being created. Note that the
ia64 MD code is missing for now, and PowerPC was only partially written
due to the pmap.c being incomplete there.
Though this patch does not modify anything to make use of the alternate
kstack, acpi and usb are good candidates.
Reviewed by: jake, peter, jhb
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]
from stopping another thread from completing a syscall, and this allows it to
release its resources etc. Probably more related commits to follow (at least
one I know of)
Initial concept by: julian, dillon
Submitted by: davidxu
- 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.
PS_STRINGS and USRSTACK is. This is necessary in order to decode a.out
core dumps. kern_proc.c was already referring to both of these values
but was missing the #include "opt_kstack_pages.h". Make the sysctl
variables visible so that certain kld modules can see how their parent
kernel was configured.
The process allocator now caches and hands out complete process structures
*including substructures* .
i.e. it get's the process structure with the first thread (and soon KSE)
already allocated and attached, all in one hit.
For the average non threaded program (non KSE that is) the allocated thread and its stack remain attached to the process, even when the process is
unused and in the process cache. This saves having to allocate and attach it
later, effectively bringing us (hopefully) close to the efficiency
of pre-KSE systems where these were a single structure.
Reviewed by: davidxu@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org
(I skipped those in contrib/, gnu/ and crypto/)
While I was at it, fixed a lot more found by ispell that I
could identify with certainty to be errors. All of these
were in comments or text, not in actual code.
Suggested by: bde
MFC after: 3 days
SYSCTL_OUT() from blocking while locks are held. This should
only be done when it would be inconvenient to make a temporary copy of
the data and defer calling SYSCTL_OUT() until after the locks are
released.
formulated. The correct states should be:
IDLE: On the idle KSE list for that KSEG
RUNQ: Linked onto the system run queue.
THREAD: Attached to a thread and slaved to whatever state the thread is in.
This means that most places where we were adjusting kse state can go away
as it is just moving around because the thread is..
The only places we need to adjust the KSE state is in transition to and from
the idle and run queues.
Reviewed by: jhb@freebsd.org
pmap_swapin_proc/pmap_swapout_proc functions from the MD pmap code
and use a single equivalent MI version. There are other cleanups
needed still.
While here, use the UMA zone hooks to keep a cache of preinitialized
proc structures handy, just like the thread system does. This eliminates
one dependency on 'struct proc' being persistent even after being freed.
There are some comments about things that can be factored out into
ctor/dtor functions if it is worth it. For now they are mostly just
doing statistics to get a feel of how it is working.
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..
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.
be done internally.
Ensure that no one can fsetown() to a dying process/pgrp. We need
to check the process for P_WEXIT to see if it's exiting. Process
groups are already safe because there is no such thing as a pgrp
zombie, therefore the proctree lock completely protects the pgrp
from having sigio structures associated with it after it runs
funsetownlst.
Add sigio lock to witness list under proctree and allproc, but over
proc and pgrp.
Seigo Tanimura helped with this.
sx lock. Trying to get the lock order between these locks was getting
too complicated as the locking in wait1() was being fixed.
- leavepgrp() now requires an exclusive lock of proctree_lock to be held
when it is called.
- fixjobc() no longer gets a shared lock of proctree_lock now that it
requires an xlock be held by the caller.
- Locking notes in sys/proc.h are adjusted to note that everything that
used to be protected by the pgrpsess_lock is now protected by the
proctree_lock.
is called.
- Change sysctl_out_proc() to require that the process is locked when it
is called and to drop the lock before it returns. If this proves too
complex we can change sysctl_out_proc() to simply acquire the lock at
the very end and have the calling code drop the lock right after it
returns.
- Lock the process we are going to export before the p_cansee() in the
loop in sysctl_kern_proc() and hold the lock until we call
sysctl_out_proc().
- Don't call p_cansee() on the process about to be exported twice in
the aforementioned loop.
most cases NULL is passed, but in some cases such as network driver locks
(which use the MTX_NETWORK_LOCK macro) and UMA zone locks, a name is used.
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
