While the KSE project was quite successful in bringing threading to
FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the kse library was never developed
to its full potential. Backwards compatibility will be provided via
libmap.conf for dynamically linked binaries and static binaries will
be broken.
silent NULL pointer dereference in the i386 and sparc64 pmap_pinit()
when the kmem_alloc_nofault() failed to allocate address space. Both
functions now return error instead of panicing or dereferencing NULL.
As consequence, vmspace_exec() and vmspace_unshare() returns the errno
int. struct vmspace arg was added to vm_forkproc() to avoid dealing
with failed allocation when most of the fork1() job is already done.
The kernel stack for the thread is now set up in the thread_alloc(),
that itself may return NULL. Also, allocation of the first process
thread is performed in the fork1() to properly deal with stack
allocation failure. proc_linkup() is separated into proc_linkup()
called from fork1(), and proc_linkup0(), that is used to set up the
kernel process (was known as swapper).
In collaboration with: Peter Holm
Reviewed by: jhb
Put in a little comment explaining why it went away.
Re-enable it in the case there an exisiting process is just splitting
off its address space and file descriptors.
(I donpt think anything uses that code but it needs some sort of locking
and this does the job.
Reviewed by: Davidxu, alc, others
MFC after: 3 days
from Mac OS X Leopard--rationalize naming for entry points to
the following general forms:
mac_<object>_<method/action>
mac_<object>_check_<method/action>
The previous naming scheme was inconsistent and mostly
reversed from the new scheme. Also, make object types more
consistent and remove spaces from object types that contain
multiple parts ("posix_sem" -> "posixsem") to make mechanical
parsing easier. Introduce a new "netinet" object type for
certain IPv4/IPv6-related methods. Also simplify, slightly,
some entry point names.
All MAC policy modules will need to be recompiled, and modules
not updates as part of this commit will need to be modified to
conform to the new KPI.
Sponsored by: SPARTA (original patches against Mac OS X)
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project, Apple Computer
After discussions with jeff, alc, (various Ironport people), david Xu,
and mostly Alfred (who found the problem) it has been demonstrated that this
is not needed for our implementations of threads and represents a real
(as in we've seen it happen a lot) deadlock danger.
Several points:
Since forking multiple threads is not allowed, and posix states that
any mutexes owned by othre threads wilol be owned in the child by
phantom threads, and therads shouldn't ba accessing shared structures without
protection, It can be proved that if this leads to the child process accessing
inconsistent data, it's a programming error.
The mode of thread_single() being used in fork() is the wrong one.
It is using SINGLE_NO_EXIT when it should be using SINGLE_BOUNDARY.
Even if this we used, System processes have no need to do it as they have
no userland to get inconsistent.
This commmit first fixes the above bugs to get tehm correct in CVS.
then removes them with #ifdef.
This is so that history contains the corrected version should it
be needed in the future.
This code may be needed if we implement the forkall() syscall from
Solaris. It may be needed for other non-posix thread libraries
at some time in the future, so let the code sit for a short while
while I do some work on it anyhow.
This removes a reproducible lockup in NFS.
It may be argued that maybe doing a fork while holding a vnode lock may
not be the best idea in th efirst place but it shouldn't cause a deadlock.
The removal has been running under soak test for several days now.
This removal should be seriously considered for 7.0 and RELENG_6.
Note. There is code in the core-dumping code that may have a similar problem
with coredumping threaded processes
MFC After: 4 days
to kproc_xxx as they actually make whole processes.
Thos makes way for us to add REAL kthread_create() and friends
that actually make theads. it turns out that most of these
calls actually end up being moved back to the thread version
when it's added. but we need to make this cosmetic change first.
I'd LOVE to do this rename in 7.0 so that we can eventually MFC the
new kthread_xxx() calls.
changes the units from seconds to the value of 'ticks' when swapped
in/out. ULE does not have a periodic timer that scans all threads in
the system and as such maintaining a per-second counter is difficult.
- Change computations requiring the unit in seconds to subtract ticks
and divide by hz. This does make the wraparound condition hz times
more frequent but this is still in the range of several months to
years and the adverse effects are minimal.
Approved by: re
- p_sflag was mostly protected by PROC_LOCK rather than the PROC_SLOCK or
previously the sched_lock. These bugs have existed for some time.
- Allow swapout to try each thread in a process individually and then
swapin the whole process if any of these fail. This allows us to move
most scheduler related swap flags into td_flags.
- Keep ki_sflag for backwards compat but change all in source tools to
use the new and more correct location of P_INMEM.
Reported by: pho
Reviewed by: attilio, kib
Approved by: re (kensmith)
a privilege is checked against the real uid rather than the effective
uid, instead decide which uid to use in priv_check_cred() based on the
privilege passed in. We use the real uid for PRIV_MAXFILES,
PRIV_MAXPROC, and PRIV_PROC_LIMIT. Remove the definition of
SUSER_RUID; there are now no flags defined for priv_check_cred().
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
some cases, move to priv_check() if it was an operation on a thread and
no other flags were present.
Eliminate caller-side jail exception checking (also now-unused); jail
privilege exception code now goes solely in kern_jail.c.
We can't yet eliminate suser() due to some cases in the KAME code where
a privilege check is performed and then used in many different deferred
paths. Do, however, move those prototypes to priv.h.
Reviewed by: csjp
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
In particular:
- Add an explicative table for locking of struct vmmeter members
- Apply new rules for some of those members
- Remove some unuseful comments
Heavily reviewed by: alc, bde, jeff
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
embedded storage in struct ucred. This allows audit state to be cached
with the thread, avoiding locking operations with each system call, and
makes it available in asynchronous execution contexts, such as deep in
the network stack or VFS.
Reviewed by: csjp
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
- Use thread_lock() rather than sched_lock for per-thread scheduling
sychronization.
- Use the per-process spinlock rather than the sched_lock for per-process
scheduling synchronization.
- Replace the tail-end of fork_exit() with a scheduler specific routine
which can do the appropriate lock manipulations.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
td_ru. This removes the requirement for per-process synchronization in
statclock() and mi_switch(). This was previously supported by
sched_lock which is going away. All modifications to rusage are now
done in the context of the owning thread. reads proceed without locks.
- Aggregate exiting threads rusage in thread_exit() such that the exiting
thread's rusage is not lost.
- Provide a new routine, rufetch() to fetch an aggregate of all rusage
structures from all threads in a process. This routine must be used
in any place requiring a rusage from a process prior to it's exit. The
exited process's rusage is still available via p_ru.
- Aggregate tick statistics only on demand via rufetch() or when a thread
exits. Tick statistics are kept in the thread and protected by sched_lock
until it exits.
Initial patch by: attilio
Reviewed by: attilio, bde (some objections), arch (mostly silent)
Probabilly, a general approach is not the better solution here, so we should
solve the sched_lock protection problems separately.
Requested by: alc
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
vmcnts. This can be used to abstract away pcpu details but also changes
to use atomics for all counters now. This means sched lock is no longer
responsible for protecting counts in the switch routines.
Contributed by: Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>
and flags with an sxlock. This leads to a significant and measurable
performance improvement as a result of access to shared locking for
frequent lookup operations, reduced general overhead, and reduced overhead
in the event of contention. All of these are imported for threaded
applications where simultaneous access to a shared file descriptor array
occurs frequently. Kris has reported 2x-4x transaction rate improvements
on 8-core MySQL benchmarks; smaller improvements can be expected for many
workloads as a result of reduced overhead.
- Generally eliminate the distinction between "fast" and regular
acquisisition of the filedesc lock; the plan is that they will now all
be fast. Change all locking instances to either shared or exclusive
locks.
- Correct a bug (pointed out by kib) in fdfree() where previously msleep()
was called without the mutex held; sx_sleep() is now always called with
the sxlock held exclusively.
- Universally hold the struct file lock over changes to struct file,
rather than the filedesc lock or no lock. Always update the f_ops
field last. A further memory barrier is required here in the future
(discussed with jhb).
- Improve locking and reference management in linux_at(), which fails to
properly acquire vnode references before using vnode pointers. Annotate
improper use of vn_fullpath(), which will be replaced at a future date.
In fcntl(), we conservatively acquire an exclusive lock, even though in
some cases a shared lock may be sufficient, which should be revisited.
The dropping of the filedesc lock in fdgrowtable() is no longer required
as the sxlock can be held over the sleep operation; we should consider
removing that (pointed out by attilio).
Tested by: kris
Discussed with: jhb, kris, attilio, jeff
system calls now enter without Giant held, and then in some cases, acquire
Giant explicitly.
Remove a number of other MPSAFE annotations in the credential code and
tweak one or two other adjacent comments.
PRIO_USER case, possibly also other places that deferences
p_ucred.
In the past, we insert a new process into the allproc list right
after PID allocation, and release the allproc_lock sx. Because
most content in new proc's structure is not yet initialized,
this could lead to undefined result if we do not handle PRS_NEW
with care.
The problem with PRS_NEW state is that it does not provide fine
grained information about how much initialization is done for a
new process. By defination, after PRIO_USER setpriority(), all
processes that belongs to given user should have their nice value
set to the specified value. Therefore, if p_{start,end}copy
section was done for a PRS_NEW process, we can not safely ignore
it because p_nice is in this area. On the other hand, we should
be careful on PRS_NEW processes because we do not allow non-root
users to lower their nice values, and without a successful copy
of the copy section, we can get stale values that is inherted
from the uninitialized area of the process structure.
This commit tries to close the race condition by grabbing proc
mutex *before* we release allproc_lock xlock, and do copy as
well as zero immediately after the allproc_lock xunlock. This
guarantees that the new process would have its p_copy and p_zero
sections, as well as user credential informaion initialized. In
getpriority() case, instead of grabbing PROC_LOCK for a PRS_NEW
process, we just skip the process in question, because it does
not affect the final result of the call, as the p_nice value
would be copied from its parent, and we will see it during
allproc traverse.
Other potential solutions are still under evaluation.
Discussed with: davidxu, jhb, rwatson
PR: kern/108071
MFC after: 2 weeks
setrunqueue() was mostly empty. The few asserts and thread state
setting were moved to the individual schedulers. sched_add() was
chosen to displace it for naming consistency reasons.
- Remove adjustrunqueue, it was 4 lines of code that was ifdef'd to be
different on all three schedulers where it was only called in one place
each.
- Remove the long ifdef'd out remrunqueue code.
- Remove the now redundant ts_state. Inspect the thread state directly.
- Don't set TSF_* flags from kern_switch.c, we were only doing this to
support a feature in one scheduler.
- Change sched_choose() to return a thread rather than a td_sched. Also,
rely on the schedulers to return the idlethread. This simplifies the
logic in choosethread(). Aside from the run queue links kern_switch.c
mostly does not care about the contents of td_sched.
Discussed with: julian
- Move the idle thread loop into the per scheduler area. ULE wants to
do something different from the other schedulers.
Suggested by: jhb
Tested on: x86/amd64 sched_{4BSD, ULE, CORE}.
Make part of John Birrell's KSE patch permanent..
Specifically, remove:
Any reference of the ksegrp structure. This feature was
never fully utilised and made things overly complicated.
All code in the scheduler that tried to make threaded programs
fair to unthreaded programs. Libpthread processes will already
do this to some extent and libthr processes already disable it.
Also:
Since this makes such a big change to the scheduler(s), take the opportunity
to rename some structures and elements that had to be moved anyhow.
This makes the code a lot more readable.
The ULE scheduler compiles again but I have no idea if it works.
The 4bsd scheduler still reqires a little cleaning and some functions that now do
ALMOST nothing will go away, but I thought I'd do that as a separate commit.
Tested by David Xu, and Dan Eischen using libthr and libpthread.
specific privilege names to a broad range of privileges. These may
require some future tweaking.
Sponsored by: nCircle Network Security, Inc.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Discussed on: arch@
Reviewed (at least in part) by: mlaier, jmg, pjd, bde, ceri,
Alex Lyashkov <umka at sevcity dot net>,
Skip Ford <skip dot ford at verizon dot net>,
Antoine Brodin <antoine dot brodin at laposte dot net>
begun with a repo-copy of mac.h to mac_framework.h. sys/mac.h now
contains the userspace and user<->kernel API and definitions, with all
in-kernel interfaces moved to mac_framework.h, which is now included
across most of the kernel instead.
This change is the first step in a larger cleanup and sweep of MAC
Framework interfaces in the kernel, and will not be MFC'd.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: SPARTA
image_params arg.
- Change struct image_params to include struct sysentvec pointer and
initialize it.
- Change all consumers of process_exit/process_exec eventhandlers to
new prototypes (includes splitting up into distinct exec/exit functions).
- Add eventhandler to userret.
Sponsored by: Google SoC 2006
Submitted by: rdivacky
Parts suggested by: jhb (on hackers@)
- For privileged processes safe two mutex operations.
We may want to consider if this is good idea to use SUSER_ALLOWJAIL here,
but for now I didn't wanted to change the original behaviour.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Rename struct thread's td_sticks to td_pticks, we will need the
other name for more appropriately named use shortly. Reduce it
from uint64_t to u_int.
Clear td_pticks whenever we enter the kernel instead of recording
its value as reference for userret(). Use the absolute value of
td->pticks in userret() and eliminate third argument.
reliability when tracing fast-moving processes or writing traces to
slow file systems by avoiding unbounded queueuing and dropped records.
Record loss was previously possible when the global pool of records
become depleted as a result of record generation outstripping record
commit, which occurred quickly in many common situations.
These changes partially restore the 4.x model of committing ktrace
records at the point of trace generation (synchronous), but maintain
the 5.x deferred record commit behavior (asynchronous) for situations
where entering VFS and sleeping is not possible (i.e., in the
scheduler). Records are now queued per-process as opposed to
globally, with processes responsible for committing records from their
own context as required.
- Eliminate the ktrace worker thread and global record queue, as they
are no longer used. Keep the global free record list, as records
are still used.
- Add a per-process record queue, which will hold any asynchronously
generated records, such as from context switches. This replaces the
global queue as the place to submit asynchronous records to.
- When a record is committed asynchronously, simply queue it to the
process.
- When a record is committed synchronously, first drain any pending
per-process records in order to maintain ordering as best we can.
Currently ordering between competing threads is provided via a global
ktrace_sx, but a per-process flag or lock may be desirable in the
future.
- When a process returns to user space following a system call, trap,
signal delivery, etc, flush any pending records.
- When a process exits, flush any pending records.
- Assert on process tear-down that there are no pending records.
- Slightly abstract the notion of being "in ktrace", which is used to
prevent the recursive generation of records, as well as generating
traces for ktrace events.
Future work here might look at changing the set of events marked for
synchronous and asynchronous record generation, re-balancing queue
depth, timeliness of commit to disk, and so on. I.e., performing a
drain every (n) records.
MFC after: 1 month
Discussed with: jhb
Requested by: Marc Olzheim <marcolz at stack dot nl>
- Introducing the possibility of using locks different than mutexes
for the knlist locking. In order to do this, we add three arguments to
knlist_init() to specify the functions to use to lock, unlock and
check if the lock is owned. If these arguments are NULL, we assume
mtx_lock, mtx_unlock and mtx_owned, respectively.
- Using the vnode lock for the knlist locking, when doing kqueue operations
on a vnode. This way, we don't have to lock the vnode while holding a
mutex, in filt_vfsread.
Reviewed by: jmg
Approved by: re (scottl), scottl (mentor override)
Pointyhat to: ssouhlal
Will be happy: everyone
critical_enter() and critical_exit() are now solely a mechanism for
deferring kernel preemptions. They no longer have any affect on
interrupts. This means that standalone critical sections are now very
cheap as they are simply unlocked integer increments and decrements for the
common case.
Spin mutexes now use a separate KPI implemented in MD code: spinlock_enter()
and spinlock_exit(). This KPI is responsible for providing whatever MD
guarantees are needed to ensure that a thread holding a spin lock won't
be preempted by any other code that will try to lock the same lock. For
now all archs continue to block interrupts in a "spinlock section" as they
did formerly in all critical sections. Note that I've also taken this
opportunity to push a few things into MD code rather than MI. For example,
critical_fork_exit() no longer exists. Instead, MD code ensures that new
threads have the correct state when they are created. Also, we no longer
try to fixup the idlethreads for APs in MI code. Instead, each arch sets
the initial curthread and adjusts the state of the idle thread it borrows
in order to perform the initial context switch.
This change is largely a big NOP, but the cleaner separation it provides
will allow for more efficient alternative locking schemes in other parts
of the kernel (bare critical sections rather than per-CPU spin mutexes
for per-CPU data for example).
Reviewed by: grehan, cognet, arch@, others
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64, powerpc, arm, possibly more
for ensuring that a process' filedesc is not shared with anybody.
Use it in the two places which previously had private implmentations.
This collects all fd_refcnt handling in kern_descrip.c
Use this in all the places where sleeping with the lock held is not
an issue.
The distinction will become significant once we finalize the exact
lock-type to use for this kind of case.
