KSEs when it's thread exits; allow the GC handler to do that.
o Make spinlock/spinlock critical regions.
The following were submitted by davidxu
o Alow thr_switch() to take a null mailbox argument.
o Better protect cancellation checks.
o Don't set KSE specific data when creating new KSEs; rely on the
first upcall of the KSE to set it.
o Add the ability to set the maximum concurrency level and do this
automatically. We should have a way to enable/disable this with
some sort of tunable because some applications may not want this
to be the default.
o Hold the scheduling lock across thread switch calls.
o If scheduling of a thread fails, make sure to remove it from the list
of active threads.
o Better protect accesses to a joining threads when the target thread is
exited and detached.
o Remove some macro definitions that are now provided by <sys/kse.h>.
o Don't leave the library in threaded mode if creation of the initial
KSE fails.
o Wakeup idle KSEs when there are threads ready to run.
o Maintain the number of threads active in the priority queue.
In _thread_switch, set current thread pointer in kse mailbox
only after all registers copied out of thread mailbox, kernel will do
upcall at trap time, if set current thread pointer before loading all
registers from thread mailbox, at trap time, the thread mailbox data
will be overwritten by kernel, result is junk data is loaded into CPU.
completeness and doesn't get us a working libc_r there because libc_r
uses setjmp() and setjmp() cannot be used for context switches on ia64
as-is (or sparc64). Rather than making setjmp/longjmp behave like
the *context() calls, it would be far better to make libc_r use *context()
directly which is what they are for.
Obtained from: marcel
