identified, unify the code of check_deferred_signal() for all
architectures, making the variant under #ifdef x86 common.
Tested by: marius (sparc64)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
check_deferred_signal() returns twice, since handle_signal() emulates
the return from the normal signal handler by sigreturn(2)ing the
passed context. Second return is performed on the destroyed stack
frame, because __fillcontextx() has already returned. This causes
undefined and bad behaviour, usually the victim thread gets SIGSEGV.
Avoid nested frame and the need to return from it by doing direct call
to getcontext() in the check_deferred_signal() and using a new private
libc helper __fillcontextx2() to complement the context with the
extended CPU state if the deferred signal is still present.
The __fillcontextx() is now unused, but is kept to allow older
libthr.so to be used with the new libc.
Mark __fillcontextx() as returning twice [1].
Reported by: pgj
Pointy hat to: kib
Discussed with: dim
Tested by: pgj, dim
Suggested by: jilles [1]
MFC after: 1 week
The accept4() function, compared to accept(), allows setting the new file
descriptor atomically close-on-exec and explicitly controlling the
non-blocking status on the new socket. (Note that the latter point means
that accept() is not equivalent to any form of accept4().)
The linuxulator's accept4 implementation leaves a race window where the new
file descriptor is not close-on-exec because it calls sys_accept(). This
implementation leaves no such race window (by using falloc() flags). The
linuxulator could be fixed and simplified by using the new code.
Like accept(), accept4() is async-signal-safe, a cancellation point and
permitted in capability mode.
The threaded rtld lock implementation is faster even in the single-threaded
case because it postpones signal handlers via THR_CRITICAL_ENTER and
THR_CRITICAL_LEAVE instead of calling sigprocmask(2).
As a result, exception handling becomes faster in single-threaded
applications linked with libthr.
Reviewed by: kib
pthread_suspend_all_np() may have already suspended its parent thread.
Add locking code in pthread_suspend_all_np() to only allow one thread
to suspend other threads, this eliminates a deadlock where two or more
threads try to suspend each others.
Enqueue thread in LIFO, this can cause starvation, but it gives better
performance. Use _thr_queuefifo to control the frequency of FIFO vs LIFO,
you can use environment string LIBPTHREAD_QUEUE_FIFO to configure the
variable.
a mutex after a thread has unlocked it, it event writes data to the mutex
memory to clear contention bit, there is a race that other threads
can lock it and unlock it, then destroy it, so it should not write
data to the mutex memory if there isn't any waiter.
The new operation UMTX_OP_MUTEX_WAKE2 try to fix the problem. It
requires thread library to clear the lock word entirely, then
call the WAKE2 operation to check if there is any waiter in kernel,
and try to wake up a thread, if necessary, the contention bit is set again
by the operation. This also mitgates the chance that other threads find
the contention bit and try to enter kernel to compete with each other
to wake up sleeping thread, this is unnecessary. With this change, the
mutex owner is no longer holding the mutex until it reaches a point
where kernel umtx queue is locked, it releases the mutex as soon as
possible.
Performance is improved when the mutex is contensted heavily. On Intel
i3-2310M, the runtime of a benchmark program is reduced from 26.87 seconds
to 2.39 seconds, it even is better than UMTX_OP_MUTEX_WAKE which is
deprecated now. http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/bench/mutex_perf.c
example, it uses a serialization point like following:
pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);
pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);
pthread_mutex_destroy(&muetx);
They think a previous lock holder should have already left the mutex and
is no longer referencing it, so they destroy it. To be maximum compatible
with such code, we use IA64 version to unlock the mutex in kernel, remove
the two steps unlocking code.
according to POSIX document, the clock ID may be dynamically allocated,
it unlikely will be in 64K forever. To make it future compatible, we
pack all timeout information into a new structure called _umtx_time, and
use fourth argument as a size indication, a zero means it is old code
using timespec as timeout value, but the new structure also includes flags
and a clock ID, so the size argument is different than before, and it is
non-zero. With this change, it is possible that a thread can sleep
on any supported clock, though current kernel code does not have such a
POSIX clock driver system.
UMTX_OP_WAIT. Upper 16bits is enough to hold a clock id, and lower
16bits is used to pass flags. The change saves a clock_gettime() syscall
from libthr.
the signal handlers with the context information in the deferrred
case.
Only enable the use of getcontextx(3) in the deferred signal delivery
code on amd64 and i386. Sparc64 seems to have some undetermined issues
with interaction of alloca(3) and signal delivery.
Tested by: flo (who also provided sparc64 harware access for me), pho
Discussed with: marius
MFC after: 1 month
versions of pthread_md.h have a special case of dereferencing a null
pointer. Clang warns about this with:
In file included from lib/libthr/arch/i386/i386/pthread_md.c:36:
lib/libthr/arch/i386/include/pthread_md.h:96:10: error: indirection of non-volatile null pointer will be deleted, not trap [-Werror,-Wnull-dereference]
return (TCB_GET32(tcb_self));
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
lib/libthr/arch/i386/include/pthread_md.h:73:13: note: expanded from:
: "m" (*(u_int *)(__tcb_offset(name)))); \
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
lib/libthr/arch/i386/include/pthread_md.h:96:10: note: consider using __builtin_trap() or qualifying pointer with 'volatile'
Since this indirection is done relative to the fs or gs segment, to
retrieve thread-specific data, it is an exception to the rule.
Therefore, add a volatile qualifier to tell the compiler we really want
to dereference a zero address.
MFC after: 1 week