dereferencing. Unaligned access could cause panic on strict alignment
architectures.
Reviewed by: marcel, marius (also tested on sparc64, thanks !)
MFC after: 3 days
support its -k argument:
kern.proc.kstack - dump the kernel stack of a process, if debugging
is permitted.
This sysctl is present if either "options DDB" or "options STACK" is
compiled into the kernel. Having support for tracing the kernel
stacks of processes from user space makes it much easier to debug
(or understand) specific wmesg's while avoiding the need to enter
DDB in order to determine the path by which a process came to be
blocked on a particular wait channel or lock.
- Introduce per-architecture stack_machdep.c to hold stack_save(9).
- Introduce per-architecture machine/stack.h to capture any common
definitions required between db_trace.c and stack_machdep.c.
- Add new kernel option "options STACK"; we will build in stack(9) if it is
defined, or also if "options DDB" is defined to provide compatibility
with existing users of stack(9).
Add new stack_save_td(9) function, which allows the capture of a stacktrace
of another thread rather than the current thread, which the existing
stack_save(9) was limited to. It requires that the thread be neither
swapped out nor running, which is the responsibility of the consumer to
enforce.
Update stack(9) man page.
Build tested: amd64, arm, i386, ia64, powerpc, sparc64, sun4v
Runtime tested: amd64 (rwatson), arm (cognet), i386 (rwatson)
its -f and -v arguments:
kern.proc.filedesc - dump file descriptor information for a process, if
debugging is permitted, including socket addresses, open flags, file
offsets, file paths, etc.
kern.proc.vmmap - dump virtual memory mapping information for a process,
if debugging is permitted, including layout and information on
underlying objects, such as the type of object and path.
These provide a superset of the information historically available
through the now-deprecated procfs(4), and are intended to be exported
in an ABI-robust form.
linker interfaces for looking up function names and offsets from
instruction pointers. Create two variants of each call: one that is
"DDB-safe" and avoids locking in the linker, and one that is safe for
use in live kernels, by virtue of observing locking, and in particular
safe when kernel modules are being loaded and unloaded simultaneous to
their use. This will allow them to be used outside of debugging
contexts.
Modify two of three current stack(9) consumers to use the DDB-safe
interfaces, as they run in low-level debugging contexts, such as inside
lockmgr(9) and the kernel memory allocator.
Update man page.
information in support of DDB(4); these functions bypass normal linker
locking as they may run in contexts where locking is unsafe (such as the
kernel debugger).
Add a new interface linker_ddb_search_symbol_name(), which looks up a
symbol name and offset given an address, and also
linker_search_symbol_name() which does the same but *does* follow the
locking conventions of the linker.
Unlike existing functions, these functions place the name in a
caller-provided buffer, which is stable even after linker locks have been
released. These functions will be used in upcoming revisions to stack(9)
to support kernel stack trace generation in contexts as part of a live,
rather than suspended, kernel.
per-cpu area. cp_time[] goes away and a new function creates a merged
cp_time-like array for things like linprocfs, sysctl etc. The
atomic ops for updating cp_time[] in statclock go away, and the scope
of the thread lock is reduced.
sysctl kern.cp_time returns a backwards compatible cp_time[] array.
A new kern.cp_times sysctl returns the individual per-cpu stats.
I have pending changes to make top and vmstat optionally show per-cpu
stats.
I'm very aware that there are something like 5 or 6 other versions "out
there" for doing this - but none were handy when I needed them.
I did merge my changes with John Baldwin's, and ended up replacing a
few chunks of my stuff with his, and stealing some other code.
Reviewed by: jhb
Partly obtained from: jhb
Currently, Giant is not too much contented so that it is ok to treact it
like any other mutexes.
Please don't forget to update your own custom config kernel files.
Approved by: cognet, marcel (maintainers of arches where option is
not enabled at the moment)
currently, before to spin the turnstile spinlock is acquired and the
waiters flag is set.
This is not strictly necessary, so just spin before to acquire the
spinlock and to set the flags.
This will simplify a lot other functions too, as now we have the waiters
flag set only if there are actually waiters.
This should make wakeup/sleeping couplet faster under intensive mutex
workload.
This also fixes a bug in rw_try_upgrade() in the adaptive case, where
turnstile_lookup() will recurse on the ts_lock lock that will never be
really released [1].
[1] Reported by: jeff with Nokia help
Tested by: pho, kris (earlier, bugged version of rwlock part)
Discussed with: jhb [2], jeff
MFC after: 1 week
[2] John had a similar patch about 6.x and/or 7.x about mutexes probabilly
should never be moved by one lock to another.
As, luckily, nothing in our tree is using it, axe the function.
This breaks lockmgr KPI, so interested, third-party modules should update
their source code with appropriate replacement.
Ok'ed by: ups, rwatson
MFC after: 3 days
while the global callout spinlock is not held, and can lead to PF#.
Reported by: dougb, Mark Atkinson <atkin901 at yahoo dot com>
Tested by: dougb
Diagnosed by: jhb
rwlocks in conjuction with callouts. The function does basically what
callout_init_mtx() alredy does with the difference of using a rwlock
as extra argument.
CALLOUT_SHAREDLOCK flag can be used, now, in order to acquire the lock only
in read mode when running the callout handler. It has no effects when used
in conjuction with mtx.
In order to implement this, underlying callout functions have been made
completely lock type-unaware, so accordingly with this, sysctl
debug.to_avg_mtxcalls is now changed in the generic
debug.to_avg_lockcalls.
Note: currently the allowed lock classes are mutexes and rwlocks because
callout handlers run in softclock swi, so they cannot sleep and they
cannot acquire sleepable locks like sx or lockmgr.
Requested by: kmacy, pjd, rwatson
Reviewed by: jhb
o buffered write, for chunks smaller than PIPE_MINDIRECT bytes
o direct write, for everything else
A call to writev(2) may receive struct iov of various size and the
kernel may have to switch from one solution to the other. Before doing
this, it must wake reader processes and any select/poll/kqueue up.
This commit fixes a bug where select/poll/kqueue are not triggered
when switching from buffered write to direct write. It adds calls to
pipeselwakeup().
I give more details on freebsd-arch@:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2007-September/006790.html
This should fix issues with Erlang (lang/erlang) and kqueue.
Reported by: Rickard Green (Erlang)
an unified way for all the lock primitives to express lock assertions.
Currenty, lockmgrs and rmlocks don't have assertions, so just panic in
that case.
This will be a base for more callout improvements.
Ok'ed by: jhb, jeff
process_fini, thread_ctor, thread_dtor, thread_init, thread_fini. This
will allow us to extend dynamically areas in proc/thread for dtrace ;-)
Reviewed by: rwatson
- process_ctor,dtor, init and fini
- thread_ctor,dtor, init and fini
This allows the ability to add on additional things
during construction/destruction of threads and processes.
Reviewed by: rwatson
communicate that it relates to (is called by) thread_alloc()
o Add cpu_thread_free() which is called from thread_free()
to counter-act cpu_thread_alloc().
i386: Have cpu_thread_free() call cpu_thread_clean() to
preserve behaviour.
ia64: Have cpu_thread_free() call mtx_destroy() for the
mutex initialized in cpu_thread_alloc().
PR: ia64/118024
opposed to what process. Since threads by default have teh name of the
process unless over-written with more useful information, just print the
thread name instead.
proc_rwmen.
Otherwise copy on write may create an anonymous page that is
not marked as dirty. Since writing data to these pages
in this function also does not dirty these pages they may be
later discarded by the pagedaemon.
- Use unit2minor() and minor2unit() to generate minor numbers to support
unit numbers higher than 255.
- Use simple string operations on the 'names' array rather than hard-coded
constants and switch statements so that more ptys can be added by simply
expanding the 'names' array.
MFC after: 1 week
lock optimized for almost exclusive reader access. (see also rmlock.9)
TODO:
Convert to per cpu variables linkerset as soon as it is available.
Optimize UP (single processor) case.
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
to change the freq before the other CPUs are active. The current code
always attempts to change all CPUs to match each other, and the requisite
sched_bind() call won't work before APs are launched.
