one of the following:
- Holding kernel_lock (indicating that the code is not MT safe).
- Bracketing critical sections with kpreempt_disable/kpreempt_enable.
- Holding the interrupt priority level above IPL_NONE.
Statistics on kernel preemption are reported via event counters, and
where preemption is deferred for some reason, it's also reported via
lockstat. The LWP priority at which preemption is triggered is tuneable
via sysctl.
we no longer need to guard against access from hardware interrupt handlers.
Additionally, if cloning a process with CLONE_SIGHAND, arrange to have the
child process share the parent's lock so that signal state may be kept in
sync. Partially addresses PR kern/37437.
proclist_mutex and proclist_lock into a single adaptive mutex (proc_lock).
Implications:
- Inspecting process state requires thread context, so signals can no longer
be sent from a hardware interrupt handler. Signal activity must be
deferred to a soft interrupt or kthread.
- As the proc state locking is simplified, it's now safe to take exit()
and wait() out from under kernel_lock.
- The system spends less time at IPL_SCHED, and there is less lock activity.
int foo(struct lwp *l, void *v, register_t *retval)
to:
int foo(struct lwp *l, const struct foo_args *uap, register_t *retval)
Fixup compat code to not write into 'uap' and (in some cases) to actually
pass a correctly formatted 'uap' structure with the right name to the
next routine.
A few 'compat' routines that just call standard ones have been deleted.
All the 'compat' code compiles (along with the kernels required to test
build it).
98% done by automated scripts.
by yamt@.
- Introduce SOBJ_SLEEPQ_LIFO, and use for LWPs sleeping via _lwp_park.
libpthread enqueues most waiters in LIFO order to try and wake LWPs that
ran recently, since their working set is more likely to be in cache.
Matching the order of insertion reduces the time spent searching queues
in the kernel.
- Do not boost the priority of LWPs sleeping in _lwp_park, just let them
sleep at their user priority level. LWPs waiting for some I/O event in
the kernel still wait with kernel priority and get woken more quickly.
This needs more evaluation and is to be revisited, but the effect on a
variety of benchmarks is positive.
- When waking LWPs, do not send an IPI to remote CPUs or arrange for the
current LWP to be preempted unless (a) the thread being awoken has kernel
priority and has higher priority than the currently running thread or (b)
the remote CPU is idle.
from doc/BRANCHES:
idle lwp, and some changes depending on it.
1. separate context switching and thread scheduling.
(cf. gmcgarry_ctxsw)
2. implement idle lwp.
3. clean up related MD/MI interfaces.
4. make scheduler(s) modular.
once, and prior to passing it to the caller of sys_wait4() and at the same
time as adding it to the parent.
Commands like:
time sh -c 'i=0; while [ $i -lt 1000 ]; do i=$(expr $i + 1); done'
now give same output.
and 'rusage' without having to copy data to/from stackgap buffers.
The old split (find_stopped_child) could be removed.
amd64 seems to run netbsd32, linux and linux32 emulations. sparc64 compiles.
I think it existed to cache the numbers in kernel memory of a zombie when
proc->p_stats was part of the 'u' area - so got freed earlier and wouldn't
(easily) be accessible from a separate process. However since both the
p_ru and p_stats fields are freed at the same time it is no longer needed.
Ride the recent 4.99.19 version change.
Seems to be quite stable. Some work still left to do.
Please note, that syscalls are not yet MP-safe, because
of the file and vnode subsystems.
Reviewed by: <tech-kern>, <ad>
- Better detect simple cycles of threads calling _lwp_wait and return
EDEADLK. Does not handle deeper cycles like t1 -> t2 -> t3 -> t1.
- If there are multiple threads in _lwp_wait, then make sure that
targeted waits take precedence over waits for any LWP to exit.
- When checking for deadlock, also count the number of zombies currently
in the process as potentially reapable. Whenever a zombie is murdered,
kick all waiters to make them check again for deadlock.
- Add more comments.
Also, while here:
- LOCK_ASSERT -> KASSERT in some places
- lwp_free: change boolean arguments to type 'bool'.
- proc_free: let lwp_free spin waiting for the last LWP to exit, there's
no reason to do it here.
P_*/L_* naming convention, and rename the in-kernel flags to avoid
conflict. (P_ -> PK_, L_ -> LW_ ). Add back the (now unused) LSDEAD
constant.
Restores source compatibility with pre-newlock2 tools like ps or top.
Reviewed by Andrew Doran.
process was reparented. Change proc_free() to copy the rusage to a buffer
on the stack if required, so it can be passed both to the debugger and
to the real parent process.
Fixes kern/35582 (kernel panics with gdb).
ad