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.
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.
with newlock2 merge:
Replace the Mach-derived boolean_t type with the C99 bool type. A
future commit will replace use of TRUE and FALSE with true and false.
option SYSCALL_STATS counts the number of times each system call is made
option SYSCALL_TIMES counts the amount of time spent in each system call
Currently the counting hooks have only been added to the i386 system call
handler, and the time spent in interrupts is not subtracted.
It ought also be possible to add the times to the processes profiling
counters in order to get a more accurate user/system/interrupt split.
The counts themselves are readable via the sysctl interface.
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.
Instead, free an LWP's specificdata from lwp_exit() (if it is not the
last LWP) or exit1() (if it is the last LWP). For consistency, free the
proc's specificdata from exit1() as well. Add lwp_finispecific() and
proc_finispecific() functions to make this more convenient.
wrappers around the speicificdata subroutines. Also:
- Call the new lwpinit() function from main() after calling procinit().
- Move some pool initialization out of kern_proc.c and into files that
are directly related to the pools in question (kern_lwp.c and kern_ras.c).
- Convert uipc_sem.c to proc_{get,set}specific(), and eliminate the p_ksems
member from struct proc.
- use vmspace rather than proc or lwp where appropriate.
the latter is more natural to specify an address space.
(and less likely to be abused for random purposes.)
- fix a swdmover race.
a proclist and call the specified function for each of them.
primarily to fix a procfs locking problem, but i think that it's useful for
others as well.
while i'm here, introduce PROCLIST_FOREACH macro, which is similar to
LIST_FOREACH but skips marker entries which are used by proclist_foreach_call.
to pool_init. Untouched pools are ones that either in arch-specific
code, or aren't initialiased during initial system startup.
Convert struct session, ucred and lockf to pools.
and unkillable processes.
1. Introduce new SBSIZE resource limit from FreeBSD to limit socket buffer
size resource.
2. make sokvareserve interruptible, so processes ltsleeping on it can be
killed.
- move per VP data into struct sadata_vp referenced from l->l_savp
* VP id
* lock on VP data
* LWP on VP
* recently blocked LWP on VP
* queue of LWPs woken which ran on this VP before sleep
* faultaddr
* LWP cache for upcalls
* upcall queue
- add current concurrency and requested concurrency variables
- make process exit run LWP on all VPs
- make signal delivery consider all VPs
- make timer events consider all VPs
- add sa_newsavp to allocate new sadata_vp structure
- add sa_increaseconcurrency to prepare new VP
- make sys_sa_setconcurrency request new VP or wakeup idle VP
- make sa_yield lower current concurrency
- set sa_cpu = VP id in upcalls
- maintain cached LWPs per VP
process context ('reaper').
From within the exiting process context:
* deactivate pmap and free vmspace while we can still block
* introduce MD cpu_lwp_free() - this cleans all MD-specific context (such
as FPU state), and is the last potentially blocking operation;
all of cpu_wait(), and most of cpu_exit(), is now folded into cpu_lwp_free()
* process is now immediatelly marked as zombie and made available for pickup
by parent; the remaining last lwp continues the exit as fully detached
* MI (rather than MD) code bumps uvmexp.swtch, cpu_exit() is now same
for both 'process' and 'lwp' exit
uvm_lwp_exit() is modified to never block; the u-area memory is now
always just linked to the list of available u-areas. Introduce (blocking)
uvm_uarea_drain(), which is called to release the excessive u-area memory;
this is called by parent within wait4(), or by pagedaemon on memory shortage.
uvm_uarea_free() is now private function within uvm_glue.c.
MD process/lwp exit code now always calls lwp_exit2() immediatelly after
switching away from the exiting lwp.
g/c now unneeded routines and variables, including the reaper kernel thread
- use splay tree for the pagefault check if the thread was running on
an upcall stack.
=> removes the limitation that all upcall stacks need to be
adjoining and that all upcall stacks have to be loaded with the
1st sys_sa_stacks call.
=> enables keeping information associated with a stack in the kernel
which makes it simpler to find out which LWP is using a stack.
=> allows increasing the SA_MAXNUMSTACKS without having to
allocate an array of that size.
of the sibling list so that find_stopped_child can be optimised to avoid
traversing the entire sibling list - helps when a process has a lot of
children.
- Modify locking in pfind() and pgfind() to that the caller can rely on the
result being valid, allow caller to request that zombies be findable.
- Rename pfind() to p_find() to ensure we break binary compatibility.
- Remove svr4_pfind since p_find willnow do the job.
- Modify some of the SMP locking of the proc lists - signals are still stuffed.
Welcome to 1.6ZF
Remove p_raslock and rename p_lwplock p_lock (one lock is enough).
Simplify window test when adding a ras and correct test on VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS.
Avoid unpredictable branch in i386 locore.S
(pad fields left in struct proc to avoid kernel bump)
dyoung