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# 272461 02-Oct-2014 gjb

Copy stable/10@r272459 to releng/10.1 as part of
the 10.1-RELEASE process.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 174689 16-Dec-2007 deischen

Remove hacks to allow libkse to export its symbols in the LIBTHREAD_1_0
version namespace which was needed before the library version was
bumped.


# 174112 30-Nov-2007 deischen

WARNS=3'ify.


# 172491 09-Oct-2007 obrien

Repo copy libpthreads to libkse.
This introduces the WITHOUT_LIBKSE nob,
and changes WITHOUT_LIBPTHREADS to mean with neither threading libs.
Approved by: re(kensmith)


# 165967 12-Jan-2007 imp

Remove 3rd clause, renumber, ok per email


# 156611 12-Mar-2006 deischen

Add compatibility symbol maps. libpthread (.so.1 and .so.2)
used LIBTHREAD_1_0 as its version definition, but now needs
to define its symbols in the same namespace used by libc.
The compatibility hooks allows you to use libraries and
binaries built and linked to libpthread before libc was
built with symbol versioning. The shims can be removed if
libpthread is given a version bump.

Reviewed by: davidxu


# 136847 23-Oct-2004 davidxu

Check unhandled signals before thread marks itself as DEAD,
this reduces chances of signal losting problem found by
Peter Holm <peter@holm.cc>


# 133563 12-Aug-2004 deischen

As long as we have a knob to force system scope threads, why not have
a knob to force process scope threads. If the environment variable
LIBPTHREAD_PROCESS_SCOPE is set, force all threads to be process
scope threads regardless of how the application creates them. If
LIBPTHREAD_SYSTEM_SCOPE is set (forcing system scope threads), it
overrides LIBPTHREAD_PROCESS_SCOPE.

$ # To force system scope threads
$ LIBPTHREAD_SYSTEM_SCOPE=anything threaded_app
$ # To force process scope threads
$ LIBPTHREAD_PROCESS_SCOPE=anything threaded_app


# 133269 07-Aug-2004 deischen

Add a way to force 1:1 mode for libpthread. To do this, define
LIBPTHREAD_SYSTEM_SCOPE in the environment.

You can still force libpthread to be built in strictly 1:1 by
adding -DSYSTEM_SCOPE_ONLY to CFLAGS. This is kept for archs
that don't yet support M:N mode.

Requested by: rwatson
Reviewed by: davidxu


# 132120 13-Jul-2004 davidxu

Add code to support thread debugging.
1. Add global varible _libkse_debug, debugger uses the varible to identify
libpthread. when the varible is written to non-zero by debugger, libpthread
will take some special action at context switch time, it will check
TMDF_DOTRUNUSER flags, if a thread has the flags set by debugger, it won't
be scheduled, when a thread leaves KSE critical region, thread checks
the flag, if it was set, the thread relinquish CPU.

2. Add pq_first_debug to select a thread allowd to run by debugger.

3. Some names prefixed with _thr are renamed to _thread prefix.

which is allowed to run by debugger.


# 120074 14-Sep-2003 davidxu

1. Allocating and freeing lock related resource in _thr_alloc and _thr_free
to avoid potential memory leak, also fix a bug in pthread_create, contention
scope should be inherited when PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED is set, and also check
right field for PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED, scheduling inherit flag is in sched_inherit.
2. Execute hooks registered by atexit() on thread stack but not on scheduler
stack.
3. Simplify some code in _kse_single_thread by calling xxx_destroy functions.

Reviewed by: deischen


# 119064 18-Aug-2003 davidxu

Direct call exit if thread was never created. This makes it safe to call
pthread_exit in main() without creating any thread.

Tessted by: deischen


# 115399 29-May-2003 kan

Attempt to eliminate PLT relocations from rwlock aquire/release
path, making them suitable for direct use by the dynamic loader.

Register libpthread-specific locking API with rtld on startup.

This still has some rough edges with signals which should be
addresses later.

Approved by: re (scottl)


# 115080 16-May-2003 deischen

Add a method of yielding the current thread with the scheduler
lock held (_thr_sched_switch_unlocked()) and use this to avoid
dropping the scheduler lock and having the scheduler retake the
same lock again.

Add a better way of detecting if a low-level lock is in use.

When switching out a thread due to blocking in the UTS, don't
switch to the KSE's scheduler stack only to switch back to
another thread. If possible switch to the new thread directly
from the old thread and avoid the overhead of the extra
context switch.

Check for pending signals on a thread when entering the scheduler
and add them to the threads signal frame. This includes some
other minor signal fixes.

Most of this was a joint effor between davidxu and myself.

Reviewed by: davidxu
Approved by: re@ (blanket for libpthread)


# 114187 28-Apr-2003 deischen

o Don't add a scope system thread's KSE to the list of available
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.


# 113658 18-Apr-2003 deischen

Revamp libpthread so that it has a chance of working in an SMP
environment. This includes support for multiple KSEs and KSEGs.

The ability to create more than 1 KSE via pthread_setconcurrency()
is in the works as well as support for PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM threads.
Those should come shortly.

There are still some known issues which davidxu and I are working
on, but it'll make it easier for us by committing what we have.

This library now passes all of the ACE tests that libc_r passes
with the exception of one. It also seems to work OK with KDE
including konqueror, kwrite, etc. I haven't been able to get
mozilla to run due to lack of java plugin, so I'd be interested
to see how it works with that.

Reviewed by: davidxu


# 103419 16-Sep-2002 mini

Make libpthread KSE aware.

Reviewed by: deischen, julian
Approved by: -arch


# 103388 16-Sep-2002 mini

Make the changes needed for libpthread to compile in its new home.
The new libpthread will provide POSIX threading support using KSE.
These files were previously repo-copied from src/lib/libc_r.

Reviewed by: deischen
Approved by: -arch


# 102590 29-Aug-2002 deischen

Remove much of the dereferencing of the fd table entries to look
at file flags and replace it with functions that will avoid null
pointer checks.

MFC to be done by archie ;-)

PR: 42100
Reviewed by: archie, robert
MFC after: 3 days


# 97204 24-May-2002 deischen

Revamp suspend and resume. While I'm here add pthread_suspend_all_np()
and pthread_resume_all_np(). These suspend and resume all threads except
the current thread, respectively. The existing functions pthread_single_np()
and pthread_multi_np(), which formerly had no effect, now exhibit the same
behaviour and pthread_suspend_all_np() and pthread_resume_all_np(). These
functions have been added mostly for the native java port.

Don't allow the uthread kernel pipe to use the same descriptors as
stdio. Mostily submitted by Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>.

Correct some minor style nits.


# 92730 19-Mar-2002 deischen

Add the ability to recognize old references to keys, and return NULL
when old keys are referenced (after pthread_key_delete()) via
pthread_getspecific().


# 86499 17-Nov-2001 deischen

Fix pthread_join so that it works if the target thread exits while
the joining thread is in a signal handler.

Reported by: Loren James Rittle <rittle@labs.mot.com>
MFC after: 1 week


# 76909 20-May-2001 jasone

Instead of using a join queue for each thread, use a single pointer to
keep track of a joiner. POSIX only supports a single joiner, so this
simplification is acceptable.

At the same time, make sure to mark a joined thread as detached so that
its resources can be freed.

Reviewed by: deischen
PR: 24345


# 75369 10-Apr-2001 deischen

To be consistent, use the __weak_reference macro from <sys/cdefs.h>
instead of #pragma weak to create weak definitions.

Suggested by: bde


# 72374 11-Feb-2001 deischen

Remove (int) file descriptor locking. It should be up to the
application to provide locking for I/O operations. This doesn't
break any of my tests, but the old behavior can be restored by
compiling with _FDLOCKS_ENABLED. This will eventually be removed
when it is obvious it does not cause any problems.

Remove most of flockfile implementation, with the exception of
flockfile_debug.

Make error messages more informational (submitted by Mike Heffner
<spock@techfour.net>, who's now known as mikeh@FreeBSD.org).


# 71771 29-Jan-2001 deischen

_exit in libc is now __sys_exit not __sys__exit.

Add another check for thread library initialization (jdp, we
really need a way to get _thread_init called at program start
before any constructors are run).


# 71581 24-Jan-2001 deischen

Add weak definitions for wrapped system calls. In general:

_foo - wrapped system call
foo - weak definition to _foo

and for cancellation points:

_foo - wrapped system call
__foo - enter cancellation point, call _foo(), leave
cancellation point
foo - weak definition to __foo

Change use of global _thread_run to call a function to get the
currently running thread.

Make all pthread_foo functions weak definitions to _pthread_foo,
where _pthread_foo is the implementation. This allows an application
to provide its own pthread functions.

Provide slightly different versions of pthread_mutex_lock and
pthread_mutex_init so that we can tell the difference between
a libc mutex and an application mutex. Threads holding mutexes
internal to libc should never be allowed to exit, call signal
handlers, or cancel.

Approved by: -arch


# 68516 09-Nov-2000 deischen

Don't needlessly poll file descriptors when there are no
file descriptors needing to be polled (Doh!). Reported
by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>.

Don't install and start the scheduling timer until the
first thread is created. This prevents the overhead of
having a periodic scheduling signal in a single threaded
program. Reported by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>.

Allow builtin longjmps out of application installed
signal handlers without the need perform any post-handler
cleanup:

o Change signal handling to save the threads interrupted
context on the stack. The threads current context is
now always stored in the same place (in the pthread).
If and when a signal handler returns, the interrupted
context is copied back to the storage area in the pthread.

o Before calling invoking a signal handler for a thread,
back the thread out of any internal waiting queues
(mutex, CV, join, etc) to which it belongs.

Rework uthread_info.c a bit to make it easier to change
the format of a thread dump.

Use an alternal signal stack for the thread library's
signal handler. This allows us to fiddle with the main
threads stack without fear of it being in use.

Reviewed by: jasone


# 67097 13-Oct-2000 deischen

Implement zero system call thread switching. Performance of
thread switches should be on par with that under scheduler
activations.

o Timing is achieved through the use of a fixed interval
timer (ITIMER_PROF) to count scheduling ticks instead
of retrieving the time-of-day upon every thread switch
and calculating elapsed real time.

o Polling for I/O readiness is performed once for each
scheduling tick instead of every thread switch.

o The non-signal saving/restoring versions of setjmp/longjmp
are used to save and restore thread contexts. This may
allow the removal of _THREAD_SAFE macros from setjmp()
and longjmp() - needs more investigation.

Change signal handling so that signals are handled in the
context of the thread that is receiving the signal. When
signals are dispatched to a thread, a special signal handling
frame is created on top of the target threads stack. The
frame contains the threads saved state information and a new
context in which the thread can run. The applications signal
handler is invoked through a wrapper routine that knows how
to restore the threads saved state and unwind to previous
frames.

Fix interruption of threads due to signals. Some states
were being improperly interrupted while other states were
not being interrupted. This should fix several PRs.

Signal handlers, which are invoked as a result of a process
signal (not by pthread_kill()), are now called with the
code (or siginfo_t if SA_SIGINFO was set in sa_flags) and
sigcontext_t as received from the process signal handler.

Modify the search for a thread to which a signal is delivered.
The search algorithm is now:

o First thread found in sigwait() with signal in wait mask.
o First thread found sigsuspend()'d on the signal.
o Current thread if signal is unmasked.
o First thread found with signal unmasked.

Collapse machine dependent support into macros defined in
pthread_private.h. These should probably eventually be moved
into separate MD files.

Change the range of settable priorities to be compliant with
POSIX (0-31). The threads library uses higher priorities
internally for real-time threads (not yet implemented) and
threads executing signal handlers. Real-time threads and
threads running signal handlers add 64 and 32, respectively,
to a threads base priority.

Some other small changes and cleanups.

PR: 17757 18559 21943
Reviewed by: jasone


# 56888 29-Jan-2000 jasone

Use __strong_reference() instead of __weak_reference() to assure that the
weak symbols of the same name are not used.


# 56698 27-Jan-2000 jasone

Simplify sytem call renaming. Instead of _foo() <-- _libc_foo <-- foo(),
just use _foo() <-- foo(). In the case of a libpthread that doesn't do
call conversion (such as linuxthreads and our upcoming libpthread), this
is adequate. In the case of libc_r, we still need three names, which are
now _thread_sys_foo() <-- _foo() <-- foo().

Convert all internal libc usage of: aio_suspend(), close(), fsync(), msync(),
nanosleep(), open(), fcntl(), read(), and write() to _foo() instead of foo().

Remove all internal libc usage of: creat(), pause(), sleep(), system(),
tcdrain(), wait(), and waitpid().

Make thread cancellation fully POSIX-compliant.

Suggested by: deischen


# 55838 12-Jan-2000 jasone

Track libc's three-tier symbol naming. libc_r must currently implement
the _libc_*() entry points and add *() weak aliases. This will all
change for the better when libc_r becomes libpthread.


# 53812 28-Nov-1999 alfred

add pthread_cancel, obtained from OpenBSD.

eischen (Daniel Eischen) added wrappers to protect against cancled
threads orphaning internal resources.

the cancelability code is still a bit fuzzy but works for test
programs of my own, OpenBSD's and some examples from ORA's books.

add readdir_r to both libc and libc_r

add some 'const' attributes to function parameters

Reviewed by: eischen, jasone


# 50660 30-Aug-1999 dt

Fix a memory leak: free the thread-specific poll_data, used in the select()
implementation.

PR: 13368
Submitted by: Steve Bernacki, Jr. <steve@copacetic.net>


# 50476 27-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 49439 05-Aug-1999 deischen

Add RCS IDs to those files without them.
Fix copyrights (s/REGENTS/AUTHOR).

Suggested by: tg
Approved by: jb


# 48046 20-Jun-1999 jb

In the words of the author:

o The polling mechanism for I/O readiness was changed from
select() to poll(). In additon, a wrapped version of poll()
is now provided.

o The wrapped select routine now converts each fd_set to a
poll array so that the thread scheduler doesn't have to
perform a bitwise search for selected fds each time file
descriptors are polled for I/O readiness.

o The thread scheduler was modified to use a new queue (_workq)
for threads that need work. Threads waiting for I/O readiness
and spinblocks are added to the work queue in addition to the
waiting queue. This reduces the time spent forming/searching
the array of file descriptors being polled.

o The waiting queue (_waitingq) is now maintained in order of
thread wakeup time. This allows the thread scheduler to
find the nearest wakeup time by looking at the first thread
in the queue instead of searching the entire queue.

o Removed file descriptor locking for select/poll routines. An
application should not rely on the threads library for providing
this locking; if necessary, the application should use mutexes
to protect selecting/polling of file descriptors.

o Retrieve and use the kernel clock rate/resolution at startup
instead of hardcoding the clock resolution to 10 msec (tested
with kernel running at 1000 HZ).

o All queues have been changed to use queue.h macros. These
include the queues of all threads, dead threads, and threads
waiting for file descriptor locks.

o Added reinitialization of the GC mutex and condition variable
after a fork. Also prevented reallocation of the ready queue
after a fork.

o Prevented the wrapped close routine from closing the thread
kernel pipes.

o Initialized file descriptor table for stdio entries at thread
init.

o Provided additional flags to indicate to what queues threads
belong.

o Moved TAILQ initialization for statically allocated mutex and
condition variables to after the spinlock.

o Added dispatching of signals to pthread_kill. Removing the
dispatching of signals from thread activation broke sigsuspend
when pthread_kill was used to send a signal to a thread.

o Temporarily set the state of a thread to PS_SUSPENDED when it
is first created and placed in the list of threads so that it
will not be accidentally scheduled before becoming a member
of one of the scheduling queues.

o Change the signal handler to queue signals to the thread kernel
pipe if the scheduling queues are protected. When scheduling
queues are unprotected, signals are then dequeued and handled.

o Ensured that all installed signal handlers block the scheduling
signal and that the scheduling signal handler blocks all
other signals. This ensures that the signal handler is only
interruptible for and by non-scheduling signals. An atomic
lock is used to decide which instance of the signal handler
will handle pending signals.

o Removed _lock_thread_list and _unlock_thread_list as they are
no longer used to protect the thread list.

o Added missing RCS IDs to modified files.

o Added checks for appropriate queue membership and activity when
adding, removing, and searching the scheduling queues. These
checks add very little overhead and are enabled when compiled
with _PTHREADS_INVARIANTS defined. Suggested and implemented
by Tor Egge with some modification by me.

o Close a race condition in uthread_close. (Tor Egge)

o Protect the scheduling queues while modifying them in
pthread_cond_signal and _thread_fd_unlock. (Tor Egge)

o Ensure that when a thread gets a mutex, the mutex is on that
threads list of owned mutexes. (Tor Egge)

o Set the kernel-in-scheduler flag in _thread_kern_sched_state
and _thread_kern_sched_state_unlock to prevent a scheduling
signal from calling the scheduler again. (Tor Egge)

o Don't use TAILQ_FOREACH macro while searching the waiting
queue for threads in a sigwait state, because a change of
state destroys the TAILQ link. It is actually safe to do
so, though, because once a sigwaiting thread is found, the
loop ends and the function returns. (Tor Egge)

o When dispatching signals to threads, make the thread inherit
the signal deferral flag of the currently running thread.
(Tor Egge)

Submitted by: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> and
Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@fast.no>


# 47244 16-May-1999 jb

Ensure that an existing thread gets it's state set to PS_DEAD to
prevent being rescheduled.

Submitted by: Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>


# 44963 23-Mar-1999 jb

[ The author's description... ]

o Runnable threads are now maintained in priority queues. The
implementation requires two things:

1.) The priority queues must be protected during insertion
and removal of threads. Since the kernel scheduler
must modify the priority queues, a spinlock for
protection cannot be used. The functions
_thread_kern_sched_defer() and _thread_kern_sched_undefer()
were added to {un}defer kernel scheduler activation.

2.) A thread (active) priority change can be performed only
when the thread is removed from the priority queue. The
implementation uses a threads active priority when
inserting it into the queue.

A by-product is that thread switches are much faster. A
separate queue is used for waiting and/or blocked threads,
and it is searched at most 2 times in the kernel scheduler
when there are active threads. It should be possible to
reduce this to once by combining polling of threads waiting
on I/O with the loop that looks for timed out threads and
the minimum timeout value.

o Functions to defer kernel scheduler activation were added. These
are _thread_kern_sched_defer() and _thread_kern_sched_undefer()
and may be called recursively. These routines do not block the
scheduling signal, but latch its occurrence. The signal handler
will not call the kernel scheduler when the running thread has
deferred scheduling, but it will be called when running thread
undefers scheduling.

o Added support for _POSIX_THREAD_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING. All the
POSIX routines required by this should now be implemented.
One note, SCHED_OTHER, SCHED_FIFO, and SCHED_RR are required
to be defined by including pthread.h. These defines are currently
in sched.h. I modified pthread.h to include sched.h but don't
know if this is the proper thing to do.

o Added support for priority protection and inheritence mutexes.
This allows definition of _POSIX_THREAD_PRIO_PROTECT and
_POSIX_THREAD_PRIO_INHERIT.

o Added additional error checks required by POSIX for mutexes and
condition variables.

o Provided a wrapper for sigpending which is marked as a hidden
syscall.

o Added a non-portable function as a debugging aid to allow an
application to monitor thread context switches. An application
can install a routine that gets called everytime a thread
(explicitly created by the application) gets context switched.
The routine gets passed the pthread IDs of the threads that are
being switched in and out.

Submitted by: Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>

Changes by me:

o Added a PS_SPINBLOCK state to deal with the priority inversion
problem most often (I think) seen by threads calling malloc/free/realloc.

o Dispatch signals to the running thread directly rather than at a
context switch to avoid the situation where the switch never occurs.


# 39807 30-Sep-1998 jb

Move the cleanup code that frees memory allocated for a dead thread from
the thread kernel into a garbage collector thread which is started when
the fisrt thread is created (other than the initial thread). This
removes the window of opportunity where a context switch will cause a
thread that has locked the malloc spinlock, to enter the thread kernel,
find there is a dead thread and try to free memory, therefore trying
to lock the malloc spinlock against itself.

The garbage collector thread acts just like any other thread, so
instead of having a spinlock to control accesses to the dead thread
list, it uses a mutex and a condition variable so that it can happily
wait to be signalled when a thread exists.


# 36827 09-Jun-1998 jb

POSIX says that pthread_exit() is not allowed to be called from a
cleanup destructor, so trap this case to prevent me from being being
burnt again by applications that try to do this. With this change, an
application (like one using a mis-configured ACE) will exit the process
after displaying a message quoting the POSIX section that the application
has violated.


# 35509 29-Apr-1998 jb

Change signal model to match POSIX (i.e. one set of signal handlers
for the process, not a separate set for each thread). By default, the
process now only has signal handlers installed for SIGVTALRM, SIGINFO
and SIGCHLD. The thread kernel signal handler is installed for other
signals on demand. This means that SIG_IGN and SIG_DFL processing is now
left to the kernel, not the thread kernel.

Change the signal dispatch to no longer use a signal thread, and
call the signal handler using the stack of the thread that has the
signal pending.

Change the atomic lock method to use test-and-set asm code with
a yield if blocked. This introduces separate locks for each type
of object instead of blocking signals to prevent a context
switch. It was this blocking of signals that caused the performance
degradation the people have noted.

This is a *big* change!


# 22315 05-Feb-1997 julian

Submitted by: John Birrell
uthreads update from the author.


# 17706 20-Aug-1996 julian

Submitted by: John Birrell <cimaxp1!jb@werple.net.au>

Here are the diffs for libc_r to get it one step closer to P1003.1c
These make most of the thread/mutex/condvar structures opaque to the
user. There are three functions which have been renamed with _np
suffixes because they are extensions to P1003.1c (I did them for JAVA,
which needs to suspend/resume threads and also start threads suspended).

I've created a new header (pthread_np.h) for the non-POSIX stuff.

The egrep tags stuff in /usr/src/lib/libc_r/Makefile that I uncommented
doesn't work. I think its best to delete it. I don't think libc_r needs
tags anyway, 'cause most of the source is in libc which does have tags.

also:

Here's the first batch of man pages for the thread functions.
The diff to /usr/src/lib/libc_r/Makefile removes some stuff that was
inherited from /usr/src/lib/libc/Makefile that should only be done with
libc.

also:

I should have sent this diff with the pthread(3) man page.
It allows people to type

make -DWANT_LIBC_R world

to get libc_r built with the rest of the world. I put this in the
pthread(3) man page. The default is still not to build libc_r.


also:
The diff attached adds a pthread(3) man page to /usr/src/share/man/man3.
The idea is that without libc_r installed, this man page will give people
enough info to know that they have to build libc_r.


# 13546 21-Jan-1996 julian

Reviewed by: julian
Submitted by: john birrel

One version of the pthreads library
another will follow with differnt actions under some cases..
not QUITE complete