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* Move the cleanup code that frees memory allocated for a dead thread fromjb1998-09-301-44/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* POSIX says that pthread_exit() is not allowed to be called from ajb1998-06-091-0/+10
| | | | | | | | 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.
* Change signal model to match POSIX (i.e. one set of signal handlersjb1998-04-291-35/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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!
* Submitted by: John Birrelljulian1997-02-051-5/+5
| | | | uthreads update from the author.
* Submitted by: John Birrell <cimaxp1!jb@werple.net.au>julian1996-08-201-0/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* Reviewed by: julianjulian1996-01-221-0/+167
Submitted by: john birrel One version of the pthreads library another will follow with differnt actions under some cases.. not QUITE complete
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