This patch refactors the ARCH_FORK macro and the required architecture
specific header to simplify the required architecture definitions
to provide the fork syscall semantic and proper document current
Linux clone ABI variant.
Instead of require the reimplementation of arch-fork.h header, this
patch changes the ARCH_FORK to an inline function with clone ABI
defined by kernel-features.h define. The generic kernel ABI meant
for newer ports is used as default and redefine if the architecture
requires.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-linux-gnu. Also with a build
for all the afected ABIs.
* sysdeps/nptl/fork.c (ARCH_FORK): Replace by auch_fork.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/arch-fork.h: Remove file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/arch-fork.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/arch-fork.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/arch-fork.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/arch-fork.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/arch-fork.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/arch-fork.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/arch-fork.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/microblaze/arch-fork.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/arch-fork.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/nios2/arch-fork.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/arch-fork.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/arch-fork.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/arch-fork.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/arch-fork.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/arch-fork.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/arch-fork.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arch-fork.h (arch_fork): New function.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/kernel-features.h: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/kernel-features.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_CLONE_BACKWARDS): Define.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/createthread.c (ARCH_CLONE): Define to
__clone2 if __NR_clone2 is defined.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_CLONE_BACKWARDS): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_CLONE_BACKWARDS): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_CLONE2): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/microblaze/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_CLONE_BACKWARDS3): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h: Document possible clone
variants and the define architecture can use.
(__ASSUME_CLONE_DEFAULT): Define as default.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_CLONE_BACKWARDS): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_CLONE_BACKWARDS): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_CLONE_BACKWARDS2): Likewise.
Current implementation (sysdeps/nptl/fork.c) replicates the atfork
handlers list backward to invoke the child handlers after fork/clone
syscall.
The internal atfork handlers is implemented as a single-linked list
so a lock-free algorithm can be used, trading fork mulithread call
performance for some code complexity and dynamic stack allocation
(since the backwards list should not fail).
This patch refactor it to use a dynarary instead of a linked list.
It simplifies the external variables need to be exported and also
the internal atfork handler member definition.
The downside is a serialization of fork call in multithread, since to
operate on the dynarray the internal lock should be used. However
as noted by Florian, it already acquires external locks for malloc
and libio so it is already hitting some lock contention. Besides,
posix_spawn should be faster and more scalable to run external programs
in multithread environments.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
* nptl/Makefile (routines): Remove unregister-atfork.
* nptl/register-atfork.c (fork_handler_pool): Remove variable.
(fork_handler_alloc): Remove function.
(fork_handlers, fork_handler_init): New variables.
(__fork_lock): Rename to atfork_lock.
(__register_atfork, __unregister_atfork, libc_freeres_fn): Rewrite
to use a dynamic array to add/remove atfork handlers.
* sysdeps/nptl/fork.c (__libc_fork): Likewise.
* sysdeps/nptl/fork.h (__fork_lock, __fork_handlers, __linkin_atfork):
Remove declaration.
(fork_handler): Remove next, refcntr, and need_signal member.
(__run_fork_handler_type): New enum.
(__run_fork_handlers): New prototype.
* sysdeps/nptl/libc-lockP.h (__libc_atfork): Remove declaration.
This patch adds two new internal defines to set the internal
pthread_mutex_t layout required by the supported ABIS:
1. __PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND which control whether to define
__nusers fields before or after __kind. The preferred value for
is 0 for new ports and it sets __nusers before __kind.
2. __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION which control whether internal __spins and
__list members will be place inside an union for linuxthreads
compatibility. The preferred value is 0 for ports and it sets
to not use an union to define both fields.
It fixes the wrong offsets value for __kind value on x86_64-linux-gnu-x32.
Checked with a make check run-built-tests=no on all afected ABIs.
[BZ #22298]
* nptl/allocatestack.c (allocate_stack): Check if
__PTHREAD_MUTEX_HAVE_PREV is non-zero, instead if
__PTHREAD_MUTEX_HAVE_PREV is defined.
* nptl/descr.h (pthread): Likewise.
* nptl/nptl-init.c (__pthread_initialize_minimal_internal):
Likewise.
* nptl/pthread_create.c (START_THREAD_DEFN): Likewise.
* sysdeps/nptl/fork.c (__libc_fork): Likewise.
* sysdeps/nptl/pthread.h (PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER): Likewise.
* sysdeps/nptl/bits/thread-shared-types.h
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND, __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION): New
defines.
(__pthread_internal_list): Check __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION instead
of __WORDSIZE for internal layout.
(__pthread_mutex_s): Check __PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND instead
of __WORDSIZE for internal __nusers layout and __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION
instead of __WORDSIZE whether to use an union for __spins and __list
fields.
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_HAVE_PREV): Define also for __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION
case.
* sysdeps/aarch64/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND, __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION): New
defines.
* sysdeps/alpha/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND, __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION):
Likewise.
* sysdeps/arm/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND, __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION):
Likewise.
* sysdeps/hppa/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND, __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION):
Likewise.
* sysdeps/ia64/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND, __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION):
Likewise.
* sysdeps/m68k/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND, __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION):
Likewise.
* sysdeps/microblaze/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND, __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION):
Likewise.
* sysdeps/mips/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND, __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION):
Likewise.
* sysdeps/nios2/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND, __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION):
Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND, __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION):
Likewise.
* sysdeps/s390/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND, __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION):
Likewise.
* sysdeps/sh/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND, __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION):
Likewise.
* sysdeps/sparc/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND, __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION):
Likewise.
* sysdeps/tile/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND, __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION):
Likewise.
* sysdeps/x86/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND, __PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION):
Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Robust mutexes acquired at the time of a call to fork() do not remain
acquired by the forked child process. We have to clear the list of
acquired robust mutexes before registering this list with the kernel;
otherwise, if some of the robust mutexes are process-shared, the parent
process can alter the child's robust mutex list, which can lead to
deadlocks or even modification of memory that may not be occupied by a
mutex anymore.
[BZ #19402]
* sysdeps/nptl/fork.c (__libc_fork): Clear list of acquired robust
mutexes.
This patch remove the PID cache and usage in current GLIBC code. Current
usage is mainly used a performance optimization to avoid the syscall,
however it adds some issues:
- The exposed clone syscall will try to set pid/tid to make the new
thread somewhat compatible with current GLIBC assumptions. This cause
a set of issue with new workloads and usecases (such as BZ#17214 and
[1]) as well for new internal usage of clone to optimize other algorithms
(such as clone plus CLONE_VM for posix_spawn, BZ#19957).
- The caching complexity also added some bugs in the past [2] [3] and
requires more effort of each port to handle such requirements (for
both clone and vfork implementation).
- Caching performance gain in mainly on getpid and some specific
code paths. The getpid performance leverage is questionable [4],
either by the idea of getpid being a hotspot as for the getpid
implementation itself (if it is indeed a justifiable hotspot a
vDSO symbol could let to a much more simpler solution).
Other usage is mainly for non usual code paths, such as pthread
cancellation signal and handling.
For thread creation (on stack allocation) the code simplification in fact
adds some performance gain due the no need of transverse the stack cache
and invalidate each element pid.
Other thread usages will require a direct getpid syscall, such as
cancellation/setxid signal, thread cancellation, thread fail path (at
create_thread), and thread signal (pthread_kill and pthread_sigqueue).
However these are hardly usual hotspots and I think adding a syscall is
justifiable.
It also simplifies both the clone and vfork arch-specific implementation.
And by review each fork implementation there are some discrepancies that
this patch also solves:
- microblaze clone/vfork does not set/reset the pid/tid field
- hppa uses the default vfork implementation that fallback to fork.
Since vfork is deprecated I do not think we should bother with it.
The patch also removes the TID caching in clone. My understanding for
such semantic is try provide some pthread usage after a user program
issue clone directly (as done by thread creation with CLONE_PARENT_SETTID
and pthread tid member). However, as stated before in multiple discussions
threads, GLIBC provides clone syscalls without further supporting all this
semantics.
I ran a full make check on x86_64, x32, i686, armhf, aarch64, and powerpc64le.
For sparc32, sparc64, and mips I ran the basic fork and vfork tests from
posix/ folder (on a qemu system). So it would require further testing
on alpha, hppa, ia64, m68k, nios2, s390, sh, and tile (I excluded microblaze
because it is already implementing the patch semantic regarding clone/vfork).
[1] https://codereview.chromium.org/800183004/
[2] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2006-07/msg00123.html
[3] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15368
[4] http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/getpid_caching.html
* sysdeps/nptl/fork.c (__libc_fork): Remove pid cache setting.
* nptl/allocatestack.c (allocate_stack): Likewise.
(__reclaim_stacks): Likewise.
(setxid_signal_thread): Obtain pid through syscall.
* nptl/nptl-init.c (sigcancel_handler): Likewise.
(sighandle_setxid): Likewise.
* nptl/pthread_cancel.c (pthread_cancel): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_kill.c (__pthread_kill): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_sigqueue.c (pthread_sigqueue):
Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/createthread.c (create_thread): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpid.c: Remove file.
* nptl/descr.h (struct pthread): Change comment about pid value.
* nptl/pthread_getattr_np.c (pthread_getattr_np): Remove thread
pid assert.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread-pids.h (__pthread_initialize_pids):
Do not set pid value.
* nptl_db/td_ta_thr_iter.c (iterate_thread_list): Remove thread
pid cache check.
* nptl_db/td_thr_validate.c (td_thr_validate): Likewise.
* sysdeps/aarch64/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Remove pid offset.
* sysdeps/alpha/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/arm/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/hppa/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/i386/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/ia64/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/m68k/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/microblaze/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/mips/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/nios2/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/s390/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/sh/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/sparc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/tile/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/x86_64/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/clone.S: Remove pid and tid caching.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/clone.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/clone.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/clone.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/clone.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/clone2.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/clone.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/nios2/clone.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/clone.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/clone.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/clone.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/clone.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/clone.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/clone.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/clone.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/clone.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vfork.S: Remove pid set and reset.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/vfork.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/vfork.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/vfork.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/vfork.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/clone.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/vfork.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/vfork.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/nios2/vfork.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/vfork.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/vfork.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/vfork.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/vfork.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/vfork.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/vfork.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/vfork.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/vfork.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/vfork.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tst-clone2.c (f): Remove direct pthread
struct access.
(clone_test): Remove function.
(do_test): Rewrite to take in consideration pid is not cached anymore.
Existing interposed mallocs do not define the glibc-internal
fork callbacks (and they should not), so statically interposed
mallocs lead to link failures because the strong reference from
fork pulls in glibc's malloc, resulting in multiple definitions
of malloc-related symbols.
This provides a band-aid and addresses the scenario where fork is
called from a signal handler while the process is in the malloc
subsystem (or has acquired the libio list lock). It does not
address the general issue of async-signal-safety of fork;
multi-threaded processes are not covered, and some glibc
subsystems have fork handlers which are not async-signal-safe.
Previously, a thread M invoking fork would acquire locks in this order:
(M1) malloc arena locks (in the registered fork handler)
(M2) libio list lock
A thread F invoking flush (NULL) would acquire locks in this order:
(F1) libio list lock
(F2) individual _IO_FILE locks
A thread G running getdelim would use this order:
(G1) _IO_FILE lock
(G2) malloc arena lock
After executing (M1), (F1), (G1), none of the threads can make progress.
This commit changes the fork lock order to:
(M'1) libio list lock
(M'2) malloc arena locks
It explicitly encodes the lock order in the implementations of fork,
and does not rely on the registration order, thus avoiding the deadlock.
It was noted in
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-09/msg00305.html> that the
bits/*.h naming scheme should only be used for installed headers.
This patch renames bits/stdio-lock.h to plain stdio-lock.h to follow
that convention.
Tested for x86_64 (testsuite, and that installed stripped shared
libraries are unchanged by the patch).
[BZ #14912]
* bits/stdio-lock.h: Move to ...
* sysdeps/generic/stdio-lock.h: ...here.
(_BITS_STDIO_LOCK_H): Rename macro to _STDIO_LOCK_H.
* sysdeps/nptl/bits/stdio-lock.h: Move to ...
* sysdeps/nptl/stdio-lock.h: ...here.
(_BITS_STDIO_LOCK_H): Rename macro to _STDIO_LOCK_H.
* include/libio.h: Include <stdio-lock.h> instead of
<bits/stdio-lock.h>.
* sysdeps/nptl/fork.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/pthread/flockfile.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/pthread/ftrylockfile.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/pthread/funlockfile.c: Likewise.
This adds new functions for futex operations, starting with wait,
abstimed_wait, reltimed_wait, wake. They add documentation and error
checking according to the current draft of the Linux kernel futex manpage.
Waiting with absolute or relative timeouts is split into separate functions.
This allows for removing a few cases of code duplication in pthreads code,
which uses absolute timeouts; also, it allows us to put platform-specific
code to go from an absolute to a relative timeout into the platform-specific
futex abstractions..
Futex operations that can be canceled are also split out into separate
functions suffixed by "_cancelable".
There are separate versions for both Linux and NaCl; while they currently
differ only slightly, my expectation is that the separate versions of
lowlevellock-futex.h will eventually be merged into futex-internal.h
when we get to move the lll_ functions over to the new futex API.
