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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


# 255788 22-Sep-2013 davide

Consistently use the same value to indicate exclusively-held and
shared-held locks for all the primitives in lc_lock/lc_unlock routines.
This fixes the problems introduced in r255747, which indeed introduced an
inversion in the logic.

Reported by: many
Tested by: bdrewery, pho, lme, Adam McDougall, O. Hartmann
Approved by: re (glebius)


# 255745 20-Sep-2013 davide

Fix lc_lock/lc_unlock() support for rmlocks held in shared mode. With
current lock classes KPI it was really difficult because there was no
way to pass an rmtracker object to the lock/unlock routines. In order
to accomplish the task, modify the aforementioned functions so that
they can return (or pass as argument) an uinptr_t, which is in the rm
case used to hold a pointer to struct rm_priotracker for current
thread. As an added bonus, this fixes rm_sleep() in the rm shared
case, which right now can communicate priotracker structure between
lc_unlock()/lc_lock().

Suggested by: jhb
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: re (delphij)


# 252212 25-Jun-2013 jhb

A few mostly cosmetic nits to aid in debugging:
- Call lock_init() first before setting any lock_object fields in
lock init routines. This way if the machine panics due to a duplicate
init the lock's original state is preserved.
- Somewhat similarly, don't decrement td_locks and td_slocks until after
an unlock operation has completed successfully.


# 244582 22-Dec-2012 attilio

Fixup r240424: On entering KDB backends, the hijacked thread to run
interrupt context can still be idlethread. At that point, without the
panic condition, it can still happen that idlethread then will try to
acquire some locks to carry on some operations.

Skip the idlethread check on block/sleep lock operations when KDB is
active.

Reported by: jh
Tested by: jh
MFC after: 1 week


# 240475 13-Sep-2012 attilio

Remove all the checks on curthread != NULL with the exception of some MD
trap checks (eg. printtrap()).

Generally this check is not needed anymore, as there is not a legitimate
case where curthread != NULL, after pcpu 0 area has been properly
initialized.

Reviewed by: bde, jhb
MFC after: 1 week


# 240424 12-Sep-2012 attilio

Improve check coverage about idle threads.

Idle threads are not allowed to acquire any lock but spinlocks.
Deny any attempt to do so by panicing at the locking operation
when INVARIANTS is on. Then, remove the check on blocking on a
turnstile.
The check in sleepqueues is left because they are not allowed to use
tsleep() either which could happen still.

Reviewed by: bde, jhb, kib
MFC after: 1 week


# 233628 28-Mar-2012 fabient

Add software PMC support.

New kernel events can be added at various location for sampling or counting.
This will for example allow easy system profiling whatever the processor is
with known tools like pmcstat(8).

Simultaneous usage of software PMC and hardware PMC is possible, for example
looking at the lock acquire failure, page fault while sampling on
instructions.

Sponsored by: NETASQ
MFC after: 1 month


# 228433 12-Dec-2011 avg

put sys/systm.h at its proper place or add it if missing

Reported by: lstewart, tinderbox
Pointyhat to: avg, attilio
MFC after: 1 week
MFC with: r228430


# 228424 11-Dec-2011 avg

panic: add a switch and infrastructure for stopping other CPUs in SMP case

Historical behavior of letting other CPUs merily go on is a default for
time being. The new behavior can be switched on via
kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic tunable and sysctl.

Stopping of the CPUs has (at least) the following benefits:
- more of the system state at panic time is preserved intact
- threads and interrupts do not interfere with dumping of the system
state

Only one thread runs uninterrupted after panic if stop_scheduler_on_panic
is set. That thread might call code that is also used in normal context
and that code might use locks to prevent concurrent execution of certain
parts. Those locks might be held by the stopped threads and would never
be released. To work around this issue, it was decided that instead of
explicit checks for panic context, we would rather put those checks
inside the locking primitives.

This change has substantial portions written and re-written by attilio
and kib at various times. Other changes are heavily based on the ideas
and patches submitted by jhb and mdf. bde has provided many insights
into the details and history of the current code.

The new behavior may cause problems for systems that use a USB keyboard
for interfacing with system console. This is because of some unusual
locking patterns in the ukbd code which have to be used because on one
hand ukbd is below syscons, but on the other hand it has to interface
with other usb code that uses regular mutexes/Giant for its concurrency
protection. Dumping to USB-connected disks may also be affected.

PR: amd64/139614 (at least)
In cooperation with: attilio, jhb, kib, mdf
Discussed with: arch@, bde
Tested by: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>,
gnn,
Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>,
glebius,
Andrew Boyer <aboyer@averesystems.com>
(various versions of the patch)
MFC after: 3 months (or never)


# 227788 21-Nov-2011 attilio

Introduce the same mutex-wise fix in r227758 for sx locks.

The functions that offer file and line specifications are:
- sx_assert_
- sx_downgrade_
- sx_slock_
- sx_slock_sig_
- sx_sunlock_
- sx_try_slock_
- sx_try_xlock_
- sx_try_upgrade_
- sx_unlock_
- sx_xlock_
- sx_xlock_sig_
- sx_xunlock_

Now vm_map locking is fully converted and can avoid to know specifics
about locking procedures.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 month


# 227588 16-Nov-2011 pjd

Constify arguments for locking KPIs where possible.

This enables locking consumers to pass their own structures around as const and
be able to assert locks embedded into those structures.

Reviewed by: ed, kib, jhb


# 227309 07-Nov-2011 ed

Mark all SYSCTL_NODEs static that have no corresponding SYSCTL_DECLs.

The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.


# 219819 21-Mar-2011 jeff

- Merge changes to the base system to support OFED. These include
a wider arg2 for sysctl, updates to vlan code, IFT_INFINIBAND,
and other miscellaneous small features.


# 217326 12-Jan-2011 mdf

sysctl(9) cleanup checkpoint: amd64 GENERIC builds cleanly.

Commit the kernel changes.


# 217265 11-Jan-2011 jhb

Remove unneeded includes of <sys/linker_set.h>. Other headers that use
it internally contain nested includes.

Reviewed by: bde


# 208912 08-Jun-2010 jhb

Fix a sign bug that caused adaptive spinning in sx_xlock() to not work
properly. Among other things it did not drop Giant while spinning
leading to livelocks.

Reviewed by: rookie, kib, jmallett
MFC after: 3 days


# 200447 12-Dec-2009 attilio

In current code, threads performing an interruptible sleep (on both
sxlock, via the sx_{s, x}lock_sig() interface, or plain lockmgr), will
leave the waiters flag on forcing the owner to do a wakeup even when if
the waiter queue is empty.
That operation may lead to a deadlock in the case of doing a fake wakeup
on the "preferred" (based on the wakeup algorithm) queue while the other
queue has real waiters on it, because nobody is going to wakeup the 2nd
queue waiters and they will sleep indefinitively.

A similar bug, is present, for lockmgr in the case the waiters are
sleeping with LK_SLEEPFAIL on. In this case, even if the waiters queue
is not empty, the waiters won't progress after being awake but they will
just fail, still not taking care of the 2nd queue waiters (as instead the
lock owned doing the wakeup would expect).

In order to fix this bug in a cheap way (without adding too much locking
and complicating too much the semantic) add a sleepqueue interface which
does report the actual number of waiters on a specified queue of a
waitchannel (sleepq_sleepcnt()) and use it in order to determine if the
exclusive waiters (or shared waiters) are actually present on the lockmgr
(or sx) before to give them precedence in the wakeup algorithm.
This fix alone, however doesn't solve the LK_SLEEPFAIL bug. In order to
cope with it, add the tracking of how many exclusive LK_SLEEPFAIL waiters
a lockmgr has and if all the waiters on the exclusive waiters queue are
LK_SLEEPFAIL just wake both queues.

The sleepq_sleepcnt() introduction and ABI breakage require
__FreeBSD_version bumping.

Reported by: avg, kib, pho
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: pho


# 197643 30-Sep-2009 attilio

When releasing a read/shared lock we need to use a write memory barrier
in order to avoid, on architectures which doesn't have strong ordered
writes, CPU instructions reordering.

Diagnosed by: fabio
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: Giovanni Trematerra
<giovanni dot trematerra at gmail dot com>


# 196772 02-Sep-2009 attilio

Fix some bugs related to adaptive spinning:

In the lockmgr support:
- GIANT_RESTORE() is just called when the sleep finishes, so the current
code can ends up into a giant unlock problem. Fix it by appropriately
call GIANT_RESTORE() when needed. Note that this is not exactly ideal
because for any interation of the adaptive spinning we drop and restore
Giant, but the overhead should be not a factor.
- In the lock held in exclusive mode case, after the adaptive spinning is
brought to completition, we should just retry to acquire the lock
instead to fallthrough. Fix that.
- Fix a style nit

In the sx support:
- Call GIANT_SAVE() before than looping. This saves some overhead because
in the current code GIANT_SAVE() is called several times.

Tested by: Giovanni Trematerra <giovanni dot trematerra at gmail dot com>


# 196334 17-Aug-2009 attilio

* Change the scope of the ASSERT_ATOMIC_LOAD() from a generic check to
a pointer-fetching specific operation check. Consequently, rename the
operation ASSERT_ATOMIC_LOAD_PTR().
* Fix the implementation of ASSERT_ATOMIC_LOAD_PTR() by checking
directly alignment on the word boundry, for all the given specific
architectures. That's a bit too strict for some common case, but it
assures safety.
* Add a comment explaining the scope of the macro
* Add a new stub in the lockmgr specific implementation

Tested by: marcel (initial version), marius
Reviewed by: rwatson, jhb (comment specific review)
Approved by: re (kib)


# 196226 14-Aug-2009 bz

Add a new macro to test that a variable could be loaded atomically.
Check that the given variable is at most uintptr_t in size and that
it is aligned.

Note: ASSERT_ATOMIC_LOAD() uses ALIGN() to check for adequate
alignment -- however, the function of ALIGN() is to guarantee
alignment, and therefore may lead to stronger alignment
enforcement than necessary for types that are smaller than
sizeof(uintptr_t).

Add checks to mtx, rw and sx locks init functions to detect possible
breakage. This was used during debugging of the problem fixed with
r196118 where a pointer was on an un-aligned address in the dpcpu area.

In collaboration with: rwatson
Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: re (kib)


# 193307 02-Jun-2009 attilio

Handle lock recursion differenty by always checking against LO_RECURSABLE
instead the lock own flag itself.

Tested by: pho


# 193025 29-May-2009 attilio

The patch for r193011 was partially rejected when applied, complete it.


# 193011 28-May-2009 attilio

Reverse the logic for ADAPTIVE_SX option and enable it by default.
Introduce for this operation the reverse NO_ADAPTIVE_SX option.
The flag SX_ADAPTIVESPIN to be passed to sx_init_flags(9) gets suppressed
and the new flag, offering the reversed logic, SX_NOADAPTIVE is added.

Additively implements adaptive spininning for sx held in shared mode.
The spinning limit can be handled through sysctls in order to be tuned
while the code doesn't reach the release, after which time they should
be dropped probabilly.

This change has made been necessary by recent benchmarks where it does
improve concurrency of workloads in presence of high contention
(ie. ZFS).

KPI breakage is documented by __FreeBSD_version bumping, manpage and
UPDATING updates.

Requested by: jeff, kmacy
Reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho


# 192853 26-May-2009 sson

Add the OpenSolaris dtrace lockstat provider. The lockstat provider
adds probes for mutexes, reader/writer and shared/exclusive locks to
gather contention statistics and other locking information for
dtrace scripts, the lockstat(1M) command and other potential
consumers.

Reviewed by: attilio jhb jb
Approved by: gnn (mentor)


# 189846 15-Mar-2009 jeff

- Wrap lock profiling state variables in #ifdef LOCK_PROFILING blocks.


# 182914 10-Sep-2008 jhb

Teach WITNESS about the interlocks used with lockmgr. This removes a bunch
of spurious witness warnings since lockmgr grew witness support. Before
this, every time you passed an interlock to a lockmgr lock WITNESS treated
it as a LOR.

Reviewed by: attilio


# 181334 05-Aug-2008 jhb

If a thread that is swapped out is made runnable, then the setrunnable()
routine wakes up proc0 so that proc0 can swap the thread back in.
Historically, this has been done by waking up proc0 directly from
setrunnable() itself via a wakeup(). When waking up a sleeping thread
that was swapped out (the usual case when waking proc0 since only sleeping
threads are eligible to be swapped out), this resulted in a bit of
recursion (e.g. wakeup() -> setrunnable() -> wakeup()).

With sleep queues having separate locks in 6.x and later, this caused a
spin lock LOR (sleepq lock -> sched_lock/thread lock -> sleepq lock).
An attempt was made to fix this in 7.0 by making the proc0 wakeup use
the ithread mechanism for doing the wakeup. However, this required
grabbing proc0's thread lock to perform the wakeup. If proc0 was asleep
elsewhere in the kernel (e.g. waiting for disk I/O), then this degenerated
into the same LOR since the thread lock would be some other sleepq lock.

Fix this by deferring the wakeup of the swapper until after the sleepq
lock held by the upper layer has been locked. The setrunnable() routine
now returns a boolean value to indicate whether or not proc0 needs to be
woken up. The end result is that consumers of the sleepq API such as
*sleep/wakeup, condition variables, sx locks, and lockmgr, have to wakeup
proc0 if they get a non-zero return value from sleepq_abort(),
sleepq_broadcast(), or sleepq_signal().

Discussed with: jeff
Glanced at by: sam
Tested by: Jurgen Weber jurgen - ish com au
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 179025 15-May-2008 attilio

- Embed the recursion counter for any locking primitive directly in the
lock_object, using an unified field called lo_data.
- Replace lo_type usage with the w_name usage and at init time pass the
lock "type" directly to witness_init() from the parent lock init
function. Handle delayed initialization before than
witness_initialize() is called through the witness_pendhelp structure.
- Axe out LO_ENROLLPEND as it is not really needed. The case where the
mutex init delayed wants to be destroyed can't happen because
witness_destroy() checks for witness_cold and panic in case.
- In enroll(), if we cannot allocate a new object from the freelist,
notify that to userspace through a printf().
- Modify the depart function in order to return nothing as in the current
CVS version it always returns true and adjust callers accordingly.
- Fix the witness_addgraph() argument name prototype.
- Remove unuseful code from itismychild().

This commit leads to a shrinked struct lock_object and so smaller locks,
in particular on amd64 where 2 uintptr_t (16 bytes per-primitive) are
gained.

Reviewed by: jhb


# 177085 12-Mar-2008 jeff

- Pass the priority argument from *sleep() into sleepq and down into
sched_sleep(). This removes extra thread_lock() acquisition and
allows the scheduler to decide what to do with the static boost.
- Change the priority arguments to cv_* to match sleepq/msleep/etc.
where 0 means no priority change. Catch -1 in cv_broadcastpri() and
convert it to 0 for now.
- Set a flag when sleeping in a way that is compatible with swapping
since direct priority comparisons are meaningless now.
- Add a sysctl to ule, kern.sched.static_boost, that defaults to on which
controls the boost behavior. Turning it off gives better performance
in some workloads but needs more investigation.
- While we're modifying sleepq, change signal and broadcast to both
return with the lock held as the lock was held on enter.

Reviewed by: jhb, peter


# 174629 15-Dec-2007 jeff

- Re-implement lock profiling in such a way that it no longer breaks
the ABI when enabled. There is no longer an embedded lock_profile_object
in each lock. Instead a list of lock_profile_objects is kept per-thread
for each lock it may own. The cnt_hold statistic is now always 0 to
facilitate this.
- Support shared locking by tracking individual lock instances and
statistics in the per-thread per-instance lock_profile_object.
- Make the lock profiling hash table a per-cpu singly linked list with a
per-cpu static lock_prof allocator. This removes the need for an array
of spinlocks and reduces cache contention between cores.
- Use a seperate hash for spinlocks and other locks so that only a
critical_enter() is required and not a spinlock_enter() to modify the
per-cpu tables.
- Count time spent spinning in the lock statistics.
- Remove the LOCK_PROFILE_SHARED option as it is always supported now.
- Specifically drop and release the scheduler locks in both schedulers
since we track owners now.

In collaboration with: Kip Macy
Sponsored by: Nokia


# 173733 18-Nov-2007 attilio

Expand lock class with the "virtual" function lc_assert which will offer
an unified way for all the lock primitives to express lock assertions.
Currenty, lockmgrs and rmlocks don't have assertions, so just panic in
that case.
This will be a base for more callout improvements.

Ok'ed by: jhb, jeff


# 173600 14-Nov-2007 julian

generally we are interested in what thread did something as
opposed to what process. Since threads by default have teh name of the
process unless over-written with more useful information, just print the
thread name instead.


# 172416 02-Oct-2007 pjd

Fix sx_try_slock(), so it only fails when there is an exclusive owner.
Before that fix, it was possible for the function to fail if number
of sharers changes between 'x = sx->sx_lock' step and atomic_cmpset_acq_ptr()
call.

This fixes ZFS problem when ZFS returns strange EIO errors under load.
In ZFS there is a code that depends on the fact that sx_try_slock() can
only fail if there is an exclusive owner.

Discussed with: attilio
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: re (kensmith)


# 171277 06-Jul-2007 attilio

Fix some problems with lock_profiling in sx locks:
- Adjust lock_profiling stubs semantic in the hard functions in order to be
more accurate and trustable
- Disable shared paths for lock_profiling. Actually, lock_profiling has a
subtle race which makes results caming from shared paths not completely
trustable. A macro stub (LOCK_PROFILING_SHARED) can be actually used for
re-enabling this paths, but is currently intended for developing use only.
- Use homogeneous names for automatic variables in hard functions regarding
lock_profiling
- Style fixes
- Add a CTASSERT for some flags building

Discussed with: kmacy, kris
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
Approved by: re


# 170149 31-May-2007 attilio

Add functions sx_xlock_sig() and sx_slock_sig().
These functions are intended to do the same actions of sx_xlock() and
sx_slock() but with the difference to perform an interruptible sleep, so
that sleep can be interrupted by external events.
In order to support these new featueres, some code renstruction is needed,
but external API won't be affected at all.

Note: use "void" cast for "int" returning functions in order to avoid tools
like Coverity prevents to whine.

Requested by: rwatson
Tested by: rwatson
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: jeff (mentor)


# 170115 29-May-2007 attilio

style(9) fixes for sx locks.

Approved by: jeff (mentor)


# 170113 29-May-2007 attilio

Add a small fix for lock profiling in sx locks.
"0" cannot be a correct value since when the function is entered at least
one shared holder must be present and since we want the last one "1" is
the correct value.
Note that lock_profiling for sx locks is far from being perfect.
Expect further fixes for that.

Approved by: jeff (mentor)


# 169780 19-May-2007 jhb

Rename the macros for assertion flags passed to sx_assert() from SX_* to
SA_* to match mutexes and rwlocks. The old flags still exist for
backwards compatiblity.

Requested by: attilio


# 169776 19-May-2007 jhb

Expose sx_xholder() as a public macro. It returns a pointer to the thread
that holds the current exclusive lock, or NULL if no thread holds an
exclusive lock.

Requested by: pjd


# 169774 19-May-2007 jhb

Oops, didn't include SX_ADAPTIVESPIN in the list of valid flags for the
assert in sx_init_flags().

Submitted by: attilio


# 169769 19-May-2007 jhb

Add a new SX_RECURSE flag to make support for recursive exclusive locks
conditional. By default, sx(9) locks are back to not supporting recursive
exclusive locks.

Submitted by: attilio


# 169676 18-May-2007 jhb

Fix a comment.


# 169675 18-May-2007 jhb

Move lock_profile_object_{init,destroy}() into lock_{init,destroy}().


# 169394 08-May-2007 jhb

Add destroyed cookie values for sx locks and rwlocks as well as extra
KASSERTs so that any lock operations on a destroyed lock will panic or
hang.


# 168333 03-Apr-2007 kmacy

fix typo


# 168332 03-Apr-2007 kmacy

style fixes and make sure that the lock is treated as released in the sharers == 0 case
not that this is somewhat racy because a new sharer can come in while we're updating stats


# 168330 03-Apr-2007 kmacy

Fixes to sx for newsx - fix recursed case and move out of inline

Submitted by: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>


# 168191 31-Mar-2007 jhb

Optimize sx locks to use simple atomic operations for the common cases of
obtaining and releasing shared and exclusive locks. The algorithms for
manipulating the lock cookie are very similar to that rwlocks. This patch
also adds support for exclusive locks using the same algorithm as mutexes.

A new sx_init_flags() function has been added so that optional flags can be
specified to alter a given locks behavior. The flags include SX_DUPOK,
SX_NOWITNESS, SX_NOPROFILE, and SX_QUITE which are all identical in nature
to the similar flags for mutexes.

Adaptive spinning on select locks may be enabled by enabling the
ADAPTIVE_SX kernel option. Only locks initialized with the SX_ADAPTIVESPIN
flag via sx_init_flags() will adaptively spin.

The common cases for sx_slock(), sx_sunlock(), sx_xlock(), and sx_xunlock()
are now performed inline in non-debug kernels. As a result, <sys/sx.h> now
requires <sys/lock.h> to be included prior to <sys/sx.h>.

The new kernel option SX_NOINLINE can be used to disable the aforementioned
inlining in non-debug kernels.

The size of struct sx has changed, so the kernel ABI is probably greatly
disturbed.

MFC after: 1 month
Submitted by: attilio
Tested by: kris, pjd


# 167787 21-Mar-2007 jhb

Rename the 'mtx_object', 'rw_object', and 'sx_object' members of mutexes,
rwlocks, and sx locks to 'lock_object'.


# 167368 09-Mar-2007 jhb

Add two new function pointers 'lc_lock' and 'lc_unlock' to lock classes.
These functions are intended to be used to drop a lock and then reacquire
it when doing an sleep such as msleep(9). Both functions accept a
'struct lock_object *' as their first parameter. The 'lc_unlock' function
returns an integer that is then passed as the second paramter to the
subsequent 'lc_lock' function. This can be used to communicate state.
For example, sx locks and rwlocks use this to indicate if the lock was
share/read locked vs exclusive/write locked.

Currently, spin mutexes and lockmgr locks do not provide working lc_lock
and lc_unlock functions.


# 167365 09-Mar-2007 jhb

Use C99-style struct member initialization for lock classes.


# 167163 02-Mar-2007 kmacy

lock stats updates need to be protected by the lock


# 167136 01-Mar-2007 kmacy

Evidently I've overestimated gcc's ability to peak inside inline functions
and optimize away unused stack values. The 48 bytes that the lock_profile_object
adds to the stack evidently has a measurable performance impact on certain workloads.


# 167054 27-Feb-2007 kmacy

Further improvements to LOCK_PROFILING:
- Fix missing initialization in kern_rwlock.c causing bogus times to be collected
- Move updates to the lock hash to after the lock is released for spin mutexes,
sleep mutexes, and sx locks
- Add new kernel build option LOCK_PROFILE_FAST - only update lock profiling
statistics when an acquisition is contended. This reduces the overhead of
LOCK_PROFILING to increasing system time by 20%-25% which on
"make -j8 kernel-toolchain" on a dual woodcrest is unmeasurable in terms
of wall-clock time. Contrast this to enabling lock profiling without
LOCK_PROFILE_FAST and I see a 5x-6x slowdown in wall-clock time.


# 167012 26-Feb-2007 kmacy

general LOCK_PROFILING cleanup

- only collect timestamps when a lock is contested - this reduces the overhead
of collecting profiles from 20x to 5x

- remove unused function from subr_lock.c

- generalize cnt_hold and cnt_lock statistics to be kept for all locks

- NOTE: rwlock profiling generates invalid statistics (and most likely always has)
someone familiar with that should review


# 164246 13-Nov-2006 kmacy

track lock class name in a way that doesn't break WITNESS


# 164159 11-Nov-2006 kmacy

MUTEX_PROFILING has been generalized to LOCK_PROFILING. We now profile
wait (time waited to acquire) and hold times for *all* kernel locks. If
the architecture has a system synchronized TSC, the profiling code will
use that - thereby minimizing profiling overhead. Large chunks of profiling
code have been moved out of line, the overhead measured on the T1 for when
it is compiled in but not enabled is < 1%.

Approved by: scottl (standing in for mentor rwatson)
Reviewed by: des and jhb


# 161337 15-Aug-2006 jhb

Add a new 'show sleepchain' ddb command similar to 'show lockchain' except
that it operates on lockmgr and sx locks. This can be useful for tracking
down vnode deadlocks in VFS for example. Note that this command is a bit
more fragile than 'show lockchain' as we have to poke around at the
wait channel of a thread to see if it points to either a struct lock or
a condition variable inside of a struct sx. If td_wchan points to
something unmapped, then this command will terminate early due to a fault,
but no harm will be done.


# 160771 27-Jul-2006 jhb

Adjust td_locks for non-spin mutexes, rwlocks, and sx locks so that it is
a count of all non-spin locks, not just lockmgr locks. This can give us a
much cheaper way to see if we have any locks held (such as when returning
to userland via userret()) without requiring WITNESS.

MFC after: 1 week


# 154484 17-Jan-2006 jhb

Add a new file (kern/subr_lock.c) for holding code related to struct
lock_obj objects:
- Add new lock_init() and lock_destroy() functions to setup and teardown
lock_object objects including KTR logging and registering with WITNESS.
- Move all the handling of LO_INITIALIZED out of witness and the various
lock init functions into lock_init() and lock_destroy().
- Remove the constants for static indices into the lock_classes[] array
and change the code outside of subr_lock.c to use LOCK_CLASS to compare
against a known lock class.
- Move the 'show lock' ddb function and lock_classes[] array out of
kern_mutex.c over to subr_lock.c.


# 154077 06-Jan-2006 jhb

Trim another pointer from struct lock_object (and thus from struct mtx and
struct sx). Instead of storing a direct pointer to a our lock_class
struct in lock_object, reserve 4 bits in the lo_flags field to serve as an
index into a global lock_classes array that contains pointers to the lock
classes. Only debugging code such as WITNESS or INVARIANTS checks and KTR
logging need to access the lock_class member, so this shouldn't add any
overhead to production kernels. It might add some slight overhead to
kernels using those debug options however.

As with the previous set of changes to lock_object, this is going to
completely obliterate the kernel ABI, so be sure to recompile all your
modules.


# 153395 13-Dec-2005 jhb

Add a new 'show lock' command to ddb. If the argument has a valid lock
class, then it displays various information about the lock and calls a
new function pointer in lock_class (lc_ddb_show) to dump class-specific
information about the lock as well (such as the owner of a mutex or
xlock'ed sx lock). This is easier than staring at hex dumps of locks to
figure out who owns the lock, etc. Note that extending lock_class doesn't
affect the ABI for any kernel modules as the only code that deals with
lock_class structures directly is kern_mutex.c, kern_sx.c, and witness.

MFC after: 1 week


# 139804 06-Jan-2005 imp

/* -> /*- for copyright notices, minor format tweaks as necessary


# 126316 27-Feb-2004 jhb

Fix _sx_assert() to panic() rather than printf() when an assertion fails
and ignore assertions if we have already paniced.


# 126003 19-Feb-2004 pjd

Simplify check. We are only able to check exclusive lock and if
2nd condition is true, first one is true for sure.

Approved by: jhb, scottl (mentor)


# 125421 04-Feb-2004 pjd

Allow assert that the current thread does not hold the sx(9) lock.

Reviewed by: jhb
In cooperation with: juli, jhb
Approved by: jhb, scottl (mentor)


# 125160 28-Jan-2004 jhb

Rework witness_lock() to make it slightly more useful and flexible.
- witness_lock() is split into two pieces: witness_checkorder() and
witness_lock(). Witness_checkorder() determines if acquiring a specified
lock at the time it is called would result in a lock order. It
optionally adds a new lock order relationship as well. witness_lock()
updates witness's data structures to assume that a lock has been acquired
by stick a new lock instance in the appropriate lock instance list.
- The mutex and sx lock functions now call checkorder() prior to trying to
acquire a lock and continue to call witness_lock() after the acquire is
completed. This will let witness catch a deadlock before it happens
rather than trying to do so after the threads have deadlocked (i.e. never
actually report it).
- A new function witness_defineorder() has been added that adds a lock
order between two locks at runtime without having to acquire the locks.
If the lock order cannot be added it will return an error. This function
is available to programmers via the WITNESS_DEFINEORDER() macro which
accepts either two mutexes or two sx locks as its arguments.
- A few simple wrapper macros were added to allow developers to call
witness_checkorder() anywhere as a way of enforcing locking assertions
in code that might acquire a certain lock in some situations. The
macros are: witness_check_{mutex,shared_sx,exclusive_sx} and take an
appropriate lock as the sole argument.
- The code to remove a lock instance from a lock list in witness_unlock()
was unnested by using a goto to vastly improve the readability of this
function.


# 117494 12-Jul-2003 truckman

Extend the mutex pool implementation to permit the creation and use of
multiple mutex pools with different options and sizes. Mutex pools can
be created with either the default sleep mutexes or with spin mutexes.
A dynamically created mutex pool can now be destroyed if it is no longer
needed.

Create two pools by default, one that matches the existing pool that
uses the MTX_NOWITNESS option that should be used for building higher
level locks, and a new pool with witness checking enabled.

Modify the users of the existing mutex pool to use the appropriate pool
in the new implementation.

Reviewed by: jhb


# 116182 10-Jun-2003 obrien

Use __FBSDID().


# 93812 04-Apr-2002 jhb

Set the lock type equal to the lock name for now as all of the current
sx locks don't use very specific lock names.


# 93672 02-Apr-2002 arr

- Add MTX_SYSINIT and SX_SYSINIT as macro glue for allowing sx and mtx
locks to be able to setup a SYSINIT call. This helps in places where
a lock is needed to protect some data, but the data is not truly
associated with a subsystem that can properly initialize it's lock.
The macros use the mtx_sysinit() and sx_sysinit() functions,
respectively, as the handler argument to SYSINIT().

Reviewed by: alfred, jhb, smp@


# 89496 18-Jan-2002 tanimura

Invert the test of sx_xholder for SX_LOCKED. We need to warn if a
thread other than the curthread holds an sx.

While I am here, break a line at the end of warning.


# 87594 10-Dec-2001 obrien

Update to C99, s/__FUNCTION__/__func__/.


# 86333 13-Nov-2001 dillon

Create a mutex pool API for short term leaf mutexes.
Replace the manual mutex pool in kern_lock.c (lockmgr locks) with the new API.
Replace the mutexes embedded in sxlocks with the new API.


# 85412 24-Oct-2001 jhb

Fix this to actually compile in the !INVARIANTS case.

Reported by: Maxime Henrion <mux@qualys.com>


# 85388 23-Oct-2001 jhb

Change the sx(9) assertion API to use a sx_assert() function similar to
mtx_assert(9) rather than several SX_ASSERT_* macros.


# 85205 19-Oct-2001 jhb

The mtx_init() and sx_init() functions bzero'd locks before handing them
off to witness_init() making the check for double intializating a lock by
testing the LO_INITIALIZED flag moot. Workaround this by checking the
LO_INITIALIZED flag ourself before we bzero the lock structure.


# 83366 12-Sep-2001 julian

KSE Milestone 2
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.

Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)

Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org

X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha


# 82246 23-Aug-2001 jhb

Use witness_upgrade/downgrade for sx_try_upgrade/downgrade.


# 82212 23-Aug-2001 jhb

Clear the sx_xholder pointer when downgrading an exclusive lock.


# 81599 13-Aug-2001 jasone

Add sx_try_upgrade() and sx_downgrade().

Submitted by: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com>


# 78872 27-Jun-2001 jhb

- Add trylock variants of shared and exclusive locks.
- The sx assertions don't actually need the internal sx mutex lock, so
don't bother doing so.
- Add a new assertion SX_ASSERT_LOCKED() that asserts that either a
shared or exclusive lock should be held. This assertion should be used
instead of SX_ASSERT_SLOCKED() in almost all cases.
- Adjust some KASSERT()'s to include file and line information.
- Use the new witness_assert() function in the WITNESS case for sx slock
asserts to verify that the current thread actually owns a slock.


# 76272 04-May-2001 jhb

- Move state about lock objects out of struct lock_object and into a new
struct lock_instance that is stored in the per-process and per-CPU lock
lists. Previously, the lock lists just kept a pointer to each lock held.
That pointer is now replaced by a lock instance which contains a pointer
to the lock object, the file and line of the last acquisition of a lock,
and various flags about a lock including its recursion count.
- If we sleep while holding a sleepable lock, then mark that lock instance
as having slept and ignore any lock order violations that occur while
acquiring Giant when we wake up with slept locks. This is ok because of
Giant's special nature.
- Allow witness to differentiate between shared and exclusive locks and
unlocks of a lock. Witness will now detect the case when a lock is
acquired first in one mode and then in another. Mutexes are always
locked and unlocked exclusively. Witness will also now detect the case
where a process attempts to unlock a shared lock while holding an
exclusive lock and vice versa.
- Fix a bug in the lock list implementation where we used the wrong
constant to detect the case where a lock list entry was full.


# 74912 28-Mar-2001 jhb

Rework the witness code to work with sx locks as well as mutexes.
- Introduce lock classes and lock objects. Each lock class specifies a
name and set of flags (or properties) shared by all locks of a given
type. Currently there are three lock classes: spin mutexes, sleep
mutexes, and sx locks. A lock object specifies properties of an
additional lock along with a lock name and all of the extra stuff needed
to make witness work with a given lock. This abstract lock stuff is
defined in sys/lock.h. The lockmgr constants, types, and prototypes have
been moved to sys/lockmgr.h. For temporary backwards compatability,
sys/lock.h includes sys/lockmgr.h.
- Replace proc->p_spinlocks with a per-CPU list, PCPU(spinlocks), of spin
locks held. By making this per-cpu, we do not have to jump through
magic hoops to deal with sched_lock changing ownership during context
switches.
- Replace proc->p_heldmtx, formerly a list of held sleep mutexes, with
proc->p_sleeplocks, which is a list of held sleep locks including sleep
mutexes and sx locks.
- Add helper macros for logging lock events via the KTR_LOCK KTR logging
level so that the log messages are consistent.
- Add some new flags that can be passed to mtx_init():
- MTX_NOWITNESS - specifies that this lock should be ignored by witness.
This is used for the mutex that blocks a sx lock for example.
- MTX_QUIET - this is not new, but you can pass this to mtx_init() now
and no events will be logged for this lock, so that one doesn't have
to change all the individual mtx_lock/unlock() operations.
- All lock objects maintain an initialized flag. Use this flag to export
a mtx_initialized() macro that can be safely called from drivers. Also,
we on longer walk the all_mtx list if MUTEX_DEBUG is defined as witness
performs the corresponding checks using the initialized flag.
- The lock order reversal messages have been improved to output slightly
more accurate file and line numbers.


# 73901 06-Mar-2001 jhb

In order to avoid recursing on the backing mutex for sx locks in the
INVARIANTS case, define the actual KASSERT() in _SX_ASSERT_[SX]LOCKED
macros that are used in the sx code itself and convert the
SX_ASSERT_[SX]LOCKED macros to simple wrappers that grab the mutex for the
duration of the check.


# 73863 06-Mar-2001 bmilekic

- Add sx_descr description member to sx lock structure
- Add sx_xholder member to sx struct which is used for INVARIANTS-enabled
assertions. It indicates the thread that presently owns the xlock.
- Add some assertions to the sx lock code that will detect the fatal
API abuse:
xlock --> xlock
xlock --> slock
which now works thanks to sx_xholder.
Notice that the remaining two problematic cases:
slock --> xlock
slock --> slock (a little less problematic, but still recursion)
will need to be handled by witness eventually, as they are more
involved.

Reviewed by: jhb, jake, jasone


# 73782 05-Mar-2001 jasone

Implement shared/exclusive locks.

Reviewed by: bmilekic, jake, jhb