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# 296373 04-Mar-2016 marius

- Copy stable/10@296371 to releng/10.3 in preparation for 10.3-RC1
builds.
- Update newvers.sh to reflect RC1.
- Update __FreeBSD_version to reflect 10.3.
- Update default pkg(8) configuration to use the quarterly branch.

Approved by: re (implicit)

# 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


# 201546 05-Jan-2010 davidxu

Use umtx to implement process sharable semaphore, to make this work,
now type sema_t is a structure which can be put in a shared memory area,
and multiple processes can operate it concurrently.
User can either use mmap(MAP_SHARED) + sem_init(pshared=1) or use sem_open()
to initialize a shared semaphore.
Named semaphore uses file system and is located in /tmp directory, and its
file name is prefixed with 'SEMD', so now it is chroot or jail friendly.
In simplist cases, both for named and un-named semaphore, userland code
does not have to enter kernel to reduce/increase semaphore's count.
The semaphore is designed to be crash-safe, it means even if an application
is crashed in the middle of operating semaphore, the semaphore state is
still safely recovered by later use, there is no waiter counter maintained
by userland code.
The main semaphore code is in libc and libthr only has some necessary stubs,
this makes it possible that a non-threaded application can use semaphore
without linking to thread library.
Old semaphore implementation is kept libc to maintain binary compatibility.
The kernel ksem API is no longer used in the new implemenation.

Discussed on: threads@


# 178647 29-Apr-2008 davidxu

Use UMTX_OP_WAIT_UINT_PRIVATE and UMTX_OP_WAKE_PRIVATE to save
time in kernel(avoid VM lookup).


# 177046 11-Mar-2008 davidxu

If a thread is cancelled, it may have already consumed a umtx_wake,
check waiter and semphore counter to see if we may wake up next thread.


# 175122 07-Jan-2008 davidxu

sem_post() requires to return -1 on error.


# 173856 23-Nov-2007 davidxu

Simplify code, fix a thread cancellation bug in sem_wait and sem_timedwait.


# 173808 21-Nov-2007 davidxu

Reuse nwaiter member field to record number of waiters, in sem_post(),
this should reduce the chance having to do a syscall when there is no
waiter in the semaphore.


# 173801 21-Nov-2007 davidxu

Remove umtx_t definition, use type long directly, add wrapper function
_thr_umtx_wait_uint() for umtx operation UMTX_OP_WAIT_UINT, use the
function in semaphore operations, this fixed compiler warnings.


# 164583 24-Nov-2006 davidxu

Eliminate atomic operations in thread cancellation functions, it should
reduce overheads of cancellation points.


# 162061 06-Sep-2006 davidxu

Replace internal usage of struct umtx with umutex which can supports
real-time if we want, no functionality is changed.


# 157234 28-Mar-2006 des

Fix prototype mismatch.


# 149691 01-Sep-2005 stefanf

Include needed headers that were obtained through <pthread.h>. Sort headers
while here.


# 144518 02-Apr-2005 davidxu

Import my recent 1:1 threading working. some features improved includes:
1. fast simple type mutex.
2. __thread tls works.
3. asynchronous cancellation works ( using signal ).
4. thread synchronization is fully based on umtx, mainly, condition
variable and other synchronization objects were rewritten by using
umtx directly. those objects can be shared between processes via
shared memory, it has to change ABI which does not happen yet.
5. default stack size is increased to 1M on 32 bits platform, 2M for
64 bits platform.
As the result, some mysql super-smack benchmarks show performance is
improved massivly.

Okayed by: jeff, mtm, rwatson, scottl


# 125408 03-Feb-2004 deischen

Remove the band-aid (#include <time.h>).


# 125394 03-Feb-2004 deischen

Add <time.h> -- bandaid to unbreak world in <semaphore.h>.


# 112965 02-Apr-2003 jeff

- Define curthread as _get_curthread() and remove all direct calls to
_get_curthread(). This is similar to the kernel's curthread. Doing
this saves stack overhead and is more convenient to the programmer.
- Pass the pointer to the newly created thread to _thread_init().
- Remove _get_curthread_slow().


# 112918 01-Apr-2003 jeff

- Add libthr but don't hook it up to the regular build yet. This is an
adaptation of libc_r for the thr system call interface. This is beta
quality code.