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# 303975 11-Aug-2016 gjb

Copy stable/11@r303970 to releng/11.0 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE
cycle.

Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, and rename it to RC1.

Update __FreeBSD_version.

Use the quarterly branch for the default FreeBSD.conf pkg(8) repo and
the dvd1.iso packages population.

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

# 302408 08-Jul-2016 gjb

Copy head@r302406 to stable/11 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE cycle.
Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, as nothing has been merged
here.

Additional commits post-branch will follow.

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


# 300043 17-May-2016 kib

Add implementation of robust mutexes, hopefully close enough to the
intention of the POSIX IEEE Std 1003.1TM-2008/Cor 1-2013.

A robust mutex is guaranteed to be cleared by the system upon either
thread or process owner termination while the mutex is held. The next
mutex locker is then notified about inconsistent mutex state and can
execute (or abandon) corrective actions.

The patch mostly consists of small changes here and there, adding
neccessary checks for the inconsistent and abandoned conditions into
existing paths. Additionally, the thread exit handler was extended to
iterate over the userspace-maintained list of owned robust mutexes,
unlocking and marking as terminated each of them.

The list of owned robust mutexes cannot be maintained atomically
synchronous with the mutex lock state (it is possible in kernel, but
is too expensive). Instead, for the duration of lock or unlock
operation, the current mutex is remembered in a special slot that is
also checked by the kernel at thread termination.

Kernel must be aware about the per-thread location of the heads of
robust mutex lists and the current active mutex slot. When a thread
touches a robust mutex for the first time, a new umtx op syscall is
issued which informs about location of lists heads.

The umtx sleep queues for PP and PI mutexes are split between
non-robust and robust.

Somewhat unrelated changes in the patch:
1. Style.
2. The fix for proper tdfind() call use in umtxq_sleep_pi() for shared
pi mutexes.
3. Removal of the userspace struct pthread_mutex m_owner field.
4. The sysctl kern.ipc.umtx_vnode_persistent is added, which controls
the lifetime of the shared mutex associated with a vnode' page.

Reviewed by: jilles (previous version, supposedly the objection was fixed)
Discussed with: brooks, Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com> (some aspects)
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 297247 24-Mar-2016 ed

Replace the CloudABI system call table by a machine generated version.

The type definitions and constants that were used by COMPAT_CLOUDABI64
are a literal copy of some headers stored inside of CloudABI's C
library, cloudlibc. What is annoying is that we can't make use of
cloudlibc's system call list, as the format is completely different and
doesn't provide enough information. It had to be synced in manually.

We recently decided to solve this (and some other problems) by moving
the ABI definitions into a separate file:

https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi/blob/master/cloudabi.txt

This file is processed by a pile of Python scripts to generate the
header files like before, documentation (markdown), but in our case more
importantly: a FreeBSD system call table.

This change discards the old files in sys/contrib/cloudabi and replaces
them by the latest copies, which requires some minor changes here and
there. Because cloudabi.txt also enforces consistent names of the system
call arguments, we have to patch up a small number of system call
implementations to use the new argument names.

The new header files can also be included directly in FreeBSD kernel
space without needing any includes/defines, so we can now remove
cloudabi_syscalldefs.h and cloudabi64_syscalldefs.h. Patch up the
sources to include the definitions directly from sys/contrib/cloudabi
instead.


# 285908 27-Jul-2015 ed

Add a futex implementation for CloudABI.

Summary:
CloudABI provides two different types of futex objects: read-write locks
and condition variables. There is no need to provide separate support
for once objects and thread joining, as these are efficiently simulated
by blocking on a read-write lock. Mutexes simply use read-write locks.

Condition variables always have a lock object associated to them. They
always know to which lock a thread needs to be migrated if woken up.
This allows us to implement requeueing. A broadcast on a condition
variable will never cause multiple threads to be woken up at once. They
will be woken up iteratively.

This implementation still has lots of room for improvement. Locking is
coarse and right now we use linked lists to store all of the locks and
condition variables, instead of using a hash table. The primary goal of
this implementation was to behave correctly. Performance will be
improved as we go.

Test Plan:
This futex implementation has been in use for the last couple of months
and seems to work pretty well. All of the cloudlibc and libc++ unit
tests seem to pass.

Reviewers: dchagin, kib, vangyzen

Subscribers: imp

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3148


# 285540 14-Jul-2015 ed

Implement thread_tcb_set() and thread_yield().

The first system call is used to set the user TLS address. Right now
this system call is invoked by the C library for both the initial thread
and additional threads unconditionally, but in the future we'll only
call this if the architecture does not support this. On recent x86-64
CPUs we could use the WRFSBASE instruction.

This system call was erroneously placed in sys/compat/cloudabi64, even
though it does not depend on any pointer size dependent datastructure.
Move it to the right place.

Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/freebsd


# 285307 09-Jul-2015 ed

Import the CloudABI datatypes and create a system call table.

CloudABI is a pure capability-based runtime environment for UNIX. It
works similar to Capsicum, except that processes already run in
capabilities mode on startup. All functionality that conflicts with this
model has been omitted, making it a compact binary interface that can be
supported by other operating systems without too much effort.

CloudABI is 'secure by default'; the idea is that it should be safe to
run arbitrary third-party binaries without requiring any explicit
hardware virtualization (Bhyve) or namespace virtualization (Jails). The
rights of an application are purely determined by the set of file
descriptors that you grant it on startup.

The datatypes and constants used by CloudABI's C library (cloudlibc) are
defined in separate files called syscalldefs_mi.h (pointer size
independent) and syscalldefs_md.h (pointer size dependent). We import
these files in sys/contrib/cloudabi and wrap around them in
cloudabi*_syscalldefs.h.

We then add stubs for all of the system calls in sys/compat/cloudabi or
sys/compat/cloudabi64, depending on whether the system call depends on
the pointer size. We only have nine system calls that depend on the
pointer size. If we ever want to support 32-bit binaries, we can simply
add sys/compat/cloudabi32 and implement these nine system calls again.

The next step is to send in code reviews for the individual system call
implementations, but also add a sysentvec, to allow CloudABI executabled
to be started through execve().

More information about CloudABI:
- GitHub: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc
- Talk at BSDCan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVdF84x1EdA

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2848
Reviewed by: emaste, brooks
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/freebsd