History log of /haiku/headers/private/system/thread_defs.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 557f0446 26-Apr-2023 Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@gmail.com>

kernel: Introduce THREAD_BLOCK_TYPE_OTHER_OBJECT.

THREAD_BLOCK_TYPE_OTHER implies the "object" pointer in the
wait information is a string. But sometimes we want to pass
through objects which are not strings, for inspection in KDL.


# 2c588b03 05-Aug-2019 Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@gmail.com>

kernel: Properly separate and handle THREAD_BLOCK_TYPE_USER.

Consider this scenario:
* A userland thread puts its ID into some structure so that it
can be woken up later, sets its wait_status to initiate the
begin of the wait, and then calls _user_block_thread.
* A second thread finishes whatever task the first thread
intended to wait for, reads the ID almost immediately
after it was written, and calls _user_unblock_thread.
* _user_unblock_thread was called so soon that the first
thread is not yet blocked on the _user_block_thread block,
but is instead blocked on e.g. the thread's main mutex.
* The first thread's thread_block() call returns B_OK.
As in this example it was inside mutex_lock, it thinks
that it now owns the mutex.
* But it doesn't own the mutex, and so (until yesterday)
all sorts of mayhem and then a random crash occurs, or
(after yesterday) an assert-failure is tripped that
the thread does not own the mutex it expected to.

The above scenario is not a hypothetical, but is in fact the
exact scenario behind the strange panics in #15211.

The solution is to only have _user_unblock_thread actually
unblock threads that were blocked by _user_block_thread,
so I've introduced a new BLOCK_TYPE to differentiate these.
While I'm at it, remove the BLOCK_TYPE_USER_BASE, which was
never used (and now never will be.) If we want to differentiate
different consumers of _user_block_thread for debugging
purposes, we should use the currently-unused "object"
argument to thread_block, instead of cluttering the
relatively-clean block type debugging code with special
types.

One final note: The race condition which was the case of
this bug does not, in fact, imply a deadlock on the part
of the rw_lock here. The wait_status is protected by the
thread's mutex, which is acquired by both _user_block_thread
and _user_unblock_thread, and so if _user_unblock_thread
succeeds faster than _user_block_thread can initiate
the block, it will just see that wait_status is already
<= 0 and return immediately.

Fixes #15211.


# 513403d4 14-Jun-2018 Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@gmail.com>

Revert team and thread changes for COMPAT_MODE (hrev52010 & hrev52011).

This reverts commit c558f9c8fe54bc14515aa62bac7826271289f0e4.
This reverts commit 44f24718b1505e8d9c75e00e59f2f471a79b5f56.
This reverts commit a69cb330301c4d697daae57e6019a307f285043e.
This reverts commit 951182620e297d10af7fdcfe32f2b04d56086ae9.

There have been multiple reports that these changes break mounting NTFS partitions
(on all systems, see #14204), and shutting down (on certain systems, see #12405.)
Until they can be fixed, they are being backed out.


# 95118262 20-May-2018 Jérôme Duval <jerome.duval@gmail.com>

kernel/x86_64: setup a new team in compatibility mode.

* in load_image_internal(), elf32_load_user_image checks whether the binary
format requires the compatibility mode.
* we then set up the flag THREAD_FLAGS_COMPAT_MODE and the address space size.
* the compatibility mode runtime_loader is hardcoded with x86/runtime_loader.
* if needed, the 64-bit flat_args structure is converted in-place to its 32-bit
layout.
* a 32-bit flat_args isn't handled yet (a 32-bit team execs a 64-bit binary).

Change-Id: Ia6a066bde8d1774d85de29b48dc500e27ae9668f


# 772568c4 16-Sep-2013 Pawel Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>

system: Use B_PAGE_SIZE to define stack sizes

As korli suggested use B_PAGE_SIZE for defining stack size related
definitions what seems to be more natural for them and also may
help if we ever support an architecture with page size different than
4kB.


# f06af2e2 16-Sep-2013 Pawel Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>

system: Use B_PAGE_SIZE to define stack sizes

As korli suggested use B_PAGE_SIZE for defining stack size related
definitions what seems to be more natural for them and also may
help if we ever support an architecture with page size different than
4kB.


# 3b4269ec 24-Feb-2013 Pawel Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>

arch: randomize initial user stack pointer

Inside the page randomization of initial user stack pointer is not only a part
of ASLR implementation but also a performance improvement that helps
eliminating aligned 64 kB data access.

Minimal user stack size is increased to 8 kB in order to ensure that regardless
of initial stack pointer value there is still enough space on stack.


# d1f280c8 01-Apr-2012 Hamish Morrison <hamishm53@gmail.com>

Add support for pthread_attr_get/setguardsize()

* Added the aforementioned functions.
* create_area_etc() now takes a guard size parameter.
* The thread_info::stack_base/end range now refers to the usable range
only.


# 24df6592 11-Jun-2011 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

Merged signals-merge branch into trunk with the following changes:
* Reorganized the kernel locking related to threads and teams.
* We now discriminate correctly between process and thread signals. Signal
handlers have been moved to teams. Fixes #5679.
* Implemented real-time signal support, including signal queuing, SA_SIGINFO
support, sigqueue(), sigwaitinfo(), sigtimedwait(), waitid(), and the addition
of the real-time signal range. Closes #1935 and #2695.
* Gave SIGBUS a separate signal number. Fixes #6704.
* Implemented <time.h> clock and timer support, and fixed/completed alarm() and
[set]itimer(). Closes #5682.
* Implemented support for thread cancellation. Closes #5686.
* Moved send_signal() from <signal.h> to <OS.h>. Fixes #7554.
* Lots over smaller more or less related changes.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@42116 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 232fd3ba 03-Sep-2008 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

Moved the wait type definitions to <thread_defs.h>. We're going to use
them in userland, too.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@27301 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 57f2b5a0 05-Aug-2008 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

* Changed the meaning of the {KERNEL,USER}_STACK_SIZE macros to not
include the guard pages. Adjusted the kernel and boot loader code
accordingly -- the guard pages size is added/not removed respectively.
The stack size passed to _kern_spawn_thread() is now the actually usable
size, and it is no longer possible to specify a size smaller than or
equal to the guard pages size.
* vm_create_anonymous_area(): Precommit two pages maximum -- a stack with
only one page usable size obviously doesn't need two pages.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@26819 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 6b202f4e 13-May-2008 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

* Introduced new header directory headers/private/system which is supposed
to contain headers shared by kernel and userland (mainly libroot).
* Moved quite a few private kernel headers to the new location. Split
several kernel headers into a shared part and one that is still kernel
private. Adjusted all affected Jamfiles and source in the standard x86
build accordingly. The build for other architectures and for test code
may be broken.
* Quite a bit of userland code still includes private kernel headers.
Mostly those are <util/*> headers. The ones that aren't strictly
kernel-only should be moved to some other place (maybe
headers/private/shared/util).


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@25486 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 772568c4764cfe4212b5940b124545b2f8d12862 16-Sep-2013 Pawel Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>

system: Use B_PAGE_SIZE to define stack sizes

As korli suggested use B_PAGE_SIZE for defining stack size related
definitions what seems to be more natural for them and also may
help if we ever support an architecture with page size different than
4kB.


# f06af2e2f897af2a66cb6031c7b7e05770f9271e 16-Sep-2013 Pawel Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>

system: Use B_PAGE_SIZE to define stack sizes

As korli suggested use B_PAGE_SIZE for defining stack size related
definitions what seems to be more natural for them and also may
help if we ever support an architecture with page size different than
4kB.


# 3b4269ecf59fa0a994ecf20ec3472e02184f9328 24-Feb-2013 Pawel Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>

arch: randomize initial user stack pointer

Inside the page randomization of initial user stack pointer is not only a part
of ASLR implementation but also a performance improvement that helps
eliminating aligned 64 kB data access.

Minimal user stack size is increased to 8 kB in order to ensure that regardless
of initial stack pointer value there is still enough space on stack.


# d1f280c80529d5f0bc55030c2934f9255bc7f6a2 01-Apr-2012 Hamish Morrison <hamishm53@gmail.com>

Add support for pthread_attr_get/setguardsize()

* Added the aforementioned functions.
* create_area_etc() now takes a guard size parameter.
* The thread_info::stack_base/end range now refers to the usable range
only.


# 24df65921befcd0ad0c5c7866118f922da61cb96 11-Jun-2011 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

Merged signals-merge branch into trunk with the following changes:
* Reorganized the kernel locking related to threads and teams.
* We now discriminate correctly between process and thread signals. Signal
handlers have been moved to teams. Fixes #5679.
* Implemented real-time signal support, including signal queuing, SA_SIGINFO
support, sigqueue(), sigwaitinfo(), sigtimedwait(), waitid(), and the addition
of the real-time signal range. Closes #1935 and #2695.
* Gave SIGBUS a separate signal number. Fixes #6704.
* Implemented <time.h> clock and timer support, and fixed/completed alarm() and
[set]itimer(). Closes #5682.
* Implemented support for thread cancellation. Closes #5686.
* Moved send_signal() from <signal.h> to <OS.h>. Fixes #7554.
* Lots over smaller more or less related changes.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@42116 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 232fd3bae39bbca5dbdda34e980c2853cff1de6a 03-Sep-2008 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

Moved the wait type definitions to <thread_defs.h>. We're going to use
them in userland, too.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@27301 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 57f2b5a0137be29081ab719ae33ebabddc95b78b 05-Aug-2008 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

* Changed the meaning of the {KERNEL,USER}_STACK_SIZE macros to not
include the guard pages. Adjusted the kernel and boot loader code
accordingly -- the guard pages size is added/not removed respectively.
The stack size passed to _kern_spawn_thread() is now the actually usable
size, and it is no longer possible to specify a size smaller than or
equal to the guard pages size.
* vm_create_anonymous_area(): Precommit two pages maximum -- a stack with
only one page usable size obviously doesn't need two pages.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@26819 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 6b202f4e3da73d4c131355fcd82b792d153f84f6 13-May-2008 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

* Introduced new header directory headers/private/system which is supposed
to contain headers shared by kernel and userland (mainly libroot).
* Moved quite a few private kernel headers to the new location. Split
several kernel headers into a shared part and one that is still kernel
private. Adjusted all affected Jamfiles and source in the standard x86
build accordingly. The build for other architectures and for test code
may be broken.
* Quite a bit of userland code still includes private kernel headers.
Mostly those are <util/*> headers. The ones that aren't strictly
kernel-only should be moved to some other place (maybe
headers/private/shared/util).


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@25486 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96