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H A Dsched_ule.cdiff 202889 Sat Jan 23 14:09:58 MST 2010 attilio - Fix a race in sched_switch() of sched_4bsd.
In the case of the thread being on a sleepqueue or a turnstile, the
sched_lock was acquired (without the aid of the td_lock interface) and
the td_lock was dropped. This was going to break locking rules on other
threads willing to access to the thread (via the td_lock interface) and
modify his flags (allowed as long as the container lock was different
by the one used in sched_switch).
In order to prevent this situation, while sched_lock is acquired there
the td_lock gets blocked. [0]
- Merge the ULE's internal function thread_block_switch() into the global
thread_lock_block() and make the former semantic as the default for
thread_lock_block(). This means that thread_lock_block() will not
disable interrupts when called (and consequently thread_unlock_block()
will not re-enabled them when called). This should be done manually
when necessary.
Note, however, that ULE's thread_unblock_switch() is not reaped
because it does reflect a difference in semantic due in ULE (the
td_lock may not be necessarilly still blocked_lock when calling this).
While asymmetric, it does describe a remarkable difference in semantic
that is good to keep in mind.

[0] Reported by: Kohji Okuno
<okuno dot kohji at jp dot panasonic dot com>
Tested by: Giovanni Trematerra
<giovanni dot trematerra at gmail dot com>
MFC: 2 weeks

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