The interrupts enabled check in the Kernel mutex is there so that we
don't lock mutexes within a spinlock, because mutexes reenable
interrupts and that will mess up the spinlock in more ways than one if
the thread moves processors. This check is guarded behind a debug flag
because it's too hard to fix all the problems at once, but we regressed
and weren't even getting to init stage 2 with it enabled. With this
commit, we get to stage 2 again. In early boot, there are no interrupts
enabled and spinlocks used, so we can sort of kind of safely ignore the
interrupt state. There might be a better solution with another boot
state flag that checks whether APs are up (because they have interrupts
enabled from the start) but that seems overkill.
When we lock a mutex, eventually `Thread::block` is invoked which could
in turn invoke `Process::big_lock().restore_exclusive_lock()`. This
would then try to add the current thread to a different blocked thread
list then the one in use for the original mutex being locked, and
because it's an intrusive list, the thread is removed from its original
list during the `.append()`. When the original mutex eventually
unblocks, we no longer have the thread in the intrusive blocked threads
list and we panic.
Solve this by making the big lock mutex special and giving it its own
blocked thread list. Because the process big lock is temporary and is
being actively removed from e.g. syscalls, it's a matter of time before
we can also remove the fix introduced by this commit.
Fixes issue #9401.
It's more accurate to say that we're blocking on a mutex, rather than
blocking on a lock. The previous terminology made sense when this code
was using something called Kernel::Lock, but since it was renamed to
Kernel::Mutex, this updates brings the language back in sync.
This commit removes the usage of HashMap in Mutex, thereby making Mutex
be allocation-free.
In order to achieve this several simplifications were made to Mutex,
removing unused code-paths and extra VERIFYs:
* We no longer support 'upgrading' a shared lock holder to an
exclusive holder when it is the only shared holder and it did not
unlock the lock before relocking it as exclusive. NOTE: Unlike the
rest of these changes, this scenario is not VERIFY-able in an
allocation-free way, as a result the new LOCK_SHARED_UPGRADE_DEBUG
debug flag was added, this flag lets Mutex allocate in order to
detect such cases when debugging a deadlock.
* We no longer support checking if a Mutex is locked by the current
thread when the Mutex was not locked exclusively, the shared version
of this check was not used anywhere.
* We no longer support force unlocking/relocking a Mutex if the Mutex
was not locked exclusively, the shared version of these functions
was not used anywhere.
The default template argument is only used in one place, and it
looks like it was probably just an oversight. The rest of the Kernel
code all uses u8 as the type. So lets make that the default and remove
the unused template argument, as there doesn't seem to be a reason to
allow the size to be customizable.
This should help prevent deadlocks where a thread blocks on a Mutex
while interrupts are disabled, and makes it impossible for the holder of
the Mutex to make forward progress because it cannot be scheduled in.
Hide it behind a new debug macro LOCK_IN_CRITICAL_DEBUG for now, because
Ext2FS takes a series of Mutexes from the page fault handler, which
executes with interrupts disabled.
The LOCK_DEBUG conditional code is pretty ugly for a feature that we
only use rarely. We can remove a significant amount of this code by
utilizing a zero sized fake type when not building in LOCK_DEBUG mode.
This lets us keep the same API, but just let the compiler optimize it
away when don't actually care about the location the caller came from.
