At the end of sys$execve(), we perform a context switch from the old
executable into the new executable.
However, the Kernel::Thread object we are switching to is the *same*
thread as the one we are switching from. So we must not assume the
from_thread and to_thread are different threads.
We had a bug caused by this misconception, where the "from" thread would
always get marked as "inactive" when switching to a new thread.
This meant that threads would always get switched into "inactive" mode
on first context switch into them.
If a thread then tried blocking on a kernel mutex within its first time
slice, we'd end up in Thread::block(Mutex&) with an inactive thread.
Once a thread is inactive, the scheduler believes it's okay to
reactivate the thread (by scheduling it.) If a thread got re-scheduled
prematurely while setting up a mutex block, things would fall apart and
we'd crash in Thread::block() due to the thread state being "Runnable"
instead of the expected "Running".
Move this architecture-specific sanity check (IOPL must be 0) out of
Scheduler and into the x86 enter_thread_context(). Also do this for
every thread and not just userspace ones.
It was annoyingly hard to spot these when we were using them with
different amounts of qualification everywhere.
This patch uses Thread::State::Foo everywhere instead of Thread::Foo
or just Foo.
Signal dispatch is already taken care of elsewhere, so there appears to
be no need for the hack in enter_current().
This also allows us to remove the Thread::m_in_block flag, simplifying
thread blocking logic somewhat.
Verified with the original repro for #4336 which this was meant to fix.
In order to reduce our reliance on __builtin_{ffs, clz, ctz, popcount},
this commit removes all calls to these functions and replaces them with
the equivalent functions in AK/BuiltinWrappers.h.
We previously allowed Thread to exist in a state where its m_name was
null, and had to work around that in various places.
This patch removes that possibility and forces those who would create a
thread (or change the name of one) to provide a NonnullOwnPtr<KString>
with the name.
This avoids a race between getting the processor-specific SchedulerData
and accessing it. (Switching to a different CPU in that window means
that we're operating on the wrong SchedulerData.)
Co-authored-by: Tom <tomut@yahoo.com>
This patch does three things:
- Convert the global thread list from a HashMap to an IntrusiveList
- Combine the thread list and its lock into a SpinLockProtectedValue
- Customize Thread::unref() so it locks the list while unreffing
This closes the same race window for Thread as @sin-ack's recent changes
did for Process.
Note that the HashMap->IntrusiveList conversion means that we lose O(1)
lookups, but the majority of clients of this list are doing traversal,
not lookup. Once we have an intrusive hashing solution, we should port
this to use that, but for now, this gets rid of heap allocations during
a sensitive time.
By making these functions static we close a window where we could get
preempted after calling Processor::current() and move to another
processor.
Co-authored-by: Tom <tomut@yahoo.com>
To add a new per-CPU data structure, add an ID for it to the
ProcessorSpecificDataID enum.
Then call ProcessorSpecific<T>::initialize() when you are ready to
construct the per-CPU data structure on the current CPU. It can then
be accessed via ProcessorSpecific<T>::get().
This patch replaces the existing hard-coded mechanisms for Scheduler
and MemoryManager per-CPU data structure.
Depending on the values it might be difficult to figure out whether a
value is decimal or hexadecimal. So let's make this more obvious. Also
this allows copying and pasting those numbers into GNOME calculator and
probably also other apps which auto-detect the base.
The non CPU specific code of the kernel shouldn't need to deal with
architecture specific registers, and should instead deal with an
abstract view of the machine. This allows us to remove a variety of
architecture specific ifdefs and helps keep the code slightly more
portable.
We do this by exposing the abstract representation of instruction
pointer, stack pointer, base pointer, return register, etc on the
RegisterState struct.
This switches tracking CPU usage to more accurately measure time in
user and kernel land using either the TSC or another time source.
This will also come in handy when implementing a tickless kernel mode.
As threads come and go, we can't simply account for how many time
slices the threads at any given point may have been using. We need to
also account for threads that have since disappeared. This means we
also need to track how many time slices we have expired globally.
However, because this doesn't account for context switches outside of
the system timer tick values may still be under-reported. To solve this
we will need to track more accurate time information on each context
switch.
This also fixes top's cpu usage calculation which was still based on
the number of context switches.
Fixes#6473
Threads that don't make syscalls still need to be killed, and we can
do that at any time we want so long the thread is in user mode and
not somehow blocked (e.g. page fault).
This reverts commit 3c3a1726df.
We cannot blindly kill threads just because they're not executing in a
system call. Being blocked (including in a page fault) needs proper
unblocking and potentially kernel stack cleanup before we can mark a
thread as Dying.
Fixes#8691
This re-arranges the order of how things are initialized so that we
try to initialize process and thread management earlier. This is
neccessary because a lot of the code uses the Lock class, which really
needs to have a running scheduler in place so that we can properly
preempt.
This also enables us to potentially initialize some things in parallel.
If no other thread is ready to be run we don't need to switch to the
idle thread and wait for the next timer interrupt. We can just give
the thread another timeslice and keep it running.
This was an old SerenityOS-specific syscall for donating the remainder
of the calling thread's time-slice to another thread within the same
process.
Now that Threading::Lock uses a pthread_mutex_t internally, we no
longer need this syscall, which allows us to get rid of a surprising
amount of unnecessary scheduler logic. :^)
