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* fork: Remove bogus parent PID assertions [BZ #21386]Florian Weimer2017-06-091-8/+0
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* Clear list of acquired robust mutexes in the child process after forking.Torvald Riegel2017-01-131-6/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Robust mutexes acquired at the time of a call to fork() do not remain acquired by the forked child process. We have to clear the list of acquired robust mutexes before registering this list with the kernel; otherwise, if some of the robust mutexes are process-shared, the parent process can alter the child's robust mutex list, which can lead to deadlocks or even modification of memory that may not be occupied by a mutex anymore. [BZ #19402] * sysdeps/nptl/fork.c (__libc_fork): Clear list of acquired robust mutexes.
* Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights.Joseph Myers2017-01-011-1/+1
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* Remove cached PID/TID in cloneAdhemerval Zanella2016-11-241-12/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch remove the PID cache and usage in current GLIBC code. Current usage is mainly used a performance optimization to avoid the syscall, however it adds some issues: - The exposed clone syscall will try to set pid/tid to make the new thread somewhat compatible with current GLIBC assumptions. This cause a set of issue with new workloads and usecases (such as BZ#17214 and [1]) as well for new internal usage of clone to optimize other algorithms (such as clone plus CLONE_VM for posix_spawn, BZ#19957). - The caching complexity also added some bugs in the past [2] [3] and requires more effort of each port to handle such requirements (for both clone and vfork implementation). - Caching performance gain in mainly on getpid and some specific code paths. The getpid performance leverage is questionable [4], either by the idea of getpid being a hotspot as for the getpid implementation itself (if it is indeed a justifiable hotspot a vDSO symbol could let to a much more simpler solution). Other usage is mainly for non usual code paths, such as pthread cancellation signal and handling. For thread creation (on stack allocation) the code simplification in fact adds some performance gain due the no need of transverse the stack cache and invalidate each element pid. Other thread usages will require a direct getpid syscall, such as cancellation/setxid signal, thread cancellation, thread fail path (at create_thread), and thread signal (pthread_kill and pthread_sigqueue). However these are hardly usual hotspots and I think adding a syscall is justifiable. It also simplifies both the clone and vfork arch-specific implementation. And by review each fork implementation there are some discrepancies that this patch also solves: - microblaze clone/vfork does not set/reset the pid/tid field - hppa uses the default vfork implementation that fallback to fork. Since vfork is deprecated I do not think we should bother with it. The patch also removes the TID caching in clone. My understanding for such semantic is try provide some pthread usage after a user program issue clone directly (as done by thread creation with CLONE_PARENT_SETTID and pthread tid member). However, as stated before in multiple discussions threads, GLIBC provides clone syscalls without further supporting all this semantics. I ran a full make check on x86_64, x32, i686, armhf, aarch64, and powerpc64le. For sparc32, sparc64, and mips I ran the basic fork and vfork tests from posix/ folder (on a qemu system). So it would require further testing on alpha, hppa, ia64, m68k, nios2, s390, sh, and tile (I excluded microblaze because it is already implementing the patch semantic regarding clone/vfork). [1] https://codereview.chromium.org/800183004/ [2] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2006-07/msg00123.html [3] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15368 [4] http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/getpid_caching.html * sysdeps/nptl/fork.c (__libc_fork): Remove pid cache setting. * nptl/allocatestack.c (allocate_stack): Likewise. (__reclaim_stacks): Likewise. (setxid_signal_thread): Obtain pid through syscall. * nptl/nptl-init.c (sigcancel_handler): Likewise. (sighandle_setxid): Likewise. * nptl/pthread_cancel.c (pthread_cancel): Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_kill.c (__pthread_kill): Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_sigqueue.c (pthread_sigqueue): Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/createthread.c (create_thread): Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpid.c: Remove file. * nptl/descr.h (struct pthread): Change comment about pid value. * nptl/pthread_getattr_np.c (pthread_getattr_np): Remove thread pid assert. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread-pids.h (__pthread_initialize_pids): Do not set pid value. * nptl_db/td_ta_thr_iter.c (iterate_thread_list): Remove thread pid cache check. * nptl_db/td_thr_validate.c (td_thr_validate): Likewise. * sysdeps/aarch64/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Remove pid offset. * sysdeps/alpha/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise. * sysdeps/arm/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise. * sysdeps/hppa/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise. * sysdeps/i386/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise. * sysdeps/ia64/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise. * sysdeps/m68k/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise. * sysdeps/microblaze/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise. * sysdeps/mips/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise. * sysdeps/nios2/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise. * sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise. * sysdeps/s390/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise. * sysdeps/sh/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise. * sysdeps/sparc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise. * sysdeps/tile/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise. * sysdeps/x86_64/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/clone.S: Remove pid and tid caching. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/clone.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/clone.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/clone.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/clone.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/clone2.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/clone.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/nios2/clone.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/clone.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/clone.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/clone.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/clone.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/clone.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/clone.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/clone.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/clone.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vfork.S: Remove pid set and reset. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/vfork.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/vfork.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/vfork.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/vfork.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/clone.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/vfork.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/vfork.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/nios2/vfork.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/vfork.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/vfork.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/vfork.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/vfork.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/vfork.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/vfork.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/vfork.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/vfork.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/vfork.S: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tst-clone2.c (f): Remove direct pthread struct access. (clone_test): Remove function. (do_test): Rewrite to take in consideration pid is not cached anymore.
* malloc: Simplify static malloc interposition [BZ #20432]Florian Weimer2016-08-261-3/+3
| | | | | | | | Existing interposed mallocs do not define the glibc-internal fork callbacks (and they should not), so statically interposed mallocs lead to link failures because the strong reference from fork pulls in glibc's malloc, resulting in multiple definitions of malloc-related symbols.
* Increase fork signal safety for single-threaded processes [BZ #19703]Florian Weimer2016-05-121-15/+38
| | | | | | | | | This provides a band-aid and addresses the scenario where fork is called from a signal handler while the process is in the malloc subsystem (or has acquired the libio list lock). It does not address the general issue of async-signal-safety of fork; multi-threaded processes are not covered, and some glibc subsystems have fork handlers which are not async-signal-safe.
* malloc: Run fork handler as late as possible [BZ #19431]Florian Weimer2016-04-141-1/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, a thread M invoking fork would acquire locks in this order: (M1) malloc arena locks (in the registered fork handler) (M2) libio list lock A thread F invoking flush (NULL) would acquire locks in this order: (F1) libio list lock (F2) individual _IO_FILE locks A thread G running getdelim would use this order: (G1) _IO_FILE lock (G2) malloc arena lock After executing (M1), (F1), (G1), none of the threads can make progress. This commit changes the fork lock order to: (M'1) libio list lock (M'2) malloc arena locks It explicitly encodes the lock order in the implementations of fork, and does not rely on the registration order, thus avoiding the deadlock.
* Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights.Joseph Myers2016-01-041-1/+1
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* Rename bits/stdio-lock.h to stdio-lock.h (bug 14912).Joseph Myers2015-09-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It was noted in <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-09/msg00305.html> that the bits/*.h naming scheme should only be used for installed headers. This patch renames bits/stdio-lock.h to plain stdio-lock.h to follow that convention. Tested for x86_64 (testsuite, and that installed stripped shared libraries are unchanged by the patch). [BZ #14912] * bits/stdio-lock.h: Move to ... * sysdeps/generic/stdio-lock.h: ...here. (_BITS_STDIO_LOCK_H): Rename macro to _STDIO_LOCK_H. * sysdeps/nptl/bits/stdio-lock.h: Move to ... * sysdeps/nptl/stdio-lock.h: ...here. (_BITS_STDIO_LOCK_H): Rename macro to _STDIO_LOCK_H. * include/libio.h: Include <stdio-lock.h> instead of <bits/stdio-lock.h>. * sysdeps/nptl/fork.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/pthread/flockfile.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/pthread/ftrylockfile.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/pthread/funlockfile.c: Likewise.
* Add and use new glibc-internal futex API.Torvald Riegel2015-07-101-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds new functions for futex operations, starting with wait, abstimed_wait, reltimed_wait, wake. They add documentation and error checking according to the current draft of the Linux kernel futex manpage. Waiting with absolute or relative timeouts is split into separate functions. This allows for removing a few cases of code duplication in pthreads code, which uses absolute timeouts; also, it allows us to put platform-specific code to go from an absolute to a relative timeout into the platform-specific futex abstractions.. Futex operations that can be canceled are also split out into separate functions suffixed by "_cancelable". There are separate versions for both Linux and NaCl; while they currently differ only slightly, my expectation is that the separate versions of lowlevellock-futex.h will eventually be merged into futex-internal.h when we get to move the lll_ functions over to the new futex API.
* Fix wake-up in sysdeps/nptl/fork.c.Torvald Riegel2015-01-131-1/+1
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* Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights.Joseph Myers2015-01-021-1/+1
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* NPTL: Move fork state variables to initializer files.Roland McGrath2014-12-171-8/+0
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* Don't touch user-controlled stdio locks in forked child (bug 12847)Andreas Schwab2014-12-101-1/+2
| | | | | The stdio locks for streams with the _IO_USER_LOCK flag should not be touched by internal code.
* pthread_once: Clean up constants.Torvald Riegel2014-10-201-1/+2
| | | | [BZ #15215] This just gives a name to the integer constants being used.
* NPTL is no longer an add-on!Roland McGrath2014-07-071-1/+1
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* Get rid of nptl/sysdeps/ entirely!Roland McGrath2014-07-071-0/+238