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* remove leftover declarations for removed functions from pthread_impl.hRich Felker2018-09-051-4/+0
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* fix missing timeout argument to futex syscall in __futexwaitPatrick Oppenlander2018-06-261-2/+2
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* make linking of thread-start with explicit scheduling conditionalRich Felker2018-05-091-0/+8
| | | | | | | the wrapper start function that performs scheduling operations is unreachable if pthread_attr_setinheritsched is never called, so move it there rather than the pthread_create source file, saving some code size for static-linked programs.
* improve design of thread-start with explicit scheduling attributesRich Felker2018-05-091-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | eliminate the awkward startlock mechanism and corresponding fields of the pthread structure that were only used at startup. instead of having pthread_create perform the scheduling operations and having the new thread wait for them to be completed, start the new thread with a wrapper start function that performs its own scheduling, sending the result code back via a futex. this way the new thread can use storage from the calling thread's stack rather than permanent fields in the pthread structure.
* clean up and reduce size of internal pthread structureRich Felker2018-05-071-7/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | over time the pthread structure has accumulated a lot of cruft taking up size. this commit removes unused fields and packs booleans and other small data more efficiently. changes which would also require changing code are not included at this time. non-volatile booleans are packed as unsigned char bitfield members. the canceldisable and cancelasync fields need volatile qualification due to how they're accessed from the cancellation signal handler and cancellable syscalls called from signal handlers. since volatile bitfield semantics are not clearly defined, discrete char objects are used instead. the pid field is completely removed; it has been unused since commit 83dc6eb087633abcf5608ad651d3b525ca2ec35e. the tid field's type is changed to int because its use is as a value in futexes, which are defined as plain int. it has no conceptual relationship to pid_t. also, its position is not ABI. startlock is reduced to a length-1 array. the second element was presumably intended as a waiter count, but it was never used and made no sense, since there is at most one waiter.
* improve joinable/detached thread state handlingRich Felker2018-05-051-3/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | previously, some accesses to the detached state (from pthread_join and pthread_getattr_np) were unsynchronized; they were harmless in programs with well-defined behavior, but ugly. other accesses (in pthread_exit and pthread_detach) were synchronized by a poorly named "exitlock", with an ad-hoc trylock operation on it open-coded in pthread_detach, whose only purpose was establishing protocol for which thread is responsible for deallocation of detached-thread resources. instead, use an atomic detach_state and unify it with the futex used to wait for thread exit. this eliminates 2 members from the pthread structure, gets rid of the hackish lock usage, and makes rigorous the trap added in commit 80bf5952551c002cf12d96deb145629765272db0 for catching attempts to join detached threads. it should also make attempt to detach an already-detached thread reliably trap.
* improve pthread_exit synchronization with functions targeting tidRich Felker2018-05-051-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | if the last thread exited via pthread_exit, the logic that marked it dead did not account for the possibility of it targeting itself via atexit handlers. for example, an atexit handler calling pthread_kill(pthread_self(), SIGKILL) would return success (previously, ESRCH) rather than causing termination via the signal. move the release of killlock after the determination is made whether the exiting thread is the last thread. in the case where it's not, move the release all the way to the end of the function. this way we can clear the tid rather than spending storage on a dedicated dead-flag. clearing the tid is also preferable in that it hardens against inadvertent use of the value after the thread has terminated but before it is joined.
* use a dedicated futex object for pthread_join instead of tid fieldRich Felker2018-05-021-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the tid field in the pthread structure is not volatile, and really shouldn't be, so as not to limit the compiler's ability to reorder, merge, or split loads in code paths that may be relevant to performance (like controlling lock ownership). however, use of objects which are not volatile or atomic with futex wait is inherently broken, since the compiler is free to transform a single load into multiple loads, thereby using a different value for the controlling expression of the loop and the value passed to the futex syscall, leading the syscall to block instead of returning. reportedly glibc's pthread_join was actually affected by an equivalent issue in glibc on s390. add a separate, dedicated join_futex object for pthread_join to use.
* document pthread structure ABI constraints in commentsRich Felker2018-02-051-0/+7
| | | | | | | | in the original submission of the patch that became commit 7c709f2d4f9872d1b445f760b0e68da89e256b9e, and in subsequent reading of it by others, it was not clear that the new member had to be inserted before canary_at_end, or that inserting it at that location was safe. add comments to document.
* store pthread stack guard sizes for pthread_getattr_npWilliam Pitcock2018-02-031-0/+1
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* revise the definition of multiple basic locks in the codeJens Gustedt2018-01-091-2/+2
| | | | In all cases this is just a change from two volatile int to one.
* new lock algorithm with state and congestion count in one atomic intJens Gustedt2018-01-091-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A variant of this new lock algorithm has been presented at SAC'16, see https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01304108. A full version of that paper is available at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01236734. The main motivation of this is to improve on the safety of the basic lock implementation in musl. This is achieved by squeezing a lock flag and a congestion count (= threads inside the critical section) into a single int. Thereby an unlock operation does exactly one memory transfer (a_fetch_add) and never touches the value again, but still detects if a waiter has to be woken up. This is a fix of a use-after-free bug in pthread_detach that had temporarily been patched. Therefore this patch also reverts c1e27367a9b26b9baac0f37a12349fc36567c8b6 This is also the only place where internal knowledge of the lock algorithm is used. The main price for the improved safety is a little bit larger code. Under high congestion, the scheduling behavior will be different compared to the previous algorithm. In that case, a successful put-to-sleep may appear out of order compared to the arrival in the critical section.
* unify the use of FUTEX_PRIVATEJens Gustedt2017-07-041-1/+1
| | | | | | The flag 1<<7 is used in several places for different purposes that are not always easy to distinguish. Mark those usages that correspond to the flag that is used by the kernel for futexes.
* fix crashes in x32 __tls_get_addrrofl0r2017-01-131-0/+4
| | | | | | x32 has another gratuitous difference to all other archs: it passes an array of 64bit values to __tls_get_addr(). usually it is an array of size_t.
* remove largish unused field from pthread structureRich Felker2016-12-061-1/+0
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* fix build regression on archs with variable page sizeRich Felker2016-11-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | commit 31fb174dd295e50f7c5cf18d31fcfd5fe5a063b7 used DEFAULT_GUARD_SIZE from pthread_impl.h in a static initializer, breaking build on archs where its definition, PAGE_SIZE, is not a constant. instead, just define DEFAULT_GUARD_SIZE as 4096, the minimal page size on any arch we support. pthread_create rounds up to whole pages anyway, so defining it to 1 would also work, but a moderately meaningful value is nicer to programs that use pthread_attr_getguardsize on default-initialized attribute objects.
* fix local-dynamic model TLS on mips and powerpcRich Felker2015-06-251-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the TLS ABI spec for mips, powerpc, and some other (presently unsupported) RISC archs has the return value of __tls_get_addr offset by +0x8000 and the result of DTPOFF relocations offset by -0x8000. I had previously assumed this part of the ABI was actually just an implementation detail, since the adjustments cancel out. however, when the local dynamic model is used for accessing TLS that's known to be in the same DSO, either of the following may happen: 1. the -0x8000 offset may already be applied to the argument structure passed to __tls_get_addr at ld time, without any opportunity for runtime relocations. 2. __tls_get_addr may be used with a zero offset argument to obtain a base address for the module's TLS, to which the caller then applies immediate offsets for individual objects accessed using the local dynamic model. since the immediate offsets have the -0x8000 adjustment applied to them, the base address they use needs to include the +0x8000 offset. it would be possible, but more complex, to store the pointers in the dtv[] array with the +0x8000 offset pre-applied, to avoid the runtime cost of adding 0x8000 on each call to __tls_get_addr. this change could be made later if measurements show that it would help.
* fix stack protector crashes on x32 & powerpc due to misplaced TLS canaryRich Felker2015-05-061-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | i386, x86_64, x32, and powerpc all use TLS for stack protector canary values in the default stack protector ABI, but the location only matched the ABI on i386 and x86_64. on x32, the expected location for the canary contained the tid, thus producing spurious mismatches (resulting in process termination) upon fork. on powerpc, the expected location contained the stdio_locks list head, so returning from a function after calling flockfile produced spurious mismatches. in both cases, the random canary was not present, and a predictable value was used instead, making the stack protector hardening much less effective than it should be. in the current fix, the thread structure has been expanded to have canary fields at all three possible locations, and archs that use a non-default location must define a macro in pthread_arch.h to choose which location is used. for most archs (which lack TLS canary ABI) the choice does not matter.
* make dlerror state and message thread-local and dynamically-allocatedRich Felker2015-04-181-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | this fixes truncation of error messages containing long pathnames or symbol names. the dlerror state was previously required by POSIX to be global. the resolution of bug 97 relaxed the requirements to allow thread-safe implementations of dlerror with thread-local state and message buffer.
* add missing 'void' in prototypes of internal pthread functionsAlexander Monakov2015-04-181-6/+6
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* redesign and simplify vmlock systemRich Felker2015-04-101-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | this global lock allows certain unlock-type primitives to exclude mmap/munmap operations which could change the identity of virtual addresses while references to them still exist. the original design mistakenly assumed mmap/munmap would conversely need to exclude the same operations which exclude mmap/munmap, so the vmlock was implemented as a sort of 'symmetric recursive rwlock'. this turned out to be unnecessary. commit 25d12fc0fc51f1fae0f85b4649a6463eb805aa8f already shortened the interval during which mmap/munmap held their side of the lock, but left the inappropriate lock design and some inefficiency. the new design uses a separate function, __vm_wait, which does not hold any lock itself and only waits for lock users which were already present when it was called to release the lock. this is sufficient because of the way operations that need to be excluded are sequenced: the "unlock-type" operations using the vmlock need only block mmap/munmap operations that are precipitated by (and thus sequenced after) the atomic-unlock they perform while holding the vmlock. this allows for a spectacular lack of synchronization in the __vm_wait function itself.
* copy the dtv pointer to the end of the pthread struct for TLS_ABOVE_TP archsSzabolcs Nagy2015-03-111-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are two main abi variants for thread local storage layout: (1) TLS is above the thread pointer at a fixed offset and the pthread struct is below that. So the end of the struct is at known offset. (2) the thread pointer points to the pthread struct and TLS starts below it. So the start of the struct is at known (zero) offset. Assembly code for the dynamic TLSDESC callback needs to access the dynamic thread vector (dtv) pointer which is currently at the front of the pthread struct. So in case of (1) the asm code needs to hard code the offset from the end of the struct which can easily break if the struct changes. This commit adds a copy of the dtv at the end of the struct. New members must not be added after dtv_copy, only before it. The size of the struct is increased a bit, but there is opportunity for size optimizations.
* make all objects used with atomic operations volatileRich Felker2015-03-031-15/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the memory model we use internally for atomics permits plain loads of values which may be subject to concurrent modification without requiring that a special load function be used. since a compiler is free to make transformations that alter the number of loads or the way in which loads are performed, the compiler is theoretically free to break this usage. the most obvious concern is with atomic cas constructs: something of the form tmp=*p;a_cas(p,tmp,f(tmp)); could be transformed to a_cas(p,*p,f(*p)); where the latter is intended to show multiple loads of *p whose resulting values might fail to be equal; this would break the atomicity of the whole operation. but even more fundamental breakage is possible. with the changes being made now, objects that may be modified by atomics are modeled as volatile, and the atomic operations performed on them by other threads are modeled as asynchronous stores by hardware which happens to be acting on the request of another thread. such modeling of course does not itself address memory synchronization between cores/cpus, but that aspect was already handled. this all seems less than ideal, but it's the best we can do without mandating a C11 compiler and using the C11 model for atomics. in the case of pthread_once_t, the ABI type of the underlying object is not volatile-qualified. so we are assuming that accessing the object through a volatile-qualified lvalue via casts yields volatile access semantics. the language of the C standard is somewhat unclear on this matter, but this is an assumption the linux kernel also makes, and seems to be the correct interpretation of the standard.
* factor cancellation cleanup push/pop out of futex __timedwait functionRich Felker2015-03-021-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | previously, the __timedwait function was optionally a cancellation point depending on whether it was passed a pointer to a cleaup function and context to register. as of now, only one caller actually used such a cleanup function (and it may face removal soon); most callers either passed a null pointer to disable cancellation or a dummy cleanup function. now, __timedwait is never a cancellation point, and __timedwait_cp is the cancellable version. this makes the intent of the calling code more obvious and avoids ugly dummy functions and long argument lists.
* add C11 thread creation and related thread functionsRich Felker2014-09-071-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | based on patch by Jens Gustedt. the main difficulty here is handling the difference between start function signatures and thread return types for C11 threads versus POSIX threads. pointers to void are assumed to be able to represent faithfully all values of int. the function pointer for the thread start function is cast to an incorrect type for passing through pthread_create, but is cast back to its correct type before calling so that the behavior of the call is well-defined. changes to the existing threads implementation were kept minimal to reduce the risk of regressions, and duplication of code that carries implementation-specific assumptions was avoided for ease and safety of future maintenance.
* fix false ownership of stdio FILEs due to tid reuseRich Felker2014-08-231-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | this is analogous commit fffc5cda10e0c5c910b40f7be0d4fa4e15bb3f48 which fixed the corresponding issue for mutexes. the robust list can't be used here because the locks do not share a common layout with mutexes. at some point it may make sense to simply incorporate a mutex object into the FILE structure and use it, but that would be a much more invasive change, and it doesn't mesh well with the current design that uses a simpler code path for internal locking and pulls in the recursive-mutex-like code when the flockfile API is used explicitly.
* fix fallback checks for kernels without private futex supportRich Felker2014-08-221-1/+1
| | | | for unknown syscall commands, the kernel produces ENOSYS, not EINVAL.
* redesign cond var implementation to fix multiple issuesRich Felker2014-08-171-5/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the immediate issue that was reported by Jens Gustedt and needed to be fixed was corruption of the cv/mutex waiter states when switching to using a new mutex with the cv after all waiters were unblocked but before they finished returning from the wait function. self-synchronized destruction was also handled poorly and may have had race conditions. and the use of sequence numbers for waking waiters admitted a theoretical missed-wakeup if the sequence number wrapped through the full 32-bit space. the new implementation is largely documented in the comments in the source. the basic principle is to use linked lists initially attached to the cv object, but detachable on signal/broadcast, made up of nodes residing in automatic storage (stack) on the threads that are waiting. this eliminates the need for waiters to access the cv object after they are signaled, and allows us to limit wakeup to one waiter at a time during broadcasts even when futex requeue cannot be used. performance is also greatly improved, roughly double some tests. basically nothing is changed in the process-shared cond var case, where this implementation does not work, since processes do not have access to one another's local storage.
* make pointers used in robust list volatileRich Felker2014-08-171-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | when manipulating the robust list, the order of stores matters, because the code may be asynchronously interrupted by a fatal signal and the kernel will then access the robust list in what is essentially an async-signal context. previously, aliasing considerations made it seem unlikely that a compiler could reorder the stores, but proving that they could not be reordered incorrectly would have been extremely difficult. instead I've opted to make all the pointers used as part of the robust list, including those in the robust list head and in the individual mutexes, volatile. in addition, the format of the robust list has been changed to point back to the head at the end, rather than ending with a null pointer. this is to match the documented kernel robust list ABI. the null pointer, which was previously used, only worked because faults during access terminate the robust list processing.
* make futex operations use private-futex mode when possibleRich Felker2014-08-151-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | private-futex uses the virtual address of the futex int directly as the hash key rather than requiring the kernel to resolve the address to an underlying backing for the mapping in which it lies. for certain usage patterns it improves performance significantly. in many places, the code using futex __wake and __wait operations was already passing a correct fixed zero or nonzero flag for the priv argument, so no change was needed at the site of the call, only in the __wake and __wait functions themselves. in other places, especially where the process-shared attribute for a synchronization object was not previously tracked, additional new code is needed. for mutexes, the only place to store the flag is in the type field, so additional bit masking logic is needed for accessing the type. for non-process-shared condition variable broadcasts, the futex requeue operation is unable to requeue from a private futex to a process-shared one in the mutex structure, so requeue is simply disabled in this case by waking all waiters. for robust mutexes, the kernel always performs a non-private wake when the owner dies. in order not to introduce a behavioral regression in non-process-shared robust mutexes (when the owning thread dies), they are simply forced to be treated as process-shared for now, giving correct behavior at the expense of performance. this can be fixed by adding explicit code to pthread_exit to do the right thing for non-shared robust mutexes in userspace rather than relying on the kernel to do it, and will be fixed in this way later. since not all supported kernels have private futex support, the new code detects EINVAL from the futex syscall and falls back to making the call without the private flag. no attempt to cache the result is made; caching it and using the cached value efficiently is somewhat difficult, and not worth the complexity when the benefits would be seen only on ancient kernels which have numerous other limitations and bugs anyway.
* simplify errno implementationRich Felker2014-06-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the motivation for the errno_ptr field in the thread structure, which this commit removes, was to allow the main thread's errno to keep its address when lazy thread pointer initialization was used. &errno was evaluated prior to setting up the thread pointer and stored in errno_ptr for the main thread; subsequently created threads would have errno_ptr pointing to their own errno_val in the thread structure. since lazy initialization was removed, there is no need for this extra level of indirection; __errno_location can simply return the address of the thread's errno_val directly. this does cause &errno to change, but the change happens before entry to application code, and thus is not observable.
* fix multiple bugs in SIGEV_THREAD timersRich Felker2013-08-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. the thread result field was reused for storing a kernel timer id, but would be overwritten if the application code exited or cancelled the thread. 2. low pointer values were used as the indicator that the timer id is a kernel timer id rather than a thread id. this is not portable, as mmap may return low pointers on some conditions. instead, use the fact that pointers must be aligned and kernel timer ids must be non-negative to map pointers into the negative integer space. 3. signals were not blocked until after the timer thread started, so a race condition could allow a signal handler to run in the timer thread when it's not supposed to exist. this is mainly problematic if the calling thread was the only thread where the signal was unblocked and the signal handler assumes it runs in that thread.
* transition to using functions for internal signal blocking/restoringRich Felker2013-04-261-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | there are several reasons for this change. one is getting rid of the repetition of the syscall signature all over the place. another is sharing the constant masks without costly GOT accesses in PIC. the main motivation, however, is accurately representing whether we want to block signals that might be handled by the application, or all signals.
* implement pthread_getattr_npRich Felker2013-03-311-0/+2
| | | | | | this function is mainly (purely?) for obtaining stack address information, but we also provide the detach state since it's easy to do anyway.
* remove __SYSCALL_SSLEN arch macro in favor of using public _NSIGRich Felker2013-03-261-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | the issue at hand is that many syscalls require as an argument the kernel-ABI size of sigset_t, intended to allow the kernel to switch to a larger sigset_t in the future. previously, each arch was defining this size in syscall_arch.h, which was redundant with the definition of _NSIG in bits/signal.h. as it's used in some not-quite-portable application code as well, _NSIG is much more likely to be recognized and understood immediately by someone reading the code, and it's also shorter and less cluttered. note that _NSIG is actually 65/129, not 64/128, but the division takes care of throwing away the off-by-one part.
* replace __wake function with macro that performs direct syscallRich Felker2013-02-011-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | this should generate faster and smaller code, especially with inline syscalls. the conditional with cnt is ugly, but thankfully cnt is always a constant anyway so it gets evaluated at compile time. it may be preferable to make separate __wake and __wakeall macros without a count argument. priv flag is not used yet; private futex support still needs to be done at some point in the future.
* add support for thread scheduling (POSIX TPS option)Rich Felker2012-11-111-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | linux's sched_* syscalls actually implement the TPS (thread scheduling) functionality, not the PS (process scheduling) functionality which the sched_* functions are supposed to have. omitting support for the PS option (and having the sched_* interfaces fail with ENOSYS rather than omitting them, since some broken software assumes they exist) seems to be the only conforming way to do this on linux.
* clean up sloppy nested inclusion from pthread_impl.hRich Felker2012-11-081-8/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | this mirrors the stdio_impl.h cleanup. one header which is not strictly needed, errno.h, is left in pthread_impl.h, because since pthread functions return their error codes rather than using errno, nearly every single pthread function needs the errno constants. in a few places, rather than bringing in string.h to use memset, the memset was replaced by direct assignment. this seems to generate much better code anyway, and makes many functions which were previously non-leaf functions into leaf functions (possibly eliminating a great deal of bloat on some platforms where non-leaf functions require ugly prologue and/or epilogue).
* support for TLS in dynamic-loaded (dlopen) modulesRich Felker2012-10-051-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | unlike other implementations, this one reserves memory for new TLS in all pre-existing threads at dlopen-time, and dlopen will fail with no resources consumed and no new libraries loaded if memory is not available. memory is not immediately distributed to running threads; that would be too complex and too costly. instead, assurances are made that threads needing the new TLS can obtain it in an async-signal-safe way from a buffer belonging to the dynamic linker/new module (via atomic fetch-and-add based allocator). I've re-appropriated the lock that was previously used for __synccall (synchronizing set*id() syscalls between threads) as a general pthread_create lock. it's a "backwards" rwlock where the "read" operation is safe atomic modification of the live thread count, which multiple threads can perform at the same time, and the "write" operation is making sure the count does not increase during an operation that depends on it remaining bounded (__synccall or dlopen). in static-linked programs that don't use __synccall, this lock is a no-op and has no cost.
* beginnings of full TLS support in shared librariesRich Felker2012-10-041-1/+1
| | | | | | this code will not work yet because the necessary relocations are not supported, and cannot be supported without some internal changes to how relocation processing works (coming soon).
* fix (hopefully) all hard-coded 8's for kernel sigset_t sizeRich Felker2012-08-091-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | some minor changes to how hard-coded sets for thread-related purposes are handled were also needed, since the old object sizes were not necessarily sufficient. things have gotten a bit ugly in this area, and i think a cleanup is in order at some point, but for now the goal is just to get the code working on all supported archs including mips, which was badly broken by linux rejecting syscalls with the wrong sigset_t size.
* fix several locks that weren't updated right for new futex-based __lockRich Felker2012-07-121-3/+3
| | | | | | these could have caused memory corruption due to invalid accesses to the next field. all should be fixed now; I found the errors with fgrep -r '__lock(&', which is bogus since the argument should be an array.
* add pthread_attr_setstack interface (and get)Rich Felker2012-06-091-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | i originally omitted these (optional, per POSIX) interfaces because i considered them backwards implementation details. however, someone later brought to my attention a fairly legitimate use case: allocating thread stacks in memory that's setup for sharing and/or fast transfer between CPU and GPU so that the thread can move data to a GPU directly from automatic-storage buffers without having to go through additional buffer copies. perhaps there are other situations in which these interfaces are useful too.
* increase default thread stack size to 80kRich Felker2012-06-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've been looking for data that would suggest a good default, and since little has shown up, i'm doing this based on the limited data I have. the value 80k is chosen to accommodate 64k of application data (which happens to be the size of the buffer in git that made it crash without a patch to call pthread_attr_setstacksize) plus the max stack usage of most libc functions (with a few exceptions like crypt, which will be fixed soon to avoid excessive stack usage, and [n]ftw, which inherently uses a fair bit in recursive directory searching). if further evidence emerges suggesting that the default should be larger, I'll consider changing it again, but I'd like to avoid it getting too large to avoid the issues of large commit charge and rapid address space exhaustion on 32-bit machines.
* remove cruft from pthread structure (old cancellation stuff)Rich Felker2012-05-251-2/+0
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* fix out-of-bounds array access in pthread barriers on 64-bitRich Felker2012-05-211-1/+1
| | | | | it's ok to overlap with integer slot 3 on 32-bit because only slots 0-2 are used on process-local barriers.
* overhaul SSP support to use a real canaryRich Felker2012-05-031-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | pthread structure has been adjusted to match the glibc/GCC abi for where the canary is stored on i386 and x86_64. it will need variants for other archs to provide the added security of the canary's entropy, but even without that it still works as well as the old "minimal" ssp support. eventually such changes will be made anyway, since they are also needed for GCC/C11 thread-local storage support (not yet implemented). care is taken not to attempt initializing the thread pointer unless the program actually uses SSP (by reference to __stack_chk_fail).
* synchronize cond var destruction with exiting waitsRich Felker2011-10-021-0/+1
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* improve pshared barriersRich Felker2011-09-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | eliminate the sequence number field and instead use the counter as the futex because of the way the lock is held, sequence numbers are completely useless, and this frees up a field in the barrier structure to be used as a waiter count for the count futex, which lets us avoid some syscalls in the best case. as of now, self-synchronized destruction and unmapping should be fully safe. before any thread can return from the barrier, all threads in the barrier have obtained the vm lock, and each holds a shared lock on the barrier. the barrier memory is not inspected after the shared lock count reaches 0, nor after the vm lock is released.
* process-shared barrier support, based on discussion with bdonlanRich Felker2011-09-271-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | this implementation is rather heavy-weight, but it's the first solution i've found that's actually correct. all waiters actually wait twice at the barrier so that they can synchronize exit, and they hold a "vm lock" that prevents changes to virtual memory mappings (and blocks pthread_barrier_destroy) until all waiters are finished inspecting the barrier. thus, it is safe for any thread to destroy and/or unmap the barrier's memory as soon as pthread_barrier_wait returns, without further synchronization.
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