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* redesign and simplify vmlock systemRich Felker2015-04-101-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* next step making barrier self-sync'd destruction safeRich Felker2011-09-281-2/+6
| | | | i think this works, but it can be simplified. (next step)
* barrier destroy must also wait for threads in other processes exiting barrierRich Felker2011-09-281-0/+2
| | | | | the vm lock only waits for threads in the same process exiting. actually this fix is not enough, but it's a start...
* process-shared barrier support, based on discussion with bdonlanRich Felker2011-09-271-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* initial check-in, version 0.5.0 v0.5.0Rich Felker2011-02-121-0/+6