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4 * Copyright (c) 1999-2003 by Hewlett-Packard Company. All rights reserved.
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16 * Support code for Irix (>=6.2) Pthreads and for AIX pthreads.
17 * This relies on properties
18 * not guaranteed by the Pthread standard. It may or may not be portable
19 * to other implementations.
21 * Note that there is a lot of code duplication between this file and
22 * (pthread_support.c, pthread_stop_world.c). They should be merged.
23 * Pthread_support.c should be directly usable.
25 * Please avoid adding new ports here; use the generic pthread support
29 # include "private/gc_priv.h"
31 # if defined(GC_IRIX_THREADS) || defined(GC_AIX_THREADS)
35 # include <semaphore.h>
39 # include <sys/mman.h>
40 # include <sys/time.h>
43 #undef pthread_sigmask
46 #if defined(GC_IRIX_THREADS) && !defined(MUTEX_RECURSIVE_NP)
47 #define MUTEX_RECURSIVE_NP PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE
53 void GC_print_sig_mask()
58 if (pthread_sigmask(SIG_BLOCK
, NULL
, &blocked
) != 0)
59 ABORT("pthread_sigmask");
60 GC_printf0("Blocked: ");
61 for (i
= 1; i
<= MAXSIG
; i
++) {
62 if (sigismember(&blocked
, i
)) { GC_printf1("%ld ",(long) i
); }
68 /* We use the allocation lock to protect thread-related data structures. */
70 /* The set of all known threads. We intercept thread creation and */
71 /* joins. We never actually create detached threads. We allocate all */
72 /* new thread stacks ourselves. These allow us to maintain this */
74 /* Protected by GC_thr_lock. */
75 /* Some of this should be declared volatile, but that's incosnsistent */
76 /* with some library routine declarations. */
77 typedef struct GC_Thread_Rep
{
78 struct GC_Thread_Rep
* next
; /* More recently allocated threads */
79 /* with a given pthread id come */
80 /* first. (All but the first are */
81 /* guaranteed to be dead, but we may */
82 /* not yet have registered the join.) */
85 # define NOT_STOPPED 0
86 # define PLEASE_STOP 1
89 # define FINISHED 1 /* Thread has exited. */
90 # define DETACHED 2 /* Thread is intended to be detached. */
91 ptr_t stack_cold
; /* cold end of the stack */
92 ptr_t stack_hot
; /* Valid only when stopped. */
93 /* But must be within stack region at */
95 void * status
; /* Used only to avoid premature */
96 /* reclamation of any data it might */
100 GC_thread
GC_lookup_thread(pthread_t id
);
103 * The only way to suspend threads given the pthread interface is to send
104 * signals. Unfortunately, this means we have to reserve
105 * a signal, and intercept client calls to change the signal mask.
108 # if defined(GC_AIX_THREADS)
109 # define SIG_SUSPEND SIGUSR1
111 # define SIG_SUSPEND (SIGRTMIN + 6)
115 pthread_mutex_t GC_suspend_lock
= PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER
;
116 /* Number of threads stopped so far */
117 pthread_cond_t GC_suspend_ack_cv
= PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER
;
118 pthread_cond_t GC_continue_cv
= PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER
;
120 void GC_suspend_handler(int sig
)
128 if (sig
!= SIG_SUSPEND
) ABORT("Bad signal in suspend_handler");
129 me
= GC_lookup_thread(pthread_self());
130 /* The lookup here is safe, since I'm doing this on behalf */
131 /* of a thread which holds the allocation lock in order */
132 /* to stop the world. Thus concurrent modification of the */
133 /* data structure is impossible. */
134 if (PLEASE_STOP
!= me
-> stop
) {
135 /* Misdirected signal. */
136 pthread_mutex_unlock(&GC_suspend_lock
);
139 pthread_mutex_lock(&GC_suspend_lock
);
140 me
-> stack_hot
= (ptr_t
)(&dummy
);
141 me
-> stop
= STOPPED
;
142 pthread_cond_signal(&GC_suspend_ack_cv
);
143 pthread_cond_wait(&GC_continue_cv
, &GC_suspend_lock
);
144 pthread_mutex_unlock(&GC_suspend_lock
);
145 /* GC_printf1("Continuing 0x%x\n", pthread_self()); */
149 GC_bool GC_thr_initialized
= FALSE
;
152 # define THREAD_TABLE_SZ 128 /* Must be power of 2 */
153 volatile GC_thread GC_threads
[THREAD_TABLE_SZ
];
155 void GC_push_thread_structures
GC_PROTO((void))
157 GC_push_all((ptr_t
)(GC_threads
), (ptr_t
)(GC_threads
)+sizeof(GC_threads
));
160 /* Add a thread to GC_threads. We assume it wasn't already there. */
161 /* Caller holds allocation lock. */
162 GC_thread
GC_new_thread(pthread_t id
)
164 int hv
= ((word
)id
) % THREAD_TABLE_SZ
;
166 static struct GC_Thread_Rep first_thread
;
167 static GC_bool first_thread_used
= FALSE
;
169 GC_ASSERT(I_HOLD_LOCK());
170 if (!first_thread_used
) {
171 result
= &first_thread
;
172 first_thread_used
= TRUE
;
173 /* Dont acquire allocation lock, since we may already hold it. */
175 result
= (struct GC_Thread_Rep
*)
176 GC_generic_malloc_inner(sizeof(struct GC_Thread_Rep
), NORMAL
);
178 if (result
== 0) return(0);
180 result
-> next
= GC_threads
[hv
];
181 GC_threads
[hv
] = result
;
182 /* result -> flags = 0; */
183 /* result -> stop = 0; */
187 /* Delete a thread from GC_threads. We assume it is there. */
188 /* (The code intentionally traps if it wasn't.) */
189 /* Caller holds allocation lock. */
190 /* We explicitly pass in the GC_thread we're looking for, since */
191 /* if a thread has been joined, but we have not yet */
192 /* been notified, then there may be more than one thread */
193 /* in the table with the same pthread id. */
194 /* This is OK, but we need a way to delete a specific one. */
195 void GC_delete_gc_thread(pthread_t id
, GC_thread gc_id
)
197 int hv
= ((word
)id
) % THREAD_TABLE_SZ
;
198 register GC_thread p
= GC_threads
[hv
];
199 register GC_thread prev
= 0;
201 GC_ASSERT(I_HOLD_LOCK());
207 GC_threads
[hv
] = p
-> next
;
209 prev
-> next
= p
-> next
;
213 /* Return a GC_thread corresponding to a given thread_t. */
214 /* Returns 0 if it's not there. */
215 /* Caller holds allocation lock or otherwise inhibits */
217 /* If there is more than one thread with the given id we */
218 /* return the most recent one. */
219 GC_thread
GC_lookup_thread(pthread_t id
)
221 int hv
= ((word
)id
) % THREAD_TABLE_SZ
;
222 register GC_thread p
= GC_threads
[hv
];
224 /* I either hold the lock, or i'm being called from the stop-the-world
226 #if defined(GC_AIX_THREADS)
227 GC_ASSERT(I_HOLD_LOCK()); /* no stop-the-world handler needed on AIX */
229 while (p
!= 0 && !pthread_equal(p
-> id
, id
)) p
= p
-> next
;
233 #if defined(GC_AIX_THREADS)
236 pthread_t my_thread
= pthread_self();
238 register GC_thread p
;
240 struct timespec timeout
;
242 GC_ASSERT(I_HOLD_LOCK());
243 for (i
= 0; i
< THREAD_TABLE_SZ
; i
++) {
244 for (p
= GC_threads
[i
]; p
!= 0; p
= p
-> next
) {
245 if (p
-> id
!= my_thread
) {
246 pthread_suspend_np(p
->id
);
250 /* GC_printf1("World stopped 0x%x\n", pthread_self()); */
253 void GC_start_world()
257 pthread_t my_thread
= pthread_self();
259 /* GC_printf0("World starting\n"); */
260 GC_ASSERT(I_HOLD_LOCK());
261 for (i
= 0; i
< THREAD_TABLE_SZ
; i
++) {
262 for (p
= GC_threads
[i
]; p
!= 0; p
= p
-> next
) {
263 if (p
-> id
!= my_thread
) {
264 pthread_continue_np(p
->id
);
270 #else /* GC_AIX_THREADS */
272 /* Caller holds allocation lock. */
275 pthread_t my_thread
= pthread_self();
277 register GC_thread p
;
279 struct timespec timeout
;
281 GC_ASSERT(I_HOLD_LOCK());
282 for (i
= 0; i
< THREAD_TABLE_SZ
; i
++) {
283 for (p
= GC_threads
[i
]; p
!= 0; p
= p
-> next
) {
284 if (p
-> id
!= my_thread
) {
285 if (p
-> flags
& FINISHED
) {
289 p
-> stop
= PLEASE_STOP
;
290 result
= pthread_kill(p
-> id
, SIG_SUSPEND
);
291 /* GC_printf1("Sent signal to 0x%x\n", p -> id); */
294 /* Not really there anymore. Possible? */
300 ABORT("pthread_kill failed");
305 pthread_mutex_lock(&GC_suspend_lock
);
306 for (i
= 0; i
< THREAD_TABLE_SZ
; i
++) {
307 for (p
= GC_threads
[i
]; p
!= 0; p
= p
-> next
) {
308 while (p
-> id
!= my_thread
&& p
-> stop
!= STOPPED
) {
309 clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME
, &timeout
);
310 timeout
.tv_nsec
+= 50000000; /* 50 msecs */
311 if (timeout
.tv_nsec
>= 1000000000) {
312 timeout
.tv_nsec
-= 1000000000;
315 result
= pthread_cond_timedwait(&GC_suspend_ack_cv
,
318 if (result
== ETIMEDOUT
) {
319 /* Signal was lost or misdirected. Try again. */
320 /* Duplicate signals should be benign. */
321 result
= pthread_kill(p
-> id
, SIG_SUSPEND
);
326 pthread_mutex_unlock(&GC_suspend_lock
);
327 /* GC_printf1("World stopped 0x%x\n", pthread_self()); */
330 /* Caller holds allocation lock. */
331 void GC_start_world()
336 /* GC_printf0("World starting\n"); */
337 GC_ASSERT(I_HOLD_LOCK());
338 for (i
= 0; i
< THREAD_TABLE_SZ
; i
++) {
339 for (p
= GC_threads
[i
]; p
!= 0; p
= p
-> next
) {
340 p
-> stop
= NOT_STOPPED
;
343 pthread_mutex_lock(&GC_suspend_lock
);
344 /* All other threads are at pthread_cond_wait in signal handler. */
345 /* Otherwise we couldn't have acquired the lock. */
346 pthread_mutex_unlock(&GC_suspend_lock
);
347 pthread_cond_broadcast(&GC_continue_cv
);
350 #endif /* GC_AIX_THREADS */
353 /* We hold allocation lock. Should do exactly the right thing if the */
354 /* world is stopped. Should not fail if it isn't. */
355 void GC_push_all_stacks()
358 register GC_thread p
;
359 register ptr_t hot
, cold
;
360 pthread_t me
= pthread_self();
362 /* GC_init() should have been called before GC_push_all_stacks is
363 * invoked, and GC_init calls GC_thr_init(), which sets
364 * GC_thr_initialized. */
365 GC_ASSERT(GC_thr_initialized
);
367 /* GC_printf1("Pushing stacks from thread 0x%x\n", me); */
368 GC_ASSERT(I_HOLD_LOCK());
369 for (i
= 0; i
< THREAD_TABLE_SZ
; i
++) {
370 for (p
= GC_threads
[i
]; p
!= 0; p
= p
-> next
) {
371 if (p
-> flags
& FINISHED
) continue;
372 cold
= p
->stack_cold
;
373 if (!cold
) cold
=GC_stackbottom
; /* 0 indicates 'original stack' */
374 if (pthread_equal(p
-> id
, me
)) {
375 hot
= GC_approx_sp();
377 # ifdef GC_AIX_THREADS
378 /* AIX doesn't use signals to suspend, so we need to get an */
379 /* accurate hot stack pointer. */
380 /* See http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/en_US/libs/basetrf1/pthread_getthrds_np.htm */
381 pthread_t id
= p
-> id
;
382 struct __pthrdsinfo pinfo
;
384 int val
= sizeof(regbuf
);
385 int retval
= pthread_getthrds_np(&id
, PTHRDSINFO_QUERY_ALL
, &pinfo
,
386 sizeof(pinfo
), regbuf
, &val
);
388 printf("ERROR: pthread_getthrds_np() failed in GC\n");
391 /* according to the AIX ABI,
392 "the lowest possible valid stack address is 288 bytes (144 + 144)
393 less than the current value of the stack pointer. Functions may
394 use this stack space as volatile storage which is not preserved
395 across function calls."
396 ftp://ftp.penguinppc64.org/pub/people/amodra/PPC-elf64abi.txt.gz
398 hot
= (ptr_t
)(unsigned long)pinfo
.__pi_ustk
-288;
399 cold
= (ptr_t
)pinfo
.__pi_stackend
; /* more precise */
400 /* push the registers too, because they won't be on stack */
401 GC_push_all_eager((ptr_t
)&pinfo
.__pi_context
,
402 (ptr_t
)((&pinfo
.__pi_context
)+1));
403 GC_push_all_eager((ptr_t
)regbuf
, ((ptr_t
)regbuf
)+val
);
405 hot
= p
-> stack_hot
;
408 # ifdef STACK_GROWS_UP
409 GC_push_all_stack(cold
, hot
);
411 /* printf("thread 0x%x: hot=0x%08x cold=0x%08x\n", p -> id, hot, cold); */
412 GC_push_all_stack(hot
, cold
);
419 /* We hold the allocation lock. */
423 struct sigaction act
;
425 if (GC_thr_initialized
) return;
426 GC_ASSERT(I_HOLD_LOCK());
427 GC_thr_initialized
= TRUE
;
428 #ifndef GC_AIX_THREADS
429 (void) sigaction(SIG_SUSPEND
, 0, &act
);
430 if (act
.sa_handler
!= SIG_DFL
)
431 ABORT("Previously installed SIG_SUSPEND handler");
432 /* Install handler. */
433 act
.sa_handler
= GC_suspend_handler
;
434 act
.sa_flags
= SA_RESTART
;
435 (void) sigemptyset(&act
.sa_mask
);
436 if (0 != sigaction(SIG_SUSPEND
, &act
, 0))
437 ABORT("Failed to install SIG_SUSPEND handler");
439 /* Add the initial thread, so we can stop it. */
440 t
= GC_new_thread(pthread_self());
441 /* use '0' to indicate GC_stackbottom, since GC_init() has not
442 * completed by the time we are called (from GC_init_inner()) */
443 t
-> stack_cold
= 0; /* the original stack. */
444 t
-> stack_hot
= (ptr_t
)(&t
);
445 t
-> flags
= DETACHED
;
448 int GC_pthread_sigmask(int how
, const sigset_t
*set
, sigset_t
*oset
)
452 #ifdef GC_AIX_THREADS
453 return(pthread_sigmask(how
, set
, oset
));
456 if (set
!= NULL
&& (how
== SIG_BLOCK
|| how
== SIG_SETMASK
)) {
458 sigdelset(&fudged_set
, SIG_SUSPEND
);
461 return(pthread_sigmask(how
, set
, oset
));
465 void *(*start_routine
)(void *);
468 pthread_mutex_t registeredlock
;
469 pthread_cond_t registered
;
470 int volatile registereddone
;
473 void GC_thread_exit_proc(void *arg
)
478 me
= GC_lookup_thread(pthread_self());
479 me
-> flags
|= FINISHED
;
480 /* reclaim DETACHED thread right away; otherwise wait until join() */
481 if (me
-> flags
& DETACHED
) {
482 GC_delete_gc_thread(pthread_self(), me
);
487 int GC_pthread_join(pthread_t thread
, void **retval
)
490 GC_thread thread_gc_id
;
493 thread_gc_id
= GC_lookup_thread(thread
);
494 /* This is guaranteed to be the intended one, since the thread id */
495 /* cant have been recycled by pthreads. */
497 GC_ASSERT(!(thread_gc_id
->flags
& DETACHED
));
498 result
= pthread_join(thread
, retval
);
499 /* Some versions of the Irix pthreads library can erroneously */
500 /* return EINTR when the call succeeds. */
501 if (EINTR
== result
) result
= 0;
502 GC_ASSERT(thread_gc_id
->flags
& FINISHED
);
504 /* Here the pthread thread id may have been recycled. */
505 GC_delete_gc_thread(thread
, thread_gc_id
);
510 void * GC_start_routine(void * arg
)
513 struct start_info
* si
= arg
;
516 pthread_t my_pthread
;
517 void *(*start
)(void *);
520 my_pthread
= pthread_self();
521 /* If a GC occurs before the thread is registered, that GC will */
522 /* ignore this thread. That's fine, since it will block trying to */
523 /* acquire the allocation lock, and won't yet hold interesting */
526 /* We register the thread here instead of in the parent, so that */
527 /* we don't need to hold the allocation lock during pthread_create. */
528 /* Holding the allocation lock there would make REDIRECT_MALLOC */
529 /* impossible. It probably still doesn't work, but we're a little */
531 /* This unfortunately means that we have to be careful the parent */
532 /* doesn't try to do a pthread_join before we're registered. */
533 me
= GC_new_thread(my_pthread
);
534 me
-> flags
= si
-> flags
;
535 me
-> stack_cold
= (ptr_t
) &dummy
; /* this now the 'start of stack' */
536 me
-> stack_hot
= me
->stack_cold
;/* this field should always be sensible */
538 start
= si
-> start_routine
;
539 start_arg
= si
-> arg
;
541 pthread_mutex_lock(&(si
->registeredlock
));
542 si
->registereddone
= 1;
543 pthread_cond_signal(&(si
->registered
));
544 pthread_mutex_unlock(&(si
->registeredlock
));
545 /* si went away as soon as we did this unlock */
547 pthread_cleanup_push(GC_thread_exit_proc
, 0);
548 result
= (*start
)(start_arg
);
549 me
-> status
= result
;
550 pthread_cleanup_pop(1);
551 /* This involves acquiring the lock, ensuring that we can't exit */
552 /* while a collection that thinks we're alive is trying to stop */
558 GC_pthread_create(pthread_t
*new_thread
,
559 const pthread_attr_t
*attr
,
560 void *(*start_routine
)(void *), void *arg
)
566 struct start_info
* si
;
567 /* This is otherwise saved only in an area mmapped by the thread */
568 /* library, which isn't visible to the collector. */
571 /* GC_INTERNAL_MALLOC implicitly calls GC_init() if required */
572 si
= (struct start_info
*)GC_INTERNAL_MALLOC(sizeof(struct start_info
),
574 GC_ASSERT(GC_thr_initialized
); /* initialized by GC_init() */
576 if (0 == si
) return(ENOMEM
);
577 pthread_mutex_init(&(si
->registeredlock
), NULL
);
578 pthread_cond_init(&(si
->registered
),NULL
);
579 pthread_mutex_lock(&(si
->registeredlock
));
580 si
-> start_routine
= start_routine
;
583 pthread_attr_getdetachstate(attr
, &detachstate
);
584 if (PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED
== detachstate
) my_flags
|= DETACHED
;
585 si
-> flags
= my_flags
;
586 result
= pthread_create(new_thread
, attr
, GC_start_routine
, si
);
588 /* Wait until child has been added to the thread table. */
589 /* This also ensures that we hold onto si until the child is done */
590 /* with it. Thus it doesn't matter whether it is otherwise */
591 /* visible to the collector. */
594 si
->registereddone
= 0;
595 while (!si
->registereddone
)
596 pthread_cond_wait(&(si
->registered
), &(si
->registeredlock
));
598 pthread_mutex_unlock(&(si
->registeredlock
));
600 pthread_cond_destroy(&(si
->registered
));
601 pthread_mutex_destroy(&(si
->registeredlock
));
603 GC_INTERNAL_FREE(si
);
609 /* For now we use the pthreads locking primitives on HP/UX */
611 VOLATILE GC_bool GC_collecting
= 0; /* A hint that we're in the collector and */
612 /* holding the allocation lock for an */
613 /* extended period. */
615 /* Reasonably fast spin locks. Basically the same implementation */
616 /* as STL alloc.h. */
618 #define SLEEP_THRESHOLD 3
620 volatile unsigned int GC_allocate_lock
= 0;
621 #define GC_TRY_LOCK() !GC_test_and_set(&GC_allocate_lock)
622 #define GC_LOCK_TAKEN GC_allocate_lock
626 # define low_spin_max 30 /* spin cycles if we suspect uniprocessor */
627 # define high_spin_max 1000 /* spin cycles for multiprocessor */
628 static unsigned spin_max
= low_spin_max
;
629 unsigned my_spin_max
;
630 static unsigned last_spins
= 0;
631 unsigned my_last_spins
;
632 volatile unsigned junk
;
633 # define PAUSE junk *= junk; junk *= junk; junk *= junk; junk *= junk
640 my_spin_max
= spin_max
;
641 my_last_spins
= last_spins
;
642 for (i
= 0; i
< my_spin_max
; i
++) {
643 if (GC_collecting
) goto yield
;
644 if (i
< my_last_spins
/2 || GC_LOCK_TAKEN
) {
651 * Spinning worked. Thus we're probably not being scheduled
652 * against the other process with which we were contending.
653 * Thus it makes sense to spin longer the next time.
656 spin_max
= high_spin_max
;
660 /* We are probably being scheduled against the other process. Sleep. */
661 spin_max
= low_spin_max
;
667 if (i
< SLEEP_THRESHOLD
) {
673 /* Don't wait for more than about 60msecs, even */
674 /* under extreme contention. */
682 # else /* !GC_IRIX_THREADS && !GC_AIX_THREADS */
685 int GC_no_Irix_threads
;
688 # endif /* IRIX_THREADS */