| Commit message (Expand) | Author | Age | Files | Lines |
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| * | simplify unified timed wait code, drop support for newer method•••the new absolute-time-based wait kernelside was hard to get right and
basically just code duplication. it could only improve "performance"
when waiting, and even then, the improvement was just slight drop in
cpu usage during a wait.
actually, with vdso clock_gettime, the "old" way will be even faster
than the "new" way if the time has already expired, since it will not
invoke any syscalls. it can determine entirely in userspace that it
needs to return ETIMEDOUT.
| Rich Felker | 2011-08-07 | 1 | -31/+28 |
| * | timedwait: play it safe for now•••it's unclear whether EINVAL or ENOSYS is used when the operation is
not supported, so check for both...
| Rich Felker | 2011-08-03 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | correctly handle old kernels without FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET•••futex returns EINVAL, not ENOSYS, when op is not supported.
unfortunately this looks just like EINVAL from other causes, and we
end up running the fallback code and getting EINVAL again. fortunately
this case should be rare since correct code should not generate EINVAL
anyway.
| Rich Felker | 2011-08-02 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | unify and overhaul timed futex waits•••new features:
- FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET op will be used for timed waits if available. this
saves a call to clock_gettime.
- error checking for the timespec struct is now inside __timedwait so
it doesn't need to be duplicated everywhere. cond_timedwait still
needs to duplicate it to avoid unlocking the mutex, though.
- pushing and popping the cancellation handler is delegated to
__timedwait, and cancellable/non-cancellable waits are unified.
| Rich Felker | 2011-08-02 | 1 | -14/+39 |
| * | overhaul pthread cancellation•••this patch improves the correctness, simplicity, and size of
cancellation-related code. modulo any small errors, it should now be
completely conformant, safe, and resource-leak free.
the notion of entering and exiting cancellation-point context has been
completely eliminated and replaced with alternative syscall assembly
code for cancellable syscalls. the assembly is responsible for setting
up execution context information (stack pointer and address of the
syscall instruction) which the cancellation signal handler can use to
determine whether the interrupted code was in a cancellable state.
these changes eliminate race conditions in the previous generation of
cancellation handling code (whereby a cancellation request received
just prior to the syscall would not be processed, leaving the syscall
to block, potentially indefinitely), and remedy an issue where
non-cancellable syscalls made from signal handlers became cancellable
if the signal handler interrupted a cancellation point.
x86_64 asm is untested and may need a second try to get it right.
| Rich Felker | 2011-04-17 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | consistency: change all remaining syscalls to use SYS_ rather than __NR_ prefix | Rich Felker | 2011-04-06 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | major semaphore improvements (performance and correctness)•••1. make sem_[timed]wait interruptible by signals, per POSIX
2. keep a waiter count in order to avoid unnecessary futex wake syscalls
| Rich Felker | 2011-04-06 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | if returning errno value directly from a syscall, we need to negate it. | Rich Felker | 2011-03-19 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | syscall overhaul part two - unify public and internal syscall interface•••with this patch, the syscallN() functions are no longer needed; a
variadic syscall() macro allows syscalls with anywhere from 0 to 6
arguments to be made with a single macro name. also, manually casting
each non-integer argument with (long) is no longer necessary; the
casts are hidden in the macros.
some source files which depended on being able to define the old macro
SYSCALL_RETURNS_ERRNO have been modified to directly use __syscall()
instead of syscall(). references to SYSCALL_SIGSET_SIZE and SYSCALL_LL
have also been changed.
x86_64 has not been tested, and may need a follow-up commit to fix any
minor bugs/oversights.
| Rich Felker | 2011-03-19 | 1 | -2/+1 |
| * | don't expose EAGAIN, etc. from timed futex wait to caller | Rich Felker | 2011-03-16 | 1 | -1/+4 |
| * | initial check-in, version 0.5.0 | Rich Felker | 2011-02-12 | 1 | -0/+21 |
