Hey Barret,

Sometime soon I was planning on getting gdb merged (with fixes and
responses to code review a long time ago etc). How different do you think
gdb will have to be with this?

Chris

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017, 13:19 Barret Rhoden <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi -
>
> On 2017-03-14 at 15:40 Barret Rhoden <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So concretely, I'm currently planning:
>
> [ a bunch of things ]
>
> > Anyway, that's my current plan.  I imagine it'll change as I dig in
> > more.  The minimum that we need to do is gcc's gthr.h interface, so I
> > might hold off on the pthread stuff until we get a better feel for
> > specific library code that is trying to use the pthread's API.
>
> That is pretty much done for now, and pretty close to the original plan.
> As expected, I also broke up part of pthread code and made it
> 2LS-independent, but there's still a bit more to do.
>
> I also got involved in glibc's locking and threading.  The short
> version is that our port of glibc has two different types of locks.
> The libc_lock and _IO_lock are mutexes.  The malloc lock is a
> spinlock.  Vcore context (including interprocess signal handlers) can
> use malloc/free, but not anything that could block.
>
> Ultimately, this fixes a bunch of toolchain bugs with C++ code as well
> as intermittent problems/panics with blocking while holding locks.  We
> also have implementations of a bunch of sync primitives that we either
> ignored (e.g. timed CVs, recursive mutexes) or faked (pthread RW locks
> were just mutexes).
>
> Hopefully I didn't break anyone's code.  We'll see.  You'll need to
> rebuild the world.
>
> A couple other notes, mostly for Gan:
> - benchutil/alarm.h is now parlib/alarm.h.
> - vmm task thread functions now return void *, like a pthread would.
> - if vcore context attempts to grab a mutex (which *could* block), it
>   will panic.
> - panics and asserts spit out a backtrace on the monitor/console.
> - vcore context code *can* call fprintf, but only for stdout or stderr,
>   where we'll macro-magic the call to a write() to FD 1 or 2.  you'll
>   need to #include <parlib/stdio.h> for this.
>
> Check out the commits for more info.
>
> Barret
>
>
> The following changes since commit
> 41ab54b78d870d46cdbc6100e9a96dcf64b82fae:
>
>   Mark 'user' as PHONY in the top-level Makefile (2017-04-25 15:27:41
> -0400)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>   [email protected]:brho/akaros.git uth
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 1f6e281e8bb5343138f7b21b4d63a2b092cda283:
>
>   pthreads: Remove sched_policy and sched_priority (2017-04-28 16:00:53
> -0400)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> View this online at:
> https://github.com/brho/akaros/compare/41ab54b78d87...1f6e281e8bb5
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Barret Rhoden (57):
>       parlib: Use 'const' in the set_dtls() interface
>       parlib: Add trylock to uthread mutexes
>       parlib: Add recursive uthread mutexes
>       parlib: Add a helper for multi-threaded-ness
>       ndblib: Remove dependency on pthreads
>       Remove kernel-specific parts of ros/common.h (XCC)
>       parlib: Move init_once_racy() to parlib (XCC)
>       Convert run_once() to parlib_run_once() (XCC)
>       parlib: Use cpu_relax_vc() in parlib_run_once() (XCC)
>       parlib: Add synchronization objects
>       parlib: Always use the default mutex/cv interface
>       parlib: Change opaque mutex/cv types to be structs
>       parlib: Add static initializers for mutexes / CVs
>       parlib: Add a test for recursive mutexes
>       parlib: Implement uthread mutexes with semaphores
>       parlib: sem/mtx/cv: Add init() and destroy()
>       parlib: Add uth_cond_var_wait_recurse()
>       benchutil: Clarify unset_alarm()'s semantics
>       parlib: Move alarm/timer functions from benchutil
>       vmm: Remove references to pthreads
>       parlib: Add an alarm helper
>       parlib: Add 'timed' functions for sems/mtxs/cvs
>       parlib: Implement join/detach() for all uthreads
>       vmm: Make all task functions return void *
>       parlib: Add uthread_create()
>       parlib: Add uthread_sched_yield()
>       Implement sched_yield() with uthread_sched_yield() (XCC)
>       pthread: Implement POSIX semaphores with uth sems
>       futex: Make futexes independent of pthreads
>       parlib: UTH_EXT_BLK_JUSTICE -> _MISC
>       parlib: Add uthread_self()
>       Add the 'akaros' threading model to gcc (XCC)
>       Use patches for existing toolchain files (XCC)
>       parlib: Allow cpu_relax_vc() calls from uthreads
>       parlib: Add cpu_relax_any()
>       Add a shared_ptr sanity check
>       parlib: Add reader-writer sleeping locks
>       parlib: Trim some header includes
>       Remove old tests and mhello
>       parlib: Make sync objects static (XCC)
>       Use weak __thread declarations in parlib-compat (XCC)
>       Fix a couple warnings in glibc (XCC)
>       parlib: Catch illegal block attempts
>       parlib: Catch broken uses of notif_disabled_depth
>       parlib: Set line buffering for stdout
>       parlib: Improve panic() and assert()
>       Have all asserts call parlib's assert (XCC)
>       parlib: Make parlib printfs safe
>       Overhaul glibc locking (XCC)
>       parlib: Add a rwlock test
>       parlib: Make uth mutex/CV initializers C++ safe
>       pthread: Reimplement mutexes, CVs, and RW locks (XCC)
>       parlib: Tease out uth_sync_t from has_blocked()
>       parlib: Add __uth_sync_swap and __uth_sync_is_empty
>       parlib: Add a thread_bulk_runnable() 2LS op
>       pthread: Make pthread barriers 2LS-independent
>       pthreads: Remove sched_policy and sched_priority
>
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