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2018-08-23fix tls access on arm targets before armv6kSzabolcs Nagy1-1/+1
commit 610c5a8524c3d6cd3ac5a5f1231422e7648a3791 changed the thread pointer setup so tp points at the end of the pthread struct on arm, but failed to update __aeabi_read_tp so it was off by 8. this broke tls access in code that is compiled with -mtp=soft, which is the default when target arch is pre armv6k or thumb1. maintainer's note: no release versions are affected.
2018-08-18mips archs: fix runaway execution if start fn passed to clone returnsSegev Finer3-3/+12
Call SYS_exit on return from fn in __clone. This is the expected behavior of this function. Without this the child task will crash on return from fn, since it will return to nowhere.
2018-08-16fix pthread_create return value with PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHEDRich Felker1-0/+1
due to moved code, commit b8742f32602add243ee2ce74d804015463726899 inadvertently used the return value of __clone, rather than the return value of SYS_sched_setscheduler in the new thread, to check whether it needed to report failure. since a successful __clone returns the tid of the new thread, which is never zero, this caused pthread_create always to return with an invalid error number in the code path for PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED. this regression was not present in any releases.
2018-07-27make pthread_attr_init honor defaults set by pthread_setattr_default_npRich Felker3-4/+11
this fixes a major gap in the intended functionality of pthread_setattr_default_np. if application/library code creating a thread does not pass a null attribute pointer to pthread_create, but sets up an attribute object to change other properties while leaving the stack alone, the created thread will get a stack with size DEFAULT_STACK_SIZE. this makes pthread_setattr_default_np useless for working around stack overflow issues in such applications, and leaves a major risk of regression if previously-working code switches from using a null attribute pointer to an attribute object. this change aligns the behavior more closely with the glibc pthread_setattr_default_np functionality too, albeit via a different mechanism. glibc encodes "default" specially in the attribute object and reads the actual default at thread creation time. with this commit, we now copy the current default into the attribute object at pthread_attr_init time, so that applications that query the properties of the attribute object will see the right values.
2018-06-19add m68k portRich Felker3-0/+58
three ABIs are supported: the default with 68881 80-bit fpu format and results returned in floating point registers, softfloat-only with the same format, and coldfire fpu with IEEE single/double only. only the first is tested at all, and only under qemu which has fpu emulation bugs. basic functionality smoke tests have been performed for the most common arch-specific breakage via libc-test and qemu user-level emulation. some sysvipc failures remain, but are shared with other big endian archs and will be fixed separately.
2018-05-09make linking of thread-start with explicit scheduling conditionalRich Felker2-28/+28
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.
2018-05-09improve design of thread-start with explicit scheduling attributesRich Felker1-21/+39
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.
2018-05-05improve joinable/detached thread state handlingRich Felker4-19/+22
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.
2018-05-05improve pthread_exit synchronization with functions targeting tidRich Felker5-16/+18
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.
2018-05-04remove incorrect ESRCH error from pthread_killRich Felker1-1/+2
posix documents in the rationale and future directions for pthread_kill that, since the lifetime of the thread id for a joinable thread lasts until it is joined, ESRCH is not a correct error for pthread_kill to produce when the target thread has exited but not yet been joined, and that conforming applications cannot attempt to detect this state. future versions of the standard may explicitly require that ESRCH not be returned for this case.
2018-05-02use a dedicated futex object for pthread_join instead of tid fieldRich Felker2-4/+5
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.
2018-02-03store pthread stack guard sizes for pthread_getattr_npWilliam Pitcock2-1/+3
2018-01-09revise the definition of multiple basic locks in the codeJens Gustedt3-3/+3
In all cases this is just a change from two volatile int to one.
2018-01-09consistently use the LOCK an UNLOCK macrosJens Gustedt6-12/+12
In some places there has been a direct usage of the functions. Use the macros consistently everywhere, such that it might be easier later on to capture the fast path directly inside the macro and only have the call overhead on the slow path.
2018-01-09new lock algorithm with state and congestion count in one atomic intJens Gustedt2-8/+52
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.
2017-10-13fix read-after-free type error in pthread_detachRich Felker1-1/+2
calling __unlock on t->exitlock is not valid because __unlock reads the waiters count after making the atomic store that could allow pthread_exit to continue and unmap the thread's stack and the object t points to. for now, inline the __unlock logic with an unconditional futex wake operation so that the waiters count is not needed. once __lock/__unlock have been made safe for self-synchronized destruction, we could switch back to using them.
2017-09-06fix signal masking race in pthread_create with priority attributesRich Felker1-2/+7
if the parent thread was able to set the new thread's priority before it reached the check for 'startlock', the new thread failed to restore its signal mask and thus ran with all signals blocked. concept for patch by Sergei, who reported the issue; unnecessary changes were removed and comments added since the whole 'startlock' thing is non-idiomatic and confusing. eventually it should be replaced with use of idiomatic synchronization primitives.
2017-08-11trap UB from attempts to join a detached threadRich Felker1-0/+1
passing to pthread_join the id of a thread which is not joinable results in undefined behavior. in principle the check to trap does not necessarily work if pthread_detach was called after thread creation, since no effort is made here to synchronize access to t->detached, but the check is well-defined and harmless for callers which did not invoke UB, and likely to help catch erroneous code that would otherwise mysteriously hang. patch by William Pitcock.
2017-07-04unify the use of FUTEX_PRIVATEJens Gustedt3-3/+3
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.
2017-06-08use hard-coded sh4a atomic opcodes to avoid linker errors on shRich Felker1-4/+4
when using the sh4a opcodes, the assembler tags the resulting object file as requiring sh4a. the linker then refuses to (static) link it with object files marked as requiring j2, since there is no isa level that includes both sh4a and j2 instructions.
2017-02-15fix build regression in arm atomics asm with new binutilsRich Felker1-1/+1
binutils commit bada43421274615d0d5f629a61a60b7daa71bc15 tightened immediate fixup handling in gas in such a way that the final .arch of an object file must be compatible with the fixups used when the instruction was assembled; this in turn broke assembling of atomics.s, at least in thumb mode. it's not clear whether this should be considered a bug in gas, but .object_arch is preferable anyway for our purpose here of controlling the ISA level tag on the object file being produced, and it's the intended directive for use in object files with runtime code selection. research by Szabolcs Nagy confirmed that .object_arch is supported in all relevant versions of binutils and clang's integrated assembler. patch by Reiner Herrmann.
2017-01-19fix spurious EINTR errors from multithreaded set*id, etc.Rich Felker1-1/+1
commit 78a8ef47c4d92b7680c52a85f80a81e29da86bb9 inadvertently removed the SA_RESTART flag from the sigaction for the internal signal handler used by __synccall for broadcasting. as a result, programs which did not use interrupting signals but which used set*id() in a multithreaded context could wrongly observe EINTR errors they're not prepared to handle.
2017-01-13fix crashes in x32 __tls_get_addrrofl0r1-2/+2
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.
2016-12-19rework arm atomic/tp backends to be thumb-compatible and fdpic-readyRich Felker4-56/+69
three problems are addressed: - use of pc arithmetic, which was difficult if not impossible to make correct in thumb mode on all models, so that relative rather than absolute pointers to the backends could be used. this was designed back when there was no coherent model for the early stages of the dynamic linker before relocations, and is no longer necessary. - assumption that data (the relative pointers to the backends) can be accessed at a constant displacement from the code. this will not be possible on future fdpic subarchs (for cortex-m), so move responsibility for loading the backend code address to the caller. - hard-coded arm opcodes using the .word directive. instead, use the .arch directive to work around the assembler's refusal to assemble instructions not available (or in some cases, available but just considered deprecated) in the target isa level. the obscure v6t2 arch is used for v6 code so as to (1) allow generation of thumb2 output if -mthumb is active, and (2) avoid warnings/errors for mcr barriers that clang would produce if we just set arch to v7-a. in addition, the __aeabi_read_tp function is moved out of the inner workings and implemented as an asm wrapper around a C function, so that asm code does not need to read global data. the asm wrapper serves to satisfy the ABI calling convention requirements for this function.
2016-11-11add s390x portBobby Bingham5-0/+111
2016-11-08add limited pthread_setattr_default_np API to set stack size defaultsRich Felker2-4/+43
based on patch by Timo Teräs: While generally this is a bad API, it is the only existing API to affect c++ (std::thread) and c11 (thrd_create) thread stack size. This patch allows applications only to increate stack and guard page sizes.
2016-11-08fix pthread_create regression from stack/guard size simplificationRich Felker1-1/+4
commit 33ce920857405d4f4b342c85b74588a15e2702e5 broke pthread_create in the case where a null attribute pointer is passed; rather than using the default sizes, sizes of 0 (plus the remainder of one page after TLS/TCB use) were used.
2016-11-07simplify pthread_attr_t stack/guard size representationRich Felker7-11/+13
previously, the pthread_attr_t object was always initialized all-zero, and stack/guard size were represented as differences versus their defaults. this required lots of confusing offset arithmetic everywhere they were used. instead, have pthread_attr_init fill in the default values, and work with absolute sizes everywhere.
2016-10-20add pthread_setname_npFelix Janda1-0/+26
the thread name is displayed by gdb's "info threads".
2016-06-30pthread: implement try/timed join variantsBobby Bingham1-3/+17
2016-06-27fix failure to obtain EOWNERDEAD status for process-shared robust mutexesRich Felker3-3/+3
Linux's documentation (robust-futex-ABI.txt) claims that, when a process dies with a futex on the robust list, bit 30 (0x40000000) is set to indicate the status. however, what actually happens is that bits 0-30 are replaced with the value 0x40000000, i.e. bits 0-29 (containing the old owner tid) are cleared at the same time bit 30 is set. our userspace-side code for robust mutexes was written based on that documentation, assuming that kernel would never produce a futex value of 0x40000000, since the low (owner) bits would always be non-zero. commit d338b506e39b1e2c68366b12be90704c635602ce introduced this assumption explicitly while fixing another bug in how non-recoverable status for robust mutexes was tracked. presumably the tests conducted at that time only checked non-process-shared robust mutexes, which are handled in pthread_exit (which implemented the documented kernel protocol, not the actual one) rather than by the kernel. change pthread_exit robust list processing to match the kernel behavior, clearing bits 0-29 while setting bit 30, and use the value 0x7fffffff instead of 0x40000000 to encode non-recoverable status. the choice of value here is arbitrary; any value with at least one of bits 0-29 set should work just as well,
2016-05-08add powerpc64 portBobby Bingham4-0/+101
2016-04-25fix thread structure/dtv-pointer corruption on powerpcRich Felker1-0/+5
per the powerpc psabi, offset 4 of the stack at call time belongs to the callee and is used for spilling lr (return address). in addition, offset 0 on the stack must contain a pointer to the previous stack frame, or a null pointer for the initial stack frame of a thread. __clone failed to setup any stack frame on the new thread's stack, thereby allowing the start function it called to clobber offset 4 of the new thread's struct __pthread, which contains the dtv pointer. add code to setup a proper stack frame and align the stack pointer to a multiple of 16 (also an abi requirement) if it was not already aligned.
2016-04-18add mips n32 port (ILP32 ABI for mips64)Rich Felker3-0/+90
based on patch submitted by Jaydeep Patil, with minor changes.
2016-03-06add mips64 portRich Felker3-0/+91
patch by Mahesh Bodapati and Jaydeep Patil of Imagination Technologies.
2016-02-08remove workaround for broken mips assemblersRich Felker1-5/+1
the workaround was for a bug that botched .gpword references to local labels, applying a nonsensical random offset of -0x4000 to them. this reverses commit 5e396fb996a80b035d0f6ecf7fed50f68aa3ebb7 and a removes a similar hack that was added to syscall_cp.s in the later commit 756c8af8589265e99e454fe3adcda1d0bc5e1963. it turns out one additional instance of the same idiom, the GETFUNCSYM macro in arch/mips/reloc.h, was still affected by the assembler bug and does not admit an easy workaround without making assumptions about how the macro is used. the previous workarounds made static linking work but left the early-stage dynamic linker broken and thus had limited usefulness. instead, affected users (using binutils versions older than 2.20) will need to fix the bug on the binutils side; the trivial patch is commit 453f5985b13e35161984bf1bf657bbab11515aa4 in the binutils-gdb repository.
2016-02-04in mips cancellable syscall asm, don't assume gp register is validRich Felker1-2/+13
the old __cp_cancel code path loaded the address of __cancel from the GOT using the $gp register, which happened to be set to point to the correct GOT by the calling C function, but there is no ABI requirement that this happen. instead, go the roundabout way and compute the address of __cancel via pc-relative and gp-relative addressing starting with a fake return address generated by a bal instruction, which is the same trick crt1 uses to bootstrap.
2016-02-04avoid using signals when a thread attempts to cancel itselfRich Felker1-0/+1
not only is pthread_kill expensive in this case; it also breaks testing under qemu app-level emulation.
2016-01-30fix misaligned pointer-like objects in arm atomics asm source fileRich Felker1-0/+2
this file's .data section was not aligned, and just happened to get the correct alignment with past builds. it's likely that the move of atomic.s from arch/arm/src to src/thread/arm caused the change in alignment, which broke the atomic and thread-pointer access fragments on actual armv5 hardware.
2016-01-22move sh __unmapself code from arch/sh/src to main src treeRich Felker2-0/+24
2016-01-22move x32 sysinfo impl and syscall fixup code out of arch/x32/srcRich Felker1-0/+38
all such arch-specific translation units are being moved to appropriate arch dirs under the main src tree.
2016-01-22move arm-specific translation units out of arch/arm/src, to src/*/armRich Felker3-1/+160
this is possible with the new build system that allows src/*/$(ARCH)/* files which do not shadow a file in the parent directory, and yields a more logical organization. eventually it will be possible to remove arch/*/src from the build system.
2016-01-21overhaul sh atomics for new atomics framework, add j-core cas.l backendRich Felker3-0/+105
sh needs runtime-selected atomic backends since there are a number of supported models that use non-forwards-compatible (non-smp-compatible) atomic mechanisms. previously, the code paths for this were highly inefficient since they involved C function calls with multiple branches in the callee and heavy spills in the caller. the new code performs calls the runtime-selected asm fragment from inline asm with extremely minimal clobbers, rather than using a function call. for the sh4a case where the atomic mechanism is known and there is no forward-compatibility issue, the movli.l and movco.l instructions are provided as a_ll and a_sc, allowing the new shared atomic.h to generate efficient inline versions of all the basic atomic operations without needing a cas loop.
2015-11-11eliminate use of SHARED macro in __tls_get_addrRich Felker1-6/+6
this was only a tiny optimization, and static-linked binaries should not be calling __tls_get_addr anyway since the linker is supposed to perform relaxation, resulting in use of the local-exec TLS model.
2015-11-11eliminate use of SHARED macro to suppress visibility attributesRich Felker2-6/+0
this is the first and simplest stage of removal of the SHARED macro, which will eventually allow libc.a and libc.so to be produced from the same object files. the original motivation for these #ifdefs which are now being removed was to allow building a static-only libc using a compiler that does not support visibility. however, SHARED was the wrong condition to test for this anyway; various assembly-language sources refer to hidden symbols and declare them with the .hidden directive, making it wrong to define the referenced symbols as non-hidden. if there is a need in the future to build libc using compilers that lack visibility, support could be moved to the build system or perhaps the __PIC__ macro could be checked instead of SHARED.
2015-11-10explicitly assemble all arm asm sources as UALRich Felker3-0/+3
these files are all accepted as legacy arm syntax when producing arm code, but legacy syntax cannot be used for producing thumb2 with access to the full ISA. even after switching to UAL, some asm source files contain instructions which are not valid in thumb mode, so these will need to be addressed separately.
2015-11-09remove non-working pre-armv4t support from arm asmRich Felker2-4/+0
the idea of the three-instruction sequence being removed was to be able to return to thumb code when used on armv4t+ from a thumb caller, but also to be able to run on armv4 without the bx instruction available (in which case the low bit of lr would always be 0). however, without compiler support for generating such a sequence from C code, which does not exist and which there is unlikely to be interest in implementing, there is little point in having it in the asm, and it would likely be easier to add pre-armv4t support via enhanced linker handling of R_ARM_V4BX than at the compiler level. removing this code simplifies adding support for building libc in thumb2-only form (for cortex-m).
2015-11-02use explicit __cp_cancel label in cancellable syscall asm for all archsRich Felker8-28/+32
previously, only archs that needed to do stack cleanup defined a __cp_cancel label for acting on cancellation in their syscall asm, and a default definition was provided by a weak alias to __cancel, the C function. this resulted in wrong codegen for arm on gcc versions affected by pr 68178 and possibly similar issues (like pr 66609) on other archs, and also created an inconsistency where the __cp_begin and __cp_end labels were treated as const data but __cp_cancel was treated as a function. this in turn caused incorrect code generation on archs where function pointers point to function descriptors rather than code (for now, only sh/fdpic).
2015-11-02properly access mcontext_t program counter in cancellation handlerRich Felker1-3/+4
using the actual mcontext_t definition rather than an overlaid pointer array both improves correctness/readability and eliminates some ugly hacks for archs with 64-bit registers bit 32-bit program counter. also fix UB due to comparison of pointers not in a common array object.
2015-10-15add missing memory barrier to pthread_joinBobby Bingham1-0/+1
POSIX requires pthread_join to synchronize memory on success. The futex wait inside __timedwait_cp cannot handle this because it's not called in all cases. Also, in the case of a spurious wake, tid can become zero between the wake and when the joining thread checks it.
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