Instead, wait until we transition back to userspace. This stops
userspace from being able to suspend a thread indefinitely while it's
running in kernelspace (potentially holding some blocking mutex.)
This includes a new Thread::Blocker called SignalBlocker which blocks
until a signal of a matching type is pending. The current Blocker
implementation in the Kernel is very complicated, but cleaning it up is
a different yak for a different day.
As required by posix. Also rename Thread::clear_signals to
Thread::reset_signals_for_exec since it doesn't actually clear any
pending signals, but rather does execve related signal book-keeping.
If we're sending an urgent signal (i.e. due to unexpected conditions)
and the Process did not setup any signal handler, we should immediately
terminate the Thread, to ensure the current trap frame is preserved for
the impending core dump.
This isn't a complete conversion to ErrorOr<void>, but a good chunk.
The end goal here is to propagate buffer allocation failures to the
caller, and allow the use of TRY() with formatting functions.
Two instances of comparing a bool with == true or == false, and one
instance where we can just return an expression instead of checking it
to return true on succeess and false on failure.
... In files included from Kernel/Thread.cpp or Kernel/Process.cpp
Some places the warning is suppressed, because we do not want a const
object do have non-const access to the returned sub-object.
We now use AK::Error and AK::ErrorOr<T> in both kernel and userspace!
This was a slightly tedious refactoring that took a long time, so it's
not unlikely that some bugs crept in.
Nevertheless, it does pass basic functionality testing, and it's just
real nice to finally see the same pattern in all contexts. :^)
The System V ABI requires that the stack is 16-byte aligned on function
call. Confusingly, however, they mean that the stack must be aligned
this way **before** the `CALL` instruction is executed. That instruction
pushes the return value onto the stack, so the callee will actually see
the stack pointer as a value `sizeof(FlatPtr)` smaller.
The signal trampoline was written with this in mind, but `setup_stack`
aligned the entire stack, *including the return address* to a 16-byte
boundary. Because of this, the trampoline subtracted too much from the
stack pointer, thus misaligning it.
This was not a problem on i686 because we didn't execute any
instructions from signal handlers that would require memory operands to
be aligned to more than 4 bytes. This is not the case, however, on
x86_64, where SSE instructions are enabled by default and they require
16-byte aligned operands. Running such instructions raised a GP fault,
immediately killing the offending program with a SIGSEGV signal.
This issue caused TestKernelAlarm to fail in LibC when ran locally, and
at one point, the zsh port was affected too.
Fixes#9291
This change adds a static lock hierarchy / ranking to the Kernel with
the goal of reducing / finding deadlocks when running with SMP enabled.
We have seen quite a few lock ordering deadlocks (locks taken in a
different order, on two different code paths). As we properly annotate
locks in the system, then these facilities will find these locking
protocol violations automatically
The `LockRank` enum documents the various locks in the system and their
rank. The implementation guarantees that a thread holding one or more
locks of a lower rank cannot acquire an additional lock with rank that
is greater or equal to any of the currently held locks.
We previously allowed Thread to exist in a state where its m_name was
null, and had to work around that in various places.
This patch removes that possibility and forces those who would create a
thread (or change the name of one) to provide a NonnullOwnPtr<KString>
with the name.
This expands the reach of error propagation greatly throughout the
kernel. Sadly, it also exposes the fact that we're allocating (and
doing other fallible things) in constructors all over the place.
This patch doesn't attempt to address that of course. That's work for
our future selves.
The default template argument is only used in one place, and it
looks like it was probably just an oversight. The rest of the Kernel
code all uses u8 as the type. So lets make that the default and remove
the unused template argument, as there doesn't seem to be a reason to
allow the size to be customizable.
And also try_create<T> => try_make_ref_counted<T>.
A global "create" was a bit much. The new name matches make<T> better,
which we've used for making single-owner objects since forever.
This patch does three things:
- Convert the global thread list from a HashMap to an IntrusiveList
- Combine the thread list and its lock into a SpinLockProtectedValue
- Customize Thread::unref() so it locks the list while unreffing
This closes the same race window for Thread as @sin-ack's recent changes
did for Process.
Note that the HashMap->IntrusiveList conversion means that we lose O(1)
lookups, but the majority of clients of this list are doing traversal,
not lookup. Once we have an intrusive hashing solution, we should port
this to use that, but for now, this gets rid of heap allocations during
a sensitive time.
