Make threads faster and more reliable

This change doubles the performance of thread spawning. That's thanks to
our new stack manager, which allows us to avoid zeroing stacks. It gives
us 15µs spawns rather than 30µs spawns on Linux. Also, pthread_exit() is
faster now, since it doesn't need to acquire the pthread GIL. On NetBSD,
that helps us avoid allocating too many semaphores. Even if that happens
we're now able to survive semaphores running out and even memory running
out, when allocating *NSYNC waiter objects. I found a lot more rare bugs
in the POSIX threads runtime that could cause things to crash, if you've
got dozens of threads all spawning and joining dozens of threads. I want
cosmo to be world class production worthy for 2025 so happy holidays all
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Justine Tunney 2024-12-18 04:59:02 -08:00
parent 906bd06a5a
commit 624573207e
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51 changed files with 1006 additions and 321 deletions

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@ -18,10 +18,12 @@
*/
#include "libc/assert.h"
#include "libc/calls/calls.h"
#include "libc/calls/sig.internal.h"
#include "libc/calls/struct/sigaltstack.h"
#include "libc/calls/struct/sigset.h"
#include "libc/calls/struct/sigset.internal.h"
#include "libc/calls/syscall-sysv.internal.h"
#include "libc/cosmo.h"
#include "libc/dce.h"
#include "libc/errno.h"
#include "libc/fmt/itoa.h"
@ -29,6 +31,7 @@
#include "libc/intrin/describeflags.h"
#include "libc/intrin/dll.h"
#include "libc/intrin/kprintf.h"
#include "libc/intrin/stack.h"
#include "libc/intrin/strace.h"
#include "libc/intrin/weaken.h"
#include "libc/log/internal.h"
@ -48,7 +51,6 @@
#include "libc/str/str.h"
#include "libc/sysv/consts/auxv.h"
#include "libc/sysv/consts/clone.h"
#include "libc/sysv/consts/map.h"
#include "libc/sysv/consts/prot.h"
#include "libc/sysv/consts/sig.h"
#include "libc/sysv/consts/ss.h"
@ -65,9 +67,6 @@ __static_yoink("_pthread_onfork_prepare");
__static_yoink("_pthread_onfork_parent");
__static_yoink("_pthread_onfork_child");
#define MAP_ANON_OPENBSD 0x1000
#define MAP_STACK_OPENBSD 0x4000
void _pthread_free(struct PosixThread *pt) {
// thread must be removed from _pthread_list before calling
@ -79,7 +78,8 @@ void _pthread_free(struct PosixThread *pt) {
// unmap stack if the cosmo runtime was responsible for mapping it
if (pt->pt_flags & PT_OWNSTACK)
unassert(!munmap(pt->pt_attr.__stackaddr, pt->pt_attr.__stacksize));
cosmo_stack_free(pt->pt_attr.__stackaddr, pt->pt_attr.__stacksize,
pt->pt_attr.__guardsize);
// free any additional upstream system resources
// our fork implementation wipes this handle in child automatically
@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ void _pthread_free(struct PosixThread *pt) {
free(pt);
}
void _pthread_decimate(bool annihilation_only) {
void _pthread_decimate(void) {
struct PosixThread *pt;
struct Dll *e, *e2, *list = 0;
enum PosixThreadStatus status;
@ -123,17 +123,6 @@ void _pthread_decimate(bool annihilation_only) {
dll_make_first(&list, e);
}
// code like pthread_exit() needs to call this in order to know if
// it's appropriate to run exit() handlers however we really don't
// want to have a thread exiting block on a bunch of __maps locks!
// therefore we only take action if we'll destroy all but the self
if (annihilation_only)
if (!(_pthread_list == _pthread_list->prev &&
_pthread_list == _pthread_list->next)) {
dll_make_last(&_pthread_list, list);
list = 0;
}
// release posix threads gil
_pthread_unlock();
@ -167,11 +156,14 @@ static int PosixThread(void *arg, int tid) {
}
// set long jump handler so pthread_exit can bring control back here
if (!setjmp(pt->pt_exiter)) {
sigdelset(&pt->pt_attr.__sigmask, SIGTHR);
if (!__builtin_setjmp(pt->pt_exiter)) {
// setup signals for new thread
pt->pt_attr.__sigmask &= ~(1ull << (SIGTHR - 1));
if (IsWindows() || IsMetal()) {
atomic_store_explicit(&__get_tls()->tib_sigmask, pt->pt_attr.__sigmask,
memory_order_release);
if (_weaken(__sig_check))
_weaken(__sig_check)();
} else {
sys_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &pt->pt_attr.__sigmask, 0);
}
@ -189,39 +181,6 @@ static int PosixThread(void *arg, int tid) {
return 0;
}
static bool TellOpenbsdThisIsStackMemory(void *addr, size_t size) {
return __sys_mmap(
addr, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED | MAP_ANON_OPENBSD | MAP_STACK_OPENBSD, -1,
0, 0) == addr;
}
// OpenBSD only permits RSP to occupy memory that's been explicitly
// defined as stack memory, i.e. `lo <= %rsp < hi` must be the case
static errno_t FixupCustomStackOnOpenbsd(pthread_attr_t *attr) {
// get interval
uintptr_t lo = (uintptr_t)attr->__stackaddr;
uintptr_t hi = lo + attr->__stacksize;
// squeeze interval
lo = (lo + __pagesize - 1) & -__pagesize;
hi = hi & -__pagesize;
// tell os it's stack memory
errno_t olderr = errno;
if (!TellOpenbsdThisIsStackMemory((void *)lo, hi - lo)) {
errno_t err = errno;
errno = olderr;
return err;
}
// update attributes with usable stack address
attr->__stackaddr = (void *)lo;
attr->__stacksize = hi - lo;
return 0;
}
static errno_t pthread_create_impl(pthread_t *thread,
const pthread_attr_t *attr,
void *(*start_routine)(void *), void *arg,
@ -266,37 +225,18 @@ static errno_t pthread_create_impl(pthread_t *thread,
}
} else {
// cosmo is managing the stack
int pagesize = __pagesize;
pt->pt_attr.__guardsize = ROUNDUP(pt->pt_attr.__guardsize, pagesize);
pt->pt_attr.__stacksize = pt->pt_attr.__stacksize;
if (pt->pt_attr.__guardsize + pagesize > pt->pt_attr.__stacksize) {
pt->pt_flags |= PT_OWNSTACK;
errno_t err =
cosmo_stack_alloc(&pt->pt_attr.__stacksize, &pt->pt_attr.__guardsize,
&pt->pt_attr.__stackaddr);
if (err) {
_pthread_free(pt);
return EINVAL;
}
pt->pt_attr.__stackaddr =
mmap(0, pt->pt_attr.__stacksize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
if (pt->pt_attr.__stackaddr != MAP_FAILED) {
if (IsOpenbsd())
if (!TellOpenbsdThisIsStackMemory(pt->pt_attr.__stackaddr,
pt->pt_attr.__stacksize))
notpossible;
if (pt->pt_attr.__guardsize)
if (mprotect(pt->pt_attr.__stackaddr, pt->pt_attr.__guardsize,
PROT_NONE | PROT_GUARD))
notpossible;
}
if (!pt->pt_attr.__stackaddr || pt->pt_attr.__stackaddr == MAP_FAILED) {
rc = errno;
_pthread_free(pt);
errno = e;
if (rc == EINVAL || rc == EOVERFLOW) {
if (err == EINVAL || err == EOVERFLOW) {
return EINVAL;
} else {
return EAGAIN;
}
}
pt->pt_flags |= PT_OWNSTACK;
}
// setup signal stack
@ -338,6 +278,10 @@ static errno_t pthread_create_impl(pthread_t *thread,
dll_make_first(&_pthread_list, &pt->list);
_pthread_unlock();
// if pthread_attr_setdetachstate() was used then it's possible for
// the `pt` object to be freed before this clone call has returned!
_pthread_ref(pt);
// launch PosixThread(pt) in new thread
if ((rc = clone(PosixThread, pt->pt_attr.__stackaddr, pt->pt_attr.__stacksize,
CLONE_VM | CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES |
@ -400,8 +344,8 @@ static const char *DescribeHandle(char buf[12], errno_t err, pthread_t *th) {
* _lwp_create
*
*
* @param thread if non-null is used to output the thread id
* upon successful completion
* @param thread is used to output the thread id upon success, which
* must be non-null
* @param attr points to launch configuration, or may be null
* to use sensible defaults; it must be initialized using
* pthread_attr_init()
@ -417,12 +361,14 @@ static const char *DescribeHandle(char buf[12], errno_t err, pthread_t *th) {
errno_t pthread_create(pthread_t *thread, const pthread_attr_t *attr,
void *(*start_routine)(void *), void *arg) {
errno_t err;
_pthread_decimate(false);
_pthread_decimate();
BLOCK_SIGNALS;
err = pthread_create_impl(thread, attr, start_routine, arg, _SigMask);
ALLOW_SIGNALS;
STRACE("pthread_create([%s], %p, %t, %p) → %s",
DescribeHandle(alloca(12), err, thread), attr, start_routine, arg,
DescribeErrno(err));
if (!err)
_pthread_unref(*(struct PosixThread **)thread);
return err;
}