cosmopolitan/libc/thread/pthread_exit.c
Justine Tunney 85f64f3851
Make futexes 100x better on x86 MacOS
Thanks to @autumnjolitz (in #876) the Cosmopolitan codebase is now
acquainted with Apple's outstanding ulock system calls which offer
something much closer to futexes than Grand Central Dispatch which
wasn't quite as good, since its wait function can't be interrupted
by signals (therefore necessitating a busy loop) and it also needs
semaphore objects to be created and freed. Even though ulock is an
internal Apple API, strictly speaking, the benefits of futexes are
so great that it's worth the risk for now especially since we have
the GCD implementation still as a quick escape hatch if it changes

Here's why this change is important for x86 XNU users. Cosmo has a
suboptimal polyfill when the operating system doesn't offer an API
that let's us implement futexes properly. Sadly we had to use that
on X86 XNU until now. The polyfill works using clock_nanosleep, to
poll the futex in a busy loop with exponential backoff. On XNU x86
clock_nanosleep suffers from us not being able to use a fast clock
gettime implementation, which had a compounding effect that's made
the polyfill function even more poorly. On X86 XNU we also need to
polyfill sched_yield() using select(), which made things even more
troublesome. Now that we have futexes we don't have any busy loops
anymore for both condition variables and thread joining so optimal
performance is attained. To demonstrate, consider these benchmarks

Before:

    $ ./lockscale_test.com -b
    consumed 38.8377   seconds real time and
              0.087131 seconds cpu time

After:

    $ ./lockscale_test.com -b
    consumed 0.007955 seconds real time and
             0.011515 seconds cpu time

Fixes #876
2023-10-03 15:15:43 -07:00

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/*-*- mode:c;indent-tabs-mode:nil;c-basic-offset:2;tab-width:8;coding:utf-8 -*-│
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#include "libc/assert.h"
#include "libc/atomic.h"
#include "libc/dce.h"
#include "libc/intrin/atomic.h"
#include "libc/intrin/strace.internal.h"
#include "libc/intrin/weaken.h"
#include "libc/limits.h"
#include "libc/mem/gc.h"
#include "libc/mem/mem.h"
#include "libc/runtime/internal.h"
#include "libc/runtime/runtime.h"
#include "libc/thread/posixthread.internal.h"
#include "libc/thread/thread.h"
#include "libc/thread/tls.h"
#include "third_party/nsync/futex.internal.h"
void _pthread_unwind(struct PosixThread *pt) {
struct _pthread_cleanup_buffer *cb;
while ((cb = pt->cleanup)) {
pt->cleanup = cb->__prev;
cb->__routine(cb->__arg);
}
}
void _pthread_unkey(struct CosmoTib *tib) {
int i, j, gotsome;
void *val, **keys;
pthread_key_dtor dtor;
if ((keys = tib->tib_keys)) {
for (j = 0; j < PTHREAD_DESTRUCTOR_ITERATIONS; ++j) {
for (gotsome = i = 0; i < PTHREAD_KEYS_MAX; ++i) {
if ((val = keys[i]) &&
(dtor = atomic_load_explicit(_pthread_key_dtor + i,
memory_order_relaxed)) &&
dtor != (pthread_key_dtor)-1) {
gotsome = 1;
keys[i] = 0;
dtor(val);
}
}
if (!gotsome) {
break;
}
}
free(keys);
}
}
/**
* Terminates current POSIX thread.
*
* For example, a thread could terminate early as follows:
*
* pthread_exit((void *)123);
*
* The result value could then be obtained when joining the thread:
*
* void *rc;
* pthread_join(id, &rc);
* assert((intptr_t)rc == 123);
*
* Under normal circumstances a thread can exit by simply returning from
* the callback function that was supplied to pthread_create(). This may
* be used if the thread wishes to exit at any other point in the thread
* lifecycle, in which case this function is responsible for ensuring we
* invoke _gc(), _defer(), and pthread_cleanup_push() callbacks, as well
* as pthread_key_create() destructors.
*
* If the current thread is an orphaned thread, or is the main thread
* when no other threads were created, then this will terminated your
* process with an exit code of zero. It's not possible to supply a
* non-zero exit status to wait4() via this function.
*
* Once a thread has exited, access to its stack memory is undefined.
* The behavior of calling pthread_exit() from cleanup handlers and key
* destructors is also undefined.
*
* @param rc is reported later to pthread_join()
* @noreturn
*/
wontreturn void pthread_exit(void *rc) {
struct CosmoTib *tib;
struct PosixThread *pt;
enum PosixThreadStatus status, transition;
tib = __get_tls();
pt = (struct PosixThread *)tib->tib_pthread;
pt->pt_flags |= PT_NOCANCEL;
pt->rc = rc;
STRACE("pthread_exit(%p)", rc);
// free resources
_pthread_unwind(pt);
_pthread_unkey(tib);
_pthread_ungarbage();
_pthread_decimate();
// run atexit handlers if orphaned thread
if (pthread_orphan_np()) {
if (_weaken(__cxa_finalize)) {
_weaken(__cxa_finalize)(NULL);
}
}
// transition the thread to a terminated state
status = atomic_load_explicit(&pt->status, memory_order_acquire);
do {
switch (status) {
case kPosixThreadJoinable:
transition = kPosixThreadTerminated;
break;
case kPosixThreadDetached:
transition = kPosixThreadZombie;
break;
default:
__builtin_unreachable();
}
} while (!atomic_compare_exchange_weak_explicit(
&pt->status, &status, transition, memory_order_release,
memory_order_relaxed));
// make this thread a zombie if it was detached
if (transition == kPosixThreadZombie) {
_pthread_zombify(pt);
}
// check if this is the last survivor
if (pthread_orphan_np()) {
for (const uintptr_t *p = __fini_array_end; p > __fini_array_start;) {
((void (*)(void))(*--p))();
}
_Exit(0);
}
// check if the main thread has died whilst children live
// note that the main thread is joinable by child threads
if (pt->pt_flags & PT_STATIC) {
atomic_store_explicit(&tib->tib_tid, 0, memory_order_release);
nsync_futex_wake_(&tib->tib_tid, INT_MAX, !IsWindows() && !IsXnu());
_Exit1(0);
}
// this is a child thread
longjmp(pt->exiter, 1);
}