[Bug #18900]
Thread#join and a few other codepaths are using native sleep as
a way to suspend the current thread. So we should call the relevant
hook when this happen, otherwise some thread may transition
directly from `RESUMED` to `READY`.
[Feature #18339]
After experimenting with the initial version of the API I figured there is a need
for an exit event to cleanup instrumentation data. e.g. if you record data in a
{thread_id -> data} table, you need to free associated data when a thread goes away.
Ref: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18339
Design:
- This tries to minimize the overhead when no hook is registered.
It should only incur an extra unsynchronized boolean check.
- The hook list is protected with a read-write lock as to cause
contention when some hooks are registered.
- The hooks MUST be thread safe, and MUST NOT call into Ruby as they
are executed outside the GVL.
- It's simply a noop on Windows.
API:
```
rb_internal_thread_event_hook_t * rb_internal_thread_add_event_hook(rb_internal_thread_event_callback callback, rb_event_flag_t internal_event, void *user_data);
bool rb_internal_thread_remove_event_hook(rb_internal_thread_event_hook_t * hook);
```
You can subscribe to 3 events:
- READY: called right before attempting to acquire the GVL
- RESUMED: called right after successfully acquiring the GVL
- SUSPENDED: called right after releasing the GVL.
The hooks MUST be threadsafe, as they are executed outside of the GVL, they also MUST NOT call any Ruby API.
`NON_SCALAR_THREAD_ID` shows `pthread_t` is non-scalar (non-pointer)
and only s390x is known platform. However, the supporting code is
very complex and it is only used for deubg print information.
So this patch removes the support of `NON_SCALAR_THREAD_ID`
and make the code simple.
* add coroutines for ppc & ppc64
* fix universal coroutine to include ppc & ppc64
* add powerpc*-darwin to configure.ac
* fix thread_pthread for older systems
`rb_thread_t` contained `native_thread_data_t` to represent
thread implementation dependent data. This patch separates
them and rename it `rb_native_thread` and point it from
`rb_thraed_t`.
Now, 1 Ruby thread (`rb_thread_t`) has 1 native thread (`rb_native_thread`).
Now GVL is not process *Global* so this patch try to use
another words.
* `rb_global_vm_lock_t` -> `struct rb_thread_sched`
* `gvl->owner` -> `sched->running`
* `gvl->waitq` -> `sched->readyq`
* `rb_gvl_init` -> `rb_thread_sched_init`
* `gvl_destroy` -> `rb_thread_sched_destroy`
* `gvl_acquire` -> `thread_sched_to_running` # waiting -> ready -> running
* `gvl_release` -> `thread_sched_to_waiting` # running -> waiting
* `gvl_yield` -> `thread_sched_yield`
* `GVL_UNLOCK_BEGIN` -> `THREAD_BLOCKING_BEGIN`
* `GVL_UNLOCK_END` -> `THREAD_BLOCKING_END`
* removed
* `rb_ractor_gvl`
* `rb_vm_gvl_destroy` (not used)
There are GVL functions such as `rb_thread_call_without_gvl()` yet
but I don't have good name to replace them. Maybe GVL stands for
"Greate Valuable Lock" or something like that.
The last parameter of `ccan_list_top()` is to acquire the pointer
of the top of element, so `node.ubf` is no problem. But this context
it accesses gvl list, so `node.gvl` is better.
Must not be a bad idea to improve documents. [ci skip]
In fact many functions declared in the header file are already
documented more or less. They were just copy & pasted, with applying
some style updates.
The timer function used on windows system set timer interrupt
flag of current main ractor's executing ec and thread can detect
the end of time slice. However, to set all ec->interrupt_flag for
all running ractors, it is requires to synchronize with other ractors.
However, timer thread can not acquire the ractor-wide lock because
of some limitation.
To solve this issue, this patch introduces USE_VM_CLOCK compile option
to introduce rb_vm_t::clock. This clock will be incremented by the
timer thread and each thread can check the incrementing by comparison
with previous checked clock. At last, on windows platform this patch
introduces some overhead, but I think there is no critical performance
issue because of this modification.
To access TLS, it is faster to use language TLS specifier instead
of using pthread_get/setspecific functions.
Original proposal is: Use native thread locals. #3665
This commit introduces Ractor mechanism to run Ruby program in
parallel. See doc/ractor.md for more details about Ractor.
See ticket [Feature #17100] to see the implementation details
and discussions.
[Feature #17100]
This commit does not complete the implementation. You can find
many bugs on using Ractor. Also the specification will be changed
so that this feature is experimental. You will see a warning when
you make the first Ractor with `Ractor.new`.
I hope this feature can help programmers from thread-safety issues.
A new (not-initialized-yet) pthread attempts to allocate sigaltstack by
using xmalloc. It may cause GC, but because the thread is not
initialized yet, ruby_native_thread_p() returns false, which leads to
"[FATAL] failed to allocate memory" and exit.
In fact, we can observe the error message in the log of OpenBSD CI:
20200306T083005Z.log.html.gz
This changeset allocates sigaltstack before pthread is created.
After 5e86b005c0, I now think ANYARGS is
dangerous and should be extinct. This commit deletes ANYARGS from
rb_thread_create, which seems very safe to do.
When using UBF_TIMER_PTHREAD (the UBF handler on OpenBSD), the
timer_pthread_fn function will not signal the main thread with
SIGVTALRM in cases where timer_pthread is armed before
consume_communication_pipe is called. This is because
consume_communication_pipe will unarm the timer.
Fix this by checking the return value of consume_communication_pipe.
If it returns TRUE and the timer_pthread is disarmed, then signal
the main thread with SIGVTALRM.
On OpenBSD, this fixes TestThread#test_thread_timer_and_interrupt, and
fixes hangs in TestProcess#test_execopts_redirect_open_fifo_interrupt_raise
and TestProcess#test_execopts_redirect_open_fifo_interrupt_print.
It also fixes the use of Ctrl+C/SIGINT in irb on OpenBSD. It does not
cause any test failures on Linux when UBF_TIMER_PTHREAD is forced as
the UBF handler.
Fixes [Bug #15798]
zlib and bignum both contain unblocking functions which are
async-signal-safe and do not require spawning additional
threads.
We can execute those functions directly in signal handlers
without incurring overhead of extra threads, so provide C-API
users the ability to deal with that. Other C-API users may
have similar need.
This flexible API can supercede existing uses of
rb_thread_call_without_gvl and rb_thread_call_without_gvl2 by
introducing a flags argument to control behavior.
Note: this API is NOT finalized. It needs approval from other
committers. I prefer shorter name than previous
rb_thread_call_without_gvl* functions because my eyes requires
big fonts.
[Bug #15499]
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@66712 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
