The patch fixing the alignment of _cygtls::context accidentally
pushed the desperate attempt to automate the alignment by using
another, non-working variation of attribute((aligned)). Drop it.
Fixes: dcab768cb9 ("Cygwin: cygtls: fix context alignment")
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
A hang was encountered, apparently triggered by commit 63b503916d,
changing tls_pathbufs from malloc'ed to HeapAlloc'ed memory. After
lengthy debugging it transpired that adding the heap handle to the
tls_pathbuf struct added 8 bytes to the cygtls area, thus moving
the "context" member by 8 bytes, too, so it was suddently unaligned.
Fix this for now by changing the alignment.
Fix this once and for all, by adding code to the gentls_offsets script
to check if the alignment of the "context" member is 16 bytes. If not,
print a matching error message, remove the just generated file, and exit
with error.
FIXME: It would be really nice to find a way to auomate the correct
alignment of the "context" member, but I don't see any way to use
alignment attributes to get what we need here.
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
while debugging a problem introduced in commit
63b503916d ("Cygwin: tls_pathbuf: Use Windows heap")
a hang in fork was encountered using the original implementation
of tls_pathbuf:
Using tmp_pathbuf inside the code block guarded by __malloc_trylock
may call malloc from tmp_pathbuf::w_get and thus trying to lock an
exclusive SRW lock recursively, which results in a deadlock.
Allocate a small SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES block on the stack rather than
allocating a 64K tmp_pathbuf. This avoids the potential malloc call.
Drop the __malloc_trylock call entirely. There must not be a malloc
call inside the frok::parent block guarded by __malloc_lock, and
just trying to lock is too dangerous inside fork while other threads
might actually chage the content of the heap. Additionally, add a
comment frowning on malloc usage inside tis code block.
Fixes: 44a79a6eca ("Cygwin: convert malloc lock to SRWLOCK")
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Rather than using malloc/free for the buffers, we're now using
HeapAlloc/HeapFree on a HEAP_NO_SERIALIZE heap created for this
thread.
Advantages:
- Less contention. Our malloc/free doesn't scale well in
multithreaded scenarios
- Even faster heap allocation by using a non serialized heap.
- Internal, local, temporary data not cluttering the user heap.
- Internal, local, temporary data not copied over to child process
at fork().
Disadvantage:
- A forked process has to start allocating temporary buffers from
scratch. However, this should be alleviated by the fact that
buffer allocation usually reaches its peak very early in process
runtime, so the longer the proceess runs, the less buffers have
to allocated, and, only few processes don't exec after fork
anyway.
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Rename CygwinCreateThread to create_posix_thread and move
from miscfuncs.cc to create_posix_thread.cc, inbcluding all
related functions. Analogue for the prototypes.
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Corinna Vinschen