Import my recent 1:1 threading working. some features improved includes:
1. fast simple type mutex.
2. __thread tls works.
3. asynchronous cancellation works ( using signal ).
4. thread synchroni

Import my recent 1:1 threading working. some features improved includes:
1. fast simple type mutex.
2. __thread tls works.
3. asynchronous cancellation works ( using signal ).
4. thread synchronization is fully based on umtx, mainly, condition
variable and other synchronization objects were rewritten by using
umtx directly. those objects can be shared between processes via
shared memory, it has to change ABI which does not happen yet.
5. default stack size is increased to 1M on 32 bits platform, 2M for
64 bits platform.
As the result, some mysql super-smack benchmarks show performance is
improved massivly.

Okayed by: jeff, mtm, rwatson, scottl

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Start locking up the active and dead threads lists. The active threads
list is protected by a spinlock_t, but the dead list uses a pthread_mutex
because it is necessary to synchronize other threads w

Start locking up the active and dead threads lists. The active threads
list is protected by a spinlock_t, but the dead list uses a pthread_mutex
because it is necessary to synchronize other threads with the garbage
collector thread. Lock/Unlock macros are used so it's easier to make
changes to the locks in the future.

The 'dead thread list' lock is intended to replace the gc mutex.
This doesn't have any practical ramifications. It simply makes it
clearer what the purpose of the lock is. The gc will use this lock,
instead of the gc mutex, to synchronize access to the dead list with
other threads.

Modify _pthread_exit() to use these two new locks instead of GIANT_LOCK,
and also to properly lock and protect thread state changes,
especially with respect to a joining thread.

The gc thread was also re-arranged to be more organized and less nested.

_pthread_join() was also modified to use the thread list locks. However,
locking and unlocking here needs special care because a thread could find
itself in a position where it's joining an exiting thread that is
waiting on the dead list lock, which this thread (joiner) holds. If the
joiner doesn't take care to lock *and* unlock in the same order they
(the joiner and the joinee) could deadlock against each other.

Approved by: re/blanket libthr

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- Define curthread as _get_curthread() and remove all direct calls to
_get_curthread(). This is similar to the kernel's curthread. Doing
this saves stack overhead and is more convenient to th

- Define curthread as _get_curthread() and remove all direct calls to
_get_curthread(). This is similar to the kernel's curthread. Doing
this saves stack overhead and is more convenient to the programmer.
- Pass the pointer to the newly created thread to _thread_init().
- Remove _get_curthread_slow().

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- Add libthr but don't hook it up to the regular build yet. This is an
adaptation of libc_r for the thr system call interface. This is beta
quality code.

If a thread who's name is being set is not the current thread, use macros
THR_THREAD_LOCK and THR_THREAD_UNLOCK instead, this should fix wrong
lock level problem.

Bug reported by: ed dot maste at gm

If a thread who's name is being set is not the current thread, use macros
THR_THREAD_LOCK and THR_THREAD_UNLOCK instead, this should fix wrong
lock level problem.

Bug reported by: ed dot maste at gmail dot com

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Remove 3rd clause, renumber, ok per email

WARNS level 4 cleanup.

use syscall thr_set_name to implement pthread_set_name_np.

Add missing symbol pthread_set_name_np.

Rescue pthread_set_name_np for compatible reason, remove unused code.

Import my recent 1:1 threading working. some features improved includes:
1. fast simple type mutex.
2. __thread tls works.
3. asynchronous cancellation works ( using signal ).
4. thread synchroni

Import my recent 1:1 threading working. some features improved includes:
1. fast simple type mutex.
2. __thread tls works.
3. asynchronous cancellation works ( using signal ).
4. thread synchronization is fully based on umtx, mainly, condition
variable and other synchronization objects were rewritten by using
umtx directly. those objects can be shared between processes via
shared memory, it has to change ABI which does not happen yet.
5. default stack size is increased to 1M on 32 bits platform, 2M for
64 bits platform.
As the result, some mysql super-smack benchmarks show performance is
improved massivly.

Okayed by: jeff, mtm, rwatson, scottl

show more ...

Start locking up the active and dead threads lists. The active threads
list is protected by a spinlock_t, but the dead list uses a pthread_mutex
because it is necessary to synchronize other threads w

Start locking up the active and dead threads lists. The active threads
list is protected by a spinlock_t, but the dead list uses a pthread_mutex
because it is necessary to synchronize other threads with the garbage
collector thread. Lock/Unlock macros are used so it's easier to make
changes to the locks in the future.

The 'dead thread list' lock is intended to replace the gc mutex.
This doesn't have any practical ramifications. It simply makes it
clearer what the purpose of the lock is. The gc will use this lock,
instead of the gc mutex, to synchronize access to the dead list with
other threads.

Modify _pthread_exit() to use these two new locks instead of GIANT_LOCK,
and also to properly lock and protect thread state changes,
especially with respect to a joining thread.

The gc thread was also re-arranged to be more organized and less nested.

_pthread_join() was also modified to use the thread list locks. However,
locking and unlocking here needs special care because a thread could find
itself in a position where it's joining an exiting thread that is
waiting on the dead list lock, which this thread (joiner) holds. If the
joiner doesn't take care to lock *and* unlock in the same order they
(the joiner and the joinee) could deadlock against each other.

Approved by: re/blanket libthr

show more ...

- Define curthread as _get_curthread() and remove all direct calls to
_get_curthread(). This is similar to the kernel's curthread. Doing
this saves stack overhead and is more convenient to th

- Define curthread as _get_curthread() and remove all direct calls to
_get_curthread(). This is similar to the kernel's curthread. Doing
this saves stack overhead and is more convenient to the programmer.
- Pass the pointer to the newly created thread to _thread_init().
- Remove _get_curthread_slow().

show more ...

- Add libthr but don't hook it up to the regular build yet. This is an
adaptation of libc_r for the thr system call interface. This is beta
quality code.