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26.Dd January 8, 2010
27.Dt SLEEPQUEUE 9
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm init_sleepqueues ,
31.Nm sleepq_abort ,
32.Nm sleepq_add ,
33.Nm sleepq_alloc ,
34.Nm sleepq_broadcast ,
35.Nm sleepq_calc_signal_retval ,
36.Nm sleepq_catch_signals ,
37.Nm sleepq_free ,
38.Nm sleepq_lock ,
39.Nm sleepq_lookup ,
40.Nm sleepq_release ,
41.Nm sleepq_remove ,
42.Nm sleepq_signal ,
43.Nm sleepq_set_timeout ,
44.Nm sleepq_sleepcnt ,
45.Nm sleepq_timedwait ,
46.Nm sleepq_timedwait_sig ,
47.Nm sleepq_type ,
48.Nm sleepq_wait ,
49.Nm sleepq_wait_sig
50.Nd manage the queues of sleeping threads
51.Sh SYNOPSIS
52.In sys/param.h
53.In sys/sleepqueue.h
54.Ft void
55.Fn init_sleepqueues "void"
56.Ft int
57.Fn sleepq_abort "struct thread *td"
58.Ft void
59.Fn sleepq_add "void *wchan" "struct lock_object *lock" "const char *wmesg" "int flags" "int queue"
60.Ft struct sleepqueue *
61.Fn sleepq_alloc "void"
62.Ft int
63.Fn sleepq_broadcast "void *wchan" "int flags" "int pri" "int queue"
64.Ft int
65.Fn sleepq_calc_signal_retval "int sig"
66.Ft int
67.Fn sleepq_catch_signals "void *wchan"
68.Ft void
69.Fn sleepq_free "struct sleepqueue *sq"
70.Ft struct sleepqueue *
71.Fn sleepq_lookup "void *wchan"
72.Ft void
73.Fn sleepq_lock "void *wchan"
74.Ft void
75.Fn sleepq_release "void *wchan"
76.Ft void
77.Fn sleepq_remove "struct thread *td" "void *wchan"
78.Ft int
79.Fn sleepq_signal "void *wchan" "int flags" "int pri" "int queue"
80.Ft void
81.Fn sleepq_set_timeout "void *wchan" "int timo"
82.Ft u_int
83.Fn sleepq_sleepcnt "void *wchan" "int queue"
84.Ft int
85.Fn sleepq_timedwait "void *wchan"
86.Ft int
87.Fn sleepq_timedwait_sig "void *wchan" "int signal_caught"
88.Ft int
89.Fn sleepq_type "void *wchan"
90.Ft void
91.Fn sleepq_wait "void *wchan"
92.Ft int
93.Fn sleepq_wait_sig "void *wchan"
94.Sh DESCRIPTION
95Sleep queues provide a mechanism for suspending execution of a thread until
96some condition is met.
97Each queue is associated with a specific wait channel when it is active,
98and only one queue may be associated with a wait channel at any given point
99in time.
100The implementation of each wait channel splits its sleepqueue into 2 sub-queues
101in order to enable some optimizations on threads' wakeups.
102An active queue holds a list of threads that are blocked on the associated
103wait channel.
104Threads that are not blocked on a wait channel have an associated inactive
105sleep queue.
106When a thread blocks on a wait channel it donates its inactive sleep queue
107to the wait channel.
108When a thread is resumed,
109the wait channel that it was blocked on gives it an inactive sleep queue for
110later use.
111.Pp
112The
113.Fn sleepq_alloc
114function allocates an inactive sleep queue and is used to assign a
115sleep queue to a thread during thread creation.
116The
117.Fn sleepq_free
118function frees the resources associated with an inactive sleep queue and is
119used to free a queue during thread destruction.
120.Pp
121Active sleep queues are stored in a hash table hashed on the addresses pointed
122to by wait channels.
123Each bucket in the hash table contains a sleep queue chain.
124A sleep queue chain contains a spin mutex and a list of sleep queues that hash
125to that specific chain.
126Active sleep queues are protected by their chain's spin mutex.
127The
128.Fn init_sleepqueues
129function initializes the hash table of sleep queue chains.
130.Pp
131The
132.Fn sleepq_lock
133function locks the sleep queue chain associated with wait channel
134.Fa wchan .
135.Pp
136The
137.Fn sleepq_lookup
138returns a pointer to the currently active sleep queue for that wait
139channel associated with
140.Fa wchan
141or
142.Dv NULL
143if there is no active sleep queue associated with
144argument
145.Fa wchan .
146It requires the sleep queue chain associated with
147.Fa wchan
148to have been locked by a prior call to
149.Fn sleepq_lock .
150.Pp
151The
152.Fn sleepq_release
153function unlocks the sleep queue chain associated with
154.Fn wchan
155and is primarily useful when aborting a pending sleep request before one of
156the wait functions is called.
157.Pp
158The
159.Fn sleepq_add
160function places the current thread on the sleep queue associated with the
161wait channel
162.Fa wchan .
163The sleep queue chain associated with argument
164.Fa wchan
165must be locked by a prior call to
166.Fn sleepq_lock
167when this function is called.
168If a lock is specified via the
169.Fa lock
170argument, and if the kernel was compiled with
171.Cd "options INVARIANTS" ,
172then the sleep queue code will perform extra checks to ensure that
173the lock is used by all threads sleeping on
174.Fa wchan .
175The
176.Fa wmesg
177parameter should be a short description of
178.Fa wchan .
179The
180.Fa flags
181parameter is a bitmask consisting of the type of sleep queue being slept on
182and zero or more optional flags.
183The
184.Fa queue
185parameter specifies the sub-queue, in which the contending thread will be
186inserted.
187.Pp
188There are currently three types of sleep queues:
189.Pp
190.Bl -tag -width ".Dv SLEEPQ_CONDVAR" -compact
191.It Dv SLEEPQ_CONDVAR
192A sleep queue used to implement condition variables.
193.It Dv SLEEPQ_SLEEP
194A sleep queue used to implement
195.Xr sleep 9 ,
196.Xr wakeup 9
197and
198.Xr wakeup_one 9 .
199.It Dv SLEEPQ_PAUSE
200A sleep queue used to implement
201.Xr pause 9 .
202.El
203.Pp
204There are currently two optional flag:
205.Pp
206.Bl -tag -width ".Dv SLEEPQ_INTERRUPTIBLE" -compact
207.It Dv SLEEPQ_INTERRUPTIBLE
208The current thread is entering an interruptible sleep.
209.El
210.Bl -tag -width ".Dv SLEEPQ_STOP_ON_BDRY" -compact
211.It Dv SLEEPQ_STOP_ON_BDRY
212When thread is entering an interruptible sleep, do not stop it upon
213arrival of stop action, like
214.Dv SIGSTOP .
215Wake it up instead.
216.El
217.Pp
218A timeout on the sleep may be specified by calling
219.Fn sleepq_set_timeout
220after
221.Fn sleepq_add .
222The
223.Fa wchan
224parameter should be the same value from the preceding call to
225.Fn sleepq_add ,
226and the sleep queue chain associated with
227.Fa wchan
228must have been locked by a prior call to
229.Fn sleepq_lock .
230The
231.Fa timo
232parameter should specify the timeout value in ticks.
233.Pp
234The current thread may be marked interruptible by calling
235.Fn sleepq_catch_signals
236with
237.Fa wchan
238set to the wait channel.
239This function returns a signal number if there are any pending signals for
240the current thread and 0 if there is not a pending signal.
241The sleep queue chain associated with argument
242.Fa wchan
243should have been locked by a prior call to
244.Fn sleepq_lock .
245.Pp
246Once the thread is ready to suspend,
247one of the wait functions is called to put the current thread to sleep
248until it is awakened and to context switch to another thread.
249The
250.Fn sleepq_wait
251function is used for non-interruptible sleeps that do not have a timeout.
252The
253.Fn sleepq_timedwait
254function is used for non-interruptible sleeps that have had a timeout set via
255.Fn sleepq_set_timeout .
256The
257.Fn sleepq_wait_sig
258function is used for interruptible sleeps that do not have a timeout.
259The
260.Fn sleepq_timedwait_sig
261function is used for interruptible sleeps that do have a timeout set.
262The
263.Fa wchan
264argument to all of the wait functions is the wait channel being slept
265on.
266The sleep queue chain associated with argument
267.Fa wchan
268needs to have been locked with a prior call to
269.Fn sleepq_lock .
270The
271.Fa signal_caught
272parameter to
273.Fn sleepq_timedwait_sig
274specifies if a previous call to
275.Fn sleepq_catch_signals
276found a pending signal.
277.Pp
278When the thread is resumed,
279the wait functions return a non-zero value if the thread was awakened due to
280an interrupt other than a signal or a timeout.
281If the sleep timed out, then
282.Er EWOULDBLOCK
283is returned.
284If the sleep was interrupted by something other than a signal,
285then some other return value will be returned.
286If zero is returned after resuming from an interruptible sleep,
287then
288.Fn sleepq_calc_signal_retval
289should be called to determine if the sleep was interrupted by a signal.
290If so,
291.Fn sleepq_calc_signal_retval
292returns
293.Er ERESTART
294if the interrupting signal is restartable and
295.Er EINTR
296otherwise.
297If the sleep was not interrupted by a signal,
298.Fn sleepq_calc_signal_retval
299will return 0.
300.Pp
301A sleeping thread is normally resumed by the
302.Fn sleepq_broadcast
303and
304.Fn sleepq_signal
305functions.
306The
307.Fn sleepq_signal
308function awakens the highest priority thread sleeping on a wait channel while
309.Fn sleepq_broadcast
310awakens all of the threads sleeping on a wait channel.
311The
312.Fa wchan
313argument specifics which wait channel to awaken.
314The
315.Fa flags
316argument must match the sleep queue type contained in the
317.Fa flags
318argument passed to
319.Fn sleepq_add
320by the threads sleeping on the wait channel.
321If the
322.Fa pri
323argument does not equal \-1,
324then each thread that is awakened will have its priority raised to
325.Fa pri
326if it has a lower priority.
327The sleep queue chain associated with argument
328.Fa wchan
329must be locked by a prior call to
330.Fn sleepq_lock
331before calling any of these functions.
332The
333.Fa queue
334argument specifies the sub-queue, from which threads need to be woken up.
335.Pp
336A thread in an interruptible sleep can be interrupted by another thread via
337the
338.Fn sleepq_abort
339function.
340The
341.Fa td
342argument specifies the thread to interrupt.
343An individual thread can also be awakened from sleeping on a specific wait
344channel via the
345.Fn sleepq_remove
346function.
347The
348.Fa td
349argument specifies the thread to awaken and the
350.Fa wchan
351argument specifies the wait channel to awaken it from.
352If the thread
353.Fa td
354is not blocked on the wait channel
355.Fa wchan
356then this function will not do anything,
357even if the thread is asleep on a different wait channel.
358This function should only be used if one of the other functions above is not
359sufficient.
360One possible use is waking up a specific thread from a widely shared sleep
361channel.
362.Pp
363The
364.Fn sleepq_sleepcnt
365function offer a simple way to retrieve the number of threads sleeping for
366the specified
367.Fa queue ,
368given a
369.Fa wchan .
370.Pp
371The
372.Fn sleepq_type
373function returns the type of
374.Fa wchan
375associated to a sleepqueue.
376.Pp
377The
378.Fn sleepq_abort ,
379.Fn sleepq_broadcast ,
380and
381.Fn sleepq_signal
382functions all return a boolean value.
383If the return value is true,
384then at least one thread was resumed that is currently swapped out.
385The caller is responsible for awakening the scheduler process so that the
386resumed thread will be swapped back in.
387This is done by calling the
388.Fn kick_proc0
389function after releasing the sleep queue chain lock via a call to
390.Fn sleepq_release .
391.Pp
392The sleep queue interface is currently used to implement the
393.Xr sleep 9
394and
395.Xr condvar 9
396interfaces.
397Almost all other code in the kernel should use one of those interfaces rather
398than manipulating sleep queues directly.
399.Sh SEE ALSO
400.Xr condvar 9 ,
401.Xr runqueue 9 ,
402.Xr scheduler 9 ,
403.Xr sleep 9
404