git: 7d1469e555bd - main - Ensure 'struct thread' is aligned to a cache line
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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:40:12 UTC
The branch main has been updated by markj:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=7d1469e555bdce32b3dfc898478ae5564d5072b1
commit 7d1469e555bdce32b3dfc898478ae5564d5072b1
Author: Olivier Certner <olce.freebsd@certner.fr>
AuthorDate: 2023-10-13 08:52:31 +0000
Commit: Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2023-11-02 13:30:03 +0000
Ensure 'struct thread' is aligned to a cache line
Using the new UMA_ALIGN_CACHE_AND_MASK() facility, which allows to
simultaneously guarantee a minimum of 32 bytes of alignment (the 5 lower
bits are always 0).
For the record, to this day, here's a (possibly non-exhaustive) list of
synchronization primitives using lower bits to store flags in pointers
to thread structures:
- lockmgr, rwlock and sx all use the 5 bits directly.
- rmlock indirectly relies on sx, so can use the 5 bits.
- mtx (non-spin) relies on the 3 lower bits.
Reviewed by: markj, kib
MFC after: 2 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D42266
---
sys/kern/kern_thread.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/sys/kern/kern_thread.c b/sys/kern/kern_thread.c
index 3bc8546db594..d948665392d4 100644
--- a/sys/kern/kern_thread.c
+++ b/sys/kern/kern_thread.c
@@ -568,9 +568,15 @@ threadinit(void)
if (tid0 != THREAD0_TID)
panic("tid0 %d != %d\n", tid0, THREAD0_TID);
+ /*
+ * Thread structures are specially aligned so that (at least) the
+ * 5 lower bits of a pointer to 'struct thead' must be 0. These bits
+ * are used by synchronization primitives to store flags in pointers to
+ * such structures.
+ */
thread_zone = uma_zcreate("THREAD", sched_sizeof_thread(),
thread_ctor, thread_dtor, thread_init, thread_fini,
- 32 - 1, UMA_ZONE_NOFREE);
+ UMA_ALIGN_CACHE_AND_MASK(32 - 1), UMA_ZONE_NOFREE);
tidhashtbl = hashinit(maxproc / 2, M_TIDHASH, &tidhash);
tidhashlock = (tidhash + 1) / 64;
if (tidhashlock > 0)