svn commit: r218967 - head/sys/kern
Kostik Belousov
kostikbel at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 14:21:13 UTC 2011
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 01:57:34PM +0000, Alexander Best wrote:
> On Wed Feb 23 11, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:56:25PM +0000, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > Author: jhb
> > > Date: Wed Feb 23 12:56:25 2011
> > > New Revision: 218967
> > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/218967
> > >
> > > Log:
> > > Fix off-by-one error in check against max_threads_per_proc.
> > >
> > > Submitted by: arundel
> > > MFC after: 1 week
> > >
> > > Modified:
> > > head/sys/kern/kern_thr.c
> > >
> > > Modified: head/sys/kern/kern_thr.c
> > > ==============================================================================
> > > --- head/sys/kern/kern_thr.c Wed Feb 23 10:28:37 2011 (r218966)
> > > +++ head/sys/kern/kern_thr.c Wed Feb 23 12:56:25 2011 (r218967)
> > > @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ create_thread(struct thread *td, mcontex
> > > p = td->td_proc;
> > >
> > > /* Have race condition but it is cheap. */
> > > - if (p->p_numthreads >= max_threads_per_proc) {
> > > + if (p->p_numthreads > max_threads_per_proc) {
> > > ++max_threads_hits;
> > > return (EPROCLIM);
> > > }
> >
> > I do not think there was off by one error. The create_thread() function
> > is called to create new thread, and before the process thread counter
> > is incremented in thread_link(). The old test tried to not allow more
> > then max_threads_per_proc threads in a process, now it allows to
> > create max_threads_per_proc.
>
> doesn't the semantics of the term "maximum" imply that it's own value is also
> valid?
>
> if a sign says maximum weight 2000kg, does that mean that a weight of 2000kg is
> invalid and the highest valid weight is 1999,999..kg?
>
> cheers.
> alex
>
> >
> > My guess is that the reference to mentioned pthread_vfork_test failed
> > because reporter set kern.threads.max_threads_per_proc to 100. The
> > test actually tries to create 101 threads, 1 main + 100 new.
>
> so the main process counts as 1 thread and for each pthread_create
> invokation the thread number gets bumped up?
>
> so with a process doing a single pthread_create() that would imply
> this process is having a thread count of 2?
Exactly. The main thread is the same as all others (almost).
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