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)