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David van Moolenbroek b63b356ab3 VFS: worker thread model overhaul
The main purpose of this patch is to fix handling of unpause calls
from PM while another call is ongoing. The solution to this problem
sparked a full revision of the threading model, consisting of a large
number of related changes:

- all active worker threads are now always associated with a process,
  and every process has at most one active thread working for it;
- the process lock is always held by a process's worker thread;
- a process can now have both normal work and postponed PM work
  associated to it;
- timer expiry and non-postponed PM work is done from the main thread;
- filp garbage collection is done from a thread associated with VFS;
- reboot calls from PM are now done from a thread associated with PM;
- the DS events handler is protected from starting multiple threads;
- support for a system worker thread has been removed;
- the deadlock recovery thread has been replaced by a parameter to the
  worker_start() function; the number of worker threads has
  consequently been increased by one;
- saving and restoring of global but per-thread variables is now
  centralized in worker_suspend() and worker_resume(); err_code is now
  saved and restored in all cases;
- the concept of jobs has been removed, and job_m_in now points to a
  message stored in the worker thread structure instead;
- the PM lock has been removed;
- the separate exec lock has been replaced by a lock on the VM
  process, which was already being locked for exec calls anyway;
- PM_UNPAUSE is now processed as a postponed PM request, from a thread
  associated with the target process;
- the FP_DROP_WORK flag has been removed, since it is no longer more
  than just an optimization and only applied to processes operating on
  a pipe when getting killed;
- assignment to "fp" now takes place only when obtaining new work in
  the main thread or a worker thread, when resuming execution of a
  thread, and in the special case of exiting processes during reboot;
- there are no longer special cases where the yield() call is used to
  force a thread to run.

Change-Id: I7a97b9b95c2450454a9b5318dfa0e6150d4e6858
2013-09-28 00:10:50 +02:00
benchmarks Removing obsolete _MINIX define 2013-02-26 09:44:20 +00:00
bin Import NetBSD df(1) 2013-09-28 00:10:40 +02:00
commands Retire ptrace(T_DUMPCORE), dumpcore(1), gcore(1) 2013-09-28 00:10:49 +02:00
common a bit more -Werror compatability 2013-08-20 11:37:40 +02:00
dist/nvi Termcap update, replacing elvis by nvi. 2013-01-24 07:44:38 +01:00
distrib Retire ptrace(T_DUMPCORE), dumpcore(1), gcore(1) 2013-09-28 00:10:49 +02:00
docs Allow install of binutils and import texinfo 2013-07-12 14:18:08 +02:00
drivers Retire the synchronous character driver protocol 2013-09-28 00:10:48 +02:00
etc Retire the synchronous character driver protocol 2013-09-28 00:10:48 +02:00
external libarchive: use -isystem for /usr/include 2013-08-30 17:21:01 +02:00
gnu Prevent make -C gnu from installing files in / 2013-09-17 15:19:50 +02:00
include Retire ptrace(T_DUMPCORE), dumpcore(1), gcore(1) 2013-09-28 00:10:49 +02:00
kernel Removing CSU patches 2013-09-28 00:10:47 +02:00
lib Retire the synchronous character driver protocol 2013-09-28 00:10:48 +02:00
libexec increase -Werror resilience 2013-08-21 13:53:39 +02:00
man Retire ptrace(T_DUMPCORE), dumpcore(1), gcore(1) 2013-09-28 00:10:49 +02:00
releasetools Import NetBSD df(1) 2013-09-28 00:10:40 +02:00
sbin Enable getmntinfo(3) 2013-09-28 00:10:26 +02:00
servers VFS: worker thread model overhaul 2013-09-28 00:10:50 +02:00
share fix sysroot clang 2013-09-28 00:03:42 +02:00
sys Retire ptrace(T_DUMPCORE), dumpcore(1), gcore(1) 2013-09-28 00:10:49 +02:00
test Removing CSU patches 2013-09-28 00:10:47 +02:00
tests fix a few more minix specific warnings 2013-08-27 16:16:03 +00:00
tools x86 hd image creator 2013-09-25 19:30:22 +02:00
usr.bin usr.bin/stat Update 2013-09-28 00:03:44 +02:00
usr.sbin increase -Werror resilience 2013-08-21 13:53:39 +02:00
.gitignore gitignore: ignore some more generated files 2012-12-06 13:29:20 +00:00
.gitreview misc:Add gerrit code review support. 2013-01-16 09:44:16 +01:00
build.sh Reverting back to default value of MKARZERO 2013-01-17 10:03:58 +01:00
LICENSE Fix parameter parsing in cut 2010-01-21 10:16:05 +00:00
Makefile Importing NetBSD "Kyua" test framework 2013-07-23 20:43:41 +02:00