Linux 6.13 (662df3e5c3766) added a lightweight way to define guard areas
through madvise syscall. Instead of PROT_NONE the guard region through
mprotect, userland can madvise the same area with a special flag, and
the kernel ensures that accessing the area will trigger a SIGSEGV (as for
PROT_NONE mapping).
The madvise way has the advantage of less kernel memory consumption for
the process page-table (one less VMA per guard area), and slightly less
contention on kernel (also due to the fewer VMA areas being tracked).
The pthread_create allocates a new thread stack in two ways: if a guard
area is set (the default) it allocates the memory range required using
PROT_NONE and then mprotect the usable stack area. Otherwise, if a
guard page is not set it allocates the region with the required flags.
For the MADV_GUARD_INSTALL support, the stack area region is allocated
with required flags and then the guard region is installed. If the
kernel does not support it, the usual way is used instead (and
MADV_GUARD_INSTALL is disabled for future stack creations).
The stack allocation strategy is recorded on the pthread struct, and it
is used in case the guard region needs to be resized. To avoid needing
an extra field, the 'user_stack' is repurposed and renamed to 'stack_mode'.
This patch also adds a proper test for the pthread guard.
I checked on x86_64, aarch64, powerpc64le, and hppa with kernel 6.13.0-rc7.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Created tunable glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb to control when hugepages
can be used for stack allocation.
In case THP are enabled and glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb is set to
0, glibc will madvise the kernel not to use allow hugepages for stack
allocations.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 7061 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from math/tgmath.h,
support/tst-support-open-dev-null-range.c, and
sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-vec.S, to work around the following
obscure pre-commit check failure diagnostics from Savannah. I don't
know why I run into these diagnostics whereas others evidently do not.
remote: *** 912-#endif
remote: *** 913:
remote: *** 914-
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
...
remote: *** error: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/statx_cp.c: trailing lines
We stopped adding "Contributed by" or similar lines in sources in 2012
in favour of git logs and keeping the Contributors section of the
glibc manual up to date. Removing these lines makes the license
header a bit more consistent across files and also removes the
possibility of error in attribution when license blocks or files are
copied across since the contributed-by lines don't actually reflect
reality in those cases.
Move all "Contributed by" and similar lines (Written by, Test by,
etc.) into a new file CONTRIBUTED-BY to retain record of these
contributions. These contributors are also mentioned in
manual/contrib.texi, so we just maintain this additional record as a
courtesy to the earlier developers.
The following scripts were used to filter a list of files to edit in
place and to clean up the CONTRIBUTED-BY file respectively. These
were not added to the glibc sources because they're not expected to be
of any use in future given that this is a one time task:
https://gist.github.com/siddhesh/b5ecac94eabfd72ed2916d6d8157e7dchttps://gist.github.com/siddhesh/15ea1f5e435ace9774f485030695ee02
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
The valgrind/helgrind test suite needs a way to make stack dealloction
more prompt, and this feature seems to be generally useful.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
No abilist updates here because it is a GLIBC_PRIVATE symbol.
It's also necessary to move nptl_version into pthread_create, so
that it still ends up in static binaries.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
This replaces the FREE_P macro with the __nptl_stack_in_use inline
function. stack_list_del is renamed to __nptl_stack_list_del,
stack_list_add to __nptl_stack_list_add, __deallocate_stack to
__nptl_deallocate_stack, free_stacks to __nptl_free_stacks.
It is convenient to move __libpthread_freeres into libc at the
same time. This removes the temporary __default_pthread_attr_freeres
export and restores full freeres coverage for __default_pthread_attr.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Adhemerval Zanella
Paul Eggert
Cupertino Miranda
Joseph Myers
Siddhesh Poyarekar
Florian Weimer