Major overhaul to the way thread startup and exit is done. Removes some
ugly gunk in the scheduler, and adds support for thread detaching and
cancellation.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@326
add a simple compromise, in which the client can notify valgrind
that certain code address ranges are invalid and should be retranslated.
This is done using the VALGRIND_DISCARD_TRANSLATIONS macro in valgrind.h.
At the same time take the opportunity to close the potentially fatal
loophole that translations for executable segments were not being
discarded when those segments were munmapped. They are now.
Documentation updated.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@274
Until now, valgrind waited for ld.so to call the .fini code in
valgrind.so, and took this as its cue to switch back to the real CPU
for the rest of the journey.
This is a problem if ld.so subsequently calls other .so's .fini code
and threading is in use, because they do pthread_* calls which cannot
be handled by valgrind's libpthread.so without valgrind actually being
active.
So we ignore the call to valgrind's .fini code, and run the program
all the way up to the point where it calls syscall exit() to
disappear. This makes the order in which the .fini sections are run
irrelevant, since Valgrind has control during all of them, and so
threading facilities are still available for all of them.
This change means Mozilla 1.0RC1 now exits a lot more cleanly than it
did.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@201
request to shutdown valgrind are done with the client request
mechanism too. This is much better than having to check all
call/return addresses.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@57
for pthread_* support. Major changes:
* Valgrind now contains a (skeletal!) user-space pthreads
implementation. The exciting bits are in new file vg_scheduler.c.
This contains thread management and scheduling, including nasty crud
to do with making some syscalls (read,write,nanosleep) nonblocking.
Also implementation of pthread_ functions: create join
mutex_{create,destroy,lock,unlock} and cancel.
* As a side effect of the above, major improvements to signal handling
and to the client-request machinery. This is now used to intercept
malloc/free etc too; the hacky way this is done before is gone.
Another side effect is that vg_dispatch.S is greatly simplified.
Also, the horrible hacks to do with delivering signals to threads
blocked in syscalls are gone, since the new mechanisms cover this case
easily.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@52
