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Chapter 10 Locking Notes

Table of Contents
10.1 Mutexes
10.2 Lock Manager Locks
10.3 Atomically Protected Variables

This chapter is maintained by the FreeBSD SMP Next Generation Project. Please direct any comments or suggestions to its FreeBSD symmetric multiprocessing mailing list .

This document outlines the locking used in the FreeBSD kernel to permit effective multi-processing within the kernel. Locking can be achieved via several means. Data structures can be protected by mutexes or lockmgr(9) locks. A few variables are protected simply by always using atomic operations to access them.

10.1 Mutexes

A mutex is simply a lock used to guarantee mutual exclusion. Specifically, a mutex may only be owned by one entity at a time. If another entity wishes to obtain a mutex that is already owned, it must wait until the mutex is released. In the FreeBSD kernel, mutexes are owned by processes.

Mutexes may be recursively acquired, but they are intended to be held for a short period of time. Specifically, one may not sleep while holding a mutex. If you need to hold a lock across a sleep, use a lockmgr(9) lock.

Each mutex has several properties of interest:

Variable Name

The name of the struct mtx variable in the kernel source.

Logical Name

The name of the mutex assigned to it by mtx_init. This name is displayed in KTR trace messages and witness errors and warnings and is used to distinguish mutexes in the witness code.

Type

The type of the mutex in terms of the MTX_* flags. The meaning for each flag is related to its meaning as documented in mutex(9).

MTX_DEF

A sleep mutex

MTX_SPIN

A spin mutex

MTX_COLD

This mutex is initialized very early. Thus, it must be declared via MUTEX_DECLARE, and the MTX_COLD flag must be passed to mtx_init.

MTX_TOPHALF

This spin mutex does not disable interrupts.

MTX_NORECURSE

This mutex is not allowed to recurse.

Protectees

A list of data structures or data structure members that this entry protects. For data structure members, the name will be in the form of structure name.member name.

Dependent Functions

Functions that can only be called if this mutex is held.

Table 10-1. Mutex List

Variable Name Logical Name Type Protectees Dependent Functions
sched_lock ``sched lock'' MTX_SPIN | MTX_COLD _gmonparam, cnt.v_swtch, cp_time, curpriority, mtx.mtx_blocked, mtx.mtx_contested, proc.p_contested, proc.p_blocked, proc.p_flag (P_PROFIL XXX, P_INMEM, P_SINTR, P_TIMEOUT, P_SWAPINREQ XXX, P_INMEN XXX), proc.p_nice, proc.p_procq, proc.p_blocked, proc.p_estcpu, proc.p_nativepri, proc.p_priority, proc.p_usrpri, proc.p_rtprio, proc.p_rqindex, proc.p_stats->p_prof, proc.p_stats->p_ru, proc.p_stat, proc.p_cpticks proc.p_iticks, proc.p_uticks, proc.p_sticks, proc.p_swtime, proc.p_slptime, proc.p_runtime, proc.p_pctcpu, proc.p_oncpu, proc.p_asleep, proc.p_wchan, proc.p_wmesg, proc.p_slpq, proc.p_vmspace (XXX - in statclock), pscnt, slpque, itqueuebits, itqueues, rtqueuebits, rtqueues, queuebits, queues, idqueuebits, idqueues, switchtime, setrunqueue, remrunqueue, mi_switch, chooseproc, schedclock, resetpriority, updatepri, maybe_resched, cpu_switch, cpu_throw
vm86pcb_lock ``vm86pcb lock'' MTX_DEF | MTX_COLD vm86pcb vm86_bioscall
Giant ``Giant'' MTX_DEF | MTX_COLD nearly everything lots
callout_lock ``callout lock'' MTX_SPIN callfree, callwheel, nextsoftcheck, proc.p_itcallout, proc.p_slpcallout, softticks, ticks  

This, and other documents, can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/.

For questions about FreeBSD, read the documentation before contacting <questions@FreeBSD.org>.
For questions about this documentation, e-mail <doc@FreeBSD.org>.




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