greatly improve SIGEV_THREAD timers
authorRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Sat, 9 Apr 2011 06:23:33 +0000 (02:23 -0400)
committerRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Sat, 9 Apr 2011 06:23:33 +0000 (02:23 -0400)
calling pthread_exit from, or pthread_cancel on, the timer callback
thread will no longer destroy the timer.

src/internal/pthread_impl.h
src/time/timer_create.c
src/time/timer_delete.c

index 0bcc54c..3e436ae 100644 (file)
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ struct pthread {
                void *pending;
        } robust_list;
        int unblock_cancel;
+       int delete_timer;
 };
 
 struct __timer {
index a0ee845..1b184f7 100644 (file)
@@ -13,21 +13,24 @@ struct start_args {
        struct sigevent *sev;
 };
 
+static void cleanup_fromsig(void *p)
+{
+       pthread_t self = __pthread_self();
+       self->cancel = 0;
+       self->cancelbuf = 0;
+       longjmp(p, 1);
+}
+
 void __sigtimer_handler(pthread_t self)
 {
-       int st;
+       jmp_buf jb;
        void (*notify)(union sigval) = (void (*)(union sigval))self->start;
        union sigval val = { .sival_ptr = self->start_arg };
 
-       pthread_setcancelstate(PTHREAD_CANCEL_DISABLE, &st);
+       if (setjmp(jb)) return;
+       pthread_cleanup_push(cleanup_fromsig, jb);
        notify(val);
-       pthread_setcancelstate(st, 0);
-}
-
-static void cleanup(void *p)
-{
-       pthread_t self = p;
-       __syscall(SYS_timer_delete, self->result);
+       pthread_cleanup_pop(0);
 }
 
 static void *start(void *arg)
@@ -41,12 +44,9 @@ static void *start(void *arg)
        self->start_arg = args->sev->sigev_value.sival_ptr;
        self->result = (void *)-1;
 
-       pthread_cleanup_push(cleanup, self);
        pthread_barrier_wait(&args->b);
-       pthread_setcanceltype(PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS, 0);
-       /* Loop on async-signal-safe cancellation point */
-       for (;;) sleep(1000000000);
-       pthread_cleanup_pop(0);
+       __wait(&self->delete_timer, 0, 0, 1);
+       __syscall(SYS_timer_delete, self->result);
        return 0;
 }
 
index f05b27d..b5f8ca1 100644 (file)
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
 
 int timer_delete(timer_t t)
 {
-       if ((uintptr_t)t >= 0x100000) return pthread_cancel(t);
+       if ((uintptr_t)t >= 0x100000) {
+               pthread_t td = t;
+               td->delete_timer = 1;
+               __wake(&td->delete_timer, 1, 1);
+               return 0;
+       }
        return __syscall(SYS_timer_delete, (long)t);
 }