On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:20:07PM +0000, Randall Stewart wrote: > rrs 2007-11-15 14:20:07 UTC > > FreeBSD src repository > > Modified files: > sys/kern kern_thread.c > sys/sys eventhandler.h > Log: > - Adds event handlers for process_ctor,process_dtor, process_init, > process_fini, thread_ctor, thread_dtor, thread_init, thread_fini. This > will allow us to extend dynamically areas in proc/thread for dtrace ;-)
Thanks for doing this, I need such functionality for ZFS. To be precise,
I need to be called when thread is exiting. What I found tricky is that
thread may exit in two ways:
- thread_dtor() when one of many process' threads exists,
- proc_dtor() when the last process' thread exists.
If one wants to attach some data to a thread using this method and then
free the data on thread exit, both those events have to be used. In my
opionion this is confusing (was very confusing for me), that there is no
one place where I can handle thread exit when I don't care about
processes (even if a process is single-threaded we operate on a thread
in the kernel).
In other words, I'd like to propose a bit different solution. IMHO we
should rename events and be them called from the following functions:
event name called from
---------- -----------
thread_init thread_init
thread_fini thread_fini
thread_start thread_ctor, proc_ctor(?)
thread_exit thread_dtor, proc_dtor
process_init proc_init
process_fini proc_fini
process_start proc_ctor
process_exit proc_exit
The only change except for renaming is calling thread_{start,exit} for
the last thread in a process as well.
What do you think?
> Revision Changes Path
> 1.262 +5 -1 src/sys/kern/kern_thread.c
> 1.38 +18 -1 src/sys/sys/eventhandler.h
You forgot to commit changes to kern_proc.c it seems.
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