study linux mutithread

reference

• http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/index.html

• Implementing a Thread Library on Linux

• linus介绍thread的帖子: http://www.evanjones.ca/software/threading-linus-msg.html

• Professional Linux kernel architecture. Wolfgang Mauerer. 2008

nptl init flow

libc_2_19/nptl/pt-crti.S  1 /* Special .init and .fini section support for libpthread.  2  Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  3 +-- 33 lines: This file is part of the GNU C Library.---------------------- 36 /* Arrange for __pthread_initialize_minimal_internal to be called at 37  libpthread startup, instead of conditionally calling 38  __gmon_start__. */ 39 40 #define PREINIT_FUNCTION __pthread_initialize_minimal_internal 41 #define PREINIT_FUNCTION_WEAK 0 42 43 #include <crti.S>

 

 

 

libc_2_19/ports/sysdeps/arm/crti.S 
1 /* Special .init and .fini section support for ARM. 
2    Copyright (C) 1995-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 
3    This file is part of the GNU C Library. 
4 +-- 32 lines: The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
36 /* crti.S puts a function prologue at the beginning of the .init and
37    .fini sections and defines global symbols for those addresses, so
38    they can be called as functions.  The symbols _init and _fini are
39    magic and cause the linker to emit DT_INIT and DT_FINI.  */
40 
41 /* Always build .init and .fini sections in ARM mode.  */
42 #define NO_THUMB
43 #include <libc-symbols.h>
44 #include <sysdep.h>
45 
46 #ifndef PREINIT_FUNCTION
47 # define PREINIT_FUNCTION __gmon_start__
48 #endif
49 
50 #ifndef PREINIT_FUNCTION_WEAK
51 # define PREINIT_FUNCTION_WEAK 1
52 #endif
53 
54 #if PREINIT_FUNCTION_WEAK
55         weak_extern (PREINIT_FUNCTION)
56 #else
57         .hidden PREINIT_FUNCTION
58 #endif
59 
60 #if PREINIT_FUNCTION_WEAK
61         .p2align 2
62         .type call_weak_fn, %function
63 call_weak_fn:
64         ldr r3, .LGOT
65         ldr r2, .LGOT+4
66 .LPIC:
67         add r3, pc, r3
68         ldr r2, [r3, r2]
69         cmp r2, #0
70         bxeq lr
71         b PREINIT_FUNCTION
72         .p2align 2
73 .LGOT:
74         .word _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_-(.LPIC+8)
75         .word PREINIT_FUNCTION(GOT)76 #endif77 
78         .section .init,"ax",%progbits
79         .p2align 2
80         .globl _init
81         .type _init, %function
82 _init:
83         push    {r3, lr}
84 #if PREINIT_FUNCTION_WEAK85         bl call_weak_fn
86 #else
87         bl PREINIT_FUNCTION
88 #endif
89 
90         .section .fini,"ax",%progbits
91         .p2align 2
92         .globl _fini
93         .type _fini, %function
94 _fini:
95         push    {r3, lr}

 

pthread_functions

libc_2_19/nptl/nptl-init.c
 81 static const struct pthread_functions pthread_functions =
 82   {
 83     .ptr_pthread_attr_destroy = __pthread_attr_destroy,
 84 # if SHLIB_COMPAT(libpthread, GLIBC_2_0, GLIBC_2_1)
 85     .ptr___pthread_attr_init_2_0 = __pthread_attr_init_2_0,
 86 # endif
 87     .ptr___pthread_attr_init_2_1 = __pthread_attr_init_2_1,
 88     .ptr_pthread_attr_getdetachstate = __pthread_attr_getdetachstate,
 89     .ptr_pthread_attr_setdetachstate = __pthread_attr_setdetachstate,
 90 +-- 49 lines: .ptr_pthread_attr_getinheritsched = __pthread_attr_getinheritsched,-------------------
139     /* For now only the stack cache needs to be freed.  */
140     .ptr_freeres = nptl_freeres,
141     .ptr_set_robust = __nptl_set_robust
142   };
143 # define ptr_pthread_functions &pthread_functions
144 #else
145 # define ptr_pthread_functions NULL
146 #endif
147  

 

init function

 

279 void
280 __pthread_initialize_minimal_internal (void)
281 {
282 +-- 13 lines: #ifndef SHARED-------------------------------------------------------------------------
295   struct pthread *pd = THREAD_SELF;
296   INTERNAL_SYSCALL_DECL (err);
297   pd->pid = pd->tid = INTERNAL_SYSCALL (set_tid_address, err, 1, &pd->tid);
298   THREAD_SETMEM (pd, specific[0], &pd->specific_1stblock[0]);
299   THREAD_SETMEM (pd, user_stack, true);
300   if (LLL_LOCK_INITIALIZER != 0)
301     THREAD_SETMEM (pd, lock, LLL_LOCK_INITIALIZER);
302 #if HP_TIMING_AVAIL
303   THREAD_SETMEM (pd, cpuclock_offset, GL(dl_cpuclock_offset));
304 #endif
305 +-- 63 lines: Initialize the robust mutex data.  ----------------------------------------------------
368   /* Install the cancellation signal handler.  If for some reason we
369      cannot install the handler we do not abort.  Maybe we should, but
370      it is only asynchronous cancellation which is affected.  */
371   struct sigaction sa;
372   sa.sa_sigaction = sigcancel_handler;
373   sa.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO;
374   __sigemptyset (&sa.sa_mask);
375 
376   (void) __libc_sigaction (SIGCANCEL, &sa, NULL);
377 
378   /* Install the handle to change the threads' uid/gid.  */
379   sa.sa_sigaction = sighandler_setxid;
380   sa.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO | SA_RESTART;
381 
382   (void) __libc_sigaction (SIGSETXID, &sa, NULL);
383 +-- 73 lines: The parent process might have left the signals blocked.  Just in-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
456     __libc_pthread_init (&__fork_generation, __reclaim_stacks,
457                          ptr_pthread_functions);
458 
459   /* Determine whether the machine is SMP or not.  */
460   __is_smp = is_smp_system ();
461 }
462 strong_alias (__pthread_initialize_minimal_internal,
463               __pthread_initialize_minimal)
464