[DTrace-devel] [PATCH 1/2] port: delete useless mutex.h and mutex_* wrappers

Eugene Loh eugene.loh at oracle.com
Tue Oct 31 22:12:34 UTC 2023


Reviewed-by: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh at oracle.com>
But that first paragraph of the commit message is kind of long and 
confusing.  I get the gist of it, but the commit message doesn't really 
add much.  I would have been fine with the subject line and the patch 
content.  Or, end the first paragraph at "...mostly unused."

On 10/31/23 14:18, Nick Alcock via DTrace-devel wrote:
> These wrappers are crude abstractions of the Solaris pre-pthreads mutex API
> to POSIX threads.  They are completely useless, complicate audits, and are
> mostly unused: there is only one use of any of the pieces of other than
> MUTEX_HELD(), and even MUTEX_HELD() has two code paths only one of which
> can ever be executed.  All uses of MUTEX_HELD are on pthread locks anyway,
> not on the mutex_t wrappers (which are only a typedef for pthread locks
> in any case).
>
> Simplify things, drop mutex.h and all its uses, and move to using pthreads
> locks everywhere (rather than only almost everywhere).
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock at oracle.com>
> ---
>   include/mutex.h     | 30 ------------------------------
>   include/port.h      |  5 ++---
>   libdtrace/dt_pid.c  |  1 -
>   libdtrace/dt_proc.c |  2 --
>   libport/time.c      | 10 +---------
>   libproc/Pcontrol.c  |  1 -
>   libproc/Psymtab.c   |  8 ++++----
>   7 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
>   delete mode 100644 include/mutex.h
>
> diff --git a/include/mutex.h b/include/mutex.h
> deleted file mode 100644
> index 2ade826d29638..0000000000000
> --- a/include/mutex.h
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
> -/*
> - * Oracle Linux DTrace.
> - * Copyright (c) 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
> - * Licensed under the Universal Permissive License v 1.0 as shown at
> - * http://oss.oracle.com/licenses/upl.
> - */
> -
> -#ifndef MUTEX_H
> -#define MUTEX_H
> -#include <pthread.h>
> -
> -#define mutex_t pthread_mutex_t
> -
> -#define DEFAULTMUTEX PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER
> -
> -#define mutex_lock(mp)	 	pthread_mutex_lock(mp)
> -#define mutex_unlock(mp)	pthread_mutex_unlock(mp)
> -#define mutex_destroy(x)	pthread_mutex_destroy(x)
> -
> -#if defined(HAVE_SEMAPHORE_ATOMIC_COUNT)
> -#define mutex_is_locked(x) (atomic_read(&(x)->__data.__count) == 0)
> -#else
> -#define mutex_is_locked(x) ((x)->__data.__count == 0)
> -#endif
> -
> -#define MUTEX_HELD(x)	mutex_is_locked(x)
> -
> -extern int mutex_init(mutex_t *, int, void *);
> -
> -#endif
> diff --git a/include/port.h b/include/port.h
> index 4b87f4adf91c3..b74a33a988f70 100644
> --- a/include/port.h
> +++ b/include/port.h
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>   /*
>    * Oracle Linux DTrace.
> - * Copyright (c) 2011, 2022, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
> + * Copyright (c) 2011, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
>    * Licensed under the Universal Permissive License v 1.0 as shown at
>    * http://oss.oracle.com/licenses/upl.
>    */
> @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
>   #define _PORT_H
>   
>   #include <pthread.h>
> -#include <mutex.h>
>   #include <unistd.h>
>   #include <sys/compiler.h>
>   #include <sys/types.h>
> @@ -26,7 +25,7 @@ hrtime_t gethrtime(void);
>   
>   int p_online(int cpun);
>   
> -int mutex_init(mutex_t *m, int flags1, void *ptr);
> +#define MUTEX_HELD(x)	((x)->__data.__count == 0)
>   
>   int daemonize(int close_fds);
>   
> diff --git a/libdtrace/dt_pid.c b/libdtrace/dt_pid.c
> index b0689aa8a4955..70e0330f6f77b 100644
> --- a/libdtrace/dt_pid.c
> +++ b/libdtrace/dt_pid.c
> @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
>   #include <sys/ioctl.h>
>   #include <sys/sysmacros.h>
>   
> -#include <mutex.h>
>   #include <port.h>
>   #include <uprobes.h>
>   
> diff --git a/libdtrace/dt_proc.c b/libdtrace/dt_proc.c
> index a3298fdbc68f2..ed142c3bfd46f 100644
> --- a/libdtrace/dt_proc.c
> +++ b/libdtrace/dt_proc.c
> @@ -82,8 +82,6 @@
>   #include <poll.h>
>   #include <setjmp.h>
>   
> -#include <mutex.h>
> -
>   #include <libproc.h>
>   #include <dt_proc.h>
>   #include <dt_pid.h>
> diff --git a/libport/time.c b/libport/time.c
> index 120e7357f7325..97f19f04563f9 100644
> --- a/libport/time.c
> +++ b/libport/time.c
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>   /*
>    * Oracle Linux DTrace.
> - * Copyright (c) 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
> + * Copyright (c) 2011, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
>    * Licensed under the Universal Permissive License v 1.0 as shown at
>    * http://oss.oracle.com/licenses/upl.
>    */
> @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
>   #include <sys/dtrace_types.h>
>   #include <time.h>
>   #include <pthread.h>
> -#include <mutex.h>
>   
>   hrtime_t
>   gethrtime(void)
> @@ -28,10 +27,3 @@ gethrtime(void)
>   
>           return v;
>   }
> -
> -int
> -mutex_init(mutex_t *m, int flags1, void *ptr)
> -{
> -	return pthread_mutex_init(m, NULL);
> -}
> -
> diff --git a/libproc/Pcontrol.c b/libproc/Pcontrol.c
> index 3d79b638d6196..0cc1692f3b489 100644
> --- a/libproc/Pcontrol.c
> +++ b/libproc/Pcontrol.c
> @@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
>   
>   #include <dt_debug.h>
>   
> -#include <mutex.h>
>   #include <platform.h>
>   #include <port.h>
>   
> diff --git a/libproc/Psymtab.c b/libproc/Psymtab.c
> index a95161884c27a..9191a7ab82c20 100644
> --- a/libproc/Psymtab.c
> +++ b/libproc/Psymtab.c
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
>   #include <port.h>
>   #include <setjmp.h>
>   
> -#include <mutex.h>
> +#include <pthread.h>
>   
>   #include <rtld_db.h>
>   
> @@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ Pmap_mapfile_name(struct ps_prochandle *P, const prmap_t *mapp)
>   /*
>    * We wouldn't need these if qsort(3C) took an argument for the callback...
>    */
> -static mutex_t sort_mtx = DEFAULTMUTEX;
> +static pthread_mutex_t sort_mtx = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
>   static char *sort_strs;
>   static GElf_Sym *sort_syms;
>   
> @@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@ optimize_symtab(sym_tbl_t *symtab)
>   	/*
>   	 * Sort the two tables according to the appropriate criteria.
>   	 */
> -	mutex_lock(&sort_mtx);
> +	pthread_mutex_lock(&sort_mtx);
>   	sort_strs = symtab->sym_strs;
>   	sort_syms = syms;
>   
> @@ -1184,7 +1184,7 @@ optimize_symtab(sym_tbl_t *symtab)
>   
>   	sort_strs = NULL;
>   	sort_syms = NULL;
> -	mutex_unlock(&sort_mtx);
> +	pthread_mutex_unlock(&sort_mtx);
>   
>   	free(syms);
>   }
>
> base-commit: eccc927c1395b162d295393a26dc27e7902b95a0



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