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Ryan Houdek
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When a fork occurs FEX needs to be incredibly careful as any thread
(that isn't forking) that holds a lock will vanish when the fork occurs.
At this point if the newly forked process tries to use these mutexes
then the process hangs indefinitely.
The three major mutexes that need to be held during a fork:
- Code Invalidation mutex
- This is the highest priority and causes us to hang frequently.
- This is highly likely to occur when one thread is loading shared
libraries and another thread is forking.
- Happens frequently with Wine and steam.
- VMA tracking mutex
- This one happens when one thread is allocating memory while a fork
occurs.
- This closely relates to the code invalidation mutex, just happens at
the syscall layer instead of the FEXCore layer.
- Happens as frequently as the code invalidation mutex.
- Allocation mutex
- This mutex is used for FEX's 64-bit Allocator, this happens when FEX
is allocating memory on one thread and a fork occurs.
- Fairly infrequent because jemalloc doesn't allocate VMA regions that
often.
While this likely doesn't hit all of the FEX mutexes, this hits the ones
that are burning fires and are happening frequently.
- FEXCore: Adds forkable mutex/locks
Necessary since we have a few locations in FEX that need to be locked
before and after a fork.
When a fork occurs the locks must be locked prior to the fork. Then
afterwards they either need to unlock or be set to default
initialization state.
- Parent
- Does an unlock
- Child
- Sets the lock to default initialization state
- This is because it pthreads does TID based ownership checking on
unique locks and refcount based waiting for shared locks.
- No way to "unlock" after fork in this case other than default
initializing.