Instead of relying on unreliable order of execution of the library
constructors and destructors, move them to individual binaries. The
advantage is that the execution time and order will remain constant and
will not depend on the dynamic load dependency solver.
This requires more work, but that was mitigated by a simple requirement,
any executable using libisc and libdns, must include <isc/lib.h> and
<dns/lib.h> respectively (in this particular order). In turn, these two
headers must not be included from within any library as they contain
inlined functions marked with constructor/destructor attributes.
The PTHREAD_MUTEX_ADAPTIVE_NP and PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK_NP are
usually not defines, but enum values, so simple preprocessor check
doesn't work.
Check for PTHREAD_MUTEX_ADAPTIVE_NP from the autoconf AS_COMPILE_IFELSE
block and define HAVE_PTHREAD_MUTEX_ADAPTIVE_NP. This should enable
adaptive mutex on Linux and FreeBSD.
As PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK actually comes from POSIX and Linux glibc
does define it when compatibility macros are being set, we can just use
PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK instead of PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK_NP.
Replace all uses of RUNTIME_CHECK() in lib/isc/include/isc/once.h with
PTHEADS_RUNTIME_CHECK(), in order to improve error reporting for any
once-related run-time failures (by augmenting error messages with
file/line/caller information and the error string corresponding to
errno).
Some POSIX threads implementations (e.g. FreeBSD's libthr) allocate
memory on the heap when pthread_mutex_init() is called. Every call to
that function must be accompanied by a corresponding call to
pthread_mutex_destroy() or else the memory allocated for the mutex will
leak.
jemalloc can be used for detecting memory allocations which are not
released by a process when it exits. Unfortunately, since jemalloc is
also the system allocator on FreeBSD and a special (profiling-enabled)
build of jemalloc is required for memory leak detection, this method
cannot be used for detecting leaked memory allocated by libthr on a
stock FreeBSD installation.
However, libthr's behavior can be emulated on any platform by
implementing alternative versions of libisc functions for creating and
destroying mutexes that allocate memory using malloc() and release it
using free(). This enables using jemalloc for detecting missing
pthread_mutex_destroy() calls on any platform on which it works
reliably.
Introduce a new ISC_TRACK_PTHREADS_OBJECTS preprocessor macro, which
causes isc_mutex_t structures to be allocated on the heap by
isc_mutex_init() and freed by isc_mutex_destroy(). Reuse existing mutex
macros (after renaming them appropriately) for other operations.
Instead of using isc_once_do() on every isc_mutex_init() call, use the
global library constructor to initialize the default mutex attr
object (optionally with PTHREAD_MUTEX_ADAPTIVE_NP if supported) just
once when the library is loaded.
In a number of situations in pthreads-related code, a common sequence of
steps is taken: if the value returned by a library function is not 0,
pass errno to strerror_r(), log the string returned by the latter, and
immediately abort execution. Add an ERRNO_CHECK() preprocessor macro
which takes those exact steps and use it wherever (conveniently)
possible.
Notes:
1. The "log the return value of strerror_r() and abort" pattern is used
in a number of other places that this commit does not touch; only
"!= 0" checks followed by isc_error_fatal() calls with
non-customized error messages are replaced here.
2. This change temporarily breaks file name & line number reporting for
isc__mutex_init() errors, to prevent breaking the build. This issue
will be rectified in a subsequent change.
This commit converts the license handling to adhere to the REUSE
specification. It specifically:
1. Adds used licnses to LICENSES/ directory
2. Add "isc" template for adding the copyright boilerplate
3. Changes all source files to include copyright and SPDX license
header, this includes all the C sources, documentation, zone files,
configuration files. There are notes in the doc/dev/copyrights file
on how to add correct headers to the new files.
4. Handle the rest that can't be modified via .reuse/dep5 file. The
binary (or otherwise unmodifiable) files could have license places
next to them in <foo>.license file, but this would lead to cluttered
repository and most of the files handled in the .reuse/dep5 file are
system test files.
Mutex debugging code (used when the ISC_MUTEX_DEBUG preprocessor macro
is set to 1 and PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK is defined) has been broken for
the past 3 years (since commit 2f3eee5a4fdad6606135116c70875b3180c7ed83)
and nobody complained, which is a strong indication that this code is
not being used these days any more. External tools for detecting
locking issues are already wired into various GitLab CI checks. Drop
all code depending on the ISC_MUTEX_DEBUG preprocessor macro being set.
Mutex profiling code (used when the ISC_MUTEX_PROFILE preprocessor macro
is set to 1) has been broken for the past 3 years (since commit
0bed9bfc28a204cde57c6f68170ecc89ebfa6dc8) and nobody complained, which
is a strong indication that this code is not being used these days any
more. External tools for both measuring performance and detecting
locking issues are already wired into various GitLab CI checks. Drop
all code depending on the ISC_MUTEX_PROFILE preprocessor macro being
set.
The Windows support has been completely removed from the source tree
and BIND 9 now no longer supports native compilation on Windows.
We might consider reviewing mingw-w64 port if contributed by external
party, but no development efforts will be put into making BIND 9 compile
and run on Windows again.
