#include "threads/flags.h"
#include "threads/interrupt.h"
#include "threads/intr-stubs.h"
-#include "threads/mmu.h"
#include "threads/palloc.h"
#include "threads/switch.h"
#include "threads/synch.h"
+#include "threads/vaddr.h"
#ifdef USERPROG
#include "userprog/process.h"
#endif
#define TIME_SLICE 4 /* # of timer ticks to give each thread. */
static unsigned thread_ticks; /* # of timer ticks since last yield. */
+/* If false (default), use round-robin scheduler.
+ If true, use multi-level feedback queue scheduler.
+ Controlled by kernel command-line option "-o mlfqs". */
+bool thread_mlfqs;
+
static void kernel_thread (thread_func *, void *aux);
static void idle (void *aux UNUSED);
After calling this function, be sure to initialize the page
allocator before trying to create any threads with
- thread_create(). */
+ thread_create().
+
+ It is not safe to call thread_current() until this function
+ finishes. */
void
thread_init (void)
{
void
thread_start (void)
{
- thread_create ("idle", PRI_MAX, idle, NULL);
+ /* Create the idle thread. */
+ struct semaphore idle_started;
+ sema_init (&idle_started, 0);
+ thread_create ("idle", PRI_MIN, idle, &idle_started);
+
+ /* Start preemptive thread scheduling. */
intr_enable ();
+
+ /* Wait for the idle thread to initialize idle_thread. */
+ sema_down (&idle_started);
}
/* Called by the timer interrupt handler at each timer tick.
/* Transitions a blocked thread T to the ready-to-run state.
This is an error if T is not blocked. (Use thread_yield() to
- make the running thread ready.) */
+ make the running thread ready.)
+
+ This function does not preempt the running thread. This can
+ be important: if the caller had disabled interrupts itself,
+ it may expect that it can atomically unblock a thread and
+ update other data. */
void
thread_unblock (struct thread *t)
{
ASSERT (!intr_context ());
old_level = intr_disable ();
- list_push_back (&ready_list, &cur->elem);
+ if (cur != idle_thread)
+ list_push_back (&ready_list, &cur->elem);
cur->status = THREAD_READY;
schedule ();
intr_set_level (old_level);
return 0;
}
\f
-/* Idle thread. Executes when no other thread is ready to run. */
+/* Idle thread. Executes when no other thread is ready to run.
+
+ The idle thread is initially put on the ready list by
+ thread_start(). It will be scheduled once initially, at which
+ point it initializes idle_thread, "up"s the semaphore passed
+ to it to enable thread_start() to continue, and immediately
+ blocks. After that, the idle thread never appears in the
+ ready list. It is returned by next_thread_to_run() as a
+ special case when the ready list is empty. */
static void
-idle (void *aux UNUSED)
+idle (void *idle_started_ UNUSED)
{
+ struct semaphore *idle_started = idle_started_;
idle_thread = thread_current ();
+ sema_up (idle_started);
for (;;)
{
one to occur, wasting as much as one clock tick worth of
time.
- See [IA32-v2a] "HLT", [IA32-v2b] "STI", and [IA32-v3] 7.7. */
- asm ("sti; hlt");
+ See [IA32-v2a] "HLT", [IA32-v2b] "STI", and [IA32-v3a]
+ 7.11.1 "HLT Instruction". */
+ asm volatile ("sti; hlt" : : : "memory");
}
}
/* If the thread we switched from is dying, destroy its struct
thread. This must happen late so that thread_exit() doesn't
- pull out the rug under itself. */
- if (prev != NULL && prev->status == THREAD_DYING)
+ pull out the rug under itself. (We don't free
+ initial_thread because its memory was not obtained via
+ palloc().) */
+ if (prev != NULL && prev->status == THREAD_DYING && prev != initial_thread)
{
ASSERT (prev != cur);
- if (prev != initial_thread)
- palloc_free_page (prev);
+ palloc_free_page (prev);
}
}