On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Robert Watson
<robert@fledge.watson.org> wrote:
Dear all--
I have committed an initial autoconf/automake/libtool build framework to libdispatch svn, and a first cut at conditionally compiling Apple-specific pieces of libdispatch. This allows libdispatch to build on both FreeBSD and Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
Some notes for FreeBSD hackers:
- Several kqueue extensions (EVFILT_USER, NOTE_TRIGGER, EV_RECEIPT, and
EV_DISPATCH) are required in the FreeBSD kernel, and hopefully will go into
the FreeBSD tree in the next couple of days.
- Blocks are definitely not yet supported -- there seems to be a lot of
interest, so I'm optimistic. As compilers aren't my forte, any assistance
in this department would be most appreciated. :-)
- On FreeBSD, there is no support for Apple's pthread work queue primitive, so
I'm using the fallback worker code in libdispatch. The FreeBSD kernel
community needs to have a conversation about the right way to address this
requirement, but in the mean time the worker model should be fine.
- There are also some kqueue events present in FreeBSD but not in Mac OS X;
these may require tweaks to libdispatch to fully support by GCD-aware
applications using these FreeBSD events.
- I have developed and tested on a 32-bit Intel system; the comments below on
-march on Mac OS X likely apply for FreeBSD/amd64 users as well.
Some notes for Mac OS X hackers:
- For now, you will need to hand-trim the -march line from src/Makefile.
This should be fixed soon by some further autoconf work.
- When I use the externally-built dylib on Snow Leopard, test programs spin.
This may be due to interference between the libSystem dispatch code and the
dylib -- possibly forcing the use of pthread_create_key rather than reserved
keys would help.
- I have not attempted to configure/build for Leopard as yet, but this change
should make that a lot easier. EVFILT_USER is likely the biggest obstacle.
Some notes for Linux hackers:
- The lack of kqueue support is the critical obstacle in a port to Linux. It
may be that a kqueue emulation library based on epoll (or even libevent)
could fill this gap. If someone wants to look at this, pay very careful
attention to kqueue semantics, as libdispatch relies on them heavily.
Please consider this a work-in-progress -- don't be surprised when it doesn't build, let alone work. :-)
Finally: this work would not have been possible without the support of Jordan Hubbard, Kevin Van Vechten, Dave Zarzycki, Bill Siegrist, and Apple. I am surprised by how easily the porting has gone so far -- it's a credit to their careful planning and quality of implementation that it has gone so smoothly.
Thanks also to Peter O'Gorman and Colin Percival for their assistance with auto*, my nemesis.
With any luck, there will be more good porting news to report in the near future!
Thanks,
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:46:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: source_changes@macosforge.org
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To: libdispatch-changes@lists.macosforge.org
Subject: [libdispatch-changes] [27] trunk/src
Revision
27
Author
robert@fledge.watson.org
Date
2009-09-14 11:46:18 -0700 (Mon, 14 Sep 2009)
Log Message
Port of libdispatch to the FreeBSD operating system, which consisted of
disabling various Mac OS X-specific portions of the library (such as Mach),
providing portable versions of certain services internally (POSIX semaphores
instead of Mach semaphores, clock_gettime() instead of mac_absolute_time()),
and providing an autoconf/automake/libtool build infrastructure. This is
just a first cut, refinement to follow.
Conditionalize portions of the libdispatch build as follows:
HAVE_MACH
If Mach is present, support Mach ports throughout libdispatch.
USE_LIBDISPATCH_INIT_CONSTRUCTOR
If defined, add the 'constructor' attribute to libdispatch_init so
that it runs as part of library initialization. This is not needed
in Mac OS X libSystem due to explicit invocation of libpthread_init
by libsyscall, but is for a stand-alone library.
HAVE_DECL_EVFILT_SESSION, HAVE_DECL_NOTE_SIGNAL, HAVE_DECL_NOTE_REAP,
HAVE_DECL_NOTE_NONE, HAVE_DECL_VQ_UPDATE, HAVE_DECL_VQ_VERYLOWDISK
Conditionally support kqueue events that are not present on FreeBSD.
DISPATCH_NO_LEGACY
Expand the scope of this existing macro to allow libdispatch to
build without legacy.c.
HAVE_MACH_ABSOLUTE_TIME
Wrap mach_absolute_time() in _dispatch_absolute_time(), and
provide a portable clock_gettime() implementation. Some further
refinment will be required here.
USE_APPLE_SEMAPHORE_OPTIMIZATIONS
Only use non-portable assembly optimizations of dispatch semaphores
if supported.
HAVE_SEM_INIT
Use POSIX semaphores if Mach semaphores aren't present; further
ifdef'ing possibly required here. If neither HAVE_MACH nor
HAVE_SEM_INIT are present, the compile will fail.
USE_APPLE_CRASHREPORTER_INFO
Only define Mac OS X crashreporter state if requested.
HAVE_PTHREAD_WORKQUEUES
Only compile in support for pthread work queues if present;
otherwise force use of normal worker threads.
HAVE_PTHREAD_KEY_INIT_NP
If defined, use non-portable allocation of pthread keys--otherwise,
use pthread_create_key().
USE_APPLE_TSD_OPTIMIZATIONS
Only use non-portable assembly optimizations if dispatch thread-
specific data if this is defined.
HAVE_MALLOC_CREATE_ZONE
If not present, use compat/malloc_zone.h which implements the malloc
zone APIs using normal malloc(3).
Also fix some portability nits for building, such as casting before using
long as a format string for several types. Note that this port will not
build or run on a stock FreeBSD release or svn distribution yet, as it
relies on kqueue extensions not committed back to FreeBSD yet.
There are several known issues, such as how best to map CLOCK_UPTIME or
CLOCK_MONOTONIC struct timespec timestamps into a Mach absolute time
int64_t number space. Also, the POSIX semaphore ifdefing is adequate but
not complete.
Modified Paths
* trunk/src/benchmark.c
* trunk/src/dispatch.h
* trunk/src/internal.h
* trunk/src/legacy.h
* trunk/src/os_shims.h
* trunk/src/private.h
* trunk/src/queue.c
* trunk/src/queue_internal.h
* trunk/src/semaphore.c
* trunk/src/semaphore_internal.h
* trunk/src/shims.c
* trunk/src/source.c
* trunk/src/source.h
* trunk/src/source_private.h
* trunk/src/time.c
Diff
Modified: trunk/src/benchmark.c (26 => 27)
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