The original algorithm was suffering from an ABA race condition:
A: fp = page_stack
B: completely allocates the same page and writes into it some data
A: unsuspecting, loads (invalid) next = fp->next
B: finishes working with the page and returns it back to page_stack
A: compare-exchange page_stack: fp => next succeeds and writes garbage
to page_stack
Fixed this by using an implicit spinlock in hot page allocator.
If a thread encounters timeout == 0 for poll, it considers itself
"busy" and with some hysteresis it tries to drop loops for others to
pick and thus better distribute work between threads.
Memory allocation is a fragile part of BIRD and we need checking that
everybody is using the resource pools in an appropriate way. To assure
this, all the resource pools are associated with locking domains and
every resource manipulation is thoroughly checked whether the
appropriate locking domain is locked.
With transitive resource manipulation like resource dumping or mass free
operations, domains are locked and unlocked on the go, thus we require
pool domains to have higher order than their parent to allow for this
transitive operations.
Adding pool locking revealed some cases of insecure memory manipulation
and this commit fixes that as well.
The support for IPv4 routes with IPv6 nexthops was implemented in FreeBSD
13.1, this patch allows to import and export such routes from/to kernel.
Minor change from committer.
When lp_save() is called on an empty linpool, then some allocation is
done, then lp_restore() is called, the linpool is restored but the used
chunks are inaccessible. Fix it.
This change adds one pointer worth of memory to every list node.
Keeping this information helps auditing the lists, checking that the
node indeed is outside of list or inside the right one.
The typed lists shouldn't be used anywhere with memory pressure anyway,
thus the one added pointer isn't significant.
