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Add signal handler wrapper, the reason to add it becauses there are

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Add signal handler wrapper, the reason to add it becauses there are
some cases we want to improve:

  1. if a thread signal got a signal while in cancellation point, it is possible the TDP_WAKEUP may be eaten by signal handler if the handler called some interruptibly system calls.
  2. In signal handler, we want to disable cancellation.
  3. When thread holding some low level locks, it is better to disable signal, those code need not to worry reentrancy, sigprocmask system call is avoided because it is a bit expensive.

The signal handler wrapper works in this way:

  1. libthr installs its signal handler if user code invokes sigaction to install its handler, the user handler is recorded in internal array.
  2. when a signal is delivered, libthr's signal handler is invoke, libthr checks if thread holds some low level lock or is in critical region, if it is true, the signal is buffered, and all signals are masked, once the thread leaves critical region, correct signal mask is restored and buffered signal is processed.
  3. before user signal handler is invoked, cancellation is temporarily disabled, after user signal handler is returned, cancellation state is restored, and pending cancellation is rescheduled.

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David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org>Authored on Sep 1 2010, 2:18 AM
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rG137cf33d5e6d: rescure comments from RELENG_4.
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