It is way more complicated than it should be; and
locking it for thread-safety is too difficult.
[merged r7183 from branches/ew]
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I initially started to do a heavy rewrite that changed the way processes
communicated, but that was too much to do at once. So this change only
focuses on replacing the player and decode processes with threads and
using condition variables instead of polling in loops; so the changeset
itself is quiet small.
* The shared output buffer variables will still need locking
to guard against race conditions. So in this effect, we're probably
just as buggy as before. The reduced context-switching overhead of
using threads instead of processes may even make bugs show up more or
less often...
* Basic functionality appears to be working for playing local (and NFS)
audio, including:
play, pause, stop, seek, previous, next, and main playlist editing
* I haven't tested HTTP streams yet, they should work.
* I've only tested ALSA and Icecast. ALSA works fine, Icecast
metadata seems to get screwy at times and breaks song
advancement in the playlist at times.
* state file loading works, too (after some last-minute hacks with
non-blocking wakeup functions)
* The non-blocking (*_nb) variants of the task management functions are
probably overused. They're more lenient and easier to use because
much of our code is still based on our previous polling-based system.
* It currently segfaults on exit. I haven't paid much attention
to the exit/signal-handling routines other than ensuring it
compiles. At least the state file seems to work. We don't
do any cleanups of the threads on exit, yet.
* Update is still done in a child process and not in a thread.
To do this in a thread, we'll need to ensure it does proper
locking and communication with the main thread; but should
require less memory in the end because we'll be updating
the database "in-place" rather than updating a copy and
then bulk-loading when done.
* We're more sensitive to bugs in 3rd party libraries now.
My plan is to eventually use a master process which forks()
and restarts the child when it dies:
locking and communication with the main thread; but should
require less memory in the end because we'll be updating
the database "in-place" rather than updating a copy and
then bulk-loading when done.
* We're more sensitive to bugs in 3rd party libraries now.
My plan is to eventually use a master process which forks()
and restarts the child when it dies:
master - just does waitpid() + fork() in a loop
\- main thread
\- decoder thread
\- player thread
At the beginning of every song, the main thread will set
a dirty flag and update the state file. This way, if we
encounter a song that triggers a segfault killing the
main thread, the master will start the replacement main
on the next song.
* The main thread still wakes up every second on select()
to check for signals; which affects power management.
[merged r7138 from branches/ew]
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autoconf flags for enabling and disabling TCP and unix domain socket
support. Embedded machines without a TCP stack may be better off
without TCP support.
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This trivial patch addresses bug 1639. When a bind_to_address
argument starts with a slash, assume that it is the address of a Unix
domain socket.
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It is a good practice to constify pointers when their dereferenced
data is not modified within the functions or its descendants.
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The parameter "port" is not actually used by establishListen(), and
can be removed. This also allows establishListen() to be used for
socket addresses which have no port.
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The number of buffered chunks can obviously not become negative. The
"buffered_before_play<0" therefore cannot be useful, so let's remove
it, too.
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Do explicit casts before comparing signed with unsigned. The one in
log.c actually fixes another warning: in the expanded macro, there may
be a check "logLevel>=0", which is always true.
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Unfortunately, the function iconv() wants a non-const input buffer.
In this context, we only have a const pointer, which emits a correct
gcc warning. Work around this ugliness with an union-deconst hack.
This is optimized away in the binary.
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The counter variables c_samp and c_chan begin at zero and can never be
negative.
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The local variable d_samp is initialized, but never actually used.
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Use unsigned integers in decoderParent() for chunk numbers which
cannot be negative.
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We don't really care what that variable is, so it might as
well be uninitialized, but valgrind does...
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Don't bother initializing the junk buffer, we really don't care.
The array was also unnecessary and ugly.
Also, avoid returning the byte count we read/wrote since it
unnecessarily exposes internal details of the implementation to
the callers.
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* move set_nonblock{,ing}() into utils.c since we use it
elsewhere, too
* add proper error checking to set_nonblocking()
* use os_compat.h instead of individually #includ-ing system headers
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When the decoder receives SIGCONT during waitNotify(), the kernel
restarts the read() system call. This lets the decoder process block
indefinitely, while the player process waits for it to react. This
should probably be solved with a proper signal handler which aborts
the read() system call, but for now, we just write to the pipe to make
it wake up.
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When the decoder process is faster than the player process, all
decodedd buffers are full at some point in time. The decoder has to
wait for buffers to become free (finished playing). It used to do
this by polling the buffer status 100 times a second.
This generates a lot of unnecessary CPU wakeups. This patch adds a
way for the player process to notify the decoder process that it may
continue its work.
We could use pthread_cond for that, unfortunately inter-process
mutexes/conds are not supported by some kernels (Linux), so we cannot
use this light-weight method until mpd moves to using threads instead
of processes. The other method would be semaphores, which
historically are global resources with a unique name; this historic
API is cumbersome, and I wanted to avoid it.
I came up with a quite naive solution for now: I create an anonymous
pipe with pipe(), and the decoder process reads on that pipe. Until
the player process sends data on it as a signal, the decoder process
blocks.
This can be optimized in a number of ways:
- if the decoder process is still working (instead of waiting for
buffers), we could save the write() system call, since there is
nobody waiting for the notification.
[ew: I tried this using a counter in shared memory, didn't help]
- the pipe buffer will be full at some point, when the decoder thread
is too slow. For this reason, the writer side of the pipe is
non-blocking, and mpd can ignore the resulting EWOULDBLOCK.
- since we have shared memory, we could check whether somebody is
actually waiting without a context switch, and we could just not
write the notification byte.
[ew: tried same method/result as first point above]
- if there is already a notification in the pipe, we could also not
write another one.
[ew: tried same method/result as first/third points above]
- the decoder will only consume 64 bytes at a time. If the pipe
buffer is full, this will result in a lot of read() invocations.
This does not hurt badly, but on a heavily loaded system, this might
add a little bit more load. The preceding optimizations however
are able eliminate the this.
- finally, we should use another method for inter process
notifications - maybe kill() or just make mpd use threads, finally.
In spite of all these possibilities to optimize this code further,
this pipe notification trick is faster than the 100 Hz poll. On my
machine, it reduced the number of wakeups to less than 30%.
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Use unsigned variables for storing the count of items or for iteration
variables. Since there can never be a negative number of items, it
makes sense to use an unsigned data type here. This change is safe
because the unsigned values are only used for adddressing array items.
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The interfaces main loop repeats the select() (non-blocking) after an
event was handled. I do not see any reason for that, since all events
should be handled after the first select(). This double select() does
nothing than consume more CPU cycles.
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mpd sets a 1s select() timeout for no reason. This makes mpd wake up
the CPU, consume some cycles just to see there is nothing to do. We
can save that by specifying NULL instead of a timeout.
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* malloc() => xmalloc() for error checking
* strncpy() replaced with memcpy(),
memcpy appears perfectly safe here and mpd
does not ever use strncpy() (see r4491)
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This patch does the following:
-enables WVC support for streams as well,
-improves MPD inputStream <=> WavPack stream connector,
-fixes two compile warnings (which were caused by MPD API change).
Mantis #1660 <http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1660>
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Basically, I don't trust myself nor Max to not have bugs in our
code when switching over to unsigned types, so I've added more
assertions which will hopefully trip and force us to fix these
bugs before somebody can exploit them :)
Some cleanups for parameter parsing using strtol
and error reporting to the user. Also, fix some completely
garbled indentation in inputStream_http.c
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This patch moves code which initializes the OutputBuffer struct to
outputBuffer.c. Although this is generally a good idea, it prepares
the following patch.
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When dealing with in-memory lengths, the standard type "size_t" should
be used. Missing one can be quite dangerous, because an attacker
could provoke an integer under-/overflow, which may provide an attack
vector.
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we do not save anything by limiting a variable to an unsigned char,
since the compiler aligns it at machine word size anyway. however by
using the full machine word, we save one instruction, and we remove
the useless artificial limitation to 255.
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The local variable eof can actually be replaced with a simple "break".
With a negative ret, the value of chunkpos can be invalidated, I am
not sure if this might have been a bug.
[ew: no, a negative ret will correspond to ret == OV_HOLE and ret
will be reset to zero leaving chunkpos untouched (code cleaned up
to make this more obvious]
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The database parser does not check whether the song object has been
initialized yet, which may lead to a NULL pointer dereference. Add
this check.
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strtok() may return NULL if the input is an empty string. The
playlist parser did not check for that.
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Local variables which are never read before the first assignment don't
need initialization. Saves a few bytes of text. Also don't reset
variables which are never read until function return.
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When we expect an integer as result, why would we use the double
precision floating point parser? strtol() is a better match, although
we should probably check for overflows...
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There is unreachable code at several positions, e.g. after an
#if/#end, or after an endless loop. Remove that.
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Tools like "sparse" check for missing downcasts, since implicit cast
may be dangerous. Although that does not change the compiler result,
it may make the code more readable (IMHO), because you always see when
there may be data cut off.
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The while() loop only checks for interrupted system calls (which woudl
never happen if the signal mask were set up properly), but nobody
checks if the fopen() actually succeeds.
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Although it may not happen in mpd code, it is perfectly possible for a
newly allocated file descriptor to be zero. For theoretical
correctness, allow 0.
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For code unification: for me, it looks ugly to do a break in the
command in a while() block. This belongs into the while condition.
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From <http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIME_Types_and_File_Extensions>:
> .oga - audio/ogg
>
> * Ogg Audio Profile (audio in Ogg container)
> * Applications supporting .oga, .ogv SHOULD support decoding
> from muxed Ogg streams
> * Covers Ogg FLAC, Ghost, and OggPCM
> * Although they share the same MIME type, Vorbis and Speex
> use different file extensions.
> * SHOULD contain a Skeleton logical bitstream.
> * Vorbis and Speex may use .oga, but it is not the
> prefered(sic) method of distributing these files because of
> backwards-compatibility issues.
Thanks to Qball and Rasi for the patch.
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