Wolfram Gloger <wg@malloc.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
>> So it's perfectly possible to observe the behavior you are seeing
>> if __libc_read() returns -1. Because then sz_read will acquire the
>> value -1, and the guard expresssion sz_read < sizeof(request) will yield
>> zero, terminating the loop.
>
> Argh! That indeed seems to be the case, _no_ apparent kernel problem
> is involved, sorry for the false alarm. read() 'just' returns -1 with
> errno becoming EINTR. One should never code up a loop like that in
> the last minute (I only found the effect yesterday)..
>
>> Could you recode the test patch to eliminate these suspicions and re-test?
>
> The analysis was nevertheless correct, LinuxThreads gets out of synch
> with disastrous effects. I was puzzled how read() could return -1,
> however it may make sense with a __pthread_sig_cancel pending in the
> manager thread due to a child exiting (?). But then, why wasn't this
> possibility discovered before?
Because we never compiled with -DDEBUG so that the ASSERT was
triggered?
There's another such place (line 135) with __libc_read in
__pthread_manager:
/* Synchronize debugging of the thread manager */
n = __libc_read(reqfd, (char *)&request, sizeof(request));
ASSERT(n == sizeof(request) && request.req_kind == REQ_DEBUG);
We should account for a return value of -1 here also, shouldn't we?
> Below is a corrected patch for glibc-2.2.4. I've run fork-malloc with
> this for a couple of hours.
Is it still running? ;-) That would be excellent!
Thanks a lot Wolfram,
Andreas
> Thanks,
> Wolfram.
>
> 2001-09-11 Wolfram Gloger <wg@malloc.de>
>
> * manager.c (__pthread_manager): When reading from pipe. account
> for possible error return from read().
>
> --- linuxthreads/manager.c.orig Mon Jul 23 19:54:13 2001
> +++ linuxthreads/manager.c Tue Sep 11 00:47:48 2001
> @@ -150,8 +150,19 @@
> }
> /* Read and execute request */
> if (n == 1 && (ufd.revents & POLLIN)) {
> - n = __libc_read(reqfd, (char *)&request, sizeof(request));
> - ASSERT(n == sizeof(request));
> + int sz_read = 0;
> +
> + while (sz_read < sizeof(request)) {
> + n = __libc_read(reqfd, (char *)&request + sz_read,
> + sizeof(request) - sz_read);
> + if (n < 0) {
> +#ifdef DEBUG
> + char d[64];
> + sprintf(d, "*** read err %d\n", errno);
> +#endif
> + } else
> + sz_read += n;
> + }
> switch(request.req_kind) {
> case REQ_CREATE:
> request.req_thread->p_retcode =
>
--
Andreas Jaeger
SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
private aj@arthur.inka.de
http://www.suse.de/~aj
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