Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9906] New: Weird hang with NPTL and SIGPROF.

[Frank Mayhar]

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 16:50 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It's probably better to handle this one via email, so please send that
> testcase vie reply-to-all to this email, thanks.

Testcase attached.

Build with
        gcc -D_GNU_SOURCE -c hangc-2.c -o hangc-2.o
        gcc -lpthread -o hangc-2 hangc-2.o

Run with
        hangc-2 4500 4500

-- 
Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Google, Inc.

#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <ucontext.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>

static void *
LinuxThreadTestRoutine(
	void *pid)
{
	pid_t *pid_ptr = (pid_t *) (pid);

	*pid_ptr = getpid();
	return NULL;
}

int
id_runningNPTL(void)
{
	int cc;
	pthread_t thread;
	pid_t child_pid;

	cc = pthread_create(&thread, NULL, &LinuxThreadTestRoutine, &child_pid);
	if (cc != 0) {
		perror("pthread_create");
		exit(1);
	}
	cc = pthread_join(thread, NULL);
	if (cc != 0) {
		perror("pthread_join");
		exit(1);
	}
	int is_linux_threads = (child_pid != getpid());

	return !is_linux_threads;
}



char const *
id_threads_package_string(void)
{
	return id_runningNPTL()? "NPTL" : "LinuxThreads";
}


typedef struct shared_args_t {
	unsigned n;
	pthread_barrier_t barrier;
} shared_args_t;

shared_args_t g_args;

void prof_handler(int sig, siginfo_t *foo, void *signal_ucontext)
{
	static int stk = 0;
	int saved_errno = errno;

	stk = 0;
	errno = saved_errno;
}

void *
nop1_inner(
	void *varg)
{
	int cc;
	cc = pthread_barrier_wait(&g_args.barrier);
	if ((cc != 0) && (cc != PTHREAD_BARRIER_SERIAL_THREAD)) {
		perror("pthread_barrier_wait");
		exit(1);
	}
	return NULL;
}

#define MAXTHREADS  (1024 * 1024)
pthread_t threads[MAXTHREADS];

int
main(
	int argc,
	char **argv)
{
	pthread_attr_t attr;
	unsigned nthreads;
	unsigned nops;
	unsigned i;
	int cc;
	struct sigaction sa;
	struct itimerval timer;

	sa.sa_sigaction = prof_handler;
	sa.sa_flags = SA_RESTART | SA_SIGINFO;
	sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask);
	sigaction(SIGPROF, &sa, NULL);

	timer.it_interval.tv_sec = 0;
	timer.it_interval.tv_usec = 1000000 / 100;
	timer.it_value = timer.it_interval;
	setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, &timer, 0);
	cc = pthread_attr_init(&attr);
	if (cc != 0) {
		perror("pthread_attr_init");
		exit(1);
	}
	cc = pthread_attr_setstacksize(&attr, 16 * 1024);
	if (cc != 0) {
		perror("pthread_attr_setstacksize");
		exit(1);
	}
	if (argc != 3) {
		fputs("Usage: hangc THREADS BARRIER-OPS-PER-THREAD\n", stderr);
		exit(1);
	}

	nthreads = strtoul(argv[1], NULL, 0);
	if (nthreads > MAXTHREADS) {
		perror("internal error: static allocation too small for THREADS arg");
		exit(1);
	}
	nops = strtoul(argv[2], NULL, 0);

	cc = pthread_barrier_init(&g_args.barrier, NULL, nthreads + 1);
	if (cc != 0) {
		perror("pthread_barrier_init");
		exit(1);
	}

	g_args.n = nops;

	for (i = 0; i < nthreads; ++i) {
		cc = pthread_create(&threads[i], &attr, nop1_inner, NULL);
		if (cc != 0) {
			perror("pthread_create");
			exit(1);
		}
	}

	printf("threads: %s\n", id_threads_package_string());
	exit(0);
}