Bug#575302: Bug#654783: race condition in libpthread causes hangs in python2.7 testsuite

[Robert Millan]

tag 654783 pending
thanks

El 20 d’abril de 2012 8:47, Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger at seznam.cz> ha escrit:
> In the original (plain linuxthreads) code, with thread implemented as
> freebsd process, the wakeup signal is sent to thread manager from kernel,
> after exit of thread.
>
> In current variant, with thread implemented as freebsd kernel thread,
> the wakeup signal is sent to thread manager from userspace, a few moments
> before exit. It is an expected race condition. It is also the reason, why
> "|| main_thread_exiting" have been added. I expected, that loss of a
> wakeup does not matter, the "child thread" will be "eaten" only slightly
> later, when another thread exits and sends wake up. The only problem should
> be, when there is no another thread, it should be solved by
> "|| main_thread_exiting". But it does not suffice.
>
> The "try eat dead child" everytime is just workaround.

Yep, eating dead children everytime doesn't sound like the cleanest
option to me either ;-)

> The better way might be to add atomic counter
> [using gcc's __sync_fetch_and_add()] to track the number of expected "dead
> or soon to be dead" child
> and "try to eat dead child" when the number is above zero.

Thanks for the heads-up.  I notice you already fixed this in pkg-glibc
SVN.  Maybe it's not worth improving further... (IMHO time would be
better spent on NPTL).

Thank you!

-- 
Robert Millan