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Message-ID: <20201029222153.GB2947641@port70.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 23:21:53 +0100
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: Milan P. Stanić <mps@...anta.net>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MT fork

* Milan P. Stanić <mps@...anta.net> [2020-10-29 21:55:41 +0100]:
> On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 17:13, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> > * Milan P. Stanić <mps@...anta.net> [2020-10-29 00:06:10 +0100]:
> > >  
> > > Applied this patch on top of current musl master, build it on Alpine and
> > > installed.
> > > 
> > > Tested by building ruby lang. Works fine.
> > > Also tested building zig lang, works fine.
> > > But crystal lang builds fine, but running it hangs. strace shows:
> > > -------------
> > > [pid  5573] futex(0x7efc50fba9e4, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL <unfinished ...>
> > > [pid  5568] futex(0x7efc5118f984, FUTEX_REQUEUE_PRIVATE, 0, 1, 0x7efc514b67a4) = 1
> > > [pid  5568] futex(0x7efc514b67a4, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1
> > > [pid  5571] <... futex resumed>)        = 0
> > > [pid  5568] futex(0x7efc511099e4, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL <unfinished ...>
> > > [pid  5571] futex(0x7efc510409e4, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL
> > > -------------
> > > where it hangs.
> > 
> > try to attach gdb to the process that hang and do
> > 
> > thread apply all bt
> > 
> > (make sure musl-dbg is installed)
> 
> I cannot attach gdb for running process because my Alpine development
> boxes are lxc containers where CAP_SYS_PTRACE is not enabled afaik.

there should be a way to config lxc to allow ptrace.

> I installed musl-dbg and run program with 'gdb .build/crystal' and result is:
> ----------
> Reading symbols from .build/crystal...
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /home/mps/aports/community/crystal/src/crystal-0.35.1/.build/crystal
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

hm segfault is not a hang..

libgc tries to find stack bounds by registering a segfault handler
and walking stack pages until it triggers.

gdb stops at signals, this one is harmless, you should just continue
until you see a hang, then interrupt and bt.

> 0x00007ffff401c463 in GC_find_limit_with_bound () from /usr/lib/libgc.so.1
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00007ffff401c463 in GC_find_limit_with_bound () from /usr/lib/libgc.so.1
> #1  0x00007ffff401c522 in GC_init_linux_data_start () from /usr/lib/libgc.so.1
> #2  0x00007ffff401b2e0 in GC_init () from /usr/lib/libgc.so.1
> #3  0x00005555555668d8 in init () at
> /home/mps/aports/community/crystal/src/crystal-0.35.1/src/gc/boehm.cr:127
> #4  main () at /home/mps/aports/community/crystal/src/crystal-0.35.1/src/crystal/main.cr:35
> #5  main () at /home/mps/aports/community/crystal/src/crystal-0.35.1/src/crystal/main.cr:114
> (gdb)
> ----------
> 
> Same with 'thread apply all bt'.
> 
> gc lib (garbage collector, https://hboehm.info/gc/) version is
> gc-dev-8.0.4-r1 on Alpine.
> 
> I can't test this on native machine because currently I don't have any
> x86_64 with enough resources to build crystal. On aarch64 it even can't
> be built with mt-fork patch, hangs always during build.
> 
> -- 
> Regards

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