From: Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Memory Barriers at pthread using CYGWIN
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 08:49:44 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230623084944.1022e7658a0e8c45c23d5ab7@nifty.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZJQ1JYyz9Wu+x5XA@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 13:48:53 +0200
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 22 19:19, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote:
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 21:53:00 +0900
> > Takashi Yano wrote:
> > > I looked into this problem, and I think this is a problem regarding
> > > _my_tls initialization order, so far. This seems to happen in LDAP
> > > environment.
> > >
> > > My assumption is:
> > >
> > > If the program is the first program which load cygwin1.dll, ldap
> > > connection seems to be made before pthread::init_mainthread().
> > > In cyg_ldap.cc, cyg_ldap::connect(), cyg_ldap::search() or
> > > cyg_ldap::next_page() calls cygwait() in which pthread::self()
> > > is called.
> > >
> > > Then, _my_tls.tid is initialized with null_pthread, therefore,
> > > _my_tls.tid is not set in pthread::init_mainthread().
> > >
> > > This causes pthread_join() failure at:
> > > winsup/cygwin/thread.cc: line 2196
> > > if (!is_good_object (&joiner))
> > > return EINVAL;
> > >
> > >
> > > The first idea to fix this issue is remove set_tls_self_pointer()
> > > call from pthread::self().
> > >
> > > diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc b/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc
> > > index 5c1284a93..a0f2d5546 100644
> > > --- a/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc
> > > +++ b/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc
> > > @@ -392,10 +392,7 @@ pthread::self ()
> > > {
> > > pthread *thread = _my_tls.tid;
> > > if (!thread)
> > > - {
> > > - thread = pthread_null::get_null_pthread ();
> > > - thread->set_tls_self_pointer ();
> > > - }
> > > + thread = pthread_null::get_null_pthread ();
> > > return thread;
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > The secnd approach is to re-initialize _my_tls.tid in
> > > pthread::init_mainthread() if _my_tls.tid is null_pthread.
> > >
> > > diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc b/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc
> > > index 5c1284a93..f614e01c4 100644
> > > --- a/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc
> > > +++ b/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc
> > > @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ void
> > > pthread::init_mainthread ()
> > > {
> > > pthread *thread = _my_tls.tid;
> > > - if (!thread)
> > > + if (!thread || thread == pthread_null::get_null_pthread ())
> > > {
> > > thread = new pthread ();
> > > if (!thread)
> > >
> > >
> > > Which is the better approach, do you think?
> > > Or any other idea?
>
> The second approach looks good to me. There was a reason to call
> set_tls_self_pointer from pthread::self, I guess. Resetting in
> init_mainthread should have the least potential for side-effects.
Thanks. I submitted the patch to cygwin-patches@cygwin.com.
Please let me know if I can push it.
--
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
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2023-06-10 4:08 ` Takashi Yano
2023-06-20 12:53 ` Takashi Yano
2023-06-22 10:19 ` Takashi Yano
2023-06-22 11:48 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-06-22 23:49 ` Takashi Yano [this message]
2023-06-08 14:29 Mümin A.
2023-06-08 14:37 ` [EXTERNAL] " Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2023-06-08 22:58 ` Mümin A.
2023-06-09 0:22 ` Takashi Yano
2023-06-09 1:44 ` Duncan Roe
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