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From: Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
To: "simark@simark.ca" <simark@simark.ca>,
	Aditya Kamath1 <Aditya.Kamath1@ibm.com>,
	"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: Sangamesh Mallayya <sangamesh.swamy@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 0001-Fix-multi-thread-debug-bug-in-AIX.patch
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:16:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4add1d5301e06e7545c6f3a28f9e2b3457016f1.camel@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CH2PR15MB3544E198B0622C3AD22597A2D6029@CH2PR15MB3544.namprd15.prod.outlook.com>

Aditya Kamath1 <Aditya.Kamath1@ibm.com> wrote:

>>So I think instead of adding a "priv" struct to that GDB thread
>>identifying the main process, the sync_threadlists routine should
>>actually just delete it (or replace it with the actual first thread,
>>whatever is easier).
>
>I have chosen not to add the first main thread as new thread. Instead,
>we carry on with main process thread itself adding private data to it.
>Kindly see the first if condition. I observed this with the linux folks
>where in their output as you mentioned do not add any new threads the
>first time on recognition of multi thread debugee for the main process.  

OK, but this is still weird:
>* 1    process 26149278                   0xd0595fb0 in _p_nsleep ()
>  2    Thread 258 (tid 24445361, running) thread_function (arg=0x0)
>  3    Thread 515 (tid 16187681, running) thread_function (arg=warning: (Internal error: pc 0x0 in read in psymtab, but not in symtab.)

Why does the first thread look so different?  That's not the
case with Linux threads.  I believe even if you re-use the
thread structure, you'll still need to switch the ptid to one
that indicates a thread instead of a non-threaded process.


>A couple of things I want to inform you is that the way the second
>for loop is executing is not correct from here on to sync both the
>buffer lists [pthread and GDB thread]. Since we are now not adding
>multiple threads for the same process main thread one representing
>the GDB thread and the other by the pthread those conditions and
>indices like pi and gi will fail. Now there has not pcount - 1
>threads in the GDB thread buffer always. Condition 2 and 3 in the
>patch take care of them for addition and deletion of threads. 

The new logic doesn't look correct to me - note that it never
even looks at thread IDs any more, just the raw number of threads.
So for example if *any* thread exits, the code will always delete
the *last* thread from the GDB list - whether this is actually
the one that exited or not.

I do think it is necessary to compare thread IDs - you need to
map the thread IDs retrieved by libpthdebug against the thread
IDs already present in GDB's thread list.  If a matching thread
ID is present in both lists, it should not be touched.  If a
thread ID occurs only in the libpthdebug list, it needs to be
added to GDB's list.  If a thread ID occurs only in GDB's list,
it needs to be removed from there.

That's what the old code attempted to do as far as I can see;
if it got it wrong in certain corner cases, they need to be fixed;
but completely removing that logic seems just wrong.

Bye,
Ulrich


  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-15 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-25  6:47 Aditya Kamath1
2022-10-28  9:49 ` Ulrich Weigand
2022-11-08 12:00   ` Aditya Kamath1
2022-11-08 12:17     ` Ulrich Weigand
2022-11-13 18:15       ` Aditya Kamath1
2022-11-15 18:16         ` Ulrich Weigand [this message]
2022-11-21  8:27           ` Aditya Kamath1
2022-11-23 14:15             ` Ulrich Weigand
2022-11-23 16:03               ` Aditya Kamath1
2022-11-23 17:09                 ` Ulrich Weigand
2022-11-23 18:45                   ` Aditya Kamath1
2022-11-29  8:18                     ` Aditya Kamath1
2022-11-30 14:57                       ` Ulrich Weigand
2022-12-02  7:50                         ` Aditya Kamath1
2022-12-05 18:33                           ` Ulrich Weigand
2022-12-08 10:28                             ` Aditya Kamath1
2022-12-08 10:46                               ` Aditya Kamath1
2022-12-08 16:29                               ` Ulrich Weigand
2022-12-15 12:58                                 ` Aditya Kamath1
2022-12-15 15:53                                   ` Ulrich Weigand
2022-12-19  6:30                                     ` Aditya Kamath1
2022-12-22 12:50                                       ` Ulrich Weigand
2022-12-26 13:18                                         ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-01-09 14:04                                           ` Ulrich Weigand
2023-01-10 12:23                                             ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-01-11 13:31                                               ` Ulrich Weigand
2023-01-13 14:06                                                 ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-01-20 14:44                                                   ` Ulrich Weigand
2023-01-27 14:40                                                     ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-01-30 19:54                                                       ` Tom Tromey
2023-02-02  6:24                                                       ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-02-02  6:35                                                         ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-02-02 17:43                                                           ` Ulrich Weigand
2023-02-03 11:10                                                             ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-02-06 19:07                                                               ` Ulrich Weigand
2023-02-07 11:57                                                                 ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-02-08 18:44                                                                   ` Ulrich Weigand
2023-02-10 16:33                                                                     ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-02-10 16:46                                                                       ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-02-13 19:01                                                                       ` Ulrich Weigand
2023-02-14 14:13                                                                         ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-02-16 19:46                                                                           ` Ulrich Weigand
2023-02-17 11:26                                                                             ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-02-17 12:04                                                                               ` Ulrich Weigand
2023-02-17 13:22                                                                                 ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-02-17 14:18                                                                                   ` Ulrich Weigand
2023-02-17 15:15                                                                                     ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-02-17 19:14                                                                                       ` Ulrich Weigand
2022-11-08 12:00 Aditya Kamath1

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