From: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
To: Martin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com>,
GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception [BZ #18435]
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 13:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <559A8029.1000705@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <557741C5.5060203@redhat.com>
On 09/06/15 20:43, Martin Sebor wrote:
> Attached is an updated version of the patch that addresses
> the LDFLAGS -> LDLIBS comment. Retested on ppc64.
>
> Is it okay to commit?
>
> Martin
>
> On 05/31/2015 03:37 PM, Martin Sebor wrote:
>> > The C++ 2011 std::call_once function is specified to allow
>> > the initialization routine to exit by throwing an exception.
>> > Such an execution, termed exceptional, requires call_once to
>> > propagate the exception to its caller. A program may contain
>> > any number of exceptional executions but only one returning
>> > execution (which, if it exists, must be the last execution
>> > with the same once flag).
>> >
>> > On POSIX systems such as Linux std::call_once is implemented
>> > in terms of pthread_once. However, as discussed in libstdc++
>> > bug 66146 - "call_once not C++11-compliant on ppc64le," GLIBC's
>> > pthread_once hangs when the initialization function exits by
>> > throwing an exception on at least arm and ppc64 (though
>> > apparently not on x86_64). This effectively prevents call_once
>> > from conforming to the C++ requirements since there doesn't
>> > appear to be a thread-safe way to work around this problem in
>> > libstdc++.
>> >
>> > The attached patch changes pthread_once to handle gracefully
>> > init functions that exit by throwing exceptions. It has been
>> > tested on ppc64, ppc64le, and x86_64 with no regressions.
...
> diff --git a/nptl/pthreadP.h b/nptl/pthreadP.h
> index 84a7105..72d3e23 100644
> --- a/nptl/pthreadP.h
> +++ b/nptl/pthreadP.h
> @@ -536,16 +536,9 @@ extern void __librt_disable_asynccancel (int oldtype)
> extern void __pthread_cleanup_push (struct _pthread_cleanup_buffer *buffer,
> void (*routine) (void *), void *arg)
> attribute_hidden;
> -# undef pthread_cleanup_push
> -# define pthread_cleanup_push(routine,arg) \
> - { struct _pthread_cleanup_buffer _buffer; \
> - __pthread_cleanup_push (&_buffer, (routine), (arg));
>
> extern void __pthread_cleanup_pop (struct _pthread_cleanup_buffer *buffer,
> int execute) attribute_hidden;
> -# undef pthread_cleanup_pop
> -# define pthread_cleanup_pop(execute) \
> - __pthread_cleanup_pop (&_buffer, (execute)); }
> #endif
>
> extern void __pthread_cleanup_push_defer (struct _pthread_cleanup_buffer *buffer,
this broke
nptl/tst-join5
nptl/tst-once3
tests on aarch64.
the cleanup handler of the pthread_once and pthread_join
implementation don't run when they are canceled.
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <556B7F10.40209@redhat.com>
2015-06-01 8:39 ` Florian Weimer
2015-06-01 16:27 ` Martin Sebor
2015-06-02 9:53 ` Mike Frysinger
2015-06-04 21:12 ` Martin Sebor
2015-06-03 11:36 ` Torvald Riegel
2015-06-01 10:20 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2015-06-01 19:47 ` Martin Sebor
2015-06-03 11:07 ` Torvald Riegel
2015-06-03 11:11 ` Jonathan Wakely
2015-06-03 20:14 ` Rich Felker
2015-06-03 20:24 ` Martin Sebor
2015-06-03 23:49 ` Rich Felker
2015-06-04 1:47 ` Martin Sebor
2015-06-04 5:38 ` Rich Felker
2015-06-04 7:29 ` Martin Sebor
2015-06-08 11:41 ` Jonathan Wakely
2015-06-08 14:38 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2015-06-04 8:20 ` Torvald Riegel
2015-06-08 11:48 ` Jonathan Wakely
2015-06-08 16:01 ` Florian Weimer
2015-06-03 11:07 ` Torvald Riegel
2015-06-01 14:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-06-09 19:49 ` Martin Sebor
2015-06-15 22:14 ` Martin Sebor
2015-06-23 7:48 ` [PING 2] " Martin Sebor
[not found] ` <5593256B.5060402@redhat.com>
2015-07-01 0:06 ` [PING 3] " Rich Felker
2015-07-01 20:18 ` Martin Sebor
2015-07-01 21:27 ` Joseph Myers
2015-07-06 13:18 ` Szabolcs Nagy [this message]
2015-07-06 14:16 ` Martin Sebor
2015-07-06 14:58 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2015-07-06 16:33 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2015-07-06 17:09 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2015-07-08 11:00 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2015-07-08 16:09 ` Carlos O'Donell
2015-07-08 16:33 ` Torvald Riegel
2015-07-08 16:52 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2015-07-08 17:14 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-03-02 16:43 ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-07-08 16:16 ` Carlos O'Donell
2015-07-08 21:28 ` Martin Sebor
2015-07-08 22:13 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2015-07-08 22:52 ` Martin Sebor
2015-07-08 23:42 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2015-07-09 4:46 ` Martin Sebor
2015-07-09 23:41 ` Martin Sebor
2021-03-03 12:52 Jakub Jelinek
2021-03-04 11:50 ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-04 13:00 ` Jakub Jelinek
2021-03-04 13:26 ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-04 14:14 ` Jakub Jelinek
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