From: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
To: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>,
Torsten Polle <Torsten.Polle@gmx.de>,
systemtap@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stap/staprun do not terminate properly
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 22:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <531E3E77.30701@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <531A3581.7050009@redhat.com>
On 03/07/2014 01:09 PM, David Smith wrote:
> So, instead I did this:
>
> ====
> stap_stap_task_finder()
> {
> // ...
>
> __stp_tf_cancel_task_work();
>
> // Note that utrace_exit() calls stp_task_work_exit()
> utrace_exit();
> }
> ====
>
> This moves canceling all outstanding task_work items before shutting
> down utrace (and calling stp_task_work_exit()). I think the end result
> is the same as your patch, and I think this makes a little more sense.
> This way we've canceled all the task_work items before shutting down
> utrace (and freeing all the memory allocated for utrace).
>
> If this doesn't work for you or you see a hole in this logic please let
> me know.
I notice that utrace_exit() calls utrace_shutdown(), but so does
__stp_task_finder_cleanup() earlier in stap_stop_task_finder(). So in
fact the shutdown is still happening before canceling this work, and the
only thing left for utrace_exit() is the kmem_cache_destroy and
stp_task_work_exit(). Do you think this could be a problem?
In particular, I worry about this comment:
/* After calling tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(), we're
* sure there are no outstanding tracepoint probes being
* called. So, now would be a great time to free everything. */
There won't be any outstanding tracepoint handlers, but couldn't there
still be outstanding task_work scheduled from those handlers?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-10 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-06 21:30 Torsten Polle
2014-03-07 21:09 ` David Smith
2014-03-07 22:11 ` Torsten Polle
2014-03-10 22:36 ` Josh Stone [this message]
2014-03-12 14:11 ` David Smith
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