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Date:      Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:25:33 +0100
From:      Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Subject:   freebsd-5.4-stable panics
Message-ID:  <61c746830509300825s5ad197fbt908267d54f1b7b8f@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/30/05, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Friday 30 September 2005 05:24 am, Antoine Pelisse wrote:
> > Hi Robert,
> > I don't think your patch is correct, the total linked list can be broke=
n
>
> > while the lock is released, thus just passing the link may not be enoug=
h
> > I have submitted a PR[1] for this a month ago but nobody took care of i=
t
> > yet Regards,
> > Antoine Pelisse
> >
> > [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dkern/84684
>
> I think this patch looks ok. Robert, can you get the original panic on
> this
> thread tested against this patch?

 I had a small program which could reproduce this panic in 10 seconds, it
was basically creating empty threads and calling kvm_getprocs() in the same
time. Anyway the patch was able to stop the program from panicing.
The panic is also reproducible in RELENG_6 and HEAD IIRC.

> On 9/29/05, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Rob Watt wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Robert Watson wrote:
> > > >> Could you dump the contents of *td and *td->td_proc for me? I'm
> quite
> > > >> interested to know what the value in td->td_proc->p_state is, amon=
g
>
> > >
> > > other
> > >
> > > >> things. If I could also have you generate a dump of the KSE group
> > > >> structures in td->td_proc->p_ksegrps and the threads in
> > > >> td->td_proc->p_threads.
> > > >
> > > > I've attached a file with many of the values you have asked for. We
> > > > looked at some of the threads referenced by td->td_proc->p_threads,
> but
> > > > we weren't sure we were walking the list correctly. Do you have any
> > > > tips
> > > >
> > > > for walking those thread lists?
> > > >
> > > >> Could you tell me if the program named by p->p_comm is linked
> against
> > > >> a threading library? If it's a custom app, you may already know,
> and
> > > >> if not, you can run ldd on the application to see what it is linke=
d
> > > >> against.
> > > >
> > > > The programs named by p->p_comm is linked against the pthreads
> library.
> > >
> > > This seems to be enough information to at least track this down a bit=
:
> > > td_ksegrp is NULL, rather than a corrupt value, which suggests that
> the
> > > thread is incompletely initialized. Other hints that this are the cas=
e
> > > are that td_critnest is 1 (as is set when it is allocated), and the
> state
> > > is TDS_INACTIVE. Some other fields are set though, such as td_oncpu,
> > > which is normally initialized to NOCPU.
> > >
> > > > (kgdb) p *td
> > > > $1 =3D {td_proc =3D 0xffffff004aa9f000, td_ksegrp =3D 0x0, td_plist=
 =3D
> > > > {tqe_next =3D 0xff ffff00b4798000,
> > > > tqe_prev =3D 0xffffff00a97ae010}, td_kglist =3D {tqe_next =3D
> > > > 0xffffff00b4798000,
> > > > tqe_prev =3D 0xffffff00a97ae020}, td_slpq =3D {tqe_next =3D 0x0, tq=
e_prev
> > > > =3D 0xffff ff001fac7c10}, td_lockq =3D {
> > > > tqe_next =3D 0xffffff00a97ae000, tqe_prev =3D 0xffffffffb6797a70},
> > > > td_runq =3D {tq e_next =3D 0x0,
> > > > tqe_prev =3D 0xffffffff80608180}, td_selq =3D {tqh_first =3D 0x0, t=
qh_last
> > > > =3D 0xfff fff00633112c0},
> > > > td_sleepqueue =3D 0xffffff00382b0400, td_turnstile =3D
> 0xffffff00c1712900,
> > > > td_umtx q =3D 0xffffff00d1207080,
> > > > td_tid =3D 100253, td_flags =3D 16777216, td_inhibitors =3D 0, td_p=
flags =3D
>
> > > > 128, td_d upfd =3D 0, td_wchan =3D 0x0,
> > > > td_wmesg =3D 0x0, td_lastcpu =3D 2 '\002', td_oncpu =3D 2 '\002',
> > > > td_owepreempt =3D 0 '\0', td_locks =3D 0,
> > > > td_blocked =3D 0x0, td_ithd =3D 0x0, td_lockname =3D 0x0, td_contes=
ted =3D
> > > > {lh_first =3D
> > > > 0x0}, td_sleeplocks =3D 0x0,
> > > > td_intr_nesting_level =3D 0, td_pinned =3D 0, td_mailbox =3D 0x0, t=
d_ucred
> =3D
> > > > 0xfffff f00ad18f200,
> > > > td_standin =3D 0x0, td_upcall =3D 0x0, td_sticks =3D 0, td_uuticks =
=3D 0,
> > > > td_usticks =3D
> > > > 0, td_intrval =3D 0,
> > > > td_oldsigmask =3D {__bits =3D {0, 0, 0, 0}}, td_sigmask =3D {__bits=
 =3D
> > > > {4294967295, 4 294967295, 4294967295,
> > > > 4294967295}}, td_siglist =3D {__bits =3D {0, 0, 0, 0}}, td_generati=
on
> > > > =3D 14, td _sigstk =3D {ss_sp =3D 0x0,
> > > > ss_size =3D 0, ss_flags =3D 0}, td_kflags =3D 0, td_xsig =3D 0,
> > > > td_profil_addr =3D 0, td_profil_ticks =3D 0,
> > > > td_base_pri =3D 182 '\uffff', td_priority =3D 182 '\uffff', td_pcb =
=3D
> > > > 0xffffffffb68 dcd10, td_state =3D TDS_INACTIVE,
> > > > td_retval =3D {1, 29309280}, td_slpcallout =3D {c_links =3D {sle =
=3D
> {sle_next
> > > > =3D 0x0},
> > > > tqe =3D {tqe_next =3D 0x0,
> > > > tqe_prev =3D 0xffffff001fac7d80}}, c_time =3D 55907602, c_arg =3D
> > > > 0xffffff0063 311260,
> > > > c_func =3D 0xffffffff802e32a0 <sleepq_timeout>, c_mtx =3D 0x0, c_fl=
ags =3D
> > > > 16}, td _frame =3D 0xffffffffb68dcc40,
> > > > td_kstack_obj =3D 0xffffff0087f93d20, td_kstack =3D
> 18446744072477315072,
> > > > td_kstac k_pages =3D 4,
> > > > td_altkstack_obj =3D 0x0, td_altkstack =3D 0, td_altkstack_pages =
=3D 0,
> > > > td_critnest =3D 1, td_md =3D {
> > > > md_spinlock_count =3D 1, md_saved_flags =3D 582}, td_sched =3D
> > > > 0xffffff0063311488}
> > >
> > > I'm not familiar with the internals of the thread and KSE life cycle
> > > here,
> > >
> > > so I think we'll need to look to those more familiar with this to
> > > understand what of two things may be going on:
> > >
> > > (1) Is the fact that td_ksegrp !=3D NULL an invariant for a connected
> > > thread, and that kern_proc is relying on that but the thread code is
> > > failing to implement it safely?
> > >
> > > (2) Is td_ksegrp sometimes left legitimately as NULL as part of the
> > > thread life cycle, and that kern_proc incorrectly assumes that it is
> > > never NULL when hooked up to a thread.
> > >
> > > This suggests a possible work-around of simply testing td_ksegrp for
> NULL
> > > in kern_proc in order to avoid this, while attempting to resolve
> whether
> > > an invariant is violated (or incorrectly assumed), which might requir=
e
> > > some serious thinking and a solution that is non-trivial. Something
> like
> > > the following might work in the mean time:
> > >
> > > Index: kern_proc.c
> > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> > > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/kern_proc.c,v
> > > retrieving revision 1.231
> > > diff -u -r1.231 kern_proc.c
> > > --- kern_proc.c 27 Sep 2005 18:03:15 -0000 1.231
> > > +++ kern_proc.c 29 Sep 2005 20:50:33 -0000
> > > @@ -882,6 +882,8 @@
> > > } else {
> > > _PHOLD(p);
> > > FOREACH_THREAD_IN_PROC(p, td) {
> > > + if (td->td_ksegrp =3D=3D NULL)
> > > + continue;
> > > fill_kinfo_thread(td, &kinfo_proc);
> > > PROC_UNLOCK(p);
> > > error =3D SYSCTL_OUT(req, (caddr_t)&kinfo_proc,
> > >
> > > I'm going to forward off your e-mail to the threads@ list and see if
> > > anyone there wants to talk some more about this. If you don't mind
> > > testing the above patch to see if this is a workable work-around, we
> may
> > > want to think about getting it committed in the mean time.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Robert N M Watson
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