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Date:      Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:25:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>, davidxu@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mysterious hang in pthread_create
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0808291223240.5086@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080829143645.GY2038@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Kostik Belousov wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 05:18:18PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>
>> Kostik, thanks!
>>
>> on 29/08/2008 17:10 Kostik Belousov said the following:
>>> I am wondering why did you not fixed it youself with all this information.
>>
>> I am wondering that myself now :-)
>> I got bogged in rtld details and simply didn't think about the solution
>> of doing setthreaded earlier.
>>
>> I will try your patch a couple of hours later.
>> BTW, a forward question - should this patch help in the case of an
>> exception thrown (and caught) before main(), i.e. in constructors of
>> static/global objects?
> If the objects are from the executable, then yes. I do not know about
> present situation, but some time ago g++ and several other compilers
> called ctr for global objects from the main() function. Regardeless
> of this, init for main executable shall be called after init for
> dependencies is finished. See initlist_add_objects().
>
> On the other hand, ctr calls from linked dso may get fixed in regard
> of exception throwing, or may not, depending on the relative order of
> the dso loading against libthr.
>
>>
>>> Anyway, patch below seems to work for me. David may have an opinion on
>>> the change.
>>>
>>> diff --git a/lib/libthr/thread/thr_init.c b/lib/libthr/thread/thr_init.c
>>> index f96bba9..785d610 100644
>>> --- a/lib/libthr/thread/thr_init.c
>>> +++ b/lib/libthr/thread/thr_init.c
>>> @@ -355,6 +355,9 @@ _libpthread_init(struct pthread *curthread)
>>>  		if (_thread_event_mask & TD_CREATE)
>>>  			_thr_report_creation(curthread, curthread);
>>>  	}
>>> +
>>> +	if (_thr_isthreaded() == 0)
>>> +		_thr_setthreaded(1);
>>>  }
>>>
>>>  /*

I think the intent of __isthreaded (and _thr_setthreaded()) was
to be set if there were more than 1 thread, not to indicate that
the thread library has been initialized.

-- 
DE



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