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Date:      Wed, 3 Nov 2004 14:04:56 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libpthread/thread thr_private.h thr_sig.c
Message-ID:  <200411031404.56440.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <418817ED.2040201@freebsd.org>
References:  <200411011049.iA1AnY8m012136@repoman.freebsd.org> <200411021549.27511.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <418817ED.2040201@freebsd.org>

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On Tuesday 02 November 2004 06:27 pm, David Xu wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> >On Monday 01 November 2004 06:04 pm, David Xu wrote:
> >>Not every important,  I think I have another very important history
> >>bug in hand,  did you get my "fix famous libpthread conditional
> >>variable race condition" mail ? :-)
> >
> >Oooo, can I test it please?  We are still having problems with mono on
> > HEAD here at work.  I tried merging the changes in uthread_cond.c 1.32 to
> > libpthread but that seemed to make it worse.  The problems seem to be
> > that a signal handler is being run when the SYNCQ sflag is set (but the
> > thread is not on a cv or a mutex queue), and the handler calls sem_post()
> > which is supposed to be signal safe.  sem_post() tries to lock a mutex
> > and then bombs with the assertion failure.
>
> You can try:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/kse/thr_cond.c.diff
>
> But it was not designed to fix the problem you have seen. :-)

This looks like it's trying to fix the same problem as uthread_cond.c rev 1.32 
in libc_r but in a different way.  The fix for libc_r was to always unlock 
the mutex instead of trying to keep it locked in some cases.  The kernel cv 
code works like this as well.  I have a patch that ports 1.32 of 
uthread_cond.c to thr_cond.c if you are interested.

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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