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Date:      Mon, 1 Sep 2008 14:12:15 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>, freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mysterious hang in pthread_create
Message-ID:  <20080901111215.GS2038@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <48BBC9A3.1050905@icyb.net.ua>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0808291223240.5086@sea.ntplx.net> <20080829190506.GA2038@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0808301128410.9898@sea.ntplx.net> <20080830155622.GF2038@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0808301200460.9898@sea.ntplx.net> <20080830184512.GH2038@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <48BBA369.9010108@freebsd.org> <48BBA925.1000303@icyb.net.ua> <20080901084548.GQ2038@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <48BBC9A3.1050905@icyb.net.ua>

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On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 01:53:23PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 01/09/2008 11:45 Kostik Belousov said the following:
> >On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 11:34:45AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >>on 01/09/2008 11:10 David Xu said the following:
> >>>The ancient bug is in rtld, rlock_acquire() and wlock_acquire() test
> >>>thread_flag as a boolean value, because pt_iterate_phdr() tries to
> >>>lock two locks at same time, this test will always fail once it
> >>>acquired first lock.
> >>>
> >>>The following silly patch fixes the problem Andriy encountered:
> >>I can confirm - this fixed the issue for me.
> >>David, thanks!
> >
> >Does libc_r still work with patch applied ?
>=20
> In what sense?
> The test program that I posted seems to hang in both cases (patched and=
=20
> unpatched rtld).

The David' patch changes the code used to support libc_r operations.
Even on CURRENT, if you run 4.x-compiled binary with the support of
compat-4x libraries, this code from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 (installed
by CURRENT buildworld) provides locking for rtld.

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