From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mon Mar 27 18:17:22 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BEFCD20821 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:17:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from killing@multiplay.co.uk) Received: from mail-wr0-x236.google.com (mail-wr0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c0c::236]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6EE31B8 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:17:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from killing@multiplay.co.uk) Received: by mail-wr0-x236.google.com with SMTP id u1so69296601wra.2 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:17:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=multiplay-co-uk.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to; bh=sW8cshDDrqP4lpAHEObHr1cyJ0HthpiTSBcDc+I2yLA=; b=jdp8J7Hkg3aVoJBIscb6HoVIE8Qm1FfZdDS5gglglfI0Pnc7BZLkeE7o59V6ehgx88 C7zy35sxyOpqXZzZAAPupssPVdzQfuCWchA8R4nEwLIIuMhCnRzR8FP8n7BFsARMafLv 7EkRVOQk1+dGCtyqzjR3csi7abfU6yJ/ifGBBN6u+c2iAcyMtMkh7wARntGqbU/TsU4V Kz+T56LcWhGa8h5qVpQz4Szygg/D6hMbIh6Pz4fV7BeQqVzRt9IgV6O1Jhm6mi5b7Pfr 28JjjEnOTqOxEQNmS50Cy9sSSH7OwQ5EgPOQJXkBjB82Fy99RdXBxdDCfNIm5jmm2mfp xE6Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to; bh=sW8cshDDrqP4lpAHEObHr1cyJ0HthpiTSBcDc+I2yLA=; b=VdKmI32hvG3Ag5uHt6SiF96xcEvCymTyr4VYGakjFa94dHTFGVKFHFXBl2j9wQiW+a TyOxdcSa12DPD5DodE0Tyx6O8x3ouoKOEerUaC5whNoGCiLnM3UMxRKTsRwKsZoJKOKr yxfYgqLn4Lq9CfHt3n9gwy+iqrvbOw+ovzgi0FDHo84s8hi+9Xbl3qTZBIkElBFcUe6K iIj+iN5qryerSPK2a5KKvacJ5nypTYw+RDNXNf7yZQM9X1F6JSKvLCEtGJIZ9QPHYNDM Z6GfEZ2yEFn8HG4ybsHkjtGqRer8PYnV12qWXbf4OW37bxfvnkfKpAUCmk85JAxxyTLS M2Jg== X-Gm-Message-State: AFeK/H2yCeVNOJgatPp42Ai2IQwzdL3sLSC6yzmAvpChlP9AdIqm2hu2T4/SScSClUWsJlyG X-Received: by 10.28.55.3 with SMTP id e3mr11078771wma.141.1490638640155; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:17:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.10.1.58] ([185.97.61.26]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o22sm1683234wro.13.2017.03.27.11.17.18 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:17:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Help needed to identify golang fork / memory corruption issue on FreeBSD To: Konstantin Belousov References: <20161206143532.GR54029@kib.kiev.ua> <18b40a69-4460-faf2-c0ce-7491eca92782@multiplay.co.uk> <20170317082333.GP16105@kib.kiev.ua> <180a601b-5481-bb41-f7fc-67976aabe451@multiplay.co.uk> <20170317124437.GR16105@kib.kiev.ua> <5ba92447-945e-6fea-ad4f-f58ac2a0012e@multiplay.co.uk> <20170327161833.GL43712@kib.kiev.ua> <3ec35a46-ae70-35cd-29f8-82e7cebb0eb6@multiplay.co.uk> <20170327164905.GN43712@kib.kiev.ua> Cc: "K. Macy" , "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" From: Steven Hartland Message-ID: Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 19:17:20 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170327164905.GN43712@kib.kiev.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:17:22 -0000 On 27/03/2017 17:49, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 05:33:49PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: >> On 27/03/2017 17:18, Konstantin Belousov wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:47:11PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: >>>> OK now the similar but unrelated issue with signal stacks is solved I've >>>> moved back to the initial issue. >>>> >>>> I've made some progress with a reproduction case as detailed here: >>>> https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15658#issuecomment-288747812 >>>> >>>> In short it seems that having a running child, while the parent runs GC, >>>> is some how responsible for memory corruption in the parent. >>>> >>>> The reason I believe this is if I run the same GC in the parent after >>>> the child exits instead of while its running, I've been unable to >>>> reproduce the issue. >>>> >>>> As the memory segments are COW then the issue might be in VM subsystem. >>> Well, it might be, but it is a strange corruption mode to believe. >> Indeed, but would you agree the evidence seems to indicate that this may >> be the case, as otherwise I would have expected that running the GC >> after the child process has exited would have zero impact on the issue. >>>> In order to confirm / deny this I was wondering if there was a way to >>>> force a full copy of all segments for the child instead of using the COW >>>> optimisation. >>> No, there is no. By design, copying only occurs on faults, when VM >>> detects that the map entry needs copying. Doing the actual copy at fork >>> time would require writing a lot of new code. >> I noticed in vm_map_copy_entry the following: >> /* >> * We don't want to make writeable wired pages >> copy-on-write. >> * Immediately copy these pages into the new map by >> simulating >> * page faults. The new pages are pageable. >> */ >> vm_fault_copy_entry(dst_map, src_map, dst_entry, src_entry, >> fork_charge); >> >> I wondered if I could use vm_fault_copy_entry to force the copy on fork? > No, the vm_fault_copy_entry() only works with wired entries, e.g. it cannot > page in not yet touched page, and the result is also wired. > >>> Does go have FreeBSD/i386 port ? If yes, is the issue reproducable there ? >> Yes it does, I don't currently have i386 machine to test with, I'm >> assuming testing i386 on amd64 kernel, would likely not have any effect. > Only if the bug is in kernel and not in the go runtime. I am still not > convinced that the kernel is the culprit. > >>> Another blind experiment to try is to comment out call to >>> vm_object_collapse() in sys/vm/vm_map.c:vm_map_copy_entry() and see if >>> it changes anything. >> I'll do that shortly. >>> What could be quite interesting is to look at the parent and possibly >>> child address map after the error occured, using procstat -v. At >>> least for parent, this should be relatively easy to set up, just make >>> go runtime spin or pause on panic, instead of exiting, and then use >>> procstat. >> I've been looking at the output from procstat -v I have seen the parent >> FLAGS ping ping between C--- and CN--, not sure if that's relevant e.g. > C means that the entry is COW, N means that COW was not yet applied after > the last fork, i.e. there were no write access. > > I am interested in the procstat -v output after the failure. I understand > that there should be no surprising data for normally executing code. Here's the output after its logged the errors. procstat -v 36159 PID START END PRT RES PRES REF SHD FLAG TP PATH 36159 0x400000 0x70d000 r-x 308 588 3 1 CN-- vn /root/golang/src/test5/test5 36159 0x70d000 0x94e000 r-- 248 588 3 1 CN-- vn /root/golang/src/test5/test5 36159 0x94e000 0x985000 rw- 31 0 1 0 C--- vn /root/golang/src/test5/test5 36159 0x985000 0x9a8000 rw- 18 18 1 0 C--- df 36159 0x80094e000 0x8009ee000 rw- 35 35 1 0 C--- df 36159 0x8009ee000 0x800abe000 rw- 28 28 1 0 C--- df 36159 0x800abe000 0x800ace000 rw- 16 16 1 0 C--- df 36159 0x800ace000 0x800b0e000 rw- 2 2 1 0 CN-- df 36159 0x800b0e000 0x800b4e000 rw- 2 2 1 0 C--- df 36159 0x800b4e000 0x800b8e000 rw- 2 2 1 0 C--- df 36159 0x800b8e000 0x800c0e000 rw- 3 3 1 0 C--- df 36159 0x800c0e000 0x800c4e000 rw- 2 2 1 0 C--- df 36159 0x800c4e000 0x800c8e000 rw- 1 1 1 0 CN-- df 36159 0x800c8e000 0x800cce000 rw- 1 1 1 0 C--- df 36159 0x800cce000 0x800d0e000 rw- 1 1 1 0 CN-- df 36159 0xc000000000 0xc000001000 rw- 1 1 1 0 CN-- df 36159 0xc41fff0000 0xc41fff8000 rw- 3 3 1 0 CN-- df 36159 0xc41fff8000 0xc420200000 rw- 258 258 1 0 C--- df 36159 0x7ffffffdf000 0x7ffffffff000 rwx 2 2 1 0 C--D df 36159 0x7ffffffff000 0x800000000000 r-x 1 1 38 0 ---- ph I've left it running in case you want any more info. Regards Steve