linux-kernel - Re: Hanging threads with pthread

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Date:	Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:08:01 +0800
From:	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>
To:	Pedro Alves <pedro@...esourcery.com>
Cc:	Philipp Marek <philipp.marek@...bit.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Hanging threads with pthread_detach and gdb

On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 18:28 +0800, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Friday 19 August 2011 09:54:43, Lin Ming wrote:
> > =====
> > gdb wait for pid=2431
> > gdb is going to sleep ...
> > gdb children list:
> >     pid=2431, exit_state=16, exit_signal=17
> > gdb ptrace list:
> >     pid=2436, exit_state=16, exit_signal=-1
> >     pid=2431, exit_state=16, exit_signal=17
> > =====
> > 
> > exit_state 16 is EXIT_ZOMBIE state.
> > pid 2431 is the thread group leader.
> > pid 2436 is the thread group member(other members have been removed).
> > 
> > gdb is waiting the group leader, but it fails because the group is not
> > empty. Then gdb goes to sleep.
> > 
> > At this moment, all threads have gone into EXIT_ZOMBIE state.
> > So no thread can wake up gdb anymore.
> > 
> > That's why gdb hangs.
> > 
> > I'm not familiar with pthread semantics.
> > Is this a problem need to be fixed?
> > 
> 
> Yeah, it's an ugly ptrace quirk.  waitpid'ing the exited
> tg leader hangs if there are other threads in the group,
> even if they're zombies.
> 
> I believe this is fixed / worked around mainline GDB:
> 
>  http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10970
>  http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12702
>  http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-05/msg00401.html
> 
> Though it'd be nice not to need the workaround...

Thanks for the info.

I still wonder if this is fixable in kernel.

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