linux-kernel - Re: BUG? timer_create() with SIGEV_THREAD not working (at least on ppc64)

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Message-ID: <492326B5.10203@nortel.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:33:57 -0600
From:	"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>
To:	"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>
CC:	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: BUG? timer_create() with SIGEV_THREAD not working (at least on
 ppc64)

Chris Friesen wrote:
> The code below sets up a simple timer with SIGEV_THREAD.  I compiled the 
> code as "g++ timertest.cc -o timertest -lrt -pthread".
> 
> Running it on my G5 with 2.6.27 (but with an older glibc), it prints:
> 
> Creating timer
> Setting timer 268509264 for 5-second expiration...
> 
> and then the timer never expires.  I have an old Fedora Core 4 x86 
> machine and there it works as expected.
> 
> Is there some hard requirement to upgrade glibc?  If not, then this 
> looks like a bug somewhere.

I'm getting suspicious of either glibc or my version of strace, as it 
shows the child thread calling rt_sigtimedwait() with an empty signal set.

clone(Process 2663 attached
child_stack=0xf7ffe6c0, 
flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_SETTLS|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID|CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_DETACHED, 
parent_tidptr=0xf7ffeb68, tls=0xf8005f80, child_tidptr=0xf7ffeb68) = 2663
[pid  2662] futex(0xf5f11a4, FUTEX_WAKE, 2147483647) = 0
[pid  2662] timer_create(0, {0x10011050, 32, SIGEV_THREAD_ID, {2663}}, 
{(nil)}) = 0
[pid  2662] timer_settime(0, , {it_interval={1, 0}, it_value={1, 0}}, 
<unfinished ...>
[pid  2663] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [RTMIN],  <unfinished ...>
[pid  2662] <... timer_settime resumed> NULL) = 0
[pid  2662] fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), 
...}) = 0
[pid  2663] <... rt_sigprocmask resumed> NULL, 8) = 0
[pid  2662] mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, 
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0 <unfinished ...>
[pid  2663] rt_sigtimedwait([],  <unfinished ...>
[pid  2662] <... mmap resumed> )        = 0xf7ffa000
[pid  2662] write(1, "set timer OK\n", 13set timer OK


Chris
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