Re: 2.6.24 regression: deadlock on coredump of big process

[Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>]

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:11:46 -0400
> Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Below is the program that triggers the deadlock; compile with
>> -D_REENTRANT -lpthread.
>>
>>     
> What happens if you changes size of stack (of pthreads) smaller ?
> (maybe ulimit -s will work also for threads.)
>
> Thanks,
> -Kame
>
>
>   

If I leave more memory free by changing the argument to
malloc_all_but_x_mb(), then I have to increase the number of threads
required to trigger the deadlock.  Changing the thread stack size via
setrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK) also changes the number of threads that are
required to trigger the deadlock.  For example, with
malloc_all_but_x_mb(16) and the default stack size of 8 MB, <= 5 threads
will coredump successfully, and >= 6 threads will deadlock.  With
malloc_all_but_x_mb(16) and a reduced stack size of 4096 bytes, <= 8
threads will coredump successfully, and >= 9 threads will deadlock.

Also note that the "free" command reports 10 MB free memory while the
program is running before the segfault is triggered.

Tony