Re: [patch 00/12] futex: Cure robust/PI futex exit races

From: Florian Weimer
Date: Fri Nov 08 2019 - 02:39:03 EST


* Florian Weimer:

> * Florian Weimer:
>
>> * Thomas Gleixner:
>>
>>> The series is also available from git:
>>>
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git WIP.locking/futex
>>
>> I ran the glibc upstream test suite (which has some robust futex tests)
>> against b21be7e942b49168ee15a75cbc49fbfdeb1e6a97 on x86-64, both native
>> and 32-bit/i386 compat mode.
>>
>> compat mode seems broken, nptl/tst-thread-affinity-pthread fails. This
>> is probably *not* due to
>> <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154011> because the failure
>> is non-sporadic, but reliable fails for thread 253:
>>
>> info: Detected CPU set size (in bits): 225
>> info: Maximum test CPU: 255
>> error: pthread_create for thread 253 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
>>
>> I'm running this on a large box as root, so ulimits etc. do not apply.
>>
>> I did not see this failure with the x86-64 test.
>>
>> You should be able to reproduce with (assuming you've got a multilib gcc):
>>
>> git clone git://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git git
>> mkdir build
>> cd build
>> ../git/configure --prefix=/usr CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32" --build=i686-linux
>> make -j`nproc`
>> make test t=nptl/tst-thread-affinity-pthread
>
> Sorry, I realized that I didn't actually verify that this is a
> regression caused by your patches. Maybe I can do that tomorrow.

Confirmed as a regression caused by the patches. Depending on the
nature of the bug, you need a machine which has or pretends to have many
CPUs (this one has 256 CPUs).

Please let me know if you need more information.

Thanks,
Florian