Bug 5481 – Callback deactivation hang on Debian 4.0 w/pthreads

Bug 5481 - Callback deactivation hang on Debian 4.0 w/pthreads

Summary:

Callback deactivation hang on Debian 4.0 w/pthreads

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Toolkit Internals
Component:	globus_common
Version:	unspecified
Platform:	PC Linux

Importance:	P3 normal
Target Milestone:	4.0.6
Assigned To:	Mike Link

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Blocks:	5624
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Reported:	2007-08-17 07:28 by Joe Bester
Modified:	2007-12-11 12:40 (History)

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Description From Joe Bester 2007-08-17 07:28:20

Deactivating the callback module in c common hangs on Debian 4.0 when built
with phreads. I did a bunch of tracing and debugging on this, and think it
relates to this libc bug:
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-glibc@lists.debian.org/msg33956.html. 

I've observed that the hang occurs when destroying the condition variable that
the callback signal thread was waiting on. It appears that pthread_cancel is
corrupting the condition variable being waited on. The broadcast-after-cancel
in the common lib makes the condition destroy not fail with EBUSY, but it still
hangs.

------- Comment #1 From Charles Bacon 2007-08-17 15:41:04 -------

Is this trunk, branch, or both?

------- Comment #2 From Gennaro Oliva 2007-10-09 11:49:35 -------

The trick of using LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 suggested on
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-glibc@lists.debian.org/msg33956.html
works.
The fix for the debian bug related, will not be backported to stable.
I think that bugs 5581 is a duplicate of this.

------- Comment #3 From Joe Bester 2007-12-11 12:31:37 -------

Fix for this is committed to 4.0 branch and trunk. The LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
workaround had some side effects.

Joe