[PATCH] RISC-V: Fix elfutils testsuite unwind failures.
Palmer Dabbelt
palmer@sifive.com
Thu Jan 24 02:51:00 GMT 2019
On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 15:48:09 PST (-0800), Jim Wilson wrote:
> The clone.S patch fixes 2 elfutils testsuite unwind failures, where the
> backtrace gets stuck repeating __thread_start until we hit the backtrace
> limit. This was confirmed by building and installing a patched glibc and
> then building elfutils and running its testsuite.
>
> Unfortunately, the testcase isn't working as expected and I don't know why.
> The testcase passes even when my clone.S patch is not installed. The testcase
> looks logically similarly to the elfutils testcases that are failing. Maybe
> there is a subtle difference in how the glibc unwinding works versus the
> elfutils unwinding? I don't have good gdb pthread support yet, so I haven't
> found a way to debug this. Anyways, I don't know if the testcase is useful or
> not. If the testcase isn't useful then maybe the clone.S patch is OK without
> a testcase?
>
> Jim
>
> [BZ #24040]
> * elf/Makefile (CFLAGS-tst-unwind-main.c): Add -DUSE_PTHREADS=0.
> * elf/tst-unwind-main.c: If USE_PTHEADS, include pthread.h and error.h
> (func): New.
> (main): If USE_PTHREADS, call pthread_create to run func. Otherwise
> call func directly.
> * nptl/Makefile (tests): Add tst-unwind-thread.
> (CFLAGS-tst-unwind-thread.c): Define.
> * nptl/tst-unwind-thread.c: New file.
> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/clone.S (__thread_start): Mark ra
> as undefined.
I'm happy with the fix and can merge that. I'm not sure if I can actually
merge the test suite changes, though.
Does anyone oppose me merging the whole patch?
> ---
> elf/Makefile | 2 +-
> elf/tst-unwind-main.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> nptl/Makefile | 4 +++-
> nptl/tst-unwind-thread.c | 2 ++
> sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/clone.S | 5 +++++
> 5 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 nptl/tst-unwind-thread.c
>
> diff --git a/elf/Makefile b/elf/Makefile
> index 9cf5cd8dfd..815bbd2041 100644
> --- a/elf/Makefile
> +++ b/elf/Makefile
> @@ -1497,4 +1497,4 @@ $(objpfx)tst-big-note: $(objpfx)tst-big-note-lib.so
>
> $(objpfx)tst-unwind-ctor: $(objpfx)tst-unwind-ctor-lib.so
>
> -CFLAGS-tst-unwind-main.c += -funwind-tables
> +CFLAGS-tst-unwind-main.c += -funwind-tables -DUSE_PTHREADS=0
> diff --git a/elf/tst-unwind-main.c b/elf/tst-unwind-main.c
> index 4089e7e907..0c345dc31f 100644
> --- a/elf/tst-unwind-main.c
> +++ b/elf/tst-unwind-main.c
> @@ -20,19 +20,41 @@
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <support/test-driver.h>
>
> +#if USE_PTHREADS
> +# include <pthread.h>
> +# include <error.h>
> +#endif
> +
> static _Unwind_Reason_Code
> callback (struct _Unwind_Context *ctx, void *arg)
> {
> return _URC_NO_REASON;
> }
>
> -int
> -main (void)
> +static void *
> +func (void *a)
> {
> /* Arrange for this test to be killed if _Unwind_Backtrace runs into an
> endless loop. We cannot use the test driver because the complete
> call chain needs to be compiled with -funwind-tables so that
> - _Unwind_Backtrace is able to reach _start. */
> + _Unwind_Backtrace is able to reach the start routine. */
> alarm (DEFAULT_TIMEOUT);
> _Unwind_Backtrace (callback, 0);
> + return a;
> +}
> +
> +int
> +main (void)
> +{
> +#if USE_PTHREADS
> + pthread_t thr;
> + int rc = pthread_create (&thr, NULL, &func, NULL);
> + if (rc)
> + error (1, rc, "pthread_create");
> + rc = pthread_join (thr, NULL);
> + if (rc)
> + error (1, rc, "pthread_join");
> +#else
> + func (NULL);
> +#endif
> }
> diff --git a/nptl/Makefile b/nptl/Makefile
> index 340282c6cb..07c2f49235 100644
> --- a/nptl/Makefile
> +++ b/nptl/Makefile
> @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ tests = tst-attr1 tst-attr2 tst-attr3 tst-default-attr \
> tst-cnd-basic tst-mtx-trylock tst-cnd-broadcast \
> tst-cnd-timedwait tst-thrd-detach tst-mtx-basic tst-thrd-sleep \
> tst-mtx-recursive tst-tss-basic tst-call-once tst-mtx-timedlock \
> - tst-rwlock-pwn
> + tst-rwlock-pwn tst-unwind-thread
>
> tests-internal := tst-rwlock19 tst-rwlock20 \
> tst-sem11 tst-sem12 tst-sem13 \
> @@ -709,6 +709,8 @@ $(objpfx)tst-audit-threads: $(objpfx)tst-audit-threads-mod2.so
> $(objpfx)tst-audit-threads.out: $(objpfx)tst-audit-threads-mod1.so
> tst-audit-threads-ENV = LD_AUDIT=$(objpfx)tst-audit-threads-mod1.so
>
> +CFLAGS-tst-unwind-thread.c += -funwind-tables
> +
> # The tests here better do not run in parallel
> ifneq ($(filter %tests,$(MAKECMDGOALS)),)
> .NOTPARALLEL:
> diff --git a/nptl/tst-unwind-thread.c b/nptl/tst-unwind-thread.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..d5c38e3709
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/nptl/tst-unwind-thread.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> +#define USE_PTHREADS 1
> +#include "../elf/tst-unwind-main.c"
> diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/clone.S b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/clone.S
> index c079c1fb9f..0ff9ab3fd9 100644
> --- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/clone.S
> +++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/clone.S
> @@ -69,6 +69,11 @@ L (error):
>
> ENTRY (__thread_start)
> L (thread_start):
> + /* Terminate call stack by noting ra is undefined. Use a dummy
> + .cfi_label to force starting the FDE. */
> + .cfi_label .Ldummy
> + cfi_undefined (ra)
> +
> /* Restore the arg for user's function. */
> REG_L a1,0(sp) /* Function pointer. */
> REG_L a0,SZREG(sp) /* Argument pointer. */
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