Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/04/30/06:59:33
On Apr 29 17:57, Williams, David wrote:
> I've been debugging a problem with msgsnd() hanging. If
> there are no free msghdrs available, msgsnd() blocks with
> msleep(). Unfortunately, the only way it can unblock is
> if that specific queue frees a msghdr. If the queue in
> question is empty, this never occurs.
> [...]
> It's possible to work around this by using the flag IPC_NOWAIT
> in msgsnd, and polling until the message is sent, but my feeling
> is that the library call should not hang like this.
> [...]
> The call to msleep() above passes msqptr (the queue handle)
> as the Ident pointer. Each of the calls to wakeup() in
> sysv_msg.cc also passes msgptr as the ident. This means that
> if the msghdr resource is free'd by a queue other than the one
> blocked, it won't wake up msgsnd(). Since doqueue's queue is
> empty, there is no way to wake up msgsnd().
> [...]
> I haven't been able to spot a way to fix this behavior without
> significantly changing the block/release mechanism. Has anyone
> seen this before? Have I missed something? Is this simply a known
> limitation, with IPC_NOWAIT the only way to deal with it?
Right now, yes. As you have probably seen when examining the sources,
the code is pretty much the FreeBSD version, just with a thin and almost
tasteless Cygwin topping. The code is basically the version 1.52 of
the original FreeBSD code with a few patches applied up to version 1.60.
FreeBSD is at 1.71. I inspected the FreeBSD ChangeLogs and found this
change in version 1.65:
Fix msgsnd(3)/msgrcv(3) deadlock under heavy resource pressure by
timing out msgsnd and rechecking resources. This problem was found
while I was running Linux Test Project test suite (test cases:
msgctl08, msgctl09). [...]
This appears to be their solution to the above problem. The basic
change is the call to msleep. The last parameter is changed from 0 (no
timeout) to a value called hz. See
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/sysv_msg.c.diff?r1=1.64;r2=1.65
hz is an external variable in the code which is the system's clock
frequency.
Are you set up to build the Cygwin sources? Would you mind to rebuild
cygserver with this patch applied and test without IPC_NOWAIT again?
Index: sysv_msg.cc
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/cygserver/sysv_msg.cc,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -p -r1.3 sysv_msg.cc
--- sysv_msg.cc 9 Jan 2006 15:10:14 -0000 1.3
+++ sysv_msg.cc 30 Apr 2008 10:57:58 -0000
@@ -722,10 +722,14 @@ msgsnd(struct thread *td, struct msgsnd_
}
DPRINTF(("goodnight\n"));
error = msleep(msqptr, &msq_mtx, (PZERO - 4) | PCATCH,
- "msgwait", 0);
+ "msgsnd", 50);
DPRINTF(("good morning, error=%d\n", error));
if (we_own_it)
msqptr->msg_perm.mode &= ~MSG_LOCKED;
+ if (error == EWOULDBLOCK) {
+ DPRINTF(("timed out\n"));
+ continue;
+ }
if (error != 0) {
DPRINTF(("msgsnd: interrupted system call\n"));
#ifdef __CYGWIN__
@@ -1079,11 +1083,11 @@ msgrcv(struct thread *td, struct msgrcv_
DPRINTF(("msgrcv: goodnight\n"));
error = msleep(msqptr, &msq_mtx, (PZERO - 4) | PCATCH,
- "msgwait", 0);
+ "msgrcv", 0);
DPRINTF(("msgrcv: good morning (error=%d)\n", error));
if (error != 0) {
- DPRINTF(("msgsnd: interrupted system call\n"));
+ DPRINTF(("msgrcv: interrupted system call\n"));
#ifdef __CYGWIN__
if (error != EIDRM)
#endif /* __CYGWIN__ */
Thanks for the report,
Corinna
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