DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 9AF3B3946C36
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2022 19:17:43 +0900
From: Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Deadlock of the process tree when running make
Message-Id: <20220409191743.6da2268a36e8c9b4ab22c722@nifty.ne.jp>
In-Reply-To: <9388316255ada0e0fcb2d849cce5a894@ispras.ru>
References: <9388316255ada0e0fcb2d849cce5a894@ispras.ru>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Precedence: list
Cc: Alexey Izbyshev <izbyshev@ispras.ru>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Errors-To: cygwin-bounces+archive-cygwin=delorie.com@cygwin.com
Sender: "Cygwin" <cygwin-bounces+archive-cygwin=delorie.com@cygwin.com>

On Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:53:31 +0300
Alexey Izbyshev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using 32-bit Cygwin 3.3.4 on 64-bit Windows 10 21H2. When running 
> parallel make (for testing my project), very rarely I get the whole 
> process tree hanging at some seemingly random point. An example of such 
> a tree:
> 
> make-+-make-+-bash---find
>       |      |-bash---find
>       |      |-bash---find
>       |      |-bash---find
>       |      |-bash---find
>       |      `-bash---javac
>       `-make-+-bash---bash---bash---readlink
>              `-bash---bash---bash-+-grep
>                                   `-grep
> 
> (In the above tree, javac is the zombie parent of a native javac, and 
> the latter doesn't exist at this point).
> 
> I got such hang two times while running make in a loop for several days. 
> ProcessHacker shows that all leaf processes are single-threaded and are 
> stuck on WaitForSingleObject().
> 
> I've skimmed git log of cygwin-3_3-branch after cygwin-3_3_4-release, 
> but couldn't find anything that seems definitely related.
> 
> Has anybody seen something like this?
> 
> Is there any way I can get useful data for diagnosing this hang from the 
> process tree that I currently have hanging (I'm going to keep it for 
> now)? Otherwise, what would be the best strategy?

Attaching gdb to the hanging process and dumping stack by 'bt'
command for each thread may diagnose more detail.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

-- 
Problem reports:      https://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                  https://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:        https://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:     https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple