Hi Marc,

I haven't been able to reproduce this (8.2 on RHEL 6).  What OS are you on?

Nothing stands out to me as problematic in your mutator.

Matt or Josh, do either of you have ideas here?

Best,
Emily

On Thursday, April 2, 2015, Marc Brünink <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Emily,
>
> actually I have a hanging mutator every now and then with this very simple
> mutator/mutatee pair during destruction of the mutator. Using 8.2.
>
> If you enable the thread in the mutatee, you can get a hanging mutator at
> a different location.
>
> All hangs happen on exit.
>
> Marc
>
>
>
>
> On 31/03/2015 21:59, Emily Gember-Jacobson wrote:
>
>> Hi Marc,
>>
>> Bill is out of the office this week, so I'll try to look into this for
>> you. Would it be possible for you to share the code to reproduce this
>> hang?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Emily
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Marc Brünink <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>     I am struggling with a hung mutator on exit of the mutatee.
>>     It looks like it is related to event ordering.
>>
>>     The process hangs if the post-UserThreadDestroy event is queued
>>     before the pre-Exit.
>>
>>     --------------
>>     [pcEventMuxer.C/83]: PCEventMuxer waiting for events, non-blocking
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[407]: Begin callbackMux, process pointer =
>>     0x33ae2dc0, event post-UserThreadDestroy
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[439]: Added event post-UserThreadDestroy to mailbox,
>>     size now 1
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[411]: after muxing event, mailbox size is 1
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[407]: Begin callbackMux, process pointer =
>>     0x33ae2dc0, event pre-LWPDestroy
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[439]: Added event pre-LWPDestroy to mailbox, size now 2
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[411]: after muxing event, mailbox size is 2
>>     [pcEventMuxer.C:86] after PC event handling, 2 events in mailbox
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[464]: Returning event post-UserThreadDestroy from
>> mailbox
>>     pcEventHandler.C[65]: attempting to handle event
>>     post-UserThreadDestroy on thread 4976/4977
>>     pcEventHandler.C[109]: stopping process for event handling
>>     dynProcess.C[1048]: Stopping process 4976
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[231]: Begin callbackMux, process pointer =
>>     0x33ae2dc0, event pre-Exit
>>     [pcEventMuxer.C:232] Exit callback
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[439]: Added event pre-Exit to mailbox, size now 2
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[236]: after muxing event, mailbox size is 2
>>     ... hang ...
>>     --------------
>>
>>
>>     In contrast if the pre-Exit is queued before, everything work fine
>>     because the stopping of the process is skipped.
>>
>>
>>     --------------
>>     [pcEventMuxer.C/83]: PCEventMuxer waiting for events, non-blocking
>>     [46912496468160]pcEventMuxer.__C[231]: Begin callbackMux, process
>>     pointer = 0x20cde620, event pre-Exit
>>     [pcEventMuxer.C:232] Exit callback
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[439]: Added event pre-Exit to mailbox, size now 1
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[236]: after muxing event, mailbox size is 1
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[407]: Begin callbackMux, process pointer =
>>     0x20cde620, event post-UserThreadDestroy
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[439]: Added event post-UserThreadDestroy to mailbox,
>>     size now 2
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[411]: after muxing event, mailbox size is 2
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[407]: Begin callbackMux, process pointer =
>>     0x20cde620, event pre-LWPDestroy
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[439]: Added event pre-LWPDestroy to mailbox, size now 3
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[411]: after muxing event, mailbox size is 3
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[407]: Begin callbackMux, process pointer =
>>     0x20cde620, event post-LWPDestroy
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[439]: Added event post-LWPDestroy to mailbox, size now
>> 4
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[411]: after muxing event, mailbox size is 4
>>     [pcEventMuxer.C:86] after PC event handling, 4 events in mailbox
>>     pcEventMuxer.C[464]: Returning event pre-Exit from mailbox
>>     pcEventHandler.C[65]: attempting to handle event pre-Exit on thread
>>     4952/4952
>>     --------------
>>
>>
>>     A truncated backtrace:
>>     --------------
>>     #0  pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () at
>>     ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/__linux/x86_64/pthread_cond___wait.S:185
>>     #1  0x00002aaaaee25c38 in wait<Mutex<false> > (m=...,
>>     this=0x2aaab40009b8)
>>          at /usr/include/boost/thread/__pthread/condition_variable.__
>> hpp:184
>>     #2  wait (this=0x2aaab40009b8) at
>>     /home/marc/Downloads/__DyninstAPI-8.2/common/src/__dthread.h:121
>>     #3  MailboxMT::dequeue (this=0x2aaab40008c0, block=true)
>>          at
>>     /home/marc/Downloads/__DyninstAPI-8.2/proccontrol/__src/mailbox.C:156
>>     #4  0x00002aaaaee4aa01 in int_process::__waitAndHandleEvents
>>     (block=block@entry=false)
>>          at
>>     /home/marc/Downloads/__DyninstAPI-8.2/proccontrol/__
>> src/process.C:1045
>>     #5  0x00002aaaaee733af in
>>     Dyninst::ProcControlAPI::__ProcessSet::stopProcs (this=0xca39e0)
>>          at
>>     /home/marc/Downloads/__DyninstAPI-8.2/proccontrol/__
>> src/procset.C:1495
>>     #6  0x00002aaaaee39953 in
>>     Dyninst::ProcControlAPI::__Process::stopProc (this=<optimized out>)
>>          at
>>     /home/marc/Downloads/__DyninstAPI-8.2/proccontrol/__
>> src/process.C:6406
>>     --------------
>>
>>
>>     Questions:
>>     1. Is this a known issue in Dyninst 8.2?
>>     2. Any idea what's wrong? It might very well be a problem in my
>> mutator.
>>
>>
>>     Marc
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