While testing https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/106, I found that concurrent 
starts
are hanging time to time. I then reproduced the same problem in master and got 
following;

[caglar@oOo:~] sudo gdb -p 16221
(gdb) bt
    lxcpath=lxcpath@entry=0x7f49200b2010 "/var/lib/lxc") at start.c:951
(gdb)

It looks like both parent and child end up with locked mutex thus deadlocks.

I ended up placing values in the thread local storage pool, instead of doing 
"unlock the lock in the child" dance

Signed-off-by: S.Çağlar Onur <[email protected]>
---
 src/lxc/lxclock.c | 13 -------------
 src/lxc/lxclock.h | 10 ----------
 src/lxc/utils.c   | 16 +++-------------
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lxc/lxclock.c b/src/lxc/lxclock.c
index 64823d2..62e774f 100644
--- a/src/lxc/lxclock.c
+++ b/src/lxc/lxclock.c
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ lxc_log_define(lxc_lock, lxc);
 
 #ifdef MUTEX_DEBUGGING
 pthread_mutex_t thread_mutex = PTHREAD_ERRORCHECK_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP;
-pthread_mutex_t static_mutex = PTHREAD_ERRORCHECK_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP;
 
 inline void dump_stacktrace(void)
 {
@@ -66,7 +65,6 @@ inline void dump_stacktrace(void)
 }
 #else
 pthread_mutex_t thread_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
-pthread_mutex_t static_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
 
 inline void dump_stacktrace(void) {;}
 #endif
@@ -324,17 +322,6 @@ void process_unlock(void)
        unlock_mutex(&thread_mutex);
 }
 
-/* Protects static const values inside the lxc_global_config_value funtion */
-void static_lock(void)
-{
-       lock_mutex(&static_mutex);
-}
-
-void static_unlock(void)
-{
-       unlock_mutex(&static_mutex);
-}
-
 int container_mem_lock(struct lxc_container *c)
 {
        return lxclock(c->privlock, 0);
diff --git a/src/lxc/lxclock.h b/src/lxc/lxclock.h
index 820e819..a02a032 100644
--- a/src/lxc/lxclock.h
+++ b/src/lxc/lxclock.h
@@ -123,16 +123,6 @@ extern void process_lock(void);
  */
 extern void process_unlock(void);
 
-/*!
- * \brief Lock global data.
- */
-extern void static_lock(void);
-
-/*!
- * \brief Unlock global data.
- */
-extern void static_unlock(void);
-
 struct lxc_container;
 
 /*!
diff --git a/src/lxc/utils.c b/src/lxc/utils.c
index b605307..785f3e6 100644
--- a/src/lxc/utils.c
+++ b/src/lxc/utils.c
@@ -253,8 +253,8 @@ const char *lxc_global_config_value(const char *option_name)
                { "cgroup.use",      NULL            },
                { NULL, NULL },
        };
-       /* Protected by a mutex to eliminate conflicting load and store 
operations */
-       static const char *values[sizeof(options) / sizeof(options[0])] = { 0 };
+       /* placed in the thread local storage pool */
+       static __thread const char *values[sizeof(options) / 
sizeof(options[0])] = { 0 };
        const char *(*ptr)[2];
        const char *value;
        size_t i;
@@ -270,13 +270,10 @@ const char *lxc_global_config_value(const char 
*option_name)
                return NULL;
        }
 
-       static_lock();
        if (values[i]) {
                value = values[i];
-               static_unlock();
                return value;
        }
-       static_unlock();
 
        process_lock();
        fin = fopen_cloexec(LXC_GLOBAL_CONF, "r");
@@ -313,21 +310,17 @@ const char *lxc_global_config_value(const char 
*option_name)
                        while (*p && (*p == ' ' || *p == '\t')) p++;
                        if (!*p)
                                continue;
-                       static_lock();
                        values[i] = copy_global_config_value(p);
-                       static_unlock();
                        goto out;
                }
        }
        /* could not find value, use default */
-       static_lock();
        values[i] = (*ptr)[1];
        /* special case: if default value is NULL,
         * and there is no config, don't view that
         * as an error... */
        if (!values[i])
                errno = 0;
-       static_unlock();
 
 out:
        process_lock();
@@ -335,10 +328,7 @@ out:
                fclose(fin);
        process_unlock();
 
-       static_lock();
-       value = values[i];
-       static_unlock();
-       return value;
+       return values[i];
 }
 
 const char *default_lvm_vg(void)
-- 
1.8.3.2

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