Hi all,

I think I've found a cause for our problems, but I need someone in RE
to disable armv8el builds temporarily in Trunk:Testing to verify the
fix, as I then can build glibc and gzip as a test in my home project.

The problem is as follows:

glibc2.13 contains this patch:

http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2010-11/msg00009.html, :

+       * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/nptl/bits/atomic.h (atomic_full_barrier,
+       __arch_compare_and_exchange_val_32_acq): Use the atomic builtins
+       provided by GCC if __GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_4 is defined.

And when this patch is disabled, the conftest that gzip/m4 was
stalling with will start working again under qemu-arm (we also
confirmed that the reverse is true, when it's applied to glibc 2.12,
conftest will stall). It seems to be a genuine problem in qemu and
I've verified it on top of Linaro rootfs'es as well.

My plan is:

* Get armv8el builds disabled in Trunk:Testing
* Add a patch to #undef __GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_4 for ARM
builds in glibc, we can re-add when qemu has a fix. It shouldn't
affect ABI/API when we re-add this.
* Build this and verify typical packages like acl and gzip, m4 will build fine.
* Submit fixed glibc package to Trunk:Testing and ask to have this alone enabled
* When glibc package is built, re-enable armv8el

Please let me know when you've disabled the builds and I'll get right
on verifying and submitting.

/Carsten


2011/6/22 Ulf Hofemeier <[email protected]>:
> Boy, you are on top of things ;)
> Ulf
>
> On Jun 22, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Carsten Munk wrote:
>
>> It basically sets a rlimit, signal handlers, tries to make printf fail
>> intentionally, expects printf to fail with ENOMEM but instead it gets
>> a sig11 which gets handled and something gets stuck along the way when
>> exit'ing :)
>>
>> http://pastie.org/2106361 is the code in question.
>>
>> /Carsten
>>
>>
>> 2011/6/22 Ulf Hofemeier <[email protected]>:
>>> That's exactly what I said yesterday. I'm not sure what "checking whether 
>>> printf survives out-of-memory-conditions" is doing. I remember there used 
>>> to be an issue with rpmbuild reverting to single byte reads() rather than 
>>> doing 4k packages for ARM. This means the building would actually work, but 
>>> is by an order of magnitude slower, which will result in OBS eventually 
>>> killing the build process it runs into a timeout.
>>>
>>> On Jun 22, 2011, at 6:37 AM, Carsten Munk wrote:
>>>
>>>> We're still investigating, but the good news is that the qemu problem
>>>> seems reproducable, and happens even on qemu git, linaro, qemu-meego
>>>> and all these.
>>>>
>>>> Will follow up when I have something more - it seems like some
>>>> mishandling of signals/out of memory conditions.
>>>>
>>>> /Carsten
>>>>
>>>> 2011/6/22 Carsten Munk <[email protected]>:
>>>>> Thanks for letting me know,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll query around a bit with qemu maintainers.
>>>>>
>>>>> /Carsten
>>>>>
>>>>> 2011/6/22 Hofemeier, Ulf <[email protected]>:
>>>>>> Carsten,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Latter one. I can eventually aborted the build for gzip and m4 after
>>>>>> nothing had happened for hours, but that was yesterday and it happened
>>>>>> again today.
>>>>>> Ulf
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 6/21/11 9:30 PM, "Carsten Munk" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> qemu: Unsupported syscall: 369
>>>>>>> qemu: Unsupported syscall: 369
>>>>>>> qemu: Unsupported syscall: 369
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> is the one you refer to?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Or:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> checking whether printf survives out-of-memory conditions...
>>>>>>> /var/run/obs/worker/1/build/build: line 1261: 27071 Killed
>>>>>>>     chroot $BUILD_ROOT su -c /.build.command - $BUILD_USER <
>>>>>>> /dev/null
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (I see that in m4, gzip)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /Carsten
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2011/6/22 Carsten Munk <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>>> I'll try to see if I can catch the qemu errors - when there's any ARM
>>>>>>>> problems like that, please reach out to meego-packaging@ and we'll
>>>>>>>> usually get on it asap.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> (I try to keep track of the monitor but sometimes I don't catch it)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2011/6/22 Hofemeier, Ulf <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>>>> That, plus the fact that qemu in Trunk:Testing seems to be crashing
>>>>>>>>> reliably for gzip, m4, and db4. I'm working on restoring Trunk at
>>>>>>>>> least.
>>>>>>>>> Ulf
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 6/21/11 9:09 PM, "Carsten Munk" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Something went terribly wrong here:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> armv8el
>>>>>>>>>> succeeded: 2
>>>>>>>>>> failed: 1353
>>>>>>>>>> unresolvable: 12
>>>>>>>>>> excluded: 89
>>>>>>>>>> i586
>>>>>>>>>> failed: 1440
>>>>>>>>>> unresolvable: 2
>>>>>>>>>> excluded: 14
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> /Carsten
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> 2011/6/22 Ulf Hofemeier <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Chris Ferron,
>>>>>>>>>>> The following change has been accepted. See the changelog below.
>>>>>>>>>>> The package util-linux-ng from project Trunk has been deleted.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Comments:
>>>>>>>>>>>    Reviewed OK
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>> MeeGo Release Engineering Team
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [This message was auto-generated]
>>>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Request #20594:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>  delete:    Trunk/util-linux-ng
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Message:
>>>>>>>>>>>    This pacakge will be replaced by the upstream "util-linux"
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> State:   accepted     2011-06-21T19:39:10 ulf
>>>>>>>>>>> Comment: Reviewed OK
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> History: new          2011-06-13T09:56:30 ceferron
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