* bug#20996: 25.0.50; Incomplete recovery from stack overflow
@ 2015-07-06 20:41 Ken Brown
2015-07-14 14:04 ` Paul Eggert
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ken Brown @ 2015-07-06 20:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 20996
Cygwin has just implemented an alternate stack in its development trunk,
and I've been testing it by seeing if emacs can recover from a stack
overflow (see handle_sigsegv() in sysdep.c). This isn't working as I
expect, and I don't know if it's a Cygwin problem or an emacs problem.
(For starters, it would help if someone would try to reproduce it on
GNU/Linux.)
To reproduce the problem, run 'emacs -Q' and then force a stack overflow
as suggested in
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-08/msg00481.html,
i.e., by evaluating the following:
(setq max-specpdl-size 83200000
max-lisp-eval-depth 640000)
(defun foo () (foo))
(foo)
When I do this, handle_sigsegv is called and I get the message
"Re-entering top level after C stack overflow", as expected. But if I
then type 'C-x d', I get an immediate crash with the following
backtrace:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x000000010053aff0 in SDATA (string=-2338913020442312704)
at ../../master/src/lisp.h:1281
1281 return XSTRING (string)->data;
(gdb) bt full
#0 0x000000010053aff0 in SDATA (string=-2338913020442312704)
at ../../master/src/lisp.h:1281
No locals.
#1 0x0000000100628636 in unmark_byte_stack ()
at ../../master/src/bytecode.c:380
stack = 0x100df8a63 <bss_sbrk_buffer+3748003>
#2 0x00000001005c0bcb in garbage_collect_1 (end=0x82b838)
at ../../master/src/alloc.c:5735
nextb = 0x0
stack_top_variable = 0 '\000'
i = 585
message_p = false
count = 17
start = {
tv_sec = 1436214527,
tv_nsec = 316292100
}
retval = 0
tot_before = 0
total = {25782979923, 25782959104, 8565584, 45696, 8566592,
4300451200, 4305864144, 0, 8566624, 4300451200}
#3 0x00000001005c1208 in Fgarbage_collect () at
../../master/src/alloc.c:5937
end = 0x82b838
#4 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
Lisp Backtrace:
"Automatic GC" (0x0)
"autoload-do-load" (0x82c0c0)
"command-execute" (0x82c628)
And handle_sigsegv can't do anything about this because garbage
collection is in process. So we haven't really made a complete recovery
from the stack overflow.
In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.15 (x86_64-unknown-cygwin, GTK+ Version 3.14.13)
of 2015-07-06 on moufang
Repository revision: f3480939ffccf7a72b060b4fc21dd85b55f535f6
Windowing system distributor `The Cygwin/X Project', version 11.0.11701000
Configured using:
`configure 'CFLAGS=-g3 -O0''
Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL
GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
GTK3 X11
Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
Major mode: Lisp Interaction
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
global-eldoc-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Load-path shadows:
None found.
Features:
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dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk
x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)
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* bug#20996: 25.0.50; Incomplete recovery from stack overflow
2015-07-06 20:41 bug#20996: 25.0.50; Incomplete recovery from stack overflow Ken Brown
@ 2015-07-14 14:04 ` Paul Eggert
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Paul Eggert @ 2015-07-14 14:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ken Brown; +Cc: 20996-done
Thanks for reporting that bug, especially the recipe. I reproduced the problem
and installed a fix as master commit 2254b6c09cff8f3a83684fd159289d0e305b0e7d.
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