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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: Stanislav Ievlev <stanislav.ievlev@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Strange deadlocks in guile
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:37:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eix2wk8c.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c5318fd90903120152q6f8e47falb77bb8f82c6579d@mail.gmail.com> (Stanislav Ievlev's message of "Thu\, 12 Mar 2009 11\:52\:26 +0300")

Stanislav Ievlev <stanislav.ievlev@gmail.com> writes:

> Greetings!
>
> On my 2.6.18 kernel guile (latest snapshot from git, branch-release-1.8 head) 
> in some situations (unfortunately I can't made a testcase) stops forever. Guile
> with 2.6.27 kernel works well.
>
> Strace:
> futex(0xc571890, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL...
>
> Backtrace:
> --
> #0  0x00002b4ba31b4004 in __lll_lock_wait () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> #1  0x00002b4ba31af944 in _L_lock_55 () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> #2  0x00002b4ba31af341 in pthread_mutex_lock () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> #3  0x00002b4ba22f87dc in scm_i_thread_put_to_sleep () from /usr/lib64/
> libguile.so.17
> #4  0x00002b4ba22abfd9 in scm_i_gc () from /usr/lib64/libguile.so.17
> #5  0x00002b4ba22ac338 in scm_gc_for_newcell () from /usr/lib64/libguile.so.17
> #6  0x00002b4ba22cc86f in scm_cons () from /usr/lib64/libguile.so.17
> --
>
> How can I debug and solve this problem?

The backtrace above only has 7 frames, and there should be many more.
Can you get the full backtrace, and also backtraces of all the other
threads?

We've recently been working quite a bit on deadlocks, so I'd say
there's a good chance we'll be able to understand and fix this.

Thanks,
        Neil




  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-12 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-12  8:52 Strange deadlocks in guile Stanislav Ievlev
2009-03-12 20:37 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2009-03-13  8:36   ` Stanislav Ievlev
2009-03-13  9:22     ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-14 11:40     ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-16  7:16       ` Stanislav Ievlev
2009-03-16  7:18       ` Stanislav Ievlev

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