Re: Thread+GC issues on ARM

[Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>]

Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.homelinux.net> writes:

> Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:

>> So do I understand correctly that in order for this to work, we'll first
>> need an updated libgc in Debian unstable?
>
> Yes.

Great.  If we can get this and the s390 problem fixed, I'll be able to
see about removing 1.8 from Debian testing (which I'd love to do soon --
I'd really like to drop 1.8 from the upcoming release).

>> If so, I'll probably hold off on the guile patch for now.
>
> Sure.  I'm happy that it's with me, for the moment, to propose something
> coherent to the libgc maintainer.

Could this also be related to the other current 2.0.5 arm(el|hf)
failures:

  https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=guile-2.0&suite=sid
  http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10646

If it helps, I just tried debugging that problem on an armhf machine, and
test-with-guile-module fails like this:

  Reading symbols from /home/rlb/guile/guile-2.0-2.0.3+1/test-suite/standalone/.libs/lt-test-with-guile-module...done.
  (gdb) run
  Starting program: /home/rlb/guile/guile-2.0-2.0.3+1/test-suite/standalone/.libs/lt-test-with-guile-module 
  [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
  [New Thread 0xb6afa470 (LWP 11969)]

  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
  [Switching to Thread 0xb6afa470 (LWP 11969)]
  0xb6eb512c in GC_malloc () from /usr/lib/libgc.so.1
  (gdb) where
  #0  0xb6eb512c in GC_malloc () from /usr/lib/libgc.so.1
  #1  0xb6f78f80 in scm_cell (cdr=2721088, car=383) at ../libguile/inline.h:117
  #2  guilify_self_2 (parent=0x2976f0) at threads.c:580
  #3  0xb6f79962 in scm_i_init_thread_for_guile (base=0xb6af9dc4, parent=0x2976f0) at threads.c:821
  #4  0xb6f7999c in with_guile_and_parent (base=0xb6af9dc4, data=<optimized out>) at threads.c:865
  #5  0xb6eb24ea in GC_call_with_stack_base () from /usr/lib/libgc.so.1
  #6  0xb6f79ad8 in scm_i_with_guile_and_parent (parent=<optimized out>, data=0x0, func=0x87dd <thread_inner_main>) at threads.c:915
  #7  scm_with_guile (func=0x87dd <thread_inner_main>, data=<optimized out>) at threads.c:921
  #8  0x0000879c in thread_main (unused=<optimized out>) at test-with-guile-module.c:50
  #9  0xb6deaee8 in start_thread (arg=0xb6afa470) at pthread_create.c:306
  #10 0xb6d929e8 in ?? () at ../ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/nptl/../clone.S:116 from /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6
  #11 0xb6d929e8 in ?? () at ../ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/nptl/../clone.S:116 from /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6
  Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
  (gdb)

Thanks
-- 
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org
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