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authornormal <normal@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2017-05-24 18:59:24 +0000
committernormal <normal@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2017-05-24 18:59:24 +0000
commit1c29b22391642ab2c4be7c8b665132341fbd31b6 (patch)
treec522aacfb0af72b12dffe5503027f6b03eac19d0 /thread_pthread.c
parent6d600b1d7500a070be0885dbb67ac77289e2c6e6 (diff)
downloadruby-1c29b22391642ab2c4be7c8b665132341fbd31b6.tar.gz
thread_pthread: retry timer thread creation w/o attr on EINVAL
Setting a small stack size can fail due to having 3rd-party libraries (e.g. libkqueue) loaded, if those libraries use thread-local-storage (__thread) heavily. This causes pthread_create to fail with small stacks; even if our timer_thread function does not hit any of the TLS-using code paths. Today, some RubyGems are capable of using libkqueue (or __thread storage directly), and future versions of Ruby may use kqueue internally. cf. https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/tls.pdf git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@58874 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
Diffstat (limited to 'thread_pthread.c')
-rw-r--r--thread_pthread.c15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/thread_pthread.c b/thread_pthread.c
index 43644e7c06..437ff370d5 100644
--- a/thread_pthread.c
+++ b/thread_pthread.c
@@ -1587,6 +1587,7 @@ rb_thread_create_timer_thread(void)
int err;
#ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD_ATTR_INIT
pthread_attr_t attr;
+ rb_vm_t *vm = GET_VM();
err = pthread_attr_init(&attr);
if (err != 0) {
@@ -1623,10 +1624,20 @@ rb_thread_create_timer_thread(void)
rb_bug("rb_thread_create_timer_thread: Timer thread was already created\n");
}
#ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD_ATTR_INIT
- err = pthread_create(&timer_thread.id, &attr, thread_timer, &GET_VM()->gvl);
+ err = pthread_create(&timer_thread.id, &attr, thread_timer, &vm->gvl);
pthread_attr_destroy(&attr);
+
+ if (err == EINVAL) {
+ /*
+ * Even if we are careful with our own stack use in thread_timer(),
+ * any third-party libraries (eg libkqueue) which rely on __thread
+ * storage can cause small stack sizes to fail. So lets hope the
+ * default stack size is enough for them:
+ */
+ err = pthread_create(&timer_thread.id, NULL, thread_timer, &vm->gvl);
+ }
#else
- err = pthread_create(&timer_thread.id, NULL, thread_timer, &GET_VM()->gvl);
+ err = pthread_create(&timer_thread.id, NULL, thread_timer, &vm->gvl);
#endif
if (err != 0) {
rb_warn("pthread_create failed for timer: %s, scheduling broken",