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[PATCH] Avoid gdb.base/fork-running-state.exp lingering processes (Re: [gdb/testsuite] Fix hang in fork-running-state.c)
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Tom de Vries <tdevries at suse dot de>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:59:31 +0100
- Subject: [PATCH] Avoid gdb.base/fork-running-state.exp lingering processes (Re: [gdb/testsuite] Fix hang in fork-running-state.c)
- References: <20180612155134.7fninj4us5lq4hfc@localhost.localdomain> <21cb1f1d-fad1-e9c5-a106-b0b67a1f7a50@redhat.com>
On 06/13/2018 01:10 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Your patch is definitely a good idea. Please push.
>
> However, I think that still leaves an unnecessary delay until
> the detached child/parent terminate. They used to exit themselves,
> but that caused a race, so they no longer do, see here:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2018-03/msg00588.html
>
> Sounds like the best would be to restore the self-killing,
> but make it controlled by a variable that gdb sets, depending
> on whether gdb is staying attached to the child/parent.
Like so?
>From 1d7047ff526a4bbd6e2f4336c046b3438048808f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:00:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid gdb.base/fork-running-state.exp lingering processes
Currently, the gdb.base/fork-running-state.exp testcase leaves a few
processes lingering until a 3 minutes alarm kills them:
pedro 28308 1 0 13:55 ? 00:00:00 /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/fork-running-state/fork-running-state
pedro 28340 1 0 13:55 ? 00:00:00 /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/fork-running-state/fork-running-state
pedro 28372 1 0 13:55 ? 00:00:00 /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/fork-running-state/fork-running-state
pedro 28400 1 0 13:55 ? 00:00:00 /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/fork-running-state/fork-running-state
pedro 28431 1 0 13:55 ? 00:00:00 /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/fork-running-state/fork-running-state
pedro 28463 1 0 13:55 ? 00:00:00 /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/fork-running-state/fork-running-state
Those processes used to kill themselves, but that was changed by
commit f50d8a2eaea0 ("Fix gdb.base/fork-running-state.exp race").
This commit restores the self-killing, but only in the cases gdb won't
try killing the processes, thus avoiding the old race.
(The restored code in fork_parent isn't exactly the same as it was.
In this version, we're exiting immediately when 'wait' returns
success, while in the old version we'd loop again and end up in the
perror call. The output from that perror call is not expected by the
"kill inferior" tests, and would result in a test FAIL.)
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2018-06-14 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/fork-running-state.c: Include <errno.h>.
(exit_if_relative_exits): New.
(fork_child): If 'exit_if_relative_exits' is true, exit if the parent
exits.
(fork_parent): If 'exit_if_relative_exits' is true, exit if the
child exits.
---
gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/fork-running-state.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/fork-running-state.exp | 7 +++++
2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/fork-running-state.c b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/fork-running-state.c
index 65ca942ea02..0037cb5a5e1 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/fork-running-state.c
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/fork-running-state.c
@@ -19,9 +19,15 @@
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <errno.h>
int save_parent;
+/* Variable set by GDB. If true, then a fork child (or parent) exits
+ if its parent (or child) exits. Otherwise the process waits
+ forever until either GDB or the alarm kills it. */
+volatile int exit_if_relative_exits = 0;
+
/* The fork child. Just runs forever. */
static int
@@ -31,7 +37,20 @@ fork_child (void)
alarm (180);
while (1)
- pause ();
+ {
+ if (exit_if_relative_exits)
+ {
+ sleep (1);
+
+ /* Exit if GDB kills the parent. */
+ if (getppid () != save_parent)
+ break;
+ if (kill (getppid (), 0) != 0)
+ break;
+ }
+ else
+ pause ();
+ }
return 0;
}
@@ -45,7 +64,23 @@ fork_parent (void)
alarm (180);
while (1)
- pause ();
+ {
+ if (exit_if_relative_exits)
+ {
+ int res = wait (NULL);
+ if (res == -1 && errno == EINTR)
+ continue;
+ else if (res == -1)
+ {
+ perror ("wait");
+ return 1;
+ }
+ else
+ return 0;
+ }
+ else
+ pause ();
+ }
return 0;
}
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/fork-running-state.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/fork-running-state.exp
index 27ed8a43e93..c15bc53f7a0 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/fork-running-state.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/fork-running-state.exp
@@ -70,6 +70,13 @@ proc do_test { detach_on_fork follow_fork non_stop schedule_multiple } {
gdb_test_no_output "set schedule-multiple $schedule_multiple"
}
+ # If we're detaching from the parent (or child), then tell it to
+ # exit itself when its child (or parent) exits. If we stay
+ # attached, we take care of killing it.
+ if {$detach_on_fork == "on"} {
+ gdb_test "print exit_if_relative_exits = 1" " = 1"
+ }
+
set test "continue &"
gdb_test_multiple $test $test {
-re "$gdb_prompt " {
--
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