One main problem with panic dumps is that they're filling the dumping thread's trash, and that the global thread_dump_buffer is too small to catch enough of them. Here we're proceeding differently. When dumping threads for a panic, we're passing the magic value 0x2 as the buffer, and it will instruct the target thread to allocate its own buffer using get_trash_chunk() (which is signal safe), so that each thread dumps into its own buffer. Then the thread will wait for the buffer to be consumed, and will assign its own thread_dump_buffer to it. This way we can simply dump all threads' buffers from gdb like this: (gdb) set $t=0 while ($t < global.nbthread) printf "%s\n", ha_thread_ctx[$t].thread_dump_buffer.area set $t=$t+1 end For now we make it wait forever since it's only called on panic and we want to make sure the thread doesn't leave and continues to use that trash buffer or do other nasty stuff. That way the dumping thread will make all of them die. This would be useful to backport to the most recent branches to help troubleshooting. It backports well to 2.9, except for some trivial context in tinfo-t.h for an updated comment. 2.8 and older would also require TAINTED_PANIC. The following previous patches are required: MINOR: debug: make mark_tainted() return the previous value MINOR: chunk: drop the global thread_dump_buffer MINOR: debug: split ha_thread_dump() in two parts MINOR: debug: slightly change the thread_dump_pointer signification MINOR: debug: make ha_thread_dump_done() take the pointer to be used MINOR: debug: replace ha_thread_dump() with its two components |
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HAProxy
HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Installation
The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.
Getting help
The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.
The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.
Documentation
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.
Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:
- INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
- BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
- LICENSE for the project's license
- CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions
The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:
- doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy
- doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual
- doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual
- doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine
- doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux
- doc/management.txt for the management guide
- doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite
- doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference
- doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style
- doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)
License
HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.