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There's a subtle issue that results from pat_ref_purge_range() trying
to release memory. Since commit 0d93a8186 ("MINOR: pools: work around
possibly slow malloc_trim() during gc") that was backported to 2.3,
trim_all_pools() now protects itself against concurrent malloc() and
free() by isolating itself. The problem is that pat_ref_purge_range()
must be called under a lock, which is precisely what's done in
cli_io_handler_clear_map(). Thus during a clearing of a map, if
another thread tries to access or update an entry in the same map, it
will wait for the ref->lock to be released, and trim_all_pools() will
wait for all threads to be harmless, thus causing a deadlock. Note
that disabling memory trimming cannot work around the problem here
because it's tested only under isolation.
The solution here consists in moving the call to trim_all_pools() to
the caller, out of the lock.
This must be backported as far as 2.4.
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. 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)