7ddcdff33f
The rework of the thread dumping mechanism in 2.8 with commit 9a6ecbd590
("MEDIUM: debug: simplify the thread dump mechanism") opened a small
race, which is that a thread in the process of dumping other ones may
block the other one from panicing while it's looping at the end of
ha_thread_dump_fill(), or any other sequence involving the currently
dumped one.
This was emphasized in 3.1 with commit 148eb5875f ("DEBUG: wdt: better
detect apparently locked up threads and warn about them") that allowed
to emit warnings about long-stuck threads, because in this case, what
happens is that sometimes a thread starts to emit a warning (or a set
of warnings), and while the warning is being awaited for, a panic
finally happens and interrupts either the dumping thread, which never
finishes and waits for the target's pointer to become NULL which will
never happen since it was supposed to do it itself, or the currently
dumped thread which could wait for the dumping thread to become ready
while this one has not released the former.
In order to address this, first we now make sure never to dump a thread
that is already in the process of dumping another one. We're adding a
new thread flag to know this situation, that is set in ha_thread_dump_fill()
and cleared in ha_thread_dump_done(). And similarly, we don't trigger
the watchdog on a thread waiting for another one to finish its dump,
as it's likely a case of warning (and maybe even a panic) that makes
them wait for each other and we don't want such cases to be reentrant.
Finally, we check in the main polling loop that the flag never accidentally
leaked (e.g. wrong flag manipulation) as this would be difficult to spot
with bad consequences.
This should be backported at least to 2.8, and should resolve github
issue #2860. Thanks to Chris Staite for the very informative backtrace
that exhibited the problem.
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.