[ruby-core:84699] [Ruby trunk Bug#13794] Infinite loop of sched_yield

Issue #13794 has been updated by catphish (Charlie Smurthwaite).


I notice that this bug has been closed for a while but has not been backported into 2.3. Is this likely to happen? Thanks!

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Bug #13794: Infinite loop of sched_yield
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13794#change-69420

* Author: catphish (Charlie Smurthwaite)
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: ruby 2.3.4p301 (2017-03-30 revision 58214) [x86_64-linux]
* Backport: 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: REQUIRED, 2.4: REQUIRED
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I have been encountering an issue with processes hanging in an infinite loop of calling sched_yield(). The looping code can be found at https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v2_3_4/thread_pthread.c#L1663

while (ATOMIC_CAS(timer_thread_pipe.writing, (rb_atomic_t)0, 0)) {
  native_thread_yield();
}

It is my belief that by some mechanism I have not been able to identify, timer_thread_pipe.writing is incremented but it never decremented, causing this loop to run infinitely.

I am not able to create a reproducible test case, however this issue occurs regularly in my production application. I have attached backtraces and thread lists from 2 processes exhibiting this behaviour. gdb confirms that timer_thread_pipe.writing = 1 in these processes.

I believe one possibility of the cause is that rb_thread_wakeup_timer_thread() or rb_thread_wakeup_timer_thread_low() is called, and before it returns, another thread calls fork(), leaving the value of timer_thread_pipe.writing incremented, but leaving behind the thread that would normally decrement it.

If this is correct, one solution would be to reset timer_thread_pipe.writing to 0 in native_reset_timer_thread() immediately after a fork.

Other examples of similar bugs being reported:
https://github.com/resque/resque/issues/578
https://github.com/zk-ruby/zk/issues/50

---Files--------------------------------
backtrace_1.txt (14 KB)
backtrace_2.txt (10.9 KB)
sched_yield_1.patch (738 Bytes)
sched_yield_loop.rb (212 Bytes)


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