On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Ruediger Pluem <rpl...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On 12/02/2009 09:09 PM, Rainer Jung wrote: >> Platform: Solaris 8 (sic!) >> MPM: worker dynamically loaded >> APR etc: Bundled >> PCRE: 7.8 >> >> During testing of 2.3.4 I noticed crashes after restart. >> >> I did a build with lots of modules, especially including mod_logio. The >> scoreboard uses in ap_increment_counts() the optional function >> ap_logio_get_last_bytes() from mod_logio if available. >> >> In my case after restart the memory location of mod_logio and the >> address of the optional function changed, but the scoreboard still tries >> to call to the original address retrieved after the initial start. >> >> I don't know about the full implementation of the optional functions, >> but it seems either >> >> APR_REGISTER_OPTIONAL_FN(ap_logio_get_last_bytes); >> >> in register_hooks in mod_logio needs to run after restarts too, or there >> is a problem resulting in an unwanted change of load order of the >> modules during restart. I did not edit the config files between start >> and restart. >> >> The problem happens with normal restarts and graceful restarts. >> >> Wild guess: it might have to do with dynamic MPM loading. > > I am not so sure. I guess the problem is that we call > > APR_RETRIEVE_OPTIONAL_FN(ap_logio_get_last_bytes); > > only in ap_calc_scoreboard_size which is IMHO not called at restarts.
That was my guess. Which reminds me of this old challenge for a module I wrote: * XXX * our daemon must be created in the pre-mpm hook so that the scoreboard * is available in the daemon process; the scoreboard isn't created until * the core module's pre-mpm hook * BUT: the pre-mpm hook is not called for graceful restart, so we can't * start a new instance of the daemon then * BUT: request processing from the daemon MUST use the new configuration, * so we'd be busted for graceful restart