Howard --

Does Nathan's recent infrastructure activity in Opal destructors help with this?


> On Apr 6, 2015, at 7:08 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
> 
> I think either solution would be valuable - this is something that came up a 
> few months ago, but the Java team members couldn’t trace it down, and neither 
> Jeff nor I had time to pursue it.
> 
> 
>> On Apr 6, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Howard Pritchard <hpprit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> There seems to have been recent outburst of interest in the mpi java 
>> bindings, so moving in retrograde fashion back to what I use to be doing, 
>> I've started investigating the Ompi JNI code.
>> 
>> I'm noticing that at least on sles11sp3, that soon after the java vm invokes 
>> the JNI_OnUnload of the ompi JNI code, the JVM segfaults when running some 
>> pthread key destructors, namely those associated with pthread keys that ompi 
>> is setting up.  If I set the destructor field to null in the ompi calls to 
>> pthread_key_create, then the jvm shuts down without a segfault after the 
>> java app exits.
>> 
>> Note that one can get lucky, as is the case when I run the java app on my 
>> mac.  That's because the jvm on this system doesn't care to run the 
>> JNI_OnUnload code.
>> 
>> One way to handle this problem would be to go find all the places 
>> (fortunately not many) where opal_tsd_key_create is called, and then make 
>> sure there is an appropriate opal_tsd_key_destroy for the key during the 
>> MPI_Finalize procedure.  Alternately,  since this is basically a dso 
>> problem, one could define fini functions to run the destructors during the 
>> dlclose procedure.
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> 
>> Howard
>> 
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