Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-14 Thread Gert Wollny
Am Sonntag, den 06.11.2016, 01:12 -0200 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: >  >  >  > Unfortunately, when hardware lock elision support was added to glibc > upstream, libpthreads was *not* changed to properly assert() this > forbidden condition on the non-hardware-elision codepaths.  Such an > as

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-13 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 12/11/16 at 18:51 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Lucas, > > Thanks for trying a build run with TSX enabled. > > On Sat, 12 Nov 2016, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I did an archive rebuild on Amazon EC2 using m4.16xlarge instances, that > > use a CPU with TSX enabled. > > What microco

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Lucas, Thanks for trying a build run with TSX enabled. On Sat, 12 Nov 2016, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I did an archive rebuild on Amazon EC2 using m4.16xlarge instances, that > use a CPU with TSX enabled. What microcode revision is that Xeon E5-2686 running? > I've filed bugs for the packages tha

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 07/11/16 at 21:52 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/11/16 at 17:41 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 06 Nov 2016, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > It's worth noting that TSX is broken in 'Haswell' processors and is > > > supposed to be disabled via a microcode update.

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 07 Nov 2016, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 06/11/16 at 17:41 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 06 Nov 2016, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > It's worth noting that TSX is broken in 'Haswell' processors and is > > > supposed to be disabled via a microcode update. I don't know whe

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-08 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 07/11/16 at 21:52 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/11/16 at 17:41 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 06 Nov 2016, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > It's worth noting that TSX is broken in 'Haswell' processors and is > > > supposed to be disabled via a microcode update.

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-07 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 06/11/16 at 17:41 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 06 Nov 2016, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > It's worth noting that TSX is broken in 'Haswell' processors and is > > supposed to be disabled via a microcode update. I don't know whether > > glibc avoids using it on these proces

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 06 Nov 2016, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 05:41:34PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 06 Nov 2016, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > It's worth noting that TSX is broken in 'Haswell' processors and is > > > supposed to be disabled via a microcode update. I don

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 08:04:39AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Henrique de Moraes Holschuh] > > And what should we do about Debian stretch, then? > > I believe a good start would be to add an assert() in a test version of > glibc and then run all the autopkgtest scripts on the packages in

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-06 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2016-11-06 01:12, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 05 Nov 2016, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Looking at the code, I think that gs in jessie is plainly violating > > the rules about the use of pthread locks. On my partner's machine, > > Per logs from message #15 on bug #842796: > https://

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Jeff Epler] > I believe that similar bugs have been afflicting hurd and kfreebsd > debian ports for some time. In retrospect, it's too bad these reports > weren't given more attention, because it could have made things better > for Linux platforms as well. :-/ Yeah, too bad. :/ On the other ha

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 05:41:34PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 06 Nov 2016, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > It's worth noting that TSX is broken in 'Haswell' processors and is > > supposed to be disabled via a microcode update. I don't know whether > > glibc avoids using it on the

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes ("Re: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?"): > Per logs from message #15 on bug #842796: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842796#15 > > SIGSEGV on __lll_unlock_elision is a signature (IME with very high > confidence)

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-06 Thread Jeff Epler
[resending with correct Cc:] I believe that similar bugs have been afflicting hurd and kfreebsd debian ports for some time. In retrospect, it's too bad these reports weren't given more attention, because it could have made things better for Linux platforms as well. :-/ see e.g., https://bugs.deb

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 06 Nov 2016, Ben Hutchings wrote: > It's worth noting that TSX is broken in 'Haswell' processors and is > supposed to be disabled via a microcode update. I don't know whether > glibc avoids using it on these processors if the microcode update is > not applied. (Linux doesn't appear to hid

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2016-11-05 at 20:32 +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 11/05/2016 08:13 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I have just been debugging a ghostscript segfault on jessie amd64. > > > > Looking at the code, I think that gs in jessie is plainly violating > > the rules about the use of pthread locks.  

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh] > And what should we do about Debian stretch, then? I believe a good start would be to add an assert() in a test version of glibc and then run all the autopkgtest scripts on the packages in the archive to see how widespread the problem is. It will not cover all packa

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 05 Nov 2016, Ian Jackson wrote: > Looking at the code, I think that gs in jessie is plainly violating > the rules about the use of pthread locks. On my partner's machine, Per logs from message #15 on bug #842796: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842796#15 SIGSEGV on __ll

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-05 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2016-11-05 19:13, Ian Jackson wrote: > I have just been debugging a ghostscript segfault on jessie amd64. > > Looking at the code, I think that gs in jessie is plainly violating > the rules about the use of pthread locks. On my partner's machine, > this makes it segfault on termination (with s

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-05 Thread Christian Seiler
On 11/05/2016 08:13 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > I have just been debugging a ghostscript segfault on jessie amd64. > > Looking at the code, I think that gs in jessie is plainly violating > the rules about the use of pthread locks. On my partner's machine, > this makes it segfault on termination (wit

Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-05 Thread Ian Jackson
I have just been debugging a ghostscript segfault on jessie amd64. Looking at the code, I think that gs in jessie is plainly violating the rules about the use of pthread locks. On my partner's machine, this makes it segfault on termination (with some input files, at least). On my machine it work