Re: [PATCH] libstdc++: testsuite: Address random failure in pthread_create() [PR54185]

[Jonathan Wakely via Gcc-patches]

On 13/08/20 18:15 -0400, Lewis Hyatt via Libstdc++ wrote:

Hello-

The attached patch was discussed briefly on PR 54185 here:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54185#c14
The test case for this PR sometimes fails due to random failures in
pthread_create() that are not related to the original PR. This patch fixes
it up by ignoring those failures. The test case was designed to repeat the
same test 1000 times to attempt to reproduce a race condition, so I think is
OK if some of those iterations are simply skipped.

Thanks for taking a look at it; I can commit it if it makes sense.

-Lewis

libstdc++: testsuite: Address random failure in pthread_create() [PR54185]

The test for this PR calls pthread_create() many times in a row, which may fail
with EAGAIN sometimes. Avoid generating a test failure in this case.

libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog:

        PR libstdc++/54185
        * testsuite/30_threads/condition_variable/54185.cc: Make test robust
        to random pthread_create() failures.

Thanks for the patch. It certainly looks reasonable, but I wonder if
the attached version wouldn't be (very slightly) better. The
difference is that instead of just giving up at the first EAGAIN we
keep trying. This way we might be able to create a few more threads
before the loop finishes. If we still keep failing, it works the same.

I've also added a check that the failures are due to EAGAIN, and we'll
still terminate if there's some other problem. I'm assuming that your
failures are EAGAIN. Do you know why that's happening? Does your
system a low value for RLIMIT_NPROC or something?

The failures for that testcase on AIX appear to be different. It just
segfaults after destroying the condition_variable, which probably
means there's a POSIX conformance issue in AIX's pthread_cond_t.



diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/30_threads/condition_variable/54185.cc b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/30_threads/condition_variable/54185.cc
index ea0d5bb8740..8ccb79e6de6 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/30_threads/condition_variable/54185.cc
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/30_threads/condition_variable/54185.cc
@@ -31,31 +31,48 @@
 std::condition_variable* cond = nullptr;
 std::mutex mx;
 int started = 0;
+bool notified = false;
 int constexpr NUM_THREADS = 10;
 
-void do_thread_a()
+void do_thread_a(bool wait)
 {
   std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mx);
-  if(++started >= NUM_THREADS)
+  if (++started >= NUM_THREADS)
   {
+    notified = true;
     cond->notify_all();
     delete cond;
     cond = nullptr;
   }
-  else
-    cond->wait(lock);
+  else if (wait)
+    cond->wait(lock, [] { return notified; });
 }
 
-int main(){
+int main()
+{
   std::vector<std::thread> vec;
-  for(int j = 0; j < 1000; ++j)
+  for (int j = 0; j < 1000; ++j)
   {
     started = 0;
+    notified = false;
     cond = new std::condition_variable;
     for (int i = 0; i < NUM_THREADS; ++i)
-      vec.emplace_back(&do_thread_a);
-    for (int i = 0; i < NUM_THREADS; ++i)
-      vec[i].join();
+      {
+	try
+	  {
+	    vec.emplace_back(&do_thread_a, true);
+	  }
+	catch(const std::system_error& e)
+	  {
+	    if (e.code() == std::errc::resource_unavailable_try_again)
+	      // Thread creation may fail due to resource limits; run serially.
+	      do_thread_a(false);
+	    else
+	      throw;
+	  }
+      }
+    for (auto& thread : vec)
+      thread.join();
     vec.clear();
   }
 }