Signal handlers are global resources but many language
environments (Go, C++ at Google, etc) assume they have sole
ownership of a particular handler. Signal handlers in
mixed-language applications must therefore be robust against
unexpected delivery of certain signals, such as SIGPROF.
The default Go signal handler runtime·sigtramp assumes that it
will never be called on a non-Go thread, but this assumption
is violated by when linking in C++ code that spawns threads.
Specifically, the handler asserts the thread has an associated
"m" (Go scheduler).
This CL is a very simple workaround: discard SIGPROF delivered to non-Go threads. runtime.badsignal(int32) now receives the signal number; if it returns without panicking (e.g. sig==SIGPROF) the signal is discarded.
I don't think there is any really satisfactory solution to the
problem of signal-based profiling in a mixed-language
application. It's not only the issue of handler clobbering,
but also that a C++ SIGPROF handler called in a Go thread
can't unwind the Go stack (and vice versa). The best we can
hope for is not crashing.
Note:
- I've ported this to all POSIX platforms, except ARM-linux which already ignores unexpected signals on m-less threads.
- I've avoided tail-calling runtime.badsignal because AFAICT the 6a/6l don't support it.
- I've avoided hoisting 'push sig' (common to both function calls) because it makes the code harder to read.
- Fixed an (apparently incorrect?) docstring.
R=iant, rsc, minux.ma
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6498057
amd64 was done in CL 6275056.
We don't attempt to handle machines with clock speeds
less than 1 GHz. Those will fall back to the system call.
benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta
BenchmarkNow 364 38 -89.53%
R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6307045
It's the best we can do before Go 1.
For issue 3250; not a fix but at least less mysterious.
R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5797068
When a very low-level system call that should never fail
does fail, we call notok, which crashes the program.
Often, we are then left with only the program counter as
information about the crash, and it is in notok.
Instead, inline calls to notok (it is just one instruction
on most systems) so that the program counter will
tell us which system call is unhappy.
R=golang-dev, gri, minux.ma, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5792048
Work around profiling kernel bug with signal masks.
Still broken on 64-bit Snow Leopard kernel,
but I think we can ignore that one and let people
upgrade to Lion.
Add new trivial tools addr2line and objdump to take
the place of the GNU tools of the same name, since
those are not installed on OS X.
Adapt pprof to invoke 'go tool addr2line' and
'go tool objdump' if the system tools do not exist.
Clean up disassembly of base register on amd64.
Fixes#2008.
R=golang-dev, bradfitz, mikioh.mikioh, r, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5697066
This is like the ill-fated CL 5493063 except that
I have written a shell script (autogen.sh) instead of
thinking I could possibly write a correct Makefile.
R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5496075
That was the last build that was close to working.
I will try that change again next week.
Make is being very subtle today.
At the reverted-to CL, the ARM traceback appears
to be broken. I'll look into that next week too.
R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5492063
Collapse the arch,os-specific directories into the main directory
by renaming xxx/foo.c to foo_xxx.c, and so on.
There are no substantial edits here, except to the Makefile.
The assumption is that the Go tool will #define GOOS_darwin
and GOARCH_amd64 and will make any file named something
like signals_darwin.h available as signals_GOOS.h during the
build. This replaces what used to be done with -I$(GOOS).
There is still work to be done to make runtime build with
standard tools, but this is a big step. After this we will have
to write a script to generate all the generated files so they
can be checked in (instead of generated during the build).
R=r, iant, r, lucio.dere
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5490053
