Philip Martin <philip_at_apache.org> writes:
> Wrap svn_dso_initialize2 call with svn_atomic__init_once, this
> fixes a crash in the DSO hash code when running the C tests in
> parallel.
>
> * subversion/libsvn_subr/dso.c
> (atomic_init_func): New.
> (svn_dso_load): Use svn_atomic__init_once.
I think we should also address this problem in our test suite. As I see, this
change avoids segfaults with --enable-runtime-module-search, but there is more
to it. Documentation for svn_dso_initialize2() states the following (by the
way, the "will not be entirely thread safe" part is now outdated, right?):
* @note This should be called prior to the creation of any pool that
* is passed to a function that comes from a DSO, otherwise you
* risk having the DSO unloaded before all pool cleanup callbacks
* that live in the DSO have been executed. If it is not called
* prior to @c svn_dso_load being used for the first time there
* will be a best effort attempt made to initialize the subsystem,
* but it will not be entirely thread safe and it risks running
* into the previously mentioned problems with DSO unloading and
* pool cleanup callbacks.
I am not sure that taking some risks within the test suite is a good idea,
and I think that we should call functions like svn_dso_initialize2() and
svn_fs_initialize(). If we don't, everything might still work fine, but it
also might not, and we could spend a lot of time debugging random failures
if a test runs into one of these pitfalls happening due to the absense of
explicit initialization. We do call these initializers in mod_dav_svn, svn,
svnserve — so why not also do the same in the test programs?
I don't see a reason to use a custom way of bootstrapping things within
svn_test_main(), as opposed to main() functions in svn, svnadmin and other
command-line tools, and I attached a patch that brings this common approach
to svn_test_main(). Quick inspection shows a couple of other programs that
should probably do the same, e.g., atomic-ra-revprop-change. However, I
think this is less important, and that we could do it separately.
What do you think?
Regards,
Evgeny Kotkov
Received on 2015-02-12 13:28:31 CET