Debugging rw lock

Ian Lepore ian at FreeBSD.org
Thu Feb 13 21:06:33 UTC 2014


Does option DEADLKRES not work with rwlocks?  (I've never used it, just
seen it in the NOTES).

-- Ian

On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 12:59 -0800, Vijay Singh wrote:
> You're talking about instrumenting the code, right? But which thread? I was
> thinking of augmenting the rw lock to record the readers, but wanted to
> check if something is possible without instrumentation.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> wrote:
> 
> > Keep a stack of rwlocks owned in the struct thread.
> >
> > -Alfred
> >
> > On 2/13/14, 12:51 PM, Vijay Singh wrote:
> >
> >> I am running into an issue where an rw lock is read locked and never
> >> unlocked, and causes a system to livelock. I was wondering if its possible
> >> to figure out which thread owns the read lock?
> >>
> >> It's the tcp pcbinfo lock.
> >>
> >> (kgdb-amd64-7.4-08) show_rwlock rw
> >>   name : tcp
> >>   class: rw
> >>   flags: {SLEEP, INITED, WITNESS, RECURSE, UPGRADABLE}
> >>   state: RLOCK: 1 locks
> >>   waiters: writers
> >>
> >> Any help is appreciated.
> >>
> >> -vijay
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