[vdsm] suggested patch for python-pthreading

Yaniv Bronheim ybronhei at redhat.com
Tue Feb 4 09:04:37 UTC 2014


according to coredumps we found in the scope of the bug [1] we opened [2] that suggested to override python's implementation of thread.allocate_lock
in each coredump we saw few threads stuck with the bt:

#16 0x00007fcb69288c93 in PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords (func=0x2527820, arg=0x7fcb6972f050, kw=<value optimized out>) at Python/ceval.c:3663
#17 0x00007fcb692ba7ba in t_bootstrap (boot_raw=0x250a820) at Modules/threadmodule.c:428
#18 0x00007fcb68fa3851 in start_thread (arg=0x7fcb1bfff700) at pthread_create.c:301
#19 0x00007fcb6866694d in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:115

in pystack the threads were stuck in  /usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.py (513): __bootstrap_inner

in bootstrap_inner we use thread.allocate_lock which python-pthreading does not override.

we suggest the following commit:

>From 9d89e9be1a379b3d93b23dd54a381b9ca0973ebc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yaniv Bronhaim <ybronhei at redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 19:24:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Mocking thread.allocate_lock with Lock imp

Signed-off-by: Yaniv Bronhaim <ybronhei at redhat.com>
---
 pthreading.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pthreading.py b/pthreading.py
index 916ca7f..96df42c 100644
--- a/pthreading.py
+++ b/pthreading.py
@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ def monkey_patch():
     Thus, Queue and SocketServer can easily enjoy them.
     """

+    import thread
+
+    thread.allocate_lock = Lock
+
     import threading

     threading.Condition = Condition
-- 
1.8.3.1

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1022036
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060749


Thanks,
Yaniv Bronhaim.


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