On 11 January 2012 14:06, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6:21:18 am Ivan Voras wrote: >> The lang/python27 port can optionally be built with the support for >> POSIX semaphores - i.e. sem(4). This option is labeled as experimental >> so it may be that the code is simply incorrect. I've tried it and get >> frequent hangs with the python process in the "usem" state. The kernel >> stack is as follows and looks reasonable: >> >> # procstat -kk 19008 >> PID TID COMM TDNAME KSTACK >> >> 19008 101605 python - mi_switch+0x174 >> sleepq_catch_signals+0x2f4 sleepq_wait_sig+0x16 _sleep+0x269 >> do_sem_wait+0xa19 __umtx_op_sem_wait+0x51 amd64_syscall+0x450 >> Xfast_syscall+0xf7 >> >> The process doesn't react to SIGINT or SIGTERM but fortunately reacts to >> SIGKILL. >> >> This could be an error in Python code but OTOH this code is not >> FreeBSD-specific so it's unlikely. > > This is using the new umtx-based semaphore code that David Xu wrote. He is > probably the best person to ask (cc'd). >
Ok, I've encountered the problem repeatedly while building databases/tdb: it uses Python in the build process (but maybe it needs something else in parallel to provoke the problem). _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
