From 6e531f999a82cf39a951e1e9bba3cb80a6eb1464 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Felker Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:04:30 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] add comments on some of the pthread_exit logic --- src/thread/pthread_create.c | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/thread/pthread_create.c b/src/thread/pthread_create.c index 0cd2d6c2..6a37ee9b 100644 --- a/src/thread/pthread_create.c +++ b/src/thread/pthread_create.c @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ _Noreturn void pthread_exit(void *result) self->dead = 1; __unlock(self->killlock); + /* Block all signals before decrementing the live thread count. + * This is important to ensure that dynamically allocated TLS + * is not under-allocated/over-committed, and possibly for other + * reasons as well. */ __syscall(SYS_rt_sigprocmask, SIG_BLOCK, SIGALL_SET, 0, _NSIG/8); do n = libc.threads_minus_1; @@ -39,8 +43,17 @@ _Noreturn void pthread_exit(void *result) if (!n) exit(0); if (self->detached && self->map_base) { - if (self->detached == 2) - __syscall(SYS_set_tid_address, 0); + /* Detached threads must avoid the kernel clear_child_tid + * feature, since the virtual address will have been + * unmapped and possibly already reused by a new mapping + * at the time the kernel would perform the write. In + * the case of threads that started out detached, the + * initial clone flags are correct, but if the thread was + * detached later (== 2), we need to clear it here. */ + if (self->detached == 2) __syscall(SYS_set_tid_address, 0); + + /* The following call unmaps the thread's stack mapping + * and then exits without touching the stack. */ __unmapself(self->map_base, self->map_size); } -- 2.20.1