Re: [Xen-devel] pthread segfault

["Scott R. Parish" <srparish@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 02:11:49AM +0000, Ian Pratt wrote:

> > dom1 is running arch--boots fine but applications linked to pthread
> > segfault when pthread goes to access gs. I would think that this is the
> > tls problem, but i renamed tls.
> 
> What happens if you don't move tls out the way? It'll be slower,
> but should work. (is it falling back to 686? -- "ldd /bin/sleep"
> will tell you).

ah, that works!

> What glibc version is it using?

2.3.3

> Can you get a debugger to look at the operands to the faulting
> instuction.

# gdb ls
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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols 
found)...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) run
Starting program: /bin/ls 
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging 
symbols found)...[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 16384 (LWP 260)]
(no debugging symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 260)]
0xb7e56d43 in _pthread_cleanup_push_defer () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb7e56d43 in _pthread_cleanup_push_defer () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1  0xb7f0d35b in _IO_link_in_internal () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0xb7f0abd6 in _IO_new_file_init () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0xb7f010ec in __fopen_internal () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0xb7f0115d in fopen@@GLIBC_2.1 () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5  0xb7f7303b in setmntent () from /lib/libc.so.6
#6  0xb7f77e29 in get_proc_path () from /lib/libc.so.6
#7  0xb7f7819e in phys_pages_info () from /lib/libc.so.6
#8  0xb7f4a394 in posix_sysconf () from /lib/libc.so.6
#9  0xb7f4a718 in sysconf () from /lib/libc.so.6
#10 0xb7ecd7ec in qsort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#11 0x0804a7bc in ?? ()
...
(gdb) disassemble 0xb7e56d43
Dump of assembler code for function _pthread_cleanup_push_defer:
0xb7e56d30 <_pthread_cleanup_push_defer+0>:     push   %ebp
0xb7e56d31 <_pthread_cleanup_push_defer+1>:     mov    %esp,%ebp
0xb7e56d33 <_pthread_cleanup_push_defer+3>:     mov    0x8(%ebp),%edx
0xb7e56d36 <_pthread_cleanup_push_defer+6>:     mov    0xc(%ebp),%eax
0xb7e56d39 <_pthread_cleanup_push_defer+9>:     mov    %eax,(%edx)
0xb7e56d3b <_pthread_cleanup_push_defer+11>:    mov    0x10(%ebp),%eax
0xb7e56d3e <_pthread_cleanup_push_defer+14>:    mov    %eax,0x4(%edx)
0xb7e56d41 <_pthread_cleanup_push_defer+17>:    xor    %eax,%eax
0xb7e56d43 <_pthread_cleanup_push_defer+19>:    mov    %gs:0x81,%al
0xb7e56d49 <_pthread_cleanup_push_defer+25>:    movsbl %al,%eax
0xb7e56d4c <_pthread_cleanup_push_defer+28>:    mov    %eax,0x8(%edx)
0xb7e56d4f <_pthread_cleanup_push_defer+31>:    mov    %gs:0x7c,%eax
...
(gdb) info reg
eax            0x0      0
ecx            0x0      0
edx            0xbfffd648       -1073752504
ebx            0xb7fd1044       -1208151996
esp            0xbfffd634       0xbfffd634
ebp            0xbfffd634       0xbfffd634
esi            0x805e720        134604576
edi            0x1      1
eip            0xb7e56d43       0xb7e56d43
eflags         0x10246  66118
cs             0x73     115
ss             0x7b     123
ds             0x7b     123
es             0x7b     123
fs             0x0      0
gs             0x33     51


-- 
Scott R. Parish



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