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One main problem with panic dumps is that they're filling the dumping
thread's trash, and that the global thread_dump_buffer is too small to
catch enough of them.
Here we're proceeding differently. When dumping threads for a panic, we're
passing the magic value 0x2 as the buffer, and it will instruct the target
thread to allocate its own buffer using get_trash_chunk() (which is signal
safe), so that each thread dumps into its own buffer. Then the thread will
wait for the buffer to be consumed, and will assign its own thread_dump_buffer
to it. This way we can simply dump all threads' buffers from gdb like this:
(gdb) set $t=0
while ($t < global.nbthread)
printf "%s\n", ha_thread_ctx[$t].thread_dump_buffer.area
set $t=$t+1
end
For now we make it wait forever since it's only called on panic and we
want to make sure the thread doesn't leave and continues to use that trash
buffer or do other nasty stuff. That way the dumping thread will make all
of them die.
This would be useful to backport to the most recent branches to help
troubleshooting. It backports well to 2.9, except for some trivial
context in tinfo-t.h for an updated comment. 2.8 and older would also
require TAINTED_PANIC. The following previous patches are required:
MINOR: debug: make mark_tainted() return the previous value
MINOR: chunk: drop the global thread_dump_buffer
MINOR: debug: split ha_thread_dump() in two parts
MINOR: debug: slightly change the thread_dump_pointer signification
MINOR: debug: make ha_thread_dump_done() take the pointer to be used
MINOR: debug: replace ha_thread_dump() with its two components
(cherry picked from commit 278b9613a32ddb0b5ffa1d66e6c25f434758c65a)
[wt: ctx updt in tinfo-t for comment]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for : - INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy - BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use - LICENSE for the project's license - CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory : - doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy - doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual - doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual - doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine - doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux - doc/management.txt for the management guide - doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite - doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference - doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style - doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)