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Bug #9905

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Fiber does not work on AIX

Added by ReiOdaira (Rei Odaira) almost 10 years ago. Updated about 8 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Target version:
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ruby -v:
ruby 2.2.0dev (2014-06-02 trunk 45270) [powerpc-aix7.1.0.0]
[ruby-core:62945]

Description

test/ruby/test_fiber.rb fails on AIX.

[ 2/23] TestFiber#test_argument/ss/home/rayod/Dev/Contribution/ruby-trunk-blue1/test/ruby/test_fiber.rb:19: [BUG] machine_stack_cache size is not canonicalized
ruby 2.2.0dev (2014-06-02 trunk 45270) [powerpc-aix7.1.0.0]

Here is what happens for this test:

  1. A fiber is created by setting context->uc_stack.ss_size to a certain value and calling makecontext().
  2. While the fiber is switched with other fibers by swapcontext(), context->uc_stack.ss_size is changed to a very large value by AIX.
  3. When the fiber finishes, its stack pointer and size are cached in machine_stack_cache[].
  4. When a new fiber is created, a specified stack size is different from the cached stack size, so the error is thrown.

I feel AIX's behavior is strange, but I also suppose in general, context->uc_stack.ss_size is not guaranteed to be preserved after makecontext() or swapcontext(). (Please correct me if I am wrong.)

Rather than disabling FIBER_USE_NATIVE for AIX, I propose saving the original stack pointer and size not in ucontext_t but in new dedicated fields in rb_fiber_t, as you can find in the attached patch. With this patch, test/ruby/test_fiber.rb results in no errors on AIX. This did not cause any error on Linux, either, for test or test-all.


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sp_and_size_for_fiber.patch (1.9 KB) sp_and_size_for_fiber.patch ReiOdaira (Rei Odaira), 06/05/2014 09:18 AM
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