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The primitive
haskell lib does not build
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The problem appears to be these four lines.
These four foreign imports are importing the same symbol at different types. I could argue that this should break, because the same symbol only ever has one type. But the types do have the same runtime representation, so maybe it should be ok... Regardless, Clang isn't going to like it. |
I tried to fix this by replacing
This panic appears to occur with an official native GHC release, so it's not at all specific to WebGHC. |
Fixed in 35a703d, though |
While debugging #15285 I realized that free block lists (free_list in BlockAlloc.c) get corrupted when multiple scavenge threads allocate and release blocks concurrently. Here's a picture of one such race: Thread 2 (Thread 32573.32601): #0 check_tail (bd=0x940d40 <stg_TSO_info>) at rts/sm/BlockAlloc.c:860 #1 0x0000000000928ef7 in checkFreeListSanity () at rts/sm/BlockAlloc.c:896 #2 0x0000000000928979 in freeGroup (p=0x7e998ce02880) at rts/sm/BlockAlloc.c:721 #3 0x0000000000928a17 in freeChain (bd=0x7e998ce02880) at rts/sm/BlockAlloc.c:738 #4 0x0000000000926911 in freeChain_sync (bd=0x7e998ce02880) at rts/sm/GCUtils.c:80 #5 0x0000000000934720 in scavenge_capability_mut_lists (cap=0x1acae80) at rts/sm/Scav.c:1665 #6 0x000000000092b411 in gcWorkerThread (cap=0x1acae80) at rts/sm/GC.c:1157 #7 0x000000000090be9a in yieldCapability (pCap=0x7f9994e69e20, task=0x7e9984000b70, gcAllowed=true) at rts/Capability.c:861 #8 0x0000000000906120 in scheduleYield (pcap=0x7f9994e69e50, task=0x7e9984000b70) at rts/Schedule.c:673 #9 0x0000000000905500 in schedule (initialCapability=0x1acae80, task=0x7e9984000b70) at rts/Schedule.c:293 #10 0x0000000000908d4f in scheduleWorker (cap=0x1acae80, task=0x7e9984000b70) at rts/Schedule.c:2554 #11 0x000000000091a30a in workerStart (task=0x7e9984000b70) at rts/Task.c:444 #12 0x00007f99937fa6db in start_thread (arg=0x7f9994e6a700) at pthread_create.c:463 #13 0x000061654d59f88f in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:95 Thread 1 (Thread 32573.32573): #0 checkFreeListSanity () at rts/sm/BlockAlloc.c:887 #1 0x0000000000928979 in freeGroup (p=0x7e998d303540) at rts/sm/BlockAlloc.c:721 #2 0x0000000000926f23 in todo_block_full (size=513, ws=0x1aa8ce0) at rts/sm/GCUtils.c:264 #3 0x00000000009583b9 in alloc_for_copy (size=513, gen_no=0) at rts/sm/Evac.c:80 #4 0x000000000095850d in copy_tag_nolock (p=0x7e998c675f28, info=0x421d98 <Main_Large_con_info>, src=0x7e998d075d80, size=513, gen_no=0, tag=1) at rts/sm/Evac.c:153 #5 0x0000000000959177 in evacuate (p=0x7e998c675f28) at rts/sm/Evac.c:715 #6 0x0000000000932388 in scavenge_small_bitmap (p=0x7e998c675f28, size=1, bitmap=0) at rts/sm/Scav.c:271 #7 0x0000000000934aaf in scavenge_stack (p=0x7e998c675f28, stack_end=0x7e998c676000) at rts/sm/Scav.c:1908 #8 0x0000000000934295 in scavenge_one (p=0x7e998c66e000) at rts/sm/Scav.c:1466 #9 0x0000000000934662 in scavenge_mutable_list (bd=0x7e998d300440, gen=0x1b1d880) at rts/sm/Scav.c:1643 #10 0x0000000000934700 in scavenge_capability_mut_lists (cap=0x1aaa340) at rts/sm/Scav.c:1664 #11 0x00000000009299b6 in GarbageCollect (collect_gen=0, do_heap_census=false, gc_type=2, cap=0x1aaa340, idle_cap=0x1b38aa0) at rts/sm/GC.c:378 #12 0x0000000000907a4a in scheduleDoGC (pcap=0x7ffdec5b5310, task=0x1b36650, force_major=false) at rts/Schedule.c:1798 #13 0x0000000000905de7 in schedule (initialCapability=0x1aaa340, task=0x1b36650) at rts/Schedule.c:546 #14 0x0000000000908bc4 in scheduleWaitThread (tso=0x7e998c0067c8, ret=0x0, pcap=0x7ffdec5b5430) at rts/Schedule.c:2537 ghc#15 0x000000000091b5a0 in rts_evalLazyIO (cap=0x7ffdec5b5430, p=0x9c11f0, ret=0x0) at rts/RtsAPI.c:530 ghc#16 0x000000000091ca56 in hs_main (argc=1, argv=0x7ffdec5b5628, main_closure=0x9c11f0, rts_config=...) at rts/RtsMain.c:72 ghc#17 0x0000000000421ea0 in main () In particular, dbl_link_onto() which is used to add a freed block to a doubly-linked free list is not thread safe and corrupts the list when called concurrently. Note that thread 1 is to blame here as thread 2 is properly taking the spinlock. With this patch we now take the spinlock when freeing a todo block in GC, avoiding this race. Test Plan: - Tried slow validate locally: this patch does not introduce new failures. - circleci: https://circleci.com/gh/ghc/ghc-diffs/283 The test got killed because it took 5 hours but T7919 (which was previously failing on circleci) passed. Reviewers: simonmar, bgamari, erikd Reviewed By: simonmar Subscribers: rwbarton, carter GHC Trac Issues: #15285 Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D5115 (cherry picked from commit c6fbac6)
Seems we still have a codegen problem.
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