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Currently, the kernel config is embedded inside of manage.py. This is inconvenient when building kernels manually for testing. Move it to a separate file so that, e.g., it can be copied into the build tree easily.
About half (!) of vmlinux comes from relocation sections (~130M out of ~250M). But, vmlinux is an ET_EXEC file, so relocations don't even apply to it. We can massively shrink vmlinux by removing the unnecessary sections.
And add docstrings to the functions with more complex signatures.
These will be shared with vmtest.
This should just be executed as python3 -m vmtest.manage now.
--build-kernel-org needs the token to get the available releases even if we're not uploading.
If the path doesn't exist, there are no available releases. Otherwise, we need to check for other errors.
Any changes of the vmtest kernel config will require a rebuild of all kernels and a way to distinguish the rebuild. Add CONFIG_LOCALVERSION which we will bump each time the config changes.
Add an verrevcmp() function based on the coreutils implementation (which comes from gnulib, which is derived from the implementation in dpkg). This will be used by vmtest.
The current implementation of vmtest has a few issues: 1. Building drgn for each kernel version on Travis is slow, mostly because they don't all run in parallel. 2. For local, incremental testing, recreating the filesystem image and rebuilding drgn is slow, and syncing the code to the filesystem image is brittle. 3. The filesystem image is the only communication channel, and reading the exit status from the filesystem image is awkward and fragile. 4. Creating and accessing the filesystem image requires root. This reworks vmtest to use the build on the host via VirtFS with a simple agent on the guest that can execute arbitrary commands and return the exit status. This has a few more moving parts but is faster and saner overall.
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The CI has intermittently been hitting the following test failures on
Python 3.8 with Clang:
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ERROR: test_task_cpu (tests.linux_kernel.helpers.test_sched.TestSched)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/runner/work/drgn/drgn/tests/linux_kernel/helpers/test_sched.py", line 40, in test_task_cpu
with fork_and_stop(os.sched_setaffinity, 0, (cpu,)) as (pid, _):
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.18/x64/lib/python3.8/contextlib.py", line 113, in __enter__
return next(self.gen)
File "/home/runner/work/drgn/drgn/tests/linux_kernel/__init__.py", line 203, in fork_and_stop
ret = pickle.load(pipe_r)
EOFError: Ran out of input
The EOFError occurs because the forked process segfaults immediately:
python[132]: segfault at 7f8f87085014 ip 00007f8f891e9774 sp 00007ffccf7acf00 error 4 in ld-linux-x86-64.so.2[16774,7f8f891d5000+2a000] likely on CPU 0 (core 0, socket 0)
The segfault is on dereferencing cache_new in in _dl_load_cache_lookup()
in ld-linux here:
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=elf/dl-cache.c;h=88bf78ad7c914b02109d6ddef7e08c0e8fd4574d;hb=f94f6d8a3572840d3ba42ab9ace3ea522c99c0c2#l489
Which is coming from a libomp fork handler:
#0 0x00007f5566f9d774 in _dl_load_cache_lookup (name=name@entry=0x7f55654afde6 "libmemkind.so")
at ./elf/dl-cache.c:498
#1 0x00007f5566f91982 in _dl_map_object (loader=loader@entry=0x55f8a170b670,
name=name@entry=0x7f55654afde6 "libmemkind.so", type=type@entry=2, trace_mode=trace_mode@entry=0,
mode=mode@entry=-1879048191, nsid=<optimized out>) at ./elf/dl-load.c:2193
#2 0x00007f5566f959a9 in dl_open_worker_begin (a=a@entry=0x7fffcf5851f0) at ./elf/dl-open.c:534
#3 0x00007f5566b4ab08 in __GI__dl_catch_exception (exception=exception@entry=0x7fffcf585050,
operate=operate@entry=0x7f5566f95900 <dl_open_worker_begin>, args=args@entry=0x7fffcf5851f0)
at ./elf/dl-error-skeleton.c:208
#4 0x00007f5566f94f9a in dl_open_worker (a=a@entry=0x7fffcf5851f0) at ./elf/dl-open.c:782
#5 0x00007f5566b4ab08 in __GI__dl_catch_exception (exception=exception@entry=0x7fffcf5851d0,
operate=operate@entry=0x7f5566f94f60 <dl_open_worker>, args=args@entry=0x7fffcf5851f0)
at ./elf/dl-error-skeleton.c:208
#6 0x00007f5566f9534e in _dl_open (file=<optimized out>, mode=-2147483647, caller_dlopen=0x7f55653fa882, nsid=-2,
argc=9, argv=<optimized out>, env=0x55f8a1477e10) at ./elf/dl-open.c:883
#7 0x00007f5566a6663c in dlopen_doit (a=a@entry=0x7fffcf585460) at ./dlfcn/dlopen.c:56
#8 0x00007f5566b4ab08 in __GI__dl_catch_exception (exception=exception@entry=0x7fffcf5853c0, operate=<optimized out>,
args=<optimized out>) at ./elf/dl-error-skeleton.c:208
#9 0x00007f5566b4abd3 in __GI__dl_catch_error (objname=0x7fffcf585418, errstring=0x7fffcf585420,
mallocedp=0x7fffcf585417, operate=<optimized out>, args=<optimized out>) at ./elf/dl-error-skeleton.c:227
#10 0x00007f5566a6612e in _dlerror_run (operate=operate@entry=0x7f5566a665e0 <dlopen_doit>,
args=args@entry=0x7fffcf585460) at ./dlfcn/dlerror.c:138
#11 0x00007f5566a666c8 in dlopen_implementation (dl_caller=<optimized out>, mode=<optimized out>, file=<optimized out>)
at ./dlfcn/dlopen.c:71
#12 ___dlopen (file=<optimized out>, mode=<optimized out>) at ./dlfcn/dlopen.c:81
#13 0x00007f55653fa882 in ?? () from /usr/lib/llvm-14/lib/libomp.so.5
#14 0x00007f5565413556 in ?? () from /usr/lib/llvm-14/lib/libomp.so.5
#15 0x00007f5565421d1a in ?? () from /usr/lib/llvm-14/lib/libomp.so.5
#16 0x00007f5566ac0fc1 in __run_fork_handlers (who=who@entry=atfork_run_child, do_locking=do_locking@entry=true)
at ./posix/register-atfork.c:130
#17 0x00007f5566ac08d3 in __libc_fork () at ./posix/fork.c:108
#18 0x00007f5566e108ad in os_fork_impl (module=<optimized out>) at ./Modules/posixmodule.c:6250
#19 os_fork (module=<optimized out>, _unused_ignored=<optimized out>) at ./Modules/clinic/posixmodule.c.h:2750
This doesn't happen in Python 3.9, which I bisected to CPython commit
45a78f906d2d ("bpo-44434: Don't call PyThread_exit_thread() explicitly
(GH-26758)") (in v3.11, backported to v3.9.6).
That commit describes a different symptom where the process aborts
because libgcc_s can't be loaded. I don't understand how that issue can
cause our crash, but the fix appears to be the same. The discussion also
suggests a workaround: linking to libgcc_s explicitly.
Apply the workaround, which appears to fix our problem. We only do this
for the CI and not for the general build for a few reasons:
1. I'm nervous about explicitly linking to this low-level library
unconditionally, and the logic to decide when it's necessary (only
for Python 3.8 and glibc) isn't worth the trouble.
2. The situation required to hit it (drgn + Python threading + fork) is
unlikely outside of our test suite.
3. Python 3.8 is EOL.
4. Builds with libkdumpfile already pull in libgcc_s via libkdumpfile ->
libsnappy -> libstdc++ -> libgcc_s.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <[email protected]>
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