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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/local.mk | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/patches/guile-fibers-destroy-peer-schedulers.patch | 24 |
3 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk index 1d9de9a57e..2f24f892b1 100644 --- a/gnu/local.mk +++ b/gnu/local.mk @@ -1053,6 +1053,7 @@ dist_patch_DATA = \ %D%/packages/patches/guile-3.0-relocatable.patch \ %D%/packages/patches/guile-linux-syscalls.patch \ %D%/packages/patches/guile-3.0-linux-syscalls.patch \ + %D%/packages/patches/guile-fibers-destroy-peer-schedulers.patch \ %D%/packages/patches/guile-gdbm-ffi-support-gdbm-1.14.patch \ %D%/packages/patches/guile-present-coding.patch \ %D%/packages/patches/guile-rsvg-pkgconfig.patch \ diff --git a/gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm index 674b1f922b..a1deee32d1 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm @@ -523,7 +523,10 @@ Unix-style DSV format and RFC 4180 format.") (("#:use-module \\(fibers\\)") (string-append "#:use-module (fibers)\n" "#:use-module (ice-9 threads)\n"))) - #t)))) + #t)) + (patches + ;; fixes a resource leak that causes crashes in the tests + (search-patches "guile-fibers-destroy-peer-schedulers.patch")))) (build-system gnu-build-system) (arguments '(;; The code uses 'scm_t_uint64' et al., which are deprecated in 3.0. diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/guile-fibers-destroy-peer-schedulers.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/guile-fibers-destroy-peer-schedulers.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8bb7153153 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/guile-fibers-destroy-peer-schedulers.patch @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Fibers 1.0.0 has a bug in run-fibers in which peer schedulers aren't destroyed - +so if you had 4 cores, 1 would be destroyed when run-fibers returned, but the +other 3 would stay around. Each scheduler uses 3 file descriptors, so for +machines with many cores, this resource leak adds up quickly - quickly enough +that the test suite can even fail because of it. + +See https://github.com/wingo/fibers/issues/36. + +This fixes that. It should be safe to destroy the peer schedulers at the given +point because the threads that could be running them are all either dead or the +current thread. + +As of May 21, 2020, this bug still existed in the 1.0.0 (latest) release and in +git master. +--- a/fibers.scm 2020-05-21 18:38:06.890690154 -0500 ++++ b/fibers.scm 2020-05-21 18:38:56.395686693 -0500 +@@ -137,5 +137,6 @@ + (%run-fibers scheduler hz finished? affinity)) + (lambda () + (stop-auxiliary-threads scheduler))))) ++ (for-each destroy-scheduler (scheduler-remote-peers scheduler)) + (destroy-scheduler scheduler) + (apply values (atomic-box-ref ret)))))) + |