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Some notes on use of pthreads in GStreamer
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First off, pthreads are HARD. Remember that.
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1) How I learned to debug glibc and pthreads and add debug code to it.
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You have to trick your GStreamer test app in running against a modified
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glibc.
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I used Red Hat 7.3, downloaded the .src.rpm, installed it, applied the
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patches included, and ran
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./configure --prefix=/home/thomas/cvs --with-add-ons
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make
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make install
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After quite some time this left me with recompiled libc and libpthread
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libraries in /home/thomas/cvs/lib, as well as a new ld-linux.so.2
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Now you need to use this new ld-linux.so ld loader to run your app,
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preferably from inside of gdb so you can tell what's going on when it
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crashes.
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You can use ld-linux.so.2 to call your binaries:
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ld-linux.so.2 .libs/thread1
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to run the thread1 program with the new glibc.
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If this is a GStreamer app, chances are it might not find some libraries
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it needs that you could safely use from /usr/lib (like, zlib and popt).
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Also, you want it to run in gdb, so this is my full line:
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib /home/thomas/cvs/lib/ld-linux.so.2 \
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/usr/bin/gdb .libs/thread1
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At this point you can start adding debug code to the pthreads implementation
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in your glibc source tree. Just change, re-run make install, and restart
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the test app in gdb.
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Helpful --gst-mask is 0x00200100 to get thread info and scheduling info
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(with mem alloc from cothreads)
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2) What GStreamer does with pthreads.
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Apps create a thread with gst_thread_new. This just allocates the GstThread
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structure without actually doing much with it.
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When a thread goes from NULL to READY, the gst_thread_change_state function
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creates the actual pthread.
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- we lock the thread->lock mutex
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- we create attributes for the pthread
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- by default the pthread is JOINABLE
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- we ask the thread's scheduler for a preferred stack size and location
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(FIXME: if the scheduler doesn't return one, what do we do ?)
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- we create the pthread with the given attributes
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- the pthread id is stored in thread->thread_id
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- the created pthread starts executing gst_thread_main_loop (thread)
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- the change_state function does a g_cond_wait
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- this means it unlocks the mutex, waits until thread->cond is set
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(which happens in gst_thread_main_loop),
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then relocks the mutex and resumes execution
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From the point of view of the created pthread, here's what happens.
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gst_thread_main_loop (thread) gets called
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- the thread's mutex gets locked
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- the thread's scheduler's policy gets examined
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- the scheduler gets set up (invokes the scheduler object's setup method)
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FIXME: what are the prereqs of this _setup method ?
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- basic and fast scheduler both call do_cothread_context_init
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- basic: this calls cothread_context_init
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- cothread_context_init
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- fast: this calls cothread_create (NULL, 0, NULL, NULL))
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(FINISHME)
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