/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- * vim: sw=2 ts=2 et lcs=trail\:.,tab\:>~ : * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */ /** * A watchdog designed to terminate shutdown if it lasts too long. * * This watchdog is designed as a worst-case problem container for the * common case in which Firefox just won't shutdown. * * We spawn a thread during quit-application. If any of the shutdown * steps takes more than n milliseconds (63000 by default), kill the * process as fast as possible, without any cleanup. */ #include "nsTerminator.h" #include "prthread.h" #include "prmon.h" #include "plstr.h" #include "prio.h" #include "nsString.h" #include "nsServiceManagerUtils.h" #include "nsDirectoryServiceUtils.h" #include "nsAppDirectoryServiceDefs.h" #include "nsIObserverService.h" #include "nsIPrefService.h" #if defined(MOZ_CRASHREPORTER) #include "nsExceptionHandler.h" #endif #include "mozilla/ArrayUtils.h" #include "mozilla/Attributes.h" #include "mozilla/DebugOnly.h" #include "mozilla/MemoryChecking.h" #include "mozilla/Preferences.h" #include "mozilla/Services.h" #include "mozilla/UniquePtr.h" #include "mozilla/unused.h" #include "mozilla/Telemetry.h" // Normally, the number of milliseconds that AsyncShutdown waits until // it decides to crash is specified as a preference. We use the // following value as a fallback if for some reason the preference is // absent. #define FALLBACK_ASYNCSHUTDOWN_CRASH_AFTER_MS 60000 // Additional number of milliseconds to wait until we decide to exit // forcefully. #define ADDITIONAL_WAIT_BEFORE_CRASH_MS 3000 // One second, in ticks. #define TICK_DURATION 1000 namespace mozilla { namespace { // Utility function: create a thread that is non-joinable, // does not prevent the process from terminating, is never // cooperatively scheduled, and uses a default stack size. PRThread* CreateSystemThread(void (*start)(void* arg), void* arg) { PRThread* thread = PR_CreateThread( PR_SYSTEM_THREAD, /* This thread will not prevent the process from terminating */ start, arg, PR_PRIORITY_LOW, PR_GLOBAL_THREAD /* Make sure that the thread is never cooperatively scheduled */, PR_UNJOINABLE_THREAD, 0 /* Use default stack size */ ); MOZ_LSAN_INTENTIONALLY_LEAK_OBJECT(thread); // This pointer will never be deallocated. return thread; } //////////////////////////////////////////// // // The watchdog // // This nspr thread is in charge of crashing the process if any stage of shutdown // lasts more than some predefined duration. As a side-effect, it measures the // duration of each stage of shutdown. // // The heartbeat of the operation. // // Main thread: // // * Whenever a shutdown step has been completed, the main thread // swaps gHeartbeat to 0 to mark that the shutdown process is still // progressing. The value swapped away indicates the number of ticks // it took for the shutdown step to advance. // // Watchdog thread: // // * Every tick, the watchdog thread increments gHearbeat atomically. // // A note about precision: // Since gHeartbeat is generally reset to 0 between two ticks, this means // that gHeartbeat stays at 0 less than one tick. Consequently, values // extracted from gHeartbeat must be considered rounded up. Atomic gHeartbeat(0); struct Options { /** * How many ticks before we should crash the process. */ uint32_t crashAfterTicks; }; /** * Entry point for the watchdog thread */ void RunWatchdog(void* arg) { PR_SetCurrentThreadName("Shutdown Hang Terminator"); // Let's copy and deallocate options, that's one less leak to worry // about. UniquePtr options((Options*)arg); uint32_t crashAfterTicks = options->crashAfterTicks; options = nullptr; const uint32_t timeToLive = crashAfterTicks; while (true) { // // We do not want to sleep for the entire duration, // as putting the computer to sleep would suddenly // cause us to timeout on wakeup. // // Rather, we prefer sleeping for at most 1 second // at a time. If the computer sleeps then wakes up, // we have lost at most one second, which is much // more reasonable. // PR_Sleep(TICK_DURATION); if (gHeartbeat++ < timeToLive) { continue; } // Shutdown is apparently dead. Crash the process. MOZ_CRASH("Shutdown too long, probably frozen, causing a crash."); } } //////////////////////////////////////////// // // Writer thread // // This nspr thread is in charge of writing to disk statistics produced by the // watchdog thread and collected by the main thread. Note that we use a nspr // thread rather than usual XPCOM I/O simply because we outlive XPCOM and its // threads. // // Utility class, used by UniquePtr<> to close nspr files. class PR_CloseDelete { public: MOZ_CONSTEXPR PR_CloseDelete() {} PR_CloseDelete(const PR_CloseDelete& aOther) {} void operator()(PRFileDesc* aPtr) const { PR_Close(aPtr); } }; // // Communication between the main thread and the writer thread. // // Main thread: // // * Whenever a shutdown step has been completed, the main thread // obtains the number of ticks from the watchdog threads, builds // a string representing all the data gathered so far, places // this string in `gWriteData`, and wakes up the writer thread // using `gWriteReady`. If `gWriteData` already contained a non-null // pointer, this means that the writer thread is lagging behind the // main thread, and the main thread cleans up the memory. // // Writer thread: // // * When awake, the writer thread swaps `gWriteData` to nullptr. If // `gWriteData` contained data to write, the . If so, the writer // thread writes the data to a file named "ShutdownDuration.json.tmp", // then moves that file to "ShutdownDuration.json" and cleans up the // data. If `gWriteData` contains a nullptr, the writer goes to sleep // until it is awkened using `gWriteReady`. // // // The data written by the writer thread will be read by another // module upon the next restart and fed to Telemetry. // Atomic gWriteData(nullptr); PRMonitor* gWriteReady = nullptr; void RunWriter(void* arg) { PR_SetCurrentThreadName("Shutdown Statistics Writer"); MOZ_LSAN_INTENTIONALLY_LEAK_OBJECT(arg); // Shutdown will generally complete before we have a chance to // deallocate. This is not a leak. // Setup destinationPath and tmpFilePath nsCString destinationPath(static_cast(arg)); nsAutoCString tmpFilePath; tmpFilePath.Append(destinationPath); tmpFilePath.AppendLiteral(".tmp"); // Cleanup any file leftover from a previous run unused << PR_Delete(tmpFilePath.get()); unused << PR_Delete(destinationPath.get()); while (true) { // // Check whether we have received data from the main thread. // // We perform the check before waiting on `gWriteReady` as we may // have received data while we were busy writing. // // Also note that gWriteData may have been modified several times // since we last checked. That's ok, we are not losing any important // data (since we keep adding data), and we are not leaking memory // (since the main thread deallocates any data that hasn't been // consumed by the writer thread). // UniquePtr data(gWriteData.exchange(nullptr)); if (!data) { // Data is not available yet. // Wait until the main thread provides it. PR_EnterMonitor(gWriteReady); PR_Wait(gWriteReady, PR_INTERVAL_NO_TIMEOUT); PR_ExitMonitor(gWriteReady); continue; } MOZ_LSAN_INTENTIONALLY_LEAK_OBJECT(data.get()); // Shutdown may complete before we have a chance to deallocate. // This is not a leak. // // Write to a temporary file // // In case of any error, we simply give up. Since the data is // hardly critical, we don't want to spend too much effort // salvaging it. // UniquePtr tmpFileDesc(PR_Open(tmpFilePath.get(), PR_WRONLY | PR_TRUNCATE | PR_CREATE_FILE, 00600)); // Shutdown may complete before we have a chance to close the file. // This is not a leak. MOZ_LSAN_INTENTIONALLY_LEAK_OBJECT(tmpFileDesc.get()); if (tmpFileDesc == nullptr) { break; } if (PR_Write(tmpFileDesc.get(), data->get(), data->Length()) == -1) { break; } tmpFileDesc.reset(); // // Rename on top of destination file. // // This is not sufficient to guarantee that the destination file // will be written correctly, but, again, we don't care enough // about the data to make more efforts. // if (PR_Rename(tmpFilePath.get(), destinationPath.get()) != PR_SUCCESS) { break; } } } /** * A step during shutdown. * * Shutdown is divided in steps, which all map to an observer * notification. The duration of a step is defined as the number of * ticks between the time we receive a notification and the next one. */ struct ShutdownStep { char const* const mTopic; int mTicks; MOZ_CONSTEXPR explicit ShutdownStep(const char *const topic) : mTopic(topic) , mTicks(-1) {} }; static ShutdownStep sShutdownSteps[] = { ShutdownStep("quit-application"), ShutdownStep("profile-change-teardown"), ShutdownStep("profile-before-change"), ShutdownStep("xpcom-will-shutdown"), ShutdownStep("xpcom-shutdown"), }; } // namespace NS_IMPL_ISUPPORTS(nsTerminator, nsIObserver) nsTerminator::nsTerminator() : mInitialized(false) , mCurrentStep(-1) { } // During startup, register as an observer for all interesting topics. nsresult nsTerminator::SelfInit() { nsCOMPtr os = mozilla::services::GetObserverService(); if (!os) { return NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED; } for (size_t i = 0; i < ArrayLength(sShutdownSteps); ++i) { DebugOnly rv = os->AddObserver(this, sShutdownSteps[i].mTopic, false); #if defined(DEBUG) NS_WARN_IF(NS_FAILED(rv)); #endif // defined(DEBUG) } return NS_OK; } // Actually launch these threads. This takes place at the first sign of shutdown. void nsTerminator::Start() { MOZ_ASSERT(!mInitialized); StartWatchdog(); StartWriter(); mInitialized = true; } // Prepare, allocate and start the watchdog thread. // By design, it will never finish, nor be deallocated. void nsTerminator::StartWatchdog() { int32_t crashAfterMS = Preferences::GetInt("toolkit.asyncshutdown.crash_timeout", FALLBACK_ASYNCSHUTDOWN_CRASH_AFTER_MS); // Ignore negative values if (crashAfterMS <= 0) { crashAfterMS = FALLBACK_ASYNCSHUTDOWN_CRASH_AFTER_MS; } // Add a little padding, to ensure that we do not crash before // AsyncShutdown. if (crashAfterMS > INT32_MAX - ADDITIONAL_WAIT_BEFORE_CRASH_MS) { // Defend against overflow crashAfterMS = INT32_MAX; } else { crashAfterMS += ADDITIONAL_WAIT_BEFORE_CRASH_MS; } UniquePtr options(new Options()); options->crashAfterTicks = crashAfterMS / TICK_DURATION; DebugOnly watchdogThread = CreateSystemThread(RunWatchdog, options.release()); MOZ_ASSERT(watchdogThread); } // Prepare, allocate and start the writer thread. By design, it will never // finish, nor be deallocated. In case of error, we degrade // gracefully to not writing Telemetry data. void nsTerminator::StartWriter() { if (!Telemetry::CanRecordExtended()) { return; } nsCOMPtr profLD; nsresult rv = NS_GetSpecialDirectory(NS_APP_USER_PROFILE_LOCAL_50_DIR, getter_AddRefs(profLD)); if (NS_FAILED(rv)) { return; } rv = profLD->Append(NS_LITERAL_STRING("ShutdownDuration.json")); if (NS_FAILED(rv)) { return; } nsAutoString path; rv = profLD->GetPath(path); if (NS_FAILED(rv)) { return; } gWriteReady = PR_NewMonitor(); MOZ_LSAN_INTENTIONALLY_LEAK_OBJECT(gWriteReady); // We will never deallocate this object PRThread* writerThread = CreateSystemThread(RunWriter, ToNewUTF8String(path)); if (!writerThread) { return; } } NS_IMETHODIMP nsTerminator::Observe(nsISupports *, const char *aTopic, const char16_t *) { if (strcmp(aTopic, "profile-after-change") == 0) { return SelfInit(); } // Other notifications are shutdown-related. // As we have seen examples in the wild of shutdown notifications // not being sent (or not being sent in the expected order), we do // not assume a specific order. if (!mInitialized) { Start(); } UpdateHeartbeat(aTopic); UpdateTelemetry(); UpdateCrashReport(aTopic); // Perform a little cleanup nsCOMPtr os = mozilla::services::GetObserverService(); MOZ_RELEASE_ASSERT(os); (void)os->RemoveObserver(this, aTopic); return NS_OK; } void nsTerminator::UpdateHeartbeat(const char* aTopic) { // Reset the clock, find out how long the current phase has lasted. uint32_t ticks = gHeartbeat.exchange(0); if (mCurrentStep > 0) { sShutdownSteps[mCurrentStep].mTicks = ticks; } // Find out where we now are in the current shutdown. // Don't assume that shutdown takes place in the expected order. int nextStep = -1; for (size_t i = 0; i < ArrayLength(sShutdownSteps); ++i) { if (strcmp(sShutdownSteps[i].mTopic, aTopic) == 0) { nextStep = i; break; } } MOZ_ASSERT(nextStep != -1); mCurrentStep = nextStep; } void nsTerminator::UpdateTelemetry() { if (!Telemetry::CanRecordExtended() || !gWriteReady) { return; } // // We need Telemetry data on the effective duration of each step, // to be able to tune the time-to-crash of each of both the // Terminator and AsyncShutdown. However, at this stage, it is too // late to record such data into Telemetry, so we write it to disk // and read it upon the next startup. // // Build JSON. UniquePtr telemetryData(new nsCString()); telemetryData->AppendLiteral("{"); size_t fields = 0; for (size_t i = 0; i < ArrayLength(sShutdownSteps); ++i) { if (sShutdownSteps[i].mTicks < 0) { // Ignore this field. continue; } if (fields++ > 0) { telemetryData->Append(", "); } telemetryData->AppendLiteral("\""); telemetryData->Append(sShutdownSteps[i].mTopic); telemetryData->AppendLiteral("\": "); telemetryData->AppendInt(sShutdownSteps[i].mTicks); } telemetryData->AppendLiteral("}"); if (fields == 0) { // Nothing to write return; } // // Send data to the worker thread. // delete gWriteData.exchange(telemetryData.release()); // Clear any data that hasn't been written yet // In case the worker thread was sleeping, wake it up. PR_EnterMonitor(gWriteReady); PR_Notify(gWriteReady); PR_ExitMonitor(gWriteReady); } void nsTerminator::UpdateCrashReport(const char* aTopic) { #if defined(MOZ_CRASHREPORTER) // In case of crash, we wish to know where in shutdown we are nsAutoCString report(aTopic); unused << CrashReporter::AnnotateCrashReport(NS_LITERAL_CSTRING("ShutdownProgress"), report); #endif // defined(MOZ_CRASH_REPORTER) } } // namespace mozilla