JF Bastien 63c381f336 Signal handling should be signal-safe
Summary:
Before this patch, signal handling wasn't signal safe. This leads to real-world
crashes. It used ManagedStatic inside of signals, this can allocate and can lead
to unexpected state when a signal occurs during llvm_shutdown (because
llvm_shutdown destroys the ManagedStatic). It also used cl::opt without custom
backing storage. Some de-allocation was performed as well. Acquiring a lock in a
signal handler is also a great way to deadlock.

We can't just disable signals on llvm_shutdown because the signals might do
useful work during that shutdown. We also can't just disable llvm_shutdown for
programs (instead of library uses of clang) because we'd have to then mark the
pointers as not leaked and make sure all the ManagedStatic uses are OK to leak
and remain so.

Move all of the code to lock-free datastructures instead, and avoid having any
of them in an inconsistent state. I'm not trying to be fancy, I'm not using any
explicit memory order because this code isn't hot. The only purpose of the
atomics is to guarantee that a signal firing on the same or a different thread
doesn't see an inconsistent state and crash. In some cases we might miss some
state (for example, we might fail to delete a temporary file), but that's fine.

Note that I haven't touched any of the backtrace support despite it not
technically being totally signal-safe. When that code is called we know
something bad is up and we don't expect to continue execution, so calling
something that e.g. sets errno is the least of our problems.

A similar patch should be applied to lib/Support/Windows/Signals.inc, but that
can be done separately.

Fix r332428 which I reverted in r332429. I originally used double-wide CAS
because I was lazy, but some platforms use a runtime function for that which
thankfully failed to link (it would have been bad for signal handlers
otherwise). I use a separate flag to guard the data instead.

<rdar://problem/28010281>

Reviewers: dexonsmith

Subscribers: steven_wu, llvm-commits
llvm-svn: 332496
2018-05-16 17:25:35 +00:00
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2018-04-30 00:08:06 +00:00

llvm/lib/Support/Unix README
===========================

This directory provides implementations of the lib/System classes that
are common to two or more variants of UNIX. For example, the directory
structure underneath this directory could look like this:

Unix           - only code that is truly generic to all UNIX platforms
  Posix        - code that is specific to Posix variants of UNIX
  SUS          - code that is specific to the Single Unix Specification
  SysV         - code that is specific to System V variants of UNIX

As a rule, only those directories actually needing to be created should be
created. Also, further subdirectories could be created to reflect versions of
the various standards. For example, under SUS there could be v1, v2, and v3
subdirectories to reflect the three major versions of SUS.