These three test all spawn a few threads and then send a SIGSTOP to
their parent GDB in order to pause it while the new threads set things
up for the test. With a GDB patch that changes the inferior thread's
scheduling a bit, I sometimes see:
FAIL: gdb.threads/siginfo-threads.exp: catch signal 0 (timeout)
...
FAIL: gdb.threads/watchthreads-reorder.exp: reorder1: continue a (timeout)
...
FAIL: gdb.threads/ia64-sigill.exp: continue (timeout)
...
The issue is that the test program stops GDB before it had a chance of
processing the new thread's clone event:
(gdb) PASS: gdb.threads/siginfo-threads.exp: get pid
continue
Continuing.
Stopping GDB PID 21541.
Waiting till the threads initialize their TIDs.
FAIL: gdb.threads/siginfo-threads.exp: catch signal 0 (timeout)
On Linux (at least), new threads start stopped, and the debugger must
resume them. The fix is to make the test program wait for the new
threads to be running before stopping GDB.
gdb/testsuite/
2015-01-09 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.threads/ia64-sigill.c (threads_started_barrier): New global.
(thread_func): Wait on barrier.
(main): Wait for all threads to start before stopping GDB.
* gdb.threads/siginfo-threads.c (threads_started_barrier): New
global.
(thread1_func, thread2_func): Wait on barrier.
(main): Wait for all threads to start before stopping GDB.
* gdb.threads/watchthreads-reorder.c (threads_started_barrier):
New global.
(thread1_func, thread2_func): Wait on barrier.
(main): Wait for all threads to start before stopping GDB.
Two modifications:
1. The addition of 2013 to the copyright year range for every file;
2. The use of a single year range, instead of potentially multiple
year ranges, as approved by the FSF.
* gdb.threads/watchthreads-reorder.c (gdbstop_mutex): Remove.
(thread1_func): Protect thread1_tid with thread1_tid_cond by
thread1_tid_mutex. Remove gdbstop_mutex handling.
(thread2_func): Protect thread2_tid with thread2_tid_cond by
thread2_tid_mutex. Remove gdbstop_mutex handling.
(main): Move thread1_tid_mutex and thread2_tid_mutex locks before
pthread_create. Remove gdbstop_mutex handling. New comment. Replace
pthread_cond_wait conditionalizations by while loops.
