MINOR: tinfo: keep a copy of the pointer to the thread dump buffer

Instead of using the thread dump buffer for post-mortem analysis, we'll
keep a copy of the assigned pointer whenever it's used, even for warnings
or "show threads". This will offer more opportunities to figure from a
core what happened, and will give us more freedom regarding the value of
the thread_dump_buffer itself. For example, even at the end of the dump
when the pointer is reset, the last used buffer is now preserved.
This commit is contained in:
Willy Tarreau 2025-04-10 08:29:39 +02:00
parent d20e9cad67
commit 6d8a523d14
3 changed files with 10 additions and 0 deletions
doc/internals
include/haproxy
src

@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ to point to the target buffer. The thread_dump_buffer has 4 possible values:
will keep their own copy of their own dump so that it can be later found in
the core file for inspection.
A copy of the last valid thread_dump_buffer used is kept in last_dump_buffer,
for easier post-mortem analysis. This one may be NULL or even invalid, but
usually during a panic it will be valid, and may reveal useful hints even if it
still contains the dump of the last warning. Usually this will point to a trash
buffer or to stack area.
ha_thread_dump_fill() then either directly calls ha_thread_dump_one() if the
target thread is the current thread, or sends the target thread DEBUGSIG
(SIGURG) if it's a different thread. This signal is initialized at boot time

@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ struct thread_ctx {
unsigned long long out_bytes; /* total #of bytes emitted */
unsigned long long spliced_out_bytes; /* total #of bytes emitted though a kernel pipe */
struct buffer *thread_dump_buffer; /* NULL out of dump, 0x02=to alloc, valid during a dump, |0x01 once done */
struct buffer *last_dump_buffer; /* Copy of last buffer used for a dump; may be NULL or invalid; for post-mortem only */
unsigned long long total_streams; /* Total number of streams created on this thread */
unsigned int stream_cnt; /* Number of streams attached to this thread */

@ -319,6 +319,9 @@ void ha_thread_dump_one(int thr, int from_signal)
unsigned long long n = now_cpu_time_thread(thr);
int stuck = !!(ha_thread_ctx[thr].flags & TH_FL_STUCK);
/* keep a copy of the dump pointer for post-mortem analysis */
HA_ATOMIC_STORE(&ha_thread_ctx[thr].last_dump_buffer, buf);
chunk_appendf(buf,
"%c%cThread %-2u: id=0x%llx act=%d glob=%d wq=%d rq=%d tl=%d tlsz=%d rqsz=%d\n"
" %2u/%-2u stuck=%d prof=%d",