Fix: sessiond wait futex: handle spurious futex wakeups
Observed issue
==============
LTTng-UST scheme for letting listener threads wait on session daemon
to wake up a futex is similar to the liburcu workqueue code, which has
an issue with spurious wakeups.
This wait/wakeup scheme is only used after the LTTng-UST listener thread
has been unable to connect to the session daemon.
A spurious wakeup on wait_for_sessiond can cause wait_for_sessiond to
return with a sock_info->wait_shm_mmap state of 0, which is unexpected.
However, this should not cause any user-observable issues other than
using slightly more CPU time than strictly needed, because this spurious
wakeup will only cause an additional connection attempt to the session
daemon to fail.
Cause
=====
From futex(5):
FUTEX_WAIT
Returns 0 if the caller was woken up. Note that a wake-up can
also be caused by common futex usage patterns in unrelated code
that happened to have previously used the futex word's memory
location (e.g., typical futex-based implementations of Pthreads
mutexes can cause this under some conditions). Therefore, call‐
ers should always conservatively assume that a return value of 0
can mean a spurious wake-up, and use the futex word's value
(i.e., the user-space synchronization scheme) to decide whether
to continue to block or not.
Solution
========
We therefore need to validate whether the value differs from 0 in
user-space after the call to FUTEX_WAIT returns 0.
Known drawbacks
===============
None.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Change-Id: I468d8ff302f467ee9924e6edb04476fcb031b4b9
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