Bug 232493

Summary: start_wqthread not registered on OS X 10.6
Product: [Developer tools] valgrind Reporter: Bernd Heller <bdheller>
Component: generalAssignee: Julian Seward <jseward>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: major CC: bart.vanassche+kde
Priority: NOR    
Version: 3.6 SVN   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: macOS   
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Attachments: Evil patch to register start_wqthread thread

Description Bernd Heller 2010-03-28 19:14:10 UTC
Created attachment 42314 [details]
Evil patch to register start_wqthread thread

I tried using valgrind with the patches for 10.6 applied. Both helgrind and drd tools fail quickly with a message like this:

Helgrind: hg_main.c:618 (map_threads_lookup): Assertion 'thr' failed.

After tracking it down some more, the issue is that pre_thread_ll_create is not called for the thread start_wqthread which probably is part of the work queue of OS X. This thread exists in my process although there is no direct use of work queue APIs.

I could get helgrind to work with the attached utterly awful and probably disastrous patch. It's not meant as a solution, but as a pointer for someone more knowledgable in the valgrind darwin port.
Comment 1 Bart Van Assche 2010-03-28 19:29:14 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 216837 ***