[lldb/Core] Fix a race in the Communication class

Summary:
Communication::SynchronizeWithReadThread is called whenever a process
stops to ensure that we process all of its stdout before we report the
stop. If the process exits, we first call this method, and then close
the connection.

However, when the child process exits, the thread reading its stdout
will usually (but not always) read an EOF because the other end of the
pty has been closed. In response to an EOF, the Communication read
thread closes it's end of the connection too.

This can result in a race where the read thread is closing the
connection while the synchronizing thread is attempting to get its
attention via Connection::InterruptRead.

The fix is to hold the synchronization mutex while closing the
connection.

I've found this issue while tracking down a rare flake in some of the
vscode tests. I am not sure this is the cause of those failures (as I
would have expected this issue to manifest itself differently), but it
is an issue nonetheless.

The attached test demonstrates the steps needed to reproduce the race.
It will fail under tsan without this patch.

Reviewers: clayborg, JDevlieghere

Subscribers: mgorny, lldb-commits

Tags: #lldb

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77295
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tree: 7e52275d8389664279eee8520bf79f230d7f536b
  1. clang/
  2. clang-tools-extra/
  3. compiler-rt/
  4. debuginfo-tests/
  5. libc/
  6. libclc/
  7. libcxx/
  8. libcxxabi/
  9. libunwind/
  10. lld/
  11. lldb/
  12. llvm/
  13. mlir/
  14. openmp/
  15. parallel-libs/
  16. polly/
  17. pstl/
  18. utils/
  19. .arcconfig
  20. .arclint
  21. .clang-format
  22. .clang-tidy
  23. .git-blame-ignore-revs
  24. .gitignore
  25. CONTRIBUTING.md
  26. README.md
README.md

The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure

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Getting Started with the LLVM System

Taken from https://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html.

Overview

Welcome to the LLVM project!

The LLVM project has multiple components. The core of the project is itself called “LLVM”. This contains all of the tools, libraries, and header files needed to process intermediate representations and converts it into object files. Tools include an assembler, disassembler, bitcode analyzer, and bitcode optimizer. It also contains basic regression tests.

C-like languages use the Clang front end. This component compiles C, C++, Objective-C, and Objective-C++ code into LLVM bitcode -- and from there into object files, using LLVM.

Other components include: the libc++ C++ standard library, the LLD linker, and more.

Getting the Source Code and Building LLVM

The LLVM Getting Started documentation may be out of date. The Clang Getting Started page might have more accurate information.

This is an example work-flow and configuration to get and build the LLVM source:

  1. Checkout LLVM (including related sub-projects like Clang):

    • git clone https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git

    • Or, on windows, git clone --config core.autocrlf=false https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git

  2. Configure and build LLVM and Clang:

    • cd llvm-project

    • mkdir build

    • cd build

    • cmake -G <generator> [options] ../llvm

      Some common build system generators are:

      • Ninja --- for generating Ninja build files. Most llvm developers use Ninja.
      • Unix Makefiles --- for generating make-compatible parallel makefiles.
      • Visual Studio --- for generating Visual Studio projects and solutions.
      • Xcode --- for generating Xcode projects.

      Some Common options:

      • -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS='...' --- semicolon-separated list of the LLVM sub-projects you'd like to additionally build. Can include any of: clang, clang-tools-extra, libcxx, libcxxabi, libunwind, lldb, compiler-rt, lld, polly, or debuginfo-tests.

        For example, to build LLVM, Clang, libcxx, and libcxxabi, use -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang;libcxx;libcxxabi".

      • -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=directory --- Specify for directory the full path name of where you want the LLVM tools and libraries to be installed (default /usr/local).

      • -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=type --- Valid options for type are Debug, Release, RelWithDebInfo, and MinSizeRel. Default is Debug.

      • -DLLVM_ENABLE_ASSERTIONS=On --- Compile with assertion checks enabled (default is Yes for Debug builds, No for all other build types).

    • cmake --build . [-- [options] <target>] or your build system specified above directly.

      • The default target (i.e. ninja or make) will build all of LLVM.

      • The check-all target (i.e. ninja check-all) will run the regression tests to ensure everything is in working order.

      • CMake will generate targets for each tool and library, and most LLVM sub-projects generate their own check-<project> target.

      • Running a serial build will be slow. To improve speed, try running a parallel build. That's done by default in Ninja; for make, use the option -j NNN, where NNN is the number of parallel jobs, e.g. the number of CPUs you have.

    • For more information see CMake

Consult the Getting Started with LLVM page for detailed information on configuring and compiling LLVM. You can visit Directory Layout to learn about the layout of the source code tree.