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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-04-27 17:28:05 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-04-27 17:28:05 (GMT)
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Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
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diff --git a/Python/pystate.c b/Python/pystate.c
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+++ b/Python/pystate.c
@@ -585,6 +585,23 @@ _PyGILState_Fini(void)
autoInterpreterState = NULL;
}
+/* Reset the TLS key - called by PyOS_AfterFork.
+ * This should not be necessary, but some - buggy - pthread implementations
+ * don't flush TLS on fork, see issue #10517.
+ */
+void
+_PyGILState_Reinit(void)
+{
+ PyThreadState *tstate = PyGILState_GetThisThreadState();
+ PyThread_delete_key(autoTLSkey);
+ if ((autoTLSkey = PyThread_create_key()) == -1)
+ Py_FatalError("Could not allocate TLS entry");
+
+ /* re-associate the current thread state with the new key */
+ if (PyThread_set_key_value(autoTLSkey, (void *)tstate) < 0)
+ Py_FatalError("Couldn't create autoTLSkey mapping");
+}
+
/* When a thread state is created for a thread by some mechanism other than
PyGILState_Ensure, it's important that the GILState machinery knows about
it so it doesn't try to create another thread state for the thread (this is