Don't crash if madvise(MADV_FREE or MADV_DONTNEED) fails
The M:N threading stack cleanup machinery tries to call MADV_FREE on the native
thread's stack, and calls rb_bug if it fails. Unfortunately, there's no way to
distinguish between "You passed bad parameters to madvise" and "MADV_FREE is
not supported on the kernel you are running on"; both cases just return EINVAL.
This means that if you have a Ruby on a system that was built on a system with
MADV_FREE and run it on a system without it, you get a crash in nt_free_stack.
I ran into this because rr actually emulates MADV_FREE by just returning EINVAL
and pretending it's not supported (since it can otherwise introduce
nondeterministic behaviour). So if you run bootstraptest/test_ractor.rb under
rr, you get this crash.
I think we should just get rid of the error handling here; freeing memory like
this is strictly optional anyway.
Don't crash if madvise(MADV_FREE or MADV_DONTNEED) fails
The M:N threading stack cleanup machinery tries to call MADV_FREE on the native
thread's stack, and calls rb_bug if it fails. Unfortunately, there's no way to
distinguish between "You passed bad parameters to madvise" and "MADV_FREE is
not supported on the kernel you are running on"; both cases just return EINVAL.
This means that if you have a Ruby on a system that was built on a system with
MADV_FREE and run it on a system without it, you get a crash in nt_free_stack.
I ran into this because rr actually emulates MADV_FREE by just returning EINVAL
and pretending it's not supported (since it can otherwise introduce
nondeterministic behaviour). So if you run bootstraptest/test_ractor.rb under
rr, you get this crash.
I think we should just get rid of the error handling here; freeing memory like
this is strictly optional anyway.
[Bug #20632]