Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1355879
nunc-stans: ns-slapd crashes during startup with SIGILL on AMD Opteron 280
Last modified: 2016-11-03 16:44:11 EDT
Description of problem: With nunc-stans enabled ns-slapd crashes at startup on a machine with AMD Opteron 280 CPU: ==28269== Process terminating with default action of signal 4 (SIGILL): dumping core ==28269== Illegal opcode at address 0x516F04A ==28269== at 0x516F04A: abstraction_dcas (abstraction_dcas.c:179) ==28269== by 0x516EF56: freelist_push (freelist_pop_push.c:84) ==28269== by 0x516EC7C: freelist_new_elements (freelist_new.c:67) ==28269== by 0x516ED40: freelist_new (freelist_new.c:31) ==28269== by 0x516E48C: stack_new (stack_new.c:21) ==28269== by 0x516CEB6: ns_thrpool_new (ns_thrpool.c:900) ==28269== by 0x128EA9: slapd_daemon (daemon.c:1222) ==28269== by 0x119ACB: main (main.c:1117) nunc-stans uses libflds, which has this in the source: src/abstraction/abstraction_dcas.c:183 179 __asm__ __volatile__ 180 ( 181 "xchg %%rsi, %%rbx;" // swap RBI and RBX 182 "lock;" // make cmpxchg16b atomic 183 "cmpxchg16b %0;" // cmpxchg16b sets ZF on success 184 "setz %3;" // if ZF set, set cas_result to 1 185 "xchg %%rbx, %%rsi;" // re-swap RBI and RBX 186 187 // output 188 : "+m" (*(volatile atom_t (*)[2]) destination), "+a" (*compare), "+d" (*(compare+1)), "=q" (cas_result) 189 190 // input 191 : "S" (*exchange), "c" (*(exchange+1)) 192 193 // clobbered 194 : "cc", "memory" 195 ); cmpxchg16b is not supported by some AMD proccessors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64: Early AMD64 processors (typically on Socket 939 and 940) lacked the CMPXCHG16B instruction, which is an extension of the CMPXCHG8B instruction present on most post-80486 processors. Similar to CMPXCHG8B, CMPXCHG16B allows for atomic operations on octal words. This is useful for parallel algorithms that use compare and swap on data larger than the size of a pointer, common in lock-free and wait-free algorithms. Without CMPXCHG16B one must use workarounds, such as a critical section or alternative lock-free approaches. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 389-ds-base-1.3.5.10-3.el7.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 0. Use a machine with AMD Opteron 280 1. Enable nunc-stans 2. Start ns-slapd Actual results: Server crashes with SIGILL Expected results: Server should startup successfully. Additional info: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 33 model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 stepping : 2 microcode : 0x4d cpu MHz : 2405.487 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow art rep_good nopl extd_apicid pni lahf_lm cmp_legacy bogomips : 4810.97 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp
Upstream ticket: https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/48925
We have decided not to support nunc-stans on this specific hardware. It's old, and all modern hardware supports the cx16 flag. We will now detect and raise a warning with dsktune for this.
Build tested: 389-ds-base-1.3.5.10-5.el7.x86_64 During the initial setup by setup-ds.pl dsktune is executed and the following message is showed to the user: [root@mgmt8 ~]# setup-ds.pl ============================================================================== This program will set up the 389 Directory Server. It is recommended that you have "root" privilege to set up the software. Tips for using this program: - Press "Enter" to choose the default and go to the next screen - Type "Control-B" or the word "back" then "Enter" to go back to the previous screen - Type "Control-C" to cancel the setup program Would you like to continue with set up? [yes]: ============================================================================== Your system has been scanned for potential problems, missing patches, etc. The following output is a report of the items found that need to be addressed before running this software in a production environment. 389 Directory Server system tuning analysis version 14-JULY-2016. NOTICE : System is x86_64-unknown-linux3.10.0-464.el7.x86_64 (4 processors). ERROR: This system does not support CMPXCHG16B instruction (cpuflag cx16). nsslapd-enable-nunc-stans must be set to "off" on this system. In a future release of Directory Server this platform will NOT be supported. NOTICE : The net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time is set to 7200000 milliseconds (120 minutes). This may cause temporary server congestion from lost client connections. WARNING: There are only 1024 file descriptors (soft limit) available, which limit the number of simultaneous connections. ERROR : The above errors MUST be corrected before proceeding. Would you like to continue? [no]: Marking as VERIFIED.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2594.html