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From: Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
To: xxhdx1985126 <xxhdx1985126@163.com>
Cc: "gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: How to determine the thread holding a mutex?
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1484068173.14191.5.camel@skynet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65e6915e.b19a.15987f1923b.Coremail.xxhdx1985126@163.com>

On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 18:34 +0800, xxhdx1985126 wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
> 
> I'm trying to debug a problem that appears to be a deadlock. I wonder 
> if I can use gdb to find out which thread is holding a mutex.
>  If so, my work would be much easier, as there are many threads in my program.

What you can do is to use valgrind --tool=helgrind 
to first see if valgrind helgrind tool does not point at a possible
culprit for the deadlock.

Assuming helgrind does not explain the bug, and assuming that the
deadlock reproduces under valgrind/helgrind,
you can use the valgrind gdbserver monitor command 'info locks'
to obtain the list of locks 
See
http://www.valgrind.org/docs/manual/hg-manual.html#hg-manual.monitor-commands
and
http://www.valgrind.org/docs/manual/manual-core-adv.html#manual-core-adv.gdbserver

for more information.


Philippe



      reply	other threads:[~2017-01-10 17:09 UTC|newest]

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2017-01-10 10:34 xxhdx1985126
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