This fixes a crasher due to a race condition, triggered infrequently when two isolated (own GIL) subinterpreters simultaneously initialize their sys or builtins modules. The crash happened due the combination of the "detached" thread state we were using and the "last holder" logic we use for the GIL. It turns out it's tricky to use the same thread state for different threads. Who could have guessed?
We solve the problem by eliminating the one object we were still sharing between interpreters. We replace it with a low-level hashtable, using the "raw" allocator to avoid tying it to the main interpreter.
We also remove the accommodations for "detached" thread states, which were a dubious idea to start with.
The _xxsubinterpreters module should not rely on internal API. Some of the functions it uses were recently moved there however. Here we move them back (and expose them properly).
We tried this before with a dict and for all interned strings. That ran into problems due to interpreter isolation. However, exclusively using a per-interpreter cache caused some inconsistency that can eliminate the benefit of interning. Here we circle back to using a global cache, but only for statically allocated strings. We also use a more-basic _Py_hashtable_t for that global cache instead of a dict.
Ideally we would only have the global cache, but the optional isolation of each interpreter's allocator means that a non-static string object must not outlive its interpreter. Thus we would have to store a copy of each such interned string in the global cache, tied to the main interpreter.
The two tests are crashing periodically in CI and on buildbots. I suspect the problem is in the _xxsubinterpreters module.
Regardless, I'm disabling the tests temporarily, to reduce the noise as we approach 3.12rc1. I'll be investigating the crashes separately.
Fix potential unaligned memory access on C APIs involving returned sequences
of `char *` pointers within the :mod:`grp` and :mod:`socket` modules. These
were revealed using a ``-fsaniziter=alignment`` build on ARM macOS.
Declare the following functions as macros, since they are actually
macros. It avoids a warning on "TYPE" or "macro" argument.
* PyMem_New()
* PyMem_Resize()
* PyModule_AddIntMacro()
* PyModule_AddStringMacro()
* PyObject_GC_New()
* PyObject_GC_NewVar()
* PyObject_New()
* PyObject_NewVar()
Add C standard C types to nitpick_ignore in Doc/conf.py:
* int64_t
* uint64_t
* uintptr_t
No longer ignore non existing "__int" type in nitpick_ignore.
Update Doc/tools/.nitignore
Dong-hee Na
Charlie Zhao
Alex Waygood
Kumar Aditya
da-woods
Rakesh Sabale
Inada Naoki
Serhiy Storchaka
James Cave
justdan6
Eric Snow
Erlend E. Aasland
Mark Shannon
Tom Niget
Illia Volochii
Felipe A. Hernandez
Christopher Chavez
Victor Stinner
Irit Katriel
Daniele Procida
shailshouryya