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Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:38:25 +0000 From: John Bartholomew Subject: [SDL] SDL Semaphore implementation broken on Windows? Hi, Over the past couple of days, I've been battling with SDL, SDL_Mixer and SMPEG to try to find an audio hang bug. I believe I've found the problem, which I think is a race condition inside SDL's semaphore implementation (at least the Windows implementation). The semaphore code uses Windows' built in semaphore functions, but it also maintains a separate count value. This count value is updated with bare increment and decrement operations in SemPost and SemWaitTimeout - no locking primitives to protect them. In tracking down the apparent audio bug, I found that at some point a semaphore's count value was being decremented to -1, which is clearly not a valid value for it to take. I'm still not certain exactly what sequence of operations is occuring for this to happen, but I believe that overall it's a race condition between a thread calling SemPost (which increments the count) and the thread on the other end calling SemWait (which decrements it). I will try to make a test case to verify this, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to (threading errors being difficult to reproduce even in the best circumstances). However, assuming this is the cause of my problems, there is a very simple fix: Windows provides InterlockedIncrement() and InterlockedDecrement() functions to perform increments and decrements which are guaranteed to be atomic. So the fix is in thread/win32/SDL_syssem.c: replace occurrences of --sem->count with InterlockedDecrement(&sem->count); and replace occurrences of ++sem->count with InterlockedIncrement(&sem->count); This is using SDL v1.2.12, built with VC++ 2008 Express, running on a Core 2 duo processor.
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:05:17 +0000
parents 91063c450171
children e9bcf004c324
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# Configure paths for SDL
# Sam Lantinga 9/21/99
# stolen from Manish Singh
# stolen back from Frank Belew
# stolen from Manish Singh
# Shamelessly stolen from Owen Taylor

dnl AM_PATH_SDL([MINIMUM-VERSION, [ACTION-IF-FOUND [, ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND]]])
dnl Test for SDL, and define SDL_CFLAGS and SDL_LIBS
dnl
AC_DEFUN([AM_PATH_SDL],
[dnl 
dnl Get the cflags and libraries from the sdl-config script
dnl
AC_ARG_WITH(sdl-prefix,[  --with-sdl-prefix=PFX   Prefix where SDL is installed (optional)],
            sdl_prefix="$withval", sdl_prefix="")
AC_ARG_WITH(sdl-exec-prefix,[  --with-sdl-exec-prefix=PFX Exec prefix where SDL is installed (optional)],
            sdl_exec_prefix="$withval", sdl_exec_prefix="")
AC_ARG_ENABLE(sdltest, [  --disable-sdltest       Do not try to compile and run a test SDL program],
		    , enable_sdltest=yes)

  if test x$sdl_exec_prefix != x ; then
    sdl_args="$sdl_args --exec-prefix=$sdl_exec_prefix"
    if test x${SDL_CONFIG+set} != xset ; then
      SDL_CONFIG=$sdl_exec_prefix/bin/sdl-config
    fi
  fi
  if test x$sdl_prefix != x ; then
    sdl_args="$sdl_args --prefix=$sdl_prefix"
    if test x${SDL_CONFIG+set} != xset ; then
      SDL_CONFIG=$sdl_prefix/bin/sdl-config
    fi
  fi

  if test "x$prefix" != xNONE; then
    PATH="$prefix/bin:$prefix/usr/bin:$PATH"
  fi
  AC_PATH_PROG(SDL_CONFIG, sdl-config, no, [$PATH])
  min_sdl_version=ifelse([$1], ,0.11.0,$1)
  AC_MSG_CHECKING(for SDL - version >= $min_sdl_version)
  no_sdl=""
  if test "$SDL_CONFIG" = "no" ; then
    no_sdl=yes
  else
    SDL_CFLAGS=`$SDL_CONFIG $sdlconf_args --cflags`
    SDL_LIBS=`$SDL_CONFIG $sdlconf_args --libs`

    sdl_major_version=`$SDL_CONFIG $sdl_args --version | \
           sed 's/\([[0-9]]*\).\([[0-9]]*\).\([[0-9]]*\)/\1/'`
    sdl_minor_version=`$SDL_CONFIG $sdl_args --version | \
           sed 's/\([[0-9]]*\).\([[0-9]]*\).\([[0-9]]*\)/\2/'`
    sdl_micro_version=`$SDL_CONFIG $sdl_config_args --version | \
           sed 's/\([[0-9]]*\).\([[0-9]]*\).\([[0-9]]*\)/\3/'`
    if test "x$enable_sdltest" = "xyes" ; then
      ac_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
      ac_save_CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS"
      ac_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
      CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $SDL_CFLAGS"
      CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS $SDL_CFLAGS"
      LIBS="$LIBS $SDL_LIBS"
dnl
dnl Now check if the installed SDL is sufficiently new. (Also sanity
dnl checks the results of sdl-config to some extent
dnl
      rm -f conf.sdltest
      AC_TRY_RUN([
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "SDL.h"

char*
my_strdup (char *str)
{
  char *new_str;
  
  if (str)
    {
      new_str = (char *)malloc ((strlen (str) + 1) * sizeof(char));
      strcpy (new_str, str);
    }
  else
    new_str = NULL;
  
  return new_str;
}

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int major, minor, micro;
  char *tmp_version;

  /* This hangs on some systems (?)
  system ("touch conf.sdltest");
  */
  { FILE *fp = fopen("conf.sdltest", "a"); if ( fp ) fclose(fp); }

  /* HP/UX 9 (%@#!) writes to sscanf strings */
  tmp_version = my_strdup("$min_sdl_version");
  if (sscanf(tmp_version, "%d.%d.%d", &major, &minor, &micro) != 3) {
     printf("%s, bad version string\n", "$min_sdl_version");
     exit(1);
   }

   if (($sdl_major_version > major) ||
      (($sdl_major_version == major) && ($sdl_minor_version > minor)) ||
      (($sdl_major_version == major) && ($sdl_minor_version == minor) && ($sdl_micro_version >= micro)))
    {
      return 0;
    }
  else
    {
      printf("\n*** 'sdl-config --version' returned %d.%d.%d, but the minimum version\n", $sdl_major_version, $sdl_minor_version, $sdl_micro_version);
      printf("*** of SDL required is %d.%d.%d. If sdl-config is correct, then it is\n", major, minor, micro);
      printf("*** best to upgrade to the required version.\n");
      printf("*** If sdl-config was wrong, set the environment variable SDL_CONFIG\n");
      printf("*** to point to the correct copy of sdl-config, and remove the file\n");
      printf("*** config.cache before re-running configure\n");
      return 1;
    }
}

],, no_sdl=yes,[echo $ac_n "cross compiling; assumed OK... $ac_c"])
       CFLAGS="$ac_save_CFLAGS"
       CXXFLAGS="$ac_save_CXXFLAGS"
       LIBS="$ac_save_LIBS"
     fi
  fi
  if test "x$no_sdl" = x ; then
     AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
     ifelse([$2], , :, [$2])     
  else
     AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
     if test "$SDL_CONFIG" = "no" ; then
       echo "*** The sdl-config script installed by SDL could not be found"
       echo "*** If SDL was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in"
       echo "*** your path, or set the SDL_CONFIG environment variable to the"
       echo "*** full path to sdl-config."
     else
       if test -f conf.sdltest ; then
        :
       else
          echo "*** Could not run SDL test program, checking why..."
          CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $SDL_CFLAGS"
          CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS $SDL_CFLAGS"
          LIBS="$LIBS $SDL_LIBS"
          AC_TRY_LINK([
#include <stdio.h>
#include "SDL.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{ return 0; }
#undef  main
#define main K_and_R_C_main
],      [ return 0; ],
        [ echo "*** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means"
          echo "*** that the run-time linker is not finding SDL or finding the wrong"
          echo "*** version of SDL. If it is not finding SDL, you'll need to set your"
          echo "*** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point"
          echo "*** to the installed location  Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that"
          echo "*** is required on your system"
	  echo "***"
          echo "*** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it, although"
          echo "*** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH"],
        [ echo "*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the"
          echo "*** exact error that occured. This usually means SDL was incorrectly installed"
          echo "*** or that you have moved SDL since it was installed. In the latter case, you"
          echo "*** may want to edit the sdl-config script: $SDL_CONFIG" ])
          CFLAGS="$ac_save_CFLAGS"
          CXXFLAGS="$ac_save_CXXFLAGS"
          LIBS="$ac_save_LIBS"
       fi
     fi
     SDL_CFLAGS=""
     SDL_LIBS=""
     ifelse([$3], , :, [$3])
  fi
  AC_SUBST(SDL_CFLAGS)
  AC_SUBST(SDL_LIBS)
  rm -f conf.sdltest
])