lock: add an opt-in rwlock that detaches before it blocks - #8556
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A thread blocked acquiring a lock reaches no safepoint, so stop-the-world cannot stop it, and the lock it waits for is routinely one a thread the requester already suspended is holding. `RawDetachingRwLock` wraps the raw rwlock and hands the wait for a contended acquire to a hook that leaves the interpreter first; an acquire that takes the lock on its first try does not reach the hook. The vm installs the hook during interpreter init and implements it with `allow_threads`. The wait ends with the lock acquired while detached, so re-attaching can park the thread holding it. That is only safe where nothing reachable from a stop-the-world section takes the same lock, so it is opt-in per lock: `PyDetachingRwLock` is a separate type from `PyRwLock`, and `Traverse` is not implemented for it, so a payload holding one cannot derive `Traverse`. `PyByteArray::inner` takes it. `BorrowedValue`/`BorrowedValueMut` gain the matching mapped-guard variants. `a_thread_blocked_on_a_lock_does_not_stall_stop_the_world` blocks an interpreter thread on a `PyDetachingRwLock` and asserts stop-the-world still completes, running the stop on its own thread with a timeout so a stop that never completes fails rather than hangs. Without the hook installed it fails on the 10 s timeout; with it, it passes in 0.07 s. Assisted-by: Claude
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdded detaching read/write locks and interpreter wait-hook integration. ChangesDetaching lock flow
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds an opt-in lock path that detaches contended waiters so stop-the-world operations can progress, but the regression test can currently pass without proving the waiter reached the blocked state, and formatting/Clippy checks still need a successful run. Merge should wait for the test synchronization fix and clean required checks. Possibly related PRs
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In `@crates/vm/src/vm/interpreter.rs`:
- Around line 1678-1689: Make the blocking-state handshake in the regression
test deterministic by replacing the fixed sleep after the at_lock signal with
polling of the registered worker’s ThreadSlot.state. Keep the held lock live and
wait until that state reaches THREAD_DETACHED before proceeding, ensuring the
worker has actually blocked and detached rather than merely being scheduled to
do so.
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Make the blocking-state handshake deterministic.
Line 1678 signals before worker_lock.read() starts. Line 1689 only sleeps. If scheduling delays the read, stop-the-world can complete without a blocked waiter, so this regression test passes without testing detachment. It can also fail when the worker remains attached after the signal.
Wait until the registered worker ThreadSlot.state is THREAD_DETACHED while held is still live.
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In `@crates/vm/src/vm/interpreter.rs` around lines 1678 - 1689, Make the
blocking-state handshake in the regression test deterministic by replacing the
fixed sleep after the at_lock signal with polling of the registered worker’s
ThreadSlot.state. Keep the held lock live and wait until that state reaches
THREAD_DETACHED before proceeding, ensuring the worker has actually blocked and
detached rather than merely being scheduled to do so.
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Stopping the world means waiting for every running thread to reach a safepoint.
A thread blocked acquiring a lock reaches none — and the lock it waits for is
routinely one that a thread the requester has already suspended is holding. The
two then wait on each other for good.
The holder is not the one who can avoid this. A lock is held across a blocking
call precisely because that is what the call needs:
FileIO.writekeeps abytearray's read guard alive across thewritesyscall'sallow_threads, andso do
FileIO.readinto,os.readinto,socket.recv_into,socket.send*,fcntland the openssl paths. Most have novmin scope to detach with.So the waiter gives up its interpreter for the wait instead, which is what a
blocking call does anyway.
What changed
RawDetachingRwLockwraps the raw rwlock and hands the wait for a contendedacquire to a hook that detaches first. An acquire that takes the lock on its
first try is the same atomic exchange it was and never reaches the hook. The
hook lives in the vm, since
rustpython-commoncannot depend on it, and runsallow_threads;initialize_vminstalls it, idempotently, so every interpreterin a process can call it.
PyByteArray::inneris the first user.BorrowedValue/BorrowedValueMutgainthe matching mapped-guard variants.
Why this is opt-in, and what keeps it honest
The wait acquires the lock while detached, so the thread comes back holding it
— and re-attaching is a point at which a stop-the-world in flight will park the
thread. It is therefore parked holding the lock. Everything that stops the world
must be able to finish without that lock; if a collection took it, the
collection would block on a thread only the collection can release.
So the rule for opting a lock in is that nothing reachable from a
stop-the-world section takes it.
PyDetachingRwLockis a distinct type fromPyRwLock, andTraverseis deliberately not implemented for it — apayload holding one cannot derive
Traverse, so it cannot become something acollection walks into.
PyByteArrayhas noTraverseimpl, so the collectornever reaches its lock.
The requester of a stop is already exempt from being parked by it
(
park_detached_threadsskips it by thread id, andsuspend_if_neededkeys offa stop bit never set for the requester), so detaching in the hook cannot park
the one thread that can start the world again.
What this does not change
The earlier fixes in
_queue,_thread,_ioand_winapistay. Those are theother half of the class: a holder that keeps a lock across a condvar wait,
which no acquire-path hook can help with. This addresses the waiters.
Tests
a_thread_blocked_on_a_lock_does_not_stall_stop_the_worldholds aPyDetachingRwLock, blocks an interpreter thread on it, and assertsstop-the-world still completes. It runs the stop on a thread of its own with a
timeout, so a stop that never completes fails the test rather than hanging it.
Checked to fail without its fix: with the hook installation commented out it
fails on the 10 s timeout; with it, it passes in 0.07 s.
Also run locally: the full workspace test command, CI clippy for both feature
sets,
cargo doc(no new warnings), abytearray/memoryviewstress across 8threads with 2 concurrent
gc.collect()loops, andtest_bytes test_memoryview test_threading test_io test_gc test_buffer(6/6, 1,536 tests).Summary by CodeRabbit