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Add support for thread sanitizer (TSAN) via --with-thread-sanitizer #112536

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colesbury opened this issue Nov 29, 2023 · 2 comments
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Add support for thread sanitizer (TSAN) via --with-thread-sanitizer #112536

colesbury opened this issue Nov 29, 2023 · 2 comments
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colesbury commented Nov 29, 2023 •
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GCC and Clang provide ThreadSanitizer, a tool that detects data races. We should add support for thread sanitizer to CPython. Note that Python already supports the memory and address sanitizers.

  • Add --with-thread-sanitizer as a configure option
  • Define _Py_THREAD_SANITIZER if thread-sanitizer is enabled (see, e.g., _Py_ADDRESS_SANITIZER in pyport.h)
  • Move the definition of _Py_NO_SANITIZE_THREAD from obmalloc.c to a place that's more widely available (like pyport.h). We're going to need this in a few places

Eventually, it would be helpful to have a continuous build for the combination of --disable-gil --with-thread-sanitizer. Note that we probably won't want to run all the tests. ThreadSanitizer is slow and also not very useful for single-threaded tests. We should collect a subset of our tests that use threading for the ThreadSanitizer continuous build.

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samety commented Dec 3, 2023 •
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Hey,
I would like to pick this up.
As a first step tried copying the struct for ASAN to TSAN
Here is a draft PR: #112648

Happy to get some initial feedback on it and then add remaining things like _Py_THREAD_SANITIZER etc.

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samety commented Dec 17, 2023

Added --with-thread-sanitizer as a configure option in pr 112648.

Still looking for a good way to enable TSAN for the continuous build, I will make another PR when I find one.

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gh-112536: Add support for thread sanitizer (TSAN) (gh-112648)
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