Tim Peters | aa22223 | 2001-05-22 09:34:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | # This is a variant of the very old (early 90's) file |
| 2 | # Demo/threads/bug.py. It simply provokes a number of threads into |
| 3 | # trying to import the same module "at the same time". |
| 4 | # There are no pleasant failure modes -- most likely is that Python |
| 5 | # complains several times about module random having no attribute |
| 6 | # randrange, and then Python hangs. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | import thread |
Thomas Wouters | 477c8d5 | 2006-05-27 19:21:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | from test.test_support import verbose, TestSkipped, TestFailed |
Tim Peters | aa22223 | 2001-05-22 09:34:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | |
| 11 | critical_section = thread.allocate_lock() |
| 12 | done = thread.allocate_lock() |
| 13 | |
| 14 | def task(): |
| 15 | global N, critical_section, done |
| 16 | import random |
| 17 | x = random.randrange(1, 3) |
| 18 | critical_section.acquire() |
| 19 | N -= 1 |
Tim Peters | 20882dd | 2002-02-16 07:26:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | # Must release critical_section before releasing done, else the main |
| 21 | # thread can exit and set critical_section to None as part of global |
| 22 | # teardown; then critical_section.release() raises AttributeError. |
| 23 | finished = N == 0 |
Tim Peters | aa22223 | 2001-05-22 09:34:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | critical_section.release() |
Tim Peters | 20882dd | 2002-02-16 07:26:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | if finished: |
| 26 | done.release() |
Tim Peters | aa22223 | 2001-05-22 09:34:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | |
Thomas Wouters | 477c8d5 | 2006-05-27 19:21:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | def test_import_hangers(): |
| 29 | import sys |
| 30 | if verbose: |
Guido van Rossum | be19ed7 | 2007-02-09 05:37:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 31 | print("testing import hangers ...", end=' ') |
Thomas Wouters | 477c8d5 | 2006-05-27 19:21:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | |
Thomas Wouters | 0e3f591 | 2006-08-11 14:57:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | import test.threaded_import_hangers |
Thomas Wouters | 477c8d5 | 2006-05-27 19:21:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | try: |
Thomas Wouters | 0e3f591 | 2006-08-11 14:57:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | if test.threaded_import_hangers.errors: |
| 36 | raise TestFailed(test.threaded_import_hangers.errors) |
Thomas Wouters | 477c8d5 | 2006-05-27 19:21:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | elif verbose: |
Guido van Rossum | be19ed7 | 2007-02-09 05:37:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 38 | print("OK.") |
Thomas Wouters | 477c8d5 | 2006-05-27 19:21:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | finally: |
| 40 | # In case this test is run again, make sure the helper module |
| 41 | # gets loaded from scratch again. |
| 42 | del sys.modules['test.threaded_import_hangers'] |
| 43 | |
Tim Peters | d974221 | 2001-05-22 18:28:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | # Tricky: When regrtest imports this module, the thread running regrtest |
| 45 | # grabs the import lock and won't let go of it until this module returns. |
| 46 | # All other threads attempting an import hang for the duration. Since |
| 47 | # this test spawns threads that do little *but* import, we can't do that |
| 48 | # successfully until after this module finishes importing and regrtest |
| 49 | # regains control. To make this work, a special case was added to |
| 50 | # regrtest to invoke a module's "test_main" function (if any) after |
| 51 | # importing it. |
Tim Peters | aa22223 | 2001-05-22 09:34:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | |
Tim Peters | d974221 | 2001-05-22 18:28:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | def test_main(): # magic name! see above |
Tim Peters | aa22223 | 2001-05-22 09:34:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | global N, done |
Tim Peters | 6923234 | 2001-08-30 05:16:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | |
| 56 | import imp |
| 57 | if imp.lock_held(): |
| 58 | # This triggers on, e.g., from test import autotest. |
| 59 | raise TestSkipped("can't run when import lock is held") |
| 60 | |
Tim Peters | aa22223 | 2001-05-22 09:34:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | done.acquire() |
Tim Peters | d974221 | 2001-05-22 18:28:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 62 | for N in (20, 50) * 3: |
| 63 | if verbose: |
Guido van Rossum | be19ed7 | 2007-02-09 05:37:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 64 | print("Trying", N, "threads ...", end=' ') |
Tim Peters | aa22223 | 2001-05-22 09:34:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | for i in range(N): |
| 66 | thread.start_new_thread(task, ()) |
| 67 | done.acquire() |
Tim Peters | d974221 | 2001-05-22 18:28:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 68 | if verbose: |
Guido van Rossum | be19ed7 | 2007-02-09 05:37:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 69 | print("OK.") |
Michael W. Hudson | fcc09bb | 2004-08-03 10:45:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | done.release() |
Tim Peters | aa22223 | 2001-05-22 09:34:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | |
Thomas Wouters | 477c8d5 | 2006-05-27 19:21:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | test_import_hangers() |
| 73 | |
Tim Peters | d974221 | 2001-05-22 18:28:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 74 | if __name__ == "__main__": |
| 75 | test_main() |