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* manual/debug.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.

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2014-01-30 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
* manual/debug.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.
2014-01-29 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
[BZ #16510]

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@comment execinfo.h
@comment GNU
@deftypefun int backtrace (void **@var{buffer}, int @var{size})
@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@asunsafe{@asuinit{} @ascuheap{} @ascudlopen{} @ascuplugin{} @asulock{}}@acunsafe{@acuinit{} @acsmem{} @aculock{} @acsfd{}}}
@c The generic implementation just does pointer chasing within the local
@c stack, without any guarantees that this will handle signal frames
@c correctly, so it's AS-Unsafe to begin with. However, most (all?)
@c arches defer to libgcc_s's _Unwind_* implementation, dlopening
@c libgcc_s.so to that end except in a static version of libc.
@c libgcc_s's implementation may in turn defer to libunwind. We can't
@c assume those implementations are AS- or AC-safe, but even if we
@c could, our own initialization path isn't, and libgcc's implementation
@c calls malloc and performs internal locking, so...
The @code{backtrace} function obtains a backtrace for the current
thread, as a list of pointers, and places the information into
@var{buffer}. The argument @var{size} should be the number of
@ -56,6 +66,17 @@ interpreting the stack contents correctly.
@comment execinfo.h
@comment GNU
@deftypefun {char **} backtrace_symbols (void *const *@var{buffer}, int @var{size})
@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@asunsafe{@ascuheap{}}@acunsafe{@acsmem{} @aculock{}}}
@c Collects info returned by _dl_addr in an auto array, allocates memory
@c for the whole return buffer with malloc then sprintfs into it storing
@c pointers to the strings into the array entries in the buffer.
@c _dl_addr takes the recursive dl_load_lock then calls
@c _dl_find_dso_for_object and determine_info.
@c _dl_find_dso_for_object calls _dl-addr_inside_object.
@c All of them are safe as long as the lock is held.
@c @asucorrupt? It doesn't look like the dynamic loader's data
@c structures could be in an inconsistent state that would cause
@c malfunction here.
The @code{backtrace_symbols} function translates the information
obtained from the @code{backtrace} function into an array of strings.
The argument @var{buffer} should be a pointer to an array of addresses
@ -88,6 +109,11 @@ cannot be obtained.
@comment execinfo.h
@comment GNU
@deftypefun void backtrace_symbols_fd (void *const *@var{buffer}, int @var{size}, int @var{fd})
@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acunsafe{@aculock{}}}
@c Single loop of _dl_addr over addresses, collecting info into an iovec
@c written out with a writev call per iteration. Addresses and offsets
@c are converted to hex in auto buffers, so the only potential issue
@c here is leaking the dl lock in case of cancellation.
The @code{backtrace_symbols_fd} function performs the same translation
as the function @code{backtrace_symbols} function. Instead of returning
the strings to the caller, it writes the strings to the file descriptor