Here are answers to some question directed to me earlier:

> Could you attach the log from "strace -f -o strace.log ~/aioWrite"?
Sorry, can't do that. strace is not installed and I don't have root access. If this is still needed I will ask admin to add strace.

> Do the other machines have the same kernel (4.15.0-20-generic)?
No, other machines use kernel 4.15.0-39-generic.

> Have you tried running the binary built on a successful machine on
the problematic machine?

Yes, same effect - segmentation fault. bt from gdb is identical too.

> valgrind might also be a good idea.

alpine-tmp-0:~$ strace -f ./aioWrite
-sh: strace: not found
alpine-tmp-0:~$ valgrind
valgrind            valgrind-di-server  valgrind-listener
alpine-tmp-0:~$ valgrind ./aioWrite
==70339== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==70339== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==70339== Using Valgrind-3.11.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==70339== Command: ./aioWrite
==70339==
==70339== Invalid free() / delete / delete[] / realloc()
==70339==    at 0x4C92B0E: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:530)
==70339==    by 0x4020248: reclaim_gaps (dynlink.c:478)
==70339==    by 0x4020CD0: map_library (dynlink.c:674)
==70339==    by 0x4021818: load_library (dynlink.c:980)
==70339==    by 0x4022607: load_preload (dynlink.c:1075)
==70339==    by 0x4022607: __dls3 (dynlink.c:1585)
==70339==    by 0x4021EDB: __dls2 (dynlink.c:1389)
==70339==    by 0x401FC8E: ??? (in /lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1)
==70339==  Address 0x4e9a180 is in a rw- mapped file /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so segment
==70339==
==70339== Can't extend stack to 0x4087948 during signal delivery for thread 2:
==70339==   no stack segment
==70339==
==70339== Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV): dumping core
==70339==  Access not within mapped region at address 0x4087948
==70339==    at 0x4016834: __syscall3 (syscall_arch.h:29)
==70339==    by 0x4016834: __wake (pthread_impl.h:133)
==70339==    by 0x4016834: cleanup (aio.c:154)
==70339==    by 0x40167B0: io_thread_func (aio.c:255)
==70339==    by 0x4054292: start (pthread_create.c:145)
==70339==    by 0x4053071: ??? (clone.s:21)
==70339==    by 0x4053071: ??? (clone.s:21)
==70339==    by 0x4053071: ??? (clone.s:21)
==70339==    by 0x4053071: ??? (clone.s:21)
==70339==    by 0x4053071: ??? (clone.s:21)
==70339==    by 0x4053071: ??? (clone.s:21)
==70339==    by 0x4053071: ??? (clone.s:21)
==70339==    by 0x4053071: ??? (clone.s:21)
==70339==    by 0x4053071: ??? (clone.s:21)
==70339==  If you believe this happened as a result of a stack
==70339==  overflow in your program's main thread (unlikely but
==70339==  possible), you can try to increase the size of the
==70339==  main thread stack using the --main-stacksize= flag.
==70339==  The main thread stack size used in this run was 8388608.
==70339==
==70339== HEAP SUMMARY:
==70339==     in use at exit: 81,051 bytes in 9 blocks
==70339==   total heap usage: 9 allocs, 3 frees, 81,051 bytes allocated
==70339==
==70339== LEAK SUMMARY:
==70339==    definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==70339==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==70339==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==70339==    still reachable: 81,051 bytes in 9 blocks
==70339==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==70339== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory
==70339==
==70339== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==70339== ERROR SUMMARY: 3 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
Killed


sob., 8 gru 2018 o 17:18 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> napisał(a):
* Rich Felker:

> On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 09:06:18PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Rich Felker:
>>
>> > I don't think so. I'm concerned that it's a stack overflow, and that
>> > somehow the kernel folks have managed to break the MINSIGSTKSZ ABI.
>>
>> Probably:
>>
>>   <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20305>
>>   <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22636>
>>
>> It's a nasty CPU backwards compatibility problem.  Some of the
>> suggestions I made to work around this are simply wrong; don't take them
>> too seriously.
>>
>> Nowadays, the kernel has a way to disable the %zmm registers, but it
>> unfortunately does not reduce the save area size.
>
> How large is the saved context with the %zmm junk? I measured just
> ~768 bytes on normal x86_64 without it, and since 2048 is rounded up
> to a whole page (4096), overflow should not happen until the signal
> context is something like 3.5k (allowing ~512 bytes for TCB (~128) and
> 2 simple call frames).

I wrote a test to do some measurements:

  <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-12/msg00271.html>

The signal handler context is quite large on x86-64 with AVX-512F,
indeed around 3.5 KiB.  It is even larger on ppc64 and ppc64el
(~4.5 KiB), which I find somewhat surprising.

The cancellation test also includes stack usage from the libgcc
unwinder.  Its stack usage likely differs between versions, so I should
have included that in the reported results.

Thanks,
Florian