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randall77 opened this issue Nov 7, 2021 · 9 comments
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internal/fmtsort: channel tests make specious assumptions about object ordering #49431

randall77 opened this issue Nov 7, 2021 · 9 comments
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On the longtest builders:

--- FAIL: TestCompare (0.00s)
    sort_test.go:78: chan int: compare(0xc000196000,0xc00001e1e0)=1; expect -1
    sort_test.go:78: chan int: compare(0xc000196000,0xc00001e240)=1; expect -1
    sort_test.go:78: chan int: compare(0xc00001e1e0,0xc000196000)=-1; expect 1
    sort_test.go:78: chan int: compare(0xc00001e240,0xc000196000)=-1; expect 1
--- FAIL: TestOrder (0.00s)
    sort_test.go:227: map[chan int]string: got "CHAN1:1 CHAN2:2 CHAN0:0", want "CHAN0:0 CHAN1:1 CHAN2:2"
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FAIL	internal/fmtsort	0.004s

I think this is happening because chans[0] is in pointer space higher than chans[1] and chans[2]. It seems that these tests expect channels to sort in the order they are allocated, which isn't necessarily true.

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robpike commented Nov 8, 2021

Yes, it looks like that's what's happening. Not sure how to make the test robust without essentially duplicating the package's own logic, which is unfortunate. Ideas welcome.

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Change https://golang.org/cl/361918 mentions this issue: internal/fmtsort: order channels in test in memory address order

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bcmills commented Nov 8, 2021 •
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It seems to me that sorting dynamically-allocated pointers by pointer value is inherently nondeterministic, given Go's memory model: if the values are relocated during the test, they will end up out of order. (That is: this test, strictly speaking, requires #46787.)

The fact that the language provides no way to statically allocate channel values further complicates the matter (compare #28366).

Without a pinning API, I think this test fundamentally cannot be written in a way is guaranteed by the language spec to be deterministic.

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Reopening to make this issue about making this test more robust.

@randall77 randall77 reopened this Nov 8, 2021
@randall77 randall77 modified the milestones: Go1.18, Unplanned Nov 8, 2021
@randall77 randall77 changed the title internal/fmtsort: channel ordering not deterministic internal/fmtsort: channel tests make specious assumptions about object ordering Nov 8, 2021
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rsc commented Nov 30, 2021

@randall77, you reopened this bug. What is it meant to track now? Use of a Pinner?
It should be a long time before we have objects moving in the heap, and channels are pretty much always going to be in the heap (especially channels held in globals).

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Yes, just to make the test (and the actual code, maybe?) less dependent on object addresses. I'm not entirely clear on how that would happen, exactly. Maybe there's nothing concrete to do here.

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Change https://go.dev/cl/528796 mentions this issue: internal/fmtsort: makeChans pin pointer

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bcmills commented Oct 30, 2023

@qiulaidongfeng: is this fixed as of https://go.dev/cl/528796, or is there more to do?

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I'm going to close, I think this is done.
Maybe someday someone can figure out how to write this test that doesn't depend on pinning. But that doesn't need an issue.

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