sge_execd segfaults in ptmalloc_lock_all during fork

[Orion Poplawski]

On 05/24/2012 01:52 AM, Ingvar Hagelund wrote:
> on., 23.05.2012 kl. 16.11 -0700, skrev Jason Evans:
>> On May 23, 2012, at 2:48 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>> I'm seeing sge_execd segfaults in ptmalloc_lock_all during fork on Fedora 17 with jemalloc 3.0.0.  See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824646 for details.
>>
>> In my own build of jemalloc, I see via nm(1) that in libjemalloc[_pic].a and jemalloc.o, the __*_hook symbols are read-only data ('R'), but they should be writable ('D'), as they are in libjemalloc.so.1.  This problem arises because jemalloc mistakenly declares the hooks as const, so they are indeed read-only (whoops).  Here's the fix:
>>
>> 	http://www.canonware.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=jemalloc.git;a=commitdiff;h=5c710cee783a44061fa2c467ffd8984b8047b90e
>
>
> A scratch build for fedora 17 with that patch is available here:
>
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4097345
>
> Please test.
>
> Ingvar
>

Looks good so far.  Thanks all!

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