Enabling profiling causes hang?

[Brock Pytlik]

I'm trying to track down a possible memory leak in ardb
<https://github.com/yinqiwen/ardb>, which uses jemalloc, when running on an
arm processor.

The problem I have is that when I set 'MALLOC_CONF=prof_leak:true' and
start ardb, the program hangs.
When I strace it, this is the system call it does:

> futex(0xb6db3c0c, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL


Here's the stack trace gdb reports:

> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xb6e1af4c in __lll_lock_wait_private () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1  0xb6d79de4 in __new_exitfn () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #2  0xb6d79e34 in __internal_atexit () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #3  0x0016d75c in je_prof_boot2 () at src/prof.c:1349
> #4  0x00143418 in malloc_init_hard () at src/jemalloc.c:767
> #5  0x0014db70 in malloc_init () at src/jemalloc.c:292
> #6  calloc (num=1, size=520) at src/jemalloc.c:1123
> #7  0xb6d79da4 in __new_exitfn () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #8  0xb6d79e34 in __internal_atexit () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #9  0x00013410 in __static_initialization_and_destruction_0 (
>     __initialize_p=<optimized out>, __priority=<optimized out>)
>     at <>/include/c++/4.7.3/iostream:75
> #10 _GLOBAL__sub_I_channel.cpp(void) () at common/channel/channel.cpp:738
> #11 0x001786f8 in __libc_csu_init ()
> #12 0xb6d61834 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #13 0x0001424c in _start ()


I'll admit at this point I'm kind of stumped as to how to proceed. I
thought I'd start by asking here in case anyone had seen similar behavior
or knew what the problem was. I checked the issues at the github page and
couldn't find anything similar. This is using version 3.6.0 of jemalloc.

When I looked at the jemalloc.xml user manual in the gate tip (not the
3.6.0 branch I'm using) I saw some discussion of atexit being problematic
in the context of prof_final. If that's the problem, is there a way to
generate profiling information either while the program is running,
avoiding the atexit issue? I didn't quite follow the comment in the user
manual that says that an application can register its own atexit parameter
with equivalent functionality. Is there an example someplace I could crib
from or could someone help me understand that a bit?

Thanks,
Brock
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