fixes for python tracebacker segfaults #2621
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- The existing tracebacker is periodically segfaulting on python 3.11. This implementation pushes more of the logic into python code, leveraging updates to the tracebacker module, so that the c code just has to iterate over list of strings returned back. Note that this does change the output format of the tracebacker to match the standard python format of the traceback.StackSummary.format() method, so anything parsing that output that will need to update it's logic to match.
…rsion - You can now pass a different path for a different python installation.
- If this call fails, we need to release the gil before returning as we've obtained it.
…rames() segfaults - This method is known to behave in strange ways when called from multithreaded code, and crashes a lot when doing harakiri tracebacks. This new implementation avoids calling sys._current_frames, and instead uses the PyThreadState that we already have for the main uwsgi worker thread. We get that, then pass that into our python function which will build the stack trace string for us. This avoids the segfaults and is much more stable than before. It only gets the traceback for the main thread which is the uwsgi worker thread, which is all we wanted anyway.
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Cherry pick a couple of commit from #2621
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I cherry-picked the two commits in the middle, taking a look at the others will require a bit |
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We've found that the uwsgi build with python 3.11 has a log of segfaults when generating the tracebacks via the tracebacker thread. This is a new implementation for that in python 3.11 that has been much more stable as it avoids using sys._current_frames(), instead using the python thread state object uwsgi already has, and then moves more of the hard work into python code to simplify and make that code safer. Hopefully it's helpful for others.