a year later, I found out why, it’s a linux kernel bug, see:
committed 04:28PM - 18 Oct 14 UTC
Commit b0c29f79ecea (futexes: Avoid taking the hb->lock if there's
nothing to wa… ke up) changes the futex code to avoid taking a lock when
there are no waiters. This code has been subsequently fixed in commit
11d4616bd07f (futex: revert back to the explicit waiter counting code).
Both the original commit and the fix-up rely on get_futex_key_refs() to
always imply a barrier.
However, for private futexes, none of the cases in the switch statement
of get_futex_key_refs() would be hit and the function completes without
a memory barrier as required before checking the "waiters" in
futex_wake() -> hb_waiters_pending(). The consequence is a race with a
thread waiting on a futex on another CPU, allowing the waker thread to
read "waiters == 0" while the waiter thread to have read "futex_val ==
locked" (in kernel).
Without this fix, the problem (user space deadlocks) can be seen with
Android bionic's mutex implementation on an arm64 multi-cluster system.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Matteo Franchin <Matteo.Franchin@arm.com>
Fixes: b0c29f79ecea (futexes: Avoid taking the hb->lock if there's nothing to wake up)
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
running mongos os: CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core)#1 SMP Thu Nov 6 15:06:03 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I hope it helps you.