The current limit on MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD is either 1 Mbyte (for
32-bit apps) or 32 Mbytes (for 64-bit apps). This value was set by a
patch dated 2006 (15 years ago). Attempts to set the threshold higher
are currently ignored.
The default behavior is appropriate for many highly parallel
applications where many processes or threads are sharing RAM. In other
situations where the number of active processes or threads closely
matches the number of cores, a much higher limit may be desired by the
application designer. By today's standards on personal computers and
small servers, 2 Gbytes of RAM per core is commonly available. On
larger systems 4 Gbytes or more of RAM is sometimes available.
Instead of raising the limit to match current needs, this patch
proposes to remove the limit of the tunable, leaving the decision up
to the user of a tunable to judge the best value for their needs.
This patch does not change any of the defaults for malloc tunables,
retaining the current behavior of the dynamic malloc mmap threshold.
bugzilla 27801 - Remove upper limit on tunable MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
malloc/
malloc.c changed do_set_mmap_threshold to remove test
for HEAP_MAX_SIZE.
This patch adds support huge page support on main arena allocation,
enable with tunable glibc.malloc.hugetlb=2. The patch essentially
disable the __glibc_morecore() sbrk() call (similar when memory
tag does when sbrk() call does not support it) and fallback to
default page size if the memory allocation fails.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
It is enabled as default for glibc.malloc.hugetlb set to 2 or higher.
It also uses a non configurable minimum value and maximum value,
currently set respectively to 1 and 4 selected huge page size.
The arena allocation with huge pages does not use MAP_NORESERVE. As
indicate by kernel internal documentation [1], the flag might trigger
a SIGBUS on soft page faults if at memory access there is no left
pages in the pool.
On systems without a reserved huge pages pool, is just stress the
mmap(MAP_HUGETLB) allocation failure. To improve test coverage it is
required to create a pool with some allocated pages.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu with no reserved pages, 10 reserved pages
(which trigger mmap(MAP_HUGETBL) failures) and with 256 reserved pages
(which does not trigger mmap(MAP_HUGETLB) failures).
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.18/vm/hugetlbfs_reserv.html#resv-map-modifications
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
With the morecore hook removed, there is not easy way to provide huge
pages support on with glibc allocator without resorting to transparent
huge pages. And some users and programs do prefer to use the huge pages
directly instead of THP for multiple reasons: no splitting, re-merging
by the VM, no TLB shootdowns for running processes, fast allocation
from the reserve pool, no competition with the rest of the processes
unlike THP, no swapping all, etc.
This patch extends the 'glibc.malloc.hugetlb' tunable: the value
'2' means to use huge pages directly with the system default size,
while a positive value means and specific page size that is matched
against the supported ones by the system.
Currently only memory allocated on sysmalloc() is handled, the arenas
still uses the default system page size.
To test is a new rule is added tests-malloc-hugetlb2, which run the
addes tests with the required GLIBC_TUNABLE setting. On systems without
a reserved huge pages pool, is just stress the mmap(MAP_HUGETLB)
allocation failure. To improve test coverage it is required to create
a pool with some allocated pages.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
To increase effectiveness with Transparent Huge Page with madvise, the
large page size is use instead page size for sbrk increment for the
main arena.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Linux Transparent Huge Pages (THP) current supports three different
states: 'never', 'madvise', and 'always'. The 'never' is
self-explanatory and 'always' will enable THP for all anonymous
pages. However, 'madvise' is still the default for some system and
for such case THP will be only used if the memory range is explicity
advertise by the program through a madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) call.
To enable it a new tunable is provided, 'glibc.malloc.hugetlb',
where setting to a value diffent than 0 enables the madvise call.
This patch issues the madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) call after a successful
mmap() call at sysmalloc() with sizes larger than the default huge
page size. The madvise() call is disable is system does not support
THP or if it has the mode set to "never" and on Linux only support
one page size for THP, even if the architecture supports multiple
sizes.
To test is a new rule is added tests-malloc-hugetlb1, which run the
addes tests with the required GLIBC_TUNABLE setting.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
The change 1e5a5866cb ("Remove malloc hooks [BZ #23328]") has broken
ports that are using GLIBC_2_35, like the new OpenRISC port I am working
on.
The libc_malloc_debug.so library used to bring in the debug
infrastructure is currently essentially empty for GLIBC_2_35 ports like
mine causing mtrace tests to fail:
cat sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/or1k/shlib-versions
DEFAULT GLIBC_2.35
ld=ld-linux-or1k.so.1
FAIL: posix/bug-glob2-mem
FAIL: posix/bug-regex14-mem
FAIL: posix/bug-regex2-mem
FAIL: posix/bug-regex21-mem
FAIL: posix/bug-regex31-mem
FAIL: posix/bug-regex36-mem
FAIL: malloc/tst-mtrace.
The issue seems to be with the ifdefs in malloc/malloc-debug.c. The
ifdefs are currently essentially exluding all symbols for ports > 2.35.
Removing the top level SHLIB_COMPAT ifdef allows things to just work.
Fixes: 1e5a5866cb ("Remove malloc hooks [BZ #23328]")
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
My build-many-glibcs.py bot shows -Waggressive-loop-optimizations
errors building the glibc testsuite for 32-bit architectures with GCC
mainline, which seem to have appeared between GCC commits
4abc0c196b10251dc80d0743ba9e8ab3e56c61ed and
d8edfadfc7a9795b65177a50ce44fd348858e844:
In function 'dynarray_long_noscratch_resize',
inlined from 'test_long_overflow' at tst-dynarray.c:489:5,
inlined from 'do_test' at tst-dynarray.c:571:3:
../malloc/dynarray-skeleton.c:391:36: error: iteration 1073741823 invokes undefined behavior [-Werror=aggressive-loop-optimizations]
391 | DYNARRAY_ELEMENT_INIT (&list->u.dynarray_header.array[i]);
tst-dynarray.c:39:37: note: in definition of macro 'DYNARRAY_ELEMENT_INIT'
39 | #define DYNARRAY_ELEMENT_INIT(e) (*(e) = 23)
| ^
In file included from tst-dynarray.c:42:
../malloc/dynarray-skeleton.c:389:37: note: within this loop
389 | for (size_t i = old_size; i < size; ++i)
| ~~^~~~~~
In function 'dynarray_long_resize',
inlined from 'test_long_overflow' at tst-dynarray.c:479:5,
inlined from 'do_test' at tst-dynarray.c:571:3:
../malloc/dynarray-skeleton.c:391:36: error: iteration 1073741823 invokes undefined behavior [-Werror=aggressive-loop-optimizations]
391 | DYNARRAY_ELEMENT_INIT (&list->u.dynarray_header.array[i]);
tst-dynarray.c:27:37: note: in definition of macro 'DYNARRAY_ELEMENT_INIT'
27 | #define DYNARRAY_ELEMENT_INIT(e) (*(e) = 17)
| ^
In file included from tst-dynarray.c:28:
../malloc/dynarray-skeleton.c:389:37: note: within this loop
389 | for (size_t i = old_size; i < size; ++i)
| ~~^~~~~~
I don't know what GCC change made these errors appear, or why they
only appear for 32-bit architectures. However, the warnings appear to
be both true (that iteration would indeed involve undefined behavior
if executed) and useless in this particular case (that iteration is
never executed, because the allocation size overflows and so the
allocation fails - but the check for allocation size overflow is in a
separate source file and so can't be seen by the compiler when
compiling this test). So use the DIAG_* macros to disable
-Waggressive-loop-optimizations around the calls in question to
dynarray_long_resize and dynarray_long_noscratch_resize in this test.
Tested with build-many-glibcs.py (GCC mainline) for arm-linux-gnueabi,
where it restores a clean testsuite build.
Hoist the NULL check for malloc_usable_size into its entry points in
malloc-debug and malloc and assume non-NULL in all callees. This fixes
BZ #28506
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
GCC 4.9.0 added the alloc_align attribute to say that a function
argument specifies the alignment of the returned pointer. Clang supports
the attribute too. Using the attribute can allow a compiler to generate
better code if it knows the returned pointer has a minimum alignment.
See https://gcc.gnu.org/PR60092 for more details.
GCC implicitly knows the semantics of aligned_alloc and posix_memalign,
but not the obsolete memalign. As a result, GCC generates worse code
when memalign is used, compared to aligned_alloc. Clang knows about
aligned_alloc and memalign, but not posix_memalign.
This change adds a new __attribute_alloc_align__ macro to <sys/cdefs.h>
and then uses it on memalign (where it helps GCC) and aligned_alloc
(where GCC and Clang already know the semantics, but it doesn't hurt)
and xposix_memalign. It can't be used on posix_memalign because that
doesn't return a pointer (the allocated pointer is returned via a void**
parameter instead).
Unlike the alloc_size attribute, alloc_align only allows a single
argument. That means the new __attribute_alloc_align__ macro doesn't
really need to be used with double parentheses to protect a comma
between its arguments. For consistency with __attribute_alloc_size__
this patch defines it the same way, so that double parentheses are
required.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
This is an internal function meant to return the number of avaliable
processor where the process can scheduled, different than the
__get_nprocs which returns a the system available online CPU.
The Linux implementation currently only calls __get_nprocs(), which
in tuns calls sched_getaffinity.
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
We stopped adding "Contributed by" or similar lines in sources in 2012
in favour of git logs and keeping the Contributors section of the
glibc manual up to date. Removing these lines makes the license
header a bit more consistent across files and also removes the
possibility of error in attribution when license blocks or files are
copied across since the contributed-by lines don't actually reflect
reality in those cases.
Move all "Contributed by" and similar lines (Written by, Test by,
etc.) into a new file CONTRIBUTED-BY to retain record of these
contributions. These contributors are also mentioned in
manual/contrib.texi, so we just maintain this additional record as a
courtesy to the earlier developers.
The following scripts were used to filter a list of files to edit in
place and to clean up the CONTRIBUTED-BY file respectively. These
were not added to the glibc sources because they're not expected to be
of any use in future given that this is a one time task:
https://gist.github.com/siddhesh/b5ecac94eabfd72ed2916d6d8157e7dchttps://gist.github.com/siddhesh/15ea1f5e435ace9774f485030695ee02
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Record only the relative address of the caller in mtrace file. Use
LD_TRACE_PRELINKING to get the executable as well as binary vs
executable load offsets so that we may compute a base to add to the
relative address in the mtrace file. This allows us to get a valid
address to pass to addr2line in all cases.
Fixes BZ #22716.
Co-authored-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
mcheck and malloc-check no longer work with static binaries, so drop
those tests.
Reported-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
Tested-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Remove unused code and declare __libc_mallopt when !IS_IN (libc) to
allow the debug hook to build with --disable-tunables.
Also, run tst-ifunc-isa-2* tests only when tunables are enabled since
the result depends on it.
Tested on x86_64.
Reported-by: Matheus Castanho <msc@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Interpose malloc_usable_size to return the correct mcheck value for
malloc_usable_size.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Make malloc hooks symbols compat-only so that new applications cannot
link against them and remove the declarations from the API. Also
remove the unused malloc-hooks.h.
Finally, mark all symbols in libc_malloc_debug.so as compat so that
the library cannot be linked against.
Add a note about the deprecation in NEWS.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
These deprecated functions are only safe to call from
__malloc_initialize_hook and as a result, are not useful in the
general case. Move the implementations to libc_malloc_debug so that
existing binaries that need it will now have to preload the debug DSO
to work correctly.
This also allows simplification of the core malloc implementation by
dropping all the undumping support code that was added to make
malloc_set_state work.
One known breakage is that of ancient emacs binaries that depend on
this. They will now crash when running with this libc. With
LD_BIND_NOW=1, it will terminate immediately because of not being able
to find malloc_set_state but with lazy binding it will crash in
unpredictable ways. It will need a preloaded libc_malloc_debug.so so
that its initialization hook is executed to allow its malloc
implementation to work properly.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
The malloc-check debugging feature is tightly integrated into glibc
malloc, so thanks to an idea from Florian Weimer, much of the malloc
implementation has been moved into libc_malloc_debug.so to support
malloc-check. Due to this, glibc malloc and malloc-check can no
longer work together; they use altogether different (but identical)
structures for heap management. This should not make a difference
though since the malloc check hook is not disabled anywhere.
malloc_set_state does, but it does so early enough that it shouldn't
cause any problems.
The malloc check tunable is now in the debug DSO and has no effect
when the DSO is not preloaded.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Wean mtrace away from the malloc hooks and move them into the debug
DSO. Split the API away from the implementation so that we can add
the API to libc.so as well as libc_malloc_debug.so, with the libc
implementations being empty.
Update localplt data since memalign no longer has any callers after
this change.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Now that mcheck no longer needs to check __malloc_initialized (and no
other third party hook can since the symbol is not exported), make the
variable boolean and static so that it is used strictly within malloc.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Split the mcheck implementation into the debugging hooks and API so
that the API can be replicated in libc and libc_malloc_debug.so. The
libc APIs always result in failure.
The mcheck implementation has also been moved entirely into
libc_malloc_debug.so and with it, all of the hook initialization code
can now be moved into the debug library. Now the initialization can
be done independently of libc internals.
With this patch, libc_malloc_debug.so can no longer be used with older
libcs, which is not its goal anyway. tst-vfork3 breaks due to this
since it spawns shell scripts, which in turn execute using the system
glibc. Move the test to tests-container so that only the built glibc
is used.
This move also fixes bugs in the mcheck version of memalign and
realloc, thus allowing removal of the tests from tests-mcheck
exclusion list.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Remove all malloc hook uses from core malloc functions and move it
into a new library libc_malloc_debug.so. With this, the hooks now no
longer have any effect on the core library.
libc_malloc_debug.so is a malloc interposer that needs to be preloaded
to get hooks functionality back so that the debugging features that
depend on the hooks, i.e. malloc-check, mcheck and mtrace work again.
Without the preloaded DSO these debugging features will be nops.
These features will be ported away from hooks in subsequent patches.
Similarly, legacy applications that need hooks functionality need to
preload libc_malloc_debug.so.
The symbols exported by libc_malloc_debug.so are maintained at exactly
the same version as libc.so.
Finally, static binaries will no longer be able to use malloc
debugging features since they cannot preload the debugging DSO.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Make the __morecore and __default_morecore symbols compat-only and
remove their declarations from the API. Also, include morecore.c
directly into malloc.c; this should ideally get merged into malloc in
a future cleanup.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Remove __after_morecore_hook from the API and finalize the symbol so
that it can no longer be used in new applications. Old applications
using __after_morecore_hook will find that their hook is no longer
called.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Targets with base versions of 2.24 or later won't have
__malloc_initialize_hook because of which the tests will essentially
be the same as the regular malloc tests. Avoid running them instead
and save time.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
There is a 1 in 16 chance of a corruption escaping safe-linking and to
guard against spurious failures, tst-safe-linking runs each subtest 10
times to ensure that the chance is reduced to 1 in 2^40. However, in
the 1 in 16 chance that a corruption does escape safe linking, it
could well be caught by other sanity checks we do in malloc, which
then results in spurious test failures like below:
test test_fastbin_consolidate failed with a different error
expected: malloc_consolidate(): unaligned fastbin chunk detected
actual: malloc_consolidate(): invalid chunk size
This failure is seen more frequently on i686; I was able to reproduce
it in about 5 min of running it in a loop.
Guard against such failures by recording them and retrying the test.
Also, do not fail the test if we happened to get defeated by the 1 in
2^40 odds if in at least one of the instances it was detected by other
checks.
Finally, bolster the odds to 2^64 by running 16 times instead of 10.
The test still has a chance of failure so it is still flaky in theory.
However in practice if we see a failure here then it's more likely
that there's a bug than it being an issue with the test. Add more
printfs and also dump them to stdout so that in the event the test
actually fails, we will have some data to try and understand why it
may have failed.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
1. Align struct hdr to MALLOC_ALIGNMENT bytes so that malloc hooks in
libmcheck align memory to MALLOC_ALIGNMENT bytes.
2. Remove tst-mallocalign1 from tests-exclude-mcheck for i386 and x32.
3. Add tst-pvalloc-fortify and tst-reallocarray to tests-exclude-mcheck
since they use malloc_usable_size (see BZ #22057).
This fixed BZ #28068.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
As a result, is not necessary to specify __attribute__ ((nocommon))
on individual definitions.
GCC 10 defaults to -fno-common on all architectures except ARC,
but this change is compatible with older GCC versions and ARC, too.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
1. Add sysdeps/generic/malloc-size.h to define size related macros for
malloc.
2. Move x86_64/tst-mallocalign1.c to malloc and replace ALIGN_MASK with
MALLOC_ALIGN_MASK.
3. Add tst-mallocalign1 to tests-exclude-mcheck for i386 and x32 since
mcheck doesn't honor MALLOC_ALIGNMENT.
_int_realloc is correctly declared at the top to be static, but
incorrectly defined without the static keyword. Fix that. The
generated binaries have identical code.
The tcache allocator layer uses the tcache pointer as a key to
identify a block that may be freed twice. Since this is in the
application data area, an attacker exploiting a use-after-free could
potentially get access to the entire tcache structure through this
key. A detailed write-up was provided by Awarau here:
https://awaraucom.wordpress.com/2020/07/19/house-of-io-remastered/
Replace this static pointer use for key checking with one that is
generated at malloc initialization. The first attempt is through
getrandom with a fallback to random_bits(), which is a simple
pseudo-random number generator based on the clock. The fallback ought
to be sufficient since the goal of the randomness is only to make the
key arbitrary enough that it is very unlikely to collide with user
data.
Co-authored-by: Eyal Itkin <eyalit@checkpoint.com>
It's tst-realloc, not tst-posix-realloc. Verified this time to ensure
that the total number of tests reduced by 1.
Reported-by: Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.ibm.com>
The realloc (NULL, 0) test in tst-realloc fails with gcc 7.x but
passes with newer gcc. This is because a newer gcc transforms the
realloc call to malloc (0), thus masking the bug in mcheck.
Disable the test with mcheck for now. The malloc removal patchset
will fix this and then remove this test from the exclusion list.
Reported-by: Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Separate the malloc check implementation from the malloc hooks. They
still use the hooks but are now maintained in a separate file.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
The variable and function pair appear to provide a way for users to
set conditional breakpoints in mtrace when a specific address is
returned by the allocator. This can be achieved by using conditional
breakpoints in gdb so it is redundant. There is no documentation of
this interface in the manual either, so it appears to have been a hack
that got added to debug malloc. Deprecate these symbols and do not
call tr_break anymore.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Dependencies on hooks.c and arena.c get auto-computed when generating
malloc.o{,s}.d so there is no need to add them manually.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
After commit 1e26d35193 ("malloc: Fix
tcache leak after thread destruction [BZ #22111]"),
tcache_shutting_down is still not early enough. When we detach a
thread with no tcache allocated, tcache_shutting_down would still be
false.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Like malloc-check, add generic rules to run all tests in malloc by
linking with libmcheck.a so as to provide coverage for mcheck().
Currently the following 12 tests fail:
FAIL: malloc/tst-malloc-backtrace-mcheck
FAIL: malloc/tst-malloc-fork-deadlock-mcheck
FAIL: malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation-mcheck
FAIL: malloc/tst-malloc-tcache-leak-mcheck
FAIL: malloc/tst-malloc-thread-exit-mcheck
FAIL: malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail-mcheck
FAIL: malloc/tst-malloc-usable-static-mcheck
FAIL: malloc/tst-malloc-usable-static-tunables-mcheck
FAIL: malloc/tst-malloc-usable-tunables-mcheck
FAIL: malloc/tst-malloc_info-mcheck
FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-mcheck
FAIL: malloc/tst-posix_memalign-mcheck
and they have been added to tests-exclude-mcheck for now to keep
status quo. At least the last two can be attributed to bugs in
mcheck() but I haven't fixed them here since they should be fixed by
removing malloc hooks. Others need to be triaged to check if they're
due to mcheck bugs or due to actual bugs.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Austin Group issue 62 [1] dropped the async-signal-safe requirement
for fork and provided a async-signal-safe _Fork replacement that
does not run the atfork handlers. It will be included in the next
POSIX standard.
It allow to close a long standing issue to make fork AS-safe (BZ#4737).
As indicated on the bug, besides the internal lock for the atfork
handlers itself; there is no guarantee that the handlers itself will
not introduce more AS-safe issues.
The idea is synchronize fork with the required internal locks to allow
children in multithread processes to use mostly of standard function
(even though POSIX states only AS-safe function should be used). On
signal handles, _Fork should be used intead and only AS-safe functions
should be used.
For testing, the new tst-_Fork only check basic usage. I also added
a new tst-mallocfork3 which uses the same strategy to check for
deadlock of tst-mallocfork2 but using threads instead of subprocesses
(and it does deadlock if it replaces _Fork with fork).
[1] https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=62
