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Context: https://discord.com/channels/732297728826277939/732297837953679412/1067806732983746621 Context: https://discord.com/channels/732297728826277939/732297837953679412/1067822882274689024 In certain "bad app" scenarios, we would print a message and then **exit**(3) the app. The problem with using `exit()` in this manner is that it *can* result in the app constantly relaunching, "spamming" the UI. Improve this by calling **abort**(3) instead. This prevents Android from constantly re-launching the app, and also prints useful abort information such as registers and a native stack trace to `adb logcat`. Unexpectedly, however, "simply" replacing app calls to `exit()` with calls to `abort()` resulted in `libmonodroid.so` increasing in size by ~16%. For some reason, calling `abort()` caused the compiler to inline much more code and in a weird manner (it repeated essentially identical blocks of code from an inlined function, which were previously folded into a single block when `exit()` was used). We found that consolidating the `abort()` calls into `Helpers::abort_application()` removed the size increase.
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…otnet#7732) Fixes: dotnet#7335 Context: d236af5 Commit d236af5 introduced embedded assembly compression, using LZ4, which speeds up startup and reduces final package size. Assemblies are compressed at build time and, at the same time, pre- allocated buffers for the **decompressed** data are allocated in `libxamarin-app.so`. The buffers are then passed to the LZ4 APIs, all threads using the same output buffer. The assumption was that we can do fine without locking as even if overlapped decompression happens, the output data will be the same and so even if two threads do the same thing at the same time, the data will be valid at all times, so long as at least one thread completes the decompression. This assumption proved to be **largely** true, but it appears that in high concurrency cases it is possible that the data in the decompression buffer differs. This can result in app crashes: A/libc: Fatal signal 6 (SIGABRT), code -1 (SI_QUEUE) in tid 3092 (.NET ThreadPool), pid 2727 (myapp.name) A/DEBUG: pid: 2727, tid: 3092, name: .NET ThreadPool >>> myapp.name <<< A/DEBUG: #1 pc 0000000000029b1c /data/app/myapp.name-B9t_3dF9i8mDxJEKodZw5w==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk!libmono-android.release.so (offset 0x103d000) (xamarin::android::internal::MonodroidRuntime::mono_log_handler(char const*, char const*, char const*, int, void*)+144) (BuildId: 29c5a3805a0bedee1eede9b6668d7c676aa63371) A/DEBUG: #2 pc 00000000002680bc /data/app/myapp.name-B9t_3dF9i8mDxJEKodZw5w==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk!libmonosgen-2.0.so (offset 0x109b000) (BuildId: 4a5dd4396e8816b7f69881838bd549285213d53b) A/DEBUG: dotnet#3 pc 00000000002681e8 /data/app/myapp.name-B9t_3dF9i8mDxJEKodZw5w==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk!libmonosgen-2.0.so (offset 0x109b000) (BuildId: 4a5dd4396e8816b7f69881838bd549285213d53b) A/DEBUG: dotnet#4 pc 000000000008555c /data/app/myapp.name-B9t_3dF9i8mDxJEKodZw5w==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk!libmonosgen-2.0.so (offset 0x109b000) (mono_metadata_string_heap+188) (BuildId: 4a5dd4396e8816b7f69881838bd549285213d53b) … My guess is that LZ4 either uses the output buffer as a scratchpad area when decompressing or that it initializes/modifies the buffer before writing actual data in it. With overlapped decompression, it may lead to one thread overwriting valid data previously written by another thread, so that when the latter returns the buffer it thought to have had valid data may contain certain bytes temporarily overwritten by the decompression session in the other, still running, thread. It may happen that MonoVM reads the corrupted data just when it is still invalid (before the still running decompression session actually writes the valid data), a classic race condition. To fix this, the decompression block is now protected with a startup- aware mutex. Mutex will be held only after the initial startup phase is completed, so there should not be much loss of startup performance.
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See #7732