Segfault when using TBB with R

[chun-yu]

We have been trying to use TBB from R ( http://www.r-project.org/ ), but we seem to be hitting the following segfault in spawn_root_and_wait():

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007fffc36f237d in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libtbb.so.2
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007fffc36f237d in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libtbb.so.2
#1 0x00007fffc36f0ae7 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libtbb.so.2
#2 0x00007fffc3905872 in spawn_root_and_wait (root=...) at /usr/include/tbb/task.h:692
#3 dummy (a$0=, b$0=) at manual_test3.cpp:117
#4 0x00007ffff78f7218 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so
#5 0x00007ffff792bbcb in Rf_eval () from /usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so
#6 0x00007ffff79609b3 in Rf_ReplIteration () from /usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so
#7 0x00007ffff7960c10 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so
#8 0x00007ffff7961110 in run_Rmainloop () from /usr/lib64/R/lib/libR.so
#9 0x00000000004008ab in main ()

Are there any known incompatibilities between TBB and R, or is there anything we can do to track down the cause of this?

[RafSchietekat]

Wild guess: try to have task_scheduler_init on the stack (maybe use of R, which I don't know, interferes wth automagic initialisation).

[SKost]

Quoting chun-yu

We have been trying to use TBB from R ( http://www.r-project.org/ ), but we seem to be hitting the following segfault in spawn_root_and_wait():

...is there anything we can do to track down the cause of this?

A test case that reproduces the problem... Or,

1. In a Debugger, seta break point on a line 692 in 'task.h' and as soon as a program hits the break point step-into it:

...
static void spawn_root_and_wait( task& root ) {
root.prefix().owner->spawn_root_and_wait( root, root.prefix().next );
}
...

2. Continue debugging inside the function untillAccess Violation ( SEGFAULT )happens...

Best regards,
Sergey