r""""Signal handling for multiprocessing data loading. NOTE [ Signal handling in multiprocessing data loading ] In cases like DataLoader, if a worker process dies due to bus error/segfault or just hang, the main process will hang waiting for data. This is difficult to avoid on PyTorch side as it can be caused by limited shm, or other libraries users call in the workers. In this file and `DataLoader.cpp`, we make our best effort to provide some error message to users when such unfortunate events happen. When a _BaseDataLoaderIter starts worker processes, their pids are registered in a defined in `DataLoader.cpp`: id(_BaseDataLoaderIter) => Collection[ Worker pids ] via `_set_worker_pids`. When an error happens in a worker process, the main process received a SIGCHLD, and Python will eventually call the handler registered below (in `_set_SIGCHLD_handler`). In the handler, the `_error_if_any_worker_fails` call checks all registered worker pids and raise proper error message to prevent main process from hanging waiting for data from worker. Additionally, at the beginning of each worker's `_utils.worker._worker_loop`, `_set_worker_signal_handlers` is called to register critical signal handlers (e.g., for SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGFPE, SIGTERM) in C, which just prints an error message to stderr before triggering the default handler. So a message will also be printed from the worker process when it is killed by such signals. See NOTE [ Data Loader Multiprocessing Shutdown Logic ] for the reasoning of this signal handling design and other mechanism we implement to make our multiprocessing data loading robust to errors. """ import signal import threading from . import IS_WINDOWS # Some of the following imported functions are not used in this file, but are to # be used `_utils.signal_handling.XXXXX`. from torch._C import _set_worker_pids, _remove_worker_pids # noqa: F401 from torch._C import _error_if_any_worker_fails, _set_worker_signal_handlers # noqa: F401 _SIGCHLD_handler_set = False r"""Whether SIGCHLD handler is set for DataLoader worker failures. Only one handler needs to be set for all DataLoaders in a process.""" def _set_SIGCHLD_handler(): # Windows doesn't support SIGCHLD handler if IS_WINDOWS: return # can't set signal in child threads if not isinstance(threading.current_thread(), threading._MainThread): # type: ignore[attr-defined] return global _SIGCHLD_handler_set if _SIGCHLD_handler_set: return previous_handler = signal.getsignal(signal.SIGCHLD) if not callable(previous_handler): # This doesn't catch default handler, but SIGCHLD default handler is a # no-op. previous_handler = None def handler(signum, frame): # This following call uses `waitid` with WNOHANG from C side. Therefore, # Python can still get and update the process status successfully. _error_if_any_worker_fails() if previous_handler is not None: assert callable(previous_handler) previous_handler(signum, frame) signal.signal(signal.SIGCHLD, handler) _SIGCHLD_handler_set = True