system_server crash现象研究

现象：当system server进程crash时,发现zygote进程会被杀掉，此后Zyogote进程和system server被重新启动。

分析：在init解析init.rc时，Zygote进程作为一个服务被定义，且被声明为自动重启。因此一旦Zygote进程退出，则init会收到子进程退出信号从而重新启动zygote服务，进而Zygote启动System Server。同样，在System server被Zygote作为子进程启动后，Zygote通过信号监听该子进程状态，一旦退出Zygote将会杀死自身等待init再次运行。另外system server进程将监听service manager进程，如service manager退出则杀掉自身从而导致zygote被重启。

下面为相关代码：

Zygote启动system server入口：

libcore/dalvik/src/main/java/dalvik/system/Zygote.java

    /**
     * Special method to start the system server process.
     * @deprecated use {@link Zygote#forkSystemServer(int, int, int[], int, int[][])}
     */
    @Deprecated
    public static int forkSystemServer(int uid, int gid, int[] gids,
            boolean enableDebugger, int[][] rlimits) {
        int debugFlags = enableDebugger ? DEBUG_ENABLE_DEBUGGER : 0;
        return forkAndSpecialize(uid, gid, gids, debugFlags, rlimits);
    }

forkAndSpecialize是一个JNI函数，其定义见Dalvik_dalvik_system_Zygote_fork()，在其中注册信号处理函数，在有子进程退出时将检查进程pid,仅当中止的子进程pid为system server时才杀掉本进程(zygote进程)。

dalvik_system_Zygote.c

/* native public static int fork(); */
static void Dalvik_dalvik_system_Zygote_fork(const u4* args, JValue* pResult)
{
    pid_t pid;

    if (!gDvm.zygote) {
        dvmThrowException("Ljava/lang/IllegalStateException;",
            "VM instance not started with -Xzygote");

        RETURN_VOID();
    }

    if (!dvmGcPreZygoteFork()) {
        LOGE("pre-fork heap failed\n");
        dvmAbort();
    }

    setSignalHandler();   //这里注册信号处理，以监测子进程状态

    dvmDumpLoaderStats("zygote");
    pid = fork();

#ifdef HAVE_ANDROID_OS
    if (pid == 0) {
        /* child process */
        extern int gMallocLeakZygoteChild;
        gMallocLeakZygoteChild = 1;
    }
#endif

    RETURN_INT(pid);
}

/*
 * configure sigchld handler for the zygote process
 * This is configured very late, because earlier in the dalvik lifecycle
 * we can fork() and exec() for the verifier/optimizer, and we
 * want to waitpid() for those rather than have them be harvested immediately.
 *
 * This ends up being called repeatedly before each fork(), but there's
 * no real harm in that.
 */
static void setSignalHandler()
{
    int err;
    struct sigaction sa;

    memset(&sa, 0, sizeof(sa));

    sa.sa_handler = sigchldHandler;          //信号处理函数地址 

    err = sigaction (SIGCHLD, &sa, NULL);    //设置子进程中止时的信号处理函数

    if (err < 0) {
        LOGW("Error setting SIGCHLD handler: %s", strerror(errno));
    }
}

/*
 * This signal handler is for zygote mode, since the zygote
 * must reap its children
 */
static void sigchldHandler(int s)
{
    pid_t pid;
    int status;