From reviewboard:
The problem here is a bit complex, so try to bear with me...
It was noticed by a Digium customer that generic PLC (as configured in
codecs.conf) did not appear to actually be having any sort of benefit when
packet loss was introduced on an RTP stream. I reproduced this issue myself
by streaming a file across an RTP stream and dropping approx. 5% of the
RTP packets. I saw no real difference between when PLC was enabled or disabled
when using wireshark to analyze the RTP streams.
After analyzing what was going on, it became clear that one of the problems
faced was that when running my tests, the translation paths were being set
up in such a way that PLC could not possibly work as expected. To illustrate,
if packets are lost on channel A's read stream, then we expect that PLC will
be applied to channel B's write stream. The problem is that generic PLC can
only be done when there is a translation path that moves from some codec to
SLINEAR. When I would run my tests, I found that every single time, read
and write translation paths would be set up on channel A instead of channel
B. There appeared to be no real way to predict which channel the translation
paths would be set up on.
This is where Kevin swooped in to let me know about the transcode_via_sln
option in asterisk.conf. It is supposed to work by placing a read translation
path on both channels from the channel's rawreadformat to SLINEAR. It also
will place a write translation path on both channels from SLINEAR to the
channel's rawwriteformat. Using this option allows one to predictably set up
translation paths on all channels. There are two problems with this, though.
First and foremost, the transcode_via_sln option did not appear to be working
properly when I was placing a SIP call between two endpoints which did not
share any common formats. Second, even if this option were to work, for PLC
to be applied, there had to be a write translation path that would go from
some format to SLINEAR. It would not work properly if the starting format
of translation was SLINEAR.
The one-line change presented in this review request in chan_sip.c fixed the
first issue for me. The problem was that in sip_request_call, the
jointcapability of the outbound channel was being set to the format passed to
sip_request_call. This is nativeformats of the inbound channel. Because of this,
when ast_channel_make_compatible was called by app_dial, both channels already
had compatibly read and write formats. Thus, no translation path was set up at
the time. My change is to set the jointcapability of the sip_pvt created during
sip_request_call to the intersection of the inbound channel's nativeformats and
the configured peer capability that we determined during the earlier call to
create_addr. Doing this got the translation paths set up as expected when using
transcode_via_sln.
The changes presented in channel.c fixed the second issue for me. First and
foremost, when Asterisk is started, we'll read codecs.conf to see the value of
the genericplc option. If this option is set, and ast_write is called for a
frame with no data, then we will attempt to fill in the missing samples for
the frame. The implementation uses a channel datastore for maintaining the
PLC state and for creating a buffer to store PLC samples in. Even when we
receive a frame with data, we'll call plc_rx so that the PLC state will have
knowledge of the previous voice frame, which it can use as a basis for when
it comes time to actually do a PLC fill-in.
So, reviewers, now I ask for your help. First off, there's the one line change
in chan_sip that I have put in. Is it right? By my logic it seems correct, but
I'm sure someone can tell me why it is not going to work. This is probably the
change I'm least concerned about, though. What concerns me much more is the
set of changes in channel.c. First off, am I even doing it right? When I run
tests, I can clearly see that when PLC is activated, I see a significant increase
in RTP traffic where I would expect it to be. However, in my humble opinion, the
audio sounds kind of crappy whenever the PLC fill-in is done. It sounds worse to
me than when no PLC is used at all. I need someone to review the logic I have used
to be sure that I'm not misusing anything. As far as I can see my pointer arithmetic
is correct, and my use of AST_FRIENDLY_OFFSET should be correct as well, but I'm
sure someone can point out somewhere where I've done something incorrectly.
As I was writing this review request up, I decided to give the code a test run under
valgrind, and I find that for some reason, calls to plc_rx are causing some invalid
reads. Apparently I'm reading past the end of a buffer somehow. I'll have to dig around
a bit to see why that is the case. If it's obvious to someone reviewing, speak up!
Finally, I have one other proposal that is not reflected in my code review. Since
without transcode_via_sln set, one cannot predict or control where a translation
path will be up, it seems to me that the current practice of using PLC only when
transcoding to SLINEAR is not useful. I recommend that once it has been determined
that the method used in this code review is correct and works as expected, then
the code in translate.c that invokes PLC should be removed.
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* chan_console accessed pvts after deallocation.
* cdr_mysql stored a pointer that was freed by realloc()
* The module loader did not check usecount on shutdown, which led to chan_iax2
reading a timer that was already unloaded.
* The event subsystem sometimes creates an event with no IEs. Due to a corner
condition, the code would read beyond the memory boundary.
* res_pktccops did not correctly check whether its monitor thread was started.
(closes issue #16062)
Reported by: alexanderheinz
Patches:
20091109__issue16062.diff.txt uploaded by tilghman (license 14)
Tested by: tilghman
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CEL is the new system for logging channel events. This was inspired after
facing many problems trying to represent what is possible to happen to a call
in Asterisk using CDR records. For more information on CEL, see the built in
HTML or PDF documentation generated from the files in doc/tex/.
Many thanks to Steve Murphy (murf) and Brian Degenhardt (bmd) for their hard
work developing this code. Also, thanks to Matt Nicholson (mnicholson) and
Sean Bright (seanbright) for their assistance in the final push to get this
code ready for Asterisk trunk.
Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/239/
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Modules placed in the priority heap for loading were not properly removed from the linked list. This resulted in some modules attempting to load twice.
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This patch adds the option to give a module a load priority. The value represents the order in which a module's load() function is initialized. The lower the value, the higher the priority. The value is only checked if the AST_MODFLAG_LOAD_ORDER flag is set. If the AST_MODFLAG_LOAD_ORDER flag is not set, the value will never be read and the module will be given the lowest possible priority
on load. Since some modules are reliant on a timing interface, the timing modules have been given a high load priorty.
(closes issue #15191)
Reported by: alecdavis
Tested by: dvossel
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r199022 | seanbright | 2009-06-04 10:14:57 -0400 (Thu, 04 Jun 2009) | 40 lines
Safely handle AMI connections/reload requests that occur during startup.
During asterisk startup, a lock on the list of modules is obtained by the
primary thread while each module is initialized. Issue 13778 pointed out a
problem with this approach, however. Because the AMI is loaded before other
modules, it is possible for a module reload to be issued by a connected client
(via Action: Command), causing a deadlock.
The resolution for 13778 was to move initialization of the manager to happen
after the other modules had already been lodaded. While this fixed this
particular issue, it caused a problem for users (like FreePBX) who call AMI
scripts via an #exec in a configuration file (See issue 15189).
The solution I have come up with is to defer any reload requests that come in
until after the server is fully booted. When a call comes in to
ast_module_reload (from wherever) before we are fully booted, the request is
added to a queue of pending requests. Once we are done booting up, we then
execute these deferred requests in turn.
Note that I have tried to make this a bit more intelligent in that it will not
queue up more than 1 request for the same module to be reloaded, and if a
general reload request comes in ('module reload') the queue is flushed and we
only issue a single deferred reload for the entire system.
As for how this will impact existing installations - Before 13778, a reload
issued before module initialization was completed would result in a deadlock.
After 13778, you simply couldn't connect to the manager during startup (which
causes problems with #exec-that-calls-AMI configuration files). I believe this
is a good general purpose solution that won't negatively impact existing
installations.
(closes issue #15189)
(closes issue #13778)
Reported by: p_lindheimer
Patches:
06032009_15189_deferred_reloads.diff uploaded by seanbright (license 71)
Tested by: p_lindheimer, seanbright
Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/272/
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This patch adds 'const' tags to a number of Asterisk APIs where they are appropriate (where the API already demanded that the function argument not be modified, but the compiler was not informed of that fact). The list includes:
- CLI command handlers
- CLI command handler arguments
- AGI command handlers
- AGI command handler arguments
- Dialplan application handler arguments
- Speech engine API function arguments
In addition, various file-scope and function-scope constant arrays got 'const' and/or 'static' qualifiers where they were missing.
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This API provides a generic way for multiple RTP stacks to be
integrated into Asterisk. Right now there is only one present, res_rtp_asterisk,
which is the existing Asterisk RTP stack. Functionality wise this commit
performs the same as previously. API documentation can be viewed in the
rtp_engine.h header file.
Review: http://reviewboard.digium.com/r/209/
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This patch includes a number of changes to the indications API. The primary
motivation for this work was to improve stability. The object management
in this API was significantly flawed, and a number of trivial situations could
cause crashes.
The changes included are:
1) Remove the module res_indications. This included the critical functionality
that actually loaded the indications configuration. I have seen many people
have Asterisk problems because they accidentally did not have an
indications.conf present and loaded. Now, this code is in the core,
and Asterisk will fail to start without indications configuration.
There was one part of res_indications, the dialplan applications, which did
belong in a module, and have been moved to a new module, app_playtones.
2) Object management has been significantly changed. Tone zones are now
managed using astobj2, and it is no longer possible to crash Asterisk by
issuing a reload that destroys tone zones while they are in use.
3) The API documentation has been filled out.
4) The API has been updated to follow our naming conventions.
5) Various bits of code throughout the tree have been updated to account
for the API update.
6) Configuration parsing has been mostly re-written.
7) "Code cleanup"
The code is from svn/asterisk/team/russell/indications/.
Review: http://reviewboard.digium.com/r/149/
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when a file is invalid from when a file is missing. This is most important when
we have two configuration files. Consider the following example:
Old system:
sip.conf users.conf Old result New result
======== ========== ========== ==========
Missing Missing SIP doesn't load SIP doesn't load
Missing OK SIP doesn't load SIP doesn't load
Missing Invalid SIP doesn't load SIP doesn't load
OK Missing SIP loads SIP loads
OK OK SIP loads SIP loads
OK Invalid SIP loads incompletely SIP doesn't load
Invalid Missing SIP doesn't load SIP doesn't load
Invalid OK SIP doesn't load SIP doesn't load
Invalid Invalid SIP doesn't load SIP doesn't load
So in the case when users.conf doesn't load because there's a typo that
disrupts the syntax, we may only partially load users, instead of failing with
an error, which may cause some calls not to get processed. Worse yet, the old
system would do this with no indication that anything was even wrong.
(closes issue #10690)
Reported by: dtyoo
Patches:
20080716__bug10690.diff.txt uploaded by Corydon76 (license 14)
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has been loaded, fix a return value in the loader, and ensure that the help
workhorse header does not print on load.
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r103728 | russell | 2008-02-15 13:50:11 -0600 (Fri, 15 Feb 2008) | 4 lines
In the case that you try to directly reload a module has returned
AST_MODULE_LOAD_DECLINE, log a message indicating that the module is not fully
initialized and must be initialized using "module load".
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r103726 | russell | 2008-02-15 12:33:29 -0600 (Fri, 15 Feb 2008) | 6 lines
Don't attempt to execute the reload callback for a module that returned
AST_MODULE_LOAD_DECLINE. This fixes a crash that was reported against
chan_console in trunk.
(closes issue #11953, reported by junky, fixed by me)
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gdb dying while debugging asterisk. The problem seems to be related
with a race in the handling of module_list, which in turn is triggeded
by calling dlopen() on a system which uses initializers to create
locks.
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This is only to complete the build, clearly the linker
behaviour will be completely different and likely to
cause trouble in those cases.
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build times - tested, there is no measureable difference before and
after this commit.
In this change:
use asterisk/compat.h to include a small set of system headers:
inttypes.h, unistd.h, stddef.h, stddint.h, sys/types.h, stdarg.h,
stdlib.h, alloca.h, stdio.h
Where available, the inclusion is conditional on HAVE_FOO_H as determined
by autoconf.
Normally, source files should not include any of the above system headers,
and instead use either "asterisk.h" or "asterisk/compat.h" which does it
better.
For the time being I have left alone second-level directories
(main/db1-ast, etc.).
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r89325 | kpfleming | 2007-11-16 10:47:46 -0600 (Fri, 16 Nov 2007) | 4 lines
To help combat problems where people build external modules (asterisk-addons or others) and then change the build options of the Asterisk build in a way that makes the incompatible without warning, this commit introduces an MD5 signature of the important build-time options and includes that signature into modules when they are built. When the loader loads one of these modules and notices the problem, it will emit a warning to console and refuse to initialize the module, as doing so could cause the system to be unstable or even crash.
If you upgrade to this version of Asterisk, you must rebuild *all* of your modules that came from other sources before trying to run this version. If you are using Digium's G.729 binary codec module, you will need v33 or newer.
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- the *_CURRENT macros no longer need the list head pointer argument
- add AST_LIST_MOVE_CURRENT to encapsulate the remove/add operation when moving entries between lists
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the constructor for the list of modules was run
after the constructors for the embedded modules
(which appended entries to the list).
As a result, the list appeared empty when it was
time to use it.
On linux the order of execution of constructor
was evidently different (it may depend on the
ordering of modules in the ELF file).
This is only a workaround - there may be other
situations where the execution of constructors
causes problems, so if we manage to find a more
general solution this workaround can go away.
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r67308 | russell | 2007-06-05 10:51:53 -0500 (Tue, 05 Jun 2007) | 5 lines
When shutting down "gracefully", go through and run the unload() callbacks for
all of the modules. "stop now" is considered a non-graceful shutdown and will
not go through this process.
(issue #9804, reported by chrisost, patch by me)
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r62986 | kpfleming | 2007-05-03 11:38:56 -0500 (Thu, 03 May 2007) | 2 lines
improve loader a bit, by avoiding trying to initialize embedded modules twice and avoiding trying to load modules from disk when they have been loaded already during the 'preload' pass (reported by blitzrage on IRC, patch by me)
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Might need better locking support, giving up if we can't get the lock. Right now,
using existing locking in find_resource
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various PBX installations and checks if a module is loaded before using
it.
example IFMODULE(chan_sip3.so)
issue #6671 in the bug tracker, finally gone. Thanks to mithraen for keeping
it updated.
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also, keep trying to dlclose() a module until it actually goes away, since it may have other modules it brought in when it was loaded (thanks PCadach for pointing this problem out to me)
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- restructured build tree and makefiles to eliminate recursion problems
- support for embedded modules
- support for static builds
- simpler cross-compilation support
- simpler module/loader interface (no exported symbols)
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Kevin P. Fleming
Matthew Nicholson
Mark Michelson
Paul Belanger
Tilghman Lesher
Jeff Peeler
Olle Johansson
Terry Wilson
David Brooks
Russell Bryant
David Vossel
Sean Bright
Joshua Colp
Jason Parker
Luigi Rizzo
Steve Murphy
Matt O'Gorman
Anthony LaMantia
Matthew Fredrickson