Ben Gamari authored Jan 17, 2017 and Ben Gamari committed Jan 17, 2017

This fixes #12038, where the TimerManager would attempt to wake up a
manager that was already dead, resulting in setnumcapabilities001
occassionally failing during shutdown with unexpected output on stderr.

I'm frankly still not entirely confident in this solution but perhaps it
will help to get a few more eyes on this.

My hypothesis is that the TimerManager is racing:

  thread                   TimerManager worker
  -------                  --------------------
  requests that thread
  manager shuts down

                           begins to clean up,
                           closing eventfd

  calls wakeManager,
  which tries to write
  to closed eventfd

To prevent this `wakeManager` will need to synchronize with the
TimerManger worker to ensure that the worker doesn't clean up the
`Control` while another thread is trying to send a wakeup. However, this
would add a bit of overhead on every timer interaction, which feels
rather costly for what is really a problem only at shutdown.  Moreover,
it seems that the event manager (e.g.  `GHC.Event.Manager`) is also
afflicted by a similar race.

This patch instead simply tries to catch the write failure after it has
happened and silence it in the case that the fd has vanished. It feels
rather hacky but it seems to work.

Test Plan: Run `setnumcapabilities001` repeatedly

Reviewers: hvr, austin, simonmar

Subscribers: thomie

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D2957

GHC Trac Issues: #12038