Band aid to make threaded loop a little easier to work with

base/threadingconstructs.jl

@@ -18,17 +18,25 @@ on `threadid()`.
 """
 nthreads() = Int(unsafe_load(cglobal(:jl_n_threads, Cint)))
 
+# Only read/written by the main thread
+const in_threaded_loop = Ref(false)
+
 function _threadsfor(iter,lbody)
-    fun = gensym("_threadsfor")
     lidx = iter.args[1]         # index
     range = iter.args[2]
     quote
         range = $(esc(range))
-        function $fun()
-            tid = threadid()
+        function threadsfor_fun(onethread=false)
             r = range # Load into local variable
+            lenr = length(r)
             # divide loop iterations among threads
-            len, rem = divrem(length(r), nthreads())
+            if onethread
+                tid = 1
+                len, rem = lenr, 0
+            else
+                tid = threadid()
+                len, rem = divrem(lenr, nthreads())
+            end
             # not enough iterations for all the threads?
             if len == 0
                 if tid > rem
@@ -55,7 +63,17 @@ function _threadsfor(iter,lbody)
                 $(esc(lbody))
             end
         end
-        ccall(:jl_threading_run, Ref{Void}, (Any,), $fun)
+        # Hack to make nested threaded loops kinda work
+        if threadid() != 1 || in_threaded_loop[]
+            # We are in a nested threaded loop
+            threadsfor_fun(true)
+        else
+            in_threaded_loop[] = true
+            # the ccall is not expected to throw
+            ccall(:jl_threading_run, Ref{Void}, (Any,), threadsfor_fun)
+            in_threaded_loop[] = false
+        end
+        nothing
     end
 end
 """
@@ -81,4 +99,3 @@ macro threads(args...)
         throw(ArgumentError("unrecognized argument to @threads"))
     end
 end
-

src/threading.c

@@ -316,7 +316,20 @@ static jl_value_t *ti_run_fun(const jl_generic_fptr_t *fptr, jl_method_instance_
         jl_call_fptr_internal(fptr, mfunc, args, nargs);
     }
     JL_CATCH {
-        return ptls->exception_in_transit;
+        // Lock this output since we know it'll likely happen on multiple threads
+        static jl_mutex_t lock;
+        JL_LOCK_NOGC(&lock);
+        jl_jmp_buf *old_buf = ptls->safe_restore;
+        jl_jmp_buf buf;
+        if (!jl_setjmp(buf, 0)) {
+            // Set up the safe_restore context so that the printing uses the thread safe version
+            ptls->safe_restore = &buf;
+            jl_printf(JL_STDERR, "\nError thrown in threaded loop on thread %d: ",
+                      (int)ptls->tid);
+            jl_static_show(JL_STDERR, ptls->exception_in_transit);
+        }
+        ptls->safe_restore = old_buf;
+        JL_UNLOCK_NOGC(&lock);
     }
     return jl_nothing;
 }

test/threads.jl

@@ -415,3 +415,20 @@ function test_load_and_lookup_18020(n)
     end
 end
 test_load_and_lookup_18020(10000)
+
+# Nested threaded loops
+# This may not be efficient/fully supported but should work without crashing.....
+function test_nested_loops()
+    a = zeros(Int, 100, 100)
+    @threads for i in 1:100
+        @threads for j in 1:100
+            a[j, i] = i + j
+        end
+    end
+    for i in 1:100
+        for j in 1:100
+            @test a[j, i] == i + j
+        end
+    end
+end
+test_nested_loops()