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Re: Thread-safe error location in maintainer mode

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:07:33 +0100

On 04.03.2015 13:50, Ivan Zhakov wrote:
> On 4 March 2015 at 11:27, Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
>> There was some discussion on #svn-dev recently about making the error
>> location tracing (see libsvn_subr/error.c and svn_error__locate)
>> thread-safe, by using platform- and compiler-specific flags for making
>> the location variables thread-safe.
>>
>> It turns out that, since we now require APR 1.3+ which provides
>> unmanaged pools, we can now safely do this by using APR's threadkey API.
>> See:
>>
>> https://paste.apache.org/fG82
>>
>> With this patch, all tests pass for on my Mac in parallel mode and the
>> error stacks look sane. But, before committing the change, I'd like
>> someone else to review the patch because it's just a wee bit tricky in
>> places what with all the #ifdefs.
>>
> I was thinking about similar change, but as far I remember it's not
> safe to use svn_atomic__init_once() in error.c, because
> svn_atomic__init_once() uses svn_error_*() API. This may lead circular
> initialization of svn_error_*() tracing infrastructure.

Nope. svn_atomic__init_once only begins using the svn_error_* functions
after the init function has returned, at which point the tracing logic
is initialized. Furthermore, I intentionally implemented this particular
init function so that it never returns an error.

Although, looking at the implementation of svn_atomic__init_once, we
really shouldn't be optimizing the error case with all the #if
APR_HAS_THREADS blocks.

-- Brane
Received on 2015-03-04 14:09:34 CET

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