From: Fredrik Kuivinen <frekui@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make xmalloc and xrealloc thread-safe
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:57:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s2t4c8ef71003302357x5e9defa1l4dbde6391d533ca5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003271035360.694@xanadu.home>
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 19:59, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Fredrik Kuivinen wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 21:22, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
>> > +static void try_to_free_from_threads(size_t size)
>> > +{
>> > + read_lock();
>> > + release_pack_memory(size, -1);
>> > + read_unlock();
>> > +}
>> > +
>>
>> Will this really work in all cases? In the find_deltas -> try_delta ->
>> read_sha1_file -> ... -> xmalloc call path, the mutex is already
>> locked when we get to xmalloc.
>
> You're right. Damn.
A simple fix is to make it a recursive mutex instead. This will work
with a minimal change in win32 as well as the CRITICAL_SECTION type is
recursive.
I guess the downside is that the locking potentially gets slightly slower.
- Fredrik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-31 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-03-23 17:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] Make xmalloc and xrealloc thread-safe Fredrik Kuivinen
2010-03-23 18:43 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-03-23 21:21 ` Fredrik Kuivinen
2010-03-23 23:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-24 15:23 ` Fredrik Kuivinen
2010-03-24 17:53 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-24 18:22 ` Shawn Pearce
2010-03-24 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-24 18:54 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-24 19:57 ` Shawn Pearce
2010-03-24 20:22 ` [PATCH] " Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-24 20:28 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-03-24 21:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-24 21:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-24 21:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-27 13:26 ` Fredrik Kuivinen
2010-03-27 18:59 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-31 6:57 ` Fredrik Kuivinen [this message]
2010-04-07 2:57 ` [PATCH v2] " Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-07 3:16 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-04-07 4:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-07 12:29 ` Shawn Pearce
2010-04-07 13:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-07 14:30 ` Shawn Pearce
2010-04-07 14:47 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-07 14:45 ` Fredrik Kuivinen
2010-04-07 15:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-07 16:13 ` Fredrik Kuivinen
2010-04-07 16:44 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-04-07 18:37 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-07 15:27 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-07 16:15 ` Fredrik Kuivinen
2010-04-07 16:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-07 18:49 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-04-08 7:15 ` [PATCH] Thread-safe xmalloc and xrealloc needs a recursive mutex Johannes Sixt
2010-04-08 8:42 ` Fredrik Kuivinen
2010-04-07 5:21 ` [PATCH v2] Make xmalloc and xrealloc thread-safe Junio C Hamano
2010-03-23 17:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] Make sha1_to_hex thread-safe Fredrik Kuivinen
2010-03-23 20:23 ` Johannes Sixt
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