From: "Emilio G. Cota" <cota@braap.org>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 3/4] QemuMutex: support --enable-debug-mutex
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:11:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180423181107.GB27690@flamenco> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180423053927.13715-4-peterx@redhat.com>
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 13:39:26 +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> We have had some tracing tools for mutex but it's not easy to use them
> for e.g. dead locks. Let's provide "--enable-debug-mutex" parameter
> when configure to allow QemuMutex to store the last owner that took
> specific lock. It will be easy to use this tool to debug deadlocks
> since we can directly know who took the lock then as long as we can have
> a debugger attached to the process.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> ---
(snip)
> static inline void qemu_mutex_pre_unlock(QemuMutex *mutex,
> const char *file, int line)
> {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEX
> + mutex->file = NULL;
> + mutex->line = 0;
> +#endif
> trace_qemu_mutex_unlock(mutex, file, line);
> }
I'd also initialize to NULL/0 the file/line pair at
qemu_mutex_init time for both posix and win32. Other than that:
Reviewed-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Thanks,
E.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-23 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-23 5:39 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/4] qemu-thread: support --enable-debug-mutex Peter Xu
2018-04-23 5:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/4] tests/atomic_add-bench: add -m option to use mutexes Peter Xu
2018-04-23 5:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/4] qemu-thread: introduce qemu-thread-common.h Peter Xu
2018-04-23 18:08 ` Emilio G. Cota
2018-04-23 5:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 3/4] QemuMutex: support --enable-debug-mutex Peter Xu
2018-04-23 18:11 ` Emilio G. Cota [this message]
2018-04-24 4:53 ` Peter Xu
2018-04-23 5:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/4] configure: enable debug-mutex if debug enabled Peter Xu
2018-04-23 18:11 ` Emilio G. Cota
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