Re: [PATCH] Add thread safety to cRingBufferLinear
Klaus Schmidinger <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Feb 2023 10:36:46 +0100
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On 02.02.23 23:47, [email protected] wrote: > On 02/02/2023 23:27, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> On 02.02.23 23:16, Patrick Lerda wrote: >>> Beside preventing crashes with vdr-2.6.3 this is required to >>> get vdr to work properly with the gcc thread sanitizer. >> >> cRingBufferLinear was designed to be thread safe without locking. >> What "crashes with vdr-2.6.3" are you referring to? >> >> Klaus > > With a -fsanitize=thread compiled version of vdr, I had some crashes that happened quickly, for instance: > ... Before making such deep changes to code that has been running flawlessly for years (or even decades) I need to be convinced that this is absolutely necessary. Is there a problem that occurs if you run VDR *without* -fsanitize=thread? Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list [email protected] https://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr