From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] ThreadSanitizer: add suppressions
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:04:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170825170411.qo6miyd46hfg6jzw@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09bbbcd1429a28774ea2d8c67ef6106ab558c296.1503323391.git.martin.agren@gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 07:43:48PM +0200, Martin Ågren wrote:
> Add a file .tsan-suppressions and list two functions in it: want_color()
> and transfer_debug(). Both of these use the pattern
>
> static int foo = -1;
> if (foo < 0)
> foo = bar();
>
> where bar always returns the same non-negative value. This can cause
> ThreadSanitizer to diagnose a race when foo is written from two threads.
> That is indeed a race, although it arguably doesn't matter in practice
> since it's always the same value that is written.
>
> Add NEEDSWORK-comments to the functions so that this problem is not
> forever swept way under the carpet.
>
> The suppressions-file is used by setting the environment variable
> TSAN_OPTIONS to, e.g., "suppressions=$(pwd)/.tsan-suppressions". Observe
> that relative paths such as ".tsan-suppressions" might not work.
This looks good to me.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-25 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-15 12:53 [PATCH/RFC 0/5] Some ThreadSanitizer-results Martin Ågren
2017-08-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 1/5] convert: initialize attr_action in convert_attrs Martin Ågren
2017-08-15 14:17 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-08-15 14:29 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-08-15 14:40 ` Martin Ågren
2017-08-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 2/5] pack-objects: take lock before accessing `remaining` Martin Ågren
2017-08-15 19:50 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-08-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 3/5] Makefile: define GIT_THREAD_SANITIZER Martin Ågren
2017-08-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 4/5] strbuf_reset: don't write to slopbuf with ThreadSanitizer Martin Ågren
2017-08-15 18:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-15 19:06 ` Martin Ågren
2017-08-15 19:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-15 12:53 ` [PATCH 5/5] ThreadSanitizer: add suppressions Martin Ågren
2017-08-15 12:53 ` tsan: t3008: hashmap_add touches size from multiple threads Martin Ågren
2017-08-15 17:59 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-08-15 18:17 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-15 18:40 ` Martin Ågren
2017-08-15 18:48 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-15 19:21 ` Martin Ågren
2017-08-15 20:46 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-08-30 18:59 ` [PATCH] hashmap: address ThreadSanitizer concerns Jeff Hostetler
2017-08-30 18:59 ` [PATCH] hashmap: add API to disable item counting when threaded Jeff Hostetler
2017-09-01 23:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-09-01 23:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-05 16:39 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-09-05 17:13 ` Martin Ågren
2017-09-02 8:17 ` Jeff King
2017-09-04 15:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-09-05 16:54 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-09-06 3:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-05 16:33 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-09-02 8:05 ` Jeff King
2017-09-05 17:07 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-09-02 8:39 ` Simon Ruderich
2017-09-06 1:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-06 15:33 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-09-06 15:43 ` [PATCH v2] hashmap: address ThreadSanitizer concerns Jeff Hostetler
2017-09-06 15:43 ` [PATCH v2] hashmap: add API to disable item counting when threaded Jeff Hostetler
2017-08-15 12:53 ` tsan: t5400: set_try_to_free_routine Martin Ågren
2017-08-15 17:35 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-15 18:44 ` Martin Ågren
2017-08-17 10:57 ` Jeff King
2017-08-20 10:06 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/5] Some ThreadSanitizer-results Jeff King
2017-08-20 10:45 ` Martin Ågren
2017-08-21 17:43 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] " Martin Ågren
2017-08-21 17:43 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] convert: always initialize attr_action in convert_attrs Martin Ågren
2017-08-21 17:43 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] pack-objects: take lock before accessing `remaining` Martin Ågren
2017-08-21 17:43 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] strbuf_setlen: don't write to strbuf_slopbuf Martin Ågren
2017-08-23 17:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-23 17:43 ` Martin Ågren
2017-08-23 18:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-23 20:37 ` Brandon Casey
2017-08-23 21:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-23 21:20 ` Brandon Casey
2017-08-23 21:54 ` Brandon Casey
2017-08-23 22:11 ` Brandon Casey
2017-08-24 16:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-24 18:29 ` Brandon Casey
2017-08-24 19:16 ` Martin Ågren
2017-08-23 22:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-23 22:39 ` Brandon Casey
2017-08-21 17:43 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] ThreadSanitizer: add suppressions Martin Ågren
2017-08-25 17:04 ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-08-28 20:56 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Some ThreadSanitizer-results Jeff Hostetler
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