Re: [PATCH] Add thread safety to cRingBufferLinear

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On 02.02.23 23:47, patrick9876@xxxxxxx 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


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