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Re: [PATCH] Disable single thread optimization for open_memstream
- From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: nd at arm dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:14:46 -0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable single thread optimization for open_memstream
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- References: <59662DA4.1000702@arm.com> <fed7d994-0ad0-cd87-66c2-e50b289109c8@redhat.com>
On 12/07/2017 11:10, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 07/12/2017 04:09 PM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
>> Single thread optimization is valid if at thread creation time the
>> optimization can be disabled. This is in principle true for all
>> stream objects that user code can access (and thus needs locking),
>> using the same internal list as fflush(0) uses. However in glibc
>> open_memstream is not on that list (BZ 21735) so the optimization
>> has to be disabled.
>>
>> 2017-07-12 Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
>>
>> * libio/memstream.c (__open_memstream): Set _IO_FLAGS2_NEED_LOCK.
>> * libio/wmemstream.c (open_wmemstream): Likewise.
>
> What about the test case I posted?
>
> Florian
>
I am about to update my BZ#21735 fix based on Florian's comment, as for
this workaround it should touch only memstream implementation.