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color: rgb(107, 116, 140);"><p>Interesting. I have experimented with this a bit and I cannot find a way to articulate to the thread safety system that my lock and unlock functions are idempotent. If I call <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">lock.unlock()</tt> and later return without locking it again, I get a warning (or rather an error because I set <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">-Werror=thread-safety</tt>) that complains that I am releasing a lock that isn't held. So would <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">-Wno-error=thread-safety-negative</tt> allow us to get around that or is there possibly some other solution?</p></div>
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<p>Lock and unlock shouldn't be idempotent. There are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reentrant_mutex" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">recursive/reentrant mutexes</a>, which can be locked multiple times, but must be unlocked the same number of times. They are rarely needed though, do we want that here?</p>
<p>If you assume the lock is initially held, and want to return with the lock released, you need to annotate the function with <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">__attribute__((release_capability(lock)))</tt>.</p>
<p>I'm just having a lock at the DUChain locking and try to figure out what the best way would be. It's a bit of a problem that we're not exactly doing it "by the book" sometimes, such as when scoped locks are handed as parameters to functions. But there is usually a way around that.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R32 KDevelop</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D22182">https://phabricator.kde.org/D22182</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>mswan, KDevelop<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>aaronpuchert, kdevelop-devel, hmitonneau, christiant, glebaccon, domson, antismap, iodelay, alexeymin, geetamc, Pilzschaf, akshaydeo, surgenight, arrowd<br /></div>