Review Request 128480: fix clang plugin highlighting screwup

Sven Brauch mail at svenbrauch.de
Mon Jul 18 23:21:16 UTC 2016


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Review request for KDevelop, Kevin Funk and Milian Wolff.


Repository: kdevelop


Description
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Terrible patch, I know. Sorry. It cost a lot of nerves and time though and I want somebody to look at / try out whether this is a working fix in principle.

In the end, the issue(s) are simple:

1. we need to hold the foreground lock between reading the modification revision and reading the contents. Otherwise they can mismatch.

2. in buildDUChain(), there was

    envFile->setModificationRevision(ModificationRevision::revisionForFile(context->url()));

which is wrong. It sets the modification revision of the parsing environment file to the revision the file has _right now_. The contents, however, were read before in the constructor, and several milliseconds might have passed until this line is reached, with no locks held to prevent anything.
Instead, we have to set the revision to the one which was stored when the tracker was last reset (which happened right after reading the contents, coupled to the contents by the foreground lock).


Diffs
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  languages/clang/clangparsejob.cpp 8375eb5 
  languages/clang/duchain/clanghelpers.cpp cea8cd9 

Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128480/diff/


Testing
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Very hard to reproduce. Apply this patch to kdevplatform:

    diff --git a/language/backgroundparser/documentchangetracker.cpp b/language/backgroundparser/documentchangetracker.cpp
    index 294bc14..6f56250 100644
    --- a/language/backgroundparser/documentchangetracker.cpp
    +++ b/language/backgroundparser/documentchangetracker.cpp
    @@ -237,6 +237,11 @@ KDevelop::RangeInRevision DocumentChangeTracker::transformBetweenRevisions(KDeve
    {
        VERIFY_FOREGROUND_LOCKED

    +    if ( !((fromRevision == -1 || holdingRevision(fromRevision)) && (toRevision == -1 || holdingRevision(toRevision)) ) ) {
    +        qWarning() << "invalid transform: from" << fromRevision << "to" << toRevision
    +                   << "but not both revisions held: [from/to]:" << holdingRevision(fromRevision) << holdingRevision(toRevision);
    +    };
    +
        if((fromRevision == -1 || holdingRevision(fromRevision)) && (toRevision == -1 || holdingRevision(toRevision)))
        {
            m_moving->transformCursor(range.start.line, range.start.column, KTextEditor::MovingCursor::MoveOnInsert, fromRevision, toRevision);
    @@ -348,6 +353,8 @@ void DocumentChangeTracker::unlockRevision(qint64 revision)
            m_moving->unlockRevision(revision);
            m_revisionLocks.erase(it);
        }
    +
    +    qDebug() << "** clearing revision" << revision;
    }

    qint64 RevisionLockerAndClearer::revision() const
    
You get _lots_ of those warnings iff you manage to trigger the issue. The best bet seems to be open a relatively large cpp file, and keep removing text and readding it with Ctrl+Z with varying wait times in between (500ms-parse-delay-ish). Do that for a minute or two and it will trigger eventually.

You still get a few of the warning messages sometimes even with the patch applied (but far more without). I think they are from the problem reporter plugin, and I'm not sure if the plugin does something wrong or the parse job.


Thanks,

Sven Brauch

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