On 30 janv. 2013, at 17:03, Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:22:15 +0100, Jerome Forissier wrote:
This is a set of two patches to fix thread safety issues I found when running a video application over ALSA. The application uses LibVLC to play several videos simultaneously. LibVLC calls snd_pcm_open() and snd_device_name_hint() from multiple threads, without locking--which is allowed according to http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/SMP_Design.
The fix for snd_pcm_direct_parse_open_conf() looks good. I'm going to apply this now.
Good, thank you :)
snd_device_name_hint() should use snd_config_update_r() and pass the local config space to others instead of snd_config.
I tried following this path, but there is a problem: try_config() calls snd_lib_error_set_handler() so I fail to see how we can make this code reentrant. In fact, the random errors I've seen when running my multi-threaded test were probably just a side-effect of fiddling with the global error handler from multiple threads. Probably harmless, but still it makes snd_device_name_hint() not thread-safe, strictly speaking.
Any suggestion? Should I consider moving snd_lib_error to thread-local storage?
Thanks.