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author | Michel Dänzer <[email protected]> | 2018-09-18 17:23:04 +0200 |
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committer | Michel Dänzer <[email protected]> | 2018-09-28 17:52:11 +0200 |
commit | cb863de626486a10273281e89534471549a242a7 (patch) | |
tree | f0bde2c1899631ee2dba617d362682b1cf5f6a0b /src/gallium | |
parent | 3fb4adae83f921bbf529fad8753c7e23b969a41d (diff) |
gallium/util: Clarify comment in util_init_thread_pinning
As discussed in the review of the patch which added the comment:
Nothing happens when a thread is created, because pthread_atfork doesn't
affect creating threads. However, spawning a child process will likely
crash.
Reviewed-by: Marek Olšák <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/gallium')
-rw-r--r-- | src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_helpers.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_helpers.c b/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_helpers.c index b6cebf96329..4c70c004178 100644 --- a/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_helpers.c +++ b/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_helpers.c @@ -148,7 +148,10 @@ util_init_thread_pinning(void) /* Reset thread affinity for all child processes to prevent them from * inheriting the current thread's affinity. * - * What happens if a driver is unloaded and the app creates a thread? + * XXX: If the driver is unloaded after this, and the app later calls + * fork(), the child process will likely crash before fork() returns, + * because the address where util_set_full_cpu_affinity was located + * will either be unmapped or point to random other contents. */ pthread_atfork(NULL, NULL, util_set_full_cpu_affinity); } |