Hi,
On 2023-01-12 21:49:00 -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> Clearly this would need a bunch more work, but it seems promising? I think
> there'd be other uses than this.
>
> I briefly tried to use it for spinlocks. Mostly works and detects things like
> returning with a spinlock held. But it does not like dynahash's habit of
> conditionally acquiring and releasing spinlocks.
One example is to prevent things like elog()/ereport()/SpinlockAcquire() while
holding a spinlock
The "locks_excluded(thing)" attribute (which is just heuristic, doesn't require
expansive annotation like requires_capability(!thing)), can quite easily be
used to trigger warnings about this kind of thing:
../../../../home/andres/src/postgresql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c:6771:2: warning: cannot call function
'errstart'while no_nested_spinlock 'in_spinlock' is held [-Wthread-safety-analysis]
elog(LOG, "logging with spinlock held");
Greetings,
Andres Freund
