[LLVMdev] Multi-threading and mutexes in LLVM

[Kostya Serebryany]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:21 PM, David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk>
wrote:

> On 9 Jun 2014, at 10:19, Kostya Serebryany <kcc at google.com> wrote:
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> > tsan's deadlock detector (as well as helgrind and many other similar
> tools) detects lock order inversion, i.e. a situation which may potentially
> lead to a deadlock.
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> Yes, that's what WITNESS does in the FreeBSD kernel.  The line after the
> one you quoted mentioned the port of this to userspace pthreads.
>

Did it extend the pthread_mutex_t data structure?


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