linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC V2 05/10] perf tools: lock to protect thread list

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Message-ID: <20170918085058.GB17203@krava>
Date:   Mon, 18 Sep 2017 10:50:58 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     kan.liang@...el.com
Cc:     acme@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jolsa@...nel.org,
        namhyung@...nel.org, adrian.hunter@...el.com,
        lukasz.odzioba@...el.com, ak@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V2 05/10] perf tools: lock to protect thread list

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 07:23:18PM -0700, kan.liang@...el.com wrote:

SNIP

> +	pthread_mutex_unlock(&thread->namespaces_lock);
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -void thread__namespaces_id(const struct thread *thread,
> +void thread__namespaces_id(struct thread *thread,
>  			   u64 *dev, u64 *ino)
>  {
>  	struct namespaces *ns;
>  
> +	pthread_mutex_lock(&thread->namespaces_lock);
>  	ns = thread__namespaces(thread);

isn't it just thread__namespaces that needs this lock?

if that's the case we don't need the change for __hists__add_entry
in previous patch

jirka