This is to address concerns raised by ThreadSanitizer on the mailing list
about threaded unprotected R/W access to map.size with my previous "disallow
rehash" change (0607e10009).
See:
https://public-inbox.org/git/adb37b70139fd1e2bac18bfd22c8b96683ae18eb.1502780344.git.martin.agren@gmail.com/
Add API to hashmap to disable item counting and thus automatic rehashing.
Also include API to later re-enable them.
When item counting is disabled, the map.size field is invalid. So to
prevent accidents, the field has been renamed and an accessor function
hashmap_get_size() has been added. All direct references to this
field have been been updated. And the name of the field changed
to map.private_size to communicate this.
Here is the relevant output from ThreadSanitizer showing the problem:
WARNING: ThreadSanitizer: data race (pid=10554)
Read of size 4 at 0x00000082d488 by thread T2 (mutexes: write M16):
#0 hashmap_add hashmap.c:209
#1 hash_dir_entry_with_parent_and_prefix name-hash.c:302
#2 handle_range_dir name-hash.c:347
#3 handle_range_1 name-hash.c:415
#4 lazy_dir_thread_proc name-hash.c:471
#5 <null> <null>
Previous write of size 4 at 0x00000082d488 by thread T1 (mutexes: write M31):
#0 hashmap_add hashmap.c:209
#1 hash_dir_entry_with_parent_and_prefix name-hash.c:302
#2 handle_range_dir name-hash.c:347
#3 handle_range_1 name-hash.c:415
#4 handle_range_dir name-hash.c:380
#5 handle_range_1 name-hash.c:415
#6 lazy_dir_thread_proc name-hash.c:471
#7 <null> <null>
Martin gives instructions for running TSan on test t3008 in this post:
https://public-inbox.org/git/CAN0heSoJDL9pWELD6ciLTmWf-a=oyxe4EXXOmCKvsG5MSuzxsA@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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