RE: [PATCH RFC V4 1/6] perf tools: lock to protect namespaces and comm list

[Liang, Kan]

> Em Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 07:47:52AM -0700, kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx escreveu:
> > From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Add two locks to protect namespaces_list and comm_list.
> >
> > The lock is only needed for multithreaded code, so using mutex
> > wrappers provided by perf tool.
> >
> > Not all the comm_list/namespaces_list accessing are protected, e.g.
> > thread__exec_comm. Because the multithread code for perf top event
> > synthesizing does not touch them. They don't need a lock.
> 
> They don't need a lock _now_, ok I think we can proceed that way, this cset
> should serve as a warning to people working in further multithreading perf.
> 

Do I need to add some comments in the code to give a warning?

Thanks,
Kan