Re: [PATCH v3 09/18] perf ui: Update use of pthread mutex

[Namhyung Kim]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 12:21 PM Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 26/08/22 22:00, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 11:53 AM Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Below seems adequate for now, at least logically, but maybe it
> >> would confuse clang thread-safety analysis?
> >
> > I think it's not just about locks, the exit_browser should bail out early
> > if the setup code was not called.
>
> In those cases, use_browser is 0 or -1 unless someone has inserted
> an invalid perf config like "tui.script=on" or "gtk.script=on".
> So currently, in cases where exit_browser() is called without
> setup_browser(), it does nothing.  Which means it is only the
> unconditional mutex_destroy() that needs to be conditional.

Yeah there's a possibility that it can be called with > 0 use_browser
on some broken config or something.  So I think it's safer and better
for future changes.

Thanks,
Namhyung