[Valgrind-developers] valgrind: r9216 - in trunk/drd: . docs

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Author: bart
Date: 2009-02-22 09:29:07 +0000 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009)
New Revision: 9216

Log:
Updated documentation.

Modified:
   trunk/drd/docs/drd-manual.xml
   trunk/drd/drd_barrier.c


Modified: trunk/drd/docs/drd-manual.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/drd/docs/drd-manual.xml	2009-02-22 09:26:22 UTC (rev 9215)
+++ trunk/drd/docs/drd-manual.xml	2009-02-22 09:29:07 UTC (rev 9216)
@@ -799,6 +799,11 @@
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
       <para>
+        Missing synchronization between barrier wait and barrier destruction.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
         Exiting a thread without first unlocking the spinlocks,
         mutexes or reader-writer locks that were locked by that
         thread.

Modified: trunk/drd/drd_barrier.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/drd/drd_barrier.c	2009-02-22 09:26:22 UTC (rev 9215)
+++ trunk/drd/drd_barrier.c	2009-02-22 09:29:07 UTC (rev 9216)
@@ -509,6 +509,10 @@
 /**
  * Report that *_barrier_destroy() has been called but that this call was
  * not synchronized with the last *_barrier_wait() call on the same barrier.
+ *
+ * This topic has been discussed extensively on comp.programming.threads
+ * (February 3, 2009). See also
+ * <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming.threads/browse_thread/thread/4f65535d6192aa50/a5f4bf1e3b437c4d">Immediately destroying pthread barriers</a>.
  */
 static
 void barrier_report_wait_delete_race(const struct barrier_info* const p,