Re: [PATCH] replay: fix recursive checkpoints

[Alex Bennée]

Pavel Dovgalyuk <pavel.dovgalyuk@ispras.ru> writes:

> Record/replay uses checkpoints to synchronize the execution
> of the threads and timers. Hardware events such as BH are
> processed at the checkpoints too.
> Event processing can cause refreshing the virtual timers
> and calling the icount-related functions, that also use checkpoints.
> This patch prevents recursive processing of such checkpoints,
> because they have their own records in the log and should be
> processed later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Dovgalyuk <Pavel.Dovgalyuk@ispras.ru>
> ---
>  replay/replay.c |   11 ++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/replay/replay.c b/replay/replay.c
> index c806fec69a..6df2abc18c 100644
> --- a/replay/replay.c
> +++ b/replay/replay.c
> @@ -180,12 +180,13 @@ bool replay_checkpoint(ReplayCheckpoint checkpoint)
>      }
>  
>      if (in_checkpoint) {
> -        /* If we are already in checkpoint, then there is no need
> -           for additional synchronization.
> +        /*
>             Recursion occurs when HW event modifies timers.
> -           Timer modification may invoke the checkpoint and
> -           proceed to recursion. */
> -        return true;
> +           Prevent performing icount warp in this case and
> +           wait for another invocation of the checkpoint.
> +        */

nit: as you are updating the comment you might as well fix the style. It
would probably help with the diff as well.

> +        g_assert(replay_mode == REPLAY_MODE_PLAY);
> +        return false;
>      }
>      in_checkpoint = true;

The accompanying comments in replay.h are also confusing 

    Returns 0 in PLAY mode if checkpoint was not found.
    Returns 1 in all other cases.

Which translated to actual bool results:

    Returns false in PLAY mode if checkpoint was not found
    Returns true in all other cases

Which implies the checkpoint is always found (or created?) which I'm not
even sure of while following the rest of the replay_checkpoint code
which has exit cases of:

    bool res = false; (default)
    replay_state.data_kind != EVENT_ASYNC;
    res = true; (when recording)

So is the following more correct?

/**
 * replay_checkpoint(checkpoint): save (in RECORD) or consume (in PLAY) 
checkpoint
 * @checkpoint: the checkpoint event
 *
 * In SAVE mode stores the checkpoint in the record and potentially
 * saves a number of events.
 *
 * In PLAY mode consumes checkpoint and any following EVENT_ASYNC events.
 *
 * Results: in SAVE mode always True
 *          in PLAY mode True unless checkpoint not found or recursively called.
 */

-- 
Alex Bennée