Re: Compilation error for target liblockdep

From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Tue Apr 14 2020 - 22:09:49 EST


On 2020-04-14 06:08, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> These files aren't unit tests for lockdep, so they can't be converted to
> KUnit. liblockdep is a stand alone library bringing lockdep's
> functionallity to pthread via LDPRELOAD, see also:
> https://lwn.net/Articles/536363/

How big is the user base of liblockdep? How many alternatives exist for
liblockdep? Are these alternatives better or worse than liblockdep? See
also:
* https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThreadSafetyAnalysis.html
* https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/ThreadSanitizerCppManual
* http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/hg-manual.html

Bart.