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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: prateekag <prateekag@cse.iitb.ac.in>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Printfs in Signal Handler
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 21:41:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4079538.OZV0JHgpTk@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7271567.L1mZBfcePy@thomas>

01/12/2020 10:24, Thomas Monjalon:
> 01/12/2020 04:39, prateekag:
> > printf is not signal safe and may lead to deadlock if kept in signal handler 
> > and
> > signal comes in two quick succession. It will not lead to incorrect behavior 
> > and it is a highly unlikely event. And an expert may understand why this 
> > issue happened. Is it worthwhile to change these printfs to unix I/O write 
> > call?
> 
> Thank you for reporting.
> Please could you describe which files and functions you are talking about?

I've received a private reply:
	Filenames:
		testpmd.c
		test_pmd_perf.c
		evt_main.c
		pdump/main.c
	Function name:
		signal_handler


I am OK with removing these printfs.

Do you want to do the patch with the explanation?



  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-02 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-01  3:39 prateekag
2020-12-01  9:24 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-12-02 20:41   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-12-03  0:02     ` prateekag
2020-12-04  9:20     ` prateekag
2020-12-04  9:50       ` Thomas Monjalon

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