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authorwm4 <wm4@nowhere>2016-09-04 17:00:21 +0200
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dispatch: redo locking, and allow reentrant processing
A deadlock bug was reported with the following test program: mpv_handle *mpv = mpv_create(); mpv_set_option_string(mpv, "ytdl", "yes"); mpv_initialize(mpv); mpv_terminate_destroy(mpv); The cause of this is loading the ytdl.lua script, which triggers a certain code path that calls mp_dispatch_queue_process() recursively. It does so to wait until the script is loaded, and we want to keep that. Reentrancy was not supported by mp_dispatch, which leads to the deadlock. Rewrite the locking so that it does. We mainly get rid of the "exclusive_lock" mutex. Instead we use the existing lock/condition variable to wait until we can grab a logical lock. Note that the lock_frame business can be replaced with a simple counter. Instead of checking the lock_frame address, it'd simply increment and store the counter when entering mp_dispatch_queue_process(), and then compare the counter to decide whether or not to wait. But I think the additional error checking done by the lock_frame list is valuable. Fixes #3489.
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