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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/grep.c b/grep.c
index 0552b127c1..13232a904a 100644
--- a/grep.c
+++ b/grep.c
@@ -1540,11 +1540,6 @@ static inline void grep_attr_unlock(void)
pthread_mutex_unlock(&grep_attr_mutex);
}
-/*
- * Same as git_attr_mutex, but protecting the thread-unsafe object db access.
- */
-pthread_mutex_t grep_read_mutex;
-
static int match_funcname(struct grep_opt *opt, struct grep_source *gs, char *bol, char *eol)
{
xdemitconf_t *xecfg = opt->priv;
@@ -1741,13 +1736,20 @@ static int fill_textconv_grep(struct repository *r,
}
/*
- * fill_textconv is not remotely thread-safe; it may load objects
- * behind the scenes, and it modifies the global diff tempfile
- * structure.
+ * fill_textconv is not remotely thread-safe; it modifies the global
+ * diff tempfile structure, writes to the_repo's odb and might
+ * internally call thread-unsafe functions such as the
+ * prepare_packed_git() lazy-initializator. Because of the last two, we
+ * must ensure mutual exclusion between this call and the object reading
+ * API, thus we use obj_read_lock() here.
+ *
+ * TODO: allowing text conversion to run in parallel with object
+ * reading operations might increase performance in the multithreaded
+ * non-worktreee git-grep with --textconv.
*/
- grep_read_lock();
+ obj_read_lock();
size = fill_textconv(r, driver, df, &buf);
- grep_read_unlock();
+ obj_read_unlock();
free_filespec(df);
/*
@@ -1813,10 +1815,15 @@ static int grep_source_1(struct grep_opt *opt, struct grep_source *gs, int colle
grep_source_load_driver(gs, opt->repo->index);
/*
* We might set up the shared textconv cache data here, which
- * is not thread-safe.
+ * is not thread-safe. Also, get_oid_with_context() and
+ * parse_object() might be internally called. As they are not
+ * currenty thread-safe and might be racy with object reading,
+ * obj_read_lock() must be called.
*/
grep_attr_lock();
+ obj_read_lock();
textconv = userdiff_get_textconv(opt->repo, gs->driver);
+ obj_read_unlock();
grep_attr_unlock();
}
@@ -2116,10 +2123,7 @@ static int grep_source_load_oid(struct grep_source *gs)
{
enum object_type type;
- grep_read_lock();
gs->buf = read_object_file(gs->identifier, &type, &gs->size);
- grep_read_unlock();
-
if (!gs->buf)
return error(_("'%s': unable to read %s"),
gs->name,