URCU feature request?

Thobias Knudsen thobknu at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 14:06:26 EDT 2025


> I am confuse about the overall discussion here.  Are we talking about
> static checking of RCU pointers usage or runtime checking?
>
> Is is possible to see the implementation you made so I can understand
> better?

Sorry for being late to answer :/
The library overrides a subset of urcu and lfht functions with macros and
replaces them with other functions which checks in runtime if the functions
are called in the correct order.
here is the code: https://github.com/ThobiasKnudsen/urcu_lfht_safe


ons. 3. sep. 2025 kl. 03:35 skrev Olivier Dion <odion at efficios.com>:

> On Tue, 02 Sep 2025, Thobias Knudsen via lttng-dev <
> lttng-dev at lists.lttng.org> wrote:
> > Yes but all read/write operations doesn't have the syntax of a function
> as
> > you used in the example here i.e. use(...). When it is a function you can
> > easily just change the implementation to check if it is called inside a
> > read section. Some reads and writes are usually done by this syntax (a =
> b)
> > and '=' cannot be overridden.
> >
> > BTW just saying that what we're talking about now is not the original
> > topic, but if someone has an elegant solution to this that would be
> > nice!
>
> I am confuse about the overall discussion here.  Are we talking about
> static checking of RCU pointers usage or runtime checking?
>
> Is is possible to see the implementation you made so I can understand
> better?
>
> Thanks,
> Olivier
> --
> Olivier Dion
> EfficiOS Inc.
> https://www.efficios.com
>
>
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