Re: Data Race problem

From:
Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:32:19 -0500
Message-ID:
<kaa115$s6k$1@dont-email.me>
On 12/12/2012 8:16 AM, Saeed Amrollahi wrote:

I have the following very simple multi-thread program:
#include <thread>
#include <mutex>

int var = 0;
void incr()
{
   std::mutex m;
   m.lock();
   var++;
   m.unlock();
}

int main()
{
   std::thread t{incr};
   std::mutex m;
   m.lock();
   ++var;
   m.unlock();
   t.join();

   return 0;
}
This is really simple program, and I think,
I made a mutual exclusion, when two threads
are writing shared variable (var).
But, when I run valgrind cmd , it turns out there is
data race. I used the following commands under Linux (GCC 4.7.0):
$ g++ -std=c++11 -pthread -pedantic -Wall simple_data_race.c++
$ valgrind -q --tool=helgrind ./a.out
Here it is the <abbreviated> valgrind messages:
<Message>
...
Possible data race during write of size 8 at <address> by thread #1
...
This conflicts with a previous write of size 8 by thread #2
...
</Message>
I struggled a few hours with such a simple code.
Please shed some light.


I thought that to prevent access to the same variable you're supposed to
lock *the same* mutex in both threads, not two *different* ones. Pull
the declaration/definition of 'm' out of 'incr' and 'main' into the
global scope and try again.

V
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