[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk v3] Remove unnecessary debug check from SPICE_DEBUG
Frediano Ziglio
fziglio at redhat.com
Fri Jun 9 16:55:26 UTC 2017
>
> Hi
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Calling spice_util_get_debug() from the SPICE_DEBUG() macro is
> > unnecessary since g_log() will already check whether the message will
> > actually be printed. The only benefit to calling this function from
> > SPICE_DEBUG() is that it ensures that the SPICE_DEBUG environment
> > variable gets read the very first time we try to log something with
> > this macro. To solve this problem we instead use a constructor function
> > to ensure that the env var is read at startup.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma at redhat.com>
> > ---
> > Changes since v2:
> > - fix outdated comment
> >
> > src/spice-util.c | 28 +++++++++-------------------
> > src/spice-util.h | 7 ++-----
> > 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/src/spice-util.c b/src/spice-util.c
> > index 86377b6..5bce262 100644
> > --- a/src/spice-util.c
> > +++ b/src/spice-util.c
> > @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
> > #include <glib.h>
> > #include <glib-object.h>
> > #include <spice/macros.h>
> > +#include "common/macros.h"
> > #include "spice-util-priv.h"
> > #include "spice-util.h"
> > #include "spice-util-priv.h"
> > @@ -39,7 +40,7 @@
> > * Various functions for debugging and informational purposes.
> > */
> >
> > -static GOnce debug_once = G_ONCE_INIT;
> > +static gboolean debug_enabled = FALSE;
> >
> > static void spice_util_enable_debug_messages(void)
> > {
> > @@ -63,36 +64,25 @@ static void spice_util_enable_debug_messages(void)
> > **/
> > void spice_util_set_debug(gboolean enabled)
> > {
> > - /* Make sure debug_once has been initialised
> > - * with the value of SPICE_DEBUG already, otherwise
> > - * spice_util_get_debug() may overwrite the value
> > - * that was just set using spice_util_set_debug()
> > - */
> > - spice_util_get_debug();
> > -
> > if (enabled) {
> > spice_util_enable_debug_messages();
> > }
> >
> > - debug_once.retval = GINT_TO_POINTER(enabled);
> > + debug_enabled = enabled;
> > }
> >
> > -static gpointer getenv_debug(gpointer data)
> > +/* Make sure debug_enabled has been initialised with the value of
> > SPICE_DEBUG
> > + * at startup */
> > +SPICE_CONSTRUCTOR_FUNC(spice_log_init)
> > {
> > - gboolean debug;
> > -
> > - debug = (g_getenv("SPICE_DEBUG") != NULL);
> > - if (debug)
> > + debug_enabled = (g_getenv("SPICE_DEBUG") != NULL);
> > + if (debug_enabled)
> > spice_util_enable_debug_messages();
> > -
> > - return GINT_TO_POINTER(debug);
> > }
> >
> > gboolean spice_util_get_debug(void)
> > {
> > - g_once(&debug_once, getenv_debug, NULL);
> > -
> > - return GPOINTER_TO_INT(debug_once.retval);
> > + return debug_enabled;
> > }
> >
> > /**
> > diff --git a/src/spice-util.h b/src/spice-util.h
> > index a2a7683..7a95a9e 100644
> > --- a/src/spice-util.h
> > +++ b/src/spice-util.h
> > @@ -32,11 +32,8 @@ gulong spice_g_signal_connect_object(gpointer instance,
> > GConnectFlags connect_flags);
> > gchar* spice_uuid_to_string(const guint8 uuid[16]);
> >
> > -#define SPICE_DEBUG(fmt, ...) \
> > - do { \
> > - if (G_UNLIKELY(spice_util_get_debug())) \
> > - g_debug(G_STRLOC " " fmt, ## __VA_ARGS__); \
> > - } while (0)
> > +#define SPICE_DEBUG(fmt, ...) \
> > + g_debug(G_STRLOC " " fmt, ## __VA_ARGS__)
> >
> > #define SPICE_RESERVED_PADDING (10 * sizeof(void*))
> >
>
> This patch gives me the weird feeling that the existing code is better:
>
> - constructor attribute is less portable and racier than existing code
We use them for a while. Portable enough for our case. And they run single
threaded so I don't see how they can race.
> - we didn't have to evaluate the arguments or call g_debug() if
> !spice_util_get_debug)
Yes, the impact of this is not clear
>
> What does this patch actually improves?
>
There is less code with Jonathon patch and spice_util_get_debug is
shorter.
Frediano
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