commit 53d301c29bc49f10bbac21137e715a933d6a6d8a
author Tom Cherry <tomcherry@google.com> Wed Apr 22 11:37:26 2020 -0700
committer Tom Cherry <tomcherry@google.com> Wed Apr 22 13:12:11 2020 -0700
tree 278349c9d884798d2a4a0a61b97f0844bb49b342
parent 6b9b468dcb200ad77039f60ec28114df8cd61be2

Remove thread safety from libbase logging / liblog

There are no libbase users that require thread safety for SetLogger,
SetAborter, or SetDefaultTag  and the equivalent liblog symbols are
unreleased, thus have effectively no users.

It is hard to imagine a scenario where a user would need to use these
functions in a multi-threaded program, and it is unreasonable for all
users to pay for thread safety for a vast minority of potential
scenarios. Thread safety implies less efficiency and necessarily means
that these functions are neither fork safe nor async-signal safe, and
we do have users who depend on those characteristics.

It is always possible for users of the non-thread safe versions of
these functions to build thread safe versions on top of them.  For
example, if a user needs a thread safe SetLogger(), they can use the
non-thread safe SetLogger at the start of their program to register a
logger that has its own lock and pointer to a logger function.

Bug: 119867234
Test: logging unit tests
Change-Id: I8afffec1a6957d3bda95502a4c59493e0c5049ce

liblog/logger_write.cpp

diff --git a/liblog/logger_write.cpp b/liblog/logger_write.cpp
index d15b367..3a75fa3 100644
--- a/liblog/logger_write.cpp
+++ b/liblog/logger_write.cpp
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
 #endif
 
 #include <atomic>
-#include <shared_mutex>
 
 #include <android-base/errno_restorer.h>
 #include <android-base/macros.h>
@@ -38,7 +37,6 @@
 #include "android/log.h"
 #include "log/log_read.h"
 #include "logger.h"
-#include "rwlock.h"
 #include "uio.h"
 
 #ifdef __ANDROID__
@@ -142,10 +140,8 @@
   static std::string default_tag = getprogname();
   return default_tag;
 }
-RwLock default_tag_lock;
 
 void __android_log_set_default_tag(const char* tag) {
-  auto lock = std::unique_lock{default_tag_lock};
   GetDefaultTag().assign(tag, 0, LOGGER_ENTRY_MAX_PAYLOAD);
 }
 
@@ -163,10 +159,8 @@
 #else
 static __android_logger_function logger_function = __android_log_stderr_logger;
 #endif
-static RwLock logger_function_lock;
 
 void __android_log_set_logger(__android_logger_function logger) {
-  auto lock = std::unique_lock{logger_function_lock};
   logger_function = logger;
 }
 
@@ -180,15 +174,12 @@
 }
 
 static __android_aborter_function aborter_function = __android_log_default_aborter;
-static RwLock aborter_function_lock;
 
 void __android_log_set_aborter(__android_aborter_function aborter) {
-  auto lock = std::unique_lock{aborter_function_lock};
   aborter_function = aborter;
 }
 
 void __android_log_call_aborter(const char* abort_message) {
-  auto lock = std::shared_lock{aborter_function_lock};
   aborter_function(abort_message);
 }
 
@@ -310,9 +301,7 @@
     return;
   }
 
-  auto tag_lock = std::shared_lock{default_tag_lock, std::defer_lock};
   if (log_message->tag == nullptr) {
-    tag_lock.lock();
     log_message->tag = GetDefaultTag().c_str();
   }
 
@@ -322,7 +311,6 @@
   }
 #endif
 
-  auto lock = std::shared_lock{logger_function_lock};
   logger_function(log_message);
 }
 

liblog/logger_write.h

diff --git a/liblog/logger_write.h b/liblog/logger_write.h
index 065fd55..eee2778 100644
--- a/liblog/logger_write.h
+++ b/liblog/logger_write.h
@@ -18,7 +18,4 @@
 
 #include <string>
 
-#include "rwlock.h"
-
-std::string& GetDefaultTag();  // Must read lock default_tag_lock
-extern RwLock default_tag_lock;
\ No newline at end of file
+std::string& GetDefaultTag();

liblog/properties.cpp

diff --git a/liblog/properties.cpp b/liblog/properties.cpp
index abd48fc..37670ec 100644
--- a/liblog/properties.cpp
+++ b/liblog/properties.cpp
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 
 #include <algorithm>
-#include <shared_mutex>
 
 #include <private/android_logger.h>
 
@@ -99,9 +98,7 @@
   static const char log_namespace[] = "persist.log.tag.";
   static const size_t base_offset = 8; /* skip "persist." */
 
-  auto tag_lock = std::shared_lock{default_tag_lock, std::defer_lock};
   if (tag == nullptr || len == 0) {
-    tag_lock.lock();
     auto& tag_string = GetDefaultTag();
     tag = tag_string.c_str();
     len = tag_string.size();