Intel® Advisor User Guide

ID 766448
Date 12/16/2022
Public

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Dangling Lock

Occurs when a task does not release a lock before the task ends.

Problem type: Dangling lock

ID

Code Location

Description

1

Allocation site

If present, represents the location and associated call stack when the lock was created.

2

Lock owned

If present, represents the location and its associated call stack when the lock was last acquired.

3

Parallel site

If present, represents the location and associated call stack of the site-begin annotation of the parallel site containing the task that acquired the lock.

Example

void problem()
{
    ANNOTATE_SITE_BEGIN(dangle_site1);        // Parallel site
        ANNOTATE_TASK_BEGIN(task1);
            ANNOTATE_LOCK_ACQUIRE(&dangle);   // Lock owned
        ANNOTATE_TASK_END();
     // ...
    ANNOTATE_SITE_END();
}

In this example:

  • There is a parallel site that contains a task.

  • The lock is acquired in the task.

  • The lock is not released before the end of the task - the ANNOTATE_LOCK_RELEASE() annotation is missing.

Possible Correction Strategies

  • Make sure that an ANNOTATE_LOCK_RELEASE(address) annotation is executed on every flow path from an ANNOTATE_LOCK_ACQUIRE(address) annotation to the end of the task. If a code region has multiple exit flow paths, make sure the lock is released on all the paths.

  • Consider putting the lock-acquire and lock-release in the constructor and destructor of a static object, so that lock release happens automatically.

  • Consider putting a lock release in an exception handler if a the locked region might exit from an exception.