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Comment:Add a comment to wal.c to explain why a race condition is safe.
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SHA1: bc33af866403c23d548dd4705675315810d52d7f
User & Date: dan 2015-04-13 17:43:43.335
Context
2015-04-13
19:14
Remove the out2-prerelease VDBE opcode property and its associated code, for a 0.5% performance improvement. (check-in: e29c7f2c91 user: drh tags: trunk)
17:43
Add a comment to wal.c to explain why a race condition is safe. (check-in: bc33af8664 user: dan tags: trunk)
14:44
Remove a faulty assert() from the btree balancing logic. (check-in: d06669d968 user: drh tags: trunk)
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    ** safe to write into the database.  Frames beyond mxSafeFrame might
    ** overwrite database pages that are in use by active readers and thus
    ** cannot be backfilled from the WAL.
    */
    mxSafeFrame = pWal->hdr.mxFrame;
    mxPage = pWal->hdr.nPage;
    for(i=1; i<WAL_NREADER; i++){








      u32 y = pInfo->aReadMark[i];
      if( mxSafeFrame>y ){
        assert( y<=pWal->hdr.mxFrame );
        rc = walBusyLock(pWal, xBusy, pBusyArg, WAL_READ_LOCK(i), 1);
        if( rc==SQLITE_OK ){
          pInfo->aReadMark[i] = (i==1 ? mxSafeFrame : READMARK_NOT_USED);
          walUnlockExclusive(pWal, WAL_READ_LOCK(i), 1);







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    ** safe to write into the database.  Frames beyond mxSafeFrame might
    ** overwrite database pages that are in use by active readers and thus
    ** cannot be backfilled from the WAL.
    */
    mxSafeFrame = pWal->hdr.mxFrame;
    mxPage = pWal->hdr.nPage;
    for(i=1; i<WAL_NREADER; i++){
      /* Thread-sanitizer reports that the following is an unsafe read,
      ** as some other thread may be in the process of updating the value
      ** of the aReadMark[] slot. The assumption here is that if that is
      ** happening, the other client may only be increasing the value,
      ** not decreasing it. So assuming either that either the "old" or
      ** "new" version of the value is read, and not some arbitrary value
      ** that would never be written by a real client, things are still 
      ** safe.  */
      u32 y = pInfo->aReadMark[i];
      if( mxSafeFrame>y ){
        assert( y<=pWal->hdr.mxFrame );
        rc = walBusyLock(pWal, xBusy, pBusyArg, WAL_READ_LOCK(i), 1);
        if( rc==SQLITE_OK ){
          pInfo->aReadMark[i] = (i==1 ? mxSafeFrame : READMARK_NOT_USED);
          walUnlockExclusive(pWal, WAL_READ_LOCK(i), 1);