[PATCH v3 0/2] Write DWARF index cache files in background

[Simon Marchi]

On 2/24/23 13:46, Tom Tromey via Gdb-patches wrote:
>>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:
> 
> Tom> Here's v3 of the patches to write the DWARF index in the background.
> Tom> v2 was here:
> 
> Tom> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2022-June/189889.html
> 
> Tom> This hides a user-noticeable pause when the feature is enabled.  (Note
> Tom> that, when the feature is used in batch mode, the pause is still
> Tom> seen.)
> 
> Tom> This version of the series fixes a possible race that I found in v2.
> Tom> Essentially, the index-writing background job must be started after
> Tom> all the finalization tasks have started.  There's a comment in the
> Tom> code explaining this.
> 
> I'm checking this in now.
> 
> Tom

I started seeing this, I guess it's related:

FAIL: gdb.base/index-cache.exp: test_cache_enabled_miss: at least one file was created
FAIL: gdb.base/index-cache.exp: test_cache_enabled_miss: expected file is there

Simon