Couldn’t you change the lock to be a blocking lock for the SSL APIs?

It seems like a bad interface to be able to write and compile code that will 
assert later on.

-Bryan

> On Feb 7, 2019, at 2:51 PM, Susan Hinrichs <shinr...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> @macisasandwich ran into this when working with port ready changes in
> autest. The extra port probe tied up the test ssl plugin (for tls_hooks15)
> which exercised a TLS hook on a continuation with a mutex. Since the invoke
> method could not grab the lock, the assertion went off.
> 
> I went back to look at how the TLS code should grab the continuation lock
> before calling invoke. But there are many (most) cases where the TLS hook
> cannot be delayed by a reschedule in the case when the lock cannot be
> obtained.
> 
> In most cases for such global continuations, you would not want a lock on
> the continuation for performance reasons. In the case where locking is
> needed, it would be better done by the plugin writer internal to the plugin.
> 
> I made a PR with code changes to force continuations to not have mutexes if
> they are using the SSL hooks.  With this code change, Trafficserver will
> assert if a continuation with a mutex tries to attach to a SSL hooks.
> 
> The PR with code change https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/4939
> 
> Please share your comments/concerns.
> 
> Thanks,
> Susan

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