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authorAndreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@outlook.com>2022-07-09 22:25:41 +0200
committerAndreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@outlook.com>2022-07-18 19:58:56 +0200
commit6aad1204ccea90113d19a8b829c8b81891f9474e (patch)
tree8610a6ee598d1ff4cbf8225877a11b4c6713a244 /libavcodec/codec_internal.h
parentc597510434f2950df09d218106279c880bdc146c (diff)
avcodec: Add FF_CODEC_CAP_NOT_INIT_THREADSAFE
This is in preparation of switching the default init-thread-safety to a codec being init-thread-safe. Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@outlook.com>
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diff --git a/libavcodec/codec_internal.h b/libavcodec/codec_internal.h
index 5df286ce52..a90c19d61a 100644
--- a/libavcodec/codec_internal.h
+++ b/libavcodec/codec_internal.h
@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@
*/
#define FF_CODEC_CAP_INIT_THREADSAFE (1 << 0)
/**
+ * The codec is not known to be init-threadsafe (i.e. it might be unsafe
+ * to initialize this codec and another codec concurrently, typically because
+ * the codec calls external APIs that are not known to be thread-safe).
+ * Therefore calling the codec's init function needs to be guarded with a lock.
+ */
+#define FF_CODEC_CAP_NOT_INIT_THREADSAFE (1 << 9)
+/**
* The codec allows calling the close function for deallocation even if
* the init function returned a failure. Without this capability flag, a
* codec does such cleanup internally when returning failures from the