Avoiding Common Concurrency Bugs in Go
In the paper Understanding Real-World Concurrency Bugs in Go, several researchers analyzed common concurrency bugs in Go and validated them in some of the most popular Go open-source projects. This article organizes the common bugs mentioned in the paper and provides an analysis of solutions. The paper categorizes bugs into two types: blocking and non-blocking: Blocking: A goroutine gets blocked and cannot continue execution (e.g., deadlock). Non-blocking: Execution is not blocked, but there is a potential data race (e.g., concurrent writes). Blocking Bugs Blocking bugs have two root causes: shared memory (e.g., getting stuck on a lock operation intended to protect shared memory) and message passing (e.g., waiting on a channel). The study found that the number of bugs caused by shared memory and message passing is comparable. However, since shared memory is used more frequently than message passing, it was concluded that shared memory is less likely to lead to bugs. ...