fix: Update EventManager and task::run_on_core to ignore spurious wakeups if they happen

components/event_manager/include/event_manager.hpp

@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ class EventManager : public espp::BaseComponent {
 
   struct SubscriberData {
     std::mutex m;
+    bool notified = false; // Allows cv to ignore spurious wakeups
     std::condition_variable cv;
     std::deque<std::vector<uint8_t>> deq;
   };

components/event_manager/src/event_manager.cpp

@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ bool EventManager::publish(const std::string &topic, const std::vector<uint8_t>
     std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lk(sub_data->m);
     // push the data into the queue
     sub_data->deq.push_back(data);
+    // update the notified flag (used to ignore spurious wakeups)
+    sub_data->notified = true;
   }
   // notify the task that there is new data in the queue
   sub_data->cv.notify_all();
@@ -174,6 +176,10 @@ bool EventManager::remove_subscriber(const std::string &topic, const std::string
     // notify the data (so the subscriber task function can stop waiting on the data cv)
     {
       std::lock_guard<std::recursive_mutex> lk(data_mutex_);
+      {
+        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lk(subscriber_data_[topic].m);
+        subscriber_data_[topic].notified = true;
+      }
       subscriber_data_[topic].cv.notify_all();
     }
     {
@@ -210,7 +216,7 @@ bool EventManager::subscriber_task_fn(const std::string &topic, std::mutex &m,
   {
     // wait on sub_data's mutex/cv
     std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lk(sub_data->m);
-    sub_data->cv.wait(lk);
+    sub_data->cv.wait(lk, [&sub_data] { return sub_data->notified; });
     if (sub_data->deq.empty()) {
       // stop the task, we were notified, but there was no data available.
       return true;
@@ -224,6 +230,8 @@ bool EventManager::subscriber_task_fn(const std::string &topic, std::mutex &m,
     {
       std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lk(sub_data->m);
       if (sub_data->deq.empty()) {
+        // reset the notified flag
+        sub_data->notified = false;
         // we've gotten all the data, so break out of the loop
         break;
       }

components/task/include/run_on_core.hpp

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ static auto run_on_core(const auto &f, int core_id, size_t stack_size_bytes = 20
       // If the core id is larger than the number of cores, run on the last core
       core_id = configNUM_CORES - 1;
     }
+    bool notified = false;
     std::mutex mutex;
     std::unique_lock lock(mutex); // cppcheck-suppress localMutex
     std::condition_variable cv;   ///< Signal for when the task is done / function is run
@@ -43,13 +44,14 @@ static auto run_on_core(const auto &f, int core_id, size_t stack_size_bytes = 20
       decltype(f()) ret_val;
       auto f_task = espp::Task::make_unique(espp::Task::Config{
           .name = name,
-          .callback = [&mutex, &cv, &f, &ret_val](auto &cb_m, auto &cb_cv) -> bool {
+          .callback = [&mutex, &cv, &f, &ret_val, &notified](auto &cb_m, auto &cb_cv) -> bool {
             // synchronize with the main thread - block here until the main thread
             // waits on the condition variable (cv), then run the function
             std::unique_lock lock(mutex);
             // run the function
             ret_val = f();
             // signal that the task is done
+            notified = true;
             cv.notify_all();
             return true; // stop the task
           },
@@ -58,19 +60,20 @@ static auto run_on_core(const auto &f, int core_id, size_t stack_size_bytes = 20
           .core_id = core_id,
       });
       f_task->start();
-      cv.wait(lock);
+      cv.wait(lock, [&notified] { return notified; });
       return ret_val;
     } else {
       // the function returns void
       auto f_task = espp::Task::make_unique(espp::Task::Config{
           .name = name,
-          .callback = [&mutex, &cv, &f](auto &cb_m, auto &cb_cv) -> bool {
+          .callback = [&mutex, &cv, &f, &notified](auto &cb_m, auto &cb_cv) -> bool {
             // synchronize with the main thread - block here until the main thread
             // waits on the condition variable (cv), then run the function
             std::unique_lock lock(mutex);
             // run the function
             f();
             // signal that the task is done
+            notified = true;
             cv.notify_all();
             return true; // stop the task
           },
@@ -79,7 +82,7 @@ static auto run_on_core(const auto &f, int core_id, size_t stack_size_bytes = 20
           .core_id = core_id,
       });
       f_task->start();
-      cv.wait(lock);
+      cv.wait(lock, [&notified] { return notified; });
     }
   }
 }