avutil/log: document log callback thread saftey requirements

Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libavutil/log.h b/libavutil/log.h
index d3935da3bd..55459e811a 100644
--- a/libavutil/log.h
+++ b/libavutil/log.h
@@ -240,6 +240,9 @@ void av_log_set_level(int level);
 /**
  * Set the logging callback
  *
+ * @note The callback must be thread safe, even if the application does not use
+ *       threads itself as some codecs are multithreaded.
+ *
  * @see av_log_default_callback
  *
  * @param callback A logging function with a compatible signature.