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     29 //
     30 // ---
     31 //
     32 // A simple mutex wrapper, supporting locks and read-write locks.
     33 // You should assume the locks are *not* re-entrant.
     34 //
     35 // This class is meant to be internal-only and should be wrapped by an
     36 // internal namespace.  Before you use this module, please give the
     37 // name of your internal namespace for this module.  Or, if you want
     38 // to expose it, you'll want to move it to the Google namespace.  We
     39 // cannot put this class in global namespace because there can be some
     40 // problems when we have multiple versions of Mutex in each shared object.
     41 //
     42 // NOTE: by default, we have #ifdef'ed out the TryLock() method.
     43 //       This is for two reasons:
     44 // 1) TryLock() under Windows is a bit annoying (it requires a
     45 //    #define to be defined very early).
     46 // 2) TryLock() is broken for NO_THREADS mode, at least in NDEBUG
     47 //    mode.
     48 // If you need TryLock(), and either these two caveats are not a
     49 // problem for you, or you're willing to work around them, then
     50 // feel free to #define GMUTEX_TRYLOCK, or to remove the #ifdefs
     51 // in the code below.
     52 //
     53 // CYGWIN NOTE: Cygwin support for rwlock seems to be buggy:
     54 //    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-12/msg00017.html
     55 // Because of that, we might as well use windows locks for
     56 // cygwin.  They seem to be more reliable than the cygwin pthreads layer.
     57 //
     58 // TRICKY IMPLEMENTATION NOTE:
     59 // This class is designed to be safe to use during
     60 // dynamic-initialization -- that is, by global constructors that are
     61 // run before main() starts.  The issue in this case is that
     62 // dynamic-initialization happens in an unpredictable order, and it
     63 // could be that someone else's dynamic initializer could call a
     64 // function that tries to acquire this mutex -- but that all happens
     65 // before this mutex's constructor has run.  (This can happen even if
     66 // the mutex and the function that uses the mutex are in the same .cc
     67 // file.)  Basically, because Mutex does non-trivial work in its
     68 // constructor, it's not, in the naive implementation, safe to use
     69 // before dynamic initialization has run on it.
     70 //
     71 // The solution used here is to pair the actual mutex primitive with a
     72 // bool that is set to true when the mutex is dynamically initialized.
     73 // (Before that it's false.)  Then we modify all mutex routines to
     74 // look at the bool, and not try to lock/unlock until the bool makes
     75 // it to true (which happens after the Mutex constructor has run.)
     76 //
     77 // This works because before main() starts -- particularly, during
     78 // dynamic initialization -- there are no threads, so a) it's ok that
     79 // the mutex operations are a no-op, since we don't need locking then
     80 // anyway; and b) we can be quite confident our bool won't change
     81 // state between a call to Lock() and a call to Unlock() (that would
     82 // require a global constructor in one translation unit to call Lock()
     83 // and another global constructor in another translation unit to call
     84 // Unlock() later, which is pretty perverse).
     85 //
     86 // That said, it's tricky, and can conceivably fail; it's safest to
     87 // avoid trying to acquire a mutex in a global constructor, if you
     88 // can.  One way it can fail is that a really smart compiler might
     89 // initialize the bool to true at static-initialization time (too
     90 // early) rather than at dynamic-initialization time.  To discourage
     91 // that, we set is_safe_ to true in code (not the constructor
     92 // colon-initializer) and set it to true via a function that always
     93 // evaluates to true, but that the compiler can't know always
     94 // evaluates to true.  This should be good enough.
     95 //
     96 // A related issue is code that could try to access the mutex
     97 // after it's been destroyed in the global destructors (because
     98 // the Mutex global destructor runs before some other global
     99 // destructor, that tries to acquire the mutex).  The way we
    100 // deal with this is by taking a constructor arg that global
    101 // mutexes should pass in, that causes the destructor to do no
    102 // work.  We still depend on the compiler not doing anything
    103 // weird to a Mutex's memory after it is destroyed, but for a
    104 // static global variable, that's pretty safe.
    105 
    106 #ifndef GFLAGS_MUTEX_H_
    107 #define GFLAGS_MUTEX_H_
    108 
    109 #include "gflags/gflags_declare.h"     // to figure out pthreads support
    110 
    111 #if defined(NO_THREADS)
    112   typedef int MutexType;        // to keep a lock-count
    113 #elif defined(OS_WINDOWS)
    114 # ifndef WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
    115 #   define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN  // We only need minimal includes
    116 # endif
    117 # ifndef NOMINMAX
    118 #   define NOMINMAX             // Don't want windows to override min()/max()
    119 # endif
    120 # ifdef GMUTEX_TRYLOCK
    121   // We need Windows NT or later for TryEnterCriticalSection().  If you
    122   // don't need that functionality, you can remove these _WIN32_WINNT
    123   // lines, and change TryLock() to assert(0) or something.
    124 #   ifndef _WIN32_WINNT
    125 #     define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0400
    126 #   endif
    127 # endif
    128 # include <windows.h>
    129   typedef CRITICAL_SECTION MutexType;
    130 #elif defined(HAVE_PTHREAD) && defined(HAVE_RWLOCK)
    131   // Needed for pthread_rwlock_*.  If it causes problems, you could take it
    132   // out, but then you'd have to unset HAVE_RWLOCK (at least on linux -- it
    133   // *does* cause problems for FreeBSD, or MacOSX, but isn't needed
    134   // for locking there.)
    135 # ifdef __linux__
    136 #   if _XOPEN_SOURCE < 500      // including not being defined at all
    137 #     undef _XOPEN_SOURCE
    138 #     define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500  // may be needed to get the rwlock calls
    139 #   endif
    140 # endif
    141 # include <pthread.h>
    142   typedef pthread_rwlock_t MutexType;
    143 #elif defined(HAVE_PTHREAD)
    144 # include <pthread.h>
    145   typedef pthread_mutex_t MutexType;
    146 #else
    147 # error Need to implement mutex.h for your architecture, or #define NO_THREADS
    148 #endif
    149 
    150 #include <assert.h>
    151 #include <stdlib.h>      // for abort()
    152 
    153 #define MUTEX_NAMESPACE gflags_mutex_namespace
    154 
    155 namespace MUTEX_NAMESPACE {
    156 
    157 class Mutex {
    158  public:
    159   // This is used for the single-arg constructor
    160   enum LinkerInitialized { LINKER_INITIALIZED };
    161 
    162   // Create a Mutex that is not held by anybody.  This constructor is
    163   // typically used for Mutexes allocated on the heap or the stack.
    164   inline Mutex();
    165   // This constructor should be used for global, static Mutex objects.
    166   // It inhibits work being done by the destructor, which makes it
    167   // safer for code that tries to acqiure this mutex in their global
    168   // destructor.
    169   explicit inline Mutex(LinkerInitialized);
    170 
    171   // Destructor
    172   inline ~Mutex();
    173 
    174   inline void Lock();    // Block if needed until free then acquire exclusively
    175   inline void Unlock();  // Release a lock acquired via Lock()
    176 #ifdef GMUTEX_TRYLOCK
    177   inline bool TryLock(); // If free, Lock() and return true, else return false
    178 #endif
    179   // Note that on systems that don't support read-write locks, these may
    180   // be implemented as synonyms to Lock() and Unlock().  So you can use
    181   // these for efficiency, but don't use them anyplace where being able
    182   // to do shared reads is necessary to avoid deadlock.
    183   inline void ReaderLock();   // Block until free or shared then acquire a share
    184   inline void ReaderUnlock(); // Release a read share of this Mutex
    185   inline void WriterLock() { Lock(); }     // Acquire an exclusive lock
    186   inline void WriterUnlock() { Unlock(); } // Release a lock from WriterLock()
    187 
    188  private:
    189   MutexType mutex_;
    190   // We want to make sure that the compiler sets is_safe_ to true only
    191   // when we tell it to, and never makes assumptions is_safe_ is
    192   // always true.  volatile is the most reliable way to do that.
    193   volatile bool is_safe_;
    194   // This indicates which constructor was called.
    195   bool destroy_;
    196 
    197   inline void SetIsSafe() { is_safe_ = true; }
    198 
    199   // Catch the error of writing Mutex when intending MutexLock.
    200   explicit Mutex(Mutex* /*ignored*/) {}
    201   // Disallow "evil" constructors
    202   Mutex(const Mutex&);
    203   void operator=(const Mutex&);
    204 };
    205 
    206 // Now the implementation of Mutex for various systems
    207 #if defined(NO_THREADS)
    208 
    209 // When we don't have threads, we can be either reading or writing,
    210 // but not both.  We can have lots of readers at once (in no-threads
    211 // mode, that's most likely to happen in recursive function calls),
    212 // but only one writer.  We represent this by having mutex_ be -1 when
    213 // writing and a number > 0 when reading (and 0 when no lock is held).
    214 //
    215 // In debug mode, we assert these invariants, while in non-debug mode
    216 // we do nothing, for efficiency.  That's why everything is in an
    217 // assert.
    218 
    219 Mutex::Mutex() : mutex_(0) { }
    220 Mutex::Mutex(Mutex::LinkerInitialized) : mutex_(0) { }
    221 Mutex::~Mutex()            { assert(mutex_ == 0); }
    222 void Mutex::Lock()         { assert(--mutex_ == -1); }
    223 void Mutex::Unlock()       { assert(mutex_++ == -1); }
    224 #ifdef GMUTEX_TRYLOCK
    225 bool Mutex::TryLock()      { if (mutex_) return false; Lock(); return true; }
    226 #endif
    227 void Mutex::ReaderLock()   { assert(++mutex_ > 0); }
    228 void Mutex::ReaderUnlock() { assert(mutex_-- > 0); }
    229 
    230 #elif defined(OS_WINDOWS)
    231 
    232 Mutex::Mutex() : destroy_(true) {
    233   InitializeCriticalSection(&mutex_);
    234   SetIsSafe();
    235 }
    236 Mutex::Mutex(LinkerInitialized) : destroy_(false) {
    237   InitializeCriticalSection(&mutex_);
    238   SetIsSafe();
    239 }
    240 Mutex::~Mutex()            { if (destroy_) DeleteCriticalSection(&mutex_); }
    241 void Mutex::Lock()         { if (is_safe_) EnterCriticalSection(&mutex_); }
    242 void Mutex::Unlock()       { if (is_safe_) LeaveCriticalSection(&mutex_); }
    243 #ifdef GMUTEX_TRYLOCK
    244 bool Mutex::TryLock()      { return is_safe_ ?
    245                                  TryEnterCriticalSection(&mutex_) != 0 : true; }
    246 #endif
    247 void Mutex::ReaderLock()   { Lock(); }      // we don't have read-write locks
    248 void Mutex::ReaderUnlock() { Unlock(); }
    249 
    250 #elif defined(HAVE_PTHREAD) && defined(HAVE_RWLOCK)
    251 
    252 #define SAFE_PTHREAD(fncall)  do {   /* run fncall if is_safe_ is true */  \
    253   if (is_safe_ && fncall(&mutex_) != 0) abort();                           \
    254 } while (0)
    255 
    256 Mutex::Mutex() : destroy_(true) {
    257   SetIsSafe();
    258   if (is_safe_ && pthread_rwlock_init(&mutex_, NULL) != 0) abort();
    259 }
    260 Mutex::Mutex(Mutex::LinkerInitialized) : destroy_(false) {
    261   SetIsSafe();
    262   if (is_safe_ && pthread_rwlock_init(&mutex_, NULL) != 0) abort();
    263 }
    264 Mutex::~Mutex()       { if (destroy_) SAFE_PTHREAD(pthread_rwlock_destroy); }
    265 void Mutex::Lock()         { SAFE_PTHREAD(pthread_rwlock_wrlock); }
    266 void Mutex::Unlock()       { SAFE_PTHREAD(pthread_rwlock_unlock); }
    267 #ifdef GMUTEX_TRYLOCK
    268 bool Mutex::TryLock()      { return is_safe_ ?
    269                                pthread_rwlock_trywrlock(&mutex_) == 0 : true; }
    270 #endif
    271 void Mutex::ReaderLock()   { SAFE_PTHREAD(pthread_rwlock_rdlock); }
    272 void Mutex::ReaderUnlock() { SAFE_PTHREAD(pthread_rwlock_unlock); }
    273 #undef SAFE_PTHREAD
    274 
    275 #elif defined(HAVE_PTHREAD)
    276 
    277 #define SAFE_PTHREAD(fncall)  do {   /* run fncall if is_safe_ is true */  \
    278   if (is_safe_ && fncall(&mutex_) != 0) abort();                           \
    279 } while (0)
    280 
    281 Mutex::Mutex() : destroy_(true) {
    282   SetIsSafe();
    283   if (is_safe_ && pthread_mutex_init(&mutex_, NULL) != 0) abort();
    284 }
    285 Mutex::Mutex(Mutex::LinkerInitialized) : destroy_(false) {
    286   SetIsSafe();
    287   if (is_safe_ && pthread_mutex_init(&mutex_, NULL) != 0) abort();
    288 }
    289 Mutex::~Mutex()       { if (destroy_) SAFE_PTHREAD(pthread_mutex_destroy); }
    290 void Mutex::Lock()         { SAFE_PTHREAD(pthread_mutex_lock); }
    291 void Mutex::Unlock()       { SAFE_PTHREAD(pthread_mutex_unlock); }
    292 #ifdef GMUTEX_TRYLOCK
    293 bool Mutex::TryLock()      { return is_safe_ ?
    294                                  pthread_mutex_trylock(&mutex_) == 0 : true; }
    295 #endif
    296 void Mutex::ReaderLock()   { Lock(); }
    297 void Mutex::ReaderUnlock() { Unlock(); }
    298 #undef SAFE_PTHREAD
    299 
    300 #endif
    301 
    302 // --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    303 // Some helper classes
    304 
    305 // MutexLock(mu) acquires mu when constructed and releases it when destroyed.
    306 class MutexLock {
    307  public:
    308   explicit MutexLock(Mutex *mu) : mu_(mu) { mu_->Lock(); }
    309   ~MutexLock() { mu_->Unlock(); }
    310  private:
    311   Mutex * const mu_;
    312   // Disallow "evil" constructors
    313   MutexLock(const MutexLock&);
    314   void operator=(const MutexLock&);
    315 };
    316 
    317 // ReaderMutexLock and WriterMutexLock do the same, for rwlocks
    318 class ReaderMutexLock {
    319  public:
    320   explicit ReaderMutexLock(Mutex *mu) : mu_(mu) { mu_->ReaderLock(); }
    321   ~ReaderMutexLock() { mu_->ReaderUnlock(); }
    322  private:
    323   Mutex * const mu_;
    324   // Disallow "evil" constructors
    325   ReaderMutexLock(const ReaderMutexLock&);
    326   void operator=(const ReaderMutexLock&);
    327 };
    328 
    329 class WriterMutexLock {
    330  public:
    331   explicit WriterMutexLock(Mutex *mu) : mu_(mu) { mu_->WriterLock(); }
    332   ~WriterMutexLock() { mu_->WriterUnlock(); }
    333  private:
    334   Mutex * const mu_;
    335   // Disallow "evil" constructors
    336   WriterMutexLock(const WriterMutexLock&);
    337   void operator=(const WriterMutexLock&);
    338 };
    339 
    340 // Catch bug where variable name is omitted, e.g. MutexLock (&mu);
    341 #define MutexLock(x) COMPILE_ASSERT(0, mutex_lock_decl_missing_var_name)
    342 #define ReaderMutexLock(x) COMPILE_ASSERT(0, rmutex_lock_decl_missing_var_name)
    343 #define WriterMutexLock(x) COMPILE_ASSERT(0, wmutex_lock_decl_missing_var_name)
    344 
    345 }  // namespace MUTEX_NAMESPACE
    346 
    347 
    348 #endif  /* #define GFLAGS_MUTEX_H__ */
    349