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     30 // ---
     31 // Author: Craig Silverstein.
     32 //
     33 // A simple mutex wrapper, supporting locks and read-write locks.
     34 // You should assume the locks are *not* re-entrant.
     35 //
     36 // To use: you should define the following macros in your configure.ac:
     37 //   ACX_PTHREAD
     38 //   AC_RWLOCK
     39 // The latter is defined in ../autoconf.
     40 //
     41 // This class is meant to be internal-only, so it's defined in the
     42 // global namespace.  If you want to expose it, you'll want to move
     43 // it to the Google namespace.
     44 //
     45 // NOTE: by default, we have #ifdef'ed out the TryLock() method.
     46 //       This is for two reasons:
     47 // 1) TryLock() under Windows is a bit annoying (it requires a
     48 //    #define to be defined very early).
     49 // 2) TryLock() is broken for NO_THREADS mode, at least in NDEBUG
     50 //    mode.
     51 // If you need TryLock(), and either these two caveats are not a
     52 // problem for you, or you're willing to work around them, then
     53 // feel free to #define GMUTEX_TRYLOCK, or to remove the #ifdefs
     54 // in the code below.
     55 //
     56 // CYGWIN NOTE: Cygwin support for rwlock seems to be buggy:
     57 //    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-12/msg00017.html
     58 // Because of that, we might as well use windows locks for
     59 // cygwin.  They seem to be more reliable than the cygwin pthreads layer.
     60 //
     61 // TRICKY IMPLEMENTATION NOTE:
     62 // This class is designed to be safe to use during
     63 // dynamic-initialization -- that is, by global constructors that are
     64 // run before main() starts.  The issue in this case is that
     65 // dynamic-initialization happens in an unpredictable order, and it
     66 // could be that someone else's dynamic initializer could call a
     67 // function that tries to acquire this mutex -- but that all happens
     68 // before this mutex's constructor has run.  (This can happen even if
     69 // the mutex and the function that uses the mutex are in the same .cc
     70 // file.)  Basically, because Mutex does non-trivial work in its
     71 // constructor, it's not, in the naive implementation, safe to use
     72 // before dynamic initialization has run on it.
     73 //
     74 // The solution used here is to pair the actual mutex primitive with a
     75 // bool that is set to true when the mutex is dynamically initialized.
     76 // (Before that it's false.)  Then we modify all mutex routines to
     77 // look at the bool, and not try to lock/unlock until the bool makes
     78 // it to true (which happens after the Mutex constructor has run.)
     79 //
     80 // This works because before main() starts -- particularly, during
     81 // dynamic initialization -- there are no threads, so a) it's ok that
     82 // the mutex operations are a no-op, since we don't need locking then
     83 // anyway; and b) we can be quite confident our bool won't change
     84 // state between a call to Lock() and a call to Unlock() (that would
     85 // require a global constructor in one translation unit to call Lock()
     86 // and another global constructor in another translation unit to call
     87 // Unlock() later, which is pretty perverse).
     88 //
     89 // That said, it's tricky, and can conceivably fail; it's safest to
     90 // avoid trying to acquire a mutex in a global constructor, if you
     91 // can.  One way it can fail is that a really smart compiler might
     92 // initialize the bool to true at static-initialization time (too
     93 // early) rather than at dynamic-initialization time.  To discourage
     94 // that, we set is_safe_ to true in code (not the constructor
     95 // colon-initializer) and set it to true via a function that always
     96 // evaluates to true, but that the compiler can't know always
     97 // evaluates to true.  This should be good enough.
     98 
     99 #ifndef GOOGLE_MUTEX_H_
    100 #define GOOGLE_MUTEX_H_
    101 
    102 #include "config.h"           // to figure out pthreads support
    103 
    104 #if defined(NO_THREADS)
    105   typedef int MutexType;      // to keep a lock-count
    106 #elif defined(_WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN32__) || defined(__CYGWIN64__)
    107 # define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN  // We only need minimal includes
    108 # ifdef GMUTEX_TRYLOCK
    109   // We need Windows NT or later for TryEnterCriticalSection().  If you
    110   // don't need that functionality, you can remove these _WIN32_WINNT
    111   // lines, and change TryLock() to assert(0) or something.
    112 #   ifndef _WIN32_WINNT
    113 #     define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0400
    114 #   endif
    115 # endif
    116 # include <windows.h>
    117   typedef CRITICAL_SECTION MutexType;
    118 #elif defined(HAVE_PTHREAD) && defined(HAVE_RWLOCK)
    119   // Needed for pthread_rwlock_*.  If it causes problems, you could take it
    120   // out, but then you'd have to unset HAVE_RWLOCK (at least on linux -- it
    121   // *does* cause problems for FreeBSD, or MacOSX, but isn't needed
    122   // for locking there.)
    123 # ifdef __linux__
    124 #   define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500  // may be needed to get the rwlock calls
    125 # endif
    126 # include <pthread.h>
    127   typedef pthread_rwlock_t MutexType;
    128 #elif defined(HAVE_PTHREAD)
    129 # include <pthread.h>
    130   typedef pthread_mutex_t MutexType;
    131 #else
    132 # error Need to implement mutex.h for your architecture, or #define NO_THREADS
    133 #endif
    134 
    135 class Mutex {
    136  public:
    137   // Create a Mutex that is not held by anybody.  This constructor is
    138   // typically used for Mutexes allocated on the heap or the stack.
    139   // See below for a recommendation for constructing global Mutex
    140   // objects.
    141   inline Mutex();
    142 
    143   // Destructor
    144   inline ~Mutex();
    145 
    146   inline void Lock();    // Block if needed until free then acquire exclusively
    147   inline void Unlock();  // Release a lock acquired via Lock()
    148 #ifdef GMUTEX_TRYLOCK
    149   inline bool TryLock(); // If free, Lock() and return true, else return false
    150 #endif
    151   // Note that on systems that don't support read-write locks, these may
    152   // be implemented as synonyms to Lock() and Unlock().  So you can use
    153   // these for efficiency, but don't use them anyplace where being able
    154   // to do shared reads is necessary to avoid deadlock.
    155   inline void ReaderLock();   // Block until free or shared then acquire a share
    156   inline void ReaderUnlock(); // Release a read share of this Mutex
    157   inline void WriterLock() { Lock(); }     // Acquire an exclusive lock
    158   inline void WriterUnlock() { Unlock(); } // Release a lock from WriterLock()
    159 
    160  private:
    161   MutexType mutex_;
    162   // We want to make sure that the compiler sets is_safe_ to true only
    163   // when we tell it to, and never makes assumptions is_safe_ is
    164   // always true.  volatile is the most reliable way to do that.
    165   volatile bool is_safe_;
    166 
    167   inline void SetIsSafe() { is_safe_ = true; }
    168 
    169   // Catch the error of writing Mutex when intending MutexLock.
    170   Mutex(Mutex* /*ignored*/) {}
    171   // Disallow "evil" constructors
    172   Mutex(const Mutex&);
    173   void operator=(const Mutex&);
    174 };
    175 
    176 // Now the implementation of Mutex for various systems
    177 #if defined(NO_THREADS)
    178 
    179 // When we don't have threads, we can be either reading or writing,
    180 // but not both.  We can have lots of readers at once (in no-threads
    181 // mode, that's most likely to happen in recursive function calls),
    182 // but only one writer.  We represent this by having mutex_ be -1 when
    183 // writing and a number > 0 when reading (and 0 when no lock is held).
    184 //
    185 // In debug mode, we assert these invariants, while in non-debug mode
    186 // we do nothing, for efficiency.  That's why everything is in an
    187 // assert.
    188 #include <assert.h>
    189 
    190 Mutex::Mutex() : mutex_(0) { }
    191 Mutex::~Mutex()            { assert(mutex_ == 0); }
    192 void Mutex::Lock()         { assert(--mutex_ == -1); }
    193 void Mutex::Unlock()       { assert(mutex_++ == -1); }
    194 #ifdef GMUTEX_TRYLOCK
    195 bool Mutex::TryLock()      { if (mutex_) return false; Lock(); return true; }
    196 #endif
    197 void Mutex::ReaderLock()   { assert(++mutex_ > 0); }
    198 void Mutex::ReaderUnlock() { assert(mutex_-- > 0); }
    199 
    200 #elif defined(_WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN32__) || defined(__CYGWIN64__)
    201 
    202 Mutex::Mutex()             { InitializeCriticalSection(&mutex_); SetIsSafe(); }
    203 Mutex::~Mutex()            { DeleteCriticalSection(&mutex_); }
    204 void Mutex::Lock()         { if (is_safe_) EnterCriticalSection(&mutex_); }
    205 void Mutex::Unlock()       { if (is_safe_) LeaveCriticalSection(&mutex_); }
    206 #ifdef GMUTEX_TRYLOCK
    207 bool Mutex::TryLock()      { return is_safe_ ?
    208                                  TryEnterCriticalSection(&mutex_) != 0 : true; }
    209 #endif
    210 void Mutex::ReaderLock()   { Lock(); }      // we don't have read-write locks
    211 void Mutex::ReaderUnlock() { Unlock(); }
    212 
    213 #elif defined(HAVE_PTHREAD) && defined(HAVE_RWLOCK)
    214 
    215 #include <stdlib.h>      // for abort()
    216 #define SAFE_PTHREAD(fncall)  do {   /* run fncall if is_safe_ is true */  \
    217   if (is_safe_ && fncall(&mutex_) != 0) abort();                           \
    218 } while (0)
    219 
    220 Mutex::Mutex() {
    221   SetIsSafe();
    222   if (is_safe_ && pthread_rwlock_init(&mutex_, NULL) != 0) abort();
    223 }
    224 Mutex::~Mutex()            { SAFE_PTHREAD(pthread_rwlock_destroy); }
    225 void Mutex::Lock()         { SAFE_PTHREAD(pthread_rwlock_wrlock); }
    226 void Mutex::Unlock()       { SAFE_PTHREAD(pthread_rwlock_unlock); }
    227 #ifdef GMUTEX_TRYLOCK
    228 bool Mutex::TryLock()      { return is_safe_ ?
    229                                     pthread_rwlock_trywrlock(&mutex_) == 0 :
    230                                     true; }
    231 #endif
    232 void Mutex::ReaderLock()   { SAFE_PTHREAD(pthread_rwlock_rdlock); }
    233 void Mutex::ReaderUnlock() { SAFE_PTHREAD(pthread_rwlock_unlock); }
    234 #undef SAFE_PTHREAD
    235 
    236 #elif defined(HAVE_PTHREAD)
    237 
    238 #include <stdlib.h>      // for abort()
    239 #define SAFE_PTHREAD(fncall)  do {   /* run fncall if is_safe_ is true */  \
    240   if (is_safe_ && fncall(&mutex_) != 0) abort();                           \
    241 } while (0)
    242 
    243 Mutex::Mutex()             {
    244   SetIsSafe();
    245   if (is_safe_ && pthread_mutex_init(&mutex_, NULL) != 0) abort();
    246 }
    247 Mutex::~Mutex()            { SAFE_PTHREAD(pthread_mutex_destroy); }
    248 void Mutex::Lock()         { SAFE_PTHREAD(pthread_mutex_lock); }
    249 void Mutex::Unlock()       { SAFE_PTHREAD(pthread_mutex_unlock); }
    250 #ifdef GMUTEX_TRYLOCK
    251 bool Mutex::TryLock()      { return is_safe_ ?
    252                                  pthread_mutex_trylock(&mutex_) == 0 : true; }
    253 #endif
    254 void Mutex::ReaderLock()   { Lock(); }
    255 void Mutex::ReaderUnlock() { Unlock(); }
    256 #undef SAFE_PTHREAD
    257 
    258 #endif
    259 
    260 // --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    261 // Some helper classes
    262 
    263 // MutexLock(mu) acquires mu when constructed and releases it when destroyed.
    264 class MutexLock {
    265  public:
    266   explicit MutexLock(Mutex *mu) : mu_(mu) { mu_->Lock(); }
    267   ~MutexLock() { mu_->Unlock(); }
    268  private:
    269   Mutex * const mu_;
    270   // Disallow "evil" constructors
    271   MutexLock(const MutexLock&);
    272   void operator=(const MutexLock&);
    273 };
    274 
    275 // ReaderMutexLock and WriterMutexLock do the same, for rwlocks
    276 class ReaderMutexLock {
    277  public:
    278   explicit ReaderMutexLock(Mutex *mu) : mu_(mu) { mu_->ReaderLock(); }
    279   ~ReaderMutexLock() { mu_->ReaderUnlock(); }
    280  private:
    281   Mutex * const mu_;
    282   // Disallow "evil" constructors
    283   ReaderMutexLock(const ReaderMutexLock&);
    284   void operator=(const ReaderMutexLock&);
    285 };
    286 
    287 class WriterMutexLock {
    288  public:
    289   explicit WriterMutexLock(Mutex *mu) : mu_(mu) { mu_->WriterLock(); }
    290   ~WriterMutexLock() { mu_->WriterUnlock(); }
    291  private:
    292   Mutex * const mu_;
    293   // Disallow "evil" constructors
    294   WriterMutexLock(const WriterMutexLock&);
    295   void operator=(const WriterMutexLock&);
    296 };
    297 
    298 // Catch bug where variable name is omitted, e.g. MutexLock (&mu);
    299 #define MutexLock(x) COMPILE_ASSERT(0, mutex_lock_decl_missing_var_name)
    300 #define ReaderMutexLock(x) COMPILE_ASSERT(0, rmutex_lock_decl_missing_var_name)
    301 #define WriterMutexLock(x) COMPILE_ASSERT(0, wmutex_lock_decl_missing_var_name)
    302 
    303 #endif  /* #define GOOGLE_MUTEX_H__ */
    304