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      1 // Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 // This is a low level implementation of atomic semantics for reference
      6 // counting.  Please use base/memory/ref_counted.h directly instead.
      7 //
      8 // The implementation includes annotations to avoid some false positives
      9 // when using data race detection tools.
     10 
     11 #ifndef BASE_ATOMIC_REF_COUNT_H_
     12 #define BASE_ATOMIC_REF_COUNT_H_
     13 
     14 #include "base/atomicops.h"
     15 
     16 namespace base {
     17 
     18 typedef subtle::Atomic32 AtomicRefCount;
     19 
     20 // Increment a reference count by "increment", which must exceed 0.
     21 inline void AtomicRefCountIncN(volatile AtomicRefCount *ptr,
     22                                AtomicRefCount increment) {
     23   subtle::NoBarrier_AtomicIncrement(ptr, increment);
     24 }
     25 
     26 // Decrement a reference count by "decrement", which must exceed 0,
     27 // and return whether the result is non-zero.
     28 // Insert barriers to ensure that state written before the reference count
     29 // became zero will be visible to a thread that has just made the count zero.
     30 inline bool AtomicRefCountDecN(volatile AtomicRefCount *ptr,
     31                                AtomicRefCount decrement) {
     32   bool res = (subtle::Barrier_AtomicIncrement(ptr, -decrement) != 0);
     33   return res;
     34 }
     35 
     36 // Increment a reference count by 1.
     37 inline void AtomicRefCountInc(volatile AtomicRefCount *ptr) {
     38   base::AtomicRefCountIncN(ptr, 1);
     39 }
     40 
     41 // Decrement a reference count by 1 and return whether the result is non-zero.
     42 // Insert barriers to ensure that state written before the reference count
     43 // became zero will be visible to a thread that has just made the count zero.
     44 inline bool AtomicRefCountDec(volatile AtomicRefCount *ptr) {
     45   return base::AtomicRefCountDecN(ptr, 1);
     46 }
     47 
     48 // Return whether the reference count is one.  If the reference count is used
     49 // in the conventional way, a refrerence count of 1 implies that the current
     50 // thread owns the reference and no other thread shares it.  This call performs
     51 // the test for a reference count of one, and performs the memory barrier
     52 // needed for the owning thread to act on the object, knowing that it has
     53 // exclusive access to the object.
     54 inline bool AtomicRefCountIsOne(volatile AtomicRefCount *ptr) {
     55   bool res = (subtle::Acquire_Load(ptr) == 1);
     56   return res;
     57 }
     58 
     59 // Return whether the reference count is zero.  With conventional object
     60 // referencing counting, the object will be destroyed, so the reference count
     61 // should never be zero.  Hence this is generally used for a debug check.
     62 inline bool AtomicRefCountIsZero(volatile AtomicRefCount *ptr) {
     63   bool res = (subtle::Acquire_Load(ptr) == 0);
     64   return res;
     65 }
     66 
     67 }  // namespace base
     68 
     69 #endif  // BASE_ATOMIC_REF_COUNT_H_
     70