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      1 // Copyright (c) 2012 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 // The LazyInstance<Type, Traits> class manages a single instance of Type,
      6 // which will be lazily created on the first time it's accessed.  This class is
      7 // useful for places you would normally use a function-level static, but you
      8 // need to have guaranteed thread-safety.  The Type constructor will only ever
      9 // be called once, even if two threads are racing to create the object.  Get()
     10 // and Pointer() will always return the same, completely initialized instance.
     11 // When the instance is constructed it is registered with AtExitManager.  The
     12 // destructor will be called on program exit.
     13 //
     14 // LazyInstance is completely thread safe, assuming that you create it safely.
     15 // The class was designed to be POD initialized, so it shouldn't require a
     16 // static constructor.  It really only makes sense to declare a LazyInstance as
     17 // a global variable using the LAZY_INSTANCE_INITIALIZER initializer.
     18 //
     19 // LazyInstance is similar to Singleton, except it does not have the singleton
     20 // property.  You can have multiple LazyInstance's of the same type, and each
     21 // will manage a unique instance.  It also preallocates the space for Type, as
     22 // to avoid allocating the Type instance on the heap.  This may help with the
     23 // performance of creating the instance, and reducing heap fragmentation.  This
     24 // requires that Type be a complete type so we can determine the size.
     25 //
     26 // Example usage:
     27 //   static LazyInstance<MyClass> my_instance = LAZY_INSTANCE_INITIALIZER;
     28 //   void SomeMethod() {
     29 //     my_instance.Get().SomeMethod();  // MyClass::SomeMethod()
     30 //
     31 //     MyClass* ptr = my_instance.Pointer();
     32 //     ptr->DoDoDo();  // MyClass::DoDoDo
     33 //   }
     34 
     35 #ifndef BASE_LAZY_INSTANCE_H_
     36 #define BASE_LAZY_INSTANCE_H_
     37 
     38 #include <new>  // For placement new.
     39 
     40 #include "base/atomicops.h"
     41 #include "base/base_export.h"
     42 #include "base/debug/leak_annotations.h"
     43 #include "base/logging.h"
     44 #include "base/memory/aligned_memory.h"
     45 #include "base/threading/thread_restrictions.h"
     46 
     47 // LazyInstance uses its own struct initializer-list style static
     48 // initialization, as base's LINKER_INITIALIZED requires a constructor and on
     49 // some compilers (notably gcc 4.4) this still ends up needing runtime
     50 // initialization.
     51 #ifdef __clang__
     52   #define LAZY_INSTANCE_INITIALIZER {}
     53 #else
     54   #define LAZY_INSTANCE_INITIALIZER {0, 0}
     55 #endif
     56 
     57 namespace base {
     58 
     59 template <typename Type>
     60 struct DefaultLazyInstanceTraits {
     61   static const bool kRegisterOnExit = true;
     62 #ifndef NDEBUG
     63   static const bool kAllowedToAccessOnNonjoinableThread = false;
     64 #endif
     65 
     66   static Type* New(void* instance) {
     67     DCHECK_EQ(reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(instance) & (ALIGNOF(Type) - 1), 0u)
     68         << ": Bad boy, the buffer passed to placement new is not aligned!\n"
     69         "This may break some stuff like SSE-based optimizations assuming the "
     70         "<Type> objects are word aligned.";
     71     // Use placement new to initialize our instance in our preallocated space.
     72     // The parenthesis is very important here to force POD type initialization.
     73     return new (instance) Type();
     74   }
     75   static void Delete(Type* instance) {
     76     // Explicitly call the destructor.
     77     instance->~Type();
     78   }
     79 };
     80 
     81 // We pull out some of the functionality into non-templated functions, so we
     82 // can implement the more complicated pieces out of line in the .cc file.
     83 namespace internal {
     84 
     85 // Use LazyInstance<T>::Leaky for a less-verbose call-site typedef; e.g.:
     86 // base::LazyInstance<T>::Leaky my_leaky_lazy_instance;
     87 // instead of:
     88 // base::LazyInstance<T, base::internal::LeakyLazyInstanceTraits<T> >
     89 // my_leaky_lazy_instance;
     90 // (especially when T is MyLongTypeNameImplClientHolderFactory).
     91 // Only use this internal::-qualified verbose form to extend this traits class
     92 // (depending on its implementation details).
     93 template <typename Type>
     94 struct LeakyLazyInstanceTraits {
     95   static const bool kRegisterOnExit = false;
     96 #ifndef NDEBUG
     97   static const bool kAllowedToAccessOnNonjoinableThread = true;
     98 #endif
     99 
    100   static Type* New(void* instance) {
    101     ANNOTATE_SCOPED_MEMORY_LEAK;
    102     return DefaultLazyInstanceTraits<Type>::New(instance);
    103   }
    104   static void Delete(Type*) {}
    105 };
    106 
    107 // Our AtomicWord doubles as a spinlock, where a value of
    108 // kBeingCreatedMarker means the spinlock is being held for creation.
    109 static const subtle::AtomicWord kLazyInstanceStateCreating = 1;
    110 
    111 // Check if instance needs to be created. If so return true otherwise
    112 // if another thread has beat us, wait for instance to be created and
    113 // return false.
    114 BASE_EXPORT bool NeedsLazyInstance(subtle::AtomicWord* state);
    115 
    116 // After creating an instance, call this to register the dtor to be called
    117 // at program exit and to update the atomic state to hold the |new_instance|
    118 BASE_EXPORT void CompleteLazyInstance(subtle::AtomicWord* state,
    119                                       subtle::AtomicWord new_instance,
    120                                       void* lazy_instance,
    121                                       void (*dtor)(void*));
    122 
    123 }  // namespace internal
    124 
    125 template <typename Type, typename Traits = DefaultLazyInstanceTraits<Type> >
    126 class LazyInstance {
    127  public:
    128   // Do not define a destructor, as doing so makes LazyInstance a
    129   // non-POD-struct. We don't want that because then a static initializer will
    130   // be created to register the (empty) destructor with atexit() under MSVC, for
    131   // example. We handle destruction of the contained Type class explicitly via
    132   // the OnExit member function, where needed.
    133   // ~LazyInstance() {}
    134 
    135   // Convenience typedef to avoid having to repeat Type for leaky lazy
    136   // instances.
    137   typedef LazyInstance<Type, internal::LeakyLazyInstanceTraits<Type> > Leaky;
    138 
    139   Type& Get() {
    140     return *Pointer();
    141   }
    142 
    143   Type* Pointer() {
    144 #ifndef NDEBUG
    145     // Avoid making TLS lookup on release builds.
    146     if (!Traits::kAllowedToAccessOnNonjoinableThread)
    147       ThreadRestrictions::AssertSingletonAllowed();
    148 #endif
    149     // If any bit in the created mask is true, the instance has already been
    150     // fully constructed.
    151     static const subtle::AtomicWord kLazyInstanceCreatedMask =
    152         ~internal::kLazyInstanceStateCreating;
    153 
    154     // We will hopefully have fast access when the instance is already created.
    155     // Since a thread sees private_instance_ == 0 or kLazyInstanceStateCreating
    156     // at most once, the load is taken out of NeedsInstance() as a fast-path.
    157     // The load has acquire memory ordering as a thread which sees
    158     // private_instance_ > creating needs to acquire visibility over
    159     // the associated data (private_buf_). Pairing Release_Store is in
    160     // CompleteLazyInstance().
    161     subtle::AtomicWord value = subtle::Acquire_Load(&private_instance_);
    162     if (!(value & kLazyInstanceCreatedMask) &&
    163         internal::NeedsLazyInstance(&private_instance_)) {
    164       // Create the instance in the space provided by |private_buf_|.
    165       value = reinterpret_cast<subtle::AtomicWord>(
    166           Traits::New(private_buf_.void_data()));
    167       internal::CompleteLazyInstance(&private_instance_, value, this,
    168                                      Traits::kRegisterOnExit ? OnExit : NULL);
    169     }
    170     return instance();
    171   }
    172 
    173   bool operator==(Type* p) {
    174     switch (subtle::NoBarrier_Load(&private_instance_)) {
    175       case 0:
    176         return p == NULL;
    177       case internal::kLazyInstanceStateCreating:
    178         return static_cast<void*>(p) == private_buf_.void_data();
    179       default:
    180         return p == instance();
    181     }
    182   }
    183 
    184   // Effectively private: member data is only public to allow the linker to
    185   // statically initialize it and to maintain a POD class. DO NOT USE FROM
    186   // OUTSIDE THIS CLASS.
    187 
    188   subtle::AtomicWord private_instance_;
    189   // Preallocated space for the Type instance.
    190   base::AlignedMemory<sizeof(Type), ALIGNOF(Type)> private_buf_;
    191 
    192  private:
    193   Type* instance() {
    194     return reinterpret_cast<Type*>(subtle::NoBarrier_Load(&private_instance_));
    195   }
    196 
    197   // Adapter function for use with AtExit.  This should be called single
    198   // threaded, so don't synchronize across threads.
    199   // Calling OnExit while the instance is in use by other threads is a mistake.
    200   static void OnExit(void* lazy_instance) {
    201     LazyInstance<Type, Traits>* me =
    202         reinterpret_cast<LazyInstance<Type, Traits>*>(lazy_instance);
    203     Traits::Delete(me->instance());
    204     subtle::NoBarrier_Store(&me->private_instance_, 0);
    205   }
    206 };
    207 
    208 }  // namespace base
    209 
    210 #endif  // BASE_LAZY_INSTANCE_H_
    211