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      1 /*
      2  * Portable condition variable support for windows and pthreads.
      3  * Everything is inline, this header can be included where needed.
      4  *
      5  * APIs generally return 0 on success and non-zero on error,
      6  * and the caller needs to use its platform's error mechanism to
      7  * discover the error (errno, or GetLastError())
      8  *
      9  * Note that some implementations cannot distinguish between a
     10  * condition variable wait time-out and successful wait. Most often
     11  * the difference is moot anyway since the wait condition must be
     12  * re-checked.
     13  * PyCOND_TIMEDWAIT, in addition to returning negative on error,
     14  * thus returns 0 on regular success, 1 on timeout
     15  * or 2 if it can't tell.
     16  *
     17  * There are at least two caveats with using these condition variables,
     18  * due to the fact that they may be emulated with Semaphores on
     19  * Windows:
     20  * 1) While PyCOND_SIGNAL() will wake up at least one thread, we
     21  *    cannot currently guarantee that it will be one of the threads
     22  *    already waiting in a PyCOND_WAIT() call.  It _could_ cause
     23  *    the wakeup of a subsequent thread to try a PyCOND_WAIT(),
     24  *    including the thread doing the PyCOND_SIGNAL() itself.
     25  *    The same applies to PyCOND_BROADCAST(), if N threads are waiting
     26  *    then at least N threads will be woken up, but not necessarily
     27  *    those already waiting.
     28  *    For this reason, don't make the scheduling assumption that a
     29  *    specific other thread will get the wakeup signal
     30  * 2) The _mutex_ must be held when calling PyCOND_SIGNAL() and
     31  *    PyCOND_BROADCAST().
     32  *    While e.g. the posix standard strongly recommends that the mutex
     33  *    associated with the condition variable is held when a
     34  *    pthread_cond_signal() call is made, this is not a hard requirement,
     35  *    although scheduling will not be "reliable" if it isn't.  Here
     36  *    the mutex is used for internal synchronization of the emulated
     37  *    Condition Variable.
     38  */
     39 
     40 #ifndef _CONDVAR_H_
     41 #define _CONDVAR_H_
     42 
     43 #include "Python.h"
     44 
     45 #ifndef _POSIX_THREADS
     46 /* This means pthreads are not implemented in libc headers, hence the macro
     47    not present in unistd.h. But they still can be implemented as an external
     48    library (e.g. gnu pth in pthread emulation) */
     49 # ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD_H
     50 #  include <pthread.h> /* _POSIX_THREADS */
     51 # endif
     52 #endif
     53 
     54 #ifdef _POSIX_THREADS
     55 /*
     56  * POSIX support
     57  */
     58 #define Py_HAVE_CONDVAR
     59 
     60 #include <pthread.h>
     61 
     62 #define PyCOND_ADD_MICROSECONDS(tv, interval) \
     63 do { /* TODO: add overflow and truncation checks */ \
     64     tv.tv_usec += (long) interval; \
     65     tv.tv_sec += tv.tv_usec / 1000000; \
     66     tv.tv_usec %= 1000000; \
     67 } while (0)
     68 
     69 /* We assume all modern POSIX systems have gettimeofday() */
     70 #ifdef GETTIMEOFDAY_NO_TZ
     71 #define PyCOND_GETTIMEOFDAY(ptv) gettimeofday(ptv)
     72 #else
     73 #define PyCOND_GETTIMEOFDAY(ptv) gettimeofday(ptv, (struct timezone *)NULL)
     74 #endif
     75 
     76 /* The following functions return 0 on success, nonzero on error */
     77 #define PyMUTEX_T pthread_mutex_t
     78 #define PyMUTEX_INIT(mut)       pthread_mutex_init((mut), NULL)
     79 #define PyMUTEX_FINI(mut)       pthread_mutex_destroy(mut)
     80 #define PyMUTEX_LOCK(mut)       pthread_mutex_lock(mut)
     81 #define PyMUTEX_UNLOCK(mut)     pthread_mutex_unlock(mut)
     82 
     83 #define PyCOND_T pthread_cond_t
     84 #define PyCOND_INIT(cond)       pthread_cond_init((cond), NULL)
     85 #define PyCOND_FINI(cond)       pthread_cond_destroy(cond)
     86 #define PyCOND_SIGNAL(cond)     pthread_cond_signal(cond)
     87 #define PyCOND_BROADCAST(cond)  pthread_cond_broadcast(cond)
     88 #define PyCOND_WAIT(cond, mut)  pthread_cond_wait((cond), (mut))
     89 
     90 /* return 0 for success, 1 on timeout, -1 on error */
     91 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
     92 PyCOND_TIMEDWAIT(PyCOND_T *cond, PyMUTEX_T *mut, long long us)
     93 {
     94     int r;
     95     struct timespec ts;
     96     struct timeval deadline;
     97 
     98     PyCOND_GETTIMEOFDAY(&deadline);
     99     PyCOND_ADD_MICROSECONDS(deadline, us);
    100     ts.tv_sec = deadline.tv_sec;
    101     ts.tv_nsec = deadline.tv_usec * 1000;
    102 
    103     r = pthread_cond_timedwait((cond), (mut), &ts);
    104     if (r == ETIMEDOUT)
    105         return 1;
    106     else if (r)
    107         return -1;
    108     else
    109         return 0;
    110 }
    111 
    112 #elif defined(NT_THREADS)
    113 /*
    114  * Windows (XP, 2003 server and later, as well as (hopefully) CE) support
    115  *
    116  * Emulated condition variables ones that work with XP and later, plus
    117  * example native support on VISTA and onwards.
    118  */
    119 #define Py_HAVE_CONDVAR
    120 
    121 
    122 /* include windows if it hasn't been done before */
    123 #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
    124 #include <windows.h>
    125 
    126 /* options */
    127 /* non-emulated condition variables are provided for those that want
    128  * to target Windows Vista.  Modify this macro to enable them.
    129  */
    130 #ifndef _PY_EMULATED_WIN_CV
    131 #define _PY_EMULATED_WIN_CV 1  /* use emulated condition variables */
    132 #endif
    133 
    134 /* fall back to emulation if not targeting Vista */
    135 #if !defined NTDDI_VISTA || NTDDI_VERSION < NTDDI_VISTA
    136 #undef _PY_EMULATED_WIN_CV
    137 #define _PY_EMULATED_WIN_CV 1
    138 #endif
    139 
    140 
    141 #if _PY_EMULATED_WIN_CV
    142 
    143 /* The mutex is a CriticalSection object and
    144    The condition variables is emulated with the help of a semaphore.
    145    Semaphores are available on Windows XP (2003 server) and later.
    146    We use a Semaphore rather than an auto-reset event, because although
    147    an auto-resent event might appear to solve the lost-wakeup bug (race
    148    condition between releasing the outer lock and waiting) because it
    149    maintains state even though a wait hasn't happened, there is still
    150    a lost wakeup problem if more than one thread are interrupted in the
    151    critical place.  A semaphore solves that, because its state is counted,
    152    not Boolean.
    153    Because it is ok to signal a condition variable with no one
    154    waiting, we need to keep track of the number of
    155    waiting threads.  Otherwise, the semaphore's state could rise
    156    without bound.  This also helps reduce the number of "spurious wakeups"
    157    that would otherwise happen.
    158 
    159    This implementation still has the problem that the threads woken
    160    with a "signal" aren't necessarily those that are already
    161    waiting.  It corresponds to listing 2 in:
    162    http://birrell.org/andrew/papers/ImplementingCVs.pdf
    163 
    164    Generic emulations of the pthread_cond_* API using
    165    earlier Win32 functions can be found on the Web.
    166    The following read can be give background information to these issues,
    167    but the implementations are all broken in some way.
    168    http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~schmidt/win32-cv-1.html
    169 */
    170 
    171 typedef CRITICAL_SECTION PyMUTEX_T;
    172 
    173 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    174 PyMUTEX_INIT(PyMUTEX_T *cs)
    175 {
    176     InitializeCriticalSection(cs);
    177     return 0;
    178 }
    179 
    180 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    181 PyMUTEX_FINI(PyMUTEX_T *cs)
    182 {
    183     DeleteCriticalSection(cs);
    184     return 0;
    185 }
    186 
    187 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    188 PyMUTEX_LOCK(PyMUTEX_T *cs)
    189 {
    190     EnterCriticalSection(cs);
    191     return 0;
    192 }
    193 
    194 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    195 PyMUTEX_UNLOCK(PyMUTEX_T *cs)
    196 {
    197     LeaveCriticalSection(cs);
    198     return 0;
    199 }
    200 
    201 /* The ConditionVariable object.  From XP onwards it is easily emulated with
    202  * a Semaphore
    203  */
    204 
    205 typedef struct _PyCOND_T
    206 {
    207     HANDLE sem;
    208     int waiting; /* to allow PyCOND_SIGNAL to be a no-op */
    209 } PyCOND_T;
    210 
    211 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    212 PyCOND_INIT(PyCOND_T *cv)
    213 {
    214     /* A semaphore with a "large" max value,  The positive value
    215      * is only needed to catch those "lost wakeup" events and
    216      * race conditions when a timed wait elapses.
    217      */
    218     cv->sem = CreateSemaphore(NULL, 0, 100000, NULL);
    219     if (cv->sem==NULL)
    220         return -1;
    221     cv->waiting = 0;
    222     return 0;
    223 }
    224 
    225 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    226 PyCOND_FINI(PyCOND_T *cv)
    227 {
    228     return CloseHandle(cv->sem) ? 0 : -1;
    229 }
    230 
    231 /* this implementation can detect a timeout.  Returns 1 on timeout,
    232  * 0 otherwise (and -1 on error)
    233  */
    234 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    235 _PyCOND_WAIT_MS(PyCOND_T *cv, PyMUTEX_T *cs, DWORD ms)
    236 {
    237     DWORD wait;
    238     cv->waiting++;
    239     PyMUTEX_UNLOCK(cs);
    240     /* "lost wakeup bug" would occur if the caller were interrupted here,
    241      * but we are safe because we are using a semaphore which has an internal
    242      * count.
    243      */
    244     wait = WaitForSingleObjectEx(cv->sem, ms, FALSE);
    245     PyMUTEX_LOCK(cs);
    246     if (wait != WAIT_OBJECT_0)
    247         --cv->waiting;
    248         /* Here we have a benign race condition with PyCOND_SIGNAL.
    249          * When failure occurs or timeout, it is possible that
    250          * PyCOND_SIGNAL also decrements this value
    251          * and signals releases the mutex.  This is benign because it
    252          * just means an extra spurious wakeup for a waiting thread.
    253          * ('waiting' corresponds to the semaphore's "negative" count and
    254          * we may end up with e.g. (waiting == -1 && sem.count == 1).  When
    255          * a new thread comes along, it will pass right throuhgh, having
    256          * adjusted it to (waiting == 0 && sem.count == 0).
    257          */
    258 
    259     if (wait == WAIT_FAILED)
    260         return -1;
    261     /* return 0 on success, 1 on timeout */
    262     return wait != WAIT_OBJECT_0;
    263 }
    264 
    265 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    266 PyCOND_WAIT(PyCOND_T *cv, PyMUTEX_T *cs)
    267 {
    268     int result = _PyCOND_WAIT_MS(cv, cs, INFINITE);
    269     return result >= 0 ? 0 : result;
    270 }
    271 
    272 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    273 PyCOND_TIMEDWAIT(PyCOND_T *cv, PyMUTEX_T *cs, long long us)
    274 {
    275     return _PyCOND_WAIT_MS(cv, cs, (DWORD)(us/1000));
    276 }
    277 
    278 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    279 PyCOND_SIGNAL(PyCOND_T *cv)
    280 {
    281     /* this test allows PyCOND_SIGNAL to be a no-op unless required
    282      * to wake someone up, thus preventing an unbounded increase of
    283      * the semaphore's internal counter.
    284      */
    285     if (cv->waiting > 0) {
    286         /* notifying thread decreases the cv->waiting count so that
    287          * a delay between notify and actual wakeup of the target thread
    288          * doesn't cause a number of extra ReleaseSemaphore calls.
    289          */
    290         cv->waiting--;
    291         return ReleaseSemaphore(cv->sem, 1, NULL) ? 0 : -1;
    292     }
    293     return 0;
    294 }
    295 
    296 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    297 PyCOND_BROADCAST(PyCOND_T *cv)
    298 {
    299     int waiting = cv->waiting;
    300     if (waiting > 0) {
    301         cv->waiting = 0;
    302         return ReleaseSemaphore(cv->sem, waiting, NULL) ? 0 : -1;
    303     }
    304     return 0;
    305 }
    306 
    307 #else
    308 
    309 /* Use native Win7 primitives if build target is Win7 or higher */
    310 
    311 /* SRWLOCK is faster and better than CriticalSection */
    312 typedef SRWLOCK PyMUTEX_T;
    313 
    314 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    315 PyMUTEX_INIT(PyMUTEX_T *cs)
    316 {
    317     InitializeSRWLock(cs);
    318     return 0;
    319 }
    320 
    321 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    322 PyMUTEX_FINI(PyMUTEX_T *cs)
    323 {
    324     return 0;
    325 }
    326 
    327 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    328 PyMUTEX_LOCK(PyMUTEX_T *cs)
    329 {
    330     AcquireSRWLockExclusive(cs);
    331     return 0;
    332 }
    333 
    334 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    335 PyMUTEX_UNLOCK(PyMUTEX_T *cs)
    336 {
    337     ReleaseSRWLockExclusive(cs);
    338     return 0;
    339 }
    340 
    341 
    342 typedef CONDITION_VARIABLE  PyCOND_T;
    343 
    344 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    345 PyCOND_INIT(PyCOND_T *cv)
    346 {
    347     InitializeConditionVariable(cv);
    348     return 0;
    349 }
    350 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    351 PyCOND_FINI(PyCOND_T *cv)
    352 {
    353     return 0;
    354 }
    355 
    356 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    357 PyCOND_WAIT(PyCOND_T *cv, PyMUTEX_T *cs)
    358 {
    359     return SleepConditionVariableSRW(cv, cs, INFINITE, 0) ? 0 : -1;
    360 }
    361 
    362 /* This implementation makes no distinction about timeouts.  Signal
    363  * 2 to indicate that we don't know.
    364  */
    365 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    366 PyCOND_TIMEDWAIT(PyCOND_T *cv, PyMUTEX_T *cs, long long us)
    367 {
    368     return SleepConditionVariableSRW(cv, cs, (DWORD)(us/1000), 0) ? 2 : -1;
    369 }
    370 
    371 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    372 PyCOND_SIGNAL(PyCOND_T *cv)
    373 {
    374      WakeConditionVariable(cv);
    375      return 0;
    376 }
    377 
    378 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(int)
    379 PyCOND_BROADCAST(PyCOND_T *cv)
    380 {
    381      WakeAllConditionVariable(cv);
    382      return 0;
    383 }
    384 
    385 
    386 #endif /* _PY_EMULATED_WIN_CV */
    387 
    388 #endif /* _POSIX_THREADS, NT_THREADS */
    389 
    390 #endif /* _CONDVAR_H_ */
    391