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      1 //
      2 // Copyright (c) 2013 The WebRTC project authors. All Rights Reserved.
      3 //
      4 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license
      5 // that can be found in the LICENSE file in the root of the source
      6 // tree. An additional intellectual property rights grant can be found
      7 // in the file PATENTS.  All contributing project authors may
      8 // be found in the AUTHORS file in the root of the source tree.
      9 //
     10 // Borrowed from
     11 // https://code.google.com/p/gperftools/source/browse/src/base/thread_annotations.h
     12 // but adapted for clang attributes instead of the gcc.
     13 //
     14 // This header file contains the macro definitions for thread safety
     15 // annotations that allow the developers to document the locking policies
     16 // of their multi-threaded code. The annotations can also help program
     17 // analysis tools to identify potential thread safety issues.
     18 
     19 #ifndef BASE_THREAD_ANNOTATIONS_H_
     20 #define BASE_THREAD_ANNOTATIONS_H_
     21 
     22 #if defined(__clang__) && (!defined(SWIG))
     23 #define THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(x) __attribute__((x))
     24 #else
     25 #define THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(x)  // no-op
     26 #endif
     27 
     28 // Document if a shared variable/field needs to be protected by a lock.
     29 // GUARDED_BY allows the user to specify a particular lock that should be
     30 // held when accessing the annotated variable, while GUARDED_VAR only
     31 // indicates a shared variable should be guarded (by any lock). GUARDED_VAR
     32 // is primarily used when the client cannot express the name of the lock.
     33 #define GUARDED_BY(x) THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(guarded_by(x))
     34 #define GUARDED_VAR THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(guarded)
     35 
     36 // Document if the memory location pointed to by a pointer should be guarded
     37 // by a lock when dereferencing the pointer. Similar to GUARDED_VAR,
     38 // PT_GUARDED_VAR is primarily used when the client cannot express the name
     39 // of the lock. Note that a pointer variable to a shared memory location
     40 // could itself be a shared variable. For example, if a shared global pointer
     41 // q, which is guarded by mu1, points to a shared memory location that is
     42 // guarded by mu2, q should be annotated as follows:
     43 //     int *q GUARDED_BY(mu1) PT_GUARDED_BY(mu2);
     44 #define PT_GUARDED_BY(x) THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(point_to_guarded_by(x))
     45 #define PT_GUARDED_VAR THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(point_to_guarded)
     46 
     47 // Document the acquisition order between locks that can be held
     48 // simultaneously by a thread. For any two locks that need to be annotated
     49 // to establish an acquisition order, only one of them needs the annotation.
     50 // (i.e. You don't have to annotate both locks with both ACQUIRED_AFTER
     51 // and ACQUIRED_BEFORE.)
     52 #define ACQUIRED_AFTER(x) THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(acquired_after(x))
     53 #define ACQUIRED_BEFORE(x) THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(acquired_before(x))
     54 
     55 // The following three annotations document the lock requirements for
     56 // functions/methods.
     57 
     58 // Document if a function expects certain locks to be held before it is called
     59 #define EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(...) \
     60   THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(exclusive_locks_required(__VA_ARGS__))
     61 
     62 #define SHARED_LOCKS_REQUIRED(...) \
     63   THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(shared_locks_required(__VA_ARGS__))
     64 
     65 // Document the locks acquired in the body of the function. These locks
     66 // cannot be held when calling this function (as google3's Mutex locks are
     67 // non-reentrant).
     68 #define LOCKS_EXCLUDED(x) THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(locks_excluded(x))
     69 
     70 // Document the lock the annotated function returns without acquiring it.
     71 #define LOCK_RETURNED(x) THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(lock_returned(x))
     72 
     73 // Document if a class/type is a lockable type (such as the Mutex class).
     74 #define LOCKABLE THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(lockable)
     75 
     76 // Document if a class is a scoped lockable type (such as the MutexLock class).
     77 #define SCOPED_LOCKABLE THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(scoped_lockable)
     78 
     79 // The following annotations specify lock and unlock primitives.
     80 #define EXCLUSIVE_LOCK_FUNCTION(...) \
     81   THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(exclusive_lock_function(__VA_ARGS__))
     82 
     83 #define SHARED_LOCK_FUNCTION(...) \
     84   THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(shared_lock_function(__VA_ARGS__))
     85 
     86 #define EXCLUSIVE_TRYLOCK_FUNCTION(...) \
     87   THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(exclusive_trylock_function(__VA_ARGS__))
     88 
     89 #define SHARED_TRYLOCK_FUNCTION(...) \
     90   THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(shared_trylock_function(__VA_ARGS__))
     91 
     92 #define UNLOCK_FUNCTION(...) \
     93   THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(unlock_function(__VA_ARGS__))
     94 
     95 // An escape hatch for thread safety analysis to ignore the annotated function.
     96 #define NO_THREAD_SAFETY_ANALYSIS \
     97   THREAD_ANNOTATION_ATTRIBUTE__(no_thread_safety_analysis)
     98 
     99 #endif  // BASE_THREAD_ANNOTATIONS_H_
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