rust/src/libsync/arc.rs

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// Copyright 2012-2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
// except according to those terms.
/*!
* Concurrency-enabled mechanisms for sharing mutable and/or immutable state
* between tasks.
*/
use std::cast;
use std::ptr;
use std::rt::global_heap;
use std::sync::atomics;
/// An atomically reference counted wrapper for shared state.
///
/// # Example
///
/// In this example, a large vector of floats is shared between several tasks.
/// With simple pipes, without `Arc`, a copy would have to be made for each
/// task.
///
/// ```rust
/// use sync::Arc;
///
/// fn main() {
/// let numbers = Vec::from_fn(100, |i| i as f32);
/// let shared_numbers = Arc::new(numbers);
///
/// for _ in range(0, 10) {
/// let child_numbers = shared_numbers.clone();
///
/// spawn(proc() {
/// let local_numbers = child_numbers.as_slice();
///
/// // Work with the local numbers
/// });
/// }
/// }
/// ```
#[unsafe_no_drop_flag]
pub struct Arc<T> {
x: *mut ArcInner<T>,
}
/// A weak pointer to an `Arc`.
///
/// Weak pointers will not keep the data inside of the `Arc` alive, and can be
/// used to break cycles between `Arc` pointers.
#[unsafe_no_drop_flag]
pub struct Weak<T> {
x: *mut ArcInner<T>,
}
struct ArcInner<T> {
strong: atomics::AtomicUint,
weak: atomics::AtomicUint,
data: T,
}
impl<T: Share + Send> Arc<T> {
/// Create an atomically reference counted wrapper.
#[inline]
pub fn new(data: T) -> Arc<T> {
// Start the weak pointer count as 1 which is the weak pointer that's
// held by all the strong pointers (kinda), see std/rc.rs for more info
let x = ~ArcInner {
strong: atomics::AtomicUint::new(1),
weak: atomics::AtomicUint::new(1),
data: data,
};
Arc { x: unsafe { cast::transmute(x) } }
}
#[inline]
fn inner<'a>(&'a self) -> &'a ArcInner<T> {
// This unsafety is ok because while this arc is alive we're guaranteed
// that the inner pointer is valid. Furthermore, we know that the
// `ArcInner` structure itself is `Share` because the inner data is
// `Share` as well, so we're ok loaning out an immutable pointer to
// these contents.
unsafe { &*self.x }
}
/// Downgrades a strong pointer to a weak pointer
///
/// Weak pointers will not keep the data alive. Once all strong references
/// to the underlying data have been dropped, the data itself will be
/// destroyed.
pub fn downgrade(&self) -> Weak<T> {
// See the clone() impl for why this is relaxed
self.inner().weak.fetch_add(1, atomics::Relaxed);
Weak { x: self.x }
}
}
impl<T: Share + Send> Clone for Arc<T> {
/// Duplicate an atomically reference counted wrapper.
///
/// The resulting two `Arc` objects will point to the same underlying data
/// object. However, one of the `Arc` objects can be sent to another task,
/// allowing them to share the underlying data.
#[inline]
fn clone(&self) -> Arc<T> {
// Using a relaxed ordering is alright here, as knowledge of the
// original reference prevents other threads from erroneously deleting
// the object.
//
// As explained in the [Boost documentation][1], Increasing the
// reference counter can always be done with memory_order_relaxed: New
// references to an object can only be formed from an existing
// reference, and passing an existing reference from one thread to
// another must already provide any required synchronization.
//
// [1]: (www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/doc/html/atomic/usage_examples.html)
self.inner().strong.fetch_add(1, atomics::Relaxed);
Arc { x: self.x }
}
}
impl<T: Send + Share> Deref<T> for Arc<T> {
#[inline]
fn deref<'a>(&'a self) -> &'a T {
&self.inner().data
}
}
impl<T: Send + Share + Clone> Arc<T> {
/// Acquires a mutable pointer to the inner contents by guaranteeing that
/// the reference count is one (no sharing is possible).
///
/// This is also referred to as a copy-on-write operation because the inner
/// data is cloned if the reference count is greater than one.
#[inline]
#[experimental]
pub fn make_unique<'a>(&'a mut self) -> &'a mut T {
if self.inner().strong.load(atomics::SeqCst) != 1 {
*self = Arc::new(self.deref().clone())
}
// This unsafety is ok because we're guaranteed that the pointer
// returned is the *only* pointer that will ever be returned to T. Our
// reference count is guaranteed to be 1 at this point, and we required
// the Arc itself to be `mut`, so we're returning the only possible
// reference to the inner data.
unsafe { cast::transmute_mut(self.deref()) }
}
}
#[unsafe_destructor]
impl<T: Share + Send> Drop for Arc<T> {
fn drop(&mut self) {
// This structure has #[unsafe_no_drop_flag], so this drop glue may run
// more than once (but it is guaranteed to be zeroed after the first if
// it's run more than once)
if self.x.is_null() { return }
// Because `fetch_sub` is already atomic, we do not need to synchronize
// with other threads unless we are going to delete the object. This
// same logic applies to the below `fetch_sub` to the `weak` count.
if self.inner().strong.fetch_sub(1, atomics::Release) != 1 { return }
// This fence is needed to prevent reordering of use of the data and
// deletion of the data. Because it is marked `Release`, the
// decreasing of the reference count sychronizes with this `Acquire`
// fence. This means that use of the data happens before decreasing
// the refernce count, which happens before this fence, which
// happens before the deletion of the data.
//
// As explained in the [Boost documentation][1],
//
// It is important to enforce any possible access to the object in
// one thread (through an existing reference) to *happen before*
// deleting the object in a different thread. This is achieved by a
// "release" operation after dropping a reference (any access to the
// object through this reference must obviously happened before),
// and an "acquire" operation before deleting the object.
//
// [1]: (www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/doc/html/atomic/usage_examples.html)
atomics::fence(atomics::Acquire);
// Destroy the data at this time, even though we may not free the box
// allocation itself (there may still be weak pointers lying around).
unsafe { drop(ptr::read(&self.inner().data)); }
if self.inner().weak.fetch_sub(1, atomics::Release) == 1 {
atomics::fence(atomics::Acquire);
unsafe { global_heap::exchange_free(self.x as *u8) }
}
}
}
impl<T: Share + Send> Weak<T> {
/// Attempts to upgrade this weak reference to a strong reference.
///
/// This method will fail to upgrade this reference if the strong reference
/// count has already reached 0, but if there are still other active strong
/// references this function will return a new strong reference to the data
pub fn upgrade(&self) -> Option<Arc<T>> {
// We use a CAS loop to increment the strong count instead of a
// fetch_add because once the count hits 0 is must never be above 0.
let inner = self.inner();
loop {
let n = inner.strong.load(atomics::SeqCst);
if n == 0 { return None }
let old = inner.strong.compare_and_swap(n, n + 1, atomics::SeqCst);
if old == n { return Some(Arc { x: self.x }) }
}
}
#[inline]
fn inner<'a>(&'a self) -> &'a ArcInner<T> {
// See comments above for why this is "safe"
unsafe { &*self.x }
}
}
impl<T: Share + Send> Clone for Weak<T> {
#[inline]
fn clone(&self) -> Weak<T> {
// See comments in Arc::clone() for why this is relaxed
self.inner().weak.fetch_add(1, atomics::Relaxed);
Weak { x: self.x }
}
}
#[unsafe_destructor]
impl<T: Share + Send> Drop for Weak<T> {
fn drop(&mut self) {
// see comments above for why this check is here
if self.x.is_null() { return }
// If we find out that we were the last weak pointer, then its time to
// deallocate the data entirely. See the discussion in Arc::drop() about
// the memory orderings
if self.inner().weak.fetch_sub(1, atomics::Release) == 1 {
atomics::fence(atomics::Acquire);
unsafe { global_heap::exchange_free(self.x as *u8) }
}
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
#[allow(experimental)]
mod tests {
use super::{Arc, Weak};
use std::sync::atomics;
use std::task;
use Mutex;
struct Canary(*mut atomics::AtomicUint);
impl Drop for Canary
{
fn drop(&mut self) {
unsafe {
match *self {
Canary(c) => {
(*c).fetch_add(1, atomics::SeqCst);
}
}
}
}
}
#[test]
fn manually_share_arc() {
let v = vec!(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10);
let arc_v = Arc::new(v);
let (tx, rx) = channel();
task::spawn(proc() {
let arc_v: Arc<Vec<int>> = rx.recv();
assert_eq!(*arc_v.get(3), 4);
});
tx.send(arc_v.clone());
assert_eq!(*arc_v.get(2), 3);
assert_eq!(*arc_v.get(4), 5);
info!("{:?}", arc_v);
}
#[test]
fn test_cowarc_clone_make_unique() {
let mut cow0 = Arc::new(75u);
let mut cow1 = cow0.clone();
let mut cow2 = cow1.clone();
assert!(75 == *cow0.make_unique());
assert!(75 == *cow1.make_unique());
assert!(75 == *cow2.make_unique());
*cow0.make_unique() += 1;
*cow1.make_unique() += 2;
*cow2.make_unique() += 3;
assert!(76 == *cow0);
assert!(77 == *cow1);
assert!(78 == *cow2);
// none should point to the same backing memory
assert!(*cow0 != *cow1);
assert!(*cow0 != *cow2);
assert!(*cow1 != *cow2);
}
#[test]
fn test_cowarc_clone_unique2() {
let mut cow0 = Arc::new(75u);
let cow1 = cow0.clone();
let cow2 = cow1.clone();
assert!(75 == *cow0);
assert!(75 == *cow1);
assert!(75 == *cow2);
*cow0.make_unique() += 1;
assert!(76 == *cow0);
assert!(75 == *cow1);
assert!(75 == *cow2);
// cow1 and cow2 should share the same contents
// cow0 should have a unique reference
assert!(*cow0 != *cow1);
assert!(*cow0 != *cow2);
assert!(*cow1 == *cow2);
}
#[test]
fn test_live() {
let x = Arc::new(5);
let y = x.downgrade();
assert!(y.upgrade().is_some());
}
#[test]
fn test_dead() {
let x = Arc::new(5);
let y = x.downgrade();
drop(x);
assert!(y.upgrade().is_none());
}
#[test]
fn weak_self_cyclic() {
struct Cycle {
x: Mutex<Option<Weak<Cycle>>>
}
let a = Arc::new(Cycle { x: Mutex::new(None) });
let b = a.clone().downgrade();
*a.deref().x.lock().deref_mut() = Some(b);
// hopefully we don't double-free (or leak)...
}
#[test]
fn drop_arc() {
let mut canary = atomics::AtomicUint::new(0);
let x = Arc::new(Canary(&mut canary as *mut atomics::AtomicUint));
drop(x);
assert!(canary.load(atomics::Acquire) == 1);
}
#[test]
fn drop_arc_weak() {
let mut canary = atomics::AtomicUint::new(0);
let arc = Arc::new(Canary(&mut canary as *mut atomics::AtomicUint));
let arc_weak = arc.downgrade();
assert!(canary.load(atomics::Acquire) == 0);
drop(arc);
assert!(canary.load(atomics::Acquire) == 1);
drop(arc_weak);
}
}