QemuMutex does not guarantee fairness and cannot be acquired recursively: Fairness means each locker gets a turn and the scheduler cannot cause starvation. Recursive locking is useful for composition, it allows a sequence of locking operations to be invoked atomically by acquiring the lock around them. This patch adds RFifoLock, a recursive lock that guarantees FIFO order. Its first user is added in the next patch. RFifoLock has one additional feature: it can be initialized with an optional contention callback. The callback is invoked whenever a thread must wait for the lock. For example, it can be used to poke the current owner so that they release the lock soon. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
		
			
				
	
	
		
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/*
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 * Recursive FIFO lock
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 *
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 * Copyright Red Hat, Inc. 2013
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 *
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 * Authors:
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 *  Stefan Hajnoczi   <stefanha@redhat.com>
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 *
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 * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
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 * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
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 *
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 */
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#ifndef QEMU_RFIFOLOCK_H
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#define QEMU_RFIFOLOCK_H
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#include "qemu/thread.h"
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/* Recursive FIFO lock
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 *
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 * This lock provides more features than a plain mutex:
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 *
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 * 1. Fairness - enforces FIFO order.
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 * 2. Nesting - can be taken recursively.
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 * 3. Contention callback - optional, called when thread must wait.
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 *
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 * The recursive FIFO lock is heavyweight so prefer other synchronization
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 * primitives if you do not need its features.
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 */
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typedef struct {
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    QemuMutex lock;             /* protects all fields */
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    /* FIFO order */
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    unsigned int head;          /* active ticket number */
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    unsigned int tail;          /* waiting ticket number */
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    QemuCond cond;              /* used to wait for our ticket number */
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    /* Nesting */
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    QemuThread owner_thread;    /* thread that currently has ownership */
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    unsigned int nesting;       /* amount of nesting levels */
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    /* Contention callback */
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    void (*cb)(void *);         /* called when thread must wait, with ->lock
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                                 * held so it may not recursively lock/unlock
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                                 */
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    void *cb_opaque;
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} RFifoLock;
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void rfifolock_init(RFifoLock *r, void (*cb)(void *), void *opaque);
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void rfifolock_destroy(RFifoLock *r);
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void rfifolock_lock(RFifoLock *r);
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void rfifolock_unlock(RFifoLock *r);
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#endif /* QEMU_RFIFOLOCK_H */
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