/* Lock-less reference counting primitives
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
This file is part of the GNU Hurd.
The GNU Hurd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at
your option) any later version.
The GNU Hurd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with the GNU Hurd. If not, see . */
#ifndef _HURD_REFCOUNT_H_
#define _HURD_REFCOUNT_H_
#include
#include
#include
/* Simple reference counting. */
/* An opaque type. You must not access these values directly. */
typedef unsigned int refcount_t;
/* Initialize REF with REFERENCES. */
static inline void
refcount_init (refcount_t *ref, unsigned int references)
{
*ref = references;
}
/* Increment REF. Return the result of the operation. This function
uses atomic operations. It is not required to serialize calls to
this function. */
static inline unsigned int
refcount_ref (refcount_t *ref)
{
unsigned int r;
r = __atomic_add_fetch (ref, 1, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
assert (r != UINT_MAX || !"refcount overflowed!");
return r;
}
/* Decrement REF. Return the result of the operation. This function
uses atomic operations. It is not required to serialize calls to
this function. */
static inline unsigned int
refcount_deref (refcount_t *ref)
{
unsigned int r;
r = __atomic_sub_fetch (ref, 1, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
assert (r != UINT_MAX || !"refcount underflowed!");
return r;
}
/* Return REF. This function uses atomic operations. It is not
required to serialize calls to this function. */
static inline unsigned int
refcount_references (refcount_t *ref)
{
return __atomic_load_n (ref, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
}
/* Reference counting with weak references. */
/* An opaque type. You must not access these values directly. */
typedef union _references refcounts_t;
/* Instead, the functions manipulating refcounts_t values write the
results into this kind of objects. */
struct references {
/* We chose the layout of this struct so that when it is used in the
union _references, the hard reference counts occupy the least
significant bits. We rely on this layout for atomic promotion
and demotion of references. See refcounts_promote and
refcounts_demote for details. */
#if __BYTE_ORDER__ == __ORDER_LITTLE_ENDIAN__
uint32_t hard;
uint32_t weak;
#else
uint32_t weak;
uint32_t hard;
#endif
};
/* We use a union to convert struct reference values to uint64_t which
we can manipulate atomically. While this behavior is not
guaranteed by the C standard, it is supported by all major
compilers. */
union _references {
struct references references;
uint64_t value;
};
/* Initialize REF with HARD and WEAK references. */
static inline void
refcounts_init (refcounts_t *ref, uint32_t hard, uint32_t weak)
{
ref->references = (struct references) { .hard = hard, .weak = weak };
}
/* Increment the hard reference count of REF. If RESULT is not NULL,
the result of the operation is written there. This function uses
atomic operations. It is not required to serialize calls to this
function. */
static inline void
refcounts_ref (refcounts_t *ref, struct references *result)
{
const union _references op = { .references = { .hard = 1 } };
union _references r;
r.value = __atomic_add_fetch (&ref->value, op.value, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
assert (r.references.hard != UINT32_MAX || !"refcount overflowed!");
if (result)
*result = r.references;
}
/* Decrement the hard reference count of REF. If RESULT is not NULL,
the result of the operation is written there. This function uses
atomic operations. It is not required to serialize calls to this
function. */
static inline void
refcounts_deref (refcounts_t *ref, struct references *result)
{
const union _references op = { .references = { .hard = 1 } };
union _references r;
r.value = __atomic_sub_fetch (&ref->value, op.value, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
assert (r.references.hard != UINT32_MAX || !"refcount underflowed!");
if (result)
*result = r.references;
}
/* Promote a weak reference to a hard reference. If RESULT is not
NULL, the result of the operation is written there. This function
uses atomic operations. It is not required to serialize calls to
this function. */
static inline void
refcounts_promote (refcounts_t *ref, struct references *result)
{
/* To promote a weak reference, we need to atomically subtract 1
from the weak reference count, and add 1 to the hard reference
count.
We can subtract by 1 by adding the two's complement of 1 = ~0 to
a fixed-width value, discarding the overflow.
We do the same in our uint64_t value, but we have chosen the
layout of struct references so that when it is used in the union
_references, the weak reference counts occupy the most
significant bits. When we add ~0 to the weak references, the
overflow will be discarded as unsigned arithmetic is modulo 2^n.
So we just add a hard reference. In combination, this is the
desired operation. */
const union _references op =
{ .references = { .weak = ~0, .hard = 1} };
union _references r;
r.value = __atomic_add_fetch (&ref->value, op.value, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
assert (r.references.hard != UINT32_MAX || !"refcount overflowed!");
assert (r.references.weak != UINT32_MAX || !"refcount underflowed!");
if (result)
*result = r.references;
}
/* Demote a hard reference to a weak reference. If RESULT is not
NULL, the result of the operation is written there. This function
uses atomic operations. It is not required to serialize calls to
this function. */
static inline void
refcounts_demote (refcounts_t *ref, struct references *result)
{
/* To demote a hard reference, we need to atomically subtract 1 from
the hard reference count, and add 1 to the weak reference count.
We can subtract by 1 by adding the two's complement of 1 = ~0 to
a fixed-width value, discarding the overflow.
We do the same in our uint64_t value, but we have chosen the
layout of struct references so that when it is used in the union
_references, the hard reference counts occupy the least
significant bits. When we add ~0 to the hard references, it will
overflow into the weak references. This is the desired
operation. */
const union _references op = { .references = { .hard = ~0 } };
union _references r;
r.value = __atomic_add_fetch (&ref->value, op.value, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
assert (r.references.hard != UINT32_MAX || !"refcount underflowed!");
assert (r.references.weak != UINT32_MAX || !"refcount overflowed!");
if (result)
*result = r.references;
}
/* Increment the weak reference count of REF. If RESULT is not NULL,
the result of the operation is written there. This function uses
atomic operations. It is not required to serialize calls to this
function. */
static inline void
refcounts_ref_weak (refcounts_t *ref, struct references *result)
{
const union _references op = { .references = { .weak = 1 } };
union _references r;
r.value = __atomic_add_fetch (&ref->value, op.value, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
assert (r.references.weak != UINT32_MAX || !"refcount overflowed!");
if (result)
*result = r.references;
}
/* Decrement the weak reference count of REF. If RESULT is not NULL,
the result of the operation is written there. This function uses
atomic operations. It is not required to serialize calls to this
function. */
static inline void
refcounts_deref_weak (refcounts_t *ref, struct references *result)
{
const union _references op = { .references = { .weak = 1 } };
union _references r;
r.value = __atomic_sub_fetch (&ref->value, op.value, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
assert (r.references.weak != UINT32_MAX || !"refcount underflowed!");
if (result)
*result = r.references;
}
/* Store the current reference counts of REF in RESULT. This function
uses atomic operations. It is not required to serialize calls to
this function. */
static inline void
refcounts_references (refcounts_t *ref, struct references *result)
{
union _references r;
r.value =__atomic_load_n (&ref->value, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
*result = r.references;
}
/* Return the hard reference count of REF. This function uses atomic
operations. It is not required to serialize calls to this
function. */
static inline uint32_t
refcounts_hard_references (refcounts_t *ref)
{
struct references result;
refcounts_references (ref, &result);
return result.hard;
}
/* Return the weak reference count of REF. This function uses atomic
operations. It is not required to serialize calls to this
function. */
static inline uint32_t
refcounts_weak_references (refcounts_t *ref)
{
struct references result;
refcounts_references (ref, &result);
return result.weak;
}
#endif /* _HURD_REFCOUNT_H_ */