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/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// @file   thread.h
///
/// @brief  Wrappers and utilities for multithreading.
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


#ifndef OPENIMAGEIO_THREAD_H
#define OPENIMAGEIO_THREAD_H

#include <vector>

#include "oiioversion.h"
#include "platform.h"
#include "atomic.h"



#if OIIO_CPLUSPLUS_VERSION >= 11
# include <thread>
# include <mutex>
# include <atomic>
# define not_yet_OIIO_USE_STDATOMIC 1
#else   /* prior to C++11... */
  // Use Boost mutexes & guards when C++11 is not available
# include <boost/version.hpp>
# if defined(__GNUC__) && (BOOST_VERSION == 104500)
   // gcc reports errors inside some of the boost headers with boost 1.45
   // See: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4818
#  pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wunused-variable"
# endif
# include <boost/thread.hpp>
# if defined(__GNUC__) && (BOOST_VERSION == 104500)
   // can't restore via push/pop in all versions of gcc (warning push/pop implemented for 4.6+ only)
#  pragma GCC diagnostic error "-Wunused-variable"
# endif
#endif




// OIIO_THREAD_ALLOW_DCLP, if set to 0, prevents us from using a dodgy
// "double checked lock pattern" (DCLP).  We are very careful to construct
// it safely and correctly, and these uses improve thread performance for
// us.  But it confuses Thread Sanitizer, so this switch allows you to turn
// it off. Also set to 0 if you don't believe that we are correct in
// allowing this construct on all platforms.
#ifndef OIIO_THREAD_ALLOW_DCLP
#define OIIO_THREAD_ALLOW_DCLP 1
#endif



// Some helpful links:
//
// Descriptions of the "new" gcc atomic intrinsics:
//    https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fatomic-Builtins.html
// Old gcc atomic intrinsics:
//    https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.4.2/gcc/Atomic-Builtins.html
// C++11 and beyond std::atomic:
//    http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/atomic



OIIO_NAMESPACE_BEGIN

/// Null mutex that can be substituted for a real one to test how much
/// overhead is associated with a particular mutex.
class null_mutex {
public:
    null_mutex () { }
    ~null_mutex () { }
    void lock () { }
    void unlock () { }
    void lock_shared () { }
    void unlock_shared () { }
    bool try_lock () { return true; }
};

/// Null lock that can be substituted for a real one to test how much
/// overhead is associated with a particular lock.
template<typename T>
class null_lock {
public:
    null_lock (T &m) { }
};



#ifdef NOTHREADS

// Definitions that we use for debugging to turn off all mutexes, locks,
// and atomics in order to test the performance hit of our thread safety.

typedef null_mutex mutex;
typedef null_mutex recursive_mutex;
typedef null_lock<mutex> lock_guard;
typedef null_lock<recursive_mutex> recursive_lock_guard;

#elif OIIO_CPLUSPLUS_VERSION >= 11

typedef std::mutex mutex;
typedef std::recursive_mutex recursive_mutex;
typedef std::lock_guard< mutex > lock_guard;
typedef std::lock_guard< recursive_mutex > recursive_lock_guard;
typedef std::thread thread;

#else

// Fairly modern Boost has all the mutex and lock types we need.

typedef boost::mutex mutex;
typedef boost::recursive_mutex recursive_mutex;
typedef boost::lock_guard< mutex > lock_guard;
typedef boost::lock_guard< recursive_mutex > recursive_lock_guard;
typedef boost::thread thread;

#endif





/// Yield the processor for the rest of the timeslice.
///
inline void
yield ()
{
#if defined(__GNUC__)
    sched_yield ();
#elif defined(_MSC_VER)
    SwitchToThread ();
#else
#   error No yield on this platform.
#endif
}



// Slight pause
inline void
pause (int delay)
{
#if defined(__GNUC__) && (defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__))
    for (int i = 0; i < delay; ++i)
        __asm__ __volatile__("pause;");

#elif defined(__GNUC__) && (defined(__arm__) || defined(__s390__))
    for (int i = 0; i < delay; ++i)
        __asm__ __volatile__("NOP;");

#elif defined(_MSC_VER)
    for (int i = 0; i < delay; ++i) {
#if defined (_WIN64)
        YieldProcessor();
#else
        _asm  pause
#endif /* _WIN64 */
    }

#else
    // No pause on this platform, just punt
    for (int i = 0; i < delay; ++i) ;
#endif
}



// Helper class to deliver ever longer pauses until we yield our timeslice.
class atomic_backoff {
public:
    atomic_backoff () : m_count(1) { }

    void operator() () {
        if (m_count <= 16) {
            pause (m_count);
            m_count *= 2;
        } else {
            yield();
        }
    }

private:
    int m_count;
};






#ifdef NOTHREADS

typedef null_mutex spin_mutex;
typedef null_lock<spin_mutex> spin_lock;

#else

// Define our own spin locks.


/// A spin_mutex is semantically equivalent to a regular mutex, except
/// for the following:
///  - A spin_mutex is just 4 bytes, whereas a regular mutex is quite
///    large (44 bytes for pthread).
///  - A spin_mutex is extremely fast to lock and unlock, whereas a regular
///    mutex is surprisingly expensive just to acquire a lock.
///  - A spin_mutex takes CPU while it waits, so this can be very
///    wasteful compared to a regular mutex that blocks (gives up its
///    CPU slices until it acquires the lock).
///
/// The bottom line is that mutex is the usual choice, but in cases where
/// you need to acquire locks very frequently, but only need to hold the
/// lock for a very short period of time, you may save runtime by using
/// a spin_mutex, even though it's non-blocking.
///
/// N.B. A spin_mutex is only the size of an int.  To avoid "false
/// sharing", be careful not to put two spin_mutex objects on the same
/// cache line (within 128 bytes of each other), or the two mutexes may
/// effectively (and wastefully) lock against each other.
///
class spin_mutex {
public:
    /// Default constructor -- initialize to unlocked.
    ///
    spin_mutex (void) { m_locked = 0; }

    ~spin_mutex (void) { }

    /// Copy constructor -- initialize to unlocked.
    ///
    spin_mutex (const spin_mutex &) { m_locked = 0; }

    /// Assignment does not do anything, since lockedness should not
    /// transfer.
    const spin_mutex& operator= (const spin_mutex&) { return *this; }

    /// Acquire the lock, spin until we have it.
    ///
    void lock () {
        // To avoid spinning too tightly, we use the atomic_backoff to
        // provide increasingly longer pauses, and if the lock is under
        // lots of contention, eventually yield the timeslice.
        atomic_backoff backoff;

        // Try to get ownership of the lock. Though experimentation, we
        // found that OIIO_UNLIKELY makes this just a bit faster on 
        // gcc x86/x86_64 systems.
        while (! OIIO_UNLIKELY(try_lock())) {
#if OIIO_THREAD_ALLOW_DCLP
            // The full try_lock() involves a compare_and_swap, which
            // writes memory, and that will lock the bus.  But a normal
            // read of m_locked will let us spin until the value
            // changes, without locking the bus. So it's faster to
            // check in this manner until the mutex appears to be free.
            // HOWEVER... Thread Sanitizer things this is an instance of
            // an unsafe "double checked lock pattern" (DCLP) and flags it
            // as an error. I think it's a false negative, because the
            // outer loop is still an atomic check, the inner non-atomic
            // loop only serves to delay, and can't lead to a true data
            // race. But we provide this build-time switch to, at least,
            // give a way to use tsan for other checks.
            do {
                backoff();
            } while (m_locked);
#else
            backoff();
#endif
        }
    }

    /// Release the lock that we hold.
    ///
    void unlock () {
        // Fastest way to do it is with a store with "release" semantics
#if defined(OIIO_USE_GCC_NEW_ATOMICS)
        __atomic_clear (&m_locked, __ATOMIC_RELEASE);
#elif defined(USE_GCC_ATOMICS)
        __sync_lock_release (&m_locked);
        //   Equivalent, x86 specific code:
        //   __asm__ __volatile__("": : :"memory");
        //   m_locked = 0;
#elif defined(_MSC_VER)
        MemoryBarrier ();
        m_locked = 0;
#else
        // Otherwise, just assign zero to the atomic (but that's a full 
        // memory barrier).
        *(atomic_int *)&m_locked = 0;
#endif
    }

    /// Try to acquire the lock.  Return true if we have it, false if
    /// somebody else is holding the lock.
    bool try_lock () {
#if defined(OIIO_USE_GCC_NEW_ATOMICS)
        return __atomic_test_and_set (&m_locked, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE) == 0;
#elif defined(USE_GCC_ATOMICS)
        // GCC gives us an intrinsic that is even better -- an atomic
        // exchange with "acquire" barrier semantics.
        return __sync_lock_test_and_set (&m_locked, 1) == 0;
#else
        // Our compare_and_swap returns true if it swapped
        return atomic_compare_and_exchange (&m_locked, 0, 1);
#endif
    }

    /// Helper class: scoped lock for a spin_mutex -- grabs the lock upon
    /// construction, releases the lock when it exits scope.
    class lock_guard {
    public:
        lock_guard (spin_mutex &fm) : m_fm(fm) { m_fm.lock(); }
        ~lock_guard () { m_fm.unlock(); }
    private:
        lock_guard(); // Do not implement
        lock_guard(const lock_guard& other); // Do not implement
        lock_guard& operator = (const lock_guard& other); // Do not implement
        spin_mutex & m_fm;
    };

private:
#if defined(OIIO_USE_GCC_NEW_ATOMICS)
    // Using the gcc >= 4.8 new atomics, we can easily do a single byte flag
    volatile char m_locked; ///< Atomic counter is zero if nobody holds the lock
#else
    // Otherwise, fall back on it being an int
    volatile int m_locked;  ///< Atomic counter is zero if nobody holds the lock
#endif
};


typedef spin_mutex::lock_guard spin_lock;

#endif



/// Spinning reader/writer mutex.  This is just like spin_mutex, except
/// that there are separate locking mechanisms for "writers" (exclusive
/// holders of the lock, presumably because they are modifying whatever
/// the lock is protecting) and "readers" (non-exclusive, non-modifying
/// tasks that may access the protectee simultaneously).
class spin_rw_mutex {
public:
    /// Default constructor -- initialize to unlocked.
    ///
    spin_rw_mutex (void) { m_readers = 0; }

    ~spin_rw_mutex (void) { }

    /// Copy constructor -- initialize to unlocked.
    ///
    spin_rw_mutex (const spin_rw_mutex &) { m_readers = 0; }

    /// Assignment does not do anything, since lockedness should not
    /// transfer.
    const spin_rw_mutex& operator= (const spin_rw_mutex&) { return *this; }

    /// Acquire the reader lock.
    ///
    void read_lock () {
        // Spin until there are no writers active
        m_locked.lock();
        // Register ourself as a reader
        ++m_readers;
        // Release the lock, to let other readers work
        m_locked.unlock();
    }

    /// Release the reader lock.
    ///
    void read_unlock () {
        --m_readers;  // it's atomic, no need to lock to release
    }

    /// Acquire the writer lock.
    ///
    void write_lock () {
        // Make sure no new readers (or writers) can start
        m_locked.lock();
        // Spin until the last reader is done, at which point we will be
        // the sole owners and nobody else (reader or writer) can acquire
        // the resource until we release it.
#if OIIO_THREAD_ALLOW_DCLP
        while (*(volatile int *)&m_readers > 0)
                ;
#else
        while (m_readers > 0)
                ;
#endif
    }

    /// Release the writer lock.
    ///
    void write_unlock () {
        // Let other readers or writers get the lock
        m_locked.unlock ();
    }

    /// Acquire an exclusive ("writer") lock.
    void lock () { write_lock(); }

    /// Release an exclusive ("writer") lock.
    void unlock () { write_unlock(); }

    /// Acquire a shared ("reader") lock.
    void lock_shared () { read_lock(); }

    /// Release a shared ("reader") lock.
    void unlock_shared () { read_unlock(); }

    /// Helper class: scoped read lock for a spin_rw_mutex -- grabs the
    /// read lock upon construction, releases the lock when it exits scope.
    class read_lock_guard {
    public:
        read_lock_guard (spin_rw_mutex &fm) : m_fm(fm) { m_fm.read_lock(); }
        ~read_lock_guard () { m_fm.read_unlock(); }
    private:
        read_lock_guard(); // Do not implement
        read_lock_guard(const read_lock_guard& other); // Do not implement
        read_lock_guard& operator = (const read_lock_guard& other); // Do not implement
        spin_rw_mutex & m_fm;
    };

    /// Helper class: scoped write lock for a spin_rw_mutex -- grabs the
    /// read lock upon construction, releases the lock when it exits scope.
    class write_lock_guard {
    public:
        write_lock_guard (spin_rw_mutex &fm) : m_fm(fm) { m_fm.write_lock(); }
        ~write_lock_guard () { m_fm.write_unlock(); }
    private:
        write_lock_guard(); // Do not implement
        write_lock_guard(const write_lock_guard& other); // Do not implement
        write_lock_guard& operator = (const write_lock_guard& other); // Do not implement
        spin_rw_mutex & m_fm;
    };

private:
    OIIO_CACHE_ALIGN
    spin_mutex m_locked;   // write lock
    char pad1_[OIIO_CACHE_LINE_SIZE-sizeof(spin_mutex)];
    OIIO_CACHE_ALIGN
    atomic_int m_readers;  // number of readers
    char pad2_[OIIO_CACHE_LINE_SIZE-sizeof(atomic_int)];
};


typedef spin_rw_mutex::read_lock_guard spin_rw_read_lock;
typedef spin_rw_mutex::write_lock_guard spin_rw_write_lock;



/// Mutex pool. Sometimes, we have lots of objects that need to be
/// individually locked for thread safety, but two separate objects don't
/// need to lock against each other. If there are many more objects than
/// threads, it's wasteful for each object to contain its own mutex. So a
/// solution is to make a mutex_pool -- a collection of several mutexes.
/// Each object uses a hash to choose a consistent mutex for itself, but
/// which will be unlikely to be locked simultaneously by different object.
/// Semantically, it looks rather like an associative array of mutexes. We
/// also ensure that the mutexes are all on different cache lines, to ensure
/// that they don't exhibit false sharing. Try to choose Bins larger than
/// the expected number of threads that will be simultaneously locking
/// mutexes.
template<class Mutex, class Key, class Hash, size_t Bins=16>
class mutex_pool
{
public:
    mutex_pool () { }
    Mutex& operator[] (const Key &key) {
        return m_mutex[m_hash(key) % Bins].m;
    }
private:
    // Helper type -- force cache line alignment. This should make an array
    // of these also have padding so that each individual mutex is aligned
    // to its own cache line, thus eliminating any "false sharing."
    struct AlignedMutex {
        OIIO_CACHE_ALIGN Mutex m;
    };

    AlignedMutex m_mutex[Bins];
    Hash m_hash;
};



/// Simple thread group class. This is just as good as boost::thread_group,
/// for the limited functionality that we use.
class thread_group {
public:
    thread_group () {}
    ~thread_group () {
        for (size_t i = 0, e = m_threads.size(); i < e; ++i)
            delete m_threads[i];
    }
    void add_thread (thread *t) {
        if (t) {
            lock_guard lock (m_mutex);
            m_threads.push_back (t);
        }
    }
    template<typename FUNC>
    thread *create_thread (FUNC func) {
        lock_guard lock (m_mutex);
        thread *t = new thread (func);
        m_threads.push_back (t);
        return t;
    }
    void join_all () {
        lock_guard lock (m_mutex);
        for (size_t i = 0, e = m_threads.size(); i < e; ++i) {
            if (m_threads[i]->joinable())
                m_threads[i]->join();
        }
    }
    size_t size () {
        lock_guard lock (m_mutex);
        return m_threads.size();
    }
private:
    mutex m_mutex;
    std::vector<thread *> m_threads;
};


OIIO_NAMESPACE_END

#endif // OPENIMAGEIO_THREAD_H