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1 //
2 //
3 // Copyright 2015 gRPC authors.
4 //
5 // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
6 // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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18 
19 #ifndef GRPC_SRC_CORE_LIB_GPR_SPINLOCK_H
20 #define GRPC_SRC_CORE_LIB_GPR_SPINLOCK_H
21 
22 #include <grpc/support/port_platform.h>
23 
24 #include <grpc/support/atm.h>
25 
26 // Simple spinlock. No backoff strategy, gpr_spinlock_lock is almost always
27 // a concurrency code smell. Code must _never_ block while holding a spinlock
28 // as this could lead to a deadlock under a cooperative multithreading model.
29 struct gpr_spinlock {
30   gpr_atm atm;
31 };
32 #ifdef __cplusplus
33 #define GPR_SPINLOCK_INITIALIZER (gpr_spinlock{0})
34 #else
35 #define GPR_SPINLOCK_INITIALIZER ((gpr_spinlock){0})
36 #endif
37 #define GPR_SPINLOCK_STATIC_INITIALIZER \
38   { 0 }
39 
40 #define gpr_spinlock_trylock(lock) (gpr_atm_acq_cas(&(lock)->atm, 0, 1))
41 #define gpr_spinlock_unlock(lock) (gpr_atm_rel_store(&(lock)->atm, 0))
42 // Although the following code spins without any library or system calls, it
43 // still functions under cooperative multithreading. The principle is that
44 // the lock holder can't block, so it will be scheduled onto its system thread
45 // for the entire critical section. By the time another thread attempts a lock,
46 // it will either get it immediately or will be scheduled onto another system
47 // thread that is different from the current lockholder. There is no chance of
48 // waiting for a lockholder scheduled to the same system thread.
49 #define gpr_spinlock_lock(lock) \
50   do {                          \
51   } while (!gpr_spinlock_trylock((lock)))
52 
53 #endif  // GRPC_SRC_CORE_LIB_GPR_SPINLOCK_H
54