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1 // Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3 // found in the LICENSE file.
4 
5 // The LazyInstance<Type, Traits> class manages a single instance of Type,
6 // which will be lazily created on the first time it's accessed.  This class is
7 // useful for places you would normally use a function-level static, but you
8 // need to have guaranteed thread-safety.  The Type constructor will only ever
9 // be called once, even if two threads are racing to create the object.  Get()
10 // and Pointer() will always return the same, completely initialized instance.
11 // When the instance is constructed it is registered with AtExitManager.  The
12 // destructor will be called on program exit.
13 //
14 // LazyInstance is completely thread safe, assuming that you create it safely.
15 // The class was designed to be POD initialized, so it shouldn't require a
16 // static constructor.  It really only makes sense to declare a LazyInstance as
17 // a global variable using the LAZY_INSTANCE_INITIALIZER initializer.
18 //
19 // LazyInstance is similar to Singleton, except it does not have the singleton
20 // property.  You can have multiple LazyInstance's of the same type, and each
21 // will manage a unique instance.  It also preallocates the space for Type, as
22 // to avoid allocating the Type instance on the heap.  This may help with the
23 // performance of creating the instance, and reducing heap fragmentation.  This
24 // requires that Type be a complete type so we can determine the size.
25 //
26 // Example usage:
27 //   static LazyInstance<MyClass> my_instance = LAZY_INSTANCE_INITIALIZER;
28 //   void SomeMethod() {
29 //     my_instance.Get().SomeMethod();  // MyClass::SomeMethod()
30 //
31 //     MyClass* ptr = my_instance.Pointer();
32 //     ptr->DoDoDo();  // MyClass::DoDoDo
33 //   }
34 
35 #ifndef BASE_LAZY_INSTANCE_H_
36 #define BASE_LAZY_INSTANCE_H_
37 
38 #include <new>  // For placement new.
39 
40 #include "base/atomicops.h"
41 #include "base/base_export.h"
42 #include "base/logging.h"
43 #include "base/memory/aligned_memory.h"
44 #include "base/threading/thread_restrictions.h"
45 
46 // LazyInstance uses its own struct initializer-list style static
47 // initialization, as base's LINKER_INITIALIZED requires a constructor and on
48 // some compilers (notably gcc 4.4) this still ends up needing runtime
49 // initialization.
50 #ifdef __clang__
51   #define LAZY_INSTANCE_INITIALIZER {}
52 #else
53   #define LAZY_INSTANCE_INITIALIZER {0, 0}
54 #endif
55 
56 namespace base {
57 
58 template <typename Type>
59 struct DefaultLazyInstanceTraits {
60   static const bool kRegisterOnExit = true;
61 #ifndef NDEBUG
62   static const bool kAllowedToAccessOnNonjoinableThread = false;
63 #endif
64 
NewDefaultLazyInstanceTraits65   static Type* New(void* instance) {
66     DCHECK_EQ(reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(instance) & (ALIGNOF(Type) - 1), 0u)
67         << ": Bad boy, the buffer passed to placement new is not aligned!\n"
68         "This may break some stuff like SSE-based optimizations assuming the "
69         "<Type> objects are word aligned.";
70     // Use placement new to initialize our instance in our preallocated space.
71     // The parenthesis is very important here to force POD type initialization.
72     return new (instance) Type();
73   }
DeleteDefaultLazyInstanceTraits74   static void Delete(Type* instance) {
75     // Explicitly call the destructor.
76     instance->~Type();
77   }
78 };
79 
80 // We pull out some of the functionality into non-templated functions, so we
81 // can implement the more complicated pieces out of line in the .cc file.
82 namespace internal {
83 
84 // Use LazyInstance<T>::Leaky for a less-verbose call-site typedef; e.g.:
85 // base::LazyInstance<T>::Leaky my_leaky_lazy_instance;
86 // instead of:
87 // base::LazyInstance<T, base::internal::LeakyLazyInstanceTraits<T> >
88 // my_leaky_lazy_instance;
89 // (especially when T is MyLongTypeNameImplClientHolderFactory).
90 // Only use this internal::-qualified verbose form to extend this traits class
91 // (depending on its implementation details).
92 template <typename Type>
93 struct LeakyLazyInstanceTraits {
94   static const bool kRegisterOnExit = false;
95 #ifndef NDEBUG
96   static const bool kAllowedToAccessOnNonjoinableThread = true;
97 #endif
98 
NewLeakyLazyInstanceTraits99   static Type* New(void* instance) {
100     return DefaultLazyInstanceTraits<Type>::New(instance);
101   }
DeleteLeakyLazyInstanceTraits102   static void Delete(Type* /* instance */) {
103   }
104 };
105 
106 // Our AtomicWord doubles as a spinlock, where a value of
107 // kBeingCreatedMarker means the spinlock is being held for creation.
108 static const subtle::AtomicWord kLazyInstanceStateCreating = 1;
109 
110 // Check if instance needs to be created. If so return true otherwise
111 // if another thread has beat us, wait for instance to be created and
112 // return false.
113 BASE_EXPORT bool NeedsLazyInstance(subtle::AtomicWord* state);
114 
115 // After creating an instance, call this to register the dtor to be called
116 // at program exit and to update the atomic state to hold the |new_instance|
117 BASE_EXPORT void CompleteLazyInstance(subtle::AtomicWord* state,
118                                       subtle::AtomicWord new_instance,
119                                       void* lazy_instance,
120                                       void (*dtor)(void*));
121 
122 }  // namespace internal
123 
124 template <typename Type, typename Traits = DefaultLazyInstanceTraits<Type> >
125 class LazyInstance {
126  public:
127   // Do not define a destructor, as doing so makes LazyInstance a
128   // non-POD-struct. We don't want that because then a static initializer will
129   // be created to register the (empty) destructor with atexit() under MSVC, for
130   // example. We handle destruction of the contained Type class explicitly via
131   // the OnExit member function, where needed.
132   // ~LazyInstance() {}
133 
134   // Convenience typedef to avoid having to repeat Type for leaky lazy
135   // instances.
136   typedef LazyInstance<Type, internal::LeakyLazyInstanceTraits<Type> > Leaky;
137 
Get()138   Type& Get() {
139     return *Pointer();
140   }
141 
Pointer()142   Type* Pointer() {
143 #ifndef NDEBUG
144     // Avoid making TLS lookup on release builds.
145     if (!Traits::kAllowedToAccessOnNonjoinableThread)
146       ThreadRestrictions::AssertSingletonAllowed();
147 #endif
148     // If any bit in the created mask is true, the instance has already been
149     // fully constructed.
150     static const subtle::AtomicWord kLazyInstanceCreatedMask =
151         ~internal::kLazyInstanceStateCreating;
152 
153     // We will hopefully have fast access when the instance is already created.
154     // Since a thread sees private_instance_ == 0 or kLazyInstanceStateCreating
155     // at most once, the load is taken out of NeedsInstance() as a fast-path.
156     // The load has acquire memory ordering as a thread which sees
157     // private_instance_ > creating needs to acquire visibility over
158     // the associated data (private_buf_). Pairing Release_Store is in
159     // CompleteLazyInstance().
160     subtle::AtomicWord value = subtle::Acquire_Load(&private_instance_);
161     if (!(value & kLazyInstanceCreatedMask) &&
162         internal::NeedsLazyInstance(&private_instance_)) {
163       // Create the instance in the space provided by |private_buf_|.
164       value = reinterpret_cast<subtle::AtomicWord>(
165           Traits::New(private_buf_.void_data()));
166       internal::CompleteLazyInstance(&private_instance_, value, this,
167                                      Traits::kRegisterOnExit ? OnExit : NULL);
168     }
169     return instance();
170   }
171 
172   bool operator==(Type* p) {
173     switch (subtle::NoBarrier_Load(&private_instance_)) {
174       case 0:
175         return p == NULL;
176       case internal::kLazyInstanceStateCreating:
177         return static_cast<void*>(p) == private_buf_.void_data();
178       default:
179         return p == instance();
180     }
181   }
182 
183   // Effectively private: member data is only public to allow the linker to
184   // statically initialize it and to maintain a POD class. DO NOT USE FROM
185   // OUTSIDE THIS CLASS.
186 
187   subtle::AtomicWord private_instance_;
188   // Preallocated space for the Type instance.
189   base::AlignedMemory<sizeof(Type), ALIGNOF(Type)> private_buf_;
190 
191  private:
instance()192   Type* instance() {
193     return reinterpret_cast<Type*>(subtle::NoBarrier_Load(&private_instance_));
194   }
195 
196   // Adapter function for use with AtExit.  This should be called single
197   // threaded, so don't synchronize across threads.
198   // Calling OnExit while the instance is in use by other threads is a mistake.
OnExit(void * lazy_instance)199   static void OnExit(void* lazy_instance) {
200     LazyInstance<Type, Traits>* me =
201         reinterpret_cast<LazyInstance<Type, Traits>*>(lazy_instance);
202     Traits::Delete(me->instance());
203     subtle::NoBarrier_Store(&me->private_instance_, 0);
204   }
205 };
206 
207 }  // namespace base
208 
209 #endif  // BASE_LAZY_INSTANCE_H_
210