xref: /libuv/src/unix/async.c (revision 15e3f846)
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20 
21 /* This file contains both the uv__async internal infrastructure and the
22  * user-facing uv_async_t functions.
23  */
24 
25 #include "uv.h"
26 #include "internal.h"
27 
28 #include <errno.h>
29 #include <stdatomic.h>
30 #include <stdio.h>  /* snprintf() */
31 #include <assert.h>
32 #include <stdlib.h>
33 #include <string.h>
34 #include <unistd.h>
35 #include <sched.h>  /* sched_yield() */
36 
37 #ifdef __linux__
38 #include <sys/eventfd.h>
39 #endif
40 
41 #if UV__KQUEUE_EVFILT_USER
42 static uv_once_t kqueue_runtime_detection_guard = UV_ONCE_INIT;
43 static int kqueue_evfilt_user_support = 1;
44 
45 
uv__kqueue_runtime_detection(void)46 static void uv__kqueue_runtime_detection(void) {
47   int kq;
48   struct kevent ev[2];
49   struct timespec timeout = {0, 0};
50 
51   /* Perform the runtime detection to ensure that kqueue with
52    * EVFILT_USER actually works. */
53   kq = kqueue();
54   EV_SET(ev, UV__KQUEUE_EVFILT_USER_IDENT, EVFILT_USER,
55          EV_ADD | EV_CLEAR, 0, 0, 0);
56   EV_SET(ev + 1, UV__KQUEUE_EVFILT_USER_IDENT, EVFILT_USER,
57          0, NOTE_TRIGGER, 0, 0);
58   if (kevent(kq, ev, 2, ev, 1, &timeout) < 1 ||
59       ev[0].filter != EVFILT_USER ||
60       ev[0].ident != UV__KQUEUE_EVFILT_USER_IDENT ||
61       ev[0].flags & EV_ERROR)
62     /* If we wind up here, we can assume that EVFILT_USER is defined but
63      * broken on the current system. */
64     kqueue_evfilt_user_support = 0;
65   uv__close(kq);
66 }
67 #endif
68 
69 static void uv__async_send(uv_loop_t* loop);
70 static int uv__async_start(uv_loop_t* loop);
71 static void uv__cpu_relax(void);
72 
73 
uv_async_init(uv_loop_t * loop,uv_async_t * handle,uv_async_cb async_cb)74 int uv_async_init(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_async_t* handle, uv_async_cb async_cb) {
75   int err;
76 
77   err = uv__async_start(loop);
78   if (err)
79     return err;
80 
81   uv__handle_init(loop, (uv_handle_t*)handle, UV_ASYNC);
82   handle->async_cb = async_cb;
83   handle->pending = 0;
84   handle->u.fd = 0; /* This will be used as a busy flag. */
85 
86   uv__queue_insert_tail(&loop->async_handles, &handle->queue);
87   uv__handle_start(handle);
88 
89   return 0;
90 }
91 
92 
uv_async_send(uv_async_t * handle)93 int uv_async_send(uv_async_t* handle) {
94   _Atomic int* pending;
95   _Atomic int* busy;
96 
97   pending = (_Atomic int*) &handle->pending;
98   busy = (_Atomic int*) &handle->u.fd;
99 
100   /* Do a cheap read first. */
101   if (atomic_load_explicit(pending, memory_order_relaxed) != 0)
102     return 0;
103 
104   /* Set the loop to busy. */
105   atomic_fetch_add(busy, 1);
106 
107   /* Wake up the other thread's event loop. */
108   if (atomic_exchange(pending, 1) == 0)
109     uv__async_send(handle->loop);
110 
111   /* Set the loop to not-busy. */
112   atomic_fetch_add(busy, -1);
113 
114   return 0;
115 }
116 
117 
118 /* Wait for the busy flag to clear before closing.
119  * Only call this from the event loop thread. */
uv__async_spin(uv_async_t * handle)120 static void uv__async_spin(uv_async_t* handle) {
121   _Atomic int* pending;
122   _Atomic int* busy;
123   int i;
124 
125   pending = (_Atomic int*) &handle->pending;
126   busy = (_Atomic int*) &handle->u.fd;
127 
128   /* Set the pending flag first, so no new events will be added by other
129    * threads after this function returns. */
130   atomic_store(pending, 1);
131 
132   for (;;) {
133     /* 997 is not completely chosen at random. It's a prime number, acyclic by
134      * nature, and should therefore hopefully dampen sympathetic resonance.
135      */
136     for (i = 0; i < 997; i++) {
137       if (atomic_load(busy) == 0)
138         return;
139 
140       /* Other thread is busy with this handle, spin until it's done. */
141       uv__cpu_relax();
142     }
143 
144     /* Yield the CPU. We may have preempted the other thread while it's
145      * inside the critical section and if it's running on the same CPU
146      * as us, we'll just burn CPU cycles until the end of our time slice.
147      */
148     sched_yield();
149   }
150 }
151 
152 
uv__async_close(uv_async_t * handle)153 void uv__async_close(uv_async_t* handle) {
154   uv__async_spin(handle);
155   uv__queue_remove(&handle->queue);
156   uv__handle_stop(handle);
157 }
158 
159 
uv__async_io(uv_loop_t * loop,uv__io_t * w,unsigned int events)160 static void uv__async_io(uv_loop_t* loop, uv__io_t* w, unsigned int events) {
161   char buf[1024];
162   ssize_t r;
163   struct uv__queue queue;
164   struct uv__queue* q;
165   uv_async_t* h;
166   _Atomic int *pending;
167 
168   assert(w == &loop->async_io_watcher);
169 
170 #if UV__KQUEUE_EVFILT_USER
171   for (;!kqueue_evfilt_user_support;) {
172 #else
173   for (;;) {
174 #endif
175     r = read(w->fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
176 
177     if (r == sizeof(buf))
178       continue;
179 
180     if (r != -1)
181       break;
182 
183     if (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EWOULDBLOCK)
184       break;
185 
186     if (errno == EINTR)
187       continue;
188 
189     abort();
190   }
191 
192   uv__queue_move(&loop->async_handles, &queue);
193   while (!uv__queue_empty(&queue)) {
194     q = uv__queue_head(&queue);
195     h = uv__queue_data(q, uv_async_t, queue);
196 
197     uv__queue_remove(q);
198     uv__queue_insert_tail(&loop->async_handles, q);
199 
200     /* Atomically fetch and clear pending flag */
201     pending = (_Atomic int*) &h->pending;
202     if (atomic_exchange(pending, 0) == 0)
203       continue;
204 
205     if (h->async_cb == NULL)
206       continue;
207 
208     h->async_cb(h);
209   }
210 }
211 
212 
213 static void uv__async_send(uv_loop_t* loop) {
214   const void* buf;
215   ssize_t len;
216   int fd;
217   int r;
218 
219   buf = "";
220   len = 1;
221   fd = loop->async_wfd;
222 
223 #if defined(__linux__)
224   if (fd == -1) {
225     static const uint64_t val = 1;
226     buf = &val;
227     len = sizeof(val);
228     fd = loop->async_io_watcher.fd;  /* eventfd */
229   }
230 #elif UV__KQUEUE_EVFILT_USER
231   struct kevent ev;
232 
233   if (kqueue_evfilt_user_support) {
234     fd = loop->async_io_watcher.fd; /* magic number for EVFILT_USER */
235     EV_SET(&ev, fd, EVFILT_USER, 0, NOTE_TRIGGER, 0, 0);
236     r = kevent(loop->backend_fd, &ev, 1, NULL, 0, NULL);
237     if (r == 0)
238       return;
239     abort();
240   }
241 #endif
242 
243   do
244     r = write(fd, buf, len);
245   while (r == -1 && errno == EINTR);
246 
247   if (r == len)
248     return;
249 
250   if (r == -1)
251     if (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EWOULDBLOCK)
252       return;
253 
254   abort();
255 }
256 
257 
258 static int uv__async_start(uv_loop_t* loop) {
259   int pipefd[2];
260   int err;
261 #if UV__KQUEUE_EVFILT_USER
262   struct kevent ev;
263 #endif
264 
265   if (loop->async_io_watcher.fd != -1)
266     return 0;
267 
268 #ifdef __linux__
269   err = eventfd(0, EFD_CLOEXEC | EFD_NONBLOCK);
270   if (err < 0)
271     return UV__ERR(errno);
272 
273   pipefd[0] = err;
274   pipefd[1] = -1;
275 #elif UV__KQUEUE_EVFILT_USER
276   uv_once(&kqueue_runtime_detection_guard, uv__kqueue_runtime_detection);
277   if (kqueue_evfilt_user_support) {
278     /* In order not to break the generic pattern of I/O polling, a valid
279      * file descriptor is required to take up a room in loop->watchers,
280      * thus we create one for that, but this fd will not be actually used,
281      * it's just a placeholder and magic number which is going to be closed
282      * during the cleanup, as other FDs. */
283     err = uv__open_cloexec("/dev/null", O_RDONLY);
284     if (err < 0)
285       return err;
286 
287     pipefd[0] = err;
288     pipefd[1] = -1;
289 
290     /* When using EVFILT_USER event to wake up the kqueue, this event must be
291      * registered beforehand. Otherwise, calling kevent() to issue an
292      * unregistered EVFILT_USER event will get an ENOENT.
293      * Since uv__async_send() may happen before uv__io_poll() with multi-threads,
294      * we can't defer this registration of EVFILT_USER event as we did for other
295      * events, but must perform it right away. */
296     EV_SET(&ev, err, EVFILT_USER, EV_ADD | EV_CLEAR, 0, 0, 0);
297     err = kevent(loop->backend_fd, &ev, 1, NULL, 0, NULL);
298     if (err < 0)
299       return UV__ERR(errno);
300   } else {
301     err = uv__make_pipe(pipefd, UV_NONBLOCK_PIPE);
302     if (err < 0)
303       return err;
304   }
305 #else
306   err = uv__make_pipe(pipefd, UV_NONBLOCK_PIPE);
307   if (err < 0)
308     return err;
309 #endif
310 
311   uv__io_init(&loop->async_io_watcher, uv__async_io, pipefd[0]);
312   uv__io_start(loop, &loop->async_io_watcher, POLLIN);
313   loop->async_wfd = pipefd[1];
314 
315 #if UV__KQUEUE_EVFILT_USER
316   /* Prevent the EVFILT_USER event from being added to kqueue redundantly
317    * and mistakenly later in uv__io_poll(). */
318   if (kqueue_evfilt_user_support)
319     loop->async_io_watcher.events = loop->async_io_watcher.pevents;
320 #endif
321 
322   return 0;
323 }
324 
325 
326 void uv__async_stop(uv_loop_t* loop) {
327   struct uv__queue queue;
328   struct uv__queue* q;
329   uv_async_t* h;
330 
331   if (loop->async_io_watcher.fd == -1)
332     return;
333 
334   /* Make sure no other thread is accessing the async handle fd after the loop
335    * cleanup.
336    */
337   uv__queue_move(&loop->async_handles, &queue);
338   while (!uv__queue_empty(&queue)) {
339     q = uv__queue_head(&queue);
340     h = uv__queue_data(q, uv_async_t, queue);
341 
342     uv__queue_remove(q);
343     uv__queue_insert_tail(&loop->async_handles, q);
344 
345     uv__async_spin(h);
346   }
347 
348   if (loop->async_wfd != -1) {
349     if (loop->async_wfd != loop->async_io_watcher.fd)
350       uv__close(loop->async_wfd);
351     loop->async_wfd = -1;
352   }
353 
354   uv__io_stop(loop, &loop->async_io_watcher, POLLIN);
355   uv__close(loop->async_io_watcher.fd);
356   loop->async_io_watcher.fd = -1;
357 }
358 
359 
360 int uv__async_fork(uv_loop_t* loop) {
361   struct uv__queue queue;
362   struct uv__queue* q;
363   uv_async_t* h;
364 
365   if (loop->async_io_watcher.fd == -1) /* never started */
366     return 0;
367 
368   uv__queue_move(&loop->async_handles, &queue);
369   while (!uv__queue_empty(&queue)) {
370     q = uv__queue_head(&queue);
371     h = uv__queue_data(q, uv_async_t, queue);
372 
373     uv__queue_remove(q);
374     uv__queue_insert_tail(&loop->async_handles, q);
375 
376     /* The state of any thread that set pending is now likely corrupt in this
377      * child because the user called fork, so just clear these flags and move
378      * on. Calling most libc functions after `fork` is declared to be undefined
379      * behavior anyways, unless async-signal-safe, for multithreaded programs
380      * like libuv, and nothing interesting in pthreads is async-signal-safe.
381      */
382     h->pending = 0;
383     /* This is the busy flag, and we just abruptly lost all other threads. */
384     h->u.fd = 0;
385   }
386 
387   /* Recreate these, since they still exist, but belong to the wrong pid now. */
388   if (loop->async_wfd != -1) {
389     if (loop->async_wfd != loop->async_io_watcher.fd)
390       uv__close(loop->async_wfd);
391     loop->async_wfd = -1;
392   }
393 
394   uv__io_stop(loop, &loop->async_io_watcher, POLLIN);
395   uv__close(loop->async_io_watcher.fd);
396   loop->async_io_watcher.fd = -1;
397 
398   return uv__async_start(loop);
399 }
400 
401 
402 static void uv__cpu_relax(void) {
403 #if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__)
404   __asm__ __volatile__ ("rep; nop" ::: "memory");  /* a.k.a. PAUSE */
405 #elif (defined(__arm__) && __ARM_ARCH >= 7) || defined(__aarch64__)
406   __asm__ __volatile__ ("yield" ::: "memory");
407 #elif (defined(__ppc__) || defined(__ppc64__)) && defined(__APPLE__)
408   __asm volatile ("" : : : "memory");
409 #elif !defined(__APPLE__) && (defined(__powerpc64__) || defined(__ppc64__) || defined(__PPC64__))
410   __asm__ __volatile__ ("or 1,1,1; or 2,2,2" ::: "memory");
411 #endif
412 }
413