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+// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package sync
+
+import (
+	"sync/atomic"
+)
+
+// Once is an object that will perform exactly one action.
+//
+// A Once must not be copied after first use.
+type Once struct {
+	// done indicates whether the action has been performed.
+	// It is first in the struct because it is used in the hot path.
+	// The hot path is inlined at every call site.
+	// Placing done first allows more compact instructions on some architectures (amd64/386),
+	// and fewer instructions (to calculate offset) on other architectures.
+	done uint32
+	m    Mutex
+}
+
+// Do calls the function f if and only if Do is being called for the
+// first time for this instance of Once. In other words, given
+// 	var once Once
+// if once.Do(f) is called multiple times, only the first call will invoke f,
+// even if f has a different value in each invocation. A new instance of
+// Once is required for each function to execute.
+//
+// Do is intended for initialization that must be run exactly once. Since f
+// is niladic, it may be necessary to use a function literal to capture the
+// arguments to a function to be invoked by Do:
+// 	config.once.Do(func() { config.init(filename) })
+//
+// Because no call to Do returns until the one call to f returns, if f causes
+// Do to be called, it will deadlock.
+//
+// If f panics, Do considers it to have returned; future calls of Do return
+// without calling f.
+//
+func (o *Once) Do(f func()) {
+	// Note: Here is an incorrect implementation of Do:
+	//
+	//	if atomic.CompareAndSwapUint32(&o.done, 0, 1) {
+	//		f()
+	//	}
+	//
+	// Do guarantees that when it returns, f has finished.
+	// This implementation would not implement that guarantee:
+	// given two simultaneous calls, the winner of the cas would
+	// call f, and the second would return immediately, without
+	// waiting for the first's call to f to complete.
+	// This is why the slow path falls back to a mutex, and why
+	// the atomic.StoreUint32 must be delayed until after f returns.
+
+	if atomic.LoadUint32(&o.done) == 0 {
+		// Outlined slow-path to allow inlining of the fast-path.
+		o.doSlow(f)
+	}
+}
+
+func (o *Once) doSlow(f func()) {
+	o.m.Lock()
+	defer o.m.Unlock()
+	if o.done == 0 {
+		defer atomic.StoreUint32(&o.done, 1)
+		f()
+	}
+}