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diff --git a/third_party/rust/crossbeam-epoch-0.8.2/src/lib.rs b/third_party/rust/crossbeam-epoch-0.8.2/src/lib.rs new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..282bbe90fe --- /dev/null +++ b/third_party/rust/crossbeam-epoch-0.8.2/src/lib.rs @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +//! Epoch-based memory reclamation. +//! +//! An interesting problem concurrent collections deal with comes from the remove operation. +//! Suppose that a thread removes an element from a lock-free map, while another thread is reading +//! that same element at the same time. The first thread must wait until the second thread stops +//! reading the element. Only then it is safe to destruct it. +//! +//! Programming languages that come with garbage collectors solve this problem trivially. The +//! garbage collector will destruct the removed element when no thread can hold a reference to it +//! anymore. +//! +//! This crate implements a basic memory reclamation mechanism, which is based on epochs. When an +//! element gets removed from a concurrent collection, it is inserted into a pile of garbage and +//! marked with the current epoch. Every time a thread accesses a collection, it checks the current +//! epoch, attempts to increment it, and destructs some garbage that became so old that no thread +//! can be referencing it anymore. +//! +//! That is the general mechanism behind epoch-based memory reclamation, but the details are a bit +//! more complicated. Anyhow, memory reclamation is designed to be fully automatic and something +//! users of concurrent collections don't have to worry much about. +//! +//! # Pointers +//! +//! Concurrent collections are built using atomic pointers. This module provides [`Atomic`], which +//! is just a shared atomic pointer to a heap-allocated object. Loading an [`Atomic`] yields a +//! [`Shared`], which is an epoch-protected pointer through which the loaded object can be safely +//! read. +//! +//! # Pinning +//! +//! Before an [`Atomic`] can be loaded, a participant must be [`pin`]ned. By pinning a participant +//! we declare that any object that gets removed from now on must not be destructed just +//! yet. Garbage collection of newly removed objects is suspended until the participant gets +//! unpinned. +//! +//! # Garbage +//! +//! Objects that get removed from concurrent collections must be stashed away until all currently +//! pinned participants get unpinned. Such objects can be stored into a thread-local or global +//! storage, where they are kept until the right time for their destruction comes. +//! +//! There is a global shared instance of garbage queue. You can [`defer`] the execution of an +//! arbitrary function until the global epoch is advanced enough. Most notably, concurrent data +//! structures may defer the deallocation of an object. +//! +//! # APIs +//! +//! For majority of use cases, just use the default garbage collector by invoking [`pin`]. If you +//! want to create your own garbage collector, use the [`Collector`] API. +//! +//! [`Atomic`]: struct.Atomic.html +//! [`Collector`]: struct.Collector.html +//! [`Shared`]: struct.Shared.html +//! [`pin`]: fn.pin.html +//! [`defer`]: struct.Guard.html#method.defer + +#![warn(missing_docs)] +#![warn(missing_debug_implementations)] +#![cfg_attr(not(feature = "std"), no_std)] +#![cfg_attr(feature = "nightly", feature(cfg_target_has_atomic))] + +#[macro_use] +extern crate cfg_if; +#[cfg(feature = "std")] +extern crate core; + +extern crate maybe_uninit; + +cfg_if! { + if #[cfg(feature = "alloc")] { + extern crate alloc; + } else if #[cfg(feature = "std")] { + extern crate std as alloc; + } +} + +#[cfg_attr(feature = "nightly", cfg(target_has_atomic = "ptr"))] +cfg_if! { + if #[cfg(any(feature = "alloc", feature = "std"))] { + extern crate crossbeam_utils; + #[macro_use] + extern crate memoffset; + #[macro_use] + extern crate scopeguard; + + mod atomic; + mod collector; + mod deferred; + mod epoch; + mod guard; + mod internal; + mod sync; + + pub use self::atomic::{Atomic, CompareAndSetError, CompareAndSetOrdering, Owned, Pointer, Shared}; + pub use self::collector::{Collector, LocalHandle}; + pub use self::guard::{unprotected, Guard}; + } +} + +cfg_if! { + if #[cfg(feature = "std")] { + #[macro_use] + extern crate lazy_static; + + mod default; + pub use self::default::{default_collector, is_pinned, pin}; + } +} |