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+//! 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};
+ }
+}