| # pthread_rwlock_rdlock.m4 serial 4 |
| dnl Copyright (C) 2017-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation |
| dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, |
| dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. |
| |
| dnl From Bruno Haible. |
| dnl Inspired by |
| dnl https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/conformance/interfaces/pthread_rwlock_rdlock/2-2.c |
| dnl by Intel Corporation. |
| |
| dnl Test whether in a situation where |
| dnl - an rwlock is taken by a reader and has a writer waiting, |
| dnl - an additional reader requests the lock, |
| dnl - the waiting writer and the requesting reader threads have the same |
| dnl priority, |
| dnl the requesting reader thread gets blocked, so that at some point the |
| dnl waiting writer can acquire the lock. |
| dnl Without such a guarantee, when there a N readers and each of the readers |
| dnl spends more than 1/Nth of the time with the lock held, there is a high |
| dnl probability that the waiting writer will not get the lock in a given finite |
| dnl time, a phenomenon called "writer starvation". |
| dnl Without such a guarantee, applications have a hard time avoiding writer |
| dnl starvation. |
| dnl |
| dnl POSIX:2017 makes this requirement only for implementations that support TPS |
| dnl (Thread Priority Scheduling) and only for the scheduling policies SCHED_FIFO |
| dnl and SCHED_RR, see |
| dnl https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pthread_rwlock_rdlock.html |
| dnl but this test verifies the guarantee regardless of TPS and regardless of |
| dnl scheduling policy. |
| dnl Glibc does not provide this guarantee (and never will on Linux), see |
| dnl https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13701 |
| dnl https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410052 |
| AC_DEFUN([gl_PTHREAD_RWLOCK_RDLOCK_PREFER_WRITER], |
| [ |
| AC_REQUIRE([gl_THREADLIB_EARLY]) |
| AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST]) dnl for cross-compiles |
| AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether pthread_rwlock_rdlock prefers a writer to a reader], |
| [gl_cv_pthread_rwlock_rdlock_prefer_writer], |
| [save_LIBS="$LIBS" |
| LIBS="$LIBS $LIBMULTITHREAD" |
| AC_RUN_IFELSE( |
| [AC_LANG_SOURCE([[ |
| #include <errno.h> |
| #include <pthread.h> |
| #include <stdlib.h> |
| #include <unistd.h> |
| |
| #define SUCCEED() exit (0) |
| #define FAILURE() exit (1) |
| #define UNEXPECTED(n) (exit (10 + (n))) |
| |
| /* The main thread creates the waiting writer and the requesting reader threads |
| in the default way; this guarantees that they have the same priority. |
| We can reuse the main thread as first reader thread. */ |
| |
| static pthread_rwlock_t lock; |
| static pthread_t reader1; |
| static pthread_t writer; |
| static pthread_t reader2; |
| static pthread_t timer; |
| /* Used to pass control from writer to reader2 and from reader2 to timer, |
| as in a relay race. |
| Passing control from one running thread to another running thread |
| is most likely faster than to create the second thread. */ |
| static pthread_mutex_t baton; |
| |
| static void * |
| timer_func (void *ignored) |
| { |
| /* Step 13 (can be before or after step 12): |
| The timer thread takes the baton, then waits a moment to make sure |
| it can tell whether the second reader thread is blocked at step 12. */ |
| if (pthread_mutex_lock (&baton)) |
| UNEXPECTED (13); |
| usleep (100000); |
| /* By the time we get here, it's clear that the second reader thread is |
| blocked at step 12. This is the desired behaviour. */ |
| SUCCEED (); |
| } |
| |
| static void * |
| reader2_func (void *ignored) |
| { |
| int err; |
| |
| /* Step 8 (can be before or after step 7): |
| The second reader thread takes the baton, then waits a moment to make sure |
| the writer thread has reached step 7. */ |
| if (pthread_mutex_lock (&baton)) |
| UNEXPECTED (8); |
| usleep (100000); |
| /* Step 9: The second reader thread requests the lock. */ |
| err = pthread_rwlock_tryrdlock (&lock); |
| if (err == 0) |
| FAILURE (); |
| else if (err != EBUSY) |
| UNEXPECTED (9); |
| /* Step 10: Launch a timer, to test whether the next call blocks. */ |
| if (pthread_create (&timer, NULL, timer_func, NULL)) |
| UNEXPECTED (10); |
| /* Step 11: Release the baton. */ |
| if (pthread_mutex_unlock (&baton)) |
| UNEXPECTED (11); |
| /* Step 12: The second reader thread requests the lock. */ |
| err = pthread_rwlock_rdlock (&lock); |
| if (err == 0) |
| FAILURE (); |
| else |
| UNEXPECTED (12); |
| } |
| |
| static void * |
| writer_func (void *ignored) |
| { |
| /* Step 4: Take the baton, so that the second reader thread does not go ahead |
| too early. */ |
| if (pthread_mutex_lock (&baton)) |
| UNEXPECTED (4); |
| /* Step 5: Create the second reader thread. */ |
| if (pthread_create (&reader2, NULL, reader2_func, NULL)) |
| UNEXPECTED (5); |
| /* Step 6: Release the baton. */ |
| if (pthread_mutex_unlock (&baton)) |
| UNEXPECTED (6); |
| /* Step 7: The writer thread requests the lock. */ |
| if (pthread_rwlock_wrlock (&lock)) |
| UNEXPECTED (7); |
| return NULL; |
| } |
| |
| int |
| main () |
| { |
| reader1 = pthread_self (); |
| |
| /* Step 1: The main thread initializes the lock and the baton. */ |
| if (pthread_rwlock_init (&lock, NULL)) |
| UNEXPECTED (1); |
| if (pthread_mutex_init (&baton, NULL)) |
| UNEXPECTED (1); |
| /* Step 2: The main thread acquires the lock as a reader. */ |
| if (pthread_rwlock_rdlock (&lock)) |
| UNEXPECTED (2); |
| /* Step 3: Create the writer thread. */ |
| if (pthread_create (&writer, NULL, writer_func, NULL)) |
| UNEXPECTED (3); |
| /* Job done. Go to sleep. */ |
| for (;;) |
| { |
| sleep (1); |
| } |
| } |
| ]])], |
| [gl_cv_pthread_rwlock_rdlock_prefer_writer=yes], |
| [gl_cv_pthread_rwlock_rdlock_prefer_writer=no], |
| [case "$host_os" in |
| # Guess no on glibc systems. |
| *-gnu* | gnu*) gl_cv_pthread_rwlock_rdlock_prefer_writer="guessing no" ;; |
| # Guess no on musl systems. |
| *-musl*) gl_cv_pthread_rwlock_rdlock_prefer_writer="guessing no" ;; |
| # Guess no on bionic systems. |
| *-android*) gl_cv_pthread_rwlock_rdlock_prefer_writer="guessing no" ;; |
| # Guess yes on native Windows with the mingw-w64 winpthreads library. |
| # Guess no on native Windows with the gnulib windows-rwlock module. |
| mingw*) if test "$gl_use_threads" = yes || test "$gl_use_threads" = posix; then |
| gl_cv_pthread_rwlock_rdlock_prefer_writer="guessing yes" |
| else |
| gl_cv_pthread_rwlock_rdlock_prefer_writer="guessing no" |
| fi |
| ;; |
| # If we don't know, obey --enable-cross-guesses. |
| *) gl_cv_pthread_rwlock_rdlock_prefer_writer="$gl_cross_guess_normal" ;; |
| esac |
| ]) |
| LIBS="$save_LIBS" |
| ]) |
| case "$gl_cv_pthread_rwlock_rdlock_prefer_writer" in |
| *yes) |
| AC_DEFINE([HAVE_PTHREAD_RWLOCK_RDLOCK_PREFER_WRITER], [1], |
| [Define if the 'pthread_rwlock_rdlock' function prefers a writer to a reader.]) |
| ;; |
| esac |
| ]) |