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| -- GNAT COMPILER COMPONENTS -- |
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| -- S Y S T E M . S H A R E D _ S T O R A G E -- |
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| -- S p e c -- |
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| -- Copyright (C) 1998-2014, Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- |
| -- -- |
| -- GNAT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under -- |
| -- terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Soft- -- |
| -- ware Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later ver- -- |
| -- sion. GNAT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITH- -- |
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| -- or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. -- |
| -- -- |
| -- As a special exception under Section 7 of GPL version 3, you are granted -- |
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| -- version 3.1, as published by the Free Software Foundation. -- |
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| -- -- |
| -- GNAT was originally developed by the GNAT team at New York University. -- |
| -- Extensive contributions were provided by Ada Core Technologies Inc. -- |
| -- -- |
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| |
| -- This package manages the shared/persistent storage required for |
| -- full implementation of variables in Shared_Passive packages, more |
| -- precisely variables whose enclosing dynamic scope is a shared |
| -- passive package. This implementation is specific to GNAT and GLADE |
| -- provides a more general implementation not dedicated to file |
| -- storage. |
| |
| -- -------------------------- |
| -- -- Shared Storage Model -- |
| -- -------------------------- |
| |
| -- The basic model used is that each partition that references the |
| -- Shared_Passive package has a local copy of the package data that |
| -- is initialized in accordance with the declarations of the package |
| -- in the normal manner. The routines in System.Shared_Storage are |
| -- then used to ensure that the values in these separate copies are |
| -- properly synchronized with the state of the overall system. |
| |
| -- In the GNAT implementation, this synchronization is ensured by |
| -- maintaining a set of files, in a designated directory. The |
| -- directory is designated by setting the environment variable |
| -- SHARED_MEMORY_DIRECTORY. This variable must be set for all |
| -- partitions. If the environment variable is not defined, then the |
| -- current directory is used. |
| |
| -- There is one storage for each variable. The name is the fully |
| -- qualified name of the variable with all letters forced to lower |
| -- case. For example, the variable Var in the shared passive package |
| -- Pkg results in the storage name pkg.var. |
| |
| -- If the storage does not exist, it indicates that no partition has |
| -- assigned a new value, so that the initial value is the correct |
| -- one. This is the critical component of the model. It means that |
| -- there is no system-wide synchronization required for initializing |
| -- the package, since the shared storages need not (and do not) |
| -- reflect the initial state. There is therefore no issue of |
| -- synchronizing initialization and read/write access. |
| |
| -- ----------------------- |
| -- -- Read/Write Access -- |
| -- ----------------------- |
| |
| -- The approach is as follows: |
| |
| -- For each shared variable, var, an instantiation of the below generic |
| -- package is created which provides Read and Write supporting procedures. |
| |
| -- The routine Read in package System.Shared_Storage.Shared_Var_Procs |
| -- ensures to assign variable V to the last written value among processes |
| -- referencing it. A call to this procedure is generated by the expander |
| -- before each read access to the shared variable. |
| |
| -- The routine Write in package System.Shared_Storage.Shared_Var_Proc |
| -- set a new value to the shared variable and, according to the used |
| -- implementation, propagate this value among processes referencing it. |
| -- A call to this procedure is generated by the expander after each |
| -- assignment of the shared variable. |
| |
| -- Note: a special circuit allows the use of stream attributes Read and |
| -- Write for limited types (using the corresponding attribute for the |
| -- full type), but there are limitations on the data that can be placed |
| -- in shared passive partitions. See sem_smem.ads/adb for details. |
| |
| -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| -- -- Handling of Protected Objects in Shared Passive Partitions -- |
| -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| -- In the context of GNAT, during the execution of a protected |
| -- subprogram call, access is locked out using a locking mechanism |
| -- per protected object, as provided by the GNAT.Lock_Files |
| -- capability in the specific case of GNAT. This package contains the |
| -- lock and unlock calls, and the expander generates a call to the |
| -- lock routine before the protected call and a call to the unlock |
| -- routine after the protected call. |
| |
| -- Within the code of the protected subprogram, the access to the |
| -- protected object itself uses the local copy, without any special |
| -- synchronization. Since global access is locked out, no other task |
| -- or partition can attempt to read or write this data as long as the |
| -- lock is held. |
| |
| -- The data in the local copy does however need synchronizing with |
| -- the global values in the shared storage. This is achieved as |
| -- follows: |
| |
| -- The protected object generates a read and assignment routine as |
| -- described for other shared passive variables. The code for the |
| -- 'Read and 'Write attributes (not normally allowed, but allowed |
| -- in this special case) simply reads or writes the values of the |
| -- components in the protected record. |
| |
| -- The lock call is followed by a call to the shared read routine to |
| -- synchronize the local copy to contain the proper global value. |
| |
| -- The unlock call in the procedure case only is preceded by a call |
| -- to the shared assign routine to synchronize the global shared |
| -- storages with the (possibly modified) local copy. |
| |
| -- These calls to the read and assign routines, as well as the lock |
| -- and unlock routines, are inserted by the expander (see exp_smem.adb). |
| |
| package System.Shared_Storage is |
| |
| procedure Shared_Var_Lock (Var : String); |
| -- This procedure claims the shared storage lock. It is used for |
| -- protected types in shared passive packages. A call to this |
| -- locking routine is generated as the first operation in the code |
| -- for the body of a protected subprogram, and it busy waits if |
| -- the lock is busy. |
| |
| procedure Shared_Var_Unlock (Var : String); |
| -- This procedure releases the shared storage lock obtained by a |
| -- prior call to the Shared_Var_Lock procedure, and is to be |
| -- generated as the last operation in the body of a protected |
| -- subprogram. |
| |
| -- This generic package is instantiated for each shared passive |
| -- variable. It provides supporting procedures called upon each |
| -- read or write access by the expanded code. |
| |
| generic |
| |
| type Typ is limited private; |
| -- Shared passive variable type |
| |
| V : in out Typ; |
| -- Shared passive variable |
| |
| Full_Name : String; |
| -- Shared passive variable storage name |
| |
| package Shared_Var_Procs is |
| |
| procedure Read; |
| -- Shared passive variable access routine. Each reference to the |
| -- shared variable, V, is preceded by a call to the corresponding |
| -- Read procedure, which either leaves the initial value unchanged |
| -- if the storage does not exist, or reads the current value from |
| -- the shared storage. |
| |
| procedure Write; |
| -- Shared passive variable assignment routine. Each assignment to |
| -- the shared variable, V, is followed by a call to the corresponding |
| -- Write procedure, which writes the new value to the shared storage. |
| |
| end Shared_Var_Procs; |
| |
| end System.Shared_Storage; |
