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/* This file contains both the uv__async internal infrastructure and the
 * user-facing uv_async_t functions.
 */
 
#include "uv.h"
#include "internal.h"
#include "atomic-ops.h"
 
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>  /* snprintf() */
#include <assert.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sched.h>  /* sched_yield() */
 
#ifdef __linux__
#include <sys/eventfd.h>
#endif
 
static void uv__async_send(uv_loop_t* loop);
static int uv__async_start(uv_loop_t* loop);
 
 
int uv_async_init(uv_loop_t* loop, uv_async_t* handle, uv_async_cb async_cb) {
  int err;
 
  err = uv__async_start(loop);
  if (err)
    return err;
 
  uv__handle_init(loop, (uv_handle_t*)handle, UV_ASYNC);
  handle->async_cb = async_cb;
  handle->pending = 0;
 
  QUEUE_INSERT_TAIL(&loop->async_handles, &handle->queue);
  uv__handle_start(handle);
 
  return 0;
}
 
 
int uv_async_send(uv_async_t* handle) {
  /* Do a cheap read first. */
  if (ACCESS_ONCE(int, handle->pending) != 0)
    return 0;
 
  /* Tell the other thread we're busy with the handle. */
  if (cmpxchgi(&handle->pending, 0, 1) != 0)
    return 0;
 
  /* Wake up the other thread's event loop. */
  uv__async_send(handle->loop);
 
  /* Tell the other thread we're done. */
  if (cmpxchgi(&handle->pending, 1, 2) != 1)
    abort();
 
  return 0;
}
 
 
/* Only call this from the event loop thread. */
static int uv__async_spin(uv_async_t* handle) {
  int i;
  int rc;
 
  for (;;) {
    /* 997 is not completely chosen at random. It's a prime number, acyclical
     * by nature, and should therefore hopefully dampen sympathetic resonance.
     */
    for (i = 0; i < 997; i++) {
      /* rc=0 -- handle is not pending.
       * rc=1 -- handle is pending, other thread is still working with it.
       * rc=2 -- handle is pending, other thread is done.
       */
      rc = cmpxchgi(&handle->pending, 2, 0);
 
      if (rc != 1)
        return rc;
 
      /* Other thread is busy with this handle, spin until it's done. */
      cpu_relax();
    }
 
    /* Yield the CPU. We may have preempted the other thread while it's
     * inside the critical section and if it's running on the same CPU
     * as us, we'll just burn CPU cycles until the end of our time slice.
     */
    sched_yield();
  }
}
 
 
void uv__async_close(uv_async_t* handle) {
  uv__async_spin(handle);
  QUEUE_REMOVE(&handle->queue);
  uv__handle_stop(handle);
}
 
 
static void uv__async_io(uv_loop_t* loop, uv__io_t* w, unsigned int events) {
  char buf[1024];
  ssize_t r;
  QUEUE queue;
  QUEUE* q;
  uv_async_t* h;
 
  assert(w == &loop->async_io_watcher);
 
  for (;;) {
    r = read(w->fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
 
    if (r == sizeof(buf))
      continue;
 
    if (r != -1)
      break;
 
    if (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EWOULDBLOCK)
      break;
 
    if (errno == EINTR)
      continue;
 
    abort();
  }
 
  QUEUE_MOVE(&loop->async_handles, &queue);
  while (!QUEUE_EMPTY(&queue)) {
    q = QUEUE_HEAD(&queue);
    h = QUEUE_DATA(q, uv_async_t, queue);
 
    QUEUE_REMOVE(q);
    QUEUE_INSERT_TAIL(&loop->async_handles, q);
 
    if (0 == uv__async_spin(h))
      continue;  /* Not pending. */
 
    if (h->async_cb == NULL)
      continue;
 
    h->async_cb(h);
  }
}
 
 
static void uv__async_send(uv_loop_t* loop) {
  const void* buf;
  ssize_t len;
  int fd;
  int r;
 
  buf = "";
  len = 1;
  fd = loop->async_wfd;
 
#if defined(__linux__)
  if (fd == -1) {
    static const uint64_t val = 1;
    buf = &val;
    len = sizeof(val);
    fd = loop->async_io_watcher.fd;  /* eventfd */
  }
#endif
 
  do
    r = write(fd, buf, len);
  while (r == -1 && errno == EINTR);
 
  if (r == len)
    return;
 
  if (r == -1)
    if (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EWOULDBLOCK)
      return;
 
  abort();
}
 
 
static int uv__async_start(uv_loop_t* loop) {
  int pipefd[2];
  int err;
 
  if (loop->async_io_watcher.fd != -1)
    return 0;
 
#ifdef __linux__
  err = eventfd(0, EFD_CLOEXEC | EFD_NONBLOCK);
  if (err < 0)
    return UV__ERR(errno);
 
  pipefd[0] = err;
  pipefd[1] = -1;
#else
  err = uv__make_pipe(pipefd, UV__F_NONBLOCK);
  if (err < 0)
    return err;
#endif
 
  uv__io_init(&loop->async_io_watcher, uv__async_io, pipefd[0]);
  uv__io_start(loop, &loop->async_io_watcher, POLLIN);
  loop->async_wfd = pipefd[1];
 
  return 0;
}
 
 
int uv__async_fork(uv_loop_t* loop) {
  if (loop->async_io_watcher.fd == -1) /* never started */
    return 0;
 
  uv__async_stop(loop);
 
  return uv__async_start(loop);
}
 
 
void uv__async_stop(uv_loop_t* loop) {
  if (loop->async_io_watcher.fd == -1)
    return;
 
  if (loop->async_wfd != -1) {
    if (loop->async_wfd != loop->async_io_watcher.fd)
      uv__close(loop->async_wfd);
    loop->async_wfd = -1;
  }
 
  uv__io_stop(loop, &loop->async_io_watcher, POLLIN);
  uv__close(loop->async_io_watcher.fd);
  loop->async_io_watcher.fd = -1;
}