source: trunk/kernel/libk/remote_barrier.h @ 581

/*
 * remote_barrier.h - POSIX barrier definition.               
 * 
 * Author  Alain Greiner (2016,2017,2018)
 *
 * Copyright (c) UPMC Sorbonne Universites
 *
 * This file is part of ALMOS-MKH.
 *
 * ALMOS-MKH is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; version 2.0 of the License.
 *
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 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * General Public License for more details.
 *
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 * along with ALMOS-MKH; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
 * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
 */

#ifndef _REMOTE_BARRIER_H_
#define _REMOTE_BARRIER_H_

#include <kernel_config.h>
#include <hal_kernel_types.h>
#include <remote_busylock.h>
#include <xlist.h>

/***************************************************************************************
 *          This file defines a POSIX compliant barrier.
 *
 * It is used by multi-threaded user applications to synchronise threads running in
 * different clusters, as all access functions uses hal_remote_l32() / hal_remote_s32()
 * remote access primitives.
 *
 * A barrier is declared by a given user process as a "pthread_barrier_t" global variable.
 * This user type is implemented as an unsigned long, but the value is not used by the 
 * kernel. ALMOS-MKH uses only the barrier virtual address as an identifier.
 * For each user barrier, ALMOS-MKH creates a kernel "remote_barrier_t" structure,
 * dynamically allocated in the reference cluster by the remote_barrier_create() function, 
 * and destroyed by the remote_barrier_destroy() function, using RPC if the calling thread
 * is not running in the reference cluster.
 *
 * The blocking "remote_barrier_wait()" function implements a descheduling policy when
 * the calling thread is not the last expected thread: the calling thread is registered 
 * in a waiting queue, rooted in the barrier structure, and the the calling thread 
 * is blocked on the THREAD_BLOCKED_USERSYNC condition. The last arrived thread
 * unblocks all registtered waiting threads.
 * **************************************************************************************/

/*****************************************************************************************
 * This structure defines the barrier descriptor.
 * - It contains an xlist of all barriers dynamically created by a given process,
 *   rooted in the reference process descriptor.
 * - It contains the root of another xlist to register all arrived threads.
 ****************************************************************************************/

typedef struct remote_barrier_s
{
    remote_busylock_t  lock;          /*! lock protecting list of waiting threads       */
    intptr_t           ident;         /*! virtual address in user space == identifier   */
    uint32_t           current;       /*! number of arrived threads                     */
    uint32_t           sense;         /*! barrier state (toggle)                        */
    uint32_t           nb_threads;    /*! number of expected threads                    */ 
    xlist_entry_t      list;          /*! member of list of barriers in same process    */
    xlist_entry_t      root;          /*! root of list of waiting threads               */
} 
remote_barrier_t;


/*****************************************************************************************
 * This function returns an extended pointer on the remote barrier identified
 * by its virtual address in a given user process. It makes an associative search, 
 * scanning the list of barriers rooted in the reference process descriptor.
 *****************************************************************************************
 * @ ident    : barrier virtual address, used as identifier.
 * @ returns extended pointer on barrier if success / returns XPTR_NULL if not found. 
 ****************************************************************************************/
xptr_t remote_barrier_from_ident( intptr_t  ident );

/*****************************************************************************************
 * This function implement the pthread_barrier_init() syscall.
 * It allocates memory for the barrier descriptor in the reference cluster for
 * the calling process, it initializes the barrier state, and register it in the 
 * list of barriers owned by the reference process.
 *****************************************************************************************
 * @ count       : number of expected threads.
 * @ ident       : barrier identifier (virtual address in user space).
 * @ return 0 if success / return ENOMEM if failure.
 ****************************************************************************************/
error_t remote_barrier_create( intptr_t ident,
                               uint32_t count );

/*****************************************************************************************
 * This function implement the pthread_barrier_destroy() syscall.
 * It releases thr memory allocated for the barrier descriptor, and remove the barrier 
 * from the list of barriers owned by the reference process.
 *****************************************************************************************
 * @ barrier_xp  : extended pointer on barrier descriptor.
 ****************************************************************************************/
void remote_barrier_destroy( xptr_t   barrier_xp );

/*****************************************************************************************
 * This function implement the pthread_barrier_wait() syscall.
 * It returns only when the number of expected threads (registered in the barrier
 * dexcriptor) reach the barrier.
 *****************************************************************************************
 * @ barrier_xp   : extended pointer on barrier descriptor.
 ****************************************************************************************/
void remote_barrier_wait( xptr_t   barrier_xp );


#endif  /* _REMOTE_BARRIER_H_ */