| //! 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`]: fn.defer.html |
| |
| #![warn(missing_docs)] |
| #![warn(missing_debug_implementations)] |
| #![cfg_attr(not(feature = "std"), no_std)] |
| #![cfg_attr(feature = "nightly", feature(const_fn))] |
| #![cfg_attr(feature = "nightly", feature(cfg_target_has_atomic))] |
| |
| #[macro_use] |
| extern crate cfg_if; |
| #[cfg(feature = "std")] |
| extern crate core; |
| |
| cfg_if! { |
| if #[cfg(feature = "alloc")] { |
| extern crate alloc; |
| } else if #[cfg(feature = "std")] { |
| extern crate std as alloc; |
| } |
| } |
| |
| #[cfg_attr( |
| feature = "nightly", |
| cfg(all(target_has_atomic = "cas", target_has_atomic = "ptr")) |
| )] |
| cfg_if! { |
| if #[cfg(any(feature = "alloc", feature = "std"))] { |
| extern crate arrayvec; |
| 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}; |
| } |
| } |