Semaphore.st
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 COPYRIGHT (c) 1993 by Claus Gittinger
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              All Rights Reserved
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 This software is furnished under a license and may be used
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 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
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 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not
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 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
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 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is
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 hereby transferred.
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LinkedList subclass:#Semaphore
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         instanceVariableNames:'count waitingProcesses'
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         classVariableNames:''
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         poolDictionaries:''
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         category:'Kernel-Processes'!
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Semaphore comment:'
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COPYRIGHT (c) 1993 by Claus Gittinger
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              All Rights Reserved
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Semaphores are used to synchronize processes providing a nonBusy wait
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mechanism. A process can wait for the availability of some resource by
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performing a Semaphore-wait, which will suspend the process until the
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resource becomes available which is signalled by (another process performing)
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Semaphore-signal.
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If the resource has been alrady available before the wait, no suspending is
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done, but the resource immediately allocated.
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See samples in doc/coding.
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%W% %E%
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'!
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!Semaphore class methodsFor:'instance creation'!
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new
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    "create & return a new semaphore which blocks until a signal is sent"
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    ^ super new setCount:0
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!
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new:n
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    "create & return a new semaphore which allows n waits before
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     blocking"
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    ^ super new setCount:n
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!
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forMutualExclusion
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    "create & return a new semaphore which allows exactly one process to
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     wait on it without blocking"
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    ^ self new:1
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! !
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!Semaphore methodsFor:'private accessing'!
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setCount:n
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    count := n
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! !
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!Semaphore methodsFor:'wait & signal'!
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wait
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    "wait for the semaphore"
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    |current|
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    "
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     need a while-loop here, since more than one process may
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     wait for it and another one may also wake up.
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     Thus count is not always non-zero after returning from
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     suspend.
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    "
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    [count == 0] whileTrue:[
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        current := Processor currentProcess.
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        waitingProcesses isNil ifTrue:[
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            waitingProcesses := OrderedCollection with:current
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        ] ifFalse:[
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            waitingProcesses add:current
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        ].
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        current suspend
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    ].
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    count := count - 1
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!
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signal
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    "waking up waiters"
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    count := count + 1.
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    waitingProcesses notNil ifTrue:[
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        waitingProcesses isEmpty ifFalse:[
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            waitingProcesses removeFirst resume
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        ]
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    ]
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critical:aBlock
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    "evaluate aBlock as a critical region; the receiver must be
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     created using Semaphore-forMutualExclusion"
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    |value|
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    self wait.
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    value := aBlock value.
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    self signal.
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    ^ value
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! !