"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1995 by Claus Gittinger

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

Object subclass:#RecursionLock

	instanceVariableNames:'process sema'

	classVariableNames:''

	poolDictionaries:''

	category:'Kernel-Processes'

!

!RecursionLock class methodsFor:'documentation'!

copyright

"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1995 by Claus Gittinger

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

!

documentation

"

    like a Semaphore for mutual exclusion, but avoids the deadlock

    if a critical region is reentered by the same process again.

    I.e. allows reentering the critical region if the current process 

    is the one which did the original locking.

    [author:]

        Claus Gittinger

    [see also:]

        Semaphore

        Process ProcessorScheduler

"

!

examples

"

    example:

                                                                        [exBegin]

        |lock|

        lock := RecursionLock new.

        lock critical:[

            Transcript showCR:'in lock ...'.

            lock critical:[

                Transcript showCR:'again ...'

            ]

        ]

                                                                        [exEnd]

    in contrast to (wrong example):

                                                                        [exBegin]

        |lock|

        lock := Semaphore forMutualExclusion.

        lock critical:[

            Transcript showCR:'in lock ...'.

            lock critical:[

                '*** never reached - deadlock because sema is already locked ***'.

                '    (press CTRL-c and abort in the debugger)'.

                Transcript showCR:'again ...'

            ]

        ]

                                                                        [exEnd]

"

! !

!RecursionLock class methodsFor:'instance creation'!

new

    ^ self basicNew initialize

! !

!RecursionLock methodsFor:'private initialization'!

initialize

    sema := Semaphore forMutualExclusion

! !

!RecursionLock methodsFor:'queries'!

wouldBlock

    "return true, if the receiver would block the activeProcess

     if a wait was performed. False otherwise."

    process == Processor activeProcess ifTrue:[^ false].

    ^ sema wouldBlock

    "Created: 18.4.1996 / 17:18:08 / cg"

! !

!RecursionLock methodsFor:'wait & signal'!

critical:aBlock

    "evaluate aBlock as a critical region, but do not block,

     if this lock is already held by the current process."

    |active wasBlocked|

    active := Processor activeProcess.

    process == active ifTrue:[

        aBlock value

    ] ifFalse:[

        "/

        "/ sema wait & process := active

        "/ and:

        "/ proces := nil & sema signal

        "/ must both be done atomic

        "/ Scenario:

        "/   ... recLock critical

        "/         got lock

        "/         evaluated

        "/         set process to nil

        "/         -> timer interrupt

        "/              recLock critical in timeOut action

        "/              process isNil

        "/                 sema wait !!!!!! DEADLOCK

        "/

        wasBlocked := OperatingSystem blockInterrupts.

        sema critical:[

            [

                process := active.

                wasBlocked ifFalse:[OperatingSystem unblockInterrupts].

                aBlock value.

                OperatingSystem blockInterrupts.

            ] valueOnUnwindDo:[

                process := nil.

            ]

        ].

        process := nil.

        wasBlocked ifFalse:[OperatingSystem unblockInterrupts].

    ].

    "Modified: 13.4.1996 / 00:19:31 / stefan"

    "Modified: 18.4.1996 / 21:09:39 / cg"

! !

!RecursionLock class methodsFor:'documentation'!

version

    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic/RecursionLock.st,v 1.14 1996-05-18 15:32:43 cg Exp $'

! !