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20 #include "common-defs.h"
24 #include "gdbsupport/thread-pool.h"
25 #include "gdbsupport/alt-stack.h"
26 #include "gdbsupport/block-signals.h"
28 #include <system_error>
30 /* On the off chance that we have the pthread library on a Windows
31 host, but std::thread is not using it, avoid calling
32 pthread_setname_np on Windows. */
34 #ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD_SETNAME_NP
35 #define USE_PTHREAD_SETNAME_NP
39 #ifdef USE_PTHREAD_SETNAME_NP
43 /* Handle platform discrepancies in pthread_setname_np: macOS uses a
44 single-argument form, while Linux uses a two-argument form. NetBSD
45 takes a printf-style format and an argument. This wrapper handles the
48 ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED
static void
49 set_thread_name (int (*set_name
) (pthread_t
, const char *, void *),
52 set_name (pthread_self (), "%s", const_cast<char *> (name
));
55 ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED
static void
56 set_thread_name (int (*set_name
) (pthread_t
, const char *), const char *name
)
58 set_name (pthread_self (), name
);
61 /* The macOS man page says that pthread_setname_np returns "void", but
62 the headers actually declare it returning "int". */
63 ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED
static void
64 set_thread_name (int (*set_name
) (const char *), const char *name
)
69 #endif /* USE_PTHREAD_SETNAME_NP */
74 /* The thread pool detach()s its threads, so that the threads will not
75 prevent the process from exiting. However, it was discovered that
76 if any detached threads were still waiting on a condition variable,
77 then the condition variable's destructor would wait for the threads
78 to exit -- defeating the purpose.
80 Allocating the thread pool on the heap and simply "leaking" it
83 thread_pool
*thread_pool::g_thread_pool
= new thread_pool ();
85 thread_pool::~thread_pool ()
87 /* Because this is a singleton, we don't need to clean up. The
88 threads are detached so that they won't prevent process exit.
89 And, cleaning up here would be actively harmful in at least one
90 case -- see the comment by the definition of g_thread_pool. */
94 thread_pool::set_thread_count (size_t num_threads
)
96 std::lock_guard
<std::mutex
> guard (m_tasks_mutex
);
98 /* If the new size is larger, start some new threads. */
99 if (m_thread_count
< num_threads
)
101 /* Ensure that signals used by gdb are blocked in the new
103 block_signals blocker
;
104 for (size_t i
= m_thread_count
; i
< num_threads
; ++i
)
108 std::thread
thread (&thread_pool::thread_function
, this);
111 catch (const std::system_error
&)
113 /* libstdc++ may not implement std::thread, and will
114 throw an exception on use. It seems fine to ignore
115 this, and any other sort of startup failure here. */
121 /* If the new size is smaller, terminate some existing threads. */
122 if (num_threads
< m_thread_count
)
124 for (size_t i
= num_threads
; i
< m_thread_count
; ++i
)
126 m_tasks_cv
.notify_all ();
129 m_thread_count
= num_threads
;
133 thread_pool::post_task (std::function
<void ()> &&func
)
135 std::packaged_task
<void ()> t (std::move (func
));
136 std::future
<void> f
= t
.get_future ();
138 if (m_thread_count
== 0)
140 /* Just execute it now. */
145 std::lock_guard
<std::mutex
> guard (m_tasks_mutex
);
146 m_tasks
.emplace (std::move (t
));
147 m_tasks_cv
.notify_one ();
153 thread_pool::thread_function ()
155 #ifdef USE_PTHREAD_SETNAME_NP
156 /* This must be done here, because on macOS one can only set the
157 name of the current thread. */
158 set_thread_name (pthread_setname_np
, "gdb worker");
161 /* Ensure that SIGSEGV is delivered to an alternate signal
163 gdb::alternate_signal_stack signal_stack
;
170 /* We want to hold the lock while examining the task list, but
171 not while invoking the task function. */
172 std::unique_lock
<std::mutex
> guard (m_tasks_mutex
);
173 while (m_tasks
.empty ())
174 m_tasks_cv
.wait (guard
);
175 t
= std::move (m_tasks
.front());
187 #endif /* CXX_STD_THREAD */