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 * @file llthread.h
 * @brief Base classes for thread, mutex and condition handling.
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#ifndef LL_LLTHREAD_H
#define LL_LLTHREAD_H

#include "llapr.h"
#include "llapp.h"
#include "llmemory.h"

#include "apr_thread_cond.h"
#include "aiaprpool.h"

class LLThread;
class LLMutex;
class LLCondition;

class LL_COMMON_API AIThreadLocalData
{
private:
	static apr_threadkey_t* sThreadLocalDataKey;

public:
	// Thread-local memory pool.
	AIAPRRootPool mRootPool;
	AIVolatileAPRPool mVolatileAPRPool;

	static void init(void);
	static void destroy(void* thread_local_data);
	static void create(LLThread* pthread);
	static AIThreadLocalData& tldata(void);
};

class LL_COMMON_API LLThread
{
public:
	typedef enum e_thread_status
	{
		STOPPED = 0,	// The thread is not running.  Not started, or has exited its run function
		RUNNING = 1,	// The thread is currently running
		QUITTING= 2 	// Someone wants this thread to quit
	} EThreadStatus;

	LLThread(std::string const& name);
	virtual ~LLThread(); // Warning!  You almost NEVER want to destroy a thread unless it's in the STOPPED state.
	virtual void shutdown(); // stops the thread
	
	bool isQuitting() const { return (QUITTING == mStatus); }
	bool isStopped() const { return (STOPPED == mStatus); }
	
	static U32 currentID(); // Return ID of current thread
	static void yield(); // Static because it can be called by the main thread, which doesn't have an LLThread data structure.
	
public:
	// PAUSE / RESUME functionality. See source code for important usage notes.
	// Called from MAIN THREAD.
	void pause();
	void unpause();
	bool isPaused() { return isStopped() || mPaused; }
	
	// Cause the thread to wake up and check its condition
	void wake();

	// Same as above, but to be used when the condition is already locked.
	void wakeLocked();

	// Called from run() (CHILD THREAD). Pause the thread if requested until unpaused.
	void checkPause();

	// this kicks off the apr thread
	void start(void);

	// Return thread-local data for the current thread.
	static AIThreadLocalData& tldata(void) { return AIThreadLocalData::tldata(); }

private:
	bool				mPaused;
	
	// static function passed to APR thread creation routine
	static void *APR_THREAD_FUNC staticRun(apr_thread_t *apr_threadp, void *datap);

protected:
	std::string			mName;
	LLCondition*		mRunCondition;

	apr_thread_t		*mAPRThreadp;
	EThreadStatus		mStatus;

	friend void AIThreadLocalData::create(LLThread* threadp);
	AIThreadLocalData*	mThreadLocalData;

	void setQuitting();
	
	// virtual function overridden by subclass -- this will be called when the thread runs
	virtual void run(void) = 0; 
	
	// virtual predicate function -- returns true if the thread should wake up, false if it should sleep.
	virtual bool runCondition(void);

	// Lock/Unlock Run Condition -- use around modification of any variable used in runCondition()
	inline void lockData();
	inline void unlockData();
	
	// This is the predicate that decides whether the thread should sleep.  
	// It should only be called with mRunCondition locked, since the virtual runCondition() function may need to access
	// data structures that are thread-unsafe.
	bool shouldSleep(void) { return (mStatus == RUNNING) && (isPaused() || (!runCondition())); }

	// To avoid spurious signals (and the associated context switches) when the condition may or may not have changed, you can do the following:
	// mRunCondition->lock();
	// if(!shouldSleep())
	//     mRunCondition->signal();
	// mRunCondition->unlock();
};

//============================================================================

class LL_COMMON_API LLMutexBase
{
public:
	void lock() { apr_thread_mutex_lock(mAPRMutexp); }
	void unlock() { apr_thread_mutex_unlock(mAPRMutexp); }
	// Returns true if lock was obtained successfully.
	bool tryLock() { return !APR_STATUS_IS_EBUSY(apr_thread_mutex_trylock(mAPRMutexp)); }

	bool isLocked(); 	// non-blocking, but does do a lock/unlock so not free

protected:
	// mAPRMutexp is initialized and uninitialized in the derived class.
	apr_thread_mutex_t*	mAPRMutexp;
};

class LL_COMMON_API LLMutex : public LLMutexBase
{
public:
	LLMutex(AIAPRPool& parent = LLThread::tldata().mRootPool) : mPool(parent)
	{
		apr_thread_mutex_create(&mAPRMutexp, APR_THREAD_MUTEX_UNNESTED, mPool());
	}
	~LLMutex()
	{
		llassert(!isLocked()); // better not be locked!
		apr_thread_mutex_destroy(mAPRMutexp);
		mAPRMutexp = NULL;
	}

protected:
	AIAPRPool mPool;
};

#if APR_HAS_THREADS
// No need to use a root pool in this case.
typedef LLMutex LLMutexRootPool;
#else	// APR_HAS_THREADS
class LL_COMMON_API LLMutexRootPool : public LLMutexBase
{
public:
	LLMutexRootPool(void)
	{
		apr_thread_mutex_create(&mAPRMutexp, APR_THREAD_MUTEX_UNNESTED, mRootPool());
	}
	~LLMutexRootPool()
	{
#if APR_POOL_DEBUG
		// It is allowed to destruct root pools from a different thread.
		mRootPool.grab_ownership();
#endif
		llassert(!isLocked()); // better not be locked!
		apr_thread_mutex_destroy(mAPRMutexp);
		mAPRMutexp = NULL;
	}

protected:
	AIAPRRootPool mRootPool;
};
#endif	// APR_HAS_THREADS

// Actually a condition/mutex pair (since each condition needs to be associated with a mutex).
class LL_COMMON_API LLCondition : public LLMutex
{
public:
	LLCondition(AIAPRPool& parent = LLThread::tldata().mRootPool);
	~LLCondition();
	
	void wait();		// blocks
	void signal();
	void broadcast();
	
protected:
	apr_thread_cond_t *mAPRCondp;
};

class LL_COMMON_API LLMutexLock
{
public:
	LLMutexLock(LLMutexBase* mutex)
	{
		mMutex = mutex;
		mMutex->lock();
	}
	~LLMutexLock()
	{
		mMutex->unlock();
	}
private:
	LLMutexBase* mMutex;
};

//============================================================================

void LLThread::lockData()
{
	mRunCondition->lock();
}

void LLThread::unlockData()
{
	mRunCondition->unlock();
}


//============================================================================

// see llmemory.h for LLPointer<> definition

class LL_COMMON_API LLThreadSafeRefCount
{
public:
	static void initThreadSafeRefCount(); // creates sMutex
	static void cleanupThreadSafeRefCount(); // destroys sMutex
	
private:
	static LLMutex* sMutex;

private:
	LLThreadSafeRefCount(const LLThreadSafeRefCount&); // not implemented
	LLThreadSafeRefCount&operator=(const LLThreadSafeRefCount&); // not implemented

protected:
	virtual ~LLThreadSafeRefCount(); // use unref()
	
public:
	LLThreadSafeRefCount();
	
	void ref()
	{
		if (sMutex) sMutex->lock();
		mRef++; 
		if (sMutex) sMutex->unlock();
	} 

	S32 unref()
	{
		llassert(mRef >= 1);
		if (sMutex) sMutex->lock();
		S32 res = --mRef;
		if (sMutex) sMutex->unlock();
		if (0 == res) 
		{
			delete this; 
			return 0;
		}
		return res;
	}	
	S32 getNumRefs() const
	{
		return mRef;
	}

private: 
	S32	mRef; 
};

//============================================================================

// Simple responder for self destructing callbacks
// Pure virtual class
class LL_COMMON_API LLResponder : public LLThreadSafeRefCount
{
protected:
	virtual ~LLResponder();
public:
	virtual void completed(bool success) = 0;
};

//============================================================================

#endif // LL_LLTHREAD_H