1 // Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3 // found in the LICENSE file.
5 #include "base/threading/thread_local_storage.h"
7 #include "base/atomicops.h"
8 #include "base/logging.h"
10 using base::internal::PlatformThreadLocalStorage
;
13 // In order to make TLS destructors work, we need to keep around a function
14 // pointer to the destructor for each slot. We keep this array of pointers in a
15 // global (static) array.
16 // We use the single OS-level TLS slot (giving us one pointer per thread) to
17 // hold a pointer to a per-thread array (table) of slots that we allocate to
18 // Chromium consumers.
20 // g_native_tls_key is the one native TLS that we use. It stores our table.
21 base::subtle::AtomicWord g_native_tls_key
=
22 PlatformThreadLocalStorage::TLS_KEY_OUT_OF_INDEXES
;
24 // g_last_used_tls_key is the high-water-mark of allocated thread local storage.
25 // Each allocation is an index into our g_tls_destructors[]. Each such index is
26 // assigned to the instance variable slot_ in a ThreadLocalStorage::Slot
27 // instance. We reserve the value slot_ == 0 to indicate that the corresponding
28 // instance of ThreadLocalStorage::Slot has been freed (i.e., destructor called,
29 // etc.). This reserved use of 0 is then stated as the initial value of
30 // g_last_used_tls_key, so that the first issued index will be 1.
31 base::subtle::Atomic32 g_last_used_tls_key
= 0;
33 // The maximum number of 'slots' in our thread local storage stack.
34 const int kThreadLocalStorageSize
= 256;
36 // The maximum number of times to try to clear slots by calling destructors.
37 // Use pthread naming convention for clarity.
38 const int kMaxDestructorIterations
= kThreadLocalStorageSize
;
40 // An array of destructor function pointers for the slots. If a slot has a
41 // destructor, it will be stored in its corresponding entry in this array.
42 // The elements are volatile to ensure that when the compiler reads the value
43 // to potentially call the destructor, it does so once, and that value is tested
44 // for null-ness and then used. Yes, that would be a weird de-optimization,
45 // but I can imagine some register machines where it was just as easy to
46 // re-fetch an array element, and I want to be sure a call to free the key
47 // (i.e., null out the destructor entry) that happens on a separate thread can't
48 // hurt the racy calls to the destructors on another thread.
49 volatile base::ThreadLocalStorage::TLSDestructorFunc
50 g_tls_destructors
[kThreadLocalStorageSize
];
52 // This function is called to initialize our entire Chromium TLS system.
53 // It may be called very early, and we need to complete most all of the setup
54 // (initialization) before calling *any* memory allocator functions, which may
55 // recursively depend on this initialization.
56 // As a result, we use Atomics, and avoid anything (like a singleton) that might
57 // require memory allocations.
58 void** ConstructTlsVector() {
59 PlatformThreadLocalStorage::TLSKey key
=
60 base::subtle::NoBarrier_Load(&g_native_tls_key
);
61 if (key
== PlatformThreadLocalStorage::TLS_KEY_OUT_OF_INDEXES
) {
62 CHECK(PlatformThreadLocalStorage::AllocTLS(&key
));
64 // The TLS_KEY_OUT_OF_INDEXES is used to find out whether the key is set or
65 // not in NoBarrier_CompareAndSwap, but Posix doesn't have invalid key, we
66 // define an almost impossible value be it.
67 // If we really get TLS_KEY_OUT_OF_INDEXES as value of key, just alloc
69 if (key
== PlatformThreadLocalStorage::TLS_KEY_OUT_OF_INDEXES
) {
70 PlatformThreadLocalStorage::TLSKey tmp
= key
;
71 CHECK(PlatformThreadLocalStorage::AllocTLS(&key
) &&
72 key
!= PlatformThreadLocalStorage::TLS_KEY_OUT_OF_INDEXES
);
73 PlatformThreadLocalStorage::FreeTLS(tmp
);
75 // Atomically test-and-set the tls_key. If the key is
76 // TLS_KEY_OUT_OF_INDEXES, go ahead and set it. Otherwise, do nothing, as
77 // another thread already did our dirty work.
78 if (PlatformThreadLocalStorage::TLS_KEY_OUT_OF_INDEXES
!=
79 base::subtle::NoBarrier_CompareAndSwap(&g_native_tls_key
,
80 PlatformThreadLocalStorage::TLS_KEY_OUT_OF_INDEXES
, key
)) {
81 // We've been shortcut. Another thread replaced g_native_tls_key first so
82 // we need to destroy our index and use the one the other thread got
84 PlatformThreadLocalStorage::FreeTLS(key
);
85 key
= base::subtle::NoBarrier_Load(&g_native_tls_key
);
88 CHECK(!PlatformThreadLocalStorage::GetTLSValue(key
));
90 // Some allocators, such as TCMalloc, make use of thread local storage.
91 // As a result, any attempt to call new (or malloc) will lazily cause such a
92 // system to initialize, which will include registering for a TLS key. If we
93 // are not careful here, then that request to create a key will call new back,
94 // and we'll have an infinite loop. We avoid that as follows:
95 // Use a stack allocated vector, so that we don't have dependence on our
96 // allocator until our service is in place. (i.e., don't even call new until
98 void* stack_allocated_tls_data
[kThreadLocalStorageSize
];
99 memset(stack_allocated_tls_data
, 0, sizeof(stack_allocated_tls_data
));
100 // Ensure that any rentrant calls change the temp version.
101 PlatformThreadLocalStorage::SetTLSValue(key
, stack_allocated_tls_data
);
103 // Allocate an array to store our data.
104 void** tls_data
= new void*[kThreadLocalStorageSize
];
105 memcpy(tls_data
, stack_allocated_tls_data
, sizeof(stack_allocated_tls_data
));
106 PlatformThreadLocalStorage::SetTLSValue(key
, tls_data
);
110 void OnThreadExitInternal(void* value
) {
112 void** tls_data
= static_cast<void**>(value
);
113 // Some allocators, such as TCMalloc, use TLS. As a result, when a thread
114 // terminates, one of the destructor calls we make may be to shut down an
115 // allocator. We have to be careful that after we've shutdown all of the
116 // known destructors (perchance including an allocator), that we don't call
117 // the allocator and cause it to resurrect itself (with no possibly destructor
118 // call to follow). We handle this problem as follows:
119 // Switch to using a stack allocated vector, so that we don't have dependence
120 // on our allocator after we have called all g_tls_destructors. (i.e., don't
121 // even call delete[] after we're done with destructors.)
122 void* stack_allocated_tls_data
[kThreadLocalStorageSize
];
123 memcpy(stack_allocated_tls_data
, tls_data
, sizeof(stack_allocated_tls_data
));
124 // Ensure that any re-entrant calls change the temp version.
125 PlatformThreadLocalStorage::TLSKey key
=
126 base::subtle::NoBarrier_Load(&g_native_tls_key
);
127 PlatformThreadLocalStorage::SetTLSValue(key
, stack_allocated_tls_data
);
128 delete[] tls_data
; // Our last dependence on an allocator.
130 int remaining_attempts
= kMaxDestructorIterations
;
131 bool need_to_scan_destructors
= true;
132 while (need_to_scan_destructors
) {
133 need_to_scan_destructors
= false;
134 // Try to destroy the first-created-slot (which is slot 1) in our last
135 // destructor call. That user was able to function, and define a slot with
136 // no other services running, so perhaps it is a basic service (like an
137 // allocator) and should also be destroyed last. If we get the order wrong,
138 // then we'll itterate several more times, so it is really not that
139 // critical (but it might help).
140 base::subtle::Atomic32 last_used_tls_key
=
141 base::subtle::NoBarrier_Load(&g_last_used_tls_key
);
142 for (int slot
= last_used_tls_key
; slot
> 0; --slot
) {
143 void* value
= stack_allocated_tls_data
[slot
];
147 base::ThreadLocalStorage::TLSDestructorFunc destructor
=
148 g_tls_destructors
[slot
];
149 if (destructor
== NULL
)
151 stack_allocated_tls_data
[slot
] = NULL
; // pre-clear the slot.
153 // Any destructor might have called a different service, which then set
154 // a different slot to a non-NULL value. Hence we need to check
155 // the whole vector again. This is a pthread standard.
156 need_to_scan_destructors
= true;
158 if (--remaining_attempts
<= 0) {
159 NOTREACHED(); // Destructors might not have been called.
164 // Remove our stack allocated vector.
165 PlatformThreadLocalStorage::SetTLSValue(key
, NULL
);
175 void PlatformThreadLocalStorage::OnThreadExit() {
176 PlatformThreadLocalStorage::TLSKey key
=
177 base::subtle::NoBarrier_Load(&g_native_tls_key
);
178 if (key
== PlatformThreadLocalStorage::TLS_KEY_OUT_OF_INDEXES
)
180 void *tls_data
= GetTLSValue(key
);
181 // Maybe we have never initialized TLS for this thread.
184 OnThreadExitInternal(tls_data
);
186 #elif defined(OS_POSIX)
187 void PlatformThreadLocalStorage::OnThreadExit(void* value
) {
188 OnThreadExitInternal(value
);
190 #endif // defined(OS_WIN)
192 } // namespace internal
194 ThreadLocalStorage::Slot::Slot(TLSDestructorFunc destructor
) {
195 initialized_
= false;
197 Initialize(destructor
);
200 bool ThreadLocalStorage::StaticSlot::Initialize(TLSDestructorFunc destructor
) {
201 PlatformThreadLocalStorage::TLSKey key
=
202 base::subtle::NoBarrier_Load(&g_native_tls_key
);
203 if (key
== PlatformThreadLocalStorage::TLS_KEY_OUT_OF_INDEXES
||
204 !PlatformThreadLocalStorage::GetTLSValue(key
))
205 ConstructTlsVector();
208 slot_
= base::subtle::NoBarrier_AtomicIncrement(&g_last_used_tls_key
, 1);
210 CHECK_LT(slot_
, kThreadLocalStorageSize
);
212 // Setup our destructor.
213 g_tls_destructors
[slot_
] = destructor
;
218 void ThreadLocalStorage::StaticSlot::Free() {
219 // At this time, we don't reclaim old indices for TLS slots.
220 // So all we need to do is wipe the destructor.
222 DCHECK_LT(slot_
, kThreadLocalStorageSize
);
223 g_tls_destructors
[slot_
] = NULL
;
225 initialized_
= false;
228 void* ThreadLocalStorage::StaticSlot::Get() const {
229 void** tls_data
= static_cast<void**>(
230 PlatformThreadLocalStorage::GetTLSValue(
231 base::subtle::NoBarrier_Load(&g_native_tls_key
)));
233 tls_data
= ConstructTlsVector();
235 DCHECK_LT(slot_
, kThreadLocalStorageSize
);
236 return tls_data
[slot_
];
239 void ThreadLocalStorage::StaticSlot::Set(void* value
) {
240 void** tls_data
= static_cast<void**>(
241 PlatformThreadLocalStorage::GetTLSValue(
242 base::subtle::NoBarrier_Load(&g_native_tls_key
)));
244 tls_data
= ConstructTlsVector();
246 DCHECK_LT(slot_
, kThreadLocalStorageSize
);
247 tls_data
[slot_
] = value
;