/* * Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Niels Provos and Nick Mathewson * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products * derived from this software without specific prior written permission. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES * OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, * INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT * NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, * DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY * THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT * (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF * THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. */ #ifndef _EVENT2_THREAD_H_ #define _EVENT2_THREAD_H_ /** @file thread.h Functions for multi-threaded applications using libevent. When using a multi-threaded application in which multiple threads add and delete events from a single event base, libevent needs to lock its data structures. Like the memory-management function hooks, all of the threading functions _must_ be set up before an event_base is created if you want the base to use them. A multi-threaded application must provide locking functions to libevent via evthread_set_locking_callback(). Libevent will invoke this callback whenever a lock needs to be acquired or released. The total number of locks employed by libevent can be determined via the evthread_num_locks() function. An application must provision that many locks. If the owner of an event base is waiting for events to happen, libevent may signal the thread via a special file descriptor to wake up. To enable this feature, an application needs to provide a thread identity function via evthread_set_id_callback(). */ #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif #include /* combine (lock|unlock) with (read|write) */ #define EVTHREAD_LOCK 0x01 #define EVTHREAD_UNLOCK 0x02 #define EVTHREAD_WRITE 0x04 #define EVTHREAD_READ 0x08 /** Sets the functions libevent should use for allocating and freeing locks. This needs to be called in addition to evthread_set_locking_callback() before using libevent in a multi-threaded application. Locks must be recursive. That is, it must be safe for a thread to acquire a lock that it already holds. @param alloc_fn function to be called when allocating a new lock @param free_fn function to be called to a free a lock */ void evthread_set_lock_create_callbacks( void *(*alloc_fn)(void), void (*free_fn)(void *)); /** Sets the function libevent should use for locking. @param locking_fn the function that libevent should invoke to acquire or release a lock. mode has either EVTHREAD_LOCK or EVTHREAD_UNLOCK set, and in addition, either EVHTREAD_WRITE or EVTREAD_READ. */ void evthread_set_locking_callback( void (*locking_fn)(int mode, void *lock)); /** Sets the function for derminting the thread id. @param base the event base for which to set the id function @param id_fn the identify function libevent should invoke to determine the identity of a thread. */ void evthread_set_id_callback( unsigned long (*id_fn)(void)); /** Make sure it's safe to tell an event base to wake up from another thread. @return 0 on success, -1 on failure. */ int evthread_make_base_notifiable(struct event_base *base); #ifdef WIN32 /** Sets up libevent for use with Windows builtin locking and thread ID functions. Unavailable if libevent is not built for Windows. @return 0 on success, -1 on failure. */ int evthread_use_windows_threads(void); #endif #ifdef _EVENT_HAVE_PTHREADS /** Sets up libevent for use with Pthreadsn locking and thread ID functions. Unavailable if libevent is not build for use with pthreads. Requires libraries to link against libevent_pthreads as well as libevent. @return 0 on success, -1 on failure. */ int evthread_use_pthreads(void); #endif #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif #endif /* _EVENT2_THREAD_H_ */