When we initially implemented the C++20 synchronization library, we
reluctantly accepted for the implementation to be backported to C++03
upon request from the person who provided the patch. This was when we
were only starting to have experience with the issues this can create,
so we flinched. Nowadays, we have a much stricter stance about not
backporting features to previous standards.
We have recently started fixing several bugs (and near bugs) in our
implementation of the synchronization library. A recurring theme during
these reviews has been how difficult to understand the current code is,
and upon inspection it becomes clear that being able to use a few recent
C++ features (in particular lambdas) would help a great deal. The code
would still be pretty intricate, but it would be a lot easier to reason
about the flow of callbacks through things like
__thread_poll_with_backoff.
As a result, this patch drops support for the synchronization library
before C++20. This makes us more strictly conforming and opens the door
to major simplifications, in particular around atomic_wait which was
supported all the way to C++03.
This change will probably have some impact on downstream users, however
since the C++20 synchronization library was added only in LLVM 10 (~3
years ago) and it's quite a niche feature, the set of people trying to
use this part of the library before C++20 should be reasonably small.
In essence, this header has always been related to configuration of
the library but we didn't want to put it inside <__config> due to
complexity reasons. Now that we have sub-headers in <__config>, we
can move <__availability> to it and stop including it everywhere since
we already obtain the required macros via <__config>.
When we initially implemented the C++20 synchronization library, we
reluctantly accepted for the implementation to be backported to C++03
upon request from the person who provided the patch. This was when we
were only starting to have experience with the issues this can create,
so we flinched. Nowadays, we have a much stricter stance about not
backporting features to previous standards.
We have recently started fixing several bugs (and near bugs) in our
implementation of the synchronization library. A recurring theme during
these reviews has been how difficult to understand the current code is,
and upon inspection it becomes clear that being able to use a few recent
C++ features (in particular lambdas) would help a great deal. The code
would still be pretty intricate, but it would be a lot easier to reason
about the flow of callbacks through things like
__thread_poll_with_backoff.
As a result, this patch deprecates support for the synchronization
library before C++20. In the next release, we can remove that support
entirely.
The goal of this patch is to make `atomic`'s wait functions to be
reusable by `atomic_ref`.
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/76647
First, this patch is built on top of
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/80596 , to reduce the future
merge conflicts.
This patch made the following functions as "API"s to be used by
`atomic`, `atomic_flag`, `semaphore`, `latch`, `atomic_ref`
```
__atomic_wait
__atomic_wait_unless
__atomic_notify_one
__atomic_notify_all
```
These functions are made generic to support `atomic` type and
`atomic_ref`. There are two customisation points.
```
// How to load the value from the given type (with a memory order)
__atomic_load
```
```
// what is the contention address that the platform `wait` function is going to monitor
__atomic_contention_address
```
For `atomic_ref` (not implemented in this patch), the `load` and
`address` function will be different, because
- it does not use the "atomic abstraction layer" so the `load` operation
will be some gcc builtin
- the contention address will be the user's actual type that the
`atomic_ref` is pointing to
Originally, we used __libcpp_verbose_abort to handle assertion failures.
That function was declared from all public headers. Since we don't use
that mechanism anymore, we don't need to declare __libcpp_verbose_abort
from all public headers, and we can clean up a lot of unnecessary
includes.
This patch also moves the definition of the various assertion categories
to the <__assert> header, since we now rely on regular IWYU for these
assertion macros.
rdar://105510916
The <__threading_support> header is a huge beast and it's really
difficult to navigate. I find myself struggling to find what I want
every time I have to open it, and I've been considering splitting it up
for years for that reason.
This patch aims not to contain any functional change. The various
implementations of the threading base are simply moved to separate
headers and then the individual headers are simplified in mechanical
ways. For example, we used to have redundant declarations of all the
functions at the top of `__threading_support`, and those are removed
since they are not needed anymore. The various #ifdefs are also
simplified and removed when they become unnecessary.
Finally, this patch adds documentation for the API we expect from any
threading implementation.
This patch runs clang-format on all of libcxx/include and libcxx/src, in
accordance with the RFC discussed at [1]. Follow-up patches will format
the benchmarks, the test suite and remaining parts of the code. I'm
splitting this one into its own patch so the diff is a bit easier to
review.
This patch was generated with:
find libcxx/include libcxx/src -type f \
| grep -v 'module.modulemap.in' \
| grep -v 'CMakeLists.txt' \
| grep -v 'README.txt' \
| grep -v 'libcxx.imp' \
| grep -v '__config_site.in' \
| xargs clang-format -i
A Git merge driver is available in libcxx/utils/clang-format-merge-driver.sh
to help resolve merge and rebase issues across these formatting changes.
[1]: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-clang-formatting-all-of-libc-once-and-for-all
We already have a clang-tidy check for making sure that `_LIBCPP_HIDE_FROM_ABI` is on free functions. This patch extends this to class members. The places where we don't check for `_LIBCPP_HIDE_FROM_ABI` are classes for which we have an instantiation in the library.
Reviewed By: ldionne, Mordante, #libc
Spies: jplehr, mikhail.ramalho, sstefan1, libcxx-commits, krytarowski, miyuki, smeenai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D142332
