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If you do not wish to do so, delete this ;;; exception statement from your version. (in-package threads) (export '(make-mailbox mailbox-send mailbox-empty-p mailbox-read mailbox-peek make-thread-lock with-thread-lock thread-function-wrapper current-thread yield make-mutex get-mutex release-mutex with-mutex get-java-thread)) ;; ;; MAKE-THREAD helper to establish restarts ;; (defun thread-function-wrapper (function) "Call FUNCTION with a simple abort restart" (restart-case (funcall function) (abort () :report "Abort thread."))) ;; ;; Mailbox implementation ;; ;; this export statement is also in autoloads.lisp (export '(make-mailbox mailbox-send mailbox-empty-p mailbox-read mailbox-peek)) (defstruct mailbox "A first-in-first out queue of messages" queue) (defun mailbox-send (mailbox item) "Sends an item into the mailbox, notifying 1 waiter to wake up for retrieval of that object." (threads:synchronized-on mailbox (push item (mailbox-queue mailbox)) (threads:object-notify mailbox))) (defun mailbox-empty-p (mailbox) "Returns non-NIL if the mailbox can be read from, NIL otherwise." ;; Because we're just checking the value of an object reference, ;; (which are atomically gotten and set) we don't need to lock ;; the mailbox before operating on it. (null (mailbox-queue mailbox))) (defun mailbox-read (mailbox) "Blocks on the mailbox until an item is available for reading. When an item is available, it is returned." (threads:synchronized-on mailbox (loop (unless (mailbox-empty-p mailbox) (return)) (object-wait mailbox)) (pop (mailbox-queue mailbox)))) (defun mailbox-peek (mailbox) "Returns two values. The second returns non-NIL when the mailbox is empty. The first is the next item to be read from the mailbox. Note that due to multi-threading, the first value returned upon peek, may be different from the one returned upon next read in the calling thread." (threads:synchronized-on mailbox (values (car (mailbox-queue mailbox)) (null (mailbox-queue mailbox))))) ;; ;; Mutex implementation ;; ;; this export statement is also in autoloads.lisp (export '(make-mutex get-mutex release-mutex)) (defstruct mutex "An object used as a mutex lock" in-use) (defun get-mutex (mutex) "Acquires the lock associated with the MUTEX" (synchronized-on mutex (loop while (mutex-in-use mutex) do (object-wait mutex)) (setf (mutex-in-use mutex) T))) (defun release-mutex (mutex) "Releases a lock associated with MUTEX" (synchronized-on mutex (setf (mutex-in-use mutex) NIL) (object-notify mutex))) (defmacro with-mutex ((mutex) &body body) "Acquires a lock on MUTEX, executes BODY, and then releases the lock" (let ((m (gensym))) `(let ((,m ,mutex)) (when (get-mutex ,m) (unwind-protect (progn ,@body) (release-mutex ,m)))))) ;; ;; Lock implementation ;; (defun make-thread-lock () "Returns an object to be used with the WITH-THREAD-LOCK macro." (gensym)) (defmacro with-thread-lock ((lock) &body body) "Acquires the LOCK, executes BODY and releases the LOCK" (let ((glock (gensym))) `(let ((,glock ,lock)) (synchronized-on ,glock ,@body)))) (defun yield () "A hint to the scheduler that the current thread is willing to yield its current use of a processor. The scheduler is free to ignore this hint. See java.lang.Thread.yield()." (java:jcall "yield" (java:jstatic "currentThread" "java.lang.Thread"))) (defun get-java-thread (&optional lisp-thread) "Without an argument, return the underlying currently executing Java thread Specified with a LISP-THREAD, return that thread's wrapped Java thread." (cdr (first (java:jcall "getParts" (if lisp-thread lisp-thread (threads:current-thread))))))