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[PATCH/RFC] mingw: implement PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER

From
Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 25, 2011, 14:55 UTC
Message-ID
<1319554509-6532-1-git-send-email-kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
---
Every now and then, someone suggest using PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER,
but some times gets show down by our lack of support on Windows.

I'm working on something myself that could benefit from this, so I gave it a stab. The result looks promising to me, but I haven't really debugged it yet.

But is there a fundamental reason why we haven't done something like this before? :)

 compat/win32/pthread.c |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 compat/win32/pthread.h |   18 ++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/compat/win32/pthread.c b/compat/win32/pthread.c
index 010e875..14f91d5 100644
--- a/compat/win32/pthread.c
+++ b/compat/win32/pthread.c
@@ -57,6 +57,28 @@ pthread_t pthread_self(void)
 	return t;
 }
 
+int pthread_mutex_init(pthread_mutex_t *mutex, const pthread_mutexattr_t *attr)
+{
+	InitializeCriticalSection(&mutex->cs);
+	mutex->autoinit = 0;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int pthread_mutex_lock(pthread_mutex_t *mutex)
+{
+	if (mutex->autoinit) {
+		if (InterlockedCompareExchange(&mutex->autoinit, -1, 1) != -1) {
+			pthread_mutex_init(mutex, NULL);
+			mutex->autoinit = 0;
+		} else
+			while (mutex->autoinit != 0)
+				; /* wait for other thread */
+	}
+
+	EnterCriticalSection(&mutex->cs);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 int pthread_cond_init(pthread_cond_t *cond, const void *unused)
 {
 	cond->waiters = 0;
@@ -85,7 +107,7 @@ int pthread_cond_destroy(pthread_cond_t *cond)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-int pthread_cond_wait(pthread_cond_t *cond, CRITICAL_SECTION *mutex)
+int pthread_cond_wait(pthread_cond_t *cond, pthread_mutex_t *mutex)
 {
 	int last_waiter;
 
@@ -99,7 +121,7 @@ int pthread_cond_wait(pthread_cond_t *cond, CRITICAL_SECTION *mutex)
 	 * waiters count above, so there's no problem with
 	 * leaving mutex unlocked before we wait on semaphore.
 	 */
-	LeaveCriticalSection(mutex);
+	LeaveCriticalSection(&mutex->cs);
 
 	/* let's wait - ignore return value */
 	WaitForSingleObject(cond->sema, INFINITE);
@@ -133,7 +155,7 @@ int pthread_cond_wait(pthread_cond_t *cond, CRITICAL_SECTION *mutex)
 		 */
 	}
 	/* lock external mutex again */
-	EnterCriticalSection(mutex);
+	EnterCriticalSection(&mutex->cs);
 
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/compat/win32/pthread.h b/compat/win32/pthread.h
index 2e20548..647e6d4 100644
--- a/compat/win32/pthread.h
+++ b/compat/win32/pthread.h
@@ -16,14 +16,20 @@
 /*
  * Defines that adapt Windows API threads to pthreads API
  */
-#define pthread_mutex_t CRITICAL_SECTION
+typedef struct {
+	CRITICAL_SECTION cs;
+	LONG volatile autoinit;
+} pthread_mutex_t;
 
-#define pthread_mutex_init(a,b) (InitializeCriticalSection((a)), 0)
-#define pthread_mutex_destroy(a) DeleteCriticalSection((a))
-#define pthread_mutex_lock EnterCriticalSection
-#define pthread_mutex_unlock LeaveCriticalSection
+#define PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER { { 0 }, 1 }
 
 typedef int pthread_mutexattr_t;
+
+int pthread_mutex_init(pthread_mutex_t *, const pthread_mutexattr_t *);
+#define pthread_mutex_destroy(a) DeleteCriticalSection(&(a)->cs)
+int pthread_mutex_lock(pthread_mutex_t *);
+#define pthread_mutex_unlock(a) LeaveCriticalSection(&(a)->cs)
+
 #define pthread_mutexattr_init(a) (*(a) = 0)
 #define pthread_mutexattr_destroy(a) do {} while (0)
 #define pthread_mutexattr_settype(a, t) 0
@@ -47,7 +53,7 @@ typedef struct {
 
 extern int pthread_cond_init(pthread_cond_t *cond, const void *unused);
 extern int pthread_cond_destroy(pthread_cond_t *cond);
-extern int pthread_cond_wait(pthread_cond_t *cond, CRITICAL_SECTION *mutex);
+extern int pthread_cond_wait(pthread_cond_t *cond, pthread_mutex_t *mutex);
 extern int pthread_cond_signal(pthread_cond_t *cond);
 extern int pthread_cond_broadcast(pthread_cond_t *cond);
 
-- 
1.7.7.msysgit.1.1.g7b316
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