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DEFINITIONS

This source file includes following definitions.
  1. mutex_initialize
  2. _get_owner
  3. _set_owner
  4. mutex_locked
  5. mutex_lock
  6. mutex_lock_timeout
  7. mutex_trylock
  8. mutex_unlock

/*
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 * Copyright (c) 2025 Jiří Zárevúcky
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/** @addtogroup kernel_sync
 * @{
 */

/**
 * @file
 * @brief Mutexes.
 */

#include <assert.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <proc/thread.h>
#include <stdatomic.h>
#include <synch/mutex.h>
#include <synch/semaphore.h>

/** Initialize mutex.
 *
 * @param mtx   Mutex.
 * @param type  Type of the mutex.
 */
void mutex_initialize(mutex_t *mtx, mutex_type_t type)
{
        *mtx = MUTEX_INITIALIZER(*mtx, type);
}

/** A race in mtx->owner access is unavoidable, so we have to make
 * access to it formally atomic. These are convenience functions to
 * read/write the variable without memory barriers, since we don't need
 * them and C11 atomics default to the strongest possible memory ordering
 * by default, which is utterly ridiculous.
 */
static inline thread_t *_get_owner(mutex_t *mtx)
{
        return atomic_load_explicit(&mtx->owner, memory_order_relaxed);
}

/** Counterpart to _get_owner(). */
static inline void _set_owner(mutex_t *mtx, thread_t *owner)
{
        atomic_store_explicit(&mtx->owner, owner, memory_order_relaxed);
}

/** Find out whether the mutex is currently locked.
 *
 * @param mtx  Mutex.
 *
 * @return  True if the mutex is locked, false otherwise.
 */
bool mutex_locked(mutex_t *mtx)
{
        if (!THREAD)
                return mtx->nesting > 0;

        return _get_owner(mtx) == THREAD;
}

/** Acquire mutex.
 *
 * This operation is uninterruptible and cannot fail.
 */
void mutex_lock(mutex_t *mtx)
{
        if (!THREAD) {
                assert(mtx->type == MUTEX_RECURSIVE || mtx->nesting == 0);
                mtx->nesting++;
                return;
        }

        if (_get_owner(mtx) == THREAD) {
                /* This will also detect nested locks on a non-recursive mutex. */
                assert(mtx->type == MUTEX_RECURSIVE);
                assert(mtx->nesting > 0);
                mtx->nesting++;
                return;
        }

        semaphore_down(&mtx->sem);

        _set_owner(mtx, THREAD);
        assert(mtx->nesting == 0);
        mtx->nesting = 1;
}

/** Acquire mutex with timeout.
 *
 * @param mtx    Mutex.
 * @param usec   Timeout in microseconds.
 *
 * @return EOK if lock was successfully acquired, something else otherwise.
 */
errno_t mutex_lock_timeout(mutex_t *mtx, uint32_t usec)
{
        if (!THREAD) {
                assert(mtx->type == MUTEX_RECURSIVE || mtx->nesting == 0);
                mtx->nesting++;
                return EOK;
        }

        if (_get_owner(mtx) == THREAD) {
                assert(mtx->type == MUTEX_RECURSIVE);
                assert(mtx->nesting > 0);
                mtx->nesting++;
                return EOK;
        }

        errno_t rc = semaphore_down_timeout(&mtx->sem, usec);
        if (rc != EOK)
                return rc;

        _set_owner(mtx, THREAD);
        assert(mtx->nesting == 0);
        mtx->nesting = 1;
        return EOK;
}

/** Attempt to acquire mutex without blocking.
 *
 * @return EOK if lock was successfully acquired, something else otherwise.
 */
errno_t mutex_trylock(mutex_t *mtx)
{
        return mutex_lock_timeout(mtx, 0);
}

/** Release mutex.
 *
 * @param mtx  Mutex.
 */
void mutex_unlock(mutex_t *mtx)
{
        if (--mtx->nesting > 0) {
                assert(mtx->type == MUTEX_RECURSIVE);
                return;
        }

        assert(mtx->nesting == 0);

        if (!THREAD)
                return;

        assert(_get_owner(mtx) == THREAD);
        _set_owner(mtx, NULL);

        semaphore_up(&mtx->sem);
}

/** @}
 */

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