Plasma GitLab Archive
Projects Blog Knowledge

Module Netmcore_mutex

module Netmcore_mutex: sig .. end
Mutexes


Mutexes are here defined as values that reside in shared heaps (Netmcore_heap), for example in the header field of Netmcore_array or somewhere else in heap-allocated data structures.

In order to ensure that the mutex is in the heap, the special function create must be used to initialize it there. As create requires a mutator as argument, this is only possible by calling create from the callback of Netmcore_heap.modify.

Mutexes are special values, and cannot be copied or moved.

Mutexes are implemented on top of semaphores. For mutex types with deadlock handling, the process is considered as the owner, and process ID is the identifier.

Only mutexes of type `Normal are thread-safe, i.e. can be used when the worker processes also use threads internally.

type mutex_type = [ `Errorcheck | `Normal | `Recursive ] 
Types:
  • `Normal mutexes have no checks for deadlocks.
  • `Errorcheck mutexes check whether the process locks the mutex again, and fail in this case. Also, only the owning process can unlock a mutex.
  • `Recursive mutexes allow that the owner locks several times. The same number of unlock requests need to be issued to give up the ownership

type mutex 
val dummy : unit -> mutex
A dummy mutex is non-functional, but can be used to put something into mutex-typed variables
val create : Netmcore_heap.mutator -> mutex_type -> mutex
create m t: Creates a mutex of type t, and pushes it to the heap, using the mutator m.

After being pushed to the heap, the mutex can be used. It is nonsense to copy it outside the heap.

val lock : mutex -> unit
Locks the mutex
val unlock : mutex -> unit
Unlocks the mutex
val destroy : mutex -> unit
Destroys the mutex
This web site is published by Informatikbüro Gerd Stolpmann
Powered by Caml