Crate lock_api

This library provides type-safe and fully-featured Mutex and RwLock types which wrap a simple raw mutex or rwlock type. This has several benefits: not only does it eliminate a large portion of the work in implementing custom lock types, it also allows users to write code which is generic with regards to different lock implementations.

Basic usage of this crate is very straightforward:

1. Create a raw lock type. This should only contain the lock state, not any data protected by the lock.
2. Implement the RawMutex trait for your custom lock type.
3. Export your mutex as a type alias for lock_api::Mutex, and your mutex guard as a type alias for lock_api::MutexGuard. See the example below for details.

This process is similar for RwLocks, except that two guards need to be exported instead of one. (Or 3 guards if your type supports upgradable read locks, see extension traits below for details)

Example

use lock_api::{RawMutex, Mutex, GuardSend};
use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering, ATOMIC_BOOL_INIT};

// 1. Define our raw lock type
pub struct RawSpinlock(AtomicBool);

// 2. Implement RawMutex for this type
unsafe impl RawMutex for RawSpinlock {
    const INIT: RawSpinlock = RawSpinlock(ATOMIC_BOOL_INIT);

    // A spinlock guard can be sent to another thread and unlocked there
    type GuardMarker = GuardSend;

    fn lock(&self) {
        // Note: This isn't the best way of implementing a spinlock, but it
        // suffices for the sake of this example.
        while !self.try_lock() {}
    }

    fn try_lock(&self) -> bool {
        self.0.swap(true, Ordering::Acquire)
    }

    fn unlock(&self) {
        self.0.store(false, Ordering::Release);
    }
}

// 3. Export the wrappers. This are the types that your users will actually use.
pub type Spinlock<T> = lock_api::Mutex<RawSpinlock, T>;
pub type SpinlockGuard<'a, T> = lock_api::MutexGuard<'a, RawSpinlock, T>;

Extension traits

In addition to basic locking & unlocking functionality, you have the option of exposing additional functionality in your lock types by implementing additional traits for it. Examples of extension features include:

• Fair unlocking (RawMutexFair, RawRwLockFair)
• Lock timeouts (RawMutexTimed, RawRwLockTimed)
• Downgradable write locks (RawRwLockDowngradable)
• Recursive read locks (RawRwLockRecursive)
• Upgradable read locks (RawRwLockUpgrade)

The Mutex and RwLock wrappers will automatically expose this additional functionality if the raw lock type implements these extension traits.

Cargo features

This crate supports two cargo features:

• owning_ref: Allows your lock types to be used with the owning_ref crate.
• nightly: Enables nightly-only features. At the moment the only such feature is const fn constructors for lock types.

Structs

GuardNoSend

Marker type which indicates that the Guard type for a lock is not Send.

GuardSend

Marker type which indicates that the Guard type for a lock is Send.

MappedMutexGuard

An RAII mutex guard returned by MutexGuard::map, which can point to a subfield of the protected data.

MappedReentrantMutexGuard

An RAII mutex guard returned by ReentrantMutexGuard::map, which can point to a subfield of the protected data.

MappedRwLockReadGuard

An RAII read lock guard returned by RwLockReadGuard::map, which can point to a subfield of the protected data.

MappedRwLockWriteGuard

An RAII write lock guard returned by RwLockWriteGuard::map, which can point to a subfield of the protected data.

Mutex

A mutual exclusion primitive useful for protecting shared data

MutexGuard

An RAII implementation of a “scoped lock” of a mutex. When this structure is dropped (falls out of scope), the lock will be unlocked.

ReentrantMutex

A mutex which can be recursively locked by a single thread.

ReentrantMutexGuard

An RAII implementation of a “scoped lock” of a reentrant mutex. When this structure is dropped (falls out of scope), the lock will be unlocked.

RwLock

A reader-writer lock

RwLockReadGuard

RAII structure used to release the shared read access of a lock when dropped.

RwLockUpgradableReadGuard

RAII structure used to release the upgradable read access of a lock when dropped.

RwLockWriteGuard

RAII structure used to release the exclusive write access of a lock when dropped.

Traits

GetThreadId

Helper trait which returns a non-zero thread ID.

RawMutex

Basic operations for a mutex.

RawMutexFair

Additional methods for mutexes which support fair unlocking.

RawMutexTimed

Additional methods for mutexes which support locking with timeouts.

RawRwLock

Basic operations for a reader-writer lock.

RawRwLockDowngrade

Additional methods for RwLocks which support atomically downgrading an exclusive lock to a shared lock.

RawRwLockFair

Additional methods for RwLocks which support fair unlocking.

RawRwLockRecursive

Additional methods for RwLocks which support recursive read locks.

RawRwLockRecursiveTimed

Additional methods for RwLocks which support recursive read locks and timeouts.

RawRwLockTimed

Additional methods for RwLocks which support locking with timeouts.

RawRwLockUpgrade

Additional methods for RwLocks which support atomically upgrading a shared lock to an exclusive lock.

RawRwLockUpgradeDowngrade

Additional methods for RwLocks which support upgradable locks and lock downgrading.

RawRwLockUpgradeFair

Additional methods for RwLocks which support upgradable locks and fair unlocking.

RawRwLockUpgradeTimed

Additional methods for RwLocks which support upgradable locks and locking with timeouts.