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42 /* Software engineering face-lift by Greg J. Badros, 11-Dec-1999,
43 gjb@cs.washington.edu, http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gjb */
47 /* This is an implementation of guardians as described in
48 * R. Kent Dybvig, Carl Bruggeman, and David Eby (1993) "Guardians in
49 * a Generation-Based Garbage Collector" ACM SIGPLAN Conference on
50 * Programming Language Design and Implementation, June 1993
51 * ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/scheme-repository/doc/pubs/guardians.ps.gz
53 * Author: Michael N. Livshin
54 * Modified by: Mikael Djurfeldt
65 #include "scm_validate.h"
66 #include "guardians.h"
68 static long scm_tc16_guardian
;
70 /* The live and zombies FIFOs are implemented as tconcs as described
71 in Dybvig's paper. This decouples addition and removal of elements
72 so that no synchronization between these needs to take place.
74 #define TCONC_IN(tc, obj, pair) \
76 SCM_SETCAR ((tc).tail, obj); \
77 SCM_SETCAR (pair, SCM_BOOL_F); \
78 SCM_SETCDR (pair, SCM_BOOL_F); \
79 SCM_SETCDR ((tc).tail, pair); \
83 #define TCONC_OUT(tc, res) \
85 (res) = SCM_CAR ((tc).head); \
86 (tc).head = SCM_CDR ((tc).head); \
89 #define TCONC_EMPTYP(tc) ((tc).head == (tc).tail)
91 typedef struct tconc_t
97 typedef struct guardian_t
101 struct guardian_t
*next
;
104 #define GUARDIAN(x) ((guardian_t *) SCM_CDR (x))
105 #define GUARDIAN_LIVE(x) (GUARDIAN (x)->live)
106 #define GUARDIAN_ZOMBIES(x) (GUARDIAN (x)->zombies)
107 #define GUARDIAN_NEXT(x) (GUARDIAN (x)->next)
109 static guardian_t
*first_live_guardian
= NULL
;
110 static guardian_t
**current_link_field
= NULL
;
115 *current_link_field
= GUARDIAN (ptr
);
116 current_link_field
= &GUARDIAN_NEXT (ptr
);
117 GUARDIAN_NEXT (ptr
) = NULL
;
119 /* Can't mark zombies here since they can refer to objects which are
120 living dead, thereby preventing them to join the zombies. */
125 g_print (SCM exp
, SCM port
, scm_print_state
*pstate
)
128 sprintf (buf
, "#<guardian live objs: %lu zombies: %lu>",
129 scm_ilength (SCM_CDR (GUARDIAN_LIVE (exp
).head
)),
130 scm_ilength (SCM_CDR (GUARDIAN_ZOMBIES (exp
).head
)));
131 scm_puts (buf
, port
);
136 #define CCLO_G(cclo) (SCM_VELTS (cclo)[1])
139 guard (SCM cclo
, SCM arg
)
141 if (!SCM_UNBNDP (arg
))
143 scm_guard (cclo
, arg
);
144 return SCM_UNSPECIFIED
;
147 return scm_get_one_zombie (cclo
);
152 GUILE_PROC (scm_make_guardian
, "make-guardian", 0, 0, 0,
155 #define FUNC_NAME s_scm_make_guardian
157 SCM cclo
= scm_makcclo (guard1
, 2L);
158 guardian_t
*g
= SCM_MUST_MALLOC_TYPE(guardian_t
);
159 SCM z1
= scm_cons (SCM_BOOL_F
, SCM_BOOL_F
);
160 SCM z2
= scm_cons (SCM_BOOL_F
, SCM_BOOL_F
);
162 /* A tconc starts out with one tail pair. */
163 g
->live
.head
= g
->live
.tail
= z1
;
164 g
->zombies
.head
= g
->zombies
.tail
= z2
;
166 SCM_NEWSMOB (z
, scm_tc16_guardian
, g
);
175 scm_guardian_gc_init()
177 current_link_field
= &first_live_guardian
;
178 first_live_guardian
= NULL
;
182 scm_guardian_zombify ()
186 /* Note that new guardians may be stuck on the end of the live
187 guardian list as we run this loop. As we move unmarked objects
188 to the zombie list and mark them, we may find some guarded
189 guardians. The guardian mark function will stick them on the end
190 of this list, so they'll be processed properly. */
191 for (g
= first_live_guardian
; g
; g
= g
->next
)
193 /* Scan the live list for unmarked objects, and move them to the
195 SCM tconc_tail
= g
->live
.tail
;
196 SCM
*prev_ptr
= &g
->live
.head
;
197 SCM pair
= g
->live
.head
;
199 while (pair
!= tconc_tail
)
201 SCM next_pair
= SCM_CDR (pair
);
203 if (SCM_NMARKEDP (SCM_CAR (pair
)))
205 /* got you, zombie! */
207 /* out of the live list! */
208 *prev_ptr
= next_pair
;
210 /* to the zombie list! */
211 TCONC_IN (g
->zombies
, SCM_CAR (pair
), pair
);
214 prev_ptr
= SCM_CDRLOC (pair
);
219 /* Mark the cells of the live list. */
220 for (pair
= g
->live
.head
; SCM_NIMP (pair
); pair
= SCM_GCCDR (pair
))
221 SCM_SETGCMARK (pair
);
223 /* Bring the zombies back from the dead. */
224 scm_gc_mark (g
->zombies
.head
);
229 scm_guard (SCM guardian
, SCM obj
)
231 SCM g
= CCLO_G (guardian
);
239 /* This critical section barrier will be replaced by a mutex. */
241 TCONC_IN (GUARDIAN_LIVE (g
), obj
, z
);
247 scm_get_one_zombie (SCM guardian
)
249 SCM g
= CCLO_G (guardian
);
250 SCM res
= SCM_BOOL_F
;
252 /* This critical section barrier will be replaced by a mutex. */
254 if (!TCONC_EMPTYP (GUARDIAN_ZOMBIES (g
)))
255 TCONC_OUT (GUARDIAN_ZOMBIES (g
), res
);
264 scm_tc16_guardian
= scm_make_smob_type_mfpe ("guardian", sizeof (guardian_t
),
265 g_mark
, NULL
, g_print
, NULL
);
266 guard1
= scm_make_subr_opt ("guardian", scm_tc7_subr_2o
, guard
, 0);
268 #include "guardians.x"