SendContinuePacketAndWaitForResponse was huge function with very complex interactions with
several other functions (SendAsyncSignal, SendInterrupt, SendPacket). This meant that making any
changes to how packet sending functions and threads interact was very difficult and error-prone.
This change does not add any functionality yet, it merely paves the way for future changes. In a
follow-up, I plan to add the ability to have multiple query packets in flight (i.e.,
request,request,response,response instead of the usual request,response sequences) and use that
to speed up qModuleInfo packet processing.
Here, I introduce two special kinds of locks: ContinueLock, which is used by the continue thread,
and Lock, which is used by everyone else. ContinueLock (atomically) sends a continue packet, and
blocks any other async threads from accessing the connection. Other threads create an instance of
the Lock object when they want to access the connection. This object, while in scope prevents the
continue from being send. Optionally, it can also interrupt the process to gain access to the
connection for async processing.
Most of the syncrhonization logic is encapsulated within these two classes. Some of it still
had to bleed over into the SendContinuePacketAndWaitForResponse, but the function is still much
more manageable than before -- partly because of most of the work is done in the ContinueLock
class, and partly because I have factored out a lot of the packet processing code separate
functions (this also makes the functionality more easily testable). Most importantly, there is
none of syncrhonization code in the async thread users -- as far as they are concerned, they just
need to declare a Lock object, and they are good to go (SendPacketAndWaitForResponse is now a
very thin wrapper around the NoLock version of the function, whereas previously it had over 100
lines of synchronization code). This will make my follow up changes there easy.
I have written a number of unit tests for the new code and I have ran the test suite on linux and
osx with no regressions.
Subscribers: tberghammer
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22629
llvm-svn: 277139
