/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */ /* vim: set ts=8 sts=2 et sw=2 tw=80: */ // Copyright (c) 2006-2008 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. #ifndef BASE_SHARED_MEMORY_H_ #define BASE_SHARED_MEMORY_H_ #include "build/build_config.h" #if defined(OS_POSIX) #include #include #include "base/file_descriptor_posix.h" #endif #include #include "base/basictypes.h" #include "base/process.h" namespace base { // SharedMemoryHandle is a platform specific type which represents // the underlying OS handle to a shared memory segment. #if defined(OS_WIN) typedef HANDLE SharedMemoryHandle; typedef HANDLE SharedMemoryLock; #elif defined(OS_POSIX) // A SharedMemoryId is sufficient to identify a given shared memory segment on a // system, but insufficient to map it. typedef FileDescriptor SharedMemoryHandle; typedef ino_t SharedMemoryId; // On POSIX, the lock is implemented as a lockf() on the mapped file, // so no additional member (or definition of SharedMemoryLock) is // needed. #endif // Platform abstraction for shared memory. Provides a C++ wrapper // around the OS primitive for a memory mapped file. class SharedMemory { public: // Create a new SharedMemory object. SharedMemory(); // Create a new SharedMemory object from an existing, open // shared memory file. SharedMemory(SharedMemoryHandle init_handle, bool read_only) : SharedMemory() { SetHandle(init_handle, read_only); } // Destructor. Will close any open files. ~SharedMemory(); // Initialize a new SharedMemory object from an existing, open // shared memory file. bool SetHandle(SharedMemoryHandle handle, bool read_only); // Return true iff the given handle is valid (i.e. not the distingished // invalid value; NULL for a HANDLE and -1 for a file descriptor) static bool IsHandleValid(const SharedMemoryHandle& handle); // Return invalid handle (see comment above for exact definition). static SharedMemoryHandle NULLHandle(); // Creates or opens a shared memory segment based on a name. // If read_only is true, opens the memory as read-only. // If open_existing is true, and the shared memory already exists, // opens the existing shared memory and ignores the size parameter. // If name is the empty string, use a unique name. // Returns true on success, false on failure. bool Create(const std::string& name, bool read_only, bool open_existing, size_t size); // Deletes resources associated with a shared memory segment based on name. // Not all platforms require this call. bool Delete(const std::wstring& name); // Opens a shared memory segment based on a name. // If read_only is true, opens for read-only access. // If name is the empty string, use a unique name. // Returns true on success, false on failure. bool Open(const std::wstring& name, bool read_only); // Maps the shared memory into the caller's address space. // Returns true on success, false otherwise. The memory address // is accessed via the memory() accessor. bool Map(size_t bytes); // Unmaps the shared memory from the caller's address space. // Returns true if successful; returns false on error or if the // memory is not mapped. bool Unmap(); // Get the size of the opened shared memory backing file. // Note: This size is only available to the creator of the // shared memory, and not to those that opened shared memory // created externally. // Returns 0 if not opened or unknown. size_t max_size() const { return max_size_; } // Gets a pointer to the opened memory space if it has been // Mapped via Map(). Returns NULL if it is not mapped. void *memory() const { return memory_; } // Get access to the underlying OS handle for this segment. // Use of this handle for anything other than an opaque // identifier is not portable. SharedMemoryHandle handle() const; #if defined(OS_POSIX) // Return a unique identifier for this shared memory segment. Inode numbers // are technically only unique to a single filesystem. However, we always // allocate shared memory backing files from the same directory, so will end // up on the same filesystem. SharedMemoryId id() const { return inode_; } #endif // Closes the open shared memory segment. // It is safe to call Close repeatedly. void Close(bool unmap_view = true); // Share the shared memory to another process. Attempts // to create a platform-specific new_handle which can be // used in a remote process to access the shared memory // file. new_handle is an ouput parameter to receive // the handle for use in the remote process. // Returns true on success, false otherwise. bool ShareToProcess(base::ProcessId target_pid, SharedMemoryHandle* new_handle) { return ShareToProcessCommon(target_pid, new_handle, false); } // Logically equivalent to: // bool ok = ShareToProcess(process, new_handle); // Close(); // return ok; // Note that the memory is unmapped by calling this method, regardless of the // return value. bool GiveToProcess(ProcessId target_pid, SharedMemoryHandle* new_handle) { return ShareToProcessCommon(target_pid, new_handle, true); } // Lock the shared memory. // This is a cross-process lock which may be recursively // locked by the same thread. // TODO(port): // WARNING: on POSIX the lock only works across processes, not // across threads. 2 threads in the same process can both grab the // lock at the same time. There are several solutions for this // (futex, lockf+anon_semaphore) but none are both clean and common // across Mac and Linux. void Lock(); // Release the shared memory lock. void Unlock(); private: #if defined(OS_POSIX) bool CreateOrOpen(const std::wstring &name, int posix_flags, size_t size); bool FilenameForMemoryName(const std::wstring &memname, std::wstring *filename); void LockOrUnlockCommon(int function); #endif bool ShareToProcessCommon(ProcessId target_pid, SharedMemoryHandle* new_handle, bool close_self); #if defined(OS_WIN) std::wstring name_; HANDLE mapped_file_; #elif defined(OS_POSIX) int mapped_file_; ino_t inode_; #endif void* memory_; bool read_only_; size_t max_size_; #if !defined(OS_POSIX) SharedMemoryLock lock_; #endif DISALLOW_EVIL_CONSTRUCTORS(SharedMemory); }; // A helper class that acquires the shared memory lock while // the SharedMemoryAutoLock is in scope. class SharedMemoryAutoLock { public: explicit SharedMemoryAutoLock(SharedMemory* shared_memory) : shared_memory_(shared_memory) { shared_memory_->Lock(); } ~SharedMemoryAutoLock() { shared_memory_->Unlock(); } private: SharedMemory* shared_memory_; DISALLOW_EVIL_CONSTRUCTORS(SharedMemoryAutoLock); }; } // namespace base #endif // BASE_SHARED_MEMORY_H_