freebsd-dev/include/semaphore.h
David Xu 9b0f1823b5 Use umtx to implement process sharable semaphore, to make this work,
now type sema_t is a structure which can be put in a shared memory area,
and multiple processes can operate it concurrently.
User can either use mmap(MAP_SHARED) + sem_init(pshared=1) or use sem_open()
to initialize a shared semaphore.
Named semaphore uses file system and is located in /tmp directory, and its
file name is prefixed with 'SEMD', so now it is chroot or jail friendly.
In simplist cases, both for named and un-named semaphore, userland code
does not have to enter kernel to reduce/increase semaphore's count.
The semaphore is designed to be crash-safe, it means even if an application
is crashed in the middle of operating semaphore, the semaphore state is
still safely recovered by later use, there is no waiter counter maintained
by userland code.
The main semaphore code is in libc and libthr only has some necessary stubs,
this makes it possible that a non-threaded application can use semaphore
without linking to thread library.
Old semaphore implementation is kept libc to maintain binary compatibility.
The kernel ksem API is no longer used in the new implemenation.

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/*
* Copyright (c) 2010 David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
*
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/* semaphore.h: POSIX 1003.1b semaphores */
#ifndef _SEMAPHORE_H_
#define _SEMAPHORE_H_
#include <sys/cdefs.h>
#include <sys/_types.h>
#include <sys/_umtx.h>
struct _sem {
__uint32_t _magic;
struct _usem _kern;
};
typedef struct _sem sem_t;
#define SEM_FAILED ((sem_t *)0)
#define SEM_VALUE_MAX __INT_MAX
struct timespec;
__BEGIN_DECLS
int sem_close(sem_t *);
int sem_destroy(sem_t *);
int sem_getvalue(sem_t * __restrict, int * __restrict);
int sem_init(sem_t *, int, unsigned int);
sem_t *sem_open(const char *, int, ...);
int sem_post(sem_t *);
int sem_timedwait(sem_t * __restrict, const struct timespec * __restrict);
int sem_trywait(sem_t *);
int sem_unlink(const char *);
int sem_wait(sem_t *);
__END_DECLS
#endif /* !_SEMAPHORE_H_ */