gecko/mozglue/build/Nuwa.h
Thinker Lee ext:(%2C%20Cervantes%20Yu%20%3Ccyu%40mozilla.com%3E) 571a106743 Bug 771765 - Support template content process, part 1: the Nuwa API and low-level wrappers. r=khuey
Support of zygote-like process forking is done as:
* The b2g chrome process forks a child process that will be the template for forking other content processes.
* The template process starts running to some point and freeze.
* When ready, the chrome process starts requesting the template to fork content proceses.
* The content processes forked from the template process recovers its states including the threads, file descriptors for epoll, signaling and IPC.

Recovery of the process states are done by wrapping some system and pthread calls to record the states in the template process and recover in the forked content process.
2013-05-07 14:25:13 +08:00

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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
/* vim: set sw=2 ts=2 autoindent cindent expandtab: */
/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file,
* You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
#ifndef __NUWA_H_
#define __NUWA_H_
#include <setjmp.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include "mozilla/Types.h"
/**
* Nuwa is a goddess who created mankind according to her figure in the
* ancient Chinese mythology.
*/
// Max number of top level protocol that can be handled by Nuwa process.
#ifndef NUWA_TOPLEVEL_MAX
#define NUWA_TOPLEVEL_MAX 8
#endif
struct NuwaProtoFdInfo {
int protoId;
int originFd;
int newFds[2];
};
#define NUWA_NEWFD_PARENT 0
#define NUWA_NEWFD_CHILD 1
extern "C" {
/**
* The following 3 methods are used to synchronously spawn the Nuwa process.
* The typical usage is:
*
* The IPC thread The main thread
* 1. Receives the request.
* 2. NuwaSpawnPrepare().
* 3. Request main thread to
* spawn. --------------------------------------+
* 4. NuwaSpawnWait(). V
* 5. NuwaSpawn() to clone all
* the threads in the Nuwa
* process (including main
* & IPC threads).
* 6. NuwaSpawn() finishes and
* +-------------------------------------- signals NuwaSpawnWait().
* V
* 7. NuwaSpawnWait() returns.
*/
/**
* Prepare for spawning a new process. The calling thread (typically the IPC
* thread) will block further requests to spawn a new process.
*/
MFBT_API void NuwaSpawnPrepare();
/**
* Called on the thread that receives the request. Used to wait until
* NuwaSpawn() finishes and maintain the stack of the calling thread.
*/
MFBT_API void NuwaSpawnWait();
/**
* Spawn a new content process, called in the Nuwa process. This has to run on
* the main thread.
*
* @return The process ID of the new process.
*/
MFBT_API pid_t NuwaSpawn();
/**
* The following methods are for marking threads created in the Nuwa process so
* they can be frozen and then recreated in the spawned process. All threads
* except the main thread must be marked by one of the following 4 methods;
* otherwise, we have a thread that is created but unknown to us. The Nuwa
* process will never become ready and this needs to be fixed.
*/
/**
* Mark the current thread as supporting Nuwa. The thread will implicitly freeze
* by calling a blocking method such as pthread_mutex_lock() or epoll_wait().
*
* @param recreate The custom function that will be called in the spawned
* process, after the thread is recreated. Can be nullptr if no
* custom function to be called after the thread is recreated.
* @param arg The argument passed to the custom function. Can be nullptr.
*/
MFBT_API void NuwaMarkCurrentThread(void (*recreate)(void *), void *arg);
/**
* Mark the current thread as not supporting Nuwa. The calling thread will not
* be automatically cloned from the Nuwa process to spawned process. If this
* thread needs to be created in the spawned process, use NuwaAddConstructor()
* or NuwaAddFinalConstructor() to do it.
*/
MFBT_API void NuwaSkipCurrentThread();
/**
* Force the current thread to freeze explicitly at the current point.
*/
MFBT_API void NuwaFreezeCurrentThread();
/**
* Helper functions for the NuwaCheckpointCurrentThread() macro.
*/
MFBT_API jmp_buf* NuwaCheckpointCurrentThread1();
MFBT_API bool NuwaCheckpointCurrentThread2(int setjmpCond);
/**
* Set the point to recover after thread recreation. The calling thread is not
* blocked. This is used for the thread that cannot freeze (i.e. the IPC
* thread).
*/
#define NuwaCheckpointCurrentThread() \
NuwaCheckpointCurrentThread2(setjmp(*NuwaCheckpointCurrentThread1()))
/**
* The following methods are called in the initialization stage of the Nuwa
* process.
*/
/**
* Prepare for making the Nuwa process.
*/
MFBT_API void PrepareNuwaProcess();
/**
* Make the current process a Nuwa process. Start to freeze the threads.
*/
MFBT_API void MakeNuwaProcess();
/**
* Register a method to be invoked after a new process is spawned. The method
* will be invoked on the main thread.
*
* @param construct The method to be invoked.
* @param arg The argument passed to the method.
*/
MFBT_API void NuwaAddConstructor(void (*construct)(void *), void *arg);
/**
* Register a method to be invoked after a new process is spawned and threads
* are recreated. The method will be invoked on the main thread.
*
* @param construct The method to be invoked.
* @param arg The argument passed to the method.
*/
MFBT_API void NuwaAddFinalConstructor(void (*construct)(void *), void *arg);
/**
* The methods to query the Nuwa-related states.
*/
/**
* @return If the current process is the Nuwa process.
*/
MFBT_API bool IsNuwaProcess();
/**
* @return If the Nuwa process is ready for spawning new processes.
*/
MFBT_API bool IsNuwaReady();
};
#endif /* __NUWA_H_ */