Struct WaitCell

pub struct WaitCell { /* private fields */ }

An atomically registered Waker.

This cell stores the Waker of a single task. A Waker is stored in the cell either by calling poll_wait, or by polling a wait future. Once a task’s Waker is stored in a WaitCell, it can be woken by calling wake on the WaitCell.

Implementation Notes

This is inspired by the AtomicWaker type used in Tokio’s synchronization primitives, with the following modifications:

• An additional bit of state is added to allow setting a “close” bit.
• A WaitCell is always woken by value (for now).
• WaitCell does not handle unwinding, because maitake does not support unwinding

Implementations

impl WaitCell

pub const fn new() -> WaitCell

Returns a new WaitCell, with no Waker stored in it.

impl WaitCell

pub fn poll_wait(&self, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Result<(), PollWaitError>>

Poll to wait on this WaitCell, consuming a stored wakeup or registering the Waker from the provided Context to be woken by the next wakeup.

Once a Waker has been registered, a subsequent call to wake will wake that Waker.

Returns

• Poll::Pending if the Waker was registered. If this method returns Poll::Pending, then the registered Waker will be woken by a subsequent call to wake.
• Poll::Ready(Ok(())) if the cell was woken by a call to wake while the Waker was being registered.
• Poll::Ready(Err(PollWaitError::Closed)) if the WaitCell has been closed.
• Poll::Ready(Err(PollWaitError::Busy)) if another task was concurrently registering its Waker with this WaitCell.

pub fn wait(&self) -> Wait<'_>

Wait to be woken up by this cell.

Returns

This future completes with the following values:

• Ok(()) if the future was woken by a call to wake or another task calling poll_wait or wait on this WaitCell.
• Err(Closed) if the task was woken by a call to close, or the WaitCell was already closed.

Note: The calling task’s Waker is not registered until AFTER the first time the returned Wait future is polled. This means that if a call to wake occurs between when wait is called and when the future is first polled, the future will not complete. If the caller is responsible for performing an operation which will result in an eventual wakeup, prefer calling subscribe before performing that operation and .awaiting the Wait future returned by subscribe.

pub fn subscribe(&self) -> Subscribe<'_>

Eagerly subscribe to notifications from this WaitCell.

This method returns a Subscribe Future, which outputs a Wait Future. Awaiting the Subscribe future will eagerly register the calling task to be woken by this WaitCell, so that the returned Wait future will be woken by any calls to wake (or close) that occur between when the Subscribe future completes and when the returned Wait future is .awaited.

This is primarily intended for scenarios where the task that waits on a WaitCell is responsible for performing some operation that ultimately results in the WaitCell being woken. If the task were to simply perform the operation and then call wait on the WaitCell, a potential race condition could occur where the operation completes and wakes the WaitCell before the Wait future is first .awaited. Using subscribe, the task can ensure that it is ready to be woken by the cell before performing an operation that could result in it being woken.

These scenarios occur when a wakeup is triggered by another thread/CPU core in response to an operation performed in the task waiting on the WaitCell, or when the wakeup is triggered by a hardware interrupt resulting from operations performed in the task.

Examples

use maitake_sync::WaitCell;

// Perform an operation that results in a concurrent wakeup, such as
// unmasking an interrupt.
fn do_something_that_causes_a_wakeup() {
    // ...
}

static WAIT_CELL: WaitCell = WaitCell::new();

// Subscribe to notifications from the cell *before* calling
// `do_something_that_causes_a_wakeup()`, to ensure that we are
// ready to be woken when the interrupt is unmasked.
let wait = WAIT_CELL.subscribe().await;

// Actually perform the operation.
do_something_that_causes_a_wakeup();

// Wait for the wakeup. If the wakeup occurred *before* the first
// poll of the `wait` future had successfully subscribed to the
// `WaitCell`, we would still receive the wakeup, because the
// `subscribe` future ensured that our waker was registered to be
// woken.
wait.await.expect("WaitCell is not closed");

pub fn wake(&self) -> bool

Wake the Waker stored in this cell.

Returns

• true if a waiting task was woken.
• false if no task was woken (no Waker was stored in the cell)

pub fn close(&self) -> bool

Close the WaitCell.

This wakes any waiting task with an error indicating the WaitCell is closed. Subsequent calls to wait or poll_wait will return an error indicating that the cell has been closed.

pub async fn wait_for<F>(&self, f: F) -> Result<(), Closed>

where F: FnMut() -> bool,

Asynchronously poll the given function f until a condition occurs, using the WaitCell to only re-poll when notified.

This can be used to implement a “wait loop”, turning a “try” function (e.g. “try_recv” or “try_send”) into an asynchronous function (e.g. “recv” or “send”).

In particular, this function correctly registers interest in the WaitCell prior to polling the function, ensuring that there is not a chance of a race where the condition occurs AFTER checking but BEFORE registering interest in the WaitCell, which could lead to deadlock.

This is intended to have similar behavior to Condvar in the standard library, but asynchronous, and not requiring operating system intervention (or existence).

In particular, this can be used in cases where interrupts or events are used to signify readiness or completion of some task, such as the completion of a DMA transfer, or reception of an ethernet frame. In cases like this, the interrupt can wake the cell, allowing the polling function to check status fields for partial progress or completion.

Consider using Self::wait_for_value() if your function does return a value.

Consider using WaitQueue::wait_for() if you need multiple waiters.

Returns

• Ok(()) if the closure returns true.
• Err(Closed) if the WaitCell is closed.

Examples

use std::sync::Arc;
use maitake_sync::WaitCell;
use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU8, Ordering};

let queue = Arc::new(WaitCell::new());
let num = Arc::new(AtomicU8::new(0));

let waiter = task::spawn({
    // clone items to move into the spawned task
    let queue = queue.clone();
    let num = num.clone();
    async move {
        queue.wait_for(|| num.load(Ordering::Relaxed) > 5).await;
        println!("received wakeup!");
    }
});

println!("poking task...");

for i in 0..20 {
    num.store(i, Ordering::Relaxed);
    queue.wake();
}

waiter.await.unwrap();

pub async fn wait_for_value<T, F>(&self, f: F) -> Result<T, Closed>

where F: FnMut() -> Option<T>,

Asynchronously poll the given function f until a condition occurs, using the WaitCell to only re-poll when notified.

This can be used to implement a “wait loop”, turning a “try” function (e.g. “try_recv” or “try_send”) into an asynchronous function (e.g. “recv” or “send”).

In particular, this function correctly registers interest in the WaitCell prior to polling the function, ensuring that there is not a chance of a race where the condition occurs AFTER checking but BEFORE registering interest in the WaitCell, which could lead to deadlock.

This is intended to have similar behavior to Condvar in the standard library, but asynchronous, and not requiring operating system intervention (or existence).

In particular, this can be used in cases where interrupts or events are used to signify readiness or completion of some task, such as the completion of a DMA transfer, or reception of an ethernet frame. In cases like this, the interrupt can wake the cell, allowing the polling function to check status fields for partial progress or completion, and also return the status flags at the same time.

Consider using Self::wait_for() if your function does not return a value.

Consider using WaitQueue::wait_for_value() if you need multiple waiters.

• Ok(T) if the closure returns Some(T).
• Err(Closed) if the WaitCell is closed.

Examples

use std::sync::Arc;
use maitake_sync::WaitCell;
use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU8, Ordering};

let queue = Arc::new(WaitCell::new());
let num = Arc::new(AtomicU8::new(0));

let waiter = task::spawn({
    // clone items to move into the spawned task
    let queue = queue.clone();
    let num = num.clone();
    async move {
        let rxd = queue.wait_for_value(|| {
            let val = num.load(Ordering::Relaxed);
            if val > 5 {
                return Some(val);
            }
            None
        }).await.unwrap();
        assert!(rxd > 5);
        println!("received wakeup with value: {rxd}");
    }
});

println!("poking task...");

for i in 0..20 {
    num.store(i, Ordering::Relaxed);
    queue.wake();
}

waiter.await.unwrap();

pub fn is_closed(&self) -> bool

Returns true if this WaitCell is closed.

Trait Implementations

impl Debug for WaitCell

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result<(), Error>

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl Default for WaitCell

fn default() -> WaitCell

Returns the “default value” for a type.

impl Drop for WaitCell

fn drop(&mut self)

Executes the destructor for this type.

impl Send for WaitCell

impl Sync for WaitCell