// nih-plug: plugins, but rewritten in Rust // Copyright (C) 2022 Robbert van der Helm // // This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify // it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by // the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or // (at your option) any later version. // // This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the // GNU General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License // along with this program. If not, see . //! An event loop implementation for Linux. APIs on Linux are generally thread safe, so the context //! of a main thread does not exist there. Because of that, this mostly just serves as a way to //! delegate expensive processing to another thread. use crossbeam::channel; use std::sync::Arc; use std::thread::{self, JoinHandle, ThreadId}; use super::{EventLoop, MainThreadExecutor}; use crate::nih_log; use crate::util::ThreadSpawnUnchecked; /// See [super::EventLoop]. pub(crate) struct LinuxEventLoop { /// The thing that ends up executing these tasks. The tasks are usually executed from the worker /// thread, but if the current thread is the main thread then the task cna also be executed /// directly. executor: Arc, /// The ID of the main thread. In practice this is the ID of the thread that created this task /// queue. main_thread_id: ThreadId, /// A thread that act as our worker thread. When [do_maybe_async] is called, this thread will be /// woken up to execute the task on the executor. This is wrapped in an `Option` so the thread /// can be taken out of it and joined when this struct gets dropped. worker_thread: Option>, /// A channel for waking up the worker thread and having it perform one of the tasks from /// [Message]. worker_thread_channel: channel::Sender>, } /// A message for communicating with the worker thread. enum Message { /// A new task for the event loop to execute. Task(T), /// Shut down the worker thread. Shutdown, } impl EventLoop for LinuxEventLoop where T: Send, E: MainThreadExecutor, { fn new_and_spawn(executor: Arc) -> Self { let (sender, receiver) = channel::bounded(super::TASK_QUEUE_CAPACITY); Self { executor: executor.clone(), main_thread_id: thread::current().id(), // With our drop implementation we guarentee that this thread never outlives this struct worker_thread: Some(unsafe { thread::Builder::new() .name(String::from("worker")) // The worker thread gets joined when this struct gets dropped, and if this // struct never gets dropped it just sits there idly. Panics cannot be unwound, // but in plugin-land we have bigger worries than that. // This is the same as the `.spawn_unchecked()` function, but without requiring // a nightly compiler. .spawn_unchecked_2(move || worker_thread(receiver, executor)) .expect("Could not spawn worker thread") }), worker_thread_channel: sender, } } fn do_maybe_async(&self, task: T) -> bool { if self.is_main_thread() { self.executor.execute(task); true } else { self.worker_thread_channel .try_send(Message::Task(task)) .is_ok() } } fn is_main_thread(&self) -> bool { thread::current().id() == self.main_thread_id } } impl Drop for LinuxEventLoop { fn drop(&mut self) { self.worker_thread_channel .send(Message::Shutdown) .expect("Failed while sending worker thread shutdown request"); if let Some(join_handle) = self.worker_thread.take() { join_handle.join().expect("Worker thread panicked"); } } } /// The worker thread used in [EventLoop] that executes incmoing tasks on the event loop's executor. fn worker_thread(receiver: channel::Receiver>, executor: Arc) where T: Send, E: MainThreadExecutor, { loop { match receiver.recv() { Ok(Message::Task(task)) => executor.execute(task), Ok(Message::Shutdown) => return, Err(err) => { nih_log!( "Worker thread got disconnected unexpectedly, shutting down: {}", err ); return; } } } }