//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // // Copyright 2015 Realm Inc. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. // You may obtain a copy of the License at // // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and // limitations under the License. // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #include "external_commit_helper.hpp" #include "shared_realm.hpp" #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include using namespace realm; namespace { // Write a byte to a pipe to notify anyone waiting for data on the pipe void notify_fd(int fd) { while (true) { char c = 0; ssize_t ret = write(fd, &c, 1); if (ret == 1) { break; } // If the pipe's buffer is full, we need to read some of the old data in // it to make space. We don't just read in the code waiting for // notifications so that we can notify multiple waiters with a single // write. assert(ret == -1 && errno == EAGAIN); char buff[1024]; read(fd, buff, sizeof buff); } } } // anonymous namespace void ExternalCommitHelper::FdHolder::close() { if (m_fd != -1) { ::close(m_fd); } m_fd = -1; } // Inter-thread and inter-process notifications of changes are done using a // named pipe in the filesystem next to the Realm file. Everyone who wants to be // notified of commits waits for data to become available on the pipe, and anyone // who commits a write transaction writes data to the pipe after releasing the // write lock. Note that no one ever actually *reads* from the pipe: the data // actually written is meaningless, and trying to read from a pipe from multiple // processes at once is fraught with race conditions. // When a RLMRealm instance is created, we add a CFRunLoopSource to the current // thread's runloop. On each cycle of the run loop, the run loop checks each of // its sources for work to do, which in the case of CFRunLoopSource is just // checking if CFRunLoopSourceSignal has been called since the last time it ran, // and if so invokes the function pointer supplied when the source is created, // which in our case just invokes `[realm handleExternalChange]`. // Listening for external changes is done using kqueue() on a background thread. // kqueue() lets us efficiently wait until the amount of data which can be read // from one or more file descriptors has changed, and tells us which of the file // descriptors it was that changed. We use this to wait on both the shared named // pipe, and a local anonymous pipe. When data is written to the named pipe, we // signal the runloop source and wake up the target runloop, and when data is // written to the anonymous pipe the background thread removes the runloop // source from the runloop and and shuts down. ExternalCommitHelper::ExternalCommitHelper(Realm* realm) : m_realm(realm) , m_run_loop(CFRunLoopGetCurrent()) { CFRetain(m_run_loop); m_kq = kqueue(); if (m_kq == -1) { throw std::system_error(errno, std::system_category()); } auto path = realm->config().path + ".note"; // Create and open the named pipe int ret = mkfifo(path.c_str(), 0600); if (ret == -1) { int err = errno; if (err == ENOTSUP) { // Filesystem doesn't support named pipes, so try putting it in tmp instead // Hash collisions are okay here because they just result in doing // extra work, as opposed to correctness problems std::ostringstream ss; ss << getenv("TMPDIR"); ss << "realm_" << std::hash()(path) << ".note"; path = ss.str(); ret = mkfifo(path.c_str(), 0600); err = errno; } // the fifo already existing isn't an error if (ret == -1 && err != EEXIST) { throw std::system_error(err, std::system_category()); } } m_notify_fd = open(path.c_str(), O_RDWR); if (m_notify_fd == -1) { throw std::system_error(errno, std::system_category()); } // Make writing to the pipe return -1 when the pipe's buffer is full // rather than blocking until there's space available ret = fcntl(m_notify_fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK); if (ret == -1) { throw std::system_error(errno, std::system_category()); } // Create the anonymous pipe int pipeFd[2]; ret = pipe(pipeFd); if (ret == -1) { throw std::system_error(errno, std::system_category()); } m_shutdown_read_fd = pipeFd[0]; m_shutdown_write_fd = pipeFd[1]; // Use the minimum allowed stack size, as we need very little in our listener // https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Multithreading/CreatingThreads/CreatingThreads.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000057i-CH15-SW7 pthread_attr_t attr; pthread_attr_init(&attr); pthread_attr_setstacksize(&attr, 16 * 1024); auto fn = [](void *self) -> void * { static_cast(self)->listen(); return nullptr; }; ret = pthread_create(&m_thread, &attr, fn, this); pthread_attr_destroy(&attr); if (ret != 0) { throw std::system_error(errno, std::system_category()); } } ExternalCommitHelper::~ExternalCommitHelper() { notify_fd(m_shutdown_write_fd); pthread_join(m_thread, nullptr); // Wait for the thread to exit } void ExternalCommitHelper::listen() { pthread_setname_np("RLMRealm notification listener"); // Create the runloop source CFRunLoopSourceContext ctx{}; ctx.info = this; ctx.perform = [](void *info) { static_cast(info)->m_realm->notify(); }; CFRunLoopSourceRef signal = CFRunLoopSourceCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, 0, &ctx); CFRunLoopAddSource(m_run_loop, signal, kCFRunLoopDefaultMode); // Set up the kqueue // EVFILT_READ indicates that we care about data being available to read // on the given file descriptor. // EV_CLEAR makes it wait for the amount of data available to be read to // change rather than just returning when there is any data to read. struct kevent ke[2]; EV_SET(&ke[0], m_notify_fd, EVFILT_READ, EV_ADD | EV_CLEAR, 0, 0, 0); EV_SET(&ke[1], m_shutdown_read_fd, EVFILT_READ, EV_ADD | EV_CLEAR, 0, 0, 0); int ret = kevent(m_kq, ke, 2, nullptr, 0, nullptr); assert(ret == 0); while (true) { struct kevent event; // Wait for data to become on either fd // Return code is number of bytes available or -1 on error ret = kevent(m_kq, nullptr, 0, &event, 1, nullptr); assert(ret >= 0); if (ret == 0) { // Spurious wakeup; just wait again continue; } // Check which file descriptor had activity: if it's the shutdown // pipe, then someone called -stop; otherwise it's the named pipe // and someone committed a write transaction if (event.ident == (uint32_t)m_shutdown_read_fd) { CFRunLoopSourceInvalidate(signal); CFRelease(signal); CFRelease(m_run_loop); return; } assert(event.ident == (uint32_t)m_notify_fd); CFRunLoopSourceSignal(signal); // Signalling the source makes it run the next time the runloop gets // to it, but doesn't make the runloop start if it's currently idle // waiting for events CFRunLoopWakeUp(m_run_loop); } } void ExternalCommitHelper::notify_others() { notify_fd(m_notify_fd); }