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| author | Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@mit.edu> | 2010-09-19 00:29:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@mit.edu> | 2010-09-19 00:29:05 +0000 |
| commit | 83d563cb9ede0ba792836e529b1e2929db926355 (patch) | |
| tree | 1f9de77ebd24ca7a67894c51442b657d2f265630 /rts/Task.h | |
| parent | 9fa96fc44a640014415e1588f50ab7689285e6cb (diff) | |
| download | haskell-83d563cb9ede0ba792836e529b1e2929db926355.tar.gz | |
Interruptible FFI calls with pthread_kill and CancelSynchronousIO. v4
This is patch that adds support for interruptible FFI calls in the form
of a new foreign import keyword 'interruptible', which can be used
instead of 'safe' or 'unsafe'. Interruptible FFI calls act like safe
FFI calls, except that the worker thread they run on may be interrupted.
Internally, it replaces BlockedOnCCall_NoUnblockEx with
BlockedOnCCall_Interruptible, and changes the behavior of the RTS
to not modify the TSO_ flags on the event of an FFI call from
a thread that was interruptible. It also modifies the bytecode
format for foreign call, adding an extra Word16 to indicate
interruptibility.
The semantics of interruption vary from platform to platform, but the
intent is that any blocking system calls are aborted with an error code.
This is most useful for making function calls to system library
functions that support interrupting. There is no support for pre-Vista
Windows.
There is a partner testsuite patch which adds several tests for this
functionality.
Diffstat (limited to 'rts/Task.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | rts/Task.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/rts/Task.h b/rts/Task.h index 566c0425cd..38e4763b5a 100644 --- a/rts/Task.h +++ b/rts/Task.h @@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ INLINE_HEADER Task *myTask (void); // void startWorkerTask (Capability *cap); +// Interrupts a worker task that is performing an FFI call. The thread +// should not be destroyed. +// +void interruptWorkerTask (Task *task); + #endif /* THREADED_RTS */ // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |