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-rw-r--r--libobjc/ChangeLog9
-rw-r--r--libobjc/sendmsg.c72
2 files changed, 67 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/libobjc/ChangeLog b/libobjc/ChangeLog
index 90ade6b5b78..433baed342e 100644
--- a/libobjc/ChangeLog
+++ b/libobjc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Thu Jul 10 10:27:43 2003 Nicola Pero <n.pero@mi.flashnet.it>
+
+ libobjc/9969
+ * sendmsg.c (get_imp): Fixed rare threading problem.
+ (__objc_responds_to): Similar fixes.
+ (objc_msg_lookup): Similar fixes.
+ (__objc_init_install_dtable): Lock the runtime before checking if the
+ table is installed.
+
2003-05-23 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@gcc.gnu.org>
* hash.c, init.c, libobjc.def, libobjc_entry.c, linking.m,
diff --git a/libobjc/sendmsg.c b/libobjc/sendmsg.c
index 71e89667134..0214e77afcd 100644
--- a/libobjc/sendmsg.c
+++ b/libobjc/sendmsg.c
@@ -119,6 +119,14 @@ __inline__
IMP
get_imp (Class class, SEL sel)
{
+ /* In a vanilla implementation we would first check if the dispatch
+ table is installed. Here instead, to get more speed in the
+ standard case (that the dispatch table is installed) we first try
+ to get the imp using brute force. Only if that fails, we do what
+ we should have been doing from the very beginning, that is, check
+ if the dispatch table needs to be installed, install it if it's
+ not installed, and retrieve the imp from the table if it's
+ installed. */
void *res = sarray_get_safe (class->dtable, (size_t) sel->sel_id);
if (res == 0)
{
@@ -127,7 +135,16 @@ get_imp (Class class, SEL sel)
{
/* The dispatch table needs to be installed. */
objc_mutex_lock (__objc_runtime_mutex);
- __objc_install_dispatch_table_for_class (class);
+
+ /* Double-checked locking pattern: Check
+ __objc_uninstalled_dtable again in case another thread
+ installed the dtable while we were waiting for the lock
+ to be released. */
+ if (class->dtable == __objc_uninstalled_dtable)
+ {
+ __objc_install_dispatch_table_for_class (class);
+ }
+
objc_mutex_unlock (__objc_runtime_mutex);
/* Call ourselves with the installed dispatch table
and get the real method */
@@ -135,10 +152,22 @@ get_imp (Class class, SEL sel)
}
else
{
- /* The dispatch table has been installed so the
- method just doesn't exist for the class.
- Return the forwarding implementation. */
- res = __objc_get_forward_imp (sel);
+ /* The dispatch table has been installed. */
+
+ /* Get the method from the dispatch table (we try to get it
+ again in case another thread has installed the dtable just
+ after we invoked sarray_get_safe, but before we checked
+ class->dtable == __objc_uninstalled_dtable).
+ */
+ res = sarray_get_safe (class->dtable, (size_t) sel->sel_id);
+ if (res == 0)
+ {
+ /* The dispatch table has been installed, and the method
+ is not in the dispatch table. So the method just
+ doesn't exist for the class. Return the forwarding
+ implementation. */
+ res = __objc_get_forward_imp (sel);
+ }
}
}
return res;
@@ -157,7 +186,10 @@ __objc_responds_to (id object, SEL sel)
if (object->class_pointer->dtable == __objc_uninstalled_dtable)
{
objc_mutex_lock (__objc_runtime_mutex);
- __objc_install_dispatch_table_for_class (object->class_pointer);
+ if (object->class_pointer->dtable == __objc_uninstalled_dtable)
+ {
+ __objc_install_dispatch_table_for_class (object->class_pointer);
+ }
objc_mutex_unlock (__objc_runtime_mutex);
}
@@ -192,10 +224,19 @@ objc_msg_lookup (id receiver, SEL op)
}
else
{
- /* The dispatch table has been installed so the
- method just doesn't exist for the class.
- Attempt to forward the method. */
- result = __objc_get_forward_imp (op);
+ /* The dispatch table has been installed. Check again
+ if the method exists (just in case the dispatch table
+ has been installed by another thread after we did the
+ previous check that the method exists).
+ */
+ result = sarray_get_safe (receiver->class_pointer->dtable,
+ (sidx)op->sel_id);
+ if (result == 0)
+ {
+ /* If the method still just doesn't exist for the
+ class, attempt to forward the method. */
+ result = __objc_get_forward_imp (op);
+ }
}
}
return result;
@@ -239,13 +280,16 @@ __objc_init_dispatch_tables ()
static void
__objc_init_install_dtable (id receiver, SEL op __attribute__ ((__unused__)))
{
+ objc_mutex_lock (__objc_runtime_mutex);
+
/* This may happen, if the programmer has taken the address of a
method before the dtable was initialized... too bad for him! */
if (receiver->class_pointer->dtable != __objc_uninstalled_dtable)
- return;
-
- objc_mutex_lock (__objc_runtime_mutex);
-
+ {
+ objc_mutex_unlock (__objc_runtime_mutex);
+ return;
+ }
+
if (CLS_ISCLASS (receiver->class_pointer))
{
/* receiver is an ordinary object */