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014
015package com.google.common.util.concurrent;
016
017import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
018import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState;
019import static com.google.common.util.concurrent.ExecutionSequencer.RunningState.CANCELLED;
020import static com.google.common.util.concurrent.ExecutionSequencer.RunningState.NOT_RUN;
021import static com.google.common.util.concurrent.ExecutionSequencer.RunningState.STARTED;
022import static com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures.immediateCancelledFuture;
023import static com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures.immediateFuture;
024import static com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures.immediateVoidFuture;
025import static com.google.common.util.concurrent.MoreExecutors.directExecutor;
026import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;
027
028import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
029import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
030import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
031import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
032import javax.annotation.CheckForNull;
033import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;
034
035/**
036 * Serializes execution of tasks, somewhat like an "asynchronous {@code synchronized} block." Each
037 * {@linkplain #submit enqueued} callable will not be submitted to its associated executor until the
038 * previous callable has returned -- and, if the previous callable was an {@link AsyncCallable}, not
039 * until the {@code Future} it returned is {@linkplain Future#isDone done} (successful, failed, or
040 * cancelled).
041 *
042 * <p>This class has limited support for cancellation and other "early completion":
043 *
044 * <ul>
045 *   <li>While calls to {@code submit} and {@code submitAsync} return a {@code Future} that can be
046 *       cancelled, cancellation never propagates to a task that has started to run -- neither to
047 *       the callable itself nor to any {@code Future} returned by an {@code AsyncCallable}.
048 *       (However, cancellation can prevent an <i>unstarted</i> task from running.) Therefore, the
049 *       next task will wait for any running callable (or pending {@code Future} returned by an
050 *       {@code AsyncCallable}) to complete, without interrupting it (and without calling {@code
051 *       cancel} on the {@code Future}). So beware: <i>Even if you cancel every precededing {@code
052 *       Future} returned by this class, the next task may still have to wait.</i>.
053 *   <li>Once an {@code AsyncCallable} returns a {@code Future}, this class considers that task to
054 *       be "done" as soon as <i>that</i> {@code Future} completes in any way. Notably, a {@code
055 *       Future} is "completed" even if it is cancelled while its underlying work continues on a
056 *       thread, an RPC, etc. The {@code Future} is also "completed" if it fails "early" -- for
057 *       example, if the deadline expires on a {@code Future} returned from {@link
058 *       Futures#withTimeout} while the {@code Future} it wraps continues its underlying work. So
059 *       beware: <i>Your {@code AsyncCallable} should not complete its {@code Future} until it is
060 *       safe for the next task to start.</i>
061 * </ul>
062 *
063 * <p>An additional limitation: this class serializes execution of <i>tasks</i> but not any
064 * <i>listeners</i> of those tasks.
065 *
066 * <p>This class is similar to {@link MoreExecutors#newSequentialExecutor}. This class is different
067 * in a few ways:
068 *
069 * <ul>
070 *   <li>Each task may be associated with a different executor.
071 *   <li>Tasks may be of type {@code AsyncCallable}.
072 *   <li>Running tasks <i>cannot</i> be interrupted. (Note that {@code newSequentialExecutor} does
073 *       not return {@code Future} objects, so it doesn't support interruption directly, either.
074 *       However, utilities that <i>use</i> that executor have the ability to interrupt tasks
075 *       running on it. This class, by contrast, does not expose an {@code Executor} API.)
076 * </ul>
077 *
078 * <p>If you don't need the features of this class, you may prefer {@code newSequentialExecutor} for
079 * its simplicity and ability to accommodate interruption.
080 *
081 * @since 26.0
082 */
083@Beta
084@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
085public final class ExecutionSequencer {
086
087  private ExecutionSequencer() {}
088
089  /** Creates a new instance. */
090  public static ExecutionSequencer create() {
091    return new ExecutionSequencer();
092  }
093
094  /** This reference acts as a pointer tracking the head of a linked list of ListenableFutures. */
095  private final AtomicReference<ListenableFuture<@Nullable Void>> ref =
096      new AtomicReference<>(immediateVoidFuture());
097
098  private ThreadConfinedTaskQueue latestTaskQueue = new ThreadConfinedTaskQueue();
099
100  /**
101   * This object is unsafely published, but avoids problematic races by relying exclusively on the
102   * identity equality of its Thread field so that the task field is only accessed by a single
103   * thread.
104   */
105  private static final class ThreadConfinedTaskQueue {
106    /**
107     * This field is only used for identity comparisons with the current thread. Field assignments
108     * are atomic, but do not provide happens-before ordering; however:
109     *
110     * <ul>
111     *   <li>If this field's value == currentThread, we know that it's up to date, because write
112     *       operations in a thread always happen-before subsequent read operations in the same
113     *       thread
114     *   <li>If this field's value == null because of unsafe publication, we know that it isn't the
115     *       object associated with our thread, because if it was the publication wouldn't have been
116     *       unsafe and we'd have seen our thread as the value. This state is also why a new
117     *       ThreadConfinedTaskQueue object must be created for each inline execution, because
118     *       observing a null thread does not mean the object is safe to reuse.
119     *   <li>If this field's value is some other thread object, we know that it's not our thread.
120     *   <li>If this field's value == null because it originally belonged to another thread and that
121     *       thread cleared it, we still know that it's not associated with our thread
122     *   <li>If this field's value == null because it was associated with our thread and was
123     *       cleared, we know that we're not executing inline any more
124     * </ul>
125     *
126     * All the states where thread != currentThread are identical for our purposes, and so even
127     * though it's racy, we don't care which of those values we get, so no need to synchronize.
128     */
129    @CheckForNull Thread thread;
130    /** Only used by the thread associated with this object */
131    @CheckForNull Runnable nextTask;
132    /** Only used by the thread associated with this object */
133    @CheckForNull Executor nextExecutor;
134  }
135
136  /**
137   * Enqueues a task to run when the previous task (if any) completes.
138   *
139   * <p>Cancellation does not propagate from the output future to a callable that has begun to
140   * execute, but if the output future is cancelled before {@link Callable#call()} is invoked,
141   * {@link Callable#call()} will not be invoked.
142   */
143  public <T extends @Nullable Object> ListenableFuture<T> submit(
144      final Callable<T> callable, Executor executor) {
145    checkNotNull(callable);
146    checkNotNull(executor);
147    return submitAsync(
148        new AsyncCallable<T>() {
149          @Override
150          public ListenableFuture<T> call() throws Exception {
151            return immediateFuture(callable.call());
152          }
153
154          @Override
155          public String toString() {
156            return callable.toString();
157          }
158        },
159        executor);
160  }
161
162  /**
163   * Enqueues a task to run when the previous task (if any) completes.
164   *
165   * <p>Cancellation does not propagate from the output future to the future returned from {@code
166   * callable} or a callable that has begun to execute, but if the output future is cancelled before
167   * {@link AsyncCallable#call()} is invoked, {@link AsyncCallable#call()} will not be invoked.
168   */
169  public <T extends @Nullable Object> ListenableFuture<T> submitAsync(
170      final AsyncCallable<T> callable, final Executor executor) {
171    checkNotNull(callable);
172    checkNotNull(executor);
173    final TaskNonReentrantExecutor taskExecutor = new TaskNonReentrantExecutor(executor, this);
174    final AsyncCallable<T> task =
175        new AsyncCallable<T>() {
176          @Override
177          public ListenableFuture<T> call() throws Exception {
178            if (!taskExecutor.trySetStarted()) {
179              return immediateCancelledFuture();
180            }
181            return callable.call();
182          }
183
184          @Override
185          public String toString() {
186            return callable.toString();
187          }
188        };
189    /*
190     * Four futures are at play here:
191     * taskFuture is the future tracking the result of the callable.
192     * newFuture is a future that completes after this and all prior tasks are done.
193     * oldFuture is the previous task's newFuture.
194     * outputFuture is the future we return to the caller, a nonCancellationPropagating taskFuture.
195     *
196     * newFuture is guaranteed to only complete once all tasks previously submitted to this instance
197     * have completed - namely after oldFuture is done, and taskFuture has either completed or been
198     * cancelled before the callable started execution.
199     */
200    final SettableFuture<@Nullable Void> newFuture = SettableFuture.create();
201
202    final ListenableFuture<@Nullable Void> oldFuture = ref.getAndSet(newFuture);
203
204    // Invoke our task once the previous future completes.
205    final TrustedListenableFutureTask<T> taskFuture = TrustedListenableFutureTask.create(task);
206    oldFuture.addListener(taskFuture, taskExecutor);
207
208    final ListenableFuture<T> outputFuture = Futures.nonCancellationPropagating(taskFuture);
209
210    // newFuture's lifetime is determined by taskFuture, which can't complete before oldFuture
211    // unless taskFuture is cancelled, in which case it falls back to oldFuture. This ensures that
212    // if the future we return is cancelled, we don't begin execution of the next task until after
213    // oldFuture completes.
214    Runnable listener =
215        new Runnable() {
216          @Override
217          public void run() {
218            if (taskFuture.isDone()) {
219              // Since the value of oldFuture can only ever be immediateFuture(null) or setFuture of
220              // a future that eventually came from immediateFuture(null), this doesn't leak
221              // throwables or completion values.
222              newFuture.setFuture(oldFuture);
223            } else if (outputFuture.isCancelled() && taskExecutor.trySetCancelled()) {
224              // If this CAS succeeds, we know that the provided callable will never be invoked,
225              // so when oldFuture completes it is safe to allow the next submitted task to
226              // proceed. Doing this immediately here lets the next task run without waiting for
227              // the cancelled task's executor to run the noop AsyncCallable.
228              //
229              // ---
230              //
231              // If the CAS fails, the provided callable already started running (or it is about
232              // to). Our contract promises:
233              //
234              // 1. not to execute a new callable until the old one has returned
235              //
236              // If we were to cancel taskFuture, that would let the next task start while the old
237              // one is still running.
238              //
239              // Now, maybe we could tweak our implementation to not start the next task until the
240              // callable actually completes. (We could detect completion in our wrapper
241              // `AsyncCallable task`.) However, our contract also promises:
242              //
243              // 2. not to cancel any Future the user returned from an AsyncCallable
244              //
245              // We promise this because, once we cancel that Future, we would no longer be able to
246              // tell when any underlying work it is doing is done. Thus, we might start a new task
247              // while that underlying work is still running.
248              //
249              // So that is why we cancel only in the case of CAS success.
250              taskFuture.cancel(false);
251            }
252          }
253        };
254    // Adding the listener to both futures guarantees that newFuture will aways be set. Adding to
255    // taskFuture guarantees completion if the callable is invoked, and adding to outputFuture
256    // propagates cancellation if the callable has not yet been invoked.
257    outputFuture.addListener(listener, directExecutor());
258    taskFuture.addListener(listener, directExecutor());
259
260    return outputFuture;
261  }
262
263  enum RunningState {
264    NOT_RUN,
265    CANCELLED,
266    STARTED,
267  }
268
269  /**
270   * This class helps avoid a StackOverflowError when large numbers of tasks are submitted with
271   * {@link MoreExecutors#directExecutor}. Normally, when the first future completes, all the other
272   * tasks would be called recursively. Here, we detect that the delegate executor is executing
273   * inline, and maintain a queue to dispatch tasks iteratively. There is one instance of this class
274   * per call to submit() or submitAsync(), and each instance supports only one call to execute().
275   *
276   * <p>This class would certainly be simpler and easier to reason about if it were built with
277   * ThreadLocal; however, ThreadLocal is not well optimized for the case where the ThreadLocal is
278   * non-static, and is initialized/removed frequently - this causes churn in the Thread specific
279   * hashmaps. Using a static ThreadLocal to avoid that overhead would mean that different
280   * ExecutionSequencer objects interfere with each other, which would be undesirable, in addition
281   * to increasing the memory footprint of every thread that interacted with it. In order to release
282   * entries in thread-specific maps when the ThreadLocal object itself is no longer referenced,
283   * ThreadLocal is usually implemented with a WeakReference, which can have negative performance
284   * properties; for example, calling WeakReference.get() on Android will block during an
285   * otherwise-concurrent GC cycle.
286   */
287  private static final class TaskNonReentrantExecutor extends AtomicReference<RunningState>
288      implements Executor, Runnable {
289
290    /**
291     * Used to update and read the latestTaskQueue field. Set to null once the runnable has been run
292     * or queued.
293     */
294    @CheckForNull ExecutionSequencer sequencer;
295
296    /**
297     * Executor the task was set to run on. Set to null when the task has been queued, run, or
298     * cancelled.
299     */
300    @CheckForNull Executor delegate;
301
302    /**
303     * Set before calling delegate.execute(); set to null once run, so that it can be GCed; this
304     * object may live on after, if submitAsync returns an incomplete future.
305     */
306    @CheckForNull Runnable task;
307
308    /** Thread that called execute(). Set in execute, cleared when delegate.execute() returns. */
309    @CheckForNull Thread submitting;
310
311    private TaskNonReentrantExecutor(Executor delegate, ExecutionSequencer sequencer) {
312      super(NOT_RUN);
313      this.delegate = delegate;
314      this.sequencer = sequencer;
315    }
316
317    @Override
318    public void execute(Runnable task) {
319      // If this operation was successfully cancelled already, calling the runnable will be a noop.
320      // This also avoids a race where if outputFuture is cancelled, it will call taskFuture.cancel,
321      // which will call newFuture.setFuture(oldFuture), to allow the next task in the queue to run
322      // without waiting for the user's executor to run our submitted Runnable. However, this can
323      // interact poorly with the reentrancy-avoiding behavior of this executor - when the operation
324      // before the cancelled future completes, it will synchronously complete both the newFuture
325      // from the cancelled operation and its own. This can cause one runnable to queue two tasks,
326      // breaking the invariant this method relies on to iteratively run the next task after the
327      // previous one completes.
328      if (get() == RunningState.CANCELLED) {
329        delegate = null;
330        sequencer = null;
331        return;
332      }
333      submitting = Thread.currentThread();
334
335      try {
336        /*
337         * requireNonNull is safe because we don't null out `sequencer` except:
338         *
339         * - above, where we return (in which case we never get here)
340         *
341         * - in `run`, which can't run until this Runnable is submitted to an executor, which
342         *   doesn't happen until below. (And this Executor -- yes, the object is both a Runnable
343         *   and an Executor -- is used for only a single `execute` call.)
344         */
345        ThreadConfinedTaskQueue submittingTaskQueue = requireNonNull(sequencer).latestTaskQueue;
346        if (submittingTaskQueue.thread == submitting) {
347          sequencer = null;
348          // Submit from inside a reentrant submit. We don't know if this one will be reentrant (and
349          // can't know without submitting something to the executor) so queue to run iteratively.
350          // Task must be null, since each execution on this executor can only produce one more
351          // execution.
352          checkState(submittingTaskQueue.nextTask == null);
353          submittingTaskQueue.nextTask = task;
354          // requireNonNull(delegate) is safe for reasons similar to requireNonNull(sequencer).
355          submittingTaskQueue.nextExecutor = requireNonNull(delegate);
356          delegate = null;
357        } else {
358          // requireNonNull(delegate) is safe for reasons similar to requireNonNull(sequencer).
359          Executor localDelegate = requireNonNull(delegate);
360          delegate = null;
361          this.task = task;
362          localDelegate.execute(this);
363        }
364      } finally {
365        // Important to null this out here - if we did *not* execute inline, we might still
366        // run() on the same thread that called execute() - such as in a thread pool, and think
367        // that it was happening inline. As a side benefit, avoids holding on to the Thread object
368        // longer than necessary.
369        submitting = null;
370      }
371    }
372
373    @SuppressWarnings("ShortCircuitBoolean")
374    @Override
375    public void run() {
376      Thread currentThread = Thread.currentThread();
377      if (currentThread != submitting) {
378        /*
379         * requireNonNull is safe because we set `task` before submitting this Runnable to an
380         * Executor, and we don't null it out until here.
381         */
382        Runnable localTask = requireNonNull(task);
383        task = null;
384        localTask.run();
385        return;
386      }
387      // Executor called reentrantly! Make sure that further calls don't overflow stack. Further
388      // reentrant calls will see that their current thread is the same as the one set in
389      // latestTaskQueue, and queue rather than calling execute() directly.
390      ThreadConfinedTaskQueue executingTaskQueue = new ThreadConfinedTaskQueue();
391      executingTaskQueue.thread = currentThread;
392      /*
393       * requireNonNull is safe because we don't null out `sequencer` except:
394       *
395       * - after the requireNonNull call below. (And this object has its Runnable.run override
396       *   called only once, just as it has its Executor.execute override called only once.)
397       *
398       * - if we return immediately from `execute` (in which case we never get here)
399       *
400       * - in the "reentrant submit" case of `execute` (in which case we must have started running a
401       *   user task -- which means that we already got past this code (or else we exited early
402       *   above))
403       */
404      // Unconditionally set; there is no risk of throwing away a queued task from another thread,
405      // because in order for the current task to run on this executor the previous task must have
406      // already started execution. Because each task on a TaskNonReentrantExecutor can only produce
407      // one execute() call to another instance from the same ExecutionSequencer, we know by
408      // induction that the task that launched this one must not have added any other runnables to
409      // that thread's queue, and thus we cannot be replacing a TaskAndThread object that would
410      // otherwise have another task queued on to it. Note the exception to this, cancellation, is
411      // specially handled in execute() - execute() calls triggered by cancellation are no-ops, and
412      // thus don't count.
413      requireNonNull(sequencer).latestTaskQueue = executingTaskQueue;
414      sequencer = null;
415      try {
416        // requireNonNull is safe, as discussed above.
417        Runnable localTask = requireNonNull(task);
418        task = null;
419        localTask.run();
420        // Now check if our task attempted to reentrantly execute the next task.
421        Runnable queuedTask;
422        Executor queuedExecutor;
423        // Intentionally using non-short-circuit operator
424        while ((queuedTask = executingTaskQueue.nextTask) != null
425            & (queuedExecutor = executingTaskQueue.nextExecutor) != null) {
426          executingTaskQueue.nextTask = null;
427          executingTaskQueue.nextExecutor = null;
428          queuedExecutor.execute(queuedTask);
429        }
430      } finally {
431        // Null out the thread field, so that we don't leak a reference to Thread, and so that
432        // future `thread == currentThread()` calls from this thread don't incorrectly queue instead
433        // of executing. Don't null out the latestTaskQueue field, because the work done here
434        // may have scheduled more operations on another thread, and if those operations then
435        // trigger reentrant calls that thread will have updated the latestTaskQueue field, and
436        // we'd be interfering with their operation.
437        executingTaskQueue.thread = null;
438      }
439    }
440
441    private boolean trySetStarted() {
442      return compareAndSet(NOT_RUN, STARTED);
443    }
444
445    private boolean trySetCancelled() {
446      return compareAndSet(NOT_RUN, CANCELLED);
447    }
448  }
449}