001/*
002 * Copyright (C) 2018 The Guava Authors
003 *
004 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
005 * in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
006 *
007 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
008 *
009 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License
010 * is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express
011 * or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
012 * the License.
013 */
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.J2ktIncompatible;
029import com.google.errorprone.annotations.concurrent.LazyInit;
030import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
031import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
032import java.util.concurrent.Future;
033import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
034import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;
035
036/**
037 * Serializes execution of tasks, somewhat like an "asynchronous {@code synchronized} block." Each
038 * {@linkplain #submit enqueued} callable will not be submitted to its associated executor until the
039 * previous callable has returned -- and, if the previous callable was an {@link AsyncCallable}, not
040 * until the {@code Future} it returned is {@linkplain Future#isDone done} (successful, failed, or
041 * cancelled).
042 *
043 * <p>This class serializes execution of <i>submitted</i> tasks but not any <i>listeners</i> of
044 * those tasks.
045 *
046 * <p>Submitted tasks have a happens-before order as defined in the Java Language Specification.
047 * Tasks execute with the same happens-before order that the function calls to {@link #submit} and
048 * {@link #submitAsync} that submitted those tasks had.
049 *
050 * <p>This class has limited support for cancellation and other "early completions":
051 *
052 * <ul>
053 *   <li>While calls to {@code submit} and {@code submitAsync} return a {@code Future} that can be
054 *       cancelled, cancellation never propagates to a task that has started to run -- neither to
055 *       the callable itself nor to any {@code Future} returned by an {@code AsyncCallable}.
056 *       (However, cancellation can prevent an <i>unstarted</i> task from running.) Therefore, the
057 *       next task will wait for any running callable (or pending {@code Future} returned by an
058 *       {@code AsyncCallable}) to complete, without interrupting it (and without calling {@code
059 *       cancel} on the {@code Future}). So beware: <i>Even if you cancel every preceding {@code
060 *       Future} returned by this class, the next task may still have to wait.</i>.
061 *   <li>Once an {@code AsyncCallable} returns a {@code Future}, this class considers that task to
062 *       be "done" as soon as <i>that</i> {@code Future} completes in any way. Notably, a {@code
063 *       Future} is "completed" even if it is cancelled while its underlying work continues on a
064 *       thread, an RPC, etc. The {@code Future} is also "completed" if it fails "early" -- for
065 *       example, if the deadline expires on a {@code Future} returned from {@link
066 *       Futures#withTimeout} while the {@code Future} it wraps continues its underlying work. So
067 *       beware: <i>Your {@code AsyncCallable} should not complete its {@code Future} until it is
068 *       safe for the next task to start.</i>
069 * </ul>
070 *
071 * <p>This class is similar to {@link MoreExecutors#newSequentialExecutor}. This class is different
072 * in a few ways:
073 *
074 * <ul>
075 *   <li>Each task may be associated with a different executor.
076 *   <li>Tasks may be of type {@code AsyncCallable}.
077 *   <li>Running tasks <i>cannot</i> be interrupted. (Note that {@code newSequentialExecutor} does
078 *       not return {@code Future} objects, so it doesn't support interruption directly, either.
079 *       However, utilities that <i>use</i> that executor have the ability to interrupt tasks
080 *       running on it. This class, by contrast, does not expose an {@code Executor} API.)
081 * </ul>
082 *
083 * <p>If you don't need the features of this class, you may prefer {@code newSequentialExecutor} for
084 * its simplicity and ability to accommodate interruption.
085 *
086 * @since 26.0
087 */
088@J2ktIncompatible
089public final class ExecutionSequencer {
090
091  private ExecutionSequencer() {}
092
093  /** Creates a new instance. */
094  public static ExecutionSequencer create() {
095    return new ExecutionSequencer();
096  }
097
098  /** This reference acts as a pointer tracking the head of a linked list of ListenableFutures. */
099  private final AtomicReference<ListenableFuture<@Nullable Void>> ref =
100      new AtomicReference<>(immediateVoidFuture());
101
102  private @LazyInit ThreadConfinedTaskQueue latestTaskQueue = new ThreadConfinedTaskQueue();
103
104  /**
105   * This object is unsafely published, but avoids problematic races by relying exclusively on the
106   * identity equality of its Thread field so that the task field is only accessed by a single
107   * thread.
108   */
109  private static final class ThreadConfinedTaskQueue {
110    /**
111     * This field is only used for identity comparisons with the current thread. Field assignments
112     * are atomic, but do not provide happens-before ordering; however:
113     *
114     * <ul>
115     *   <li>If this field's value == currentThread, we know that it's up to date, because write
116     *       operations in a thread always happen-before subsequent read operations in the same
117     *       thread
118     *   <li>If this field's value == null because of unsafe publication, we know that it isn't the
119     *       object associated with our thread, because if it was the publication wouldn't have been
120     *       unsafe and we'd have seen our thread as the value. This state is also why a new
121     *       ThreadConfinedTaskQueue object must be created for each inline execution, because
122     *       observing a null thread does not mean the object is safe to reuse.
123     *   <li>If this field's value is some other thread object, we know that it's not our thread.
124     *   <li>If this field's value == null because it originally belonged to another thread and that
125     *       thread cleared it, we still know that it's not associated with our thread
126     *   <li>If this field's value == null because it was associated with our thread and was
127     *       cleared, we know that we're not executing inline any more
128     * </ul>
129     *
130     * All the states where thread != currentThread are identical for our purposes, and so even
131     * though it's racy, we don't care which of those values we get, so no need to synchronize.
132     */
133    @LazyInit @Nullable Thread thread;
134
135    /** Only used by the thread associated with this object */
136    @Nullable Runnable nextTask;
137
138    /** Only used by the thread associated with this object */
139    @Nullable Executor nextExecutor;
140  }
141
142  /**
143   * Enqueues a task to run when the previous task (if any) completes.
144   *
145   * <p>Cancellation does not propagate from the output future to a callable that has begun to
146   * execute, but if the output future is cancelled before {@link Callable#call()} is invoked,
147   * {@link Callable#call()} will not be invoked.
148   */
149  public <T extends @Nullable Object> ListenableFuture<T> submit(
150      Callable<T> callable, Executor executor) {
151    checkNotNull(callable);
152    checkNotNull(executor);
153    return submitAsync(
154        new AsyncCallable<T>() {
155          @Override
156          public ListenableFuture<T> call() throws Exception {
157            return immediateFuture(callable.call());
158          }
159
160          @Override
161          public String toString() {
162            return callable.toString();
163          }
164        },
165        executor);
166  }
167
168  /**
169   * Enqueues a task to run when the previous task (if any) completes.
170   *
171   * <p>Cancellation does not propagate from the output future to the future returned from {@code
172   * callable} or a callable that has begun to execute, but if the output future is cancelled before
173   * {@link AsyncCallable#call()} is invoked, {@link AsyncCallable#call()} will not be invoked.
174   */
175  public <T extends @Nullable Object> ListenableFuture<T> submitAsync(
176      AsyncCallable<T> callable, Executor executor) {
177    checkNotNull(callable);
178    checkNotNull(executor);
179    TaskNonReentrantExecutor taskExecutor = new TaskNonReentrantExecutor(executor, this);
180    AsyncCallable<T> task =
181        new AsyncCallable<T>() {
182          @Override
183          public ListenableFuture<T> call() throws Exception {
184            if (!taskExecutor.trySetStarted()) {
185              return immediateCancelledFuture();
186            }
187            return callable.call();
188          }
189
190          @Override
191          public String toString() {
192            return callable.toString();
193          }
194        };
195    /*
196     * Four futures are at play here:
197     * taskFuture is the future tracking the result of the callable.
198     * newFuture is a future that completes after this and all prior tasks are done.
199     * oldFuture is the previous task's newFuture.
200     * outputFuture is the future we return to the caller, a nonCancellationPropagating taskFuture.
201     *
202     * newFuture is guaranteed to only complete once all tasks previously submitted to this instance
203     * have completed - namely after oldFuture is done, and taskFuture has either completed or been
204     * cancelled before the callable started execution.
205     */
206    SettableFuture<@Nullable Void> newFuture = SettableFuture.create();
207
208    ListenableFuture<@Nullable Void> oldFuture = ref.getAndSet(newFuture);
209
210    // Invoke our task once the previous future completes.
211    TrustedListenableFutureTask<T> taskFuture = TrustedListenableFutureTask.create(task);
212    oldFuture.addListener(taskFuture, taskExecutor);
213
214    ListenableFuture<T> outputFuture = Futures.nonCancellationPropagating(taskFuture);
215
216    // newFuture's lifetime is determined by taskFuture, which can't complete before oldFuture
217    // unless taskFuture is cancelled, in which case it falls back to oldFuture. This ensures that
218    // if the future we return is cancelled, we don't begin execution of the next task until after
219    // oldFuture completes.
220    Runnable listener =
221        () -> {
222          if (taskFuture.isDone()) {
223            // Since the value of oldFuture can only ever be immediateFuture(null) or setFuture of
224            // a future that eventually came from immediateFuture(null), this doesn't leak
225            // throwables or completion values.
226            newFuture.setFuture(oldFuture);
227          } else if (outputFuture.isCancelled() && taskExecutor.trySetCancelled()) {
228            // If this CAS succeeds, we know that the provided callable will never be invoked,
229            // so when oldFuture completes it is safe to allow the next submitted task to
230            // proceed. Doing this immediately here lets the next task run without waiting for
231            // the cancelled task's executor to run the noop AsyncCallable.
232            //
233            // ---
234            //
235            // If the CAS fails, the provided callable already started running (or it is about
236            // to). Our contract promises:
237            //
238            // 1. not to execute a new callable until the old one has returned
239            //
240            // If we were to cancel taskFuture, that would let the next task start while the old
241            // one is still running.
242            //
243            // Now, maybe we could tweak our implementation to not start the next task until the
244            // callable actually completes. (We could detect completion in our wrapper
245            // `AsyncCallable task`.) However, our contract also promises:
246            //
247            // 2. not to cancel any Future the user returned from an AsyncCallable
248            //
249            // We promise this because, once we cancel that Future, we would no longer be able to
250            // tell when any underlying work it is doing is done. Thus, we might start a new task
251            // while that underlying work is still running.
252            //
253            // So that is why we cancel only in the case of CAS success.
254            taskFuture.cancel(false);
255          }
256        };
257    // Adding the listener to both futures guarantees that newFuture will always be set. Adding to
258    // taskFuture guarantees completion if the callable is invoked, and adding to outputFuture
259    // propagates cancellation if the callable has not yet been invoked.
260    outputFuture.addListener(listener, directExecutor());
261    taskFuture.addListener(listener, directExecutor());
262
263    return outputFuture;
264  }
265
266  enum RunningState {
267    NOT_RUN,
268    CANCELLED,
269    STARTED,
270  }
271
272  /**
273   * This class helps avoid a StackOverflowError when large numbers of tasks are submitted with
274   * {@link MoreExecutors#directExecutor}. Normally, when the first future completes, all the other
275   * tasks would be called recursively. Here, we detect that the delegate executor is executing
276   * inline, and maintain a queue to dispatch tasks iteratively. There is one instance of this class
277   * per call to submit() or submitAsync(), and each instance supports only one call to execute().
278   *
279   * <p>This class would certainly be simpler and easier to reason about if it were built with
280   * ThreadLocal; however, ThreadLocal is not well optimized for the case where the ThreadLocal is
281   * non-static, and is initialized/removed frequently - this causes churn in the Thread specific
282   * hashmaps. Using a static ThreadLocal to avoid that overhead would mean that different
283   * ExecutionSequencer objects interfere with each other, which would be undesirable, in addition
284   * to increasing the memory footprint of every thread that interacted with it. In order to release
285   * entries in thread-specific maps when the ThreadLocal object itself is no longer referenced,
286   * ThreadLocal is usually implemented with a WeakReference, which can have negative performance
287   * properties; for example, calling WeakReference.get() on Android will block during an
288   * otherwise-concurrent GC cycle.
289   */
290  private static final class TaskNonReentrantExecutor extends AtomicReference<RunningState>
291      implements Executor, Runnable {
292
293    /**
294     * Used to update and read the latestTaskQueue field. Set to null once the runnable has been run
295     * or queued.
296     */
297    @Nullable ExecutionSequencer sequencer;
298
299    /**
300     * Executor the task was set to run on. Set to null when the task has been queued, run, or
301     * cancelled.
302     */
303    @Nullable Executor delegate;
304
305    /**
306     * Set before calling delegate.execute(); set to null once run, so that it can be GCed; this
307     * object may live on after, if submitAsync returns an incomplete future.
308     */
309    @Nullable Runnable task;
310
311    /** Thread that called execute(). Set in execute, cleared when delegate.execute() returns. */
312    @LazyInit @Nullable Thread submitting;
313
314    private TaskNonReentrantExecutor(Executor delegate, ExecutionSequencer sequencer) {
315      super(NOT_RUN);
316      this.delegate = delegate;
317      this.sequencer = sequencer;
318    }
319
320    @Override
321    public void execute(Runnable task) {
322      // If this operation was successfully cancelled already, calling the runnable will be a noop.
323      // This also avoids a race where if outputFuture is cancelled, it will call taskFuture.cancel,
324      // which will call newFuture.setFuture(oldFuture), to allow the next task in the queue to run
325      // without waiting for the user's executor to run our submitted Runnable. However, this can
326      // interact poorly with the reentrancy-avoiding behavior of this executor - when the operation
327      // before the cancelled future completes, it will synchronously complete both the newFuture
328      // from the cancelled operation and its own. This can cause one runnable to queue two tasks,
329      // breaking the invariant this method relies on to iteratively run the next task after the
330      // previous one completes.
331      if (get() == RunningState.CANCELLED) {
332        delegate = null;
333        sequencer = null;
334        return;
335      }
336      submitting = Thread.currentThread();
337
338      try {
339        /*
340         * requireNonNull is safe because we don't null out `sequencer` except:
341         *
342         * - above, where we return (in which case we never get here)
343         *
344         * - in `run`, which can't run until this Runnable is submitted to an executor, which
345         *   doesn't happen until below. (And this Executor -- yes, the object is both a Runnable
346         *   and an Executor -- is used for only a single `execute` call.)
347         */
348        ThreadConfinedTaskQueue submittingTaskQueue = requireNonNull(sequencer).latestTaskQueue;
349        if (submittingTaskQueue.thread == submitting) {
350          sequencer = null;
351          // Submit from inside a reentrant submit. We don't know if this one will be reentrant (and
352          // can't know without submitting something to the executor) so queue to run iteratively.
353          // Task must be null, since each execution on this executor can only produce one more
354          // execution.
355          checkState(submittingTaskQueue.nextTask == null);
356          submittingTaskQueue.nextTask = task;
357          // requireNonNull(delegate) is safe for reasons similar to requireNonNull(sequencer).
358          submittingTaskQueue.nextExecutor = requireNonNull(delegate);
359          delegate = null;
360        } else {
361          // requireNonNull(delegate) is safe for reasons similar to requireNonNull(sequencer).
362          Executor localDelegate = requireNonNull(delegate);
363          delegate = null;
364          this.task = task;
365          localDelegate.execute(this);
366        }
367      } finally {
368        // Important to null this out here - if we did *not* execute inline, we might still
369        // run() on the same thread that called execute() - such as in a thread pool, and think
370        // that it was happening inline. As a side benefit, avoids holding on to the Thread object
371        // longer than necessary.
372        submitting = null;
373      }
374    }
375
376    @SuppressWarnings("ShortCircuitBoolean")
377    @Override
378    public void run() {
379      Thread currentThread = Thread.currentThread();
380      if (currentThread != submitting) {
381        /*
382         * requireNonNull is safe because we set `task` before submitting this Runnable to an
383         * Executor, and we don't null it out until here.
384         */
385        Runnable localTask = requireNonNull(task);
386        task = null;
387        localTask.run();
388        return;
389      }
390      // Executor called reentrantly! Make sure that further calls don't overflow stack. Further
391      // reentrant calls will see that their current thread is the same as the one set in
392      // latestTaskQueue, and queue rather than calling execute() directly.
393      ThreadConfinedTaskQueue executingTaskQueue = new ThreadConfinedTaskQueue();
394      executingTaskQueue.thread = currentThread;
395      /*
396       * requireNonNull is safe because we don't null out `sequencer` except:
397       *
398       * - after the requireNonNull call below. (And this object has its Runnable.run override
399       *   called only once, just as it has its Executor.execute override called only once.)
400       *
401       * - if we return immediately from `execute` (in which case we never get here)
402       *
403       * - in the "reentrant submit" case of `execute` (in which case we must have started running a
404       *   user task -- which means that we already got past this code (or else we exited early
405       *   above))
406       */
407      // Unconditionally set; there is no risk of throwing away a queued task from another thread,
408      // because in order for the current task to run on this executor the previous task must have
409      // already started execution. Because each task on a TaskNonReentrantExecutor can only produce
410      // one execute() call to another instance from the same ExecutionSequencer, we know by
411      // induction that the task that launched this one must not have added any other runnables to
412      // that thread's queue, and thus we cannot be replacing a TaskAndThread object that would
413      // otherwise have another task queued on to it. Note the exception to this, cancellation, is
414      // specially handled in execute() - execute() calls triggered by cancellation are no-ops, and
415      // thus don't count.
416      requireNonNull(sequencer).latestTaskQueue = executingTaskQueue;
417      sequencer = null;
418      try {
419        // requireNonNull is safe, as discussed above.
420        Runnable localTask = requireNonNull(task);
421        task = null;
422        localTask.run();
423        // Now check if our task attempted to reentrantly execute the next task.
424        Runnable queuedTask;
425        Executor queuedExecutor;
426        // Intentionally using non-short-circuit operator
427        while ((queuedTask = executingTaskQueue.nextTask) != null
428            && (queuedExecutor = executingTaskQueue.nextExecutor) != null) {
429          executingTaskQueue.nextTask = null;
430          executingTaskQueue.nextExecutor = null;
431          queuedExecutor.execute(queuedTask);
432        }
433      } finally {
434        // Null out the thread field, so that we don't leak a reference to Thread, and so that
435        // future `thread == currentThread()` calls from this thread don't incorrectly queue instead
436        // of executing. Don't null out the latestTaskQueue field, because the work done here
437        // may have scheduled more operations on another thread, and if those operations then
438        // trigger reentrant calls that thread will have updated the latestTaskQueue field, and
439        // we'd be interfering with their operation.
440        executingTaskQueue.thread = null;
441      }
442    }
443
444    private boolean trySetStarted() {
445      return compareAndSet(NOT_RUN, STARTED);
446    }
447
448    private boolean trySetCancelled() {
449      return compareAndSet(NOT_RUN, CANCELLED);
450    }
451  }
452}