pub struct LockedBy<T: ?Sized, L: Lock + ?Sized> { /* private fields */ }
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Allows access to some data to be serialised by a lock that does not wrap it.

In most cases, data protected by a lock is wrapped by the appropriate lock type, e.g., super::Mutex or super::SpinLock. LockedBy is meant for cases when this is not possible. For example, if a container has a lock and some data in the contained elements needs to be protected by the same lock.

LockedBy wraps the data in lieu of another locking primitive, and only allows access to it when the caller shows evidence that ‘external’ lock is locked.

Examples

The following is an example for illustrative purposes: InnerDirectory::bytes_used is an aggregate of all InnerFile::bytes_used and must be kept consistent; so we wrap InnerFile in a LockedBy so that it shares a lock with InnerDirectory. This allows us to enforce at compile-time that access to InnerFile is only granted when an InnerDirectory is also locked; we enforce at run time that the right InnerDirectory is locked.

use kernel::sync::{LockedBy, Mutex};

struct InnerFile {
    bytes_used: u64,
}

struct File {
    name: String,
    inner: LockedBy<InnerFile, Mutex<InnerDirectory>>,
}

struct InnerDirectory {
    /// The sum of the bytes used by all files.
    bytes_used: u64,
    files: Vec<File>,
}

struct Directory {
    name: String,
    inner: Mutex<InnerDirectory>,
}

Implementations

Constructs a new instance of LockedBy.

It stores a raw pointer to the owner that is never dereferenced. It is only used to ensure that the right owner is being used to access the protected data. If the owner is freed, the data becomes inaccessible; if another instance of the owner is allocated on the same memory location, the data becomes accessible again: none of this affects memory safety because in any case at most one thread (or CPU) can access the protected data at a time.

Returns a reference to the protected data when the caller provides evidence (via a Guard) that the owner is locked.

Returns a mutable reference to the protected data when the caller provides evidence (via a mutable Guard) that the owner is locked mutably.

Returns a mutable reference to the protected data when the caller provides evidence (via a mutable owner) that the owner is locked mutably. Showing a mutable reference to the owner is sufficient because we know no other references can exist to it.

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