1.3 API CHANGE: Add support for naming threads.

libsdl-org · Oct 2, 2011 · 1772c81 · 1772c81
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diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
@@ -1642,6 +1642,30 @@ AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-pthread-sem], [use pthread semaphores [[default=yes]]])
             ])
             AC_MSG_RESULT($has_pthread_spin_trylock)
 
+            AC_CHECK_HEADER(pthread_np.h, have_pthread_np_h=yes)
+            if test x$have_pthread_np_h = xyes; then
+                AC_DEFINE(HAVE_PTHREAD_NP_H, 1, [ ])
+            fi
+
+            # Check to see if pthread naming is available
+            AC_MSG_CHECKING(for pthread_setname_np)
+            AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC(pthread_setname_np, [
+              has_pthread_setname_np=yes
+              AC_DEFINE(HAVE_PTHREAD_SETNAME_NP, 1, [ ])
+            ],[
+              has_pthread_setname_np=no
+            ])
+            AC_MSG_RESULT($has_pthread_setname_np)
+
+            AC_MSG_CHECKING(for pthread_set_name_np)
+            AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC(pthread_set_name_np, [
+              has_pthread_set_name_np=yes
+              AC_DEFINE(HAVE_PTHREAD_SET_NAME_NP, 1, [ ])
+            ],[
+              has_pthread_set_name_np=no
+            ])
+            AC_MSG_RESULT($has_pthread_set_name_np)
+
             # Restore the compiler flags and libraries
             CFLAGS="$ac_save_cflags"; LIBS="$ac_save_libs"
 

diff --git a/include/SDL_config.h.in b/include/SDL_config.h.in
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
 #undef HAVE_ICONV_H
 #undef HAVE_SIGNAL_H
 #undef HAVE_ALTIVEC_H
+#undef HAVE_PTHREAD_NP_H
 
 /* C library functions */
 #undef HAVE_MALLOC
@@ -148,6 +149,8 @@
 #undef HAVE_GETPAGESIZE
 #undef HAVE_MPROTECT
 #undef HAVE_ICONV
+#undef HAVE_PTHREAD_SETNAME_NP
+#undef HAVE_PTHREAD_SET_NAME_NP
 
 #else
 /* We may need some replacement for stdarg.h here */

diff --git a/include/SDL_thread.h b/include/SDL_thread.h
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ typedef void (__cdecl * pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread) (unsigned code);
  *  Create a thread.
  */
 extern DECLSPEC SDL_Thread *SDLCALL
-SDL_CreateThread(SDL_ThreadFunction fn, void *data,
+SDL_CreateThread(SDL_ThreadFunction fn, const char *name, void *data,
                  pfnSDL_CurrentBeginThread pfnBeginThread,
                  pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread pfnEndThread);
 
@@ -111,26 +111,50 @@ SDL_CreateThread(SDL_ThreadFunction fn, void *data,
 /**
  *  Create a thread.
  */
-#define SDL_CreateThread(fn, data) SDL_CreateThread(fn, data, NULL, NULL)
+#define SDL_CreateThread(fn, name, data) SDL_CreateThread(fn, name, data, NULL, NULL)
 
 #else
 
 /**
  *  Create a thread.
  */
-#define SDL_CreateThread(fn, data) SDL_CreateThread(fn, data, _beginthreadex, _endthreadex)
+#define SDL_CreateThread(fn, name, data) SDL_CreateThread(fn, name, data, _beginthreadex, _endthreadex)
 
 #endif
 #else
 
 /**
  *  Create a thread.
+ *
+ *   Thread naming is a little complicated: Most systems have very small
+ *    limits for the string length (BeOS has 32 bytes, Linux currently has 16,
+ *    Visual C++ 6.0 has nine!), and possibly other arbitrary rules. You'll
+ *    have to see what happens with your system's debugger. The name should be
+ *    UTF-8 (but using the naming limits of C identifiers is a better bet).
+ *   There are no requirements for thread naming conventions, so long as the
+ *    string is null-terminated UTF-8, but these guidelines are helpful in
+ *    choosing a name:
+ *
+ *    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/149932/naming-conventions-for-threads
+ *
+ *   If a system imposes requirements, SDL will try to munge the string for
+ *    it (truncate, etc), but the original string contents will be available
+ *    from SDL_GetThreadName().
  */
 extern DECLSPEC SDL_Thread *SDLCALL
-SDL_CreateThread(SDL_ThreadFunction fn, void *data);
+SDL_CreateThread(SDL_ThreadFunction fn, const char *name, void *data);
 
 #endif
 
+/**
+ * Get the thread name, as it was specified in SDL_CreateThread().
+ *  This function returns a pointer to a UTF-8 string that names the
+ *  specified thread, or NULL if it doesn't have a name. This is internal
+ *  memory, not to be free()'d by the caller, and remains valid until the
+ *  specified thread is cleaned up by SDL_WaitThread().
+ */
+extern DECLSPEC const char *SDLCALL SDL_GetThreadName(SDL_Thread *thread);
+
 /**
  *  Get the thread identifier for the current thread.
  */

diff --git a/src/audio/SDL_audio.c b/src/audio/SDL_audio.c
@@ -1033,12 +1033,14 @@ open_audio_device(const char *devname, int iscapture,
     /* Start the audio thread if necessary */
     if (!current_audio.impl.ProvidesOwnCallbackThread) {
         /* Start the audio thread */
+        char name[64];
+        SDL_snprintf(name, sizeof (name), "SDLAudioDev%d", (int) (id + 1));
 /* !!! FIXME: this is nasty. */
 #if (defined(__WIN32__) && !defined(_WIN32_WCE)) && !defined(HAVE_LIBC)
 #undef SDL_CreateThread
-        device->thread = SDL_CreateThread(SDL_RunAudio, device, NULL, NULL);
+        device->thread = SDL_CreateThread(SDL_RunAudio, name, device, NULL, NULL);
 #else
-        device->thread = SDL_CreateThread(SDL_RunAudio, device);
+        device->thread = SDL_CreateThread(SDL_RunAudio, name, device);
 #endif
         if (device->thread == NULL) {
             SDL_CloseAudioDevice(id + 1);

diff --git a/src/main/beos/SDL_BeApp.cc b/src/main/beos/SDL_BeApp.cc
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ SDL_InitBeApp(void)
 {
     /* Create the BApplication that handles appserver interaction */
     if (SDL_BeAppActive <= 0) {
-        SDL_AppThread = SDL_CreateThread(StartBeApp, NULL);
+        SDL_AppThread = SDL_CreateThread(StartBeApp, "SDLApplication", NULL);
         if (SDL_AppThread == NULL) {
             SDL_SetError("Couldn't create BApplication thread");
             return (-1);

diff --git a/src/thread/SDL_systhread.h b/src/thread/SDL_systhread.h
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ extern int SDL_SYS_CreateThread(SDL_Thread * thread, void *args);
 #endif
 
 /* This function does any necessary setup in the child thread */
-extern void SDL_SYS_SetupThread(void);
+extern void SDL_SYS_SetupThread(const char *name);
 
 /* This function sets the current thread priority */
 extern int SDL_SYS_SetThreadPriority(SDL_ThreadPriority priority);

diff --git a/src/thread/SDL_thread.c b/src/thread/SDL_thread.c
@@ -188,25 +188,19 @@ typedef struct
 void
 SDL_RunThread(void *data)
 {
-    thread_args *args;
-    int (SDLCALL * userfunc) (void *);
-    void *userdata;
-    int *statusloc;
+    thread_args *args = (thread_args *) data;
+    int (SDLCALL * userfunc) (void *) = args->func;
+    void *userdata = args->data;
+    int *statusloc = &args->info->status;
 
     /* Perform any system-dependent setup
        - this function cannot fail, and cannot use SDL_SetError()
      */
-    SDL_SYS_SetupThread();
+    SDL_SYS_SetupThread(args->info->name);
 
     /* Get the thread id */
-    args = (thread_args *) data;
     args->info->threadid = SDL_ThreadID();
 
-    /* Figure out what function to run */
-    userfunc = args->func;
-    userdata = args->data;
-    statusloc = &args->info->status;
-
     /* Wake up the parent thread */
     SDL_SemPost(args->wait);
 
@@ -217,12 +211,14 @@ SDL_RunThread(void *data)
 #ifdef SDL_PASSED_BEGINTHREAD_ENDTHREAD
 #undef SDL_CreateThread
 DECLSPEC SDL_Thread *SDLCALL
-SDL_CreateThread(int (SDLCALL * fn) (void *), void *data,
+SDL_CreateThread(int (SDLCALL * fn) (void *),
+                 const char *name, void *data,
                  pfnSDL_CurrentBeginThread pfnBeginThread,
                  pfnSDL_CurrentEndThread pfnEndThread)
 #else
 DECLSPEC SDL_Thread *SDLCALL
-SDL_CreateThread(int (SDLCALL * fn) (void *), void *data)
+SDL_CreateThread(int (SDLCALL * fn) (void *),
+                 const char *name, void *data)
 #endif
 {
     SDL_Thread *thread;
@@ -238,10 +234,21 @@ SDL_CreateThread(int (SDLCALL * fn) (void *), void *data)
     SDL_memset(thread, 0, (sizeof *thread));
     thread->status = -1;
 
+    /* Set up the arguments for the thread */
+    if (name != NULL) {
+        thread->name = SDL_strdup(name);
+        if (thread->name == NULL) {
+            SDL_OutOfMemory();
+            SDL_free(thread);
+            return (NULL);
+        }
+    }
+
     /* Set up the arguments for the thread */
     args = (thread_args *) SDL_malloc(sizeof(*args));
     if (args == NULL) {
         SDL_OutOfMemory();
+        SDL_free(thread->name);
         SDL_free(thread);
         return (NULL);
     }
@@ -250,6 +257,7 @@ SDL_CreateThread(int (SDLCALL * fn) (void *), void *data)
     args->info = thread;
     args->wait = SDL_CreateSemaphore(0);
     if (args->wait == NULL) {
+        SDL_free(thread->name);
         SDL_free(thread);
         SDL_free(args);
         return (NULL);
@@ -270,6 +278,7 @@ SDL_CreateThread(int (SDLCALL * fn) (void *), void *data)
     } else {
         /* Oops, failed.  Gotta free everything */
         SDL_DelThread(thread);
+        SDL_free(thread->name);
         SDL_free(thread);
         thread = NULL;
     }
@@ -293,6 +302,12 @@ SDL_GetThreadID(SDL_Thread * thread)
     return id;
 }
 
+const char *
+SDL_GetThreadName(SDL_Thread * thread)
+{
+    return thread->name;
+}
+
 int
 SDL_SetThreadPriority(SDL_ThreadPriority priority)
 {
@@ -308,6 +323,7 @@ SDL_WaitThread(SDL_Thread * thread, int *status)
             *status = thread->status;
         }
         SDL_DelThread(thread);
+        SDL_free(thread->name);
         SDL_free(thread);
     }
 }

diff --git a/src/thread/SDL_thread_c.h b/src/thread/SDL_thread_c.h
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ struct SDL_Thread
     SYS_ThreadHandle handle;
     int status;
     SDL_error errbuf;
+    char *name;
     void *data;
 };
 

diff --git a/src/thread/beos/SDL_systhread.c b/src/thread/beos/SDL_systhread.c
@@ -65,8 +65,13 @@ RunThread(void *data)
 int
 SDL_SYS_CreateThread(SDL_Thread * thread, void *args)
 {
+    /* The docs say the thread name can't be longer than B_OS_NAME_LENGTH. */
+    char name[B_OS_NAME_LENGTH];
+    SDL_snprintf(name, sizeof (name), "%s", thread->name);
+    name[sizeof (name) - 1] = '\0';
+
     /* Create the thread and go! */
-    thread->handle = spawn_thread(RunThread, "SDL", B_NORMAL_PRIORITY, args);
+    thread->handle = spawn_thread(RunThread, name, B_NORMAL_PRIORITY, args);
     if ((thread->handle == B_NO_MORE_THREADS) ||
         (thread->handle == B_NO_MEMORY)) {
         SDL_SetError("Not enough resources to create thread");
@@ -77,8 +82,9 @@ SDL_SYS_CreateThread(SDL_Thread * thread, void *args)
 }
 
 void
-SDL_SYS_SetupThread(void)
+SDL_SYS_SetupThread(const char *name)
 {
+    /* We set the thread name during SDL_SYS_CreateThread(). */
     /* Mask asynchronous signals for this thread */
     SDL_MaskSignals(NULL);
 }

diff --git a/src/thread/generic/SDL_systhread.c b/src/thread/generic/SDL_systhread.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ SDL_SYS_CreateThread(SDL_Thread * thread, void *args)
 }
 
 void
-SDL_SYS_SetupThread(void)
+SDL_SYS_SetupThread(const char *name)
 {
     return;
 }

diff --git a/src/thread/irix/SDL_systhread.c b/src/thread/irix/SDL_systhread.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ SDL_SYS_CreateThread(SDL_Thread * thread, void *args)
 }
 
 void
-SDL_SYS_SetupThread(void)
+SDL_SYS_SetupThread(const char *name)
 {
     int i;
     sigset_t mask;

diff --git a/src/thread/nds/SDL_systhread.c b/src/thread/nds/SDL_systhread.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ SDL_SYS_CreateThread(SDL_Thread * thread, void *args)
 }
 
 void
-SDL_SYS_SetupThread(void)
+SDL_SYS_SetupThread(const char *name)
 {
     return;
 }

diff --git a/src/thread/pthread/SDL_systhread.c b/src/thread/pthread/SDL_systhread.c
@@ -21,13 +21,19 @@
 #include "SDL_config.h"
 
 #include <pthread.h>
+
+#if HAVE_PTHREAD_NP_H
+#include <pthread_np.h>
+#endif
+
 #include <signal.h>
 #ifdef __LINUX__
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/resource.h>
 #include <sys/syscall.h>
 #endif
 
+#include "SDL_platform.h"
 #include "SDL_thread.h"
 #include "../SDL_thread_c.h"
 #include "../SDL_systhread.h"
@@ -67,12 +73,27 @@ SDL_SYS_CreateThread(SDL_Thread * thread, void *args)
     return (0);
 }
 
+/* make pthread_setname_np() a weak reference even without SDK support. */
+#if __MACOSX__ && (MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED < 1060)
+int pthread_setname_np(const char*) __attribute__((weak_import,visibility("default")));
+#elif __IPHONEOS__ && (__IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED < 30200)
+int pthread_setname_np(const char*) __attribute__((weak_import));
+#endif
+
 void
-SDL_SYS_SetupThread(void)
+SDL_SYS_SetupThread(const char *name)
 {
     int i;
     sigset_t mask;
 
+#if __MACOSX__ || __IPHONEOS__
+    if (pthread_setname_np != NULL) { pthread_setname_np(name); }
+#elif HAVE_PTHREAD_SETNAME_NP
+    pthread_setname_np(pthread_self(), name);
+#elif HAVE_PTHREAD_SET_NAME_NP
+    pthread_set_name_np(pthread_self(), name);
+#endif
+
     /* Mask asynchronous signals for this thread */
     sigemptyset(&mask);
     for (i = 0; sig_list[i]; ++i) {