[PATCH] D38704: [libunwind] Emulate pthread rwlocks via SRW locks for windows

[Martin Storsjö via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

mstorsjo added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D38704#892479, @zturner wrote:

> I'm a little nervous about re-inventing a poor man's version of a reader writer lock.  Can we not just copy LLVM's?


I had a closer look at this, and noticed the following:

- The LLVM RWMutex class on windows tries to load the SRW functions dynamically, and falls back on a normal critical section otherwise. This init procedure doesn't seem to be threadsafe though, but as long as the first RWMutex object is initialized before any extra threads are started, we should be fine. For libunwind, it would probably be done in a constructor on CRT startup.
- Importing this implementation verbatim would require including one header, 3 implementation files, and probably some CMake hookups.
- Until the LLVM relicensing is done, afaik we can't include code verbatim from LLVM into the runtime libs, or did I get this wrong?

If you prefer, it's pretty trivial to do a smaller but similar implementation for libunwind though. If we add a new RWMutex class instead of using the pthread API (and implementing the windows version behind that API), we can have separate unlock methods for read and write mode, getting rid of the ugly `lockedForWrite` variable I currently have. And one could have it either just use SRW, or try loading SRW dynamically if that's preferred (if one wants to spend extra effort on libunwind on pre-vista).

What do you think @zturner?


https://reviews.llvm.org/D38704