cooptex provides deadlock-free Mutexes.

Shelby Doolittle

Last update: Oct 10, 2022

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Overview

cooptex

cooptex provides deadlock-free Mutexes. The [CoopMutex::lock] method wraps the [std::sync::Mutex] return value with a Result that will request the caller to drop other held locks so another thread could make progress. This behavior is easily accomplished by using the [retry_loop] function.

use cooptex::*;
let a = CoopMutex::new(42);
let b = CoopMutex::new(43);

retry_loop(|| {
  let a_lock = a.lock()?.unwrap();
  let b_lock = b.lock()?.unwrap();
  assert_eq!(*a_lock + *b_lock, 85);
  Ok(())
});

Guarantees

This crate aims to guarantee that multiple threads cannot possibly deadlock by acquiring locks.

This crate also will prefer threads that have lived the "longest" without completing work. Meaning, when [retry_loop] successfully completes, it will move that thread to the end of the queue for acquiring future locks. This provides an approximately fair scheduler.

The crate is still in early development, so there may be cases that aren't covered. Please open an issue if you can reproduce a deadlock.

Non-Guarantees

This crate explicitly allows the following potentially undesired behavior:

[CoopMutex::lock] may return [Retry] when it could wait and acquire the lock without a deadlock.
[CoopMutex::lock] may wait arbitrarily long before returning [Retry].

Incomplete

We have not fully analyzed the behavior during panics. There is no unsafe code, so we could only possibly deadlock.

License: MIT

Comments

Possibility of RwLock version of CoopMutex?
Hello! This library looks quite useful, and I'll be trying it out over the next couple days in my project (which is currently suffering from occasional deadlocks).

Currently in my project I am using RwLock locks for my data, as most of the time there are not writes occurring, so allowing multiple read-locks simultaneously is beneficial. Naturally, I was wondering if a RwLock is possible for the approach cooptex is using to handle deadlocks.

If not, that's fine! I will try to rework using CoopMutex as written.

I just figured it was worth asking:

Whether a CoopRwLock struct were possible, given cooptex's deadlock resolution design.

How much work it would be to create such a struct. (as if it were straightforward enough, I may look into trying to develop the variant myself)

Anyway, thanks for releasing the library, as it gets the thought process going on other possibilities for handling deadlocks. :)

EDIT: For now, I am using this wrapper around RwLock that keeps track of all "living lock-guards", so that at least when a deadlock occurs, it is easy to see the name/location of any lock-guards it is waiting-for/deadlocked-with: https://gist.github.com/Venryx/64f822a9468bb6d76a8f6d63f0c3ae23
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cooptex provides deadlock-free Mutexes.

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Possibility of RwLock version of CoopMutex?

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Shelby Doolittle

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