1//===- DirectoryWatcher-linux.cpp - Linux-platform directory watching -----===//
2//
3// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
4// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
5// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
6//
7//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
8
9#include "DirectoryScanner.h"
10#include "clang/DirectoryWatcher/DirectoryWatcher.h"
11
12#include "llvm/ADT/STLExtras.h"
13#include "llvm/ADT/ScopeExit.h"
14#include "llvm/Support/AlignOf.h"
15#include "llvm/Support/Errno.h"
16#include "llvm/Support/Error.h"
17#include "llvm/Support/Path.h"
18#include <atomic>
19#include <condition_variable>
20#include <mutex>
21#include <queue>
22#include <string>
23#include <thread>
24#include <vector>
25
26#include <fcntl.h>
27#include <limits.h>
28#include <optional>
29#include <sys/epoll.h>
30#include <sys/inotify.h>
31#include <unistd.h>
32
33namespace {
34
35using namespace llvm;
36using namespace clang;
37
38/// Pipe for inter-thread synchronization - for epoll-ing on multiple
39/// conditions. It is meant for uni-directional 1:1 signalling - specifically:
40/// no multiple consumers, no data passing. Thread waiting for signal should
41/// poll the FDRead. Signalling thread should call signal() which writes single
42/// character to FDRead.
43struct SemaphorePipe {
44 // Expects two file-descriptors opened as a pipe in the canonical POSIX
45 // order: pipefd[0] refers to the read end of the pipe. pipefd[1] refers to
46 // the write end of the pipe.
47 SemaphorePipe(int pipefd[2])
48 : FDRead(pipefd[0]), FDWrite(pipefd[1]), OwnsFDs(true) {}
49 SemaphorePipe(const SemaphorePipe &) = delete;
50 void operator=(const SemaphorePipe &) = delete;
51 SemaphorePipe(SemaphorePipe &&other)
52 : FDRead(other.FDRead), FDWrite(other.FDWrite),
53 OwnsFDs(other.OwnsFDs) // Someone could have moved from the other
54 // instance before.
55 {
56 other.OwnsFDs = false;
57 };
58
59 void signal() {
60#ifndef NDEBUG
61 ssize_t Result =
62#endif
63 llvm::sys::RetryAfterSignal(Fail: -1, F&: write, As: FDWrite, As: "A", As: 1);
64 assert(Result != -1);
65 }
66 ~SemaphorePipe() {
67 if (OwnsFDs) {
68 close(fd: FDWrite);
69 close(fd: FDRead);
70 }
71 }
72 const int FDRead;
73 const int FDWrite;
74 bool OwnsFDs;
75
76 static std::optional<SemaphorePipe> create() {
77 int InotifyPollingStopperFDs[2];
78 if (pipe2(pipedes: InotifyPollingStopperFDs, O_CLOEXEC) == -1)
79 return std::nullopt;
80 return SemaphorePipe(InotifyPollingStopperFDs);
81 }
82};
83
84/// Mutex-protected queue of Events.
85class EventQueue {
86 std::mutex Mtx;
87 std::condition_variable NonEmpty;
88 std::queue<DirectoryWatcher::Event> Events;
89
90public:
91 void push_back(const DirectoryWatcher::Event::EventKind K,
92 StringRef Filename) {
93 {
94 std::unique_lock<std::mutex> L(Mtx);
95 Events.emplace(args: K, args&: Filename);
96 }
97 NonEmpty.notify_one();
98 }
99
100 // Blocks on caller thread and uses codition_variable to wait until there's an
101 // event to return.
102 DirectoryWatcher::Event pop_front_blocking() {
103 std::unique_lock<std::mutex> L(Mtx);
104 while (true) {
105 // Since we might have missed all the prior notifications on NonEmpty we
106 // have to check the queue first (under lock).
107 if (!Events.empty()) {
108 DirectoryWatcher::Event Front = Events.front();
109 Events.pop();
110 return Front;
111 }
112 NonEmpty.wait(lock&: L, p: [this]() { return !Events.empty(); });
113 }
114 }
115};
116
117class DirectoryWatcherLinux : public clang::DirectoryWatcher {
118public:
119 DirectoryWatcherLinux(
120 llvm::StringRef WatchedDirPath,
121 std::function<void(llvm::ArrayRef<Event>, bool)> Receiver,
122 bool WaitForInitialSync, int InotifyFD, int InotifyWD,
123 SemaphorePipe &&InotifyPollingStopSignal);
124
125 ~DirectoryWatcherLinux() override {
126 StopWork();
127 InotifyPollingThread.join();
128 EventsReceivingThread.join();
129 inotify_rm_watch(fd: InotifyFD, wd: InotifyWD);
130 llvm::sys::RetryAfterSignal(Fail: -1, F&: close, As: InotifyFD);
131 }
132
133private:
134 const std::string WatchedDirPath;
135 // inotify file descriptor
136 int InotifyFD = -1;
137 // inotify watch descriptor
138 int InotifyWD = -1;
139
140 EventQueue Queue;
141
142 // Make sure lifetime of Receiver fully contains lifetime of
143 // EventsReceivingThread.
144 std::function<void(llvm::ArrayRef<Event>, bool)> Receiver;
145
146 // Consumes inotify events and pushes directory watcher events to the Queue.
147 void InotifyPollingLoop();
148 std::thread InotifyPollingThread;
149 // Using pipe so we can epoll two file descriptors at once - inotify and
150 // stopping condition.
151 SemaphorePipe InotifyPollingStopSignal;
152
153 // Does the initial scan of the directory - directly calling Receiver,
154 // bypassing the Queue. Both InitialScan and EventReceivingLoop use Receiver
155 // which isn't necessarily thread-safe.
156 void InitialScan();
157
158 // Processing events from the Queue.
159 // In case client doesn't want to do the initial scan synchronously
160 // (WaitForInitialSync=false in ctor) we do the initial scan at the beginning
161 // of this thread.
162 std::thread EventsReceivingThread;
163 // Push event of WatcherGotInvalidated kind to the Queue to stop the loop.
164 // Both InitialScan and EventReceivingLoop use Receiver which isn't
165 // necessarily thread-safe.
166 void EventReceivingLoop();
167
168 // Stops all the async work. Reentrant.
169 void StopWork() {
170 Queue.push_back(K: DirectoryWatcher::Event::EventKind::WatcherGotInvalidated,
171 Filename: "");
172 InotifyPollingStopSignal.signal();
173 }
174};
175
176void DirectoryWatcherLinux::InotifyPollingLoop() {
177 // We want to be able to read ~30 events at once even in the worst case
178 // (obscenely long filenames).
179 constexpr size_t EventBufferLength =
180 30 * (sizeof(struct inotify_event) + NAME_MAX + 1);
181 // http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/inotify.7.html
182 // Some systems cannot read integer variables if they are not
183 // properly aligned. On other systems, incorrect alignment may
184 // decrease performance. Hence, the buffer used for reading from
185 // the inotify file descriptor should have the same alignment as
186 // struct inotify_event.
187
188 struct Buffer {
189 alignas(struct inotify_event) char buffer[EventBufferLength];
190 };
191 auto ManagedBuffer = std::make_unique<Buffer>();
192 char *const Buf = ManagedBuffer->buffer;
193
194 const int EpollFD = epoll_create1(EPOLL_CLOEXEC);
195 if (EpollFD == -1) {
196 StopWork();
197 return;
198 }
199 auto EpollFDGuard = llvm::make_scope_exit(F: [EpollFD]() { close(fd: EpollFD); });
200
201 struct epoll_event EventSpec;
202 EventSpec.events = EPOLLIN;
203 EventSpec.data.fd = InotifyFD;
204 if (epoll_ctl(epfd: EpollFD, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, fd: InotifyFD, event: &EventSpec) == -1) {
205 StopWork();
206 return;
207 }
208
209 EventSpec.data.fd = InotifyPollingStopSignal.FDRead;
210 if (epoll_ctl(epfd: EpollFD, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, fd: InotifyPollingStopSignal.FDRead,
211 event: &EventSpec) == -1) {
212 StopWork();
213 return;
214 }
215
216 std::array<struct epoll_event, 2> EpollEventBuffer;
217
218 while (true) {
219 const int EpollWaitResult = llvm::sys::RetryAfterSignal(
220 Fail: -1, F&: epoll_wait, As: EpollFD, As: EpollEventBuffer.data(),
221 As: EpollEventBuffer.size(), /*timeout=*/As: -1 /*== infinity*/);
222 if (EpollWaitResult == -1) {
223 StopWork();
224 return;
225 }
226
227 // Multiple epoll_events can be received for a single file descriptor per
228 // epoll_wait call.
229 for (int i = 0; i < EpollWaitResult; ++i) {
230 if (EpollEventBuffer[i].data.fd == InotifyPollingStopSignal.FDRead) {
231 StopWork();
232 return;
233 }
234 }
235
236 // epoll_wait() always return either error or >0 events. Since there was no
237 // event for stopping, it must be an inotify event ready for reading.
238 ssize_t NumRead = llvm::sys::RetryAfterSignal(Fail: -1, F&: read, As: InotifyFD, As: Buf,
239 As: EventBufferLength);
240 for (char *P = Buf; P < Buf + NumRead;) {
241 if (P + sizeof(struct inotify_event) > Buf + NumRead) {
242 StopWork();
243 llvm_unreachable("an incomplete inotify_event was read");
244 return;
245 }
246
247 struct inotify_event *Event = reinterpret_cast<struct inotify_event *>(P);
248 P += sizeof(struct inotify_event) + Event->len;
249
250 if (Event->mask & (IN_CREATE | IN_MODIFY | IN_MOVED_TO | IN_DELETE) &&
251 Event->len <= 0) {
252 StopWork();
253 llvm_unreachable("expected a filename from inotify");
254 return;
255 }
256
257 if (Event->mask & (IN_CREATE | IN_MOVED_TO | IN_MODIFY)) {
258 Queue.push_back(K: DirectoryWatcher::Event::EventKind::Modified,
259 Filename: Event->name);
260 } else if (Event->mask & (IN_DELETE | IN_MOVED_FROM)) {
261 Queue.push_back(K: DirectoryWatcher::Event::EventKind::Removed,
262 Filename: Event->name);
263 } else if (Event->mask & (IN_DELETE_SELF | IN_MOVE_SELF)) {
264 Queue.push_back(K: DirectoryWatcher::Event::EventKind::WatchedDirRemoved,
265 Filename: "");
266 StopWork();
267 return;
268 } else if (Event->mask & IN_IGNORED) {
269 StopWork();
270 return;
271 } else {
272 StopWork();
273 llvm_unreachable("Unknown event type.");
274 return;
275 }
276 }
277 }
278}
279
280void DirectoryWatcherLinux::InitialScan() {
281 this->Receiver(getAsFileEvents(Scan: scanDirectory(Path: WatchedDirPath)),
282 /*IsInitial=*/true);
283}
284
285void DirectoryWatcherLinux::EventReceivingLoop() {
286 while (true) {
287 DirectoryWatcher::Event Event = this->Queue.pop_front_blocking();
288 this->Receiver(Event, false);
289 if (Event.Kind ==
290 DirectoryWatcher::Event::EventKind::WatcherGotInvalidated) {
291 StopWork();
292 return;
293 }
294 }
295}
296
297DirectoryWatcherLinux::DirectoryWatcherLinux(
298 StringRef WatchedDirPath,
299 std::function<void(llvm::ArrayRef<Event>, bool)> Receiver,
300 bool WaitForInitialSync, int InotifyFD, int InotifyWD,
301 SemaphorePipe &&InotifyPollingStopSignal)
302 : WatchedDirPath(WatchedDirPath), InotifyFD(InotifyFD),
303 InotifyWD(InotifyWD), Receiver(Receiver),
304 InotifyPollingStopSignal(std::move(InotifyPollingStopSignal)) {
305
306 InotifyPollingThread = std::thread([this]() { InotifyPollingLoop(); });
307 // We have no guarantees about thread safety of the Receiver which is being
308 // used in both InitialScan and EventReceivingLoop. We shouldn't run these
309 // only synchronously.
310 if (WaitForInitialSync) {
311 InitialScan();
312 EventsReceivingThread = std::thread([this]() { EventReceivingLoop(); });
313 } else {
314 EventsReceivingThread = std::thread([this]() {
315 // FIXME: We might want to terminate an async initial scan early in case
316 // of a failure in EventsReceivingThread.
317 InitialScan();
318 EventReceivingLoop();
319 });
320 }
321}
322
323} // namespace
324
325llvm::Expected<std::unique_ptr<DirectoryWatcher>> clang::DirectoryWatcher::create(
326 StringRef Path,
327 std::function<void(llvm::ArrayRef<DirectoryWatcher::Event>, bool)> Receiver,
328 bool WaitForInitialSync) {
329 if (Path.empty())
330 llvm::report_fatal_error(
331 reason: "DirectoryWatcher::create can not accept an empty Path.");
332
333 const int InotifyFD = inotify_init1(IN_CLOEXEC);
334 if (InotifyFD == -1)
335 return llvm::make_error<llvm::StringError>(
336 Args: std::string("inotify_init1() error: ") + strerror(errno),
337 Args: llvm::inconvertibleErrorCode());
338
339 const int InotifyWD = inotify_add_watch(
340 fd: InotifyFD, name: Path.str().c_str(),
341 IN_CREATE | IN_DELETE | IN_DELETE_SELF | IN_MODIFY |
342 IN_MOVED_FROM | IN_MOVE_SELF | IN_MOVED_TO | IN_ONLYDIR | IN_IGNORED
343#ifdef IN_EXCL_UNLINK
344 | IN_EXCL_UNLINK
345#endif
346 );
347 if (InotifyWD == -1)
348 return llvm::make_error<llvm::StringError>(
349 Args: std::string("inotify_add_watch() error: ") + strerror(errno),
350 Args: llvm::inconvertibleErrorCode());
351
352 auto InotifyPollingStopper = SemaphorePipe::create();
353
354 if (!InotifyPollingStopper)
355 return llvm::make_error<llvm::StringError>(
356 Args: std::string("SemaphorePipe::create() error: ") + strerror(errno),
357 Args: llvm::inconvertibleErrorCode());
358
359 return std::make_unique<DirectoryWatcherLinux>(
360 args&: Path, args&: Receiver, args&: WaitForInitialSync, args: InotifyFD, args: InotifyWD,
361 args: std::move(*InotifyPollingStopper));
362}
363

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