/* * Copyright (c) 2004, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. * * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as * published by the Free Software Foundation. * * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that * accompanied this code). * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. * * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any * questions. */ /* * * @summary This class is used to synchronize execution of two threads. * @author Swamy Venkataramanappa */ import java.util.concurrent.Semaphore; public class ThreadExecutionSynchronizer { private volatile boolean waiting; private final Semaphore semaphore; public ThreadExecutionSynchronizer() { semaphore = new Semaphore(1); waiting = false; } // Synchronizes two threads execution points. // Basically any thread could get scheduled to run and // it is not possible to know which thread reaches expected // execution point. So whichever thread reaches a execution // point first wait for the second thread. When the second thread // reaches the expected execution point will wake up // the thread which is waiting here. void stopOrGo() { semaphore.acquireUninterruptibly(); // Thread can get blocked. if (!waiting) { waiting = true; // Wait for second thread to enter this method. while(!semaphore.hasQueuedThreads()) { try { Thread.sleep(20); } catch (InterruptedException xx) {} } semaphore.release(); } else { waiting = false; semaphore.release(); } } // Wrapper function just for code readability. void waitForSignal() { stopOrGo(); goSleep(50); } void signal() { stopOrGo(); goSleep(50); } private static void goSleep(long ms) { try { Thread.sleep(ms); } catch (InterruptedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); System.out.println("Unexpected exception."); } } }