Reentrant mutex可重入互斥锁

Posted 2020-12-08 chucklu

 Reentrant mutex

In computer science, the reentrant mutex (recursive mutex, recursive lock) is a particular type of mutual exclusion (mutex) device that may be locked multiple times by the same process/thread, without causing a deadlock.

While any attempt to perform the "lock" operation on an ordinary mutex (lock) would either fail or block when the mutex is already locked, on a recursive mutex this operation will succeed if and only if the locking thread is the one that already holds the lock. Typically, a recursive mutex tracks the number of times it has been locked, and requires equally many unlock operations to be performed before other threads may lock it. 

可重入互斥锁

计算机科学中，可重入互斥锁（英語：reentrant mutex）是互斥锁的一种，同一线程对其多次加锁不会产生死锁。可重入互斥锁也称递归互斥锁（英語：recursive mutex）或递归锁（英語：recursive lock）。

如果对已经上锁的普通互斥锁进行「加锁」操作，其结果要么失败，要么会阻塞至解锁。而如果换作可重入互斥锁，当且仅当尝试加锁的线程就是持有该锁的线程时，类似的加锁操作就会成功。可重入互斥锁一般都会记录被加锁的次数，只有执行相同次数的解锁操作才会真正解锁。

递归互斥锁解决了普通互斥锁不可重入的问题：如果函数先持有锁，然后执行回调，但回调的内容是调用它自己，就会产生死锁。^[1]