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# threads.py: anaconda thread management
#
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# Author(s): Chris Lumens
#
import logging
log = logging.getLogger("anaconda")
import threading
_WORKER_THREAD_PREFIX = "AnaWorkerThread"
class ThreadManager(object):
"""A singleton class for managing threads and processes.
Notes:
THE INSTANCE HAS TO BE CREATED IN THE MAIN THREAD!
This manager makes one assumption that contradicts python's
threading module documentation. In this class, we assume that thread
names are unique and meaningful. This is an okay assumption for us
to make given that anaconda is only ever going to have a handful of
special purpose threads.
"""
def __init__(self):
self._objs = {}
self._objs_lock = threading.RLock()
self._errors = {}
self._main_thread = threading.current_thread()
def __call__(self):
return self
def add(self, obj):
"""Given a Thread or Process object, add it to the list of known objects
and start it. It is assumed that obj.name is unique and descriptive.
"""
# we need to lock the thread dictionary when adding a new thread,
# so that callers can't get & join threads that are not yet started
with self._objs_lock:
if obj.name in self._objs:
raise KeyError("Cannot add thread '%s', a thread with the same name already running" % obj.name)
self._objs[obj.name] = obj
obj.start()
return obj.name
def remove(self, name):
"""Removes a thread from the list of known objects. This should only
be called when a thread exits, or there will be no way to get a
handle on it.
"""
with self._objs_lock:
self._objs.pop(name)
def exists(self, name):
"""Determine if a thread or process exists with the given name."""
# thread in the ThreadManager only officially exists once started
with self._objs_lock:
return name in self._objs
def get(self, name):
"""Given an object name, see if it exists and return the object.
Return None if no such object exists. Additionally, this method
will re-raise any uncaught exception in the thread.
"""
# without the lock it would be possible to get & join
# a thread that was not yet started
with self._objs_lock:
obj = self._objs.get(name)
if obj:
self.raise_if_error(name)
return obj
def wait(self, name):
"""Wait for the thread to exit and if the thread exited with an error
re-raise it here.
"""
# we don't need a lock here,
# because get() acquires it itself
try:
self.get(name).join()
except AttributeError:
pass
# - if there is a thread object for the given name,
# we join it
# - if there is not a thread object for the given name,
# we get None, try to join it, suppress the AttributeError
# and return immediately
self.raise_if_error(name)
def wait_all(self):
"""Wait for all threads to exit and if there was an error re-raise it.
"""
for name in self._objs.keys():
if self.get(name) == threading.current_thread():
continue
log.debug("Waiting for thread %s to exit", name)
self.wait(name)
if self.any_errors:
thread_names = ", ".join(thread_name for thread_name in self._errors.iterkeys()
if self._errors[thread_name])
msg = "Unhandled errors from the following threads detected: %s" % thread_names
raise RuntimeError(msg)
def set_error(self, name, *exc_info):
"""Set the error data for a thread
The exception data is expected to be the tuple from sys.exc_info()
"""
self._errors[name] = exc_info
def get_error(self, name):
"""Get the error data for a thread using its name
"""
return self._errors.get(name)
@property
def any_errors(self):
"""Return True of there have been any errors in any threads
"""
return any(self._errors.values())
def raise_if_error(self, name):
"""If a thread has failed due to an exception, raise it into the main
thread and remove it from errors.
"""
if name not in self._errors:
# no errors found for the thread
return
exc_info = self._errors.pop(name)
if exc_info:
raise exc_info[0], exc_info[1], exc_info[2]
def in_main_thread(self):
"""Return True if it is run in the main thread."""
cur_thread = threading.current_thread()
return cur_thread is self._main_thread
@property
def running(self):
""" Return the number of running threads.
:returns: number of running threads
:rtype: int
"""
with self._objs_lock:
return len(self._objs)
@property
def names(self):
""" Return the names of the running threads.
:returns: list of thread names
:rtype: list of strings
"""
with self._objs_lock:
return self._objs.keys()
class AnacondaThread(threading.Thread):
"""A threading.Thread subclass that exists only for a couple purposes:
(1) Make exceptions that happen in a thread invoke our exception handling
code as well. Otherwise, threads will silently die and we are doing
a lot of complicated code in them now.
(2) Remove themselves from the thread manager when completed.
(3) All created threads are made daemonic, which means anaconda will quit
when the main process is killed.
"""
# class-wide dictionary ensuring unique thread names
_prefix_thread_counts = dict()
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
# if neither name nor prefix is given, use the worker prefix
if "name" not in kwargs and "prefix" not in kwargs:
kwargs["prefix"] = _WORKER_THREAD_PREFIX
# if prefix is specified, use it to construct new thread name
prefix = kwargs.pop("prefix", None)
if prefix:
thread_num = self._prefix_thread_counts.get(prefix, 0) + 1
self._prefix_thread_counts[prefix] = thread_num
kwargs["name"] = prefix + str(thread_num)
if "fatal" in kwargs:
self._fatal = kwargs.pop("fatal")
else:
self._fatal = True
threading.Thread.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
self.daemon = True
def run(self, *args, **kwargs):
# http://bugs.python.org/issue1230540#msg25696
import sys
log.info("Running Thread: %s (%s)", self.name, self.ident)
try:
threading.Thread.run(self, *args, **kwargs)
# pylint: disable=bare-except
except:
threadMgr.set_error(self.name, *sys.exc_info())
if self._fatal:
sys.excepthook(*sys.exc_info())
finally:
threadMgr.remove(self.name)
log.info("Thread Done: %s (%s)", self.name, self.ident)
def initThreading():
"""Set up threading for anaconda's use. This method must be called before
any GTK or threading code is called, or else threads will only run when
an event is triggered in the GTK main loop. And IT HAS TO BE CALLED IN
THE MAIN THREAD.
"""
global threadMgr
threadMgr = ThreadManager()
threadMgr = None