通过前一篇文章《Java Volatile》我们知道,volatile修饰的变量,线程不进行缓存,而是直接访问,但是要想保证多线程访问该变量时,线程安全,只有满足条件:操作是原子;
上篇中的i++,就是例子,他不是一个原子操作,所以不能保证多线程同时访问变量时,值的正确性;
本篇文章主要介绍 AtomicInteger的提供的访问方法和为什么它没有使用synchronized关键字也能保证多线程安全;
1 AtomicInteger常用方法
int get()
void set(int newValue)
int getAndSet(int newValue)
int getAndIncrement()
int getAndDecrement()
int setAndGet(int newValue)
int incrementAndGet()
int decrementAndGet()
2 为什么AtomicInteger能保证多线程访问安全?
首先看看它的源代码:
public class AtomicInteger extends Number implements java.io.Serializable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 6214790243416807050L;
// setup to use Unsafe.compareAndSwapInt for updates
private static final Unsafe unsafe = Unsafe.getUnsafe();
private static final long valueOffset;
static {
try {
valueOffset = unsafe.objectFieldOffset
(AtomicInteger.class.getDeclaredField("value"));
} catch (Exception ex) { throw new Error(ex); }
}
private volatile int value;
/**
* Creates a new AtomicInteger with the given initial value.
*
* @param initialValue the initial value
*/
public AtomicInteger(int initialValue) {
value = initialValue;
}
/**
* Creates a new AtomicInteger with initial value {@code 0}.
*/
public AtomicInteger() {
}
/**
* Gets the current value.
*
* @return the current value
*/
public final int get() {
return value;
}
/**
* Sets to the given value.
*
* @param newValue the new value
*/
public final void set(int newValue) {
value = newValue;
}
/**
* Eventually sets to the given value.
*
* @param newValue the new value
* @since 1.6
*/
public final void lazySet(int newValue) {
unsafe.putOrderedInt(this, valueOffset, newValue);
}
/**
* Atomically sets to the given value and returns the old value.
*
* @param newValue the new value
* @return the previous value
*/
public final int getAndSet(int newValue) {
for (;;) {
int current = get();
if (compareAndSet(current, newValue))
return current;
}
}
/**
* Atomically sets the value to the given updated value
* if the current value {@code ==} the expected value.
*
* @param expect the expected value
* @param update the new value
* @return true if successful. False return indicates that
* the actual value was not equal to the expected value.
*/
public final boolean compareAndSet(int expect, int update) {
return unsafe.compareAndSwapInt(this, valueOffset, expect, update);
}
/**
* Atomically sets the value to the given updated value
* if the current value {@code ==} the expected value.
*
* <p>May <a href="package-summary.html#Spurious">fail spuriously</a>
* and does not provide ordering guarantees, so is only rarely an
* appropriate alternative to {@code compareAndSet}.
*
* @param expect the expected value
* @param update the new value
* @return true if successful.
*/
public final boolean weakCompareAndSet(int expect, int update) {
return unsafe.compareAndSwapInt(this, valueOffset, expect, update);
}
/**
* Atomically increments by one the current value.
*
* @return the previous value
*/
public final int getAndIncrement() {
for (;;) {
int current = get();
int next = current + 1;
if (compareAndSet(current, next))
return current;
}
}
/**
* Atomically decrements by one the current value.
*
* @return the previous value
*/
public final int getAndDecrement() {
for (;;) {
int current = get();
int next = current - 1;
if (compareAndSet(current, next))
return current;
}
}
/**
* Atomically adds the given value to the current value.
*
* @param delta the value to add
* @return the previous value
*/
public final int getAndAdd(int delta) {
for (;;) {
int current = get();
int next = current + delta;
if (compareAndSet(current, next))
return current;
}
}
/**
* Atomically increments by one the current value.
*
* @return the updated value
*/
public final int incrementAndGet() {
for (;;) {
int current = get();
int next = current + 1;
if (compareAndSet(current, next))
return next;
}
}
/**
* Atomically decrements by one the current value.
*
* @return the updated value
*/
public final int decrementAndGet() {
for (;;) {
int current = get();
int next = current - 1;
if (compareAndSet(current, next))
return next;
}
}
/**
* Atomically adds the given value to the current value.
*
* @param delta the value to add
* @return the updated value
*/
public final int addAndGet(int delta) {
for (;;) {
int current = get();
int next = current + delta;
if (compareAndSet(current, next))
return next;
}
}
/**
* Returns the String representation of the current value.
* @return the String representation of the current value.
*/
public String toString() {
return Integer.toString(get());
}
public int intValue() {
return get();
}
public long longValue() {
return (long)get();
}
public float floatValue() {
return (float)get();
}
public double doubleValue() {
return (double)get();
}
}
从上面源代码可知,对于计数变量value使用了volatile关键字,就是说线程在访问value时不缓存相应的值,而是直接访问堆中value的值,但是怎样保证修改它的值的操作是原子性的操作呢,看看函数 getAndIncrement()就知道了。
/**
* Atomically increments by one the current value.
*
* @return the previous value
*/
public final int getAndIncrement() {
for (;;) {
int current = get();
int next = current + 1;
if (compareAndSet(current, next))
return current;
}
}
- current = get(); 获取变量value的值,该步骤是原子性的,安全;
- 在线程中加1,存储到临时变量next中,不修改原始值,安全;
- compareAndSet(current, next) 这步就是最关键的一步,比较value的值是否和上一次取得的current值是否相等,相等就赋值,不相当就返回,循环;
compareAndSet(current, next) 调用了Unsafe类的compareAndSet方法来实现,它通过native c++方法来实现了底层操作的原子性,所以能保证多线程安全;
对于 sun.misc.Unsafe的具体分析和源码,见下面:
什么是Compare And Swap(CAS)?简单的说就是比较并交换。
CAS 操作包含三个操作数 —— 内存位置(V)、预期原值(A)和新值(B)。如果内存位置的值与预期原值相匹配,那么处理器会自动将该位置值更新为新值。否则,处理器不做任何操作。无论哪种情况,它都会在 CAS 指令之前返回该位置的值。CAS 有效地说明了“我认为位置 V 应该包含值 A;如果包含该值,则将 B 放到这个位置;否则,不要更改该位置,只告诉我这个位置现在的值即可。” Java并发包(java.util.concurrent)中大量使用了CAS操作,涉及到并发的地方都调用了sun.misc.Unsafe类方法进行CAS操作。
在看一下volatile, Volatile修饰的成员变量在每次被线程访问时,都强迫从共享内存中重读该成员变量的值。而且,当成员变量发生变化时,强迫线程将变化值回写到共享内存。这样在任何时刻,两个不同的线程总是看到某个成员变量的值是相同的,更简单一点理解就是volatile修饰的变量值发生变化时对于另外的线程是可见的。
如何正确使用volatile可以参考下面这篇文章:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cn/java/j-jtp06197.html Java 理论与实践: 正确使用 Volatile 变量
下面来看看java中具体的CAS操作类sun.misc.Unsafe。Unsafe类提供了硬件级别的原子操作,Java无法直接访问到操作系统底层(如系统硬件等),为此Java使用native方法来扩展Java程序的功能。具体实现使用c++,详见文件sun.misc.natUnsafe.cc();sun.misc包的源代码可以在这里找到:
http://www.oschina.net/code/explore/gcc-4.5.2/libjava/sun/misc