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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef SINGLE_STATE_QUEUE_H
+#define SINGLE_STATE_QUEUE_H
+
+// Non-blocking single element state queue, or
+// Non-blocking single-reader / single-writer multi-word atomic load / store
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+namespace android {
+
+template<typename T> class SingleStateQueue {
+
+public:
+
+    class Mutator;
+    class Observer;
+
+    struct Shared {
+        // needs to be part of a union so don't define constructor or destructor
+
+        friend class Mutator;
+        friend class Observer;
+
+private:
+        void                init() { mAck = 0; mSequence = 0; }
+
+        volatile int32_t    mAck;
+#if 0
+        int                 mPad[7];
+        // cache line boundary
+#endif
+        volatile int32_t    mSequence;
+        T                   mValue;
+    };
+
+    class Mutator {
+    public:
+        Mutator(Shared *shared);
+        /*virtual*/ ~Mutator() { }
+
+        // push new value onto state queue, overwriting previous value;
+        // returns a sequence number which can be used with ack()
+        int32_t push(const T& value);
+
+        // return true if most recent push has been observed
+        bool ack();
+
+        // return true if a push with specified sequence number or later has been observed
+        bool ack(int32_t sequence);
+
+    private:
+        int32_t     mSequence;
+        Shared * const mShared;
+    };
+
+    class Observer {
+    public:
+        Observer(Shared *shared);
+        /*virtual*/ ~Observer() { }
+
+        // return true if value has changed
+        bool poll(T& value);
+
+    private:
+        int32_t     mSequence;
+        int         mSeed;  // for PRNG
+        Shared * const mShared;
+    };
+
+#if 0
+    SingleStateQueue(void /*Shared*/ *shared);
+    /*virtual*/ ~SingleStateQueue() { }
+
+    static size_t size() { return sizeof(Shared); }
+#endif
+
+};
+
+}   // namespace android
+
+#endif  // SINGLE_STATE_QUEUE_H