Previously, when a ReadPortal or a WritePortal was returned from an
ArrayHandle, it had wrapped in it a Token that was attached to the
ArrayHandle. This Token would prevent other reads and writes from the
ArrayHandle.
This added safety in the form of making sure that the ArrayPortal was
always valid. Unfortunately, it also made deadlocks very easy. They
happened when an ArrayPortal did not leave scope immediately after use
(which is not all that uncommon).
Now, the ArrayPortal no longer locks up the ArrayHandle. Instead, when
an access happens on the ArrayPortal, it checks to make sure that
nothing has happened to the data being accessed. If it has, a fatal
error is reported to the log.
Sandia National Laboratories recently changed management from the
Sandia Corporation to the National Technology & Engineering Solutions
of Sandia, LLC (NTESS). The copyright statements need to be updated
accordingly.
Change the VTKM_CONT_EXPORT to VTKM_CONT. (Likewise for EXEC and
EXEC_CONT.) Remove the inline from these macros so that they can be
applied to everything, including implementations in a library.
Because inline is not declared in these modifies, you have to add the
keyword to functions and methods where the implementation is not inlined
in the class.
This are just some minor things I ran into while documenting these classes.
One change is just an error in a comment. The other change allows you
to specify the type in make_ArrayHandleCast as a template argument instead
of creating an instance.
The ArrayHandle classes all exclusively work in the control environment.
However, CUDA likes to add __device__ to constructors, destructors, and
assignment operators it automatically adds. This in turn causes warnings
about the __device__ function using host-only classes (like
boost::shared_ptr). Solve this problem by adding explicit methods for
all of these.
Implemented this by wrapping up all these default objects in a macro.
This also solved the problem of other constructors that are necessary
for array handles such as a constructor that takes the base array
handle.
Under CUDA, the default constructors and destructors created are exported
as __host__ and __device__, which causes problems because they used a boost
pointer that only works on the host. The explicit copy constructors and
destructors do the same thing as the default ones except declared to only
work on the host.
