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+// Copyright 2018 The gVisor Authors.
+//
+// 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.
+
+// Package context defines the sentry's Context type.
+package context
+
+import (
+	"gvisor.googlesource.com/gvisor/pkg/amutex"
+	"gvisor.googlesource.com/gvisor/pkg/log"
+)
+
+type contextID int
+
+// Globally accessible values from a context. These keys are defined in the
+// context package to resolve dependency cycles by not requiring the caller to
+// import packages usually required to get these information.
+const (
+	// CtxThreadGroupID is the current thread group ID when a context represents
+	// a task context. The value is represented as an int32.
+	CtxThreadGroupID contextID = iota
+)
+
+// ThreadGroupIDFromContext returns the current thread group ID when ctx
+// represents a task context.
+func ThreadGroupIDFromContext(ctx Context) (tgid int32, ok bool) {
+	if tgid := ctx.Value(CtxThreadGroupID); tgid != nil {
+		return tgid.(int32), true
+	}
+	return 0, false
+}
+
+// A Context represents a thread of execution (hereafter "goroutine" to reflect
+// Go idiosyncrasy). It carries state associated with the goroutine across API
+// boundaries.
+//
+// While Context exists for essentially the same reasons as Go's standard
+// context.Context, the standard type represents the state of an operation
+// rather than that of a goroutine. This is a critical distinction:
+//
+// - Unlike context.Context, which "may be passed to functions running in
+// different goroutines", it is *not safe* to use the same Context in multiple
+// concurrent goroutines.
+//
+// - It is *not safe* to retain a Context passed to a function beyond the scope
+// of that function call.
+//
+// In both cases, values extracted from the Context should be used instead.
+type Context interface {
+	log.Logger
+	amutex.Sleeper
+
+	// UninterruptibleSleepStart indicates the beginning of an uninterruptible
+	// sleep state (equivalent to Linux's TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE). If deactivate
+	// is true and the Context represents a Task, the Task's AddressSpace is
+	// deactivated.
+	UninterruptibleSleepStart(deactivate bool)
+
+	// UninterruptibleSleepFinish indicates the end of an uninterruptible sleep
+	// state that was begun by a previous call to UninterruptibleSleepStart. If
+	// activate is true and the Context represents a Task, the Task's
+	// AddressSpace is activated. Normally activate is the same value as the
+	// deactivate parameter passed to UninterruptibleSleepStart.
+	UninterruptibleSleepFinish(activate bool)
+
+	// Value returns the value associated with this Context for key, or nil if
+	// no value is associated with key. Successive calls to Value with the same
+	// key returns the same result.
+	//
+	// A key identifies a specific value in a Context. Functions that wish to
+	// retrieve values from Context typically allocate a key in a global
+	// variable then use that key as the argument to Context.Value. A key can
+	// be any type that supports equality; packages should define keys as an
+	// unexported type to avoid collisions.
+	Value(key interface{}) interface{}
+}
+
+type logContext struct {
+	log.Logger
+	NoopSleeper
+}
+
+// Value implements Context.Value.
+func (logContext) Value(key interface{}) interface{} {
+	return nil
+}
+
+// NoopSleeper is a noop implementation of amutex.Sleeper and
+// Context.UninterruptibleSleep* methods for anonymous embedding in other types
+// that do not want to notify kernel.Task about sleeps.
+type NoopSleeper struct {
+	amutex.NoopSleeper
+}
+
+// UninterruptibleSleepStart does nothing.
+func (NoopSleeper) UninterruptibleSleepStart(bool) {}
+
+// UninterruptibleSleepFinish does nothing.
+func (NoopSleeper) UninterruptibleSleepFinish(bool) {}
+
+// bgContext is the context returned by context.Background.
+var bgContext = &logContext{Logger: log.Log()}
+
+// Background returns an empty context using the default logger.
+//
+// Users should be wary of using a Background context. Please tag any use with
+// FIXME(b/38173783) and a note to remove this use.
+//
+// Generally, one should use the Task as their context when available, or avoid
+// having to use a context in places where a Task is unavailable.
+//
+// Using a Background context for tests is fine, as long as no values are
+// needed from the context in the tested code paths.
+func Background() Context {
+	return bgContext
+}