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+// Copyright 2019 The gVisor Authors.
+//
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Package template doesn't exist. This file must be instantiated using the
+// go_template_instance rule in tools/go_generics/defs.bzl.
+package template
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"reflect"
+	"strings"
+	"unsafe"
+
+	"gvisor.dev/gvisor/pkg/sync"
+)
+
+// Value is a required type parameter.
+//
+// Value must not contain any pointers, including interface objects, function
+// objects, slices, maps, channels, unsafe.Pointer, and arrays or structs
+// containing any of the above. An init() function will panic if this property
+// does not hold.
+type Value struct{}
+
+// SeqAtomicLoad returns a copy of *ptr, ensuring that the read does not race
+// with any writer critical sections in sc.
+func SeqAtomicLoad(sc *sync.SeqCount, ptr *Value) Value {
+	// This function doesn't use SeqAtomicTryLoad because doing so is
+	// measurably, significantly (~20%) slower; Go is awful at inlining.
+	var val Value
+	for {
+		epoch := sc.BeginRead()
+		if sync.RaceEnabled {
+			// runtime.RaceDisable() doesn't actually stop the race detector,
+			// so it can't help us here. Instead, call runtime.memmove
+			// directly, which is not instrumented by the race detector.
+			sync.Memmove(unsafe.Pointer(&val), unsafe.Pointer(ptr), unsafe.Sizeof(val))
+		} else {
+			// This is ~40% faster for short reads than going through memmove.
+			val = *ptr
+		}
+		if sc.ReadOk(epoch) {
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	return val
+}
+
+// SeqAtomicTryLoad returns a copy of *ptr while in a reader critical section
+// in sc initiated by a call to sc.BeginRead() that returned epoch. If the read
+// would race with a writer critical section, SeqAtomicTryLoad returns
+// (unspecified, false).
+func SeqAtomicTryLoad(sc *sync.SeqCount, epoch sync.SeqCountEpoch, ptr *Value) (Value, bool) {
+	var val Value
+	if sync.RaceEnabled {
+		sync.Memmove(unsafe.Pointer(&val), unsafe.Pointer(ptr), unsafe.Sizeof(val))
+	} else {
+		val = *ptr
+	}
+	return val, sc.ReadOk(epoch)
+}
+
+func init() {
+	var val Value
+	typ := reflect.TypeOf(val)
+	name := typ.Name()
+	if ptrs := sync.PointersInType(typ, name); len(ptrs) != 0 {
+		panic(fmt.Sprintf("SeqAtomicLoad<%s> is invalid since values %s of type %s contain pointers:\n%s", typ, name, typ, strings.Join(ptrs, "\n")))
+	}
+}