remote_elem.C

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// The libMesh Finite Element Library.
// Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Benjamin S. Kirk, John W. Peterson, Roy H. Stogner

// This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
// modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
// License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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// Local includes
#include "libmesh/remote_elem.h"
#include "libmesh/libmesh_singleton.h"
#include "libmesh/threads.h"



namespace
{
using namespace libMesh;

typedef Threads::spin_mutex RemoteElemMutex;
RemoteElemMutex remote_elem_mtx;


// Class to be dispatched by Singleton::setup()
// to create the \p RemoteElem singleton.
// While this actual object has file-level static
// scope and will be initialized before main(),
// importantly the setup() method will not be invoked
// until after main().
class RemoteElemSetup : public Singleton::Setup
{
  void setup ()
  {
    RemoteElem::create();
  }
} remote_elem_setup;
}



namespace libMesh
{

// Pointer to singleton Remote Element (to be created in
// libMesh::init()
const RemoteElem* remote_elem;


RemoteElem::~RemoteElem()
{
  RemoteElemMutex::scoped_lock lock(remote_elem_mtx);

  remote_elem = NULL;
}



const Elem & RemoteElem::create ()
{
  if (remote_elem != NULL)
    return *remote_elem;

  RemoteElemMutex::scoped_lock lock(remote_elem_mtx);

  // check again - object could have been created while waiting
  // for the lock to acquire!
  if (remote_elem == NULL)
    remote_elem = new RemoteElem;

  return *remote_elem;
}


} // namespace libMesh