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+// -*- mode:C++; tab-width:8; c-basic-offset:2; indent-tabs-mode:t -*-
+// vim: ts=8 sw=2 smarttab
+/*
+ * Ceph - scalable distributed file system
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 Red Hat, Inc
+ *
+ * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License version 2.1, as published by the Free Software
+ * Foundation. See file COPYING.
+ *
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <boost/asio/io_context.hpp>
+
+#include "acconfig.h"
+
+#ifndef HAVE_BOOST_CONTEXT
+
+// hide the dependencies on boost::context and boost::coroutines
+namespace boost::asio {
+struct yield_context;
+}
+
+#else // HAVE_BOOST_CONTEXT
+
+#define BOOST_COROUTINES_NO_DEPRECATION_WARNING
+#include <boost/asio/spawn.hpp>
+
+#endif // HAVE_BOOST_CONTEXT
+
+
+/// optional-like wrapper for a boost::asio::yield_context and its associated
+/// boost::asio::io_context. operations that take an optional_yield argument
+/// will, when passed a non-empty yield context, suspend this coroutine instead
+/// of the blocking the thread of execution
+class optional_yield {
+ boost::asio::io_context *c = nullptr;
+ boost::asio::yield_context *y = nullptr;
+ public:
+ /// construct with a valid io and yield_context
+ explicit optional_yield(boost::asio::io_context& c,
+ boost::asio::yield_context& y) noexcept
+ : c(&c), y(&y) {}
+
+ /// type tag to construct an empty object
+ struct empty_t {};
+ optional_yield(empty_t) noexcept {}
+
+ /// implicit conversion to bool, returns true if non-empty
+ operator bool() const noexcept { return y; }
+
+ /// return a reference to the associated io_context. only valid if non-empty
+ boost::asio::io_context& get_io_context() const noexcept { return *c; }
+
+ /// return a reference to the yield_context. only valid if non-empty
+ boost::asio::yield_context& get_yield_context() const noexcept { return *y; }
+};
+
+// type tag object to construct an empty optional_yield
+static constexpr optional_yield::empty_t null_yield{};