# shm-primitives
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Lock-free primitives for shared memory IPC.
This crate provides lock-free data structures designed for use in shared memory contexts where you work with raw pointers to memory-mapped regions.
## Primitives
- **SpscRing** / **SpscRingRaw**: Single-producer single-consumer ring buffer with wait-free operations
- **TreiberSlab** / **TreiberSlabRaw**: Treiber stack-based slab allocator with generation counting for ABA protection
## Raw vs Region APIs
Each primitive has two variants:
- **Raw** (`SpscRingRaw`, `TreiberSlabRaw`): Work with raw pointers, suitable for shared memory where you have `*mut` pointers from mmap. Caller manages memory lifetime.
- **Region** (`SpscRing`, `TreiberSlab`): Convenience wrappers that own their backing memory via a `Region`. These delegate to the Raw implementations internally.
## Features
- `loom` - Enables loom-based concurrency testing
## Loom Testing
All algorithms are tested under [loom](https://github.com/tokio-rs/loom) to verify correctness across all possible thread interleavings:
```bash
cargo test -p shm-primitives --features loom
```
## Example
```rust
use shm_primitives::{SpscRing, HeapRegion, PushResult};
// Create a ring buffer with capacity 16
let region = HeapRegion::new_zeroed(SpscRing::<u64>::required_size(16));
let ring = SpscRing::<u64>::init(region.region(), 16);
// Split into producer and consumer
let (mut producer, mut consumer) = ring.split();
// Push some values
assert!(matches!(producer.push(42), PushResult::Ok));
assert!(matches!(producer.push(43), PushResult::Ok));
// Pop them back
assert_eq!(consumer.pop(), Some(42));
assert_eq!(consumer.pop(), Some(43));
assert_eq!(consumer.pop(), None);
```
## License
MIT OR Apache-2.0