Document missing Lock::Async methods

doc/Type/Lock/Async.pod6

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ exclusion mechanism, C<Lock::Async> works with the high-level concurrency
 features of Perl 6. The C<lock> method returns a C<Promise>, which will
 be kept when the lock is available. This C<Promise> can be used with
 non-blocking C<await>. This means that a thread from the thread pool need
-not be consumed while waiting for the C<Async::Lock> to be available,
+not be consumed while waiting for the C<Lock::Async> to be available,
 and the code trying to obtain the lock will be resumed once it is available.
 
 The result is that it's quite possible to have many thousands of outstanding
@@ -37,6 +37,51 @@ and L<Supply|/type/Supply>.
 
 =head1 Methods
 
+=head2 method lock
+
+Defined as:
+
+    method lock(Lock::Async:D: --> Promise:D)
+
+Returns a L<Promise|/type/Promise> that will be kept when the lock is
+available. In the case that the lock is already available, an already
+kept C<Promise> will be returned. Use C<await> to wait for the lock to
+be available in a non-blocking manner.
+
+    my $l = Lock::Async.new;
+    await $l.lock;
+
+Prefer to use L<protect|/type/Lock/Async#method_protect> instead of
+explicit calls to C<lock> and C<unlock>.
+
+=head2 method unlock
+
+Defined as:
+
+    method unlock(Lock::Async:D: --> Nil)
+
+Releases the lock. If there are any outstanding C<lock> C<Promise>s,
+the one at the head of the queue will then be kept, and potentially
+code scheduled on the thread pool (so the cost of calling C<unlock>
+is limited to the work needed to schedule another piece of code that
+wants to obtain the lock, but not to execute that code).
+
+    my $l = Lock::Async.new;
+    await $l.lock;
+    $l.unlock;
+
+Prefer to use L<protect|/type/Lock/Async#method_protect> instead of
+explicit calls to C<lock> and C<unlock>. However, if wishing to use
+the methods separately, it is wise to use a C<LEAVE> block to ensure
+that C<unlock> is reliably called. Failing to C<unlock> will mean that
+nobody can ever C<lock> this particular C<Lock::Async> instance again.
+
+    my $l = Lock::Async.new;
+    {
+        await $l.lock;
+        LEAVE $l.unlock;
+    }
+
 =head2 method protect
 
 Defined as:
@@ -79,50 +124,83 @@ thus they don't actually protect the code we want to protect.
         }
     }
 
-=head2 method lock
+=head2 method protect-or-queue-on-recursion
 
 Defined as:
 
-    method lock(Lock::Async:D: --> Promise:D)
+    method protect-or-queue-on-recursion(Lock::Async:D: &code)
+
+When calling L<protect|/type/Lock/Async#method_protect> on a C<Lock::Async>
+instance that is already locked, the method is forced to block until the lock
+gets unlocked. C<protect-or-queue-on-recursion> avoids this issue by either
+behaving the same as L<protect|/type/Lock/Async#method_protect> if the lock is
+unlocked or the lock was locked by something outside the caller chain,
+returning C<Nil>, or queueing the call to C<&code> and returning a C<Promise>
+if the lock had already been locked at another point in the caller chain.
+
+    my Lock::Async $lock .= new;
+    my Int         $count = 0;
+
+    # The lock is unlocked, so the code runs instantly.
+    $lock.protect-or-queue-on-recursion({
+        $count++
+    });
+
+    # Here, we have caller recursion. The outer call only returns a Promise
+    # because the inner one does. If we try to await the inner call's Promise
+    # from the outer call, the two calls will block forever since the inner
+    # caller's Promise return value is just the outer's with a then block.
+    $lock.protect-or-queue-on-recursion({
+        $lock.protect-or-queue-on-recursion({
+            $count++
+        }).then({
+            $count++
+        })
+    });
+
+    # Here, the lock is locked, but not by anything else on the caller chain.
+    # This behaves just like calling protect would in this scenario.
+    for 0..^2 {
+        $lock.protect-or-queue-on-recursion({
+            $count++;
+        });
+    }
 
-Returns a L<Promise|/type/Promise> that will be kept when the lock is
-available. In the case that the lock is already available, an already
-kept C<Promise> will be returned. Use C<await> to wait for the lock to
-be available in a non-blocking manner.
+    say $count; # OUTPUT: 5
 
-    my $l = Lock::Async.new;
-    await $l.lock;
+=head2 method with-lock-hidden-from-recursion-check
 
-Prefer to use L<protect|/type/Lock/Async#method_protect> instead of
-explicit calls to C<lock> and C<unlock>.
+Defined as:
 
-=head2 method unlock
+    method with-lock-hidden-from-recursion-check(&code)
 
-Defined as:
+Temporarily resets the Lock::Async recursion list so that it no longer includes
+the lock this method is called on and runs the given C<&code> immediately if
+the call to the method occurred in a caller chain where
+L<protect-or-queue-on-recursion|/type/Lock/Async/#method_protect-or-queue-on-recursion>
+has already been called and the lock has been placed on the recursion list.
 
-    method unlock(Lock::Async:D: --> Nil)
+    my Lock::Async $lock .= new;
+    my Int         $count = 0;
 
-Releases the lock. If there are any outstanding C<lock> C<Promise>s,
-the one at the head of the queue will then be kept, and potentially
-code scheduled on the thread pool (so the cost of calling C<unlock>
-is limited to the work needed to schedule another piece of code that
-wants to obtain the lock, but not to execute that code).
+    $lock.protect-or-queue-on-recursion({
+        my Int $count = 0;
 
-    my $l = Lock::Async.new;
-    await $l.lock;
-    $l.unlock;
+        # Runs instantly.
+        $lock.with-lock-hidden-from-recursion-check({
+            $count++;
+        });
 
-Prefer to use L<protect|/type/Lock/Async#method_protect> instead of
-explicit calls to C<lock> and C<unlock>. However, if wishing to use
-the methods separately, it is wise to use a C<LEAVE> block to ensure
-that C<unlock> is reliably called. Failing to C<unlock> will mean that
-nobody can ever C<lock> this particular C<Lock::Async> instance again.
+        # Runs after the outer caller's protect-or-queue-on-recursion call has
+        # finished running.
+        $lock.protect-or-queue-on-recursion({
+            $count++;
+        }).then({
+            say $count; # OUTPUT: 2
+        });
 
-    my $l = Lock::Async.new;
-    {
-        await $l.lock;
-        LEAVE $l.unlock;
-    }
+        say $count; # OUTPUT: 1
+    });
 
 =end pod