Layer是构成Net的基石，如同Blob是构成Layer的基石一样，我们首先来看一下caffe.proto中定义的LayerParameter到底是怎么一回事：

message LayerParameter {
  optional string name = 1; // the layer name
  optional string type = 2; // the layer type
  repeated string bottom = 3; // the name of each bottom blob
  repeated string top = 4; // the name of each top blob

  // The train / test phase for computation.
  optional Phase phase = 10;

  // The amount of weight to assign each top blob in the objective.
  // Each layer assigns a default value, usually of either 0 or 1,
  // to each top blob.
  repeated float loss_weight = 5; 

  // Specifies training parameters (multipliers on global learning constants,
  // and the name and other settings used for weight sharing).
  repeated ParamSpec param = 6; 

  // The blobs containing the numeric parameters of the layer.
  repeated BlobProto blobs = 7; 

  // Specifies whether to backpropagate to each bottom. If unspecified,
  // Caffe will automatically infer whether each input needs backpropagation
  // to compute parameter gradients. If set to true for some inputs,
  // backpropagation to those inputs is forced; if set false for some inputs,
  // backpropagation to those inputs is skipped.
  //
  // The size must be either 0 or equal to the number of bottoms.
  repeated bool propagate_down = 11;

  // Rules controlling whether and when a layer is included in the network,
  // based on the current NetState.  You may specify a non-zero number of rules
  // to include OR exclude, but not both.  If no include or exclude rules are
  // specified, the layer is always included.  If the current NetState meets
  // ANY (i.e., one or more) of the specified rules, the layer is
  // included/excluded.
  repeated NetStateRule include = 8; 
  repeated NetStateRule exclude = 9; 

  // Parameters for data pre-processing.
  optional TransformationParameter transform_param = 100; 

  // Parameters shared by loss layers.
  optional LossParameter loss_param = 101; 

  // Layer type-specific parameters.
  //
  // Note: certain layers may have more than one computational engine
  // for their implementation. These layers include an Engine type and
  // engine parameter for selecting the implementation.
  // The default for the engine is set by the ENGINE switch at compile-time.
  optional AccuracyParameter accuracy_param = 102; 
  optional ArgMaxParameter argmax_param = 103; 
  optional BatchNormParameter batch_norm_param = 139;
......
}

其中这个phase当然是控制它在TEST和TRAIN模式下层不同的表现的参数，在某种状态下可能要将其排除掉；loss_weight是用来控制top blob在整个loss的计算中所占的权重的，一般情况下对于loss层设置为1，其他层设为0即可；ParamSpec param定制一个训练参数，它是在全局化训练参数的基础上再乘以一个乘子，我们看下这个类的具体情况：

// Specifies training parameters (multipliers on global learning constants,
// and the name and other settings used for weight sharing).
message ParamSpec {
  // The names of the parameter blobs -- useful for sharing parameters among
  // layers, but never required otherwise.  To share a parameter between two
  // layers, give it a (non-empty) name.
  optional string name = 1;

  // Whether to require shared weights to have the same shape, or just the same
  // count -- defaults to STRICT if unspecified.
  optional DimCheckMode share_mode = 2;
  enum DimCheckMode {
    // STRICT (default) requires that num, channels, height, width each match.
    STRICT = 0;
    // PERMISSIVE requires only the count (num*channels*height*width) to match.
    PERMISSIVE = 1;
  }

  // The multiplier on the global learning rate for this parameter.
  optional float lr_mult = 3 [default = 1.0];

  // The multiplier on the global weight decay for this parameter.
  optional float decay_mult = 4 [default = 1.0];
}

其实这个类中的东西就这几个参数，学习速率乘子，全局衰减乘子还有就是如果想要共享这个blob的参数，需要给它定义一个名字。那么回到之前的LayerParameter中的定义，可以发现repeated BlobProto blobs就是我们这个层的参数blob，比如在普通的CNN网络中，它可能包含了weight blob和bias blob两个，其他的网络可能包含了更多，这是由网络的结构决定的。propagate_down这个参数呢就是限制是否我们要往down blob传递梯度的一个bool数组，它要么全是0，要么它的大小要同down blob的数量一致。还有两个参数要控制这个层是包含在Net内还是不包含，它决定于当前的NetState，我们来看NetState和NetStateRule这两个类到底包含了哪些东西：

message NetState {
  optional Phase phase = 1 [default = TEST];
  optional int32 level = 2 [default = 0];
  repeated string stage = 3;
}

message NetStateRule {
  // Set phase to require the NetState have a particular phase (TRAIN or TEST)
  // to meet this rule.
  optional Phase phase = 1;

  // Set the minimum and/or maximum levels in which the layer should be used.
  // Leave undefined to meet the rule regardless of level.
  optional int32 min_level = 2;
  optional int32 max_level = 3;

  // Customizable sets of stages to include or exclude.
  // The net must have ALL of the specified stages and NONE of the specified
  // "not_stage"s to meet the rule.
  // (Use multiple NetStateRules to specify conjunctions of stages.)
  repeated string stage = 4;
  repeated string not_stage = 5;
}

这个里面写得不是非常详细，我们可以再后面再来慢慢分析，不过你也可以推测出来，这基本上是设置一些规则，到时候可以让这个层到底是在这个Net中还是不在里面。下面还有两个主要的参数TransformationParameter和LossParameter我们后面再仔细分享，反正就这么几个比较特别的参数，然后就是各个层特有的参数了，这都是在proto文件中用optional关键词限定的。
到此为止，我们先来看看Layer.hpp里面包含了什么东西吧：

#ifndef CAFFE_LAYER_H_
#define CAFFE_LAYER_H_

#include <algorithm>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

#include "caffe/blob.hpp"
#include "caffe/common.hpp"
#include "caffe/layer_factory.hpp"
#include "caffe/proto/caffe.pb.h"
#include "caffe/util/math_functions.hpp"

/**
 Forward declare boost::thread instead of including boost/thread.hpp
 to avoid a boost/NVCC issues (#1009, #1010) on OSX.
 */
namespace boost { class mutex; }

namespace caffe {

/**
 * @brief An interface for the units of computation which can be composed into a
 *        Net.
 *
 * Layer%s must implement a Forward function, in which they take their input
 * (bottom) Blob%s (if any) and compute their output Blob%s (if any).
 * They may also implement a Backward function, in which they compute the error
 * gradients with respect to their input Blob%s, given the error gradients with
 * their output Blob%s.
 */
template <typename Dtype>
class Layer {
 public:
  /**
   * You should not implement your own constructor. Any set up code should go
   * to SetUp(), where the dimensions of the bottom blobs are provided to the
   * layer.
   */
  explicit Layer(const LayerParameter& param)
    : layer_param_(param), is_shared_(false) {
      // Set phase and copy blobs (if there are any).
      phase_ = param.phase();
      if (layer_param_.blobs_size() > 0) {
        blobs_.resize(layer_param_.blobs_size());
        for (int i = 0; i < layer_param_.blobs_size(); ++i) {
          blobs_[i].reset(new Blob<Dtype>());
          blobs_[i]->FromProto(layer_param_.blobs(i));
        }
      }
    }

这个显式的构造函数直接将参数复制到layer_param_这个保护成员中，同时因为phase_这个成员比较常用，所以就单独进行了赋值；另外呢最重要的是将blobs中的参数呢全部复制到自己定义的Blob对象中去了，这样就比较方便自己的操作，因为毕竟BlobProto功能太弱了，在复制的过程中使用了Blob对象带的FromProto方法，非常简单明了。

  virtual ~Layer() {}

  /**
   * @brief Implements common layer setup functionality.
   *
   * @param bottom the preshaped input blobs
   * @param top
   *     the allocated but unshaped output blobs, to be shaped by Reshape
   *
   * Checks that the number of bottom and top blobs is correct.
   * Calls LayerSetUp to do special layer setup for individual layer types,
   * followed by Reshape to set up sizes of top blobs and internal buffers.
   * Sets up the loss weight multiplier blobs for any non-zero loss weights.
   * This method may not be overridden.
   */
  void SetUp(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom,
      const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top) {
    InitMutex();
    CheckBlobCounts(bottom, top);
    LayerSetUp(bottom, top);
    Reshape(bottom, top);
    SetLossWeights(top);
  }

这个SetUp函数呢是每一层的配置函数，InitMutex函数是在多任务的时候进行锁定的；CheckBlobCounts是检查各个blob是否满足要求的检查函数，而LayerSetUp则是每个层自己的专门的配置函数，需要在继承的时候去实现的虚函数；Reshape也是，最后说下这个SetLossWeights这个函数我之前没见过，而且它计算loss的方式居然是用weights点积data，然后求和，不知道为什么要这样。。

  /**
   * @brief Does layer-specific setup: your layer should implement this function
   *        as well as Reshape.
   *
   * @param bottom
   *     the preshaped input blobs, whose data fields store the input data for
   *     this layer
   * @param top
   *     the allocated but unshaped output blobs
   *
   * This method should do one-time layer specific setup. This includes reading
   * and processing relevent parameters from the <code>layer_param_</code>.
   * Setting up the shapes of top blobs and internal buffers should be done in
   * <code>Reshape</code>, which will be called before the forward pass to
   * adjust the top blob sizes.
   */
  virtual void LayerSetUp(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom,
      const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top) {}

看到没，这个函数主要是读取处理这个特殊层的参数的，比如说conv_layer啊，就要读取stride，kernel_size之类的参数，这都是特殊层才有的参数。

  /**
   * @brief Whether a layer should be shared by multiple nets during data
   *        parallelism. By default, all layers except for data layers should
   *        not be shared. data layers should be shared to ensure each worker
   *        solver access data sequentially during data parallelism.
   */
  virtual inline bool ShareInParallel() const { return false; }

  /** @brief Return whether this layer is actually shared by other nets.
   *         If ShareInParallel() is true and using more than one GPU and the
   *         net has TRAIN phase, then this function is expected return true.
   */
  inline bool IsShared() const { return is_shared_; }

  /** @brief Set whether this layer is actually shared by other nets
   *         If ShareInParallel() is true and using more than one GPU and the
   *         net has TRAIN phase, then is_shared should be set true.
   */
  inline void SetShared(bool is_shared) {
    CHECK(ShareInParallel() || !is_shared)
        << type() << "Layer does not support sharing.";
    is_shared_ = is_shared;
  }

这几个函数是处理层的数据共享问题的，现在还用不到；

  /**
   * @brief Adjust the shapes of top blobs and internal buffers to accommodate
   *        the shapes of the bottom blobs.
   *
   * @param bottom the input blobs, with the requested input shapes
   * @param top the top blobs, which should be reshaped as needed
   *
   * This method should reshape top blobs as needed according to the shapes
   * of the bottom (input) blobs, as well as reshaping any internal buffers
   * and making any other necessary adjustments so that the layer can
   * accommodate the bottom blobs.
   */
  virtual void Reshape(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom,
      const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top) = 0;

根据bottom blob的配置调整top blob的配置，同时要设置一些内部缓存的形状。。。

  /**
   * @brief Given the bottom blobs, compute the top blobs and the loss.
   *
   * @param bottom
   *     the input blobs, whose data fields store the input data for this layer
   * @param top
   *     the preshaped output blobs, whose data fields will store this layers'
   *     outputs
   * \return The total loss from the layer.
   *
   * The Forward wrapper calls the relevant device wrapper function
   * (Forward_cpu or Forward_gpu) to compute the top blob values given the
   * bottom blobs.  If the layer has any non-zero loss_weights, the wrapper
   * then computes and returns the loss.
   *
   * Your layer should implement Forward_cpu and (optionally) Forward_gpu.
   */
  inline Dtype Forward(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom,
      const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top);

这个就是正向传播的函数

  /**
   * @brief Given the top blob error gradients, compute the bottom blob error
   *        gradients.
   *
   * @param top
   *     the output blobs, whose diff fields store the gradient of the error
   *     with respect to themselves
   * @param propagate_down
   *     a vector with equal length to bottom, with each index indicating
   *     whether to propagate the error gradients down to the bottom blob at
   *     the corresponding index
   * @param bottom
   *     the input blobs, whose diff fields will store the gradient of the error
   *     with respect to themselves after Backward is run
   *
   * The Backward wrapper calls the relevant device wrapper function
   * (Backward_cpu or Backward_gpu) to compute the bottom blob diffs given the
   * top blob diffs.
   *
   * Your layer should implement Backward_cpu and (optionally) Backward_gpu.
   */
  inline void Backward(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top,
      const vector<bool>& propagate_down,
      const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom);

同样，反向传播函数；注意top blob的梯度放在了它的diff数据体中；

  /**
   * @brief Returns the vector of learnable parameter blobs.
   */
  vector<shared_ptr<Blob<Dtype> > >& blobs() {
    return blobs_;
  }

  /**
   * @brief Returns the layer parameter.
   */
  const LayerParameter& layer_param() const { return layer_param_; }

  /**
   * @brief Writes the layer parameter to a protocol buffer
   */
  virtual void ToProto(LayerParameter* param, bool write_diff = false);

  /**
   * @brief Returns the scalar loss associated with a top blob at a given index.
   */
  inline Dtype loss(const int top_index) const {
    return (loss_.size() > top_index) ? loss_[top_index] : Dtype(0);
  }

  /**
   * @brief Sets the loss associated with a top blob at a given index.
   */
  inline void set_loss(const int top_index, const Dtype value) {
    if (loss_.size() <= top_index) {
      loss_.resize(top_index + 1, Dtype(0));
    }
    loss_[top_index] = value;
  }

感觉这个地方是不是有BUG，，，实现有问题吧，怎么能全部resize到0，然后赋值呢，，那这样岂不是只有最后一个有值，其它前面的都是0？？？？mark以下先

  /**
   * @brief Returns the layer type.
   */
  virtual inline const char* type() const { return ""; }

上面几个函数都是很轻量的，理解一下就好了

  /**
   * @brief Returns the exact number of bottom blobs required by the layer,
   *        or -1 if no exact number is required.
   *
   * This method should be overridden to return a non-negative value if your
   * layer expects some exact number of bottom blobs.
   */
  virtual inline int ExactNumBottomBlobs() const { return -1; }
  /**
   * @brief Returns the minimum number of bottom blobs required by the layer,
   *        or -1 if no minimum number is required.
   *
   * This method should be overridden to return a non-negative value if your
   * layer expects some minimum number of bottom blobs.
   */
  virtual inline int MinBottomBlobs() const { return -1; }
  /**
   * @brief Returns the maximum number of bottom blobs required by the layer,
   *        or -1 if no maximum number is required.
   *
   * This method should be overridden to return a non-negative value if your
   * layer expects some maximum number of bottom blobs.
   */
  virtual inline int MaxBottomBlobs() const { return -1; }
  /**
   * @brief Returns the exact number of top blobs required by the layer,
   *        or -1 if no exact number is required.
   *
   * This method should be overridden to return a non-negative value if your
   * layer expects some exact number of top blobs.
   */
  virtual inline int ExactNumTopBlobs() const { return -1; }
  /**
   * @brief Returns the minimum number of top blobs required by the layer,
   *        or -1 if no minimum number is required.
   *
   * This method should be overridden to return a non-negative value if your
   * layer expects some minimum number of top blobs.
   */
  virtual inline int MinTopBlobs() const { return -1; }
  /**
   * @brief Returns the maximum number of top blobs required by the layer,
   *        or -1 if no maximum number is required.
   *
   * This method should be overridden to return a non-negative value if your
   * layer expects some maximum number of top blobs.
   */
  virtual inline int MaxTopBlobs() const { return -1; }
  /**
   * @brief Returns true if the layer requires an equal number of bottom and
   *        top blobs.
   *
   * This method should be overridden to return true if your layer expects an
   * equal number of bottom and top blobs.
   */
  virtual inline bool EqualNumBottomTopBlobs() const { return false; }

这一堆函数都是一些top blob和bottom blob的一些限制函数，用来检查这个层的参数是否设置正确的，这些都是虚函数，可以在特定层中自定义；

  /**
   * @brief Return whether "anonymous" top blobs are created automatically
   *        by the layer.
   *
   * If this method returns true, Net::Init will create enough "anonymous" top
   * blobs to fulfill the requirement specified by ExactNumTopBlobs() or
   * MinTopBlobs().
   */
  virtual inline bool AutoTopBlobs() const { return false; }

如果这个返回为true，则在搭建Net时可能会根据限制条件构建一些没有命名的blob以满足要求；这能增强程序的健壮性，但是使得可理解性下降了；

  /**
   * @brief Return whether to allow force_backward for a given bottom blob
   *        index.
   *
   * If AllowForceBackward(i) == false, we will ignore the force_backward
   * setting and backpropagate to blob i only if it needs gradient information
   * (as is done when force_backward == false).
   */
  virtual inline bool AllowForceBackward(const int bottom_index) const {
    return true;
  }

  /**
   * @brief Specifies whether the layer should compute gradients w.r.t. a
   *        parameter at a particular index given by param_id.
   *
   * You can safely ignore false values and always compute gradients
   * for all parameters, but possibly with wasteful computation.
   */
  inline bool param_propagate_down(const int param_id) {
    return (param_propagate_down_.size() > param_id) ?
        param_propagate_down_[param_id] : false;
  }
  /**
   * @brief Sets whether the layer should compute gradients w.r.t. a
   *        parameter at a particular index given by param_id.
   */
  inline void set_param_propagate_down(const int param_id, const bool value) {
    if (param_propagate_down_.size() <= param_id) {
      param_propagate_down_.resize(param_id + 1, true);
    }
    param_propagate_down_[param_id] = value;
  }

这三个函数都是与反向传播有关系的；

 protected:
  /** The protobuf that stores the layer parameters */
  LayerParameter layer_param_;
  /** The phase: TRAIN or TEST */
  Phase phase_;
  /** The vector that stores the learnable parameters as a set of blobs. */
  vector<shared_ptr<Blob<Dtype> > > blobs_;
  /** Vector indicating whether to compute the diff of each param blob. */
  vector<bool> param_propagate_down_;

  /** The vector that indicates whether each top blob has a non-zero weight in
   *  the objective function. */
  vector<Dtype> loss_;

保护成员中包括了基本的参数成员；

  /** @brief Using the CPU device, compute the layer output. */
  virtual void Forward_cpu(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom,
      const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top) = 0;
  /**
   * @brief Using the GPU device, compute the layer output.
   *        Fall back to Forward_cpu() if unavailable.
   */
  virtual void Forward_gpu(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom,
      const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top) {
    // LOG(WARNING) << "Using CPU code as backup.";
    return Forward_cpu(bottom, top);
  }

  /**
   * @brief Using the CPU device, compute the gradients for any parameters and
   *        for the bottom blobs if propagate_down is true.
   */
  virtual void Backward_cpu(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top,
      const vector<bool>& propagate_down,
      const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom) = 0;
  /**
   * @brief Using the GPU device, compute the gradients for any parameters and
   *        for the bottom blobs if propagate_down is true.
   *        Fall back to Backward_cpu() if unavailable.
   */
  virtual void Backward_gpu(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top,
      const vector<bool>& propagate_down,
      const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom) {
    // LOG(WARNING) << "Using CPU code as backup.";
    Backward_cpu(top, propagate_down, bottom);
  }

这四个函数就是我们在继承中要实现的，其中cpu版本是要强制实现的，gpu版本可以选择性实现；

  /**
   * Called by the parent Layer's SetUp to check that the number of bottom
   * and top Blobs provided as input match the expected numbers specified by
   * the {ExactNum,Min,Max}{Bottom,Top}Blobs() functions.
   */
  virtual void CheckBlobCounts(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom,
                               const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top) {
    if (ExactNumBottomBlobs() >= 0) {
      CHECK_EQ(ExactNumBottomBlobs(), bottom.size())
          << type() << " Layer takes " << ExactNumBottomBlobs()
          << " bottom blob(s) as input.";
    }
    if (MinBottomBlobs() >= 0) {
      CHECK_LE(MinBottomBlobs(), bottom.size())
          << type() << " Layer takes at least " << MinBottomBlobs()
          << " bottom blob(s) as input.";
    }
    if (MaxBottomBlobs() >= 0) {
      CHECK_GE(MaxBottomBlobs(), bottom.size())
          << type() << " Layer takes at most " << MaxBottomBlobs()
          << " bottom blob(s) as input.";
    }
    if (ExactNumTopBlobs() >= 0) {
      CHECK_EQ(ExactNumTopBlobs(), top.size())
          << type() << " Layer produces " << ExactNumTopBlobs()
          << " top blob(s) as output.";
    }
    if (MinTopBlobs() >= 0) {
      CHECK_LE(MinTopBlobs(), top.size())
          << type() << " Layer produces at least " << MinTopBlobs()
          << " top blob(s) as output.";
    }
    if (MaxTopBlobs() >= 0) {
      CHECK_GE(MaxTopBlobs(), top.size())
          << type() << " Layer produces at most " << MaxTopBlobs()
          << " top blob(s) as output.";
    }
    if (EqualNumBottomTopBlobs()) {
      CHECK_EQ(bottom.size(), top.size())
          << type() << " Layer produces one top blob as output for each "
          << "bottom blob input.";
    }
  }

检查函数；

  /**
   * Called by SetUp to initialize the weights associated with any top blobs in
   * the loss function. Store non-zero loss weights in the diff blob.
   */
  inline void SetLossWeights(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top) {
    const int num_loss_weights = layer_param_.loss_weight_size();
    if (num_loss_weights) {
      CHECK_EQ(top.size(), num_loss_weights) << "loss_weight must be "
          "unspecified or specified once per top blob.";
      for (int top_id = 0; top_id < top.size(); ++top_id) {
        const Dtype loss_weight = layer_param_.loss_weight(top_id);
        if (loss_weight == Dtype(0)) { continue; }
        this->set_loss(top_id, loss_weight);
        const int count = top[top_id]->count();
        Dtype* loss_multiplier = top[top_id]->mutable_cpu_diff();
        caffe_set(count, loss_weight, loss_multiplier);
      }
    }
  }

将loss_weight这个参数存储在top blob的diff数据体中；

 private:
  /** Whether this layer is actually shared by other nets*/
  bool is_shared_;

  /** The mutex for sequential forward if this layer is shared */
  shared_ptr<boost::mutex> forward_mutex_;

  /** Initialize forward_mutex_ */
  void InitMutex();
  /** Lock forward_mutex_ if this layer is shared */
  void Lock();
  /** Unlock forward_mutex_ if this layer is shared */
  void Unlock();

  DISABLE_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(Layer);
};  // class Layer

这些私有成员其实是与进程有关的东西，用到了boost中的lock之类的；

// Forward and backward wrappers. You should implement the cpu and
// gpu specific implementations instead, and should not change these
// functions.
template <typename Dtype>
inline Dtype Layer<Dtype>::Forward(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom,
    const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top) {
  // Lock during forward to ensure sequential forward
  Lock();
  Dtype loss = 0;
  Reshape(bottom, top);
  switch (Caffe::mode()) {
  case Caffe::CPU:
    Forward_cpu(bottom, top);
    for (int top_id = 0; top_id < top.size(); ++top_id) {
      if (!this->loss(top_id)) { continue; }
      const int count = top[top_id]->count();
      const Dtype* data = top[top_id]->cpu_data();
      const Dtype* loss_weights = top[top_id]->cpu_diff();
      loss += caffe_cpu_dot(count, data, loss_weights);
    }
    break;
  case Caffe::GPU:
    Forward_gpu(bottom, top);
#ifndef CPU_ONLY
    for (int top_id = 0; top_id < top.size(); ++top_id) {
      if (!this->loss(top_id)) { continue; }
      const int count = top[top_id]->count();
      const Dtype* data = top[top_id]->gpu_data();
      const Dtype* loss_weights = top[top_id]->gpu_diff();
      Dtype blob_loss = 0;
      caffe_gpu_dot(count, data, loss_weights, &blob_loss);
      loss += blob_loss;
    }
#endif
    break;
  default:
    LOG(FATAL) << "Unknown caffe mode.";
  }
  Unlock();
  return loss;
}

这个函数是基类的函数，也是我们会一直使用的，这其实就是一个wrapper，我们在具体层的开发时需要设计里面的Forward_cpu，Backward_cpu等函数，，注意里面开始就加锁Lock，最后解锁Unlock；另外还做了Reshape，我的想法是这应该是在SetUp中已经做过了啊，怎么又做一遍呢。。另外如果Caffe::GPU和CPU_ONLY同时存在，是不是就不要计算loss了，，尴尬啊

template <typename Dtype>
inline void Layer<Dtype>::Backward(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top,
    const vector<bool>& propagate_down,
    const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom) {
  switch (Caffe::mode()) {
  case Caffe::CPU:
    Backward_cpu(top, propagate_down, bottom);
    break;
  case Caffe::GPU:
    Backward_gpu(top, propagate_down, bottom);
    break;
  default:
    LOG(FATAL) << "Unknown caffe mode.";
  }
}

// Serialize LayerParameter to protocol buffer
template <typename Dtype>
void Layer<Dtype>::ToProto(LayerParameter* param, bool write_diff) {
  param->Clear();
  param->CopyFrom(layer_param_);
  param->clear_blobs();
  for (int i = 0; i < blobs_.size(); ++i) {
    blobs_[i]->ToProto(param->add_blobs(), write_diff);
  }
}

这个写到LayerParameter *里面这个函数其实就是一个io函数，只不过我们在进行了一系列操作后，需要将blob_中的东西写入到param中的blobs去，这样才算成功；

}  // namespace caffe

#endif  // CAFFE_LAYER_H_

最后我们来看看这个基类的cpp文件，其实因为是基类，所以它的cpp文件相当简单；就是关于进程的加锁解锁以及具体化layer模板；

#include <boost/thread.hpp>
#include "caffe/layer.hpp"

namespace caffe {

template <typename Dtype>
void Layer<Dtype>::InitMutex() {
  forward_mutex_.reset(new boost::mutex());
}

template <typename Dtype>
void Layer<Dtype>::Lock() {
  if (IsShared()) {
    forward_mutex_->lock();
  }
}

template <typename Dtype>
void Layer<Dtype>::Unlock() {
  if (IsShared()) {
    forward_mutex_->unlock();
  }
}

INSTANTIATE_CLASS(Layer);

}  // namespace caffe