* Change use of m->g0 stack (aka scheduler stack).
* Provide runtime.mcall(f) to invoke f() on m->g0 stack.
* Replace scheduler loop entry with runtime.mcall(schedule).
Runtime.mcall eliminates the need for fake scheduler states that
exist just to run a bit of code on the m->g0 stack
(Grecovery, Gstackalloc).
The elimination of the scheduler as a loop that stops and
starts using gosave and gogo fixes a bad interaction with the
way cgo uses the m->g0 stack. Cgo runs external (gcc-compiled)
C functions on that stack, and then when calling back into Go,
it sets m->g0->sched.sp below the added call frames, so that
other uses of m->g0's stack will not interfere with those frames.
Unfortunately, gogo (longjmp) back to the scheduler loop at
this point would end up running scheduler with the lower
sp, which no longer points at a valid stack frame for
a call to scheduler. If scheduler then wrote any function call
arguments or local variables to where it expected the stack
frame to be, it would overwrite other data on the stack.
I realized this possibility while debugging a problem with
calling complex Go code in a Go -> C -> Go cgo callback.
This wasn't the bug I was looking for, it turns out, but I believe
it is a real bug nonetheless. Switching to runtime.mcall, which
only adds new frames to the stack and never jumps into
functions running in existing ones, fixes this bug.
* Move cgo-related code out of proc.c into cgocall.c.
* Add very large comment describing cgo call sequences.
* Simpilify, regularize cgo function implementations and names.
* Add test suite as misc/cgo/test.
Now the Go -> C path calls cgocall, which calls asmcgocall,
and the C -> Go path calls cgocallback, which calls cgocallbackg.
The shuffling, which affects mainly the callback case, moves
most of the callback implementation to cgocallback running
on the m->curg stack (not the m->g0 scheduler stack) and
only while accounted for with $GOMAXPROCS (between calls
to exitsyscall and entersyscall).
The previous callback code did not block in startcgocallback's
approximation to exitsyscall, so if, say, the garbage collector
were running, it would still barge in and start doing things
like call malloc. Similarly endcgocallback's approximation of
entersyscall did not call matchmg to kick off new OS threads
when necessary, which caused the bug in issue 1560.
Fixes#1560.
R=iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4253054
The callback mechanism has been made more flexible.
Eliminated one round of argument copying in Syscall.
Faster Get/SetLastError implemented.
Added gettime for gc perf profiling.
R=rsc, brainman, mattn, rog
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4058046
Prefix all external symbols in runtime by runtime·,
to avoid conflicts with possible symbols of the same
name in linked-in C libraries. The obvious conflicts
are printf, malloc, and free, but hide everything to
avoid future pain.
The symbols left alone are:
** known to cgo **
_cgo_free
_cgo_malloc
libcgo_thread_start
initcgo
ncgocall
** known to linker **
_rt0_$GOARCH
_rt0_$GOARCH_$GOOS
text
etext
data
end
pclntab
epclntab
symtab
esymtab
** known to C compiler **
_divv
_modv
_div64by32
etc (arch specific)
Tested on darwin/386, darwin/amd64, linux/386, linux/amd64.
Built (but not tested) for freebsd/386, freebsd/amd64, linux/arm, windows/386.
R=r, PeterGo
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/2899041
These functions are used to call from a C function back to a
Go function. This only includes 386 support.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/834045
better mach binaries.
cgo working on darwin+linux amd64+386.
eliminated context switches - pi is 30x faster.
add libcgo to build.
on snow leopard:
- non-cgo binaries work; all tests pass.
- cgo binaries work on amd64 but not 386.
R=r
DELTA=2031 (1316 added, 626 deleted, 89 changed)
OCL=35264
CL=35304
