The runtime has historically held two dedicated values g (current goroutine)
and m (current thread) in 'extern register' slots (TLS on x86, real registers
backed by TLS on ARM).
This CL removes the extern register m; code now uses g->m.
On ARM, this frees up the register that formerly held m (R9).
This is important for NaCl, because NaCl ARM code cannot use R9 at all.
The Go 1 macrobenchmarks (those with per-op times >= 10 µs) are unaffected:
BenchmarkBinaryTree17 5491374955 5471024381 -0.37%
BenchmarkFannkuch11 4357101311 4275174828 -1.88%
BenchmarkGobDecode 11029957 11364184 +3.03%
BenchmarkGobEncode 6852205 6784822 -0.98%
BenchmarkGzip 650795967 650152275 -0.10%
BenchmarkGunzip 140962363 141041670 +0.06%
BenchmarkHTTPClientServer 71581 73081 +2.10%
BenchmarkJSONEncode 31928079 31913356 -0.05%
BenchmarkJSONDecode 117470065 113689916 -3.22%
BenchmarkMandelbrot200 6008923 5998712 -0.17%
BenchmarkGoParse 6310917 6327487 +0.26%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchMedium_1K 114568 114763 +0.17%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchHard_1K 168977 169244 +0.16%
BenchmarkRevcomp 935294971 914060918 -2.27%
BenchmarkTemplate 145917123 148186096 +1.55%
Minux previous reported larger variations, but these were caused by
run-to-run noise, not repeatable slowdowns.
Actual code changes by Minux.
I only did the docs and the benchmarking.
LGTM=dvyukov, iant, minux
R=minux, josharian, iant, dave, bradfitz, dvyukov
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/109050043
Structured Exception Handling (SEH) was the first way to handle
exceptions (memory faults, divides by zero) on Windows.
The S might as well stand for "stack-based": the implementation
interprets stack addresses in a few different ways, and it gets
subtly confused by Go's management of stacks. It's also something
that requires active maintenance during cgo switches, and we've
had bugs in that maintenance in the past.
We have recently come to believe that SEH cannot work with
Go's stack usage. See http://golang.org/issue/7325 for details.
Vectored Exception Handling (VEH) is more like a Unix signal
handler: you set it once for the whole process and forget about it.
This CL drops all the SEH code and replaces it with VEH code.
Many special cases and 7 #ifdefs disappear.
VEH was introduced in Windows XP, so Go on windows/386 will
now require Windows XP or later. The previous requirement was
Windows 2000 or later. Windows 2000 immediately preceded
Windows XP, so Windows 2000 is the only affected version.
Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 2000 in 2010.
See http://golang.org/s/win2000-golang-nuts for details.
Fixes#7325.
LGTM=alex.brainman, r
R=golang-codereviews, alex.brainman, stephen.gutekanst, dave
CC=golang-codereviews, iant, r
https://golang.org/cl/74790043
32-bit Windows uses "structured exception handling" (SEH) to
handle hardware faults: that there is a per-thread linked list
of fault handlers maintained in user space instead of
something like Unix's signal handlers. The structures in the
linked list are required to live on the OS stack, and the
usual discipline is that the function that pushes a record
(allocated from the current stack frame) onto the list pops
that record before returning. Not to pop the entry before
returning creates a dangling pointer error: the list head
points to a stack frame that no longer exists.
Go pushes an SEH record in the top frame of every OS thread,
and that record suffices for all Go execution on that thread,
at least until cgo gets involved.
If we call into C using cgo, that called C code may push its
own SEH records, but by the convention it must pop them before
returning back to the Go code. We assume it does, and that's
fine.
If the C code calls back into Go, we want the Go SEH handler
to become active again, not whatever C has set up. So
runtime.callbackasm1, which handles a call from C back into
Go, pushes a new SEH record before calling the Go code and
pops it when the Go code returns. That's also fine.
It can happen that when Go calls C calls Go like this, the
inner Go code panics. We allow a defer in the outer Go to
recover the panic, effectively wiping not only the inner Go
frames but also the C calls. This sequence was not popping the
SEH stack up to what it was before the cgo calls, so it was
creating the dangling pointer warned about above. When
eventually the m stack was used enough to overwrite the
dangling SEH records, the SEH chain was lost, and any future
panic would not end up in Go's handler.
The bug in TestCallbackPanic and friends was thus creating a
situation where TestSetPanicOnFault - which causes a hardware
fault - would not find the Go fault handler and instead crash
the binary.
Add checks to TestCallbackPanicLocked to diagnose the mistake
in that test instead of leaving a bad state for another test
case to stumble over.
Fix bug by restoring SEH chain during deferred "endcgo"
cleanup.
This bug is likely present in Go 1.2.1, but since it depends
on Go calling C calling Go, with the inner Go panicking and
the outer Go recovering the panic, it seems not important
enough to bother fixing before Go 1.3. Certainly no one has
complained.
Fixes#7470.
LGTM=alex.brainman
R=golang-codereviews, alex.brainman
CC=golang-codereviews, iant, khr
https://golang.org/cl/71440043
Package runtime's C functions written to be called from Go
started out written in C using carefully constructed argument
lists and the FLUSH macro to write a result back to memory.
For some functions, the appropriate parameter list ended up
being architecture-dependent due to differences in alignment,
so we added 'goc2c', which takes a .goc file containing Go func
declarations but C bodies, rewrites the Go func declaration to
equivalent C declarations for the target architecture, adds the
needed FLUSH statements, and writes out an equivalent C file.
That C file is compiled as part of package runtime.
Native Client's x86-64 support introduces the most complex
alignment rules yet, breaking many functions that could until
now be portably written in C. Using goc2c for those avoids the
breakage.
Separately, Keith's work on emitting stack information from
the C compiler would require the hand-written functions
to add #pragmas specifying how many arguments are result
parameters. Using goc2c for those avoids maintaining #pragmas.
For both reasons, use goc2c for as many Go-called C functions
as possible.
This CL is a replay of the bulk of CL 15400047 and CL 15790043,
both of which were reviewed as part of the NaCl port and are
checked in to the NaCl branch. This CL is part of bringing the
NaCl code into the main tree.
No new code here, just reformatting and occasional movement
into .h files.
LGTM=r
R=dave, alex.brainman, r
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/65220044
This CL makes the runtime understand that the type of
the len or cap of a map, slice, or string is 'int', not 'int32',
and it is also careful to distinguish between function arguments
and results of type 'int' vs type 'int32'.
In the runtime, the new typedefs 'intgo' and 'uintgo' refer
to Go int and uint. The C types int and uint continue to be
unavailable (cause intentional compile errors).
This CL does not change the meaning of int, but it should make
the eventual change of the meaning of int on amd64 a bit
smoother.
Update #2188.
R=iant, r, dave, remyoudompheng
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6551067
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
