1. On entry to a function, only zero the ambiguously live stack variables.
Before, we were zeroing all stack variables containing pointers.
The zeroing is pretty inefficient right now (issue 7624), but there are also
too many stack variables detected as ambiguously live (issue 7345),
and that must be addressed before deciding how to improve the zeroing code.
(Changes in 5g/ggen.c, 6g/ggen.c, 8g/ggen.c, gc/pgen.c)
Fixes#7647.
2. Make the regopt word-based liveness analysis preserve the
whole-variable liveness property expected by the garbage collection
bitmap liveness analysis. That is, if the regopt liveness decides that
one word in a struct needs to be preserved, make sure it preserves
the entire struct. This is particularly important for multiword values
such as strings, slices, and interfaces, in which all the words need
to be present in order to understand the meaning.
(Changes in 5g/reg.c, 6g/reg.c, 8g/reg.c.)
Fixes#7591.
3. Make the regopt word-based liveness analysis treat a variable
as having its address taken - which makes it preserved across
all future calls - whenever n->addrtaken is set, for consistency
with the gc bitmap liveness analysis, even if there is no machine
instruction actually taking the address. In this case n->addrtaken
is incorrect (a nicer way to put it is overconservative), and ideally
there would be no such cases, but they can happen and the two
analyses need to agree.
(Changes in 5g/reg.c, 6g/reg.c, 8g/reg.c; test in bug484.go.)
Fixes crashes found by turning off "zero everything" in step 1.
4. Remove spurious VARDEF annotations. As the comment in
gc/pgen.c explains, the VARDEF must immediately precede
the initialization. It cannot be too early, and it cannot be too late.
In particular, if a function call sits between the VARDEF and the
actual machine instructions doing the initialization, the variable
will be treated as live during that function call even though it is
uninitialized, leading to problems.
(Changes in gc/gen.c; test in live.go.)
Fixes crashes found by turning off "zero everything" in step 1.
5. Do not treat loading the address of a wide value as a signal
that the value must be initialized. Instead depend on the existence
of a VARDEF or the first actual read/write of a word in the value.
If the load is in order to pass the address to a function that does
the actual initialization, treating the load as an implicit VARDEF
causes the same problems as described in step 4.
The alternative is to arrange to zero every such value before
passing it to the real initialization function, but this is a much
easier and more efficient change.
(Changes in gc/plive.c.)
Fixes crashes found by turning off "zero everything" in step 1.
6. Treat wide input parameters with their address taken as
initialized on entry to the function. Otherwise they look
"ambiguously live" and we will try to emit code to zero them.
(Changes in gc/plive.c.)
Fixes crashes found by turning off "zero everything" in step 1.
7. An array of length 0 has no pointers, even if the element type does.
Without this change, the zeroing code complains when asked to
clear a 0-length array.
(Changes in gc/reflect.c.)
LGTM=khr
R=khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/80160044
Revision 3ae4607a43ff introduced CONVNOP layers
to fix type checking issues arising from comparisons.
The added complexity made 8g run out of registers
when compiling an equality function in go.net/ipv6.
A similar issue occurred in test/sizeof.go on
amd64p32 with 6g.
Fixes#7405.
LGTM=khr
R=rsc, dave, iant, khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/78100044
A too large float constant is an error.
A too small float constant is rounded to zero.
Fixes#7419
Update #6902
LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/76730046
The lowering to runtime calls introduces hidden pointers to the
arguments of select clauses. When implicit conversions were
involved it could end up with incompatible pointers. Since the
pointed-to types have the same representation, we can introduce a
forced conversion.
Fixes#6847.
LGTM=rsc
R=rsc, iant, khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/72380043
The garbage collector uses type information to guide the
traversal of the heap. If it sees a field that should be a string,
it marks the object pointed at by the string data pointer as
visited but does not bother to look at the data, because
strings contain bytes, not pointers.
If you save s[len(s):] somewhere, though, the string data pointer
actually points just beyond the string data; if the string data
were exactly the size of an allocated block, the string data
pointer would actually point at the next block. It is incorrect
to mark that next block as visited and not bother to look at
the data, because the next block may be some other type
entirely.
The fix is to ignore strings with zero length during collection:
they are empty and can never become non-empty: the base
pointer will never be used again. The handling of slices already
does this (but using cap instead of len).
This was not a bug in Go 1.2, because until January all string
allocations included a trailing NUL byte not included in the
length, so s[len(s):] still pointed inside the string allocation
(at the NUL).
This bug was causing the crashes in test/run.go. Specifically,
the parsing of a regexp in package regexp/syntax allocated a
[]syntax.Inst with rounded size 1152 bytes. In fact it
allocated many such slices, because during the processing of
test/index2.go it creates thousands of regexps that are all
approximately the same complexity. That takes a long time, and
test/run works on other tests in other goroutines. One such
other test is chan/perm.go, which uses an 1152-byte source
file. test/run reads that file into a []byte and then calls
strings.Split(string(src), "\n"). The string(src) creates an
1152-byte string - and there's a very good chance of it
landing next to one of the many many regexp slices already
allocated - and then because the file ends in a \n,
strings.Split records the tail empty string as the final
element in the slice. A garbage collection happens at this
point, the collection finds that string before encountering
the []syntax.Inst data it now inadvertently points to, and the
[]syntax.Inst data is not scanned for the pointers that it
contains. Each syntax.Inst contains a []rune, those are
missed, and the backing rune arrays are freed for reuse. When
the regexp is later executed, the runes being searched for are
no longer runes at all, and there is no match, even on text
that should match.
On 64-bit machines the pointer in the []rune inside the
syntax.Inst is larger (along with a few other pointers),
pushing the []syntax.Inst backing array into a larger size
class, avoiding the collision with chan/perm.go's
inadvertently sized file.
I expect this was more prevalent on OS X than on Linux or
Windows because those managed to run faster or slower and
didn't overlap index2.go with chan/perm.go as often. On the
ARM systems, we only run one errorcheck test at a time, so
index2 and chan/perm would never overlap.
It is possible that this bug is the root cause of other crashes
as well. For now we only know it is the cause of the test/run crash.
Many thanks to Dmitriy for help debugging.
Fixes#7344.
Fixes#7455.
LGTM=r, dvyukov, dave, iant
R=golang-codereviews, dave, r, dvyukov, delpontej, iant
CC=golang-codereviews, khr
https://golang.org/cl/74250043
Some of the errorcheck tests have many many identical regexps.
Use a map to avoid storing the compiled form many many times
in memory. Change the filterRe to a simple string to avoid
the expense of those regexps as well.
Cuts the time for run.go on index2.go by almost 50x.
Noticed during debugging of issue 7344.
LGTM=bradfitz
R=bradfitz, josharian
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/74380043
The byte that r is or'd into is already 0x7, so the failure to zero r only
impacts the generated machine code if the register is > 7.
Fixes#7044.
LGTM=dave, minux.ma, rsc
R=dave, minux.ma, bradfitz, rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/73730043
The cached computed interface tables are indexed by the interface
types, not by the unnamed underlying interfaces
To preserve the invariants expected by interface comparison, an
itab generated for an interface type must not be used for a value
of a different interface type even if the representation is identical.
Fixes#7207.
LGTM=rsc
R=rsc, iant, khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/69210044
See golang.org/s/go13nacl for design overview.
This CL is the mostly mechanical changes from rsc's Go 1.2 based NaCl branch, specifically 39cb35750369 to 500771b477cf from https://code.google.com/r/rsc-go13nacl. This CL does not include working NaCl support, there are probably two or three more large merges to come.
CL 15750044 is not included as it involves more invasive changes to the linker which will need to be merged separately.
The exact change lists included are
15050047: syscall: support for Native Client
15360044: syscall: unzip implementation for Native Client
15370044: syscall: Native Client SRPC implementation
15400047: cmd/dist, cmd/go, go/build, test: support for Native Client
15410048: runtime: support for Native Client
15410049: syscall: file descriptor table for Native Client
15410050: syscall: in-memory file system for Native Client
15440048: all: update +build lines for Native Client port
15540045: cmd/6g, cmd/8g, cmd/gc: support for Native Client
15570045: os: support for Native Client
15680044: crypto/..., hash/crc32, reflect, sync/atomic: support for amd64p32
15690044: net: support for Native Client
15690048: runtime: support for fake time like on Go Playground
15690051: build: disable various tests on Native Client
LGTM=rsc
R=rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/68150047
Revision c0e0467635ec (cmd/gc: return canonical Node* from temp)
exposed original nodes of temporaries, allowing callers to mutate
their types.
In walkcompare a temporary could be typed as ideal because of
this. Additionnally, assignment of a comparison result to
a custom boolean type was broken.
Fixes#7366.
LGTM=rsc
R=rsc, iant, khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/66930044
The error message was previously off by one in all cases.
Fixes#7150.
LGTM=r
R=golang-codereviews, r
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/65850043
Update #6853
For an ephemeral binary - one created, run, and then deleted -
there is no need to write dwarf debug information, since the
binary will not be used with gdb. In this case, instruct the linker
not to spend time and disk space generating the debug information
by passing the -w flag to the linker.
Omitting dwarf information reduces the size of most binaries by 25%.
We may be more aggressive about this in the future.
LGTM=bradfitz, r
R=r, bradfitz
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/65890043
Not recording the address being taken was causing
the liveness analysis not to preserve x in the absence
of direct references to x, which in turn was making the
net test fail with GOGC=0.
In addition to the test, this fixes a bug wherein
GOGC=0 go test -short net
crashed if liveness analysis was in use (like at tip, not like Go 1.2).
TBR=ken2
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/64470043
The VARDEF placement must be before the initialization
but after any final use. If you have something like s = ... using s ...
the rhs must be evaluated, then the VARDEF, then the lhs
assigned.
There is a large comment in pgen.c on gvardef explaining
this in more detail.
This CL also includes Ian's suggestions from earlier CLs,
namely commenting the use of mode in link.h and fixing
the precedence of the ~r check in dcl.c.
This CL enables the check that if liveness analysis decides
a variable is live on entry to the function, that variable must
be a function parameter (not a result, and not a local variable).
If this check fails, it indicates a bug in the liveness analysis or
in the generated code being analyzed.
The race detector generates invalid code for append(x, y...).
The code declares a temporary t and then uses cap(t) before
initializing t. The new liveness check catches this bug and
stops the compiler from writing out the buggy code.
Consequently, this CL disables the race detector tests in
run.bash until the race detector bug can be fixed
(golang.org/issue/7334).
Except for the race detector bug, the liveness analysis check
does not detect any problems (this CL and the previous CLs
fixed all the detected problems).
The net test still fails with GOGC=0 but the rest of the tests
now pass or time out (because GOGC=0 is so slow).
TBR=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/64170043
The existing tests issue4463.go and issue4654.go had failures at
typechecking and did not test walking the AST.
Fixes#7272.
LGTM=khr
R=khr, rsc, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/60550044
When the liveness code doesn't know a function doesn't return
(but the generated code understands that), the liveness analysis
invents a control flow edge that is not really there, which can cause
variables to seem spuriously live. This is particularly bad when the
variables are uninitialized.
TBR=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/63720043
The registerization code needs the function to end in a RET,
even if that RET is actually unreachable.
The liveness code needs to avoid such unreachable RETs.
It had a special case for final RET after JMP, but no case
for final RET after UNDEF. Instead of expanding the special
cases, let fixjmp - which already knows what is and is not
reachable definitively - mark the unreachable RET so that
the liveness code can identify it.
TBR=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/63680043
A normal RET is treated as using the return values,
but a tail jump RET does not - it is jumping to the
function that is going to fill in the return values.
If a tail jump RET is recorded as using the return values,
since nothing initializes them they will be marked as
live on entry to the function, which is clearly wrong.
Found and tested by the new code in plive.c that looks
for variables that are incorrectly live on entry.
That code is disabled for now because there are other
cases remaining to be fixed. But once it is enabled,
test/live1.go becomes a real test of this CL.
TBR=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/63570045
Any initialization of a variable by a block copy or block zeroing
or by multiple assignments (componentwise copying or zeroing
of a multiword variable) needs to emit a VARDEF. These cases were not.
Fixes#7205.
TBR=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/63650044
Before, an unnamed return value turned into an ONAME node n with n->sym
named ~anon%d, and n->orig == n.
A blank-named return value turned into an ONAME node n with n->sym
named ~anon%d but n->orig == the original blank n. Code generation and
printing uses n->orig, so that this node formatted as _.
But some code does not use n->orig. In particular the liveness code does
not know about the n->orig convention and so mishandles blank identifiers.
It is possible to fix but seemed better to avoid the confusion entirely.
Now the first kind of node is named ~r%d and the second ~b%d; both have
n->orig == n, so that it doesn't matter whether code uses n or n->orig.
After this change the ->orig field is only used for other kinds of expressions,
not for ONAME nodes.
This requires distinguishing ~b from ~r names in a few places that care.
It fixes a liveness analysis bug without actually changing the liveness code.
TBR=ken2
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/63630043
Make the loop nesting depth of &x depend on where x is declared,
not on where the &x appears. The latter is only a conservative
estimate of the former. Being more careful can avoid some
variables escaping, and it is easier to reason about.
It would have avoided issue 7313, although that was still a bug
worth fixing.
Not much effect in the tree: one variable in the whole tree
is saved from a heap allocation (something in x509 parsing).
LGTM=daniel.morsing
R=daniel.morsing
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/62380043
Logically, the init statement is in the enclosing scopes loopdepth, not inside the for loop.
Fixes#7313.
LGTM=rsc
R=golang-codereviews, gobot, rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/62430043
Array values are comparable if values of the array element type
are comparable.
Fixes#6526.
LGTM=khr
R=rsc, bradfitz, khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/58580043
This CL makes the bitmaps a little more precise about variables
that have their address taken but for which the address does not
escape to the heap, so that the variables are kept in the stack frame
rather than allocated on the heap.
The code before this CL handled these variables by treating every
return statement as using every such variable and depending on
liveness analysis to essentially treat the variable as live during the
entire function. That approach has false positives and (worse) false
negatives. That is, it's both sloppy and buggy:
func f(b1, b2 bool) { // x live here! (sloppy)
if b2 {
print(0) // x live here! (sloppy)
return
}
var z **int
x := new(int)
*x = 42
z = &x
print(**z) // x live here (conservative)
if b2 {
print(1) // x live here (conservative)
return
}
for {
print(**z) // x not live here (buggy)
}
}
The first two liveness annotations (marked sloppy) are clearly
wrong: x cannot be live if it has not yet been declared.
The last liveness annotation (marked buggy) is also wrong:
x is live here as *z, but because there is no return statement
reachable from this point in the code, the analysis treats x as dead.
This CL changes the liveness calculation to mark such variables
live exactly at points in the code reachable from the variable
declaration. This keeps the conservative decisions but fixes
the sloppy and buggy ones.
The CL also detects ambiguously live variables, those that are
being marked live but may not actually have been initialized,
such as in this example:
func f(b1 bool) {
var z **int
if b1 {
x := new(int)
*x = 42
z = &x
} else {
y := new(int)
*y = 54
z = &y
}
print(**z) // x, y live here (conservative)
}
Since the print statement is reachable from the declaration of x,
x must conservatively be marked live. The same goes for y.
Although both x and y are marked live at the print statement,
clearly only one of them has been initialized. They are both
"ambiguously live".
These ambiguously live variables cause problems for garbage
collection: the collector cannot ignore them but also cannot
depend on them to be initialized to valid pointer values.
Ambiguously live variables do not come up too often in real code,
but recent changes to the way map and interface runtime functions
are invoked has created a large number of ambiguously live
compiler-generated temporary variables. The next CL will adjust
the analysis to understand these temporaries better, to make
ambiguously live variables fairly rare.
Once ambiguously live variables are rare enough, another CL will
introduce code at the beginning of a function to zero those
slots on the stack. At that point the garbage collector and the
stack copying routines will be able to depend on the guarantee that
if a slot is marked as live in a liveness bitmap, it is initialized.
R=khr
CC=golang-codereviews, iant
https://golang.org/cl/51810043
For historical reasons, temp was returning a copy
of the created Node*, not the original Node*.
This meant that if analysis recorded information in the
returned node (for example, n->addrtaken = 1), the
analysis would not show up on the original Node*, the
one kept in fn->dcl and consulted during liveness
bitmap creation.
Correct this, and watch for it when setting addrtaken.
Fixes#7083.
R=khr, dave, minux.ma
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/51010045
Nodes of goto statements were corrupted when written
to export data.
Fixes#7023.
R=rsc, dave, minux.ma
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/46190043
