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
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
