They were in proc.c mainly because there was no portable
traceback source file. As part of converting them to Go,
move to traceback.go.
In order to get access to the PC of _rt0_go,
rename to runtime.rt0_go.
LGTM=r
R=golang-codereviews, r
CC=dvyukov, golang-codereviews, iant, khr
https://golang.org/cl/139110043
C and Go calling conventions are now compatible, so we
don't need two versions of this function.
LGTM=bradfitz
R=golang-codereviews, bradfitz
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/139080043
Actually it mostly deletes code -- alg.print and alg.copy go away.
There was only one usage of alg.print for debug purposes.
Alg.copy is used in chan.goc, but Keith replaces them with
memcopy during conversion, so alg.copy is not needed as well.
Converting them would be significant amount of work
for no visible benefit.
LGTM=crawshaw, rsc, khr
R=golang-codereviews, crawshaw, khr
CC=golang-codereviews, rsc
https://golang.org/cl/139930044
uintptr or uint64 in the runtime C were turning into uint in the Go,
bool was turning into uint8, and so on. Fix that.
Also delete Go wrappers for C functions.
The C functions can be called directly now
(but still eventually need to be converted to Go).
LGTM=bradfitz, minux, iant
R=golang-codereviews, bradfitz, iant, minux
CC=golang-codereviews, khr, r
https://golang.org/cl/138740043
To date, the C compilers and Go compilers differed only in how
values were returned from functions. This made it difficult to call
Go from C or C from Go if return values were involved. It also made
assembly called from Go and assembly called from C different.
This CL changes the C compiler to use the Go conventions, passing
results on the stack, after the arguments.
[Exception: this does not apply to C ... functions, because you can't
know where on the stack the arguments end.]
By doing this, the CL makes it possible to rewrite C functions into Go
one at a time, without worrying about which languages call that
function or which languages it calls.
This CL also updates all the assembly files in package runtime to use
the new conventions. Argument references of the form 40(SP) have
been rewritten to the form name+10(FP) instead, and there are now
Go func prototypes for every assembly function called from C or Go.
This means that 'go vet runtime' checks effectively every assembly
function, and go vet's output was used to automate the bulk of the
conversion.
Some functions, like seek and nsec on Plan 9, needed to be rewritten.
Many assembly routines called from C were reading arguments
incorrectly, using MOVL instead of MOVQ or vice versa, especially on
the less used systems like openbsd.
These were found by go vet and have been corrected too.
If we're lucky, this may reduce flakiness on those systems.
Tested on:
darwin/386
darwin/amd64
linux/arm
linux/386
linux/amd64
If this breaks another system, the bug is almost certainly in the
sys_$GOOS_$GOARCH.s file, since the rest of the CL is tested
by the combination of the above systems.
LGTM=dvyukov, iant
R=golang-codereviews, 0intro, dave, alex.brainman, dvyukov, iant
CC=golang-codereviews, josharian, r
https://golang.org/cl/135830043
These are required for chans, semaphores, timers, etc.
LGTM=khr
R=golang-codereviews, khr
CC=golang-codereviews, rlh, rsc
https://golang.org/cl/123640043
Create proper closures so hash functions can be called
directly from Go. Rearrange calling convention so return
value is directly accessible.
LGTM=dvyukov
R=golang-codereviews, dvyukov, dave, khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/119360043
The DISPATCH and CALLFN macro definitions depend on an inconsistency
between the internal cpp mini-implementation and the language proper in
whether center-dot is an identifier character. The macro depends on it not
being an identifier character, but the resulting code depends on it being one.
Remove the dependence on the inconsistency by placing the center-dot into
the macro invocation rather that the body.
No semantic change. This is just renaming macro arguments.
LGTM=bradfitz
R=golang-codereviews, bradfitz
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/119320043
This change introduces gomallocgc, a Go clone of mallocgc.
Only a few uses have been moved over, so there are still
lots of uses from C. Many of these C uses will be moved
over to Go (e.g. in slice.goc), but probably not all.
What should remain of C's mallocgc is an open question.
LGTM=rsc, dvyukov
R=rsc, khr, dave, bradfitz, dvyukov
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/108840046
Based on cl/69170045 by Elias Naur.
There are currently several schemes for acquiring a TLS
slot to save the g register. None of them appear to work
for android. The closest are linux and darwin.
Linux uses a linker TLS relocation. This is not supported
by the android linker.
Darwin uses a fixed offset, and calls pthread_key_create
until it gets the slot it wants. As the runtime loads
late in the android process lifecycle, after an
arbitrary number of other libraries, we cannot rely on
any particular slot being available.
So we call pthread_key_create, take the first slot we are
given, and put it in runtime.tlsg, which we turn into a
regular variable in cmd/ld.
Makes android/arm cgo binaries work.
LGTM=minux
R=elias.naur, minux, dave, josharian
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/106380043
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
Also implement go:nosplit annotation. Not really needed
for now, but we'll definitely need it for other conversions.
benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta
BenchmarkRuneIterate 534 474 -11.24%
BenchmarkRuneIterate2 535 470 -12.15%
LGTM=bradfitz
R=golang-codereviews, dave, bradfitz, minux
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/93380044
jmpdefer modifies PC, SP, and LR, and not atomically,
so walking past jmpdefer will often end up in a state
where the three are not a consistent execution snapshot.
This was causing warning messages a few frames later
when the traceback realized it was confused, but given
the right memory it could easily crash instead.
Update #8153
LGTM=minux, iant
R=golang-codereviews, minux, iant
CC=golang-codereviews, r
https://golang.org/cl/107970043
The monotonic clock patch changed all runtime times
to abstract monotonic time. As the result user-visible
MemStats.LastGC become monotonic time as well.
Restore Unix time for LastGC.
This is the simplest way to expose time.now to runtime that I found.
Another option would be to change time.now to C called
int64 runtime.unixnanotime() and then express time.now in terms of it.
But this would require to introduce 2 64-bit divisions into time.now.
Another option would be to change time.now to C called
void runtime.unixnanotime1(struct {int64 sec, int32 nsec} *now)
and then express both time.now and runtime.unixnanotime in terms of it.
Fixes#7852.
LGTM=minux.ma, iant
R=minux.ma, rsc, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/93720045
Given
type Outer struct {
*Inner
...
}
the compiler generates the implementation of (*Outer).M dispatching to
the embedded Inner. The implementation is logically:
func (p *Outer) M() {
(p.Inner).M()
}
but since the only change here is the replacement of one pointer
receiver with another, the actual generated code overwrites the
original receiver with the p.Inner pointer and then jumps to the M
method expecting the *Inner receiver.
During reflect.Value.Call, we create an argument frame and the
associated data structures to describe it to the garbage collector,
populate the frame, call reflect.call to run a function call using
that frame, and then copy the results back out of the frame. The
reflect.call function does a memmove of the frame structure onto the
stack (to set up the inputs), runs the call, and the memmoves the
stack back to the frame structure (to preserve the outputs).
Originally reflect.call did not distinguish inputs from outputs: both
memmoves were for the full stack frame. However, in the case where the
called function was one of these wrappers, the rewritten receiver is
almost certainly a different type than the original receiver. This is
not a problem on the stack, where we use the program counter to
determine the type information and understand that during (*Outer).M
the receiver is an *Outer while during (*Inner).M the receiver in the
same memory word is now an *Inner. But in the statically typed
argument frame created by reflect, the receiver is always an *Outer.
Copying the modified receiver pointer off the stack into the frame
will store an *Inner there, and then if a garbage collection happens
to scan that argument frame before it is discarded, it will scan the
*Inner memory as if it were an *Outer. If the two have different
memory layouts, the collection will intepret the memory incorrectly.
Fix by only copying back the results.
Fixes#7725.
LGTM=khr
R=khr
CC=dave, golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/85180043
For non-closure functions, the context register is uninitialized
on entry and will not be used, but morestack saves it and then the
garbage collector treats it as live. This can be a source of memory
leaks if the context register points at otherwise dead memory.
Avoid this by introducing a parallel set of morestack functions
that clear the context register, and use those for the non-closure functions.
I hope this will help with some of the finalizer flakiness, but it probably won't.
Fixes#7244.
LGTM=dvyukov
R=khr, dvyukov
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/71030044
The addition of TLS to ARM rewrote the MRC instruction
differently depending on whether we were using internal
or external linking mode. That's clearly not okay, since we
don't know that during compilation, which is when we now
generate the code. Also, because the change did not introduce
a real MRC instruction but instead just macro-expanded it
in the assembler, liblink is rewriting a WORD instruction that
may actually be looking for that specific constant, which would
lead to very unexpected results. It was also using one value
that happened to be 8 where a different value that also
happened to be 8 belonged. So the code was correct for those
values but not correct in general, and very confusing.
Throw it all away.
Replace with the following. There is a linker-provided symbol
runtime.tlsgm with a value (address) set to the offset from the
hardware-provided TLS base register to the g and m storage.
Any reference to that name emits an appropriate TLS relocation
to be resolved by either the internal linker or the external linker,
depending on the link mode. The relocation has exactly the
semantics of the R_ARM_TLS_LE32 relocation, which is what
the external linker provides.
This symbol is only used in two routines, runtime.load_gm and
runtime.save_gm. In both cases it is now used like this:
MRC 15, 0, R0, C13, C0, 3 // fetch TLS base pointer
MOVW $runtime·tlsgm(SB), R2
ADD R2, R0 // now R0 points at thread-local g+m storage
It is likely that this change breaks the generation of shared libraries
on ARM, because the MOVW needs to be rewritten to use the global
offset table and a different relocation type. But let's get the supported
functionality working again before we worry about unsupported
functionality.
LGTM=dave, iant
R=iant, dave
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/56120043
Now that liblink is compiled into the compilers and assemblers,
it must not refer to the "linkmode", since that is not known until
link time. This CL makes the ARM support no longer use linkmode,
which fixes a bug with cgo binaries that contain their own TLS
variables.
The x86 code must also remove linkmode; that is issue 7164.
Fixes#6992.
R=golang-codereviews, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/55160043
Fixes#6952.
runtime.asminit was incorrectly loading runtime.goarm as a word, not a uint8 which made it subject to alignment issues on arm5 platforms.
Alignment aside, this also meant that the top 3 bytes in R11 would have been garbage and could not be assumed to be setting up the FPU reliably.
R=iant, minux.ma
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/46240043
Bug #1:
Issue 5406 identified an interesting case:
defer iface.M()
may end up calling a wrapper that copies an indirect receiver
from the iface value and then calls the real M method. That's
two calls down, not just one, and so recover() == nil always
in the real M method, even during a panic.
[For the purposes of this entire discussion, a wrapper's
implementation is a function containing an ordinary call, not
the optimized tail call form that is somtimes possible. The
tail call does not create a second frame, so it is already
handled correctly.]
Fix this bug by introducing g->panicwrap, which counts the
number of bytes on current stack segment that are due to
wrapper calls that should not count against the recover
check. All wrapper functions must now adjust g->panicwrap up
on entry and back down on exit. This adds slightly to their
expense; on the x86 it is a single instruction at entry and
exit; on the ARM it is three. However, the alternative is to
make a call to recover depend on being able to walk the stack,
which I very much want to avoid. We have enough problems
walking the stack for garbage collection and profiling.
Also, if performance is critical in a specific case, it is already
faster to use a pointer receiver and avoid this kind of wrapper
entirely.
Bug #2:
The old code, which did not consider the possibility of two
calls, already contained a check to see if the call had split
its stack and so the panic-created segment was one behind the
current segment. In the wrapper case, both of the two calls
might split their stacks, so the panic-created segment can be
two behind the current segment.
Fix this by propagating the Stktop.panic flag forward during
stack splits instead of looking backward during recover.
Fixes#5406.
R=golang-dev, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/13367052
This replaces the mcall frame with the badmcall frame instead of
leaving the mcall frame on the stack and adding the badmcall frame.
Because mcall is no longer on the stack, traceback will now report what
called mcall, which is what we would like to see in this situation.
R=golang-dev, cshapiro
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/13012044
This CL is an aggregate of 10271047, 10499043, 9733044. Descriptions of each follow:
10499043
runtime,cmd/ld: Merge TLS symbols and teach 5l about ARM TLS
This CL prepares for external linking support to ARM.
The pseudo-symbols runtime.g and runtime.m are merged into a single
runtime.tlsgm symbol. When external linking, the offset of a thread local
variable is stored at a memory location instead of being embedded into a offset
of a ldr instruction. With a single runtime.tlsgm symbol for both g and m, only
one such offset is needed.
The larger part of this CL moves TLS code from gcc compiled to internally
compiled. The TLS code now uses the modern MRC instruction, and 5l is taught
about TLS fallbacks in case the instruction is not available or appropriate.
10271047
This CL adds support for -linkmode external to 5l.
For 5l itself, use addrel to allow for D_CALL relocations to be handled by the
host linker. Of the cases listed in rsc's comment in issue 4069, only case 5 and
63 needed an update. One of the TODO: addrel cases was since replaced, and the
rest of the cases are either covered by indirection through addpool (cases with
LTO or LFROM flags) or stubs (case 74). The addpool cases are covered because
addpool emits AWORD instructions, which in turn are handled by case 11.
In the runtime, change the argv argument in the rt0* functions slightly to be a
pointer to the argv list, instead of relying on a particular location of argv.
9733044
The -shared flag to 6l outputs a shared library, implemented in Go
and callable from non-Go programs such as C.
The main part of this CL change the thread local storage model.
Go uses the fastest and least general mode, local exec. TLS data in shared
libraries normally requires at least the local dynamic mode, however, this CL
instead opts for using the initial exec mode. Initial exec mode is faster than
local dynamic mode and can be used in linux since the linker has reserved a
limited amount of TLS space for performance sensitive TLS code.
Initial exec mode requires an extra load from the GOT table to determine the
TLS offset. This penalty will not be paid if ld is not in -shared mode, since
TLS accesses will be reduced to local exec.
The elf sections .init_array and .rela.init_array are added to register the Go
runtime entry with cgo at library load time.
The "hidden" attribute is added to Cgo functions called from Go, since Go
does not generate call through the GOT table, and adding non-GOT relocations for
a global function is not supported by gcc. Cgo symbols don't need to be global
and avoiding the GOT table is also faster.
The changes to 8l are only removes code relevant to the old -shared mode where
internal linking was used.
This CL only address the low level linker work. It can be submitted by itself,
but to be useful, the runtime changes in CL 9738047 is also needed.
Design discussion at
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/golang-nuts/zmjXkGrEx6QFixes#5590.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12871044
We can then include this file in assembly to replace
cryptic constants like "7" with meaningful constants
like "(NOPROF|DUPOK|NOSPLIT)".
Converting just pkg/runtime/asm*.s for now. Dropping NOPROF
and DUPOK from lots of places where they aren't needed.
More .s files to come in a subsequent changelist.
A nonzero number in the textflag field now means
"has not been converted yet".
R=golang-dev, daniel.morsing, rsc, khr
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12568043
Per suggestion from Russ in February. Then strings.IndexByte
can be implemented in terms of the shared code in pkg runtime.
Update #3751
R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12289043
Tying preemption to stack splits means that we have to able to
complete the call to exitsyscall (inside cgocallbackg at least for now)
without any stack split checks, meaning that the whole sequence
has to work within 128 bytes of stack, unless we increase the size
of the red zone. This CL frees up 24 bytes along that critical path
on amd64. (The 32-bit systems have plenty of space because all
their words are smaller.)
R=dvyukov
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/11676043
If we start a garbage collection on g0 during a
stack split or unsplit, we'll see morestack or lessstack
at the top of the stack. Record an argument frame size
for those, and record that they terminate the stack.
R=golang-dev, dvyukov
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/11533043
I have not done the system call stubs in sys_*.s.
I hope to avoid that, because those do not block, so those
frames will not appear in stack traces during garbage
collection.
R=golang-dev, dvyukov, khr
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/11360043
Design at http://golang.org/s/go12symtab.
This enables some cleanup of the garbage collector metadata
that will be done in future CLs.
This CL does not move the old symtab and pclntab back into
an unmapped section of the file. That's a bit tricky and will be
done separately.
Fixes#4020.
R=golang-dev, dave, cshapiro, iant, r
CC=golang-dev, nigeltao
https://golang.org/cl/11085043
