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
C globals are conservatively scanned. This helps
avoid false retention, especially for 32 bit.
LGTM=rsc
R=golang-codereviews, khr, rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/102040043
Delaying the runtime.throw until here will print more information.
In particular it will print the signal and code values, which means
it will show the fault address.
The canpanic checks were added recently, in CL 75320043.
They were just not added in exactly the right place.
LGTM=iant
R=dvyukov, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/83980043
SetPanicOnFault allows recovery from unexpected memory faults.
This can be useful if you are using a memory-mapped file
or probing the address space of the current program.
LGTM=r
R=r
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/66590044
This means that pprof will no longer report profiles on OS X.
That's unfortunate, but the profiles were often wrong and, worse,
it was difficult to tell whether the profile was wrong or not.
The workarounds were making the scheduler more complex,
possibly caused a deadlock (see issue 5519), and did not actually
deliver reliable results.
It may be possible for adventurous users to apply a patch to
their kernels to get working results, or perhaps having no results
will encourage someone to do the work of creating a profiling
thread like on Windows. Issue 6047 has details.
Fixes#5519.
Fixes#6047.
R=golang-dev, bradfitz, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12429045
Split stack checks (morestack) corrupt g->sched,
but g->sched must be preserved consistent for GC/traceback.
The change implements runtime.notetsleepg function,
which does entersyscall/exitsyscall and is carefully arranged
to not call any split functions in between.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/11575044
Variables in data sections of 32-bit executables interfere with
garbage collector's ability to free objects and/or unnecessarily
slow down the garbage collector.
This changeset moves some static variables to .noptr sections.
'files' in symtab.c is now allocated dynamically.
R=golang-dev, dvyukov, minux.ma
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/9786044
The linker can generate split stack prolog when a textflag 7 function
makes an indirect function call. If it happens, badsignal() crashes
trying to dereference g.
Fixes#5337.
R=bradfitz, dave, adg, iant, r, minux.ma
CC=adonovan, golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/9226043
On NetBSD tv_sec is already an int64 so no need for a test.
On OpenBSD, semasleep expects a Unix time as argument,
and 1<<30 is in 2004.
R=golang-dev, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7810044
thread_GOOS.c becomes os_GOOS.c.
signal_GOOS_GOARCH.c becomes os_GOOS_GOARCH.c,
but with non-GOARCH-specific code moved into os_GOOS.c.
The actual arch-specific signal handler moves into signal_GOARCH.c
to avoid per-GOOS duplication.
New files signal_GOOS_GOARCH.h provide macros for
accessing fields of the very system-specific signal info structs.
Lots moving, but nothing changing.
This is a preliminarly cleanup so I can work on the signal
handling code to fix some open issues without having to
make each change 13 times.
Tested on Linux and OS X, 386 and amd64.
Will fix Plan 9, Windows, and ARM after the fact if necessary.
(Plan 9 and Windows should be fine; ARM will probably have some typos.)
Net effect: -1081 lines of code.
R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7565048