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Author SHA1 Message Date
Dmitriy Vyukov
d409e44cfb runtime: fix buffer overflow in make(chan)
On 32-bits one can arrange make(chan) params so that
the chan buffer gives you access to whole memory.

LGTM=r
R=golang-codereviews, r
CC=bradfitz, golang-codereviews, iant, khr
https://golang.org/cl/50250045
2014-01-28 22:37:35 +04:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
9cbd2fb1aa runtime: remove locks from netpoll hotpaths
Introduces two-phase goroutine parking mechanism -- prepare to park, commit park.
This mechanism does not require backing mutex to protect wait predicate.
Use it in netpoll. See comment in netpoll.goc for details.
This slightly reduces contention between reader, writer and read/write io notifications;
and just eliminates a bunch of mutex operations from hotpaths, thus making then faster.

benchmark                             old ns/op    new ns/op    delta
BenchmarkTCP4ConcurrentReadWrite           2109         1945   -7.78%
BenchmarkTCP4ConcurrentReadWrite-2         1162         1113   -4.22%
BenchmarkTCP4ConcurrentReadWrite-4          798          755   -5.39%
BenchmarkTCP4ConcurrentReadWrite-8          803          748   -6.85%
BenchmarkTCP4Persistent                    9411         9240   -1.82%
BenchmarkTCP4Persistent-2                  5888         5813   -1.27%
BenchmarkTCP4Persistent-4                  4016         3968   -1.20%
BenchmarkTCP4Persistent-8                  3943         3857   -2.18%

R=golang-codereviews, mikioh.mikioh, gobot, iant, rsc
CC=golang-codereviews, khr
https://golang.org/cl/45700043
2014-01-22 11:27:16 +04:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
cb86d86786 runtime/race: race instrument reads/writes in select cases
The new select tests currently fail (the race is not detected).

R=khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/54220043
2014-01-22 10:36:17 +04:00
Keith Randall
abd588aa83 runtime: fix race detector by recording read by chansend.
R=golang-codereviews, dvyukov, khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/54060043
2014-01-21 11:17:44 +04:00
Keith Randall
6f6a9445c9 runtime, cmd/gc: Get rid of vararg channel calls.
Vararg C calls present a problem for the GC because the
argument types are not derivable from the signature.  Remove
them by passing pointers to channel elements instead of the
channel elements directly.

R=golang-codereviews, gobot, rsc, dvyukov
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/53430043
2014-01-17 14:48:45 -08:00
Keith Randall
873aaa59b7 reflect: Remove imprecise techniques from channel/select operations.
Reflect used to communicate to the runtime using interface words,
which is bad for precise GC because sometimes iwords hold a pointer
and sometimes they don't.  This change rewrites channel and select
operations to always pass pointers to the runtime.

reflect.Select gets somewhat more expensive, as we now do an allocation
per receive case instead of one allocation whose size is the max of
all the received types.  This seems unavoidable to get preciseness
(unless we move the allocation into selectgo, which is a much bigger
change).

Fixes #6490

R=golang-codereviews, dvyukov, rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/52900043
2014-01-16 13:35:29 -08:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
f195ae94ca runtime: remove old preemption checks
runtime.gcwaiting checks are not needed anymore

R=golang-dev, khr
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12934043
2013-08-15 14:32:10 +04:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
c92287686d runtime: improve block profiler support for channels
1. Handle select statements.
2. Handle chan close.
3. Show top frame in debug mode (chansend/chanrecv/selectgo).
Fixes #6049.

R=golang-dev, daniel.morsing, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12694050
2013-08-14 13:56:01 +04:00
Keith Randall
e838334beb runtime: change textflags from numbers to symbols
R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12798043
2013-08-12 13:47:18 -07:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
f8a850b250 runtime: refactor mallocgc
Make it accept type, combine flags.
Several reasons for the change:
1. mallocgc and settype must be atomic wrt GC
2. settype is called from only one place now
3. it will help performance (eventually settype
functionality must be combined with markallocated)
4. flags are easier to read now (no mallocgc(sz, 0, 1, 0) anymore)

R=golang-dev, iant, nightlyone, rsc, dave, khr, bradfitz, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/10136043
2013-07-26 21:17:24 +04:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
10d1e55103 runtime: allow stack split in body of closechan
This gives more space during the call to runtime.lock.

R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/11679043
2013-07-22 20:47:39 +04:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
62747bde6c runtime: catch races between channel close and channel send in select
R=golang-dev, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/10137043
2013-06-10 22:58:04 +04:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
8bf57c3dcb runtime: remove unused field from Hchan
Remove alignment logic as well, it's not respected by chanbuf() anyway.

R=golang-dev, dave, minux.ma, r, iant, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/9678046
2013-06-06 23:06:12 +04:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
e69012ce2a runtime: use enums instead static vars for debugging
Compiler can detect and delete dead code with enums,
but can not with static vars.

R=golang-dev, dave, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/9377043
2013-05-15 11:10:26 +04:00
Ian Lance Taylor
26d95d8027 runtime: fix crash in select
runtime.park() can access freed select descriptor
due to a racing free in another thread.
See the comment for details.

Slightly modified version of dvyukov's CL 9259045.

No test yet.  Before this CL, the test described in issue 5422
would fail about every 40 times for me.  With this CL, I ran
the test 5900 times with no failures.

Fixes #5422.

R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/9311043
2013-05-08 14:58:34 -07:00
Shenghou Ma
7bec1a6033 all: fix typos
R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/8896045
2013-04-24 04:46:14 +08:00
Jan Ziak
a656f82071 runtime: precise garbage collection of channels
This changeset adds a mostly-precise garbage collection of channels.
The garbage collection support code in the linker isn't recognizing
channel types yet.

Fixes issue http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14712586/memory-consumption-skyrocket

R=dvyukov, rsc, bradfitz
CC=dave, golang-dev, minux.ma, remyoudompheng
https://golang.org/cl/7307086
2013-02-25 15:58:23 -05:00
Russ Cox
cb32ea9c19 runtime: replace bubble sort with heap sort in select
R=golang-dev, agl
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7304106
2013-02-19 10:15:13 -05:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
0ce96f9ef4 runtime: better stack traces in race reports
When a race happens inside of runtime (chan, slice, etc),
currently reports contain only user file:line.
If the line contains a complex expression,
it's difficult to figure out where the race exactly.
This change adds one more top frame with exact
runtime function (e.g. runtime.chansend, runtime.mapaccess).

R=golang-dev
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6851125
2012-11-30 10:29:41 +04:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
2f6cbc74f1 race: runtime changes
This is a part of a bigger change that adds data race detection feature:
https://golang.org/cl/6456044

R=rsc
CC=gobot, golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6535050
2012-10-07 22:05:32 +04:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
4cc7bf326a pprof: add goroutine blocking profiling
The profiler collects goroutine blocking information similar to Google Perf Tools.
You may see an example of the profile (converted to svg) attached to
http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=3946
The public API changes are:
+pkg runtime, func BlockProfile([]BlockProfileRecord) (int, bool)
+pkg runtime, func SetBlockProfileRate(int)
+pkg runtime, method (*BlockProfileRecord) Stack() []uintptr
+pkg runtime, type BlockProfileRecord struct
+pkg runtime, type BlockProfileRecord struct, Count int64
+pkg runtime, type BlockProfileRecord struct, Cycles int64
+pkg runtime, type BlockProfileRecord struct, embedded StackRecord

R=rsc, dave, minux.ma, r
CC=gobot, golang-dev, r, remyoudompheng
https://golang.org/cl/6443115
2012-10-06 12:56:04 +04:00
Russ Cox
0b08c9483f runtime: prepare for 64-bit ints
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
2012-09-24 14:58:34 -04:00
Russ Cox
370ae05545 reflect: add Select
R=r, iant, rogpeppe, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6498078
2012-09-18 14:22:41 -04:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
f20fd87384 runtime: refactor goroutine blocking
The change is a preparation for the new scheduler.
It introduces runtime.park() function,
that will atomically unlock the mutex and park the goroutine.
It will allow to remove the racy readyonstop flag
that is difficult to implement w/o the global scheduler mutex.

R=rsc, remyoudompheng, dave
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6501077
2012-09-18 21:15:46 +04:00
Russ Cox
6dbaa206fb runtime: replace runtime·rnd function with ROUND macro
It's sad to introduce a new macro, but rnd shows up consistently
in profiles, and the function call overwhelms the two arithmetic
instructions it performs.

R=r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6260051
2012-05-29 14:02:29 -04:00
Ian Lance Taylor
53e139c7a0 runtime: put lockorder before pollorder in Select memory block.
Otherwise lockorder may be misaligned, since lockorder is a
list of pointers and pollorder is a list of uint16.
Discovered running gccgo (which uses a modified copy of this
code) on SPARC.

R=golang-dev, gri
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5655054
2012-02-10 21:24:14 -08:00
Russ Cox
b9ccd077dc runtime: prep for type-specific algorithms
Equality on structs will require arbitrary code for type equality,
so change algorithm in type data from uint8 to table pointer.
In the process, trim top-level map structure from
104/80 bytes (64-bit/32-bit) to 24/12.

Equality on structs will require being able to call code generated
by the Go compiler, and C code has no way to access Go return
values, so change the hash and equal algorithm functions to take
a pointer to a result instead of returning the result.

R=ken
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5453043
2011-12-05 09:40:22 -05:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
ee24bfc058 runtime: unify mutex code across OSes
The change introduces 2 generic mutex implementations
(futex- and semaphore-based). Each OS chooses a suitable mutex
implementation and implements few callbacks (e.g. futex wait/wake).
The CL reduces code duplication, extends some optimizations available
only on Linux/Windows to other OSes and provides ground
for futher optimizations. Chan finalizers are finally eliminated.

(Linux/amd64, 8 HT cores)
benchmark                      old      new
BenchmarkChanContended         83.6     77.8 ns/op
BenchmarkChanContended-2       341      328 ns/op
BenchmarkChanContended-4       382      383 ns/op
BenchmarkChanContended-8       390      374 ns/op
BenchmarkChanContended-16      313      291 ns/op

(Darwin/amd64, 2 cores)
benchmark                      old      new
BenchmarkChanContended         159      172 ns/op
BenchmarkChanContended-2       6735     263 ns/op
BenchmarkChanContended-4       10384    255 ns/op
BenchmarkChanCreation          1174     407 ns/op
BenchmarkChanCreation-2        4007     254 ns/op
BenchmarkChanCreation-4        4029     246 ns/op

R=rsc, jsing, hectorchu
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5140043
2011-11-02 16:42:01 +03:00
Russ Cox
f58ed4e641 gc: disallow close on receive-only channels
Fixes #2353.
Fixes #2246.

R=golang-dev, r, gri
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5282042
2011-10-13 16:58:04 -04:00
Ian Lance Taylor
45301ba8c0 runtime: check for nil value pointer in select syncsend case
Fixes #2309.

R=rsc, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5128053
2011-09-26 20:46:37 -07:00
Russ Cox
33e9d24ad9 runtime: fix void warnings
Add -V flag to 6c command line to keep them fixed.

R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4930046
2011-08-23 13:13:27 -04:00
Russ Cox
03e9ea5b74 runtime: simplify stack traces
Make the stack traces more readable for new
Go programmers while preserving their utility for old hands.

- Change status number [4] to string.
- Elide frames in runtime package (internal details).
- Swap file:line and arguments.
- Drop 'created by' for main goroutine.
- Show goroutines in order of allocation:
  implies main goroutine first if nothing else.

There is no option to get the extra frames back.
Uncomment 'return 1' at the bottom of symtab.c.

$ 6.out
throw: all goroutines are asleep - deadlock!

goroutine 1 [chan send]:
main.main()
       /Users/rsc/g/go/src/pkg/runtime/x.go:22 +0x8a

goroutine 2 [select (no cases)]:
main.sel()
       /Users/rsc/g/go/src/pkg/runtime/x.go:11 +0x18
created by main.main
       /Users/rsc/g/go/src/pkg/runtime/x.go:19 +0x23

goroutine 3 [chan receive]:
main.recv(0xf8400010a0, 0x0)
       /Users/rsc/g/go/src/pkg/runtime/x.go:15 +0x2e
created by main.main
       /Users/rsc/g/go/src/pkg/runtime/x.go:20 +0x50

goroutine 4 [chan receive (nil chan)]:
main.recv(0x0, 0x0)
       /Users/rsc/g/go/src/pkg/runtime/x.go:15 +0x2e
created by main.main
       /Users/rsc/g/go/src/pkg/runtime/x.go:21 +0x66
$

$ 6.out index
panic: runtime error: index out of range

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
        /Users/rsc/g/go/src/pkg/runtime/x.go:25 +0xb9
$

$ 6.out nil
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal 0xb code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x22ca]

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
        /Users/rsc/g/go/src/pkg/runtime/x.go:28 +0x211
$

$ 6.out panic
panic: panic

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
        /Users/rsc/g/go/src/pkg/runtime/x.go:30 +0x101
$

R=golang-dev, qyzhai, n13m3y3r, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4907048
2011-08-22 23:26:39 -04:00
Russ Cox
3770b0e60c gc: implement nil chan support
The spec has defined nil chans this way for months.
I'm behind.

R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4897050
2011-08-17 15:54:17 -04:00
Gustavo Niemeyer
175849295c runtime: fix pseudo-randomness on some selects
Fixes #2152.

R=golang-dev, dvyukov
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4888044
2011-08-15 03:51:51 -03:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
d770aadee5 runtime: faster chan creation on Linux/FreeBSD/Plan9
The change removes chan finalizer (Lock destructor)
if it is not required on the platform.

benchmark                    old ns/op    new ns/op    delta
BenchmarkChanCreation          1132.00       381.00  -66.34%
BenchmarkChanCreation-2        1215.00       243.00  -80.00%
BenchmarkChanCreation-4        1084.00       186.00  -82.84%
BenchmarkChanCreation-8        1415.00       154.00  -89.12%
BenchmarkChanCreation-16       1386.00       144.00  -89.61%
(on 2 x Intel Xeon E5620, 8 HT cores, 2.4 GHz, Linux)

R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4841041
2011-08-04 08:31:03 -04:00
Ian Lance Taylor
3a07d516b4 runtime: remove rnd calls that pass a second argument of 1
When rnd is called with a second argument of 1, it simply
returns the first argument anyway.

R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4820045
2011-07-24 22:03:17 -07:00
Russ Cox
22853098a9 gc: select functions are no longer special
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4794049
2011-07-21 14:10:39 -04:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
6b2ec06587 runtime: faster select
Make selectsend() accept pointer to the element,
it makes it possible to make Scase fixed-size
and allocate/free Select, all Scase's and all SudoG at once.
As a consequence SudoG freelist die out.

benchmark                       old,ns/op  new,ns/op
BenchmarkSelectUncontended	     1080        558
BenchmarkSelectUncontended-2	      675        264
BenchmarkSelectUncontended-4	      459        205
BenchmarkSelectContended	     1086        560
BenchmarkSelectContended-2	     1775       1672
BenchmarkSelectContended-4	     2668       2149
(on Intel Q6600, 4 cores, 2.4GHz)

benchmark                       old ns/op    new ns/op    delta
BenchmarkSelectUncontended         517.00       326.00  -36.94%
BenchmarkSelectUncontended-2       281.00       166.00  -40.93%
BenchmarkSelectUncontended-4       250.00        83.10  -66.76%
BenchmarkSelectUncontended-8       107.00        47.40  -55.70%
BenchmarkSelectUncontended-16       67.80        41.30  -39.09%
BenchmarkSelectContended           513.00       325.00  -36.65%
BenchmarkSelectContended-2         699.00       628.00  -10.16%
BenchmarkSelectContended-4        1085.00      1092.00   +0.65%
BenchmarkSelectContended-8        3253.00      2477.00  -23.85%
BenchmarkSelectContended-16       5313.00      5116.00   -3.71%
(on Intel E5620, 8 HT cores, 2.4 GHz)

R=rsc, ken
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4811041
2011-07-21 13:57:13 -04:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
102b5b34a7 runtime: apply minor tweaks to channels
Remove complicated PRNG algorithm
(argument is limited by uint16 and can't be <= 1).
Do not require chansend/chanrecv selgen to be bumped with CAS.

R=rsc, ken
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4816041
2011-07-20 14:28:55 -04:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
90f3cb13fb runtime: improve performance of sync channels
1. SudoG always contains a pointer to the element
(thus no variable size, and less copying).
2. chansend/chanrecv allocate SudoG on the stack.
3. Copying of elements and gorotuine notifications
are moved out of critical sections.

benchmark                        old ns/op    new ns/op    delta
BenchmarkSelectUncontended          515.00       514.00   -0.19%
BenchmarkSelectUncontended-2        291.00       281.00   -3.44%
BenchmarkSelectUncontended-4        213.00       189.00  -11.27%
BenchmarkSelectUncontended-8         78.30        79.00   +0.89%
BenchmarkSelectContended            518.00       514.00   -0.77%
BenchmarkSelectContended-2          655.00       631.00   -3.66%
BenchmarkSelectContended-4         1026.00      1051.00   +2.44%
BenchmarkSelectContended-8         2026.00      2128.00   +5.03%
BenchmarkSelectNonblock             175.00       173.00   -1.14%
BenchmarkSelectNonblock-2            85.10        87.70   +3.06%
BenchmarkSelectNonblock-4            60.10        43.30  -27.95%
BenchmarkSelectNonblock-8            37.60        25.50  -32.18%
BenchmarkChanUncontended            109.00       114.00   +4.59%
BenchmarkChanUncontended-2           54.60        57.20   +4.76%
BenchmarkChanUncontended-4           27.40        28.70   +4.74%
BenchmarkChanUncontended-8           14.60        15.10   +3.42%
BenchmarkChanContended              108.00       114.00   +5.56%
BenchmarkChanContended-2            621.00       617.00   -0.64%
BenchmarkChanContended-4            759.00       677.00  -10.80%
BenchmarkChanContended-8           1635.00      1517.00   -7.22%
BenchmarkChanSync                   299.00       256.00  -14.38%
BenchmarkChanSync-2                5055.00      4624.00   -8.53%
BenchmarkChanSync-4                4998.00      4680.00   -6.36%
BenchmarkChanSync-8                5019.00      4760.00   -5.16%
BenchmarkChanProdCons0              316.00       274.00  -13.29%
BenchmarkChanProdCons0-2           1280.00       617.00  -51.80%
BenchmarkChanProdCons0-4           2433.00      1332.00  -45.25%
BenchmarkChanProdCons0-8           3651.00      1934.00  -47.03%
BenchmarkChanProdCons10             153.00       152.00   -0.65%
BenchmarkChanProdCons10-2           626.00       581.00   -7.19%
BenchmarkChanProdCons10-4          1440.00      1323.00   -8.12%
BenchmarkChanProdCons10-8          2036.00      2017.00   -0.93%

R=rsc, ken
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4790042
2011-07-20 11:51:25 -04:00
Hector Chu
47e6042f73 runtime: fix select pass 3
Fixes #2075

R=rsc, ken, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4748045
2011-07-18 16:15:01 -04:00
Nigel Tao
95323c59ea runtime: fix panic for make(chan [0]byte).
I suspect that this was introduced by
http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=6e4ee32fffd1

R=r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4764045
2011-07-18 15:54:11 +10:00
Dmitriy Vyukov
909f31872a runtime: eliminate false sharing on random number generators
Use machine-local random number generator instead of
racy global ones.

R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4674049
2011-07-12 01:23:58 -04:00
Russ Cox
40fccbce6b reflect: more efficient; cannot Set result of NewValue anymore
* Reduces malloc counts during gob encoder/decoder test from 6/6 to 3/5.

The current reflect uses Set to mean two subtly different things.

(1) If you have a reflect.Value v, it might just represent
itself (as in v = reflect.NewValue(42)), in which case calling
v.Set only changed v, not any other data in the program.

(2) If you have a reflect Value v derived from a pointer
or a slice (as in x := []int{42}; v = reflect.NewValue(x).Index(0)),
v represents the value held there.  Changing x[0] affects the
value returned by v.Int(), and calling v.Set affects x[0].

This was not really by design; it just happened that way.

The motivation for the new reflect implementation was
to remove mallocs.  The use case (1) has an implicit malloc
inside it.  If you can do:

       v := reflect.NewValue(0)
       v.Set(42)
       i := v.Int()  // i = 42

then that implies that v is referring to some underlying
chunk of memory in order to remember the 42; that is,
NewValue must have allocated some memory.

Almost all the time you are using reflect the goal is to
inspect or to change other data, not to manipulate data
stored solely inside a reflect.Value.

This CL removes use case (1), so that an assignable
reflect.Value must always refer to some other piece of data
in the program.  Put another way, removing this case would
make

       v := reflect.NewValue(0)
       v.Set(42)

as illegal as

       0 = 42.

It would also make this illegal:

       x := 0
       v := reflect.NewValue(x)
       v.Set(42)

for the same reason.  (Note that right now, v.Set(42) "succeeds"
but does not change the value of x.)

If you really wanted to make v refer to x, you'd start with &x
and dereference it:

       x := 0
       v := reflect.NewValue(&x).Elem()  // v = *&x
       v.Set(42)

It's pretty rare, except in tests, to want to use NewValue and then
call Set to change the Value itself instead of some other piece of
data in the program.  I haven't seen it happen once yet while
making the tree build with this change.

For the same reasons, reflect.Zero (formerly reflect.MakeZero)
would also return an unassignable, unaddressable value.
This invalidates the (awkward) idiom:

       pv := ... some Ptr Value we have ...
       v := reflect.Zero(pv.Type().Elem())
       pv.PointTo(v)

which, when the API changed, turned into:

       pv := ... some Ptr Value we have ...
       v := reflect.Zero(pv.Type().Elem())
       pv.Set(v.Addr())

In both, it is far from clear what the code is trying to do.  Now that
it is possible, this CL adds reflect.New(Type) Value that does the
obvious thing (same as Go's new), so this code would be replaced by:

       pv := ... some Ptr Value we have ...
       pv.Set(reflect.New(pv.Type().Elem()))

The changes just described can be confusing to think about,
but I believe it is because the old API was confusing - it was
conflating two different kinds of Values - and that the new API
by itself is pretty simple: you can only Set (or call Addr on)
a Value if it actually addresses some real piece of data; that is,
only if it is the result of dereferencing a Ptr or indexing a Slice.

If you really want the old behavior, you'd get it by translating:

       v := reflect.NewValue(x)

into

       v := reflect.New(reflect.Typeof(x)).Elem()
       v.Set(reflect.NewValue(x))

Gofix will not be able to help with this, because whether
and how to change the code depends on whether the original
code meant use (1) or use (2), so the developer has to read
and think about the code.

You can see the effect on packages in the tree in
https://golang.org/cl/4423043/.

R=r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4435042
2011-04-18 14:35:33 -04:00
Luuk van Dijk
dd93df35b9 runtime: fix gdb support for channels.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4418043
2011-04-14 15:32:20 +02:00
Dave Cheney
9c3ecb3617 runtime: fix set and not used in chan.c
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4416042
2011-04-14 08:16:40 -04:00
Russ Cox
507df959e4 runtime: drop chan circular linked list in favor of circular buffer
The list elements are already being allocated out of a
single memory buffer.  We can drop the Link* pointer
following and the memory it requires, replacing it with
index operations.

The change also keeps a channel from containing a pointer
back into its own allocation block, which would create a
cycle.  Blocks involved in cycles are not guaranteed to be
finalized properly, and channels depend on finalizers to
free OS-level locks on some systems.  The self-reference
was keeping channels from being garbage collected.

runtime-gdb.py will need to be updated in order to dump
the content of buffered channels with the new data structure.

Fixes #1676.

R=ken2, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4411045
2011-04-13 23:42:06 -04:00
Ian Lance Taylor
7c616b3809 runtime: always set *received in chanrecv.
Also fix comment.

The only caller of chanrecv initializes the value to false, so
this patch makes no difference at present.  But it seems like
the right thing to do.

R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4312053
2011-03-25 10:36:22 -07:00
Russ Cox
ccdbb8a6c2 runtime: more stack split fixes
Found by stkcheck after 6l, 8l bug fixes Luuk is about to submit.

R=lvd
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4306047
2011-03-23 11:28:24 -04:00
Ken Thompson
a73817716a chan: allocate a new chan with one
malloc rather than nelements + 1.

R=rob
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4291064
2011-03-22 18:41:17 -07:00