syscall.Exit and runtime.exit do the same thing.
Why duplicate code?
CL 45115 fixed bug where windows runtime.exit was correct,
but syscall.Exit was broken. So CL 45115 fixed windows
syscall.Exit by calling runtime.exit.
Austin suggested that all OSes should do the same, and
this CL implements his idea.
While making changes, I discovered that nacl syscall.Exit
returned error
func Exit(code int) (err error)
and I changed it into
func Exit(code int)
like all other OSes. I assumed it was a mistake and it
is OK to do because cmd/api does not complain about it.
Also I changed plan9 runtime.exit to accept int32 just
like all other OSes do.
Change-Id: I12f6022ad81406566cf9befcc6edc382eebd413b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/66170
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com>
The comments in this package state that users should be
migrating code that uses the syscall package to its
corresponding package in x/sys. However, the syscall.Signal
and syscall.Errno types and the syscall.SysProcAttr struct is
not defined in the x/sys package and still need to be referenced
from within syscall. This adds a change to the comments to
clarify that the migration will need to continue to use some
references to syscall for now.
Fixes#19560
Change-Id: I8abb96b93bea90070ce461da16dc7bcf7b4b29c1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/39450
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Delete use stub from asm.s, leaving only a dummy file.
Deleting the file causes Windows build to fail.
Fixes#16607
Change-Id: Ic5a55e042e588f1e1bc6605a3d309d1eabdeb288
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/36716
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
syscall.Getpagesize currently returns hard-coded page sizes on all
architectures (some of which are probably always wrong, and some of
which are definitely not always right). The runtime now has this
information, queried from the OS during runtime init, so make
syscall.Getpagesize return the page size that the runtime knows.
Updates #10180.
Change-Id: I4daa6fbc61a2193eb8fa9e7878960971205ac346
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/25051
Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
The tree's pretty inconsistent about single space vs double space
after a period in documentation. Make it consistently a single space,
per earlier decisions. This means contributors won't be confused by
misleading precedence.
This CL doesn't use go/doc to parse. It only addresses // comments.
It was generated with:
$ perl -i -npe 's,^(\s*// .+[a-z]\.) +([A-Z]),$1 $2,' $(git grep -l -E '^\s*//(.+\.) +([A-Z])')
$ go test go/doc -update
Change-Id: Iccdb99c37c797ef1f804a94b22ba5ee4b500c4f7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/20022
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Day <djd@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Consider this code:
func f(*int)
func g() {
p := new(int)
f(p)
}
where f is an assembly function.
In general liveness analysis assumes that during the call to f, p is dead
in this frame. If f has retained p, p will be found alive in f's frame and keep
the new(int) from being garbage collected. This is all correct and works.
We use the Go func declaration for f to give the assembly function
liveness information (the arguments are assumed live for the entire call).
Now consider this code:
func h1() {
p := new(int)
syscall.Syscall(1, 2, 3, uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(p)))
}
Here syscall.Syscall is taking the place of f, but because its arguments
are uintptr, the liveness analysis and the garbage collector ignore them.
Since p is no longer live in h once the call starts, if the garbage collector
scans the stack while the system call is blocked, it will find no reference
to the new(int) and reclaim it. If the kernel is going to write to *p once
the call finishes, reclaiming the memory is a mistake.
We can't change the arguments or the liveness information for
syscall.Syscall itself, both for compatibility and because sometimes the
arguments really are integers, and the garbage collector will get quite upset
if it finds an integer where it expects a pointer. The problem is that
these arguments are fundamentally untyped.
The solution we have taken in the syscall package's wrappers in past
releases is to insert a call to a dummy function named "use", to make
it look like the argument is live during the call to syscall.Syscall:
func h2() {
p := new(int)
syscall.Syscall(1, 2, 3, uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(p)))
use(unsafe.Pointer(p))
}
Keeping p alive during the call means that if the garbage collector
scans the stack during the system call now, it will find the reference to p.
Unfortunately, this approach is not available to users outside syscall,
because 'use' is unexported, and people also have to realize they need
to use it and do so. There is much existing code using syscall.Syscall
without a 'use'-like function. That code will fail very occasionally in
mysterious ways (see #13372).
This CL fixes all that existing code by making the compiler do the right
thing automatically, without any code modifications. That is, it takes h1
above, which is incorrect code today, and makes it correct code.
Specifically, if the compiler sees a foreign func definition (one
without a body) that has uintptr arguments, it marks those arguments
as "unsafe uintptrs". If it later sees the function being called
with uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(x)) as an argument, it arranges to mark x
as having escaped, and it makes sure to hold x in a live temporary
variable until the call returns, so that the garbage collector cannot
reclaim whatever heap memory x points to.
For now I am leaving the explicit calls to use in package syscall,
but they can be removed early in a future cycle (likely Go 1.7).
The rule has no effect on escape analysis, only on liveness analysis.
Fixes#13372.
Change-Id: I2addb83f70d08db08c64d394f9d06ff0a063c500
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/18584
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Given:
p := alloc()
fn_taking_ptr(p)
p is NOT recorded as live at the call to fn_taking_ptr:
it's not needed by the code following the call.
p was passed to fn_taking_ptr, and fn_taking_ptr must keep
it alive as long as it needs it.
In practice, fn_taking_ptr will keep its own arguments live
for as long as the function is executing.
But if instead you have:
p := alloc()
i := uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(p))
fn_taking_int(i)
p is STILL NOT recorded as live at the call to fn_taking_int:
it's not needed by the code following the call.
fn_taking_int is responsible for keeping its own arguments
live, but fn_taking_int is written to take an integer, so even
though fn_taking_int does keep its argument live, that argument
does not keep the allocated memory live, because the garbage
collector does not dereference integers.
The shorter form:
p := alloc()
fn_taking_int(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(p)))
and the even shorter form:
fn_taking_int(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(alloc())))
are both the same as the 3-line form above.
syscall.Syscall is like fn_taking_int: it is written to take a list
of integers, and yet those integers are sometimes pointers.
If there is no other copy of those pointers being kept live,
the memory they point at may be garbage collected during
the call to syscall.Syscall.
This is happening on Solaris: for whatever reason, the timing
is such that the garbage collector manages to free the string
argument to the open(2) system call before the system call
has been invoked.
Change the system call wrappers to insert explicit references
that will keep the allocations alive in the original frame
(and therefore preserve the memory) until after syscall.Syscall
has returned.
Should fix Solaris flakiness.
This is not a problem for cgo, because cgo wrappers have
correctly typed arguments.
LGTM=iant, khr, aram, rlh
R=iant, khr, bradfitz, aram, rlh
CC=dvyukov, golang-codereviews, r
https://golang.org/cl/139360044
enforce rule: all kernel data structures and constants
go in syscall module.
move things that should be in syscall out of net.
make net a single package.
R=r
OCL=15985
CL=15994
tweak os to adjust
move StringToBytes into syscall, at least for now
this program still works:
package main
import os "os"
func main() {
os.Stdout.WriteString("hello, world\n");
a, b := os.NewFD(77).WriteString("no way");
os.Stdout.WriteString(b.String() + "\n");
}
R=rsc
DELTA=263 (59 added, 176 deleted, 28 changed)
OCL=15153
CL=15153
