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
When I did the original 386 ports on Linux and OS X, I chose to
define GS-relative expressions like 4(GS) as relative to the actual
thread-local storage base, which was usually GS but might not be
(it might be FS, or it might be a different constant offset from GS or FS).
The original scope was limited but since then the rewrites have
gotten out of control. Sometimes GS is rewritten, sometimes FS.
Some ports do other rewrites to enable shared libraries and
other linking. At no point in the code is it clear whether you are
looking at the real GS/FS or some synthesized thing that will be
rewritten. The code manipulating all these is duplicated in many
places.
The first step to fixing issue 7719 is to make the code intelligible
again.
This CL adds an explicit TLS pseudo-register to the 386 and amd64.
As a register, TLS refers to the thread-local storage base, and it
can only be loaded into another register:
MOVQ TLS, AX
An offset from the thread-local storage base is written off(reg)(TLS*1).
Semantically it is off(reg), but the (TLS*1) annotation marks this as
indexing from the loaded TLS base. This emits a relocation so that
if the linker needs to adjust the offset, it can. For example:
MOVQ TLS, AX
MOVQ 8(AX)(TLS*1), CX // load m into CX
On systems that support direct access to the TLS memory, this
pair of instructions can be reduced to a direct TLS memory reference:
MOVQ 8(TLS), CX // load m into CX
The 2-instruction and 1-instruction forms correspond roughly to
ELF TLS initial exec mode and ELF TLS local exec mode, respectively.
Liblink applies this rewrite on systems that support the 1-instruction form.
The decision is made using only the operating system (and probably
the -shared flag, eventually), not the link mode. If some link modes
on a particular operating system require the 2-instruction form,
then all builds for that operating system will use the 2-instruction
form, so that the link mode decision can be delayed to link time.
Obviously it is late to be making changes like this, but I despair
of correcting issue 7719 and issue 7164 without it. To make sure
I am not changing existing behavior, I built a "hello world" program
for every GOOS/GOARCH combination we have and then worked
to make sure that the rewrite generates exactly the same binaries,
byte for byte. There are a handful of TODOs in the code marking
kludges to get the byte-for-byte property, but at least now I can
explain exactly how each binary is handled.
The targets I tested this way are:
darwin-386
darwin-amd64
dragonfly-386
dragonfly-amd64
freebsd-386
freebsd-amd64
freebsd-arm
linux-386
linux-amd64
linux-arm
nacl-386
nacl-amd64p32
netbsd-386
netbsd-amd64
openbsd-386
openbsd-amd64
plan9-386
plan9-amd64
solaris-amd64
windows-386
windows-amd64
There were four exceptions to the byte-for-byte goal:
windows-386 and windows-amd64 have a time stamp
at bytes 137 and 138 of the header.
darwin-386 and plan9-386 have five or six modified
bytes in the middle of the Go symbol table, caused by
editing comments in runtime/sys_{darwin,plan9}_386.s.
Fixes#7164.
LGTM=iant
R=iant, aram, minux.ma, dave
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/87920043
Rfork is not splitting the stack when creating a new thread,
so the parent and child are executing on the same stack.
However, if the parent returns and keeps executing before
the child can read the arguments from the parent stack,
the child will not see the right arguments. The solution
is to load the needed pieces from the parent stack into
register before INT $64.
Thanks to Russ Cox for the explanation.
LGTM=rsc
R=rsc
CC=ality, golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/64140043
Remove NOPROF/DUPOK from everything.
Edits done with a script, except pclinetest.asm which depended
on the DUPOK flag on main().
R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12613044
The call to the C function runtime.findnull() requires
that we provide the argument at 0(SP).
R=rsc, rminnich, ality
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7559047
Change 231af8ac63aa (CL 7314062) made runtime.enteryscall()
set m->mcache = nil, which means that we can no longer use
syscall.errstr in syscall.Syscall and syscall.Syscall6, since it
requires a new buffer to be allocated for holding the error string.
Instead, we use pre-allocated per-M storage to hold error strings
from syscalls made while in entersyscall mode, and call
runtime.findnull to calculate the lengths.
Fixes#4994.
R=rsc, rminnich, ality, dvyukov, rminnich, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7567043
This change also resolves some issues with note handling: we now make
sure that there is enough room at the bottom of every goroutine to
execute the note handler, and the `exitstatus' is no longer a global
entity, which resolves some race conditions.
R=rminnich, npe, rsc, ality
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6569068
With this change the runtime can now read GOMAXPROCS, GOGC, etc.
I'm not quite sure how we missed this.
R=seed, lucio.dere, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6935062
The Go run-time assumes that all SSE floating-point exceptions
are masked so that Go programs are not broken by such invalid
operations. By default, the 64-bit version of the Plan 9 kernel
masks only some SSE floating-point exceptions. Here, we mask
them all on a per-thread basis.
R=rsc, rminnich, minux.ma
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6592056
With the timed semacquire patch
(kernel-tsemacquire) for Plan 9,
we can now properly do a timed
wait for the semaphore, in
semasleep.
R=golang-dev, rsc, rminnich, ality, r
CC=0intro, golang-dev, john, mirtchovski
https://golang.org/cl/6197046
This adds proper note handling for Plan 9,
and fixes the issue of properly killing go procs.
Without this change, the first go proc that dies
(using runtime·exit()) would kill all the running
go procs. Proper signal handling is needed.
R=golang-dev, ality, rminnich, rsc
CC=golang-dev, john, mirtchovski
https://golang.org/cl/5617048
This is like the ill-fated CL 5493063 except that
I have written a shell script (autogen.sh) instead of
thinking I could possibly write a correct Makefile.
R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5496075
That was the last build that was close to working.
I will try that change again next week.
Make is being very subtle today.
At the reverted-to CL, the ARM traceback appears
to be broken. I'll look into that next week too.
R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5492063
Collapse the arch,os-specific directories into the main directory
by renaming xxx/foo.c to foo_xxx.c, and so on.
There are no substantial edits here, except to the Makefile.
The assumption is that the Go tool will #define GOOS_darwin
and GOARCH_amd64 and will make any file named something
like signals_darwin.h available as signals_GOOS.h during the
build. This replaces what used to be done with -I$(GOOS).
There is still work to be done to make runtime build with
standard tools, but this is a big step. After this we will have
to write a script to generate all the generated files so they
can be checked in (instead of generated during the build).
R=r, iant, r, lucio.dere
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5490053
