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* Move `/includes` to `/rts/include`, sort per package betterJohn Ericson2021-08-091-488/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to make the packages in this repo "reinstallable", we need to associate source code with a specific packages. Having a top level `/includes` dir that mixes concerns (which packages' includes?) gets in the way of this. To start, I have moved everything to `rts/`, which is mostly correct. There are a few things however that really don't belong in the rts (like the generated constants haskell type, `CodeGen.Platform.h`). Those needed to be manually adjusted. Things of note: - No symlinking for sake of windows, so we hard-link at configure time. - `CodeGen.Platform.h` no longer as `.hs` extension (in addition to being moved to `compiler/`) so as not to confuse anyone, since it is next to Haskell files. - Blanket `-Iincludes` is gone in both build systems, include paths now more strictly respect per-package dependencies. - `deriveConstants` has been taught to not require a `--target-os` flag when generating the platform-agnostic Haskell type. Make takes advantage of this, but Hadrian has yet to.
* rts: TraverseHeap: Simplify profiling headerDaniel Gröber2021-02-171-14/+5
| | | | | Having a union in the closure profiling header really just complicates things so get back to basics, we just have a single StgWord there for now.
* Add code comments for StgInfoTable and StgStack structsDavid Eichmann2020-11-101-0/+5
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* rts/stm: Strengthen orderings to SEQ_CST instead of volatilewip/tsan/stmBen Gamari2020-10-241-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Previously the `current_value`, `first_watch_queue_entry`, and `num_updates` fields of `StgTVar` were marked as `volatile` in an attempt to provide strong ordering. Of course, this isn't sufficient. We now use proper atomic operations. In most of these cases I strengthen the ordering all the way to SEQ_CST although it's possible that some could be weakened with some thought.
* Fix CNF handling in compacting GCÖmer Sinan Ağacan2020-04-091-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes #17937 Previously compacting GC simply ignored CNFs. This is mostly fine as most (see "What about small compacts?" below) CNF objects don't have outgoing pointers, and are "large" (allocated in large blocks) and large objects are not moved or compacted. However if we do GC *during* sharing-preserving compaction then the CNF will have a hash table mapping objects that have been moved to the CNF to their location in the CNF, to be able to preserve sharing. This case is handled in the copying collector, in `scavenge_compact`, where we evacuate hash table entries and then rehash the table. Compacting GC ignored this case. We now visit CNFs in all generations when threading pointers to the compacted heap and thread hash table keys. A visited CNF is added to the list `nfdata_chain`. After compaction is done, we re-visit the CNFs in that list and rehash the tables. The overhead is minimal: the list is static in `Compact.c`, and link field is added to `StgCompactNFData` closure. Programs that don't use CNFs should not be affected. To test this CNF tests are now also run in a new way 'compacting_gc', which just passes `-c` to the RTS, enabling compacting GC for the oldest generation. Before this patch the result would be: Unexpected failures: compact_gc.run compact_gc [bad exit code (139)] (compacting_gc) compact_huge_array.run compact_huge_array [bad exit code (1)] (compacting_gc) With this patch all tests pass. I can also pass `-c -DS` without any failures. What about small compacts? Small CNFs are still not handled by the compacting GC. However so far I'm unable to write a test that triggers a runtime panic ("update_fwd: unknown/strange object") by allocating a small CNF in a compated heap. It's possible that I'm missing something and it's not possible to have a small CNF. 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I think these tests should not be perf tests, but for now I'll bump the numbers.
* Document and refactor a few things around bitmap scavengingÖmer Sinan Ağacan2020-02-291-0/+6
| | | | | | | | - Added a few comments in StgPAP - Added a few comments and assertions in scavenge_small_bitmap and walk_large_bitmap - Did tiny refactor in GHC.Data.Bitmap: added some comments, deleted dead code, used PlatformWordSize type.
* Fix unregisterised buildwip/gc/nonmoving-concurrentBen Gamari2019-10-221-1/+1
| | | | | | This required some fiddling around with the location of forward declarations since the C sources generated by GHC's C backend only includes Stg.h.
* rts: Generalise profiling heap traversal flip bit handlingDaniel Gröber2019-09-221-1/+14
| | | | | | | This commit starts renaming some flip bit related functions for the generalised heap traversal code and adds provitions for sharing the per-closure profiling header field currently used exclusively for retainer profiling with other heap traversal profiling modes.
* Documentation for StgRetFunÖmer Sinan Ağacan2019-01-161-0/+3
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* Fix a MSG_BLACKHOLE sanity check, add some commentsÖmer Sinan Ağacan2018-09-241-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | Reviewers: simonmar, bgamari, erikd Reviewed By: simonmar Subscribers: rwbarton, carter GHC Trac Issues: #15508 Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D5178
* rts: Rip out support for STM invariantsBen Gamari2018-06-021-17/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This feature has some very serious correctness issues (#14310), introduces a great deal of complexity, and hasn't seen wide usage. Consequently we are removing it, as proposed in Proposal #77 [1]. This is heavily based on a patch from fryguybob. Updates stm submodule. [1] https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/77 Test Plan: Validate Reviewers: erikd, simonmar, hvr Reviewed By: simonmar Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter GHC Trac Issues: #14310 Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4760
* rts: Comment wibblesBen Gamari2018-04-161-1/+1
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* Update a few comments regarding CAF listsÖmer Sinan Ağacan2018-03-301-1/+3
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* Prefer #if defined to #ifdefBen Gamari2017-04-281-2/+2
| | | | Our new CPP linter enforces this.
* cpp: Use #pragma once instead of #ifndef guardsBen Gamari2017-04-231-5/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This both says what we mean and silences a bunch of spurious CPP linting warnings. This pragma is supported by all CPP implementations which we support. Reviewers: austin, erikd, simonmar, hvr Reviewed By: simonmar Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3482
* Overhaul of Compact Regions (#12455)Simon Marlow2016-12-071-37/+49
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Summary: This commit makes various improvements and addresses some issues with Compact Regions (aka Compact Normal Forms). This was the most important thing I wanted to fix. Compaction previously prevented GC from running until it was complete, which would be a problem in a multicore setting. Now, we compact using a hand-written Cmm routine that can be interrupted at any point. When a GC is triggered during a sharing-enabled compaction, the GC has to traverse and update the hash table, so this hash table is now stored in the StgCompactNFData object. Previously, compaction consisted of a deepseq using the NFData class, followed by a traversal in C code to copy the data. This is now done in a single pass with hand-written Cmm (see rts/Compact.cmm). We no longer use the NFData instances, instead the Cmm routine evaluates components directly as it compacts. The new compaction is about 50% faster than the old one with no sharing, and a little faster on average with sharing (the cost of the hash table dominates when we're doing sharing). Static objects that don't (transitively) refer to any CAFs don't need to be copied into the compact region. In particular this means we often avoid copying Char values and small Int values, because these are static closures in the runtime. Each Compact# object can support a single compactAdd# operation at any given time, so the Data.Compact library now enforces mutual exclusion using an MVar stored in the Compact object. We now get exceptions rather than killing everything with a barf() when we encounter an object that cannot be compacted (a function, or a mutable object). We now also detect pinned objects, which can't be compacted either. The Data.Compact API has been refactored and cleaned up. A new compactSize operation returns the size (in bytes) of the compact object. Most of the documentation is in the Haddock docs for the compact library, which I've expanded and improved here. Various comments in the code have been improved, especially the main Note [Compact Normal Forms] in rts/sm/CNF.c. I've added a few tests, and expanded a few of the tests that were there. We now also run the tests with GHCi, and in a new test way that enables sanity checking (+RTS -DS). There's a benchmark in libraries/compact/tests/compact_bench.hs for measuring compaction speed and comparing sharing vs. no sharing. The field totalDataW in StgCompactNFData was unnecessary. Test Plan: * new unit tests * validate * tested manually that we can compact Data.Aeson data Reviewers: gcampax, bgamari, ezyang, austin, niteria, hvr, erikd Subscribers: thomie, simonpj Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D2751 GHC Trac Issues: #12455
* Compact RegionsGiovanni Campagna2016-07-201-0/+46
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This brings in initial support for compact regions, as described in the ICFP 2015 paper "Efficient Communication and Collection with Compact Normal Forms" (Edward Z. Yang et.al.) and implemented by Giovanni Campagna. Some things may change before the 8.2 release, but I (Simon M.) wanted to get the main patch committed so that we can iterate. What documentation there is is in the Data.Compact module in the new compact package. We'll need to extend and polish the documentation before the release. Test Plan: validate (new test cases included) Reviewers: ezyang, simonmar, hvr, bgamari, austin Subscribers: vikraman, Yuras, RyanGlScott, qnikst, mboes, facundominguez, rrnewton, thomie, erikd Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1264 GHC Trac Issues: #11493
* Remove obsolete/redundant FLEXIBLE_ARRAY macroHerbert Valerio Riedel2016-04-181-10/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This macro is doubly redundant, first off all, ancient GCCs prior to version 3.0 are not supported anymore, but more importantly, we require a ISO C99 compliant compiler, so we can use the proper ISO C syntax without worrying about compatibility. Reviewers: austin, bgamari Reviewed By: bgamari Subscribers: carter, thomie Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D2121
* s/StgArrWords/StgArrBytes/Siddhanathan Shanmugam2015-09-111-10/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Rename StgArrWords to StgArrBytes (see Trac #8552) Reviewed By: austin Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1233 GHC Trac Issues: #8552
* [ci skip] includes: detabify/dewhitespace rts/storage/Closures.hAustin Seipp2014-08-201-17/+17
| | | | Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>
* Add SmallArray# and SmallMutableArray# typesJohan Tibell2014-03-291-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These array types are smaller than Array# and MutableArray# and are faster when the array size is small, as they don't have the overhead of a card table. Having no card table reduces the closure size with 2 words in the typical small array case and leads to less work when updating or GC:ing the array. Reduces both the runtime and memory allocation by 8.8% on my insert benchmark for the HashMap type in the unordered-containers package, which makes use of lots of small arrays. With tuned GC settings (i.e. `+RTS -A6M`) the runtime reduction is 15%. Fixes #8923.
* Comment on StgArrWords vs StgArrBytesArash Rouhani2013-11-221-1/+8
| | | | | | | See #8552 Signed-off-by: Arash Rouhani <rarash@student.chalmers.se> Reviewed-by: Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>
* Allow multiple C finalizers to be attached to a Weak#Takano Akio2013-06-151-4/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The commit replaces mkWeakForeignEnv# with addCFinalizerToWeak#. This new primop mutates an existing Weak# object and adds a new C finalizer to it. This change removes an invariant in MarkWeak.c, namely that the relative order of Weak# objects in the list needs to be preserved across GC. This makes it easier to split the list into per-generation structures. The patch also removes a race condition between two threads calling finalizeWeak# on the same WEAK object at that same time.
* fix comment (#7907)Simon Marlow2013-05-211-1/+1
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* The shape of StgTVar should not depend on THREADED_RTSSimon Marlow2012-11-011-2/+0
| | | | | By shear luck I think this didn't lead to any actual runtime crashes, but it did cause some problems for debugging.
* Produce new-style Cmm from the Cmm parserSimon Marlow2012-10-081-55/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The main change here is that the Cmm parser now allows high-level cmm code with argument-passing and function calls. For example: foo ( gcptr a, bits32 b ) { if (b > 0) { // we can make tail calls passing arguments: jump stg_ap_0_fast(a); } return (x,y); } More details on the new cmm syntax are in Note [Syntax of .cmm files] in CmmParse.y. The old syntax is still more-or-less supported for those occasional code fragments that really need to explicitly manipulate the stack. However there are a couple of differences: it is now obligatory to give a list of live GlobalRegs on every jump, e.g. jump %ENTRY_CODE(Sp(0)) [R1]; Again, more details in Note [Syntax of .cmm files]. I have rewritten most of the .cmm files in the RTS into the new syntax, except for AutoApply.cmm which is generated by the genapply program: this file could be generated in the new syntax instead and would probably be better off for it, but I ran out of enthusiasm. Some other changes in this batch: - The PrimOp calling convention is gone, primops now use the ordinary NativeNodeCall convention. This means that primops and "foreign import prim" code must be written in high-level cmm, but they can now take more than 10 arguments. - CmmSink now does constant-folding (should fix #7219) - .cmm files now go through the cmmPipeline, and as a result we generate better code in many cases. All the object files generated for the RTS .cmm files are now smaller. Performance should be better too, but I haven't measured it yet. - RET_DYN frames are removed from the RTS, lots of code goes away - we now have some more canned GC points to cover unboxed-tuples with 2-4 pointers, which will reduce code size a little.
* add a constSimon Marlow2011-02-021-1/+1
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* Implement stack chunks and separate TSO/STACK objectsSimon Marlow2010-12-151-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes two changes to the way stacks are managed: 1. The stack is now stored in a separate object from the TSO. This means that it is easier to replace the stack object for a thread when the stack overflows or underflows; we don't have to leave behind the old TSO as an indirection any more. Consequently, we can remove ThreadRelocated and deRefTSO(), which were a pain. This is obviously the right thing, but the last time I tried to do it it made performance worse. This time I seem to have cracked it. 2. Stacks are now represented as a chain of chunks, rather than a single monolithic object. The big advantage here is that individual chunks are marked clean or dirty according to whether they contain pointers to the young generation, and the GC can avoid traversing clean stack chunks during a young-generation collection. This means that programs with deep stacks will see a big saving in GC overhead when using the default GC settings. A secondary advantage is that there is much less copying involved as the stack grows. Programs that quickly grow a deep stack will see big improvements. In some ways the implementation is simpler, as nothing special needs to be done to reclaim stack as the stack shrinks (the GC just recovers the dead stack chunks). On the other hand, we have to manage stack underflow between chunks, so there's a new stack frame (UNDERFLOW_FRAME), and we now have separate TSO and STACK objects. The total amount of code is probably about the same as before. There are new RTS flags: -ki<size> Sets the initial thread stack size (default 1k) Egs: -ki4k -ki2m -kc<size> Sets the stack chunk size (default 32k) -kb<size> Sets the stack chunk buffer size (default 1k) -ki was previously called just -k, and the old name is still accepted for backwards compatibility. These new options are documented.
* New asynchronous exception control API (ghc parts)Simon Marlow2010-07-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As discussed on the libraries/haskell-cafe mailing lists http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2010-April/013420.html This is a replacement for block/unblock in the asychronous exceptions API to fix a problem whereby a function could unblock asynchronous exceptions even if called within a blocked context. The new terminology is "mask" rather than "block" (to avoid confusion due to overloaded meanings of the latter). In GHC, we changed the names of some primops: blockAsyncExceptions# -> maskAsyncExceptions# unblockAsyncExceptions# -> unmaskAsyncExceptions# asyncExceptionsBlocked# -> getMaskingState# and added one new primop: maskUninterruptible# See the accompanying patch to libraries/base for the API changes.
* FIX #38000 Store StgArrWords payload size in bytesAntoine Latter2010-01-011-1/+1
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* Change the representation of the MVar blocked queueSimon Marlow2010-04-011-4/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The list of threads blocked on an MVar is now represented as a list of separately allocated objects rather than being linked through the TSOs themselves. This lets us remove a TSO from the list in O(1) time rather than O(n) time, by marking the list object. Removing this linear component fixes some pathalogical performance cases where many threads were blocked on an MVar and became unreachable simultaneously (nofib/smp/threads007), or when sending an asynchronous exception to a TSO in a long list of thread blocked on an MVar. MVar performance has actually improved by a few percent as a result of this change, slightly to my surprise. This is the final cleanup in the sequence, which let me remove the old way of waking up threads (unblockOne(), MSG_WAKEUP) in favour of the new way (tryWakeupThread and MSG_TRY_WAKEUP, which is idempotent). It is now the case that only the Capability that owns a TSO may modify its state (well, almost), and this simplifies various things. More of the RTS is based on message-passing between Capabilities now.
* New implementation of BLACKHOLEsSimon Marlow2010-03-291-1/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This replaces the global blackhole_queue with a clever scheme that enables us to queue up blocked threads on the closure that they are blocked on, while still avoiding atomic instructions in the common case. Advantages: - gets rid of a locked global data structure and some tricky GC code (replacing it with some per-thread data structures and different tricky GC code :) - wakeups are more prompt: parallel/concurrent performance should benefit. I haven't seen anything dramatic in the parallel benchmarks so far, but a couple of threading benchmarks do improve a bit. - waking up a thread blocked on a blackhole is now O(1) (e.g. if it is the target of throwTo). - less sharing and better separation of Capabilities: communication is done with messages, the data structures are strictly owned by a Capability and cannot be modified except by sending messages. - this change will utlimately enable us to do more intelligent scheduling when threads block on each other. This is what started off the whole thing, but it isn't done yet (#3838). I'll be documenting all this on the wiki in due course.
* Use message-passing to implement throwTo in the RTSSimon Marlow2010-03-111-1/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This replaces some complicated locking schemes with message-passing in the implementation of throwTo. The benefits are - previously it was impossible to guarantee that a throwTo from a thread running on one CPU to a thread running on another CPU would be noticed, and we had to rely on the GC to pick up these forgotten exceptions. This no longer happens. - the locking regime is simpler (though the code is about the same size) - threads can be unblocked from a blocked_exceptions queue without having to traverse the whole queue now. It's a rare case, but replaces an O(n) operation with an O(1). - generally we move in the direction of sharing less between Capabilities (aka HECs), which will become important with other changes we have planned. Also in this patch I replaced several STM-specific closure types with a generic MUT_PRIM closure type, which allowed a lot of code in the GC and other places to go away, hence the line-count reduction. The message-passing changes resulted in about a net zero line-count difference.
* Fix #650: use a card table to mark dirty sections of mutable arraysSimon Marlow2009-12-171-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | The card table is an array of bytes, placed directly following the actual array data. This means that array reading is unaffected, but array writing needs to read the array size from the header in order to find the card table. We use a bytemap rather than a bitmap, because updating the card table must be multi-thread safe. Each byte refers to 128 entries of the array, but this is tunable by changing the constant MUT_ARR_PTRS_CARD_BITS in includes/Constants.h.
* RTS tidyup sweep, first phaseSimon Marlow2009-08-021-0/+417
The first phase of this tidyup is focussed on the header files, and in particular making sure we are exposinng publicly exactly what we need to, and no more. - Rts.h now includes everything that the RTS exposes publicly, rather than a random subset of it. - Most of the public header files have moved into subdirectories, and many of them have been renamed. But clients should not need to include any of the other headers directly, just #include the main public headers: Rts.h, HsFFI.h, RtsAPI.h. - All the headers needed for via-C compilation have moved into the stg subdirectory, which is self-contained. Most of the headers for the rest of the RTS APIs have moved into the rts subdirectory. - I left MachDeps.h where it is, because it is so widely used in Haskell code. - I left a deprecated stub for RtsFlags.h in place. The flag structures are now exposed by Rts.h. - Various internal APIs are no longer exposed by public header files. - Various bits of dead code and declarations have been removed - More gcc warnings are turned on, and the RTS code is more warning-clean. - More source files #include "PosixSource.h", and hence only use standard POSIX (1003.1c-1995) interfaces. There is a lot more tidying up still to do, this is just the first pass. I also intend to standardise the names for external RTS APIs (e.g use the rts_ prefix consistently), and declare the internal APIs as hidden for shared libraries.
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