Structured Exception Handling (SEH) was the first way to handle
exceptions (memory faults, divides by zero) on Windows.
The S might as well stand for "stack-based": the implementation
interprets stack addresses in a few different ways, and it gets
subtly confused by Go's management of stacks. It's also something
that requires active maintenance during cgo switches, and we've
had bugs in that maintenance in the past.
We have recently come to believe that SEH cannot work with
Go's stack usage. See http://golang.org/issue/7325 for details.
Vectored Exception Handling (VEH) is more like a Unix signal
handler: you set it once for the whole process and forget about it.
This CL drops all the SEH code and replaces it with VEH code.
Many special cases and 7 #ifdefs disappear.
VEH was introduced in Windows XP, so Go on windows/386 will
now require Windows XP or later. The previous requirement was
Windows 2000 or later. Windows 2000 immediately preceded
Windows XP, so Windows 2000 is the only affected version.
Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 2000 in 2010.
See http://golang.org/s/win2000-golang-nuts for details.
Fixes#7325.
LGTM=alex.brainman, r
R=golang-codereviews, alex.brainman, stephen.gutekanst, dave
CC=golang-codereviews, iant, r
https://golang.org/cl/74790043
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
Currently it periodically fails with the following message.
The immediate cause is the wrong base register when obtaining g
in sys_windows_amd64/386.s.
But there are several secondary problems as well.
runtime: unknown pc 0x0 after stack split
panic: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
fatal error: panic during malloc
[signal 0xc0000005 code=0x0 addr=0x60 pc=0x42267a]
runtime stack:
runtime.panic(0x7914c0, 0xc862af)
c:/src/perfer/work/windows-amd64-a15f344a9efa/go/src/pkg/runtime/panic.c:217 +0x2c
runtime: unexpected return pc for runtime.externalthreadhandler called from 0x0
R=rsc, alex.brainman
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/63310043
Current "System->etext" is not very informative.
Add parent "GC" frame.
Replace un-unwindable syscall/cgo frames with Go stack that leads to the call.
LGTM=rsc
R=rsc, alex.brainman, ality
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/61270043
- do not lose profiling signals when we have no mcache (possible for syscalls/cgo)
- do not lose any profiling signals on windows
- fix profiling of cgo programs on windows (they had no m->thread setup)
- properly setup tls in cgo programs on windows
- check _beginthread return value
Fixes#6417.
Fixes#6986.
R=alex.brainman, rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/44820047
#pragma textflag and #pragma dataflag directives.
Update dataflag directives to use symbols instead of integer constants.
R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/13310043
GetQueuedCompletionStatusEx allows to dequeue a batch of completion
notifications, which is more efficient than dequeueing one by one.
benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta
BenchmarkClientServerParallel4 100605 90945 -9.60%
BenchmarkClientServerParallel4-2 90225 74504 -17.42%
R=golang-dev, alex.brainman
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12436044
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
Windows dynamic priority boosting assumes that a process has different types
of dedicated threads -- GUI, IO, computational, etc. Go processes use
equivalent threads that all do a mix of GUI, IO, computations, etc.
In such context dynamic priority boosting does nothing but harm, so turn it off.
In particular, if 2 goroutines do heavy IO on a server uniprocessor machine,
windows rejects to schedule timer thread for 2+ seconds when priority boosting is enabled.
Fixes#5971.
R=alex.brainman
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12406043
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
This provides a way to generate core dumps when people need them.
The settings are:
GOTRACEBACK=0 no traceback on panic, just exit
GOTRACEBACK=1 default - traceback on panic, then exit
GOTRACEBACK=2 traceback including runtime frames on panic, then exit
GOTRACEBACK=crash traceback including runtime frames on panic, then crash
Fixes#3257.
R=golang-dev, devon.odell, r, daniel.morsing, ality
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7666044
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
Alex Brainman
Russ Cox
Dmitriy Vyukov
Aram Hăvărneanu
Keith Randall
Jan Ziak