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
following on CL https://golang.org/cl/76810045 and
issue 7563, i now see there's another "remove(outfile)" a few
dozen lines down that also needs fixing.
LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant
CC=0intro, golang-codereviews, r
https://golang.org/cl/89030043
Before the switch to liblink, the linkers accepted the -c flag
to print the call graph. This change restores the functionality.
This came in handy when I was trying to audit the use of SSE
instructions inside the Plan 9 note handler.
LGTM=rsc
R=golang-codereviews, bradfitz, rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/73990043
The new code is adapted from the Go 1.2 nosplit code,
but it does not have the bug reported in issue 7623:
g% go run nosplit.go
g% go1.2 run nosplit.go
BUG
rejected incorrectly:
main 0 call f; f 120
linker output:
# _/tmp/go-test-nosplit021064539
main.main: nosplit stack overflow
120 guaranteed after split check in main.main
112 on entry to main.f
-8 after main.f uses 120
g%
Fixes#6931.
Fixes#7623.
LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant, ality
CC=golang-codereviews, r
https://golang.org/cl/88190043
The relocation and automatic variable types were using
arch-specific numbers. Introduce portable enumerations
instead.
To the best of my knowledge, these are the only arch-specific
bits left in the new object file format.
Remove now, before Go 1.3, because file formats are forever.
LGTM=iant
R=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/87670044
e.g., don't delete /dev/null. this fix inspired by gnu libiberty,
unlink-if-ordinary.c.
Fixes#7563
LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant, 0intro
CC=golang-codereviews, r
https://golang.org/cl/76810045
Acid can't produce a stack trace without .frame symbols.
Of course, it can only unwind through linear stacks but
this is still better than nothing. (I wrote an acid func
to do the full unwind a long time ago but lost it and
haven't worked up the courage to write it again).
Note that these will only be present in the native symbol
table for Plan 9 binaries.
LGTM=rsc
R=rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/72450045
This CL replays the following one CL from the rsc-go13nacl repo.
This is the last replay CL: after this CL the main repo will have
everything the rsc-go13nacl repo did. Changes made to the main
repo after the rsc-go13nacl repo branched off probably mean that
NaCl doesn't actually work after this CL, but all the code is now moved
over and just needs to be redebugged.
---
cmd/6l, cmd/8l, cmd/ld: support for Native Client
See golang.org/s/go13nacl for design overview.
This CL is publicly visible but not CC'ed to golang-dev,
to avoid distracting from the preparation of the Go 1.2
release.
This CL and the others will be checked into my rsc-go13nacl
clone repo for now, and I will send CLs against the main
repo early in the Go 1.3 development.
R≡khr
https://golang.org/cl/15750044
---
LGTM=bradfitz, dave, iant
R=dave, bradfitz, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/69040044
We now use the %A, %D, %P, and %R routines from liblink
across the board.
Fixes#7178.
Fixes#7055.
LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, gobot, rsc, dave, iant, remyoudompheng
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/49170043
rsc suggested that we split the whole linker changes into three parts.
This is the first one, mostly dealing with adding Hsolaris.
LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant, dave
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/54210050
In external link mode the linker explicitly adds the string
constant "runtime/cgo". It adds the string constant using the
same symbol name as the compiler, but a different format. The
compiler assumes that the string data immediately follows the
string header, but the linker puts the two in different
sections. The result is bad string data when the compiler
sees "runtime/cgo" used as a string constant.
The compiler assumption is in datastring in [568]g/gobj.c.
The linker layout is in addstrdata in ld/data.c. The compiler
assumption is valid for string literals. The linker is not
creating a string literal, so its assumption is also valid.
There are a few ways to avoid this problem. This patch fixes
it by only doing the fake import of runtime/cgo if necessary,
and by only creating the string symbol if necessary.
Fixes#7234.
LGTM=dvyukov
R=golang-codereviews, dvyukov, bradfitz
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/58410043
The addition of TLS to ARM rewrote the MRC instruction
differently depending on whether we were using internal
or external linking mode. That's clearly not okay, since we
don't know that during compilation, which is when we now
generate the code. Also, because the change did not introduce
a real MRC instruction but instead just macro-expanded it
in the assembler, liblink is rewriting a WORD instruction that
may actually be looking for that specific constant, which would
lead to very unexpected results. It was also using one value
that happened to be 8 where a different value that also
happened to be 8 belonged. So the code was correct for those
values but not correct in general, and very confusing.
Throw it all away.
Replace with the following. There is a linker-provided symbol
runtime.tlsgm with a value (address) set to the offset from the
hardware-provided TLS base register to the g and m storage.
Any reference to that name emits an appropriate TLS relocation
to be resolved by either the internal linker or the external linker,
depending on the link mode. The relocation has exactly the
semantics of the R_ARM_TLS_LE32 relocation, which is what
the external linker provides.
This symbol is only used in two routines, runtime.load_gm and
runtime.save_gm. In both cases it is now used like this:
MRC 15, 0, R0, C13, C0, 3 // fetch TLS base pointer
MOVW $runtime·tlsgm(SB), R2
ADD R2, R0 // now R0 points at thread-local g+m storage
It is likely that this change breaks the generation of shared libraries
on ARM, because the MOVW needs to be rewritten to use the global
offset table and a different relocation type. But let's get the supported
functionality working again before we worry about unsupported
functionality.
LGTM=dave, iant
R=iant, dave
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/56120043
Make hostobj work on OpenBSD 5.3/5.4/-current - these have PIE
enabled by default and linking fails since the Go linker generates
objects that are neither PIC nor PIE.
Fixes#5067
R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7572049
The -pack flag causes 5g, 6g, 8g to write a Go archive directly,
instead of requiring the use of 'go tool pack' to convert the .5/.6/.8
to .a format.
Writing directly avoids the copy and also avoids having the
export data stored twice in the archive (once in __.PKGDEF,
once in .5/.6/.8).
A separate CL will enable the use of this flag by cmd/go.
Other build systems that do not know about -pack will be unaffected.
The changes to cmd/ld handle a minor simplification to the format:
an unused section is removed.
R=iant, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/42880043
- new object file reader/writer (liblink/objfile.c)
- remove old object file writing routines
- add pcdata iterator
- remove all trace of "line number stack" and "path fragments" from
object files, linker (!!!)
- dwarf now writes a single "compilation unit" instead of one per package
This CL disables the check for chains of no-split functions that
could overflow the stack red zone. A future CL will attack the problem
of reenabling that check (issue 6931).
This CL is just the liblink and cmd/ld changes.
There are minor associated adjustments in CL 37030045.
Each depends on the other.
R=golang-dev, dave, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/39680043
There is an enormous amount of code moving around in this CL,
but the code is the same, and it is invoked in the same ways.
This CL is preparation for the new linker structure, not the new
structure itself.
The new library's definition is in include/link.h.
The main change is the use of a Link structure to hold all the
linker-relevant state, replacing the smattering of global variables.
The Link structure should both make it clearer which state must
be carried around and make it possible to parallelize more easily
later.
The main body of the linker has moved into the architecture-independent
cmd/ld directory. That includes the list of known header types, so the
distinction between Hplan9x32 and Hplan9x64 is removed (no other
header type distinguished 32- and 64-bit formats), and code for unused
formats such as ipaq kernels has been deleted.
The code being deleted from 5l, 6l, and 8l reappears in liblink or in ld.
Because multiple files are being merged in the liblink directory,
it is not possible to show the diffs nicely in hg.
The Prog and Addr structures have been unified into an
architecture-independent form and moved to link.h, where they will
be shared by all tools: the assemblers, the compilers, and the linkers.
The unification makes it possible to write architecture-independent
traversal of Prog lists, among other benefits.
The Sym structures cannot be unified: they are too fundamentally
different between the linker and the compilers. Instead, liblink defines
an LSym - a linker Sym - to be used in the Prog and Addr structures,
and the linker now refers exclusively to LSyms. The compilers will
keep using their own syms but will fill out the corresponding LSyms in
the Prog and Addr structures.
Although code from 5l, 6l, and 8l is now in a single library, the
code has been arranged so that only one architecture needs to
be linked into a particular program: 5l will not contain the code
needed for x86 instruction layout, for example.
The object file writing code in liblink/obj.c is from cmd/gc/obj.c.
Preparation for golang.org/s/go13linker work.
This CL does not build by itself. It depends on 35740044
and will be submitted at the same time.
R=iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/35790044
Add the -installsuffix flag to gc and {5,6,8}l, which overrides -race
for the suffix if both are supplied.
Pass this flag from the go tool for build and install.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/14246044
If you thought gcc -ansi -pedantic was pedantic, just wait
until you meet clang -fsanitize=undefined.
I think this addresses all the reported "errors", but we'll
need another run to be sure.
all.bash still passes.
Update #5764
Dave, can you please try again?
R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/13334049
Also introduce BGET2/4, BPUT2/4 as they are widely used.
Slightly improve BGETC/BPUTC implementation.
This gives ~5% CPU time improvement on go install -a -p1 std.
Before:
real user sys
0m23.561s 0m16.625s 0m5.848s
0m23.766s 0m16.624s 0m5.846s
0m23.742s 0m16.621s 0m5.868s
after:
0m22.999s 0m15.841s 0m5.889s
0m22.845s 0m15.808s 0m5.850s
0m22.889s 0m15.832s 0m5.848s
R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12745047
This CL is an aggregate of 10271047, 10499043, 9733044. Descriptions of each follow:
10499043
runtime,cmd/ld: Merge TLS symbols and teach 5l about ARM TLS
This CL prepares for external linking support to ARM.
The pseudo-symbols runtime.g and runtime.m are merged into a single
runtime.tlsgm symbol. When external linking, the offset of a thread local
variable is stored at a memory location instead of being embedded into a offset
of a ldr instruction. With a single runtime.tlsgm symbol for both g and m, only
one such offset is needed.
The larger part of this CL moves TLS code from gcc compiled to internally
compiled. The TLS code now uses the modern MRC instruction, and 5l is taught
about TLS fallbacks in case the instruction is not available or appropriate.
10271047
This CL adds support for -linkmode external to 5l.
For 5l itself, use addrel to allow for D_CALL relocations to be handled by the
host linker. Of the cases listed in rsc's comment in issue 4069, only case 5 and
63 needed an update. One of the TODO: addrel cases was since replaced, and the
rest of the cases are either covered by indirection through addpool (cases with
LTO or LFROM flags) or stubs (case 74). The addpool cases are covered because
addpool emits AWORD instructions, which in turn are handled by case 11.
In the runtime, change the argv argument in the rt0* functions slightly to be a
pointer to the argv list, instead of relying on a particular location of argv.
9733044
The -shared flag to 6l outputs a shared library, implemented in Go
and callable from non-Go programs such as C.
The main part of this CL change the thread local storage model.
Go uses the fastest and least general mode, local exec. TLS data in shared
libraries normally requires at least the local dynamic mode, however, this CL
instead opts for using the initial exec mode. Initial exec mode is faster than
local dynamic mode and can be used in linux since the linker has reserved a
limited amount of TLS space for performance sensitive TLS code.
Initial exec mode requires an extra load from the GOT table to determine the
TLS offset. This penalty will not be paid if ld is not in -shared mode, since
TLS accesses will be reduced to local exec.
The elf sections .init_array and .rela.init_array are added to register the Go
runtime entry with cgo at library load time.
The "hidden" attribute is added to Cgo functions called from Go, since Go
does not generate call through the GOT table, and adding non-GOT relocations for
a global function is not supported by gcc. Cgo symbols don't need to be global
and avoiding the GOT table is also faster.
The changes to 8l are only removes code relevant to the old -shared mode where
internal linking was used.
This CL only address the low level linker work. It can be submitted by itself,
but to be useful, the runtime changes in CL 9738047 is also needed.
Design discussion at
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/golang-nuts/zmjXkGrEx6QFixes#5590.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12871044
Also move chatty recent additions to -v -v.
For what it's worth:
$ go build -o /dev/null -ldflags -v cmd/go
...
0.87 pclntab=1110836 bytes, funcdata total 69700 bytes
...
$
This broke the ELF builds last time because I tried to dedup
the funcdata in case the same funcdata was pointed at by
multiple functions. That doesn't currently happen, so I've
removed that test.
If we start doing bitmap coalescing we'll need to figure out
how to measure the size more carefully, but I think at that
point the bitmaps will be an extra indirection away from the
funcdata anyway, so the dedup I used before wouldn't help.
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12269043
src/cmd/ld/lib.c:1379 set and not used: p
src/cmd/ld/lib.c:1426 format mismatch 6llux INT, arg 3
src/cmd/ld/lib.c:1437 format mismatch 6llux INT, arg 3
src/cmd/ld/lib.c:1456 format mismatch 6llux INT, arg 3
src/cmd/ld/lib.c:1477 format mismatch 6llux INT, arg 3
src/cmd/ld/lib.c:1459 set and not used: started
R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/11615044
This CL introduces a FUNCDATA number for runtime-specific
garbage collection metadata, changes the C and Go compilers
to emit that metadata, and changes the runtime to expect it.
The old pseudo-instructions that carried this information
are gone, as is the linker code to process them.
R=golang-dev, dvyukov, cshapiro
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/11406044
whose argument size is unknown (C vararg functions, and
assembly code without an explicit specification).
We used to use 0 to mean "unknown" and 1 to mean "zero".
Now we use ArgsSizeUnknown (0x80000000) to mean "unknown".
R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/11590043
This should fix the Windows build, or at least
what's breaking it at the moment.
Fixes#5904.
TBR=golang-dev
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/11519044
Design at http://golang.org/s/go12symtab.
This enables some cleanup of the garbage collector metadata
that will be done in future CLs.
This CL does not move the old symtab and pclntab back into
an unmapped section of the file. That's a bit tricky and will be
done separately.
Fixes#4020.
R=golang-dev, dave, cshapiro, iant, r
CC=golang-dev, nigeltao
https://golang.org/cl/11085043
USEFIELD is a special kind of NOP, so treat it like a NOP
when generating the pc-ln table.
There are more invasive fixes that could be applied here.
I am going for minimum number of lines changed.
The smallest test case we know of is five distinct Go files
in four packages, and the bug only happens with
GOEXPERIMENT=fieldtrack enabled, which we don't
normally build with, so the test would never run
meaningfully anyway.
Fixes#5762.
R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/10495044
Remove unnecessary ( ) around == in && clause.
Add { } around multiline if body, even though it's one statement.
Add runtime: prefix to printed errors.
R=cshapiro, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/9685047
Russ Cox
Ian Lance Taylor
Mike Andrews
Anthony Martin
Shenghou Ma
David du Colombier
Joel Sing
Dave Day
Aulus Egnatius Varialus
Dmitriy Vyukov
Elias Naur
Keith Randall
Brad Fitzpatrick
Dave Cheney