I removed support for jumping between functions years ago,
as part of doing the instruction layout for each function separately.
Given that, it makes sense to treat labels as function-scoped.
This lets each function have its own 'loop' label, for example.
Makes the assembly much cleaner and removes the last
reason anyone would reach for the 123(PC) form instead.
Note that this is on the dev.power64 branch, but it changes all
the assemblers. The change will ship in Go 1.5 (perhaps after
being ported into the new assembler).
Came up as part of CL 167730043.
LGTM=r
R=r
CC=austin, dave, golang-codereviews, minux
https://golang.org/cl/159670043
This CL adjusts code referring to src/pkg to refer to src.
Immediately after submitting this CL, I will submit
a change doing 'hg mv src/pkg/* src'.
That change will be too large to review with Rietveld
but will contain only the 'hg mv'.
This CL will break the build.
The followup 'hg mv' will fix it.
For more about the move, see golang.org/s/go14nopkg.
LGTM=r
R=r
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/134570043
Preparation for golang.org/s/go13linker work.
This CL does not build by itself. It depends on 35740044
and 35790044 and will be submitted at the same time.
R=iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/35830043
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 CL was written by rsc. I just tweaked 8l.
This CL adds TLS relocation to the ELF .o file we write during external linking,
so that the host linker (gcc) can decide the final location of m and g.
Similar relocations are not necessary on OS X because we use an alternate
program start-time mechanism to acquire thread-local storage.
Similar relocations are not necessary on ARM or Plan 9 or Windows
because external linking mode is not yet supported on those systems.
On almost all ELF systems, the references we use are like %fs:-0x4 or %gs:-0x4,
which we write in 6a/8a as -0x4(FS) or -0x4(GS). On Linux/ELF, however,
Xen's lack of support for this mode forced us long ago to use a two-instruction
sequence: first we load %gs:0x0 into a register r, and then we use -0x4(r).
(The ELF program loader arranges that %gs:0x0 contains a regular pointer to
that same memory location.) In order to relocate those -0x4(r) references,
the linker must know where they are. This CL adds the equivalent notation
-0x4(r)(GS*1) for this purpose: it assembles to the same encoding as -0x4(r)
but the (GS*1) indicates to the linker that this is one of those thread-local
references that needs relocation.
Thanks to Elias Naur for reminding me about this missing piece and
also for writing the test.
R=r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7891047
The old code generated for a bounds check was
CMP
JLT ok
CALL panicindex
ok:
...
The new code is (once the linker finishes with it):
CMP
JGE panic
...
panic:
CALL panicindex
which moves the calls out of line, putting more useful
code in each cache line. This matters especially in tight
loops, such as in Fannkuch. The benefit is more modest
elsewhere, but real.
From test/bench/go1, amd64:
benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta
BenchmarkBinaryTree17 6096092000 6088808000 -0.12%
BenchmarkFannkuch11 6151404000 4020463000 -34.64%
BenchmarkGobDecode 28990050 28894630 -0.33%
BenchmarkGobEncode 12406310 12136730 -2.17%
BenchmarkGzip 179923 179903 -0.01%
BenchmarkGunzip 11219 11130 -0.79%
BenchmarkJSONEncode 86429350 86515900 +0.10%
BenchmarkJSONDecode 334593800 315728400 -5.64%
BenchmarkRevcomp25M 1219763000 1180767000 -3.20%
BenchmarkTemplate 492947600 483646800 -1.89%
And 386:
benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta
BenchmarkBinaryTree17 6354902000 6243000000 -1.76%
BenchmarkFannkuch11 8043769000 7326965000 -8.91%
BenchmarkGobDecode 19010800 18941230 -0.37%
BenchmarkGobEncode 14077500 13792460 -2.02%
BenchmarkGzip 194087 193619 -0.24%
BenchmarkGunzip 12495 12457 -0.30%
BenchmarkJSONEncode 125636400 125451400 -0.15%
BenchmarkJSONDecode 696648600 685032800 -1.67%
BenchmarkRevcomp25M 2058088000 2052545000 -0.27%
BenchmarkTemplate 602140000 589876800 -2.04%
To implement this, two new instruction forms:
JLT target // same as always
JLT $0, target // branch expected not taken
JLT $1, target // branch expected taken
The linker could also emit the prediction prefixes, but it
does not: expected taken branches are reversed so that the
expected case is not taken (as in example above), and
the default expectaton for such a jump is not taken
already.
R=golang-dev, gri, r, dave
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6248049
Russ Cox
Keith Randall
Ian Lance Taylor
Rémy Oudompheng