This commit introduces Ractor mechanism to run Ruby program in
parallel. See doc/ractor.md for more details about Ractor.
See ticket [Feature #17100] to see the implementation details
and discussions.
[Feature #17100]
This commit does not complete the implementation. You can find
many bugs on using Ractor. Also the specification will be changed
so that this feature is experimental. You will see a warning when
you make the first Ractor with `Ractor.new`.
I hope this feature can help programmers from thread-safety issues.
If the thread for the current EC has been killed, don't check
the VM ptr for the EC (which gets it via the thread), as that will
have already been freed.
Fixes [Bug #16907]
According to MSVC manual (*1), cl.exe can skip including a header file
when that:
- contains #pragma once, or
- starts with #ifndef, or
- starts with #if ! defined.
GCC has a similar trick (*2), but it acts more stricter (e. g. there
must be _no tokens_ outside of #ifndef...#endif).
Sun C lacked #pragma once for a looong time. Oracle Developer Studio
12.5 finally implemented it, but we cannot assume such recent version.
This changeset modifies header files so that each of them include
strictly one #ifndef...#endif. I believe this is the most portable way
to trigger compiler optimizations. [Bug #16770]
*1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/preprocessor/once
*2: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cppinternals/Guard-Macros.html
A new (not-initialized-yet) pthread attempts to allocate sigaltstack by
using xmalloc. It may cause GC, but because the thread is not
initialized yet, ruby_native_thread_p() returns false, which leads to
"[FATAL] failed to allocate memory" and exit.
In fact, we can observe the error message in the log of OpenBSD CI:
https://rubyci.org/logs/rubyci.s3.amazonaws.com/openbsd-current/ruby-master/log/20200306T083005Z.log.html.gz
This changeset allocates sigaltstack before pthread is created.
This patch contains several ideas:
(1) Disposable inline method cache (IMC) for race-free inline method cache
* Making call-cache (CC) as a RVALUE (GC target object) and allocate new
CC on cache miss.
* This technique allows race-free access from parallel processing
elements like RCU.
(2) Introduce per-Class method cache (pCMC)
* Instead of fixed-size global method cache (GMC), pCMC allows flexible
cache size.
* Caching CCs reduces CC allocation and allow sharing CC's fast-path
between same call-info (CI) call-sites.
(3) Invalidate an inline method cache by invalidating corresponding method
entries (MEs)
* Instead of using class serials, we set "invalidated" flag for method
entry itself to represent cache invalidation.
* Compare with using class serials, the impact of method modification
(add/overwrite/delete) is small.
* Updating class serials invalidate all method caches of the class and
sub-classes.
* Proposed approach only invalidate the method cache of only one ME.
See [Feature #16614] for more details.
Now, rb_call_info contains how to call the method with tuple of
(mid, orig_argc, flags, kwarg). Most of cases, kwarg == NULL and
mid+argc+flags only requires 64bits. So this patch packed
rb_call_info to VALUE (1 word) on such cases. If we can not
represent it in VALUE, then use imemo_callinfo which contains
conventional callinfo (rb_callinfo, renamed from rb_call_info).
iseq->body->ci_kw_size is removed because all of callinfo is VALUE
size (packed ci or a pointer to imemo_callinfo).
To access ci information, we need to use these functions:
vm_ci_mid(ci), _flag(ci), _argc(ci), _kwarg(ci).
struct rb_call_info_kw_arg is renamed to rb_callinfo_kwarg.
rb_funcallv_with_cc() and rb_method_basic_definition_p_with_cc()
is temporary removed because cd->ci should be marked.
This removes the warnings added in 2.7, and changes the behavior
so that a final positional hash is not treated as keywords or
vice-versa.
To handle the arg_setup_block splat case correctly with keyword
arguments, we need to check if we are taking a keyword hash.
That case didn't have a test, but it affects real-world code,
so add a test for it.
This removes rb_empty_keyword_given_p() and related code, as
that is not needed in Ruby 3. The empty keyword case is the
same as the no keyword case in Ruby 3.
This changes rb_scan_args to implement keyword argument
separation for C functions when the : character is used.
For backwards compatibility, it returns a duped hash.
This is a bad idea for performance, but not duping the hash
breaks at least Enumerator::ArithmeticSequence#inspect.
Instead of having RB_PASS_CALLED_KEYWORDS be a number,
simplify the code by just making it be rb_keyword_given_p().
Saves comitters' daily life by avoid #include-ing everything from
internal.h to make each file do so instead. This would significantly
speed up incremental builds.
We take the following inclusion order in this changeset:
1. "ruby/config.h", where _GNU_SOURCE is defined (must be the very
first thing among everything).
2. RUBY_EXTCONF_H if any.
3. Standard C headers, sorted alphabetically.
4. Other system headers, maybe guarded by #ifdef
5. Everything else, sorted alphabetically.
Exceptions are those win32-related headers, which tend not be self-
containing (headers have inclusion order dependencies).
Before this commit, Kernel#lambda can't tell the difference between a
directly passed literal block and one passed with an ampersand.
A block passed with an ampersand is semantically speaking already a
non-lambda proc. When Kernel#lambda receives a non-lambda proc, it
should simply return it.
Implementation wise, when the VM calls a method with a literal block, it
places the code for the block on the calling control frame and passes a
pointer (block handler) to the callee. Before this commit, the VM
forwards block arguments by simply forwarding the block handler, which
leaves the slot for block code unused when a control frame forwards its
block argument. I use the vacant space to indicate that a frame has
forwarded its block argument and inspect that in Kernel#lambda to detect
forwarded blocks.
This is a very ad-hoc solution and relies *heavily* on the way block
passing works in the VM. However, it's the most self-contained solution
I have.
[Bug #15620]
(This is the second try of 036bc1da6c6c9b0fa9b7f5968d897a9554dd770e.)
If iseq is GC'ed, the pointer of iseq may be reused, which may hide a
deprecation warning of keyword argument change.
http://ci.rvm.jp/results/trunk-test1@phosphorus-docker/2474221
```
1) Failure:
TestKeywordArguments#test_explicit_super_kwsplat [/tmp/ruby/v2/src/trunk-test1/test/ruby/test_keyword.rb:549]:
--- expected
+++ actual
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/The keyword argument is passed as the last hash parameter.* for `m'/m
+""
```
This change ad-hocly adds iseq_unique_id for each iseq, and use it
instead of iseq pointer. This covers the case where caller is GC'ed.
Still, the case where callee is GC'ed, is not covered.
But anyway, it is very rare that iseq is GC'ed. Even when it occurs, it
just hides some warnings. It's no big deal.
If iseq is GC'ed, the pointer of iseq may be reused, which may hide a
deprecation warning of keyword argument change.
http://ci.rvm.jp/results/trunk-test1@phosphorus-docker/2474221
```
1) Failure:
TestKeywordArguments#test_explicit_super_kwsplat [/tmp/ruby/v2/src/trunk-test1/test/ruby/test_keyword.rb:549]:
--- expected
+++ actual
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/The keyword argument is passed as the last hash parameter.* for `m'/m
+""
```
This change ad-hocly adds iseq_unique_id for each iseq, and use it
instead of iseq pointer. This covers the case where caller is GC'ed.
Still, the case where callee is GC'ed, is not covered.
But anyway, it is very rare that iseq is GC'ed. Even when it occurs, it
just hides some warnings. It's no big deal.
This commit introduces an "inline ivar cache" struct. The reason we
need this is so compaction can differentiate from an ivar cache and a
regular inline cache. Regular inline caches contain references to
`VALUE` and ivar caches just contain references to the ivar index. With
this new struct we can easily update references for inline caches (but
not inline var caches as they just contain an int)
These functions are used from within a compilation unit so we can
make them static, for better binary size. This changeset reduces
the size of generated ruby binary from 26,590,128 bytes to
26,584,472 bytes on my macihne.
This removes the security features added by $SAFE = 1, and warns for access
or modification of $SAFE from Ruby-level, as well as warning when calling
all public C functions related to $SAFE.
This modifies some internal functions that took a safe level argument
to no longer take the argument.
rb_require_safe now warns, rb_require_string has been added as a
version that takes a VALUE and does not warn.
One public C function that still takes a safe level argument and that
this doesn't warn for is rb_eval_cmd. We may want to consider
adding an alternative method that does not take a safe level argument,
and warn for rb_eval_cmd.
Looking at the list of symbols inside of libruby-static.a, I found
hundreds of functions that are defined, but used from nowhere.
There can be reasons for each of them (e.g. some functions are
specific to some platform, some are useful when debugging, etc).
However it seems the functions deleted here exist for no reason.
This changeset reduces the size of ruby binary from 26,671,456
bytes to 26,592,864 bytes on my machine.
Add an experimental `__builtin_inline!(c_expression)` special intrinsic
which run a C code snippet.
In `c_expression`, you can access the following variables:
* ec (rb_execution_context_t *)
* self (const VALUE)
* local variables (const VALUE)
Not that you can read these variables, but you can not write them.
You need to return from this expression and return value will be a
result of __builtin_inline!().
Examples:
`def foo(x) __builtin_inline!('return rb_p(x);'); end` calls `p(x)`.
`def double(x) __builtin_inline!('return INT2NUM(NUM2INT(x) * 2);')`
returns x*2.
Support loading builtin features written in Ruby, which implement
with C builtin functions.
[Feature #16254]
Several features:
(1) Load .rb file at boottime with native binary.
Now, prelude.rb is loaded at boottime. However, this file is contained
into the interpreter as a text format and we need to compile it.
This patch contains a feature to load from binary format.
(2) __builtin_func() in Ruby call func() written in C.
In Ruby file, we can write `__builtin_func()` like method call.
However this is not a method call, but special syntax to call
a function `func()` written in C. C functions should be defined
in a file (same compile unit) which load this .rb file.
Functions (`func` in above example) should be defined with
(a) 1st parameter: rb_execution_context_t *ec
(b) rest parameters (0 to 15).
(c) VALUE return type.
This is very similar requirements for functions used by
rb_define_method(), however `rb_execution_context_t *ec`
is new requirement.
(3) automatic C code generation from .rb files.
tool/mk_builtin_loader.rb creates a C code to load .rb files
needed by miniruby and ruby command. This script is run by
BASERUBY, so *.rb should be written in BASERUBY compatbile
syntax. This script load a .rb file and find all of __builtin_
prefix method calls, and generate a part of C code to export
functions.
tool/mk_builtin_binary.rb creates a C code which contains
binary compiled Ruby files needed by ruby command.
To perform a regular method call, the VM needs two structs,
`rb_call_info` and `rb_call_cache`. At the moment, we allocate these two
structures in separate buffers. In the worst case, the CPU needs to read
4 cache lines to complete a method call. Putting the two structures
together reduces the maximum number of cache line reads to 2.
Combining the structures also saves 8 bytes per call site as the current
layout uses separate two pointers for the call info and the call cache.
This saves about 2 MiB on Discourse.
This change improves the Optcarrot benchmark at least 3%. For more
details, see attached bugs.ruby-lang.org ticket.
Complications:
- A new instruction attribute `comptime_sp_inc` is introduced to
calculate SP increase at compile time without using call caches. At
compile time, a `TS_CALLDATA` operand points to a call info struct, but
at runtime, the same operand points to a call data struct. Instruction
that explicitly define `sp_inc` also need to define `comptime_sp_inc`.
- MJIT code for copying call cache becomes slightly more complicated.
- This changes the bytecode format, which might break existing tools.
[Misc #16258]
On Android, a signal handler that is not SIG_DFL is set by default for
SIGSEGV. Ruby's install_sighandler inserts Ruby's handler only when the
signal has no handler, so it does not insert Ruby's SEGV report handler,
which caused some test failures.
This changeset forces to install Ruby's handler for some fatal signals
(sigbus, sigsegv, and sigill). They keep the original handlers, and
call them when the interpreter receives the signals.
Just refactoring.
The name "rb_bug_context" is completely unclear for me.
(Can you see that "context" means "machine register context"?)
The context is available only when a fatal signal (sigbus, sigsegv, or
sigill) is received; in fact, the function is used only for fatal
signals. So, I think the name should be changed.
ko1 cannot remember why he introduced the function. And it is not used.
After it is removed, the argument "base_block" of
rb_iseq_compile_with_option is always zero.
This reverts commits: 10d6a3aca78ba48c1b85fba8627dc1dd883de5ba6c6a25feca167e6b48f17cb96d41a53207979278595b3c4fdd1521f7cf89c11c5e69accf336082033632a812c0f56506be0d86427a3219 .
The reason for the revert is that we observe ABA problem around
inline method cache. When a cache misshits, we search for a
method entry. And if the entry is identical to what was cached
before, we reuse the cache. But the commits we are reverting here
introduced situations where a method entry is freed, then the
identical memory region is used for another method entry. An
inline method cache cannot detect that ABA.
Here is a code that reproduce such situation:
```ruby
require 'prime'
class << Integer
alias org_sqrt sqrt
def sqrt(n)
raise
end
GC.stress = true
Prime.each(7*37){} rescue nil # <- Here we populate CC
class << Object.new; end
# These adjacent remove-then-alias maneuver
# frees a method entry, then immediately
# reuses it for another.
remove_method :sqrt
alias sqrt org_sqrt
end
Prime.each(7*37).to_a # <- SEGV
```
Most (if not all) of the fields of rb_method_definition_t are never
meant to be modified once after they are stored. Marking them const
makes it possible for compilers to warn on unintended modifications.
This approach uses a flag bit on the final hash object in the regular splat,
as opposed to a previous approach that used a VM frame flag. The hash flag
approach is less invasive, and handles some cases that the VM frame flag
approach does not, such as saving the argument splat array and splatting it
later:
ruby2_keywords def foo(*args)
@args = args
bar
end
def bar
baz(*@args)
end
def baz(*args, **kw)
[args, kw]
end
foo(a:1) #=> [[], {a: 1}]
foo({a: 1}, **{}) #=> [[{a: 1}], {}]
foo({a: 1}) #=> 2.7: [[], {a: 1}] # and warning
foo({a: 1}) #=> 3.0: [[{a: 1}], {}]
It doesn't handle some cases that the VM frame flag handles, such as when
the final hash object is replaced using Hash#merge, but those cases are
probably less common and are unlikely to properly support keyword
argument separation.
Use ruby2_keywords to handle argument delegation in the delegate library.
The built-in version operates on a buffer of 5 words, much smaller than
the size of jmp_buf defined in libc.
Note, powerpc requires 5 words, while arm and x86_64 just require 3.
Samuel Williams
Koichi Sasada
Jeremy Evans
Alan Wu
卜部昌平
Takashi Kokubun
Nobuyoshi Nakada
Yusuke Endoh
Lourens Naudé
Aaron Patterson
Fangrui Song