This is a C API for extensions to resolve and get function symbols of other extensions.
Extensions can check the expected symbol is correctly loaded and accessible, and
use it if it is available.
Otherwise, extensions can raise their own error to guide users to setup their
environments correctly and what's missing.
Our current implementation of rb_postponed_job_register suffers from
some safety issues that can lead to interpreter crashes (see bug #1991).
Essentially, the issue is that jobs can be called with the wrong
arguments.
We made two attempts to fix this whilst keeping the promised semantics,
but:
* The first one involved masking/unmasking when flushing jobs, which
was believed to be too expensive
* The second one involved a lock-free, multi-producer, single-consumer
ringbuffer, which was too complex
The critical insight behind this third solution is that essentially the
only user of these APIs are a) internal, or b) profiling gems.
For a), none of the usages actually require variable data; they will
work just fine with the preregistration interface.
For b), generally profiling gems only call a single callback with a
single piece of data (which is actually usually just zero) for the life
of the program. The ringbuffer is complex because it needs to support
multi-word inserts of job & data (which can't be atomic); but nobody
actually even needs that functionality, really.
So, this comit:
* Introduces a pre-registration API for jobs, with a GVL-requiring
rb_postponed_job_prereigster, which returns a handle which can be
used with an async-signal-safe rb_postponed_job_trigger.
* Deprecates rb_postponed_job_register (and re-implements it on top of
the preregister function for compatability)
* Moves all the internal usages of postponed job register
pre-registration
This patch introduces thread specific storage APIs
for tools which use `rb_internal_thread_event_hook` APIs.
* `rb_internal_thread_specific_key_create()` to create a tool specific
thread local storage key and allocate the storage if not available.
* `rb_internal_thread_specific_set()` sets a data to thread and tool
specific storage.
* `rb_internal_thread_specific_get()` gets a data in thread and tool
specific storage.
Note that `rb_internal_thread_specific_get|set(thread_val, key)`
can be called without GVL and safe for async signal and safe for
multi-threading (native threads). So you can call it in any internal
thread event hooks. Further more you can call it from other native
threads. Of course `thread_val` should be living while accessing the
data from this function.
Note that you should not forget to clean up the set data.
This entirely changes how it is tested. Rather than to use counters
we now record the timeline of events with associated threads which
makes it much easier to assert that certains events are only preceded
by a specific event, and makes it much easier to debug unexpected
timelines.
Co-Authored-By: Étienne Barrié <etienne.barrie@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: JP Camara <jp@jpcamara.com>
Co-Authored-By: John Hawthorn <john@hawthorn.email>
Context: https://github.com/ivoanjo/gvl-tracing/pull/4
Some hooks may want to collect data on a per thread basis.
Right now the only way to identify the concerned thread is to
use `rb_nativethread_self()` or similar, but even then because
of the thread cache or MaNy, two distinct Ruby threads may report
the same native thread id.
By passing `thread->self`, hooks can use it as a key to store
the metadata.
NB: Most hooks are executed outside the GVL, so such data collection
need to use a thread-safe data-structure, and shouldn't use the
reference in other ways from inside the hook.
They must also either pin that value or handle compaction.
This commit adds a new flag RUBY_TYPED_EMBEDDABLE that allows the data
of a TypedData object to be embedded after the object itself. This will
improve cache locality and allow us to save the 8 byte data pointer.
Co-Authored-By: Jean Boussier <byroot@ruby-lang.org>
Add a new API rb_profile_thread_frames(), which is essentialy a
per-thread version of rb_profile_frames().
While the original rb_profile_frames() always returns results about the
current active thread obtained by GET_EC(), this new API takes a Thread
to be profiled as an argument.
This should come in handy when profiling I/O-bound programs such as
webapps, since this new API allows us to learn about Threads performing
I/O (which do not have the GVL).
Profiling worker threads (such as Sidekiq workers) may be another
application.
Implements [Feature #10602]
Co-authored-by: Mike Perham <mike@perham.net>
This patch introduce M:N thread scheduler for Ractor system.
In general, M:N thread scheduler employs N native threads (OS threads)
to manage M user-level threads (Ruby threads in this case).
On the Ruby interpreter, 1 native thread is provided for 1 Ractor
and all Ruby threads are managed by the native thread.
From Ruby 1.9, the interpreter uses 1:1 thread scheduler which means
1 Ruby thread has 1 native thread. M:N scheduler change this strategy.
Because of compatibility issue (and stableness issue of the implementation)
main Ractor doesn't use M:N scheduler on default. On the other words,
threads on the main Ractor will be managed with 1:1 thread scheduler.
There are additional settings by environment variables:
`RUBY_MN_THREADS=1` enables M:N thread scheduler on the main ractor.
Note that non-main ractors use the M:N scheduler without this
configuration. With this configuration, single ractor applications
run threads on M:1 thread scheduler (green threads, user-level threads).
`RUBY_MAX_CPU=n` specifies maximum number of native threads for
M:N scheduler (default: 8).
This patch will be reverted soon if non-easy issues are found.
[Bug #19842]
The current documentation for `rb_postponed_job_register_one()` is
explaining the differences with itself, where it should be explaining
the differences with `rb_postponed_job_register()`.
Existing strscan releases rely on this C API. It means that the current
Ruby master doesn't work if your Gemfile.lock has strscan unless it's
locked to 3.0.7, which is not released yet.
To fix it, let's not remove the C API we've exposed to users.
rb_reg_onig_match performs preparation, error handling, and cleanup for
matching a regex against a string. This reduces repetitive code and
removes the need for StringScanner to access internal data of regex.
Closes [Feature #19729]
Previously 2 bits of the flags on each RVALUE are reserved to store the
number of GC cycles that each object has survived. This commit
introduces a new bit array on the heap page, called age_bits, to store
that information instead.
This patch still reserves one of the age bits in the flags (the old
FL_PROMOTED0 bit, now renamed FL_PROMOTED).
This is set to 0 for young objects and 1 for old objects, and is used as
a performance optimisation for the write barrier. Fetching the age_bits
from the heap page and doing the required math to calculate if the
object was old or not would slow down the write barrier. So we keep this
bit synced in the flags for fast access.
st_copy allocates a st_table, which is not needed for hashes since it is
allocated by VWA and embedded, so this causes a memory leak.
The following script demonstrates the issue:
```ruby
20.times do
100_000.times do
{a: 1, b: 2, c: 3, d: 4, e: 5, f: 6, g: 7, h: 8, i: 9}
end
puts `ps -o rss= -p #{$$}`
end
```
* Make TAINT and UNTRUSTED flags zero
These flags do nothing already, and should break nothing.
* Remove TAINT and UNTRUSTED macros same as functions
These macros had been defined to use with `#ifdef`, but should not be
used anymore.
Since no type information is available for variadic arguments, 0 is
passed as `int` without promoting to pointer. On platforms where
`sizeof(int) < sizeof(void*)`, the terminator argument may be read
together with an adjoining word, and may not be found.
* Unify length field for embedded and heap strings
The length field is of the same type and position in RString for both
embedded and heap allocated strings, so we can unify it.
* Remove RSTRING_EMBED_LEN
Satoshi Tagomori
KJ Tsanaktsidis
Koichi Sasada
KJ Tsanaktsidis
卜部昌平
Nobuyoshi Nakada
Jean Boussier
Peter Zhu
Daisuke Aritomo
Daisuke Aritomo
Benoit Daloze
John Hawthorn
Sutou Kouhei
Samuel Williams
Takashi Kokubun
Kunshan Wang
Matt Valentine-House
Peter Arato