This PR sets up tagged pointers for CPython.
The general idea is to create a separate struct _PyStackRef for everything on the evaluation stack to store the bits. This forces the C compiler to warn us if we try to cast things or pull things out of the struct directly.
Only for free threading: We tag the low bit if something is deferred - that means we skip incref and decref operations on it. This behavior may change in the future if Mark's plans to defer all objects in the interpreter loop pans out.
This implies a strict stack reference discipline is required. ALL incref and decref operations on stackrefs must use the stackref variants. It is unsafe to untag something then do normal incref/decref ops on it.
The new incref and decref variants are called dup and close. They mimic a "handle" API operating on these stackrefs.
Please read Include/internal/pycore_stackref.h for more information!
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Co-authored-by: Mark Shannon <9448417+markshannon@users.noreply.github.com>
* Add an InternalDocs file describing how interning should work and how to use it.
* Add internal functions to *explicitly* request what kind of interning is done:
- `_PyUnicode_InternMortal`
- `_PyUnicode_InternImmortal`
- `_PyUnicode_InternStatic`
* Switch uses of `PyUnicode_InternInPlace` to those.
* Disallow using `_Py_SetImmortal` on strings directly.
You should use `_PyUnicode_InternImmortal` instead:
- Strings should be interned before immortalization, otherwise you're possibly
interning a immortalizing copy.
- `_Py_SetImmortal` doesn't handle the `SSTATE_INTERNED_MORTAL` to
`SSTATE_INTERNED_IMMORTAL` update, and those flags can't be changed in
backports, as they are now part of public API and version-specific ABI.
* Add private `_only_immortal` argument for `sys.getunicodeinternedsize`, used in refleak test machinery.
* Make sure the statically allocated string singletons are unique. This means these sets are now disjoint:
- `_Py_ID`
- `_Py_STR` (including the empty string)
- one-character latin-1 singletons
Now, when you intern a singleton, that exact singleton will be interned.
* Add a `_Py_LATIN1_CHR` macro, use it instead of `_Py_ID`/`_Py_STR` for one-character latin-1 singletons everywhere (including Clinic).
* Intern `_Py_STR` singletons at startup.
* For free-threaded builds, intern `_Py_LATIN1_CHR` singletons at startup.
* Beef up the tests. Cover internal details (marked with `@cpython_only`).
* Add lots of assertions
Co-Authored-By: Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com>
The _strptime module object was cached in a static local variable (in the datetime.strptime() implementation). That's a problem when it crosses isolation boundaries, such as reinitializing the runtme or between interpreters. This change fixes the problem by dropping the static variable, instead always relying on the normal sys.modules cache (via PyImport_Import()).
This adds a `_PyRecursiveMutex` type based on `PyMutex` and uses that
for the import lock. This fixes some data races in the free-threaded
build and generally simplifies the import lock code.
The `_PyThreadState_Bind()` function is called before the first
`PyEval_AcquireThread()` so it's not synchronized with the stop the
world GC. We had a race where `gc_visit_heaps()` might visit a thread's
heap while it's being initialized.
Use a simple atomic int to avoid visiting heaps for threads that are not
yet fully initialized (i.e., before `tstate_mimalloc_bind()` is called).
The race was reproducible by running:
`python Lib/test/test_importlib/partial/pool_in_threads.py`.
We make use of the same mechanism that we use for the static builtin types. This required a few tweaks.
The relevant code could use some cleanup but I opted to avoid the significant churn in this change. I'll tackle that separately.
This change is the final piece needed to make _datetime support multiple interpreters. I've updated the module slot accordingly.
The free-threaded build currently immortalizes objects that use deferred
reference counting (see gh-117783). This typically happens once the
first non-main thread is created, but the behavior can be suppressed for
tests, in subinterpreters, or during a compile() call.
This fixes a race condition involving the tracking of whether the
behavior is suppressed.
Only call `gc_restore_tid()` from stop-the-world contexts.
`worklist_pop()` can be called while other threads are running, so use a
relaxed atomic to modify `ob_tid`.
The Full Grammar specification in the docs omits rule actions, so grammar rules that raise a syntax error looked like valid syntax.
This was solved in ef940de by hiding those rules in the custom syntax highlighter.
This moves all syntax-error alternatives to invalid rules, adds a validator that ensures that actions containing RAISE_SYNTAX_ERROR are in invalid rules, and reverts the syntax highlighter hack.
When the _Py_SINGLETON() is used, Argument Clinic now adds an
explicit "pycore_runtime.h" include to get the macro. Previously, the
macro may or may not be included indirectly by another include.
ensurepip forks a subprocess to run pip itself, but that subprocess only inherits a -I isolated mode flag (see _run_pip() in Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py), not the "-E -s" flags that the installer has been using. This means that parts of ensurepip don't actually run in an isolated environment and can make incorrect decisions based on packages installed in the user site-packages.
_PyArg_Parser holds static global data generated for modules by Argument Clinic. The _PyArg_Parser.kwtuple field is a tuple object, even though it's stored within a static global. In some cases the tuple is statically allocated and thus it's okay that it gets shared by multiple interpreters. However, in other cases the tuple is set lazily, allocated from the heap using the active interprepreter at the point the tuple is needed.
This is a problem once that interpreter is destroyed since _PyArg_Parser.kwtuple becomes at dangling pointer, leading to crashes. It isn't a problem if the tuple is allocated under the main interpreter, since its lifetime is bound to the lifetime of the runtime. The solution here is to temporarily switch to the main interpreter. The alternative would be to always statically allocate the tuple.
This change also fixes a bug where only the most recent parser was added to the global linked list.
This ensures we don't lose races that occur in subprocesses or
interleave races from workers running in parallel.
Log files are collected and packaged into a zipfile that can be
downloaded from the "Artifacts" section of the workflow run.