Fix data races in the method cache in free-threaded builds
These are technically data races, but I think they're benign (to
the extent that that is actually possible). We update cache entries
non-atomically but read them atomically from another thread, and there's
nothing that establishes a happens-before relationship between the
reads and writes that I can see.
Fix mimalloc allocator for huge memory allocation (around
8,589,934,592 GiB) on s390x.
Abort allocation early in mimalloc if the number of slices doesn't
fit into uint32_t, to prevent a integer overflow (cast 64-bit
size_t to uint32_t).
We want code objects to use deferred reference counting in the
free-threaded build. This requires them to be tracked by the GC, so we
set `Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GC` in the free-threaded build, but not the default
build.
Guido pointed out to me that some details about the per-interpreter state for the builtin types aren't especially clear. I'm addressing that by:
* adding a comment explaining that state
* adding some asserts to point out the relationship between each index and the interp/global runtime state
This change gives a significant speedup, as the METH_FASTCALL calling
convention is now used. The following bytes and bytearray methods are adapted:
- count()
- find()
- index()
- rfind()
- rindex()
Co-authored-by: Inada Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com>
Fall back to tp_call() for cases when arguments are passed by name.
Co-authored-by: Donghee Na <donghee.na@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
This keeps track of the per-thread total reference count operations in
PyThreadState in the free-threaded builds. The count is merged into the
interpreter's total when the thread exits.
Most mutable data is protected by a striped lock that is keyed on the
referenced object's address. The weakref's hash is protected using the
weakref's per-object lock.
Note that this only affects free-threaded builds. Apart from some minor
refactoring, the added code is all either gated by `ifdef`s or is a no-op
(e.g. `Py_BEGIN_CRITICAL_SECTION`).
I had meant to switch everything to InterpreterError when I added it a while back. At the time I missed a few key spots.
As part of this, I've added print-the-exception to _PyXI_InitTypes() and fixed an error case in `_PyStaticType_InitBuiltin().
This change gives a significant speedup, as the METH_FASTCALL calling
convention is now used. The following methods are adapted:
- str.count
- str.find
- str.index
- str.rfind
- str.rindex
Use the fully qualified type name in repr() of weakref.ref and
weakref.proxy types.
Fix a crash in proxy_repr() when the reference is dead.
Add also test_ref_repr() and test_proxy_repr().
Add a special case for `list.extend(dict)` and `list(dict)` so that those
patterns behave atomically with respect to modifications to the list or
dictionary.
This is required by multiprocessing, which assumes that
`list(_finalizer_registry)` is atomic.
Read the MRO in a thread-unsafe way in `PyType_IsSubtype` to avoid locking. Fixing this is tracked in #117306.
The motivation for this change is in support of making weakrefs thread-safe in free-threaded builds:
`WeakValueDictionary` uses a special dictionary function, `_PyDict_DelItemIf`
to remove dead weakrefs from the dictionary. `_PyDict_DelItemIf` removes a key
if a user supplied predicate evaluates to true for the value associated with
the key. Crucially for the `WeakValueDictionary` use case, the predicate
evaluation + deletion sequence is atomic, provided that the predicate doesn’t
suspend. The predicate used by `WeakValueDictionary` includes a subtype check,
which we must ensure doesn't suspend in free-threaded builds.
Rewrote binarysort() for clarity.
Also changed the signature to be more coherent (it was mixing sortslice with raw pointers).
No change in method or functionality. However, I left some experiments in, disabled for now
via `#if` tricks. Since this code was first written, some kinds of comparisons have gotten
enormously faster (like for lists of floats), which changes the tradeoffs.
For example, plain insertion sort's simpler innermost loop and highly predictable branches
leave it very competitive (even beating, by a bit) binary insertion when comparisons are
very cheap, despite that it can do many more compares. And it wins big on runs that
are already sorted (moving the next one in takes only 1 compare then).
So I left code for a plain insertion sort, to make future experimenting easier.
Also made the maximum value of minrun a `#define` (``MAX_MINRUN`) to make
experimenting with that easier too.
And another bit of `#if``-disabled code rewrites binary insertion's innermost loop to
remove its unpredictable branch. Surprisingly, this doesn't really seem to help
overall. I'm unclear on why not. It certainly adds more instructions, but they're very
simple, and it's hard to be believe they cost as much as a branch miss.
Changes to the function version cache:
- In addition to the function object, also store the code object,
and allow the latter to be retrieved even if the function has been evicted.
- Stop assigning new function versions after a critical attribute (e.g. `__code__`)
has been modified; the version is permanently reset to zero in this case.
- Changes to `__annotations__` are no longer considered critical. (This fixes gh-109998.)
Changes to the Tier 2 optimization machinery:
- If we cannot map a function version to a function, but it is still mapped to a code object,
we continue projecting the trace.
The operand of the `_PUSH_FRAME` and `_POP_FRAME` opcodes can be either NULL,
a function object, or a code object with the lowest bit set.
This allows us to trace through code that calls an ephemeral function,
i.e., a function that may not be alive when we are constructing the executor,
e.g. a generator expression or certain nested functions.
We will lose globals removal inside such functions,
but we can still do other peephole operations
(and even possibly [call inlining](https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/116290),
if we decide to do it), which only need the code object.
As before, if we cannot retrieve the code object from the cache, we stop projecting.
I added it quite a while ago as a strategy for managing interpreter lifetimes relative to the PEP 554 (now 734) implementation. Relatively recently I refactored that implementation to no longer rely on InterpreterID objects. Thus now I'm removing it.