This implements the delayed reuse of mimalloc pages that contain Python
objects in the free-threaded build.
Allocations of the same size class are grouped in data structures called
pages. These are different from operating system pages. For thread-safety, we
want to ensure that memory used to store PyObjects remains valid as long as
there may be concurrent lock-free readers; we want to delay using it for
other size classes, in other heaps, or returning it to the operating system.
When a mimalloc page becomes empty, instead of immediately freeing it, we tag
it with a QSBR goal and insert it into a per-thread state linked list of
pages to be freed. When mimalloc needs a fresh page, we process the queue and
free any still empty pages that are now deemed safe to be freed. Pages
waiting to be freed are still available for allocations of the same size
class and allocating from a page prevent it from being freed. There is
additional logic to handle abandoned pages when threads exit.
This sets `MI_DEBUG` to `2` in debug builds to enable `mi_assert_internal()`
calls. Expensive internal assertions are not enabled.
This also disables an assertion in free-threaded builds that would be
triggered by the free-threaded GC because we traverse heaps that are not
owned by the current thread.
Make `_thread.ThreadHandle` thread-safe in free-threaded builds
We protect the mutable state of `ThreadHandle` using a `_PyOnceFlag`.
Concurrent operations (i.e. `join` or `detach`) on `ThreadHandle` block
until it is their turn to execute or an earlier operation succeeds.
Once an operation has been applied successfully all future operations
complete immediately.
The `join()` method is now idempotent. It may be called multiple times
but the underlying OS thread will only be joined once. After `join()`
succeeds, any future calls to `join()` will succeed immediately.
The internal thread handle `detach()` method has been removed.
This changes the `sym_set_...()` functions to return a `bool` which is `false`
when the symbol is `bottom` after the operation.
All calls to such functions now check this result and go to `hit_bottom`,
a special error label that prints a different message and then reports
that it wasn't able to optimize the trace. No executor will be produced
in this case.
This undoes the *temporary* default disabling of the T2 optimizer pass in gh-115860.
- Add a new test that reproduces Brandt's example from gh-115859; it indeed crashes before gh-116028 with PYTHONUOPSOPTIMIZE=1
- Re-enable the optimizer pass in T2, stop checking PYTHONUOPSOPTIMIZE
- Rename the env var to disable T2 entirely to PYTHON_UOPS_OPTIMIZE (must be explicitly set to 0 to disable)
- Fix skipIf conditions on tests in test_opt.py accordingly
- Export sym_is_bottom() (for debugging)
- Fix various things in the `_BINARY_OP_` specializations in the abstract interpreter:
- DECREF(temp)
- out-of-space check after sym_new_const()
- add sym_matches_type() checks, so even if we somehow reach a binary op with symbolic constants of the wrong type on the stack we won't trigger the type assert
- Any `sym_set_...` call that attempts to set conflicting information
cause the symbol to become `bottom` (contradiction).
- All `sym_is...` and similar calls return false or NULL for `bottom`.
- Everything's tested.
- The tests still pass with `PYTHONUOPSOPTIMIZE=1`.
* Rename _Py_UOpsAbstractInterpContext to _Py_UOpsContext and _Py_UOpsSymType to _Py_UopsSymbol.
* #define shortened form of _Py_uop_... names for improved readability.
PyTime_t no longer uses an arbitrary unit, it's always a number of
nanoseconds (64-bit signed integer).
* Rename _PyTime_FromNanosecondsObject() to _PyTime_FromLong().
* Rename _PyTime_AsNanosecondsObject() to _PyTime_AsLong().
* Remove pytime_from_nanoseconds().
* Remove pytime_as_nanoseconds().
* Remove _PyTime_FromNanoseconds().
Remove references to the old names _PyTime_MIN
and _PyTime_MAX, now that PyTime_MIN and
PyTime_MAX are public.
Replace also _PyTime_MIN with PyTime_MIN.
This adds `_PyMem_FreeDelayed()` and supporting functions. The
`_PyMem_FreeDelayed()` function frees memory with the same allocator as
`PyMem_Free()`, but after some delay to ensure that concurrent lock-free
readers have finished.
<pycore_time.h> include is no longer needed to get the PyTime_t type
in internal header files. This type is now provided by <Python.h>
include. Add <pycore_time.h> includes to C files instead.
This avoids filling the memory occupied by ob_tid, ob_ref_local, and
ob_ref_shared with debug bytes (e.g., 0xDD) in mimalloc in the
free-threaded build.
This change adds an `eval_breaker` field to `PyThreadState`. The primary
motivation is for performance in free-threaded builds: with thread-local eval
breakers, we can stop a specific thread (e.g., for an async exception) without
interrupting other threads.
The source of truth for the global instrumentation version is stored in the
`instrumentation_version` field in PyInterpreterState. Threads usually read the
version from their local `eval_breaker`, where it continues to be colocated
with the eval breaker bits.
This adds a safe memory reclamation scheme based on FreeBSD's "GUS" and
quiescent state based reclamation (QSBR). The API provides a mechanism
for callers to detect when it is safe to free memory that may be
concurrently accessed by readers.
The GC keeps track of the number of allocations (less deallocations)
since the last GC. This buffers the count in thread-local state and uses
atomic operations to modify the per-interpreter count. The thread-local
buffering avoids contention on shared state.
A consequence is that the GC scheduling is not as precise, so
"test_sneaky_frame_object" is skipped because it requires that the GC be
run exactly after allocating a frame object.
Makes _PyType_Lookup thread safe, including:
Thread safety of the underlying cache.
Make mutation of mro and type members thread safe
Also _PyType_GetMRO and _PyType_GetBases are currently returning borrowed references which aren't safe.
This adds `Py_XBEGIN_CRITICAL_SECTION` and
`Py_XEND_CRITICAL_SECTION`, which accept a possibly NULL object as an
argument. If the argument is NULL, then nothing is locked or unlocked.
Otherwise, they behave like `Py_BEGIN/END_CRITICAL_SECTION`.
Donghee Na
Mark Shannon
Dino Viehland
Ken Jin
Sam Gross
cui fliter
Brett Cannon
mpage
Brett Simmers
Guido van Rossum
Brandt Bucher
Pablo Galindo Salgado
Jelle Zijlstra
AN Long
Victor Stinner
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