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.
Biased reference counting maintains two refcount fields in each object:
`ob_ref_local` and `ob_ref_shared`. The true refcount is the sum of these two
fields. In some cases, when refcounting operations are split across threads,
the ob_ref_shared field can be negative (although the total refcount must be
at least zero). In this case, the thread that decremented the refcount
requests that the owning thread give up ownership and merge the refcount
fields.
The `--disable-gil` builds occasionally need to pause all but one thread. Some
examples include:
* Cyclic garbage collection, where this is often called a "stop the world event"
* Before calling `fork()`, to ensure a consistent state for internal data structures
* During interpreter shutdown, to ensure that daemon threads aren't accessing Python objects
This adds the following functions to implement global and per-interpreter pauses:
* `_PyEval_StopTheWorldAll()` and `_PyEval_StartTheWorldAll()` (for the global runtime)
* `_PyEval_StopTheWorld()` and `_PyEval_StartTheWorld()` (per-interpreter)
(The function names may change.)
These functions are no-ops outside of the `--disable-gil` build.
The `PyThreadState_Clear()` function must only be called with the GIL
held and must be called from the same interpreter as the passed in
thread state. Otherwise, any Python objects on the thread state may be
destroyed using the wrong interpreter, leading to memory corruption.
This is also important for `Py_GIL_DISABLED` builds because free lists
will be associated with PyThreadStates and cleared in
`PyThreadState_Clear()`.
This fixes two places that called `PyThreadState_Clear()` from the wrong
interpreter and adds an assertion to `PyThreadState_Clear()`.
This replaces some usages of PyThread_type_lock with PyMutex, which does not require memory allocation to initialize.
This simplifies some of the runtime initialization and is also one step towards avoiding changing the default raw memory allocator during initialize/finalization, which can be non-thread-safe in some circumstances.
This is partly to clear this stuff out of pystate.c, but also in preparation for moving some code out of _xxsubinterpretersmodule.c. This change also moves this stuff to the internal API (new: Include/internal/pycore_crossinterp.h). @vstinner did this previously and I undid it. Now I'm re-doing it. :/
This adds a new field 'state' to PyThreadState that can take on one of three values: _Py_THREAD_ATTACHED, _Py_THREAD_DETACHED, or _Py_THREAD_GC. The "attached" and "detached" states correspond closely to acquiring and releasing the GIL. The "gc" state is current unused, but will be used to implement stop-the-world GC for --disable-gil builds in the near future.
Move private _PyEval functions to the internal C API
(pycore_ceval.h):
* _PyEval_GetBuiltin()
* _PyEval_GetBuiltinId()
* _PyEval_GetSwitchInterval()
* _PyEval_MakePendingCalls()
* _PyEval_SetProfile()
* _PyEval_SetSwitchInterval()
* _PyEval_SetTrace()
No longer export most of these functions.
No longer export _PyCompile_AstOptimize() internal C API function.
Change comment style to "// comment" and add comment explaining why
other functions have to be exported.
* Add missing includes.
* Remove unused includes.
* Update old include/symbol names to newer names.
* Mention at least one included symbol.
* Sort includes.
* Update Tools/cases_generator/generate_cases.py used to generated
pycore_opcode_metadata.h.
* Update Parser/asdl_c.py used to generate pycore_ast.h.
* Cleanup also includes in _testcapimodule.c and _testinternalcapi.c.
This finishes the work begun in gh-107760. When, while projecting a superblock, we encounter a call to a short, simple function, the superblock will now enter the function using `_PUSH_FRAME`, continue through it, and leave it using `_POP_FRAME`, and then continue through the original code. Multiple frame pushes and pops are even possible. It is also possible to stop appending to the superblock in the middle of a called function, when running out of space or encountering an unsupported bytecode.
No longer export these 2 internal C API functions:
* _PyEval_SignalAsyncExc()
* _PyEval_SignalReceived()
Add also comments explaining why some internal functions have to be
exported, and update existing comments.
For a while now, pending calls only run in the main thread (in the main interpreter). This PR changes things to allow any thread run a pending call, unless the pending call was explicitly added for the main thread to run.
This avoids the problematic race in drop_gil() by skipping the FORCE_SWITCHING code there for finalizing threads.
(The idea for this approach came out of discussions with @markshannon.)
This is the culmination of PEP 684 (and of my 8-year long multi-core Python project)!
Each subinterpreter may now be created with its own GIL (via Py_NewInterpreterFromConfig()). If not so configured then the interpreter will share with the main interpreter--the status quo since subinterpreters were added decades ago. The main interpreter always has its own GIL and subinterpreters from Py_NewInterpreter() will always share with the main interpreter.
We also add PyInterpreterState.ceval.own_gil to record if the interpreter actually has its own GIL.
Note that for now we don't actually respect own_gil; all interpreters still share the one GIL. However, PyInterpreterState.ceval.own_gil does reflect PyInterpreterConfig.own_gil. That lie is a temporary one that we will fix when the GIL really becomes per-interpreter.
In preparation for a per-interpreter GIL, we add PyInterpreterState.ceval.gil, set it to the shared GIL for each interpreter, and use that rather than using _PyRuntime.ceval.gil directly. Note that _PyRuntime.ceval.gil is still the actual GIL.
⚠️⚠️ Note for reviewers, hackers and fellow systems/low-level/compiler engineers ⚠️⚠️
If you have a lot of experience with this kind of shenanigans and want to improve the **first** version, **please make a PR against my branch** or **reach out by email** or **suggest code changes directly on GitHub**.
If you have any **refinements or optimizations** please, wait until the first version is merged before starting hacking or proposing those so we can keep this PR productive.
This was added for bpo-40514 (gh-84694) to test out a per-interpreter GIL. However, it has since proven unnecessary to keep the experiment in the repo. (It can be done as a branch in a fork like normal.) So here we are removing:
* the configure option
* the macro
* the code enabled by the macro
Currently, calling Py_EnterRecursiveCall() and
Py_LeaveRecursiveCall() may use a function call or a static inline
function call, depending if the internal pycore_ceval.h header file
is included or not. Use a different name for the static inline
function to ensure that the static inline function is always used in
Python internals for best performance. Similar approach than
PyThreadState_GET() (function call) and _PyThreadState_GET() (static
inline function).
* Rename _Py_EnterRecursiveCall() to _Py_EnterRecursiveCallTstate()
* Rename _Py_LeaveRecursiveCall() to _Py_LeaveRecursiveCallTstate()
* pycore_ceval.h: Rename Py_EnterRecursiveCall() to
_Py_EnterRecursiveCall() and Py_LeaveRecursiveCall() and
_Py_LeaveRecursiveCall()
* Revert "bpo-46850: Move _PyInterpreterState_SetEvalFrameFunc() to internal C API (GH-32054)"
This reverts commit f877b40e3f.
* Revert "bpo-46850: Move _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault() to internal C API (GH-32052)"
This reverts commit b9a5522dd9.
Move the private undocumented _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault() function to
the internal C API. The function now uses the _PyInterpreterFrame
type which is part of the internal C API.
Remove the private undocumented function
_PyEval_GetCoroutineOriginTrackingDepth() from the C API. Call the
public sys.get_coroutine_origin_tracking_depth() function instead.
Change the internal function
_PyEval_SetCoroutineOriginTrackingDepth():
* Remove the 'tstate' parameter;
* Add return value and raises an exception if depth is negative;
* No longer export the function: call the public
sys.set_coroutine_origin_tracking_depth() function instead.
Uniformize also function declarations in pycore_ceval.h.
Remove the following private undocumented functions from the C API:
* _PyEval_GetAsyncGenFirstiter()
* _PyEval_GetAsyncGenFinalizer()
* _PyEval_SetAsyncGenFirstiter()
* _PyEval_SetAsyncGenFinalizer()
Call the public sys.get_asyncgen_hooks() and sys.set_asyncgen_hooks()
functions instead.
This falls into the category of keep-allocation-and-initialization separate. It also allows us to use _PyEval_InitState() safely in functions that return void.
https://bugs.python.org/issue46008
* Make generator, coroutine and async gen structs all the same size.
* Store interpreter frame in generator (and coroutine). Reduces the number of allocations neeeded for a generator from two to one.
* Make internal APIs that take PyFrameConstructor take a PyFunctionObject instead.
* Add reference to function to frame, borrow references to builtins and globals.
* Add COPY_FREE_VARS instruction to allow specialization of calls to inner functions.
Redefining the PyThreadState_GET() macro in pycore_pystate.h is
useless since it doesn't affect files not including it. Either use
_PyThreadState_GET() directly, or don't use pycore_pystate.h internal
C API. For example, the _testcapi extension don't use the internal C
API, but use the public PyThreadState_Get() function instead.
Replace PyThreadState_Get() with _PyThreadState_GET(). The
_PyThreadState_GET() macro is more efficient than PyThreadState_Get()
and PyThreadState_GET() function calls which call fail with a fatal
Python error.
posixmodule.c and _ctypes extension now include <windows.h> before
pycore header files (like pycore_call.h).
_PyTraceback_Add() now uses _PyErr_Fetch()/_PyErr_Restore() instead
of PyErr_Fetch()/PyErr_Restore().
The _decimal and _xxsubinterpreters extensions are now built with the
Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULE macro defined to get access to the internal C
API.
Mark Shannon
Brandt Bucher
Brett Simmers
Sam Gross
Pablo Galindo Salgado
Tian Gao
Eric Snow
Donghee Na
Victor Stinner
Guido van Rossum
Carl Meyer
Christian Heimes