- There is no longer a separate Python/executor.c file.
- Conventions in Python/bytecodes.c are slightly different -- don't use `goto error`,
you must use `GOTO_ERROR(error)` (same for others like `unused_local_error`).
- The `TIER_ONE` and `TIER_TWO` symbols are only valid in the generated (.c.h) files.
- In Lib/test/support/__init__.py, `Py_C_RECURSION_LIMIT` is imported from `_testcapi`.
- On Windows, in debug mode, stack allocation grows from 8MiB to 12MiB.
- **Beware!** This changes the env vars to enable uops and their debugging
to `PYTHON_UOPS` and `PYTHON_LLTRACE`.
In Python/bytecodes.c, you now write
```
DEOPT_IF(condition);
```
The code generator expands this to
```
DEOPT_IF(condition, opcode);
```
where `opcode` is the name of the unspecialized instruction.
This works inside macro expansions too.
**CAVEAT:** The entire `DEOPT_IF(condition)` statement must be on a single line.
If it isn't, the substitution will fail; an error will be printed by the code generator
and the C compiler will report some errors.
These are the most popular specializations of `LOAD_ATTR` and `STORE_ATTR`
that weren't already viable uops:
* Split LOAD_ATTR_METHOD_WITH_VALUES
* Split LOAD_ATTR_METHOD_NO_DICT
* Split LOAD_ATTR_SLOT
* Split STORE_ATTR_SLOT
* Split STORE_ATTR_INSTANCE_VALUE
Also:
* Add `-v` flag to code generator which prints a list of non-viable uops
(easter-egg: it can print execution counts -- see source)
* Double _Py_UOP_MAX_TRACE_LENGTH to 128
I had dropped one of the DEOPT_IF() calls! :-(
* Rename SAVE_IP to _SET_IP
* Rename EXIT_TRACE to _EXIT_TRACE
* Rename SAVE_CURRENT_IP to _SAVE_CURRENT_IP
* Rename INSERT to _INSERT (This is for Ken Jin's abstract interpreter)
* Rename IS_NONE to _IS_NONE
* Rename JUMP_TO_TOP to _JUMP_TO_TOP
This adds a 16-bit inline cache entry to the conditional branch instructions POP_JUMP_IF_{FALSE,TRUE,NONE,NOT_NONE} and their instrumented variants, which is used to keep track of the branch direction.
Each time we encounter these instructions we shift the cache entry left by one and set the bottom bit to whether we jumped.
Then when it's time to translate such a branch to Tier 2 uops, we use the bit count from the cache entry to decided whether to continue translating the "didn't jump" branch or the "jumped" branch.
The counter is initialized to a pattern of alternating ones and zeros to avoid bias.
The .pyc file magic number is updated. There's a new test, some fixes for existing tests, and a few miscellaneous cleanups.
Instead of using `GO_TO_INSTRUCTION(CALL_PY_EXACT_ARGS)` we just add the macro elements of the latter to the macro for the former. This requires lengthening the uops array in struct opcode_macro_expansion. (It also required changes to stacking.py that were merged already.)
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.
* Split `CALL_PY_EXACT_ARGS` into uops
This is only the first step for doing `CALL` in Tier 2.
The next step involves tracing into the called code object and back.
After that we'll have to do the remaining `CALL` specialization.
Finally we'll have to deal with `KW_NAMES`.
Note: this moves setting `frame->return_offset` directly in front of
`DISPATCH_INLINED()`, to make it easier to move it into `_PUSH_FRAME`.
There's no need to use a dummy uop to skip unused cache entries. The macro syntax lets you write `unused/1` instead.
Similarly, move `unused/5` from op `_LOAD_ATTR_INSTANCE_VALUE` to macro `LOAD_ATTR_INSTANCE_VALUE`.
By turning `assert(kwnames == NULL)` into a macro that is not in the "forbidden" list, many instructions that formerly were skipped because they contained such an assert (but no other mention of `kwnames`) are now supported in Tier 2. This covers 10 instructions in total (all specializations of `CALL` that invoke some C code):
- `CALL_NO_KW_TYPE_1`
- `CALL_NO_KW_STR_1`
- `CALL_NO_KW_TUPLE_1`
- `CALL_NO_KW_BUILTIN_O`
- `CALL_NO_KW_BUILTIN_FAST`
- `CALL_NO_KW_LEN`
- `CALL_NO_KW_ISINSTANCE`
- `CALL_NO_KW_METHOD_DESCRIPTOR_O`
- `CALL_NO_KW_METHOD_DESCRIPTOR_NOARGS`
- `CALL_NO_KW_METHOD_DESCRIPTOR_FAST`
The Tier 2 opcode _IS_ITER_EXHAUSTED_LIST (and _TUPLE)
didn't set it->it_seq to NULL, causing a subtle bug
that resulted in test_exhausted_iterator in list_tests.py
to fail when running all tests with -Xuops.
The bug was introduced in gh-106696.
Added this as an explicit test.
Also fixed the dependencies for ceval.o -- it depends on executor_cases.c.h.
This moves EXIT_TRACE, SAVE_IP, JUMP_TO_TOP, and
_POP_JUMP_IF_{FALSE,TRUE} from ceval.c to bytecodes.c.
They are no less special than before, but this way
they are discoverable o the copy-and-patch tooling.
* Convert PyObject_DelAttr() and PyObject_DelAttrString() macros to
functions.
* Add PyObject_DelAttr() and PyObject_DelAttrString() functions to
the stable ABI.
* Replace PyObject_SetAttr(obj, name, NULL) with
PyObject_DelAttr(obj, name).
When `_PyOptimizer_BackEdge` returns `NULL`, we should restore `next_instr` (and `stack_pointer`). To accomplish this we should jump to `resume_with_error` instead of just `error`.
The problem this causes is subtle -- the only repro I have is in PR gh-106393, at commit d7df54b139bcc47f5ea094bfaa9824f79bc45adc. But the fix is real (as shown later in that PR).
While we're at it, also improve the debug output: the offsets at which traces are identified are now measured in bytes, and always show the start offset. This makes it easier to correlate executor calls with optimizer calls, and either with `dis` output.
<!-- gh-issue-number: gh-104584 -->
* Issue: gh-104584
<!-- /gh-issue-number -->
Added a new, experimental, tracing optimizer and interpreter (a.k.a. "tier 2"). This currently pessimizes, so don't use yet -- this is infrastructure so we can experiment with optimizing passes. To enable it, pass ``-Xuops`` or set ``PYTHONUOPS=1``. To get debug output, set ``PYTHONUOPSDEBUG=N`` where ``N`` is a debug level (0-4, where 0 is no debug output and 4 is excessively verbose).
All of this code is likely to change dramatically before the 3.13 feature freeze. But this is a first step.
* Add table describing possible executable classes for out-of-process debuggers.
* Remove shim code object creation code as it is no longer needed.
* Make lltrace a bit more robust w.r.t. non-standard frames.
This implements PEP 695, Type Parameter Syntax. It adds support for:
- Generic functions (def func[T](): ...)
- Generic classes (class X[T](): ...)
- Type aliases (type X = ...)
- New scoping when the new syntax is used within a class body
- Compiler and interpreter changes to support the new syntax and scoping rules
Co-authored-by: Marc Mueller <30130371+cdce8p@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Traut <eric@traut.com>
Co-authored-by: Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org>
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
When monitoring LINE events, instrument all instructions that can have a predecessor on a different line.
Then check that the a new line has been hit in the instrumentation code.
This brings the behavior closer to that of 3.11, simplifying implementation and porting of tools.
This speeds up `super()` (by around 85%, for a simple one-level
`super().meth()` microbenchmark) by avoiding allocation of a new
single-use `super()` object on each use.
* The majority of the monitoring code is in instrumentation.c
* The new instrumentation bytecodes are in bytecodes.c
* legacy_tracing.c adapts the new API to the old sys.setrace and sys.setprofile APIs
* Eliminate all remaining uses of Py_SIZE and Py_SET_SIZE on PyLongObject, adding asserts.
* Change layout of size/sign bits in longobject to support future addition of immortal ints and tagged medium ints.
* Add functions to hide some internals of long object, and for setting sign and digit count.
* Replace uses of IS_MEDIUM_VALUE macro with _PyLong_IsCompact().
* Rename local variables, names and consts, from the interpeter loop. Will allow non-code objects in frames for better introspection of C builtins and extensions.
* Remove unused dummy variables.
* Make sure that the current exception is always normalized.
* Remove redundant type and traceback fields for the current exception.
* Add new API functions: PyErr_GetRaisedException, PyErr_SetRaisedException
* Add new API functions: PyException_GetArgs, PyException_SetArgs
New generator feature: Generate useful glue for output arrays, so you can just write values to the output array (no bounds checking). Rewrote UNPACK_SEQUENCE_TWO_TUPLE to use this, and also UNPACK_SEQUENCE_{TUPLE,LIST}.
You can now write things like this:
```
inst(BUILD_STRING, (pieces[oparg] -- str)) { ... }
inst(LIST_APPEND, (list, unused[oparg-1], v -- list, unused[oparg-1])) { ... }
```
Note that array output effects are only partially supported (they must be named `unused` or correspond to an input effect).
(These aren't used yet, but may be coming soon,
and it's easier to keep this tool the same between branches.)
Added a sanity check for all this to compile.c.
Co-authored-by: Irit Katriel <iritkatriel@yahoo.com>
When executing the BUILD_LIST opcode, steal the references from the stack,
in a manner similar to the BUILD_TUPLE opcode. Implement this by offloading
the logic to a new private API, _PyList_FromArraySteal(), that works similarly
to _PyTuple_FromArraySteal().
This way, instead of performing multiple stack pointer adjustments while the
list is being initialized, the stack is adjusted only once and a fast memory
copy operation is performed in one fell swoop.
The presence of this macro indicates that a particular instruction
may be considered for conversion to a register-based format
(see https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/485).
An invariant (currently unchecked) is that `DEOPT_IF()` may only
occur *before* `DECREF_INPUTS()`, and `ERROR_IF()` may only occur
*after* it. One reason not to check this is that there are a few
places where we insert *two* `DECREF_INPUTS()` calls, in different
branches of the code. The invariant checking would have to be able
to do some flow control analysis to understand this.
Note that many instructions, especially specialized ones,
can't be converted to use this macro straightforwardly.
This is because the generator currently only generates plain
`Py_DECREF(variable)` statements, and cannot generate
things like `_Py_DECREF_SPECIALIZED()` let alone deal with
`_PyList_AppendTakeRef()`.
Stack effects can now have a type, e.g. `inst(X, (left, right -- jump/uint64_t)) { ... }`.
Instructions converted to the non-legacy format:
* COMPARE_OP
* COMPARE_OP_FLOAT_JUMP
* COMPARE_OP_INT_JUMP
* COMPARE_OP_STR_JUMP
* STORE_ATTR
* DELETE_ATTR
* STORE_GLOBAL
* STORE_ATTR_INSTANCE_VALUE
* STORE_ATTR_WITH_HINT
* STORE_ATTR_SLOT, and complete the store_attr family
* Complete the store_subscr family: STORE_SUBSCR{,DICT,LIST_INT}
(STORE_SUBSCR was alread half converted,
but wasn't using cache effects yet.)
* DELETE_SUBSCR
* PRINT_EXPR
* INTERPRETER_EXIT (a bit weird, ends in return)
* RETURN_VALUE
* GET_AITER (had to restructure it some)
The original had mysterious `SET_TOP(NULL)` before `goto error`.
I assume those just account for `obj` having been decref'ed,
so I got rid of them in favor of the cleanup implied by `ERROR_IF()`.
* LIST_APPEND (a bit unhappy with it)
* SET_ADD (also a bit unhappy with it)
Various other improvements/refactorings as well.
Newly supported interpreter definition syntax:
- `op(NAME, (input_stack_effects -- output_stack_effects)) { ... }`
- `macro(NAME) = OP1 + OP2;`
Also some other random improvements:
- Convert `WITH_EXCEPT_START` to use stack effects
- Fix lexer to balk at unrecognized characters, e.g. `@`
- Fix moved output names; support object pointers in cache
- Introduce `error()` method to print errors
- Introduce read_uint16(p) as equivalent to `*p`
Co-authored-by: Brandt Bucher <brandtbucher@gmail.com>
* Adds EXIT_INTERPRETER instruction to exit PyEval_EvalDefault()
* Simplifies RETURN_VALUE, YIELD_VALUE and RETURN_GENERATOR instructions as they no longer need to check for entry frames.
The switch cases (really TARGET(opcode) macros) have been moved from ceval.c to generated_cases.c.h. That file is generated from instruction definitions in bytecodes.c (which impersonates a C file so the C code it contains can be edited without custom support in e.g. VS Code).
The code generator lives in Tools/cases_generator (it has a README.md explaining how it works). The DSL used to describe the instructions is a work in progress, described in https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/3.12/interpreter_definition.md.
This is surely a work-in-progress. An easy next step could be auto-generating super-instructions.
**IMPORTANT: Merge Conflicts**
If you get a merge conflict for instruction implementations in ceval.c, your best bet is to port your changes to bytecodes.c. That file looks almost the same as the original cases, except instead of `TARGET(NAME)` it uses `inst(NAME)`, and the trailing `DISPATCH()` call is omitted (the code generator adds it automatically).
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