- The `dump_stack()` method could call a `__repr__` method implemented in Python,
causing (infinite) recursion.
I rewrote it to only print out the values for some fundamental types (`int`, `str`, etc.);
for everything else it just prints `<type_name @ 0xdeadbeef>`.
- The lltrace-like feature for uops wrote to `stderr`, while the one in `ceval.c` writes to `stdout`;
I changed the uops to write to stdout as well.
These aren't automatically translated because (ironically)
they are macros deferring to POP_JUMP_IF_{TRUE,FALSE},
which are not viable uops (being manually translated).
The hack is that we emit IS_NONE and then set opcode and
jump to the POP_JUMP_IF_{TRUE,FALSE} translation code.
During superblock generation, a JUMP_BACKWARD instruction is translated to either a JUMP_TO_TOP micro-op (when the target of the jump is exactly the beginning of the superblock, closing the loop), or a SAVE_IP + EXIT_TRACE pair, when the jump goes elsewhere.
The new JUMP_TO_TOP instruction includes a CHECK_EVAL_BREAKER() call, so a closed loop can still be interrupted.
- Hand-written uops JUMP_IF_{TRUE,FALSE}.
These peek at the top of the stack.
The jump target (in superblock space) is absolute.
- Hand-written translation for POP_JUMP_IF_{TRUE,FALSE},
assuming the jump is unlikely.
Once we implement jump-likelihood profiling,
we can implement the jump-unlikely case (in another PR).
- Tests (including some test cleanup).
- Improvements to len(ex) and ex[i] to expose the whole trace.
Instead of special-casing specific instructions,
we add a few more special values to the 'size' field of expansions,
so in the future we can automatically handle
additional super-instructions in the generator.
The uops test wasn't testing anything by default,
and was failing when run with -Xuops.
Made the two executor-related context managers global,
so TestUops can use them (notably `with temporary_optimizer(opt)`).
Made clear_executor() a little more thorough.
Fixed a crash upon finalizing a uop optimizer,
by adding a `tp_dealloc` handler.
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.
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* Issue: gh-104584
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- Tweak uops debugging output
- Fix the bug from gh-106290
- Rename `SET_IP` to `SAVE_IP` (per https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/558)
- Add a `SAVE_IP` uop at the start of the trace (ditto)
- Allow `unbound_local_error`; this gives us uops for `LOAD_FAST_CHECK`, `LOAD_CLOSURE`, and `DELETE_FAST`
- Longer traces
- Support `STORE_FAST_LOAD_FAST`, `STORE_FAST_STORE_FAST`
- Add deps on pycore_uops.h to Makefile(.pre.in)
This produces longer traces (superblocks?).
Also improved debug output (uop names are now printed instead of numeric opcodes). This would be simpler if the numeric opcode values were generated by generate_cases.py, but that's another project.
Refactored some code in generate_cases.py so the essential algorithm for cache effects is only run once. (Deciding which effects are used and what the total cache size is, regardless of what's used.)
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.
Ken Jin
Guido van Rossum
Ivin Lee
Brandt Bucher
Irit Katriel
Mark Shannon
Victor Stinner