Support for Xtensa emitter and assembler, and upgraded F4 and F7 STM HAL
This release adds support for the Xtensa architecture as a target for the
native emitter, as well as Xtensa inline assembler. The int.from_bytes
and int.to_bytes methods now require a second argument (the byte order)
per CPython (only "little" is supported at this time). The "readall"
method has been removed from all stream classes that used it; "read" with
no arguments should be used instead. There is now support for importing
packages from compiled .mpy files. Test coverage is increased to 96%.
The generic I2C driver has improvements: configurable clock stretching
timeout, "stop" argument added to readfrom/writeto methods, "nack"
argument added to readinto, and write[to] now returns num of ACKs
received. The framebuf module now handles 16-bit depth (generic colour
format) and has hline, vline, rect, line methods. A new utimeq module is
added for efficient queue ordering defined by modulo time (to be
compatible with time.ticks_xxx functions). The pyboard.py script has been
modified so that the target board is not reset between scripts or commands
that are given on a single command line.
For the stmhal port the STM Cube HAL has been upgraded: Cube F4 HAL to
v1.13.1 (CMSIS 2.5.1, HAL v1.5.2) and Cube F7 HAL to v1.1.2. There is a
more robust pyb.I2C implementation (DMA is now disabled by default, can be
enabled via an option), and there is an implementation of machine.I2C with
robust error handling and hardware acceleration on F4 MCUs. It is now
recommended to use machine.I2C instead of pyb.I2C. The UART class is now
more robust with better handling of errors/timeouts. There is also more
accurate VBAT and VREFINT measurements for the ADC. New boards that are
supported include: NUCLEO_F767ZI, STM32F769DISC and NUCLEO_L476RG.
For the esp8266 port select/poll is now supported for sockets using the
uselect module. There is support for native and viper emitters, as well
as an inline assembler (with limited iRAM for storage of native functions,
or the option to store code to flash). There is improved software I2C
with a slight API change: scl/sda pins can be specified as positional only
when "-1" is passed as the first argument to indicate the use of software
I2C. It is recommended to use keyword arguments for scl/sda. There is
very early support for over-the-air (OTA) updates using the yaota8266
project.
A detailed list of changes follows.
py core:
- emitnative: fix native import emitter when in viper mode
- remove readall() method, which is equivalent to read() w/o args
- objexcept: allow clearing traceback with 'exc.__traceback__ = None'
- runtime: mp_resume: handle exceptions in Python __next__()
- mkrules.mk: rework find command so it works on OSX
- *.mk: replace uses of 'sed' with $(SED)
- parse: move function to check for const parse node to parse.[ch]
- parse: make mp_parse_node_new_leaf an inline function
- parse: add code to fold logical constants in or/and/not operations
- factor persistent code load/save funcs into persistentcode.[ch]
- factor out persistent-code reader into separate files
- lexer: rewrite mp_lexer_new_from_str_len in terms of mp_reader_mem
- lexer: provide generic mp_lexer_new_from_file based on mp_reader
- lexer: rewrite mp_lexer_new_from_fd in terms of mp_reader
- lexer: make lexer use an mp_reader as its source
- objtype: implement __call__ handling for an instance w/o heap alloc
- factor out common code from assemblers into asmbase.[ch]
- stream: move ad-hoc ioctl constants to stream.h and rename them
- compile: simplify configuration of native emitter
- emit.h: remove long-obsolete declarations for cpython emitter
- move arch-specific assembler macros from emitnative to asmXXX.h
- asmbase: add MP_PLAT_COMMIT_EXEC option for handling exec code
- asmxtensa: add low-level Xtensa assembler
- integrate Xtensa assembler into native emitter
- allow inline-assembler emitter to be generic
- add inline Xtensa assembler
- emitinline: embed entire asm struct instead of a pointer to it
- emitinline: move inline-asm align and data methods to compiler
- emitinline: move common code for end of final pass to compiler
- asm: remove need for dummy_data when doing initial assembler passes
- objint: from_bytes, to_bytes: require byteorder arg, require "little"
- binary: do zero extension when storing a value larger than word size
- builtinimport: support importing packages from compiled .mpy files
- mpz: remove unreachable code in mpn_or_neg functions
- runtime: zero out fs_user_mount array in mp_init
- mpconfig.h: enable MICROPY_PY_SYS_EXIT by default
- add MICROPY_KBD_EXCEPTION config option to provide mp_kbd_exception
- compile: add an extra pass for Xtensa inline assembler
- modbuiltins: remove unreachable code
- objint: rename mp_obj_int_as_float to mp_obj_int_as_float_impl
- emitglue: refactor to remove assert(0), to improve coverage
- lexer: remove unreachable code in string tokeniser
- lexer: remove unnecessary check for EOF in lexer's next_char func
- lexer: permanently disable the mp_lexer_show_token function
- parsenum: simplify and generalise decoding of digit values
- mpz: fix assertion in mpz_set_from_str which checks value of base
- mpprint: add assertion for, and comment about, valid base values
- objint: simplify mp_int_format_size and remove unreachable code
- unicode: comment-out unused function unichar_isprint
- consistently update signatures of .make_new and .call methods
- mkrules.mk: add MPY_CROSS_FLAGS option to pass flags to mpy-cross
- builtinimport: fix bug when importing names from frozen packages
extmod:
- machine_i2c: make the clock stretching timeout configurable
- machine_i2c: raise an error when clock stretching times out
- machine_i2c: release SDA on bus error
- machine_i2c: add a C-level I2C-protocol, refactoring soft I2C
- machine_i2c: add argument to C funcs to control stop generation
- machine_i2c: rewrite i2c.scan in terms of C-level protocol
- machine_i2c: rewrite mem xfer funcs in terms of C-level protocol
- machine_i2c: remove unneeded i2c_write_mem/i2c_read_mem funcs
- machine_i2c: make C-level functions return -errno on I2C error
- machine_i2c: add 'nack' argument to i2c.readinto
- machine_i2c: make i2c.write[to] methods return num of ACKs recvd
- machine_i2c: add 'stop' argument to i2c readfrom/writeto meths
- machine_i2c: remove trivial function wrappers
- machine_i2c: expose soft I2C obj and readfrom/writeto funcs
- machine_i2c: add hook to constructor to call port-specific code
- modurandom: allow to build with float disabled
- modframebuf: make FrameBuffer handle 16bit depth
- modframebuf: add back legacy FrameBuffer1 "class"
- modframebuf: optimise fill and fill_rect methods
- vfs_fat: implement POSIX behaviour of rename, allow to overwrite
- moduselect: use stream helper function instead of ad-hoc code
- moduselect: use configurable EVENT_POLL_HOOK instead of WFI
- modlwip: add ioctl method to socket, with poll implementation
- vfs_fat_file: allow file obj to respond to ioctl flush request
- modbtree: add method to sync the database
- modbtree: rename "sync" method to "flush" for consistency
- modframebuf: add hline, vline, rect and line methods
- machine_spi: provide reusable software SPI class
- modframebuf: make framebuf implement the buffer protocol
- modframebuf: store underlying buffer object to prevent GC free
- modutimeq: copy of current moduheapq with timeq support for refactoring
- modutimeq: refactor into optimized class
- modutimeq: make time_less_than be actually "less than", not less/eq
lib:
- utils/interrupt_char: use core-provided mp_kbd_exception if enabled
drivers:
- display/ssd1306.py: update to use FrameBuffer not FrameBuffer1
- onewire: enable pull up on data pin
- onewire/ds18x20: fix negative temperature calc for DS18B20
tools:
- tinytest-codegen: blacklist recently added uheapq_timeq test (qemu-arm)
- pyboard.py: refactor so target is not reset between scripts/cmd
- mpy-tool.py: add support for OPT_CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE
tests:
- micropython: add test for import from within viper function
- use read() instead of readall()
- basics: add test for logical constant folding
- micropython: add test for creating traceback without allocation
- micropython: move alloc-less traceback test to separate test file
- extmod: improve ujson coverage
- basics: improve user class coverage
- basics: add test for dict.fromkeys where arg is a generator
- basics: add tests for if-expressions
- basics: change dict_fromkeys test so it doesn't use generators
- basics: enable tests for list slice getting with 3rd arg
- extmod/vfs_fat_fileio: add test for constructor of FileIO type
- extmod/btree1: exercise btree.flush()
- extmod/framebuf1: add basics tests for hline, vline, rect, line
- update for required byteorder arg for int.from_bytes()/to_bytes()
- extmod: improve moductypes test coverage
- extmod: improve modframebuf test coverage
- micropython: get heapalloc_traceback test running on baremetal
- struct*: make skippable
- basics: improve mpz test coverage
- float/builtin_float_round: test round() with second arg
- basics/builtin_dir: add test for dir() of a type
- basics: add test for builtin locals()
- basics/set_pop: improve coverage of set functions
- run-tests: for REPL tests make sure the REPL is exited at the end
- basics: improve test coverage for generators
- import: add a test which uses ... in from-import statement
- add tests to improve coverage of runtime.c
- add tests to improve coverage of objarray.c
- extmod: add test for utimeq module
- basics/lexer: add a test for newline-escaping within a string
- add a coverage test for printing the parse-tree
- utimeq_stable: test for partial stability of utimeq queuing
- heapalloc_inst_call: test for no alloc for simple object calls
- basics: add tests for parsing of ints with base 36
- basics: add tests to improve coverage of binary.c
- micropython: add test for micropython.stack_use() function
- extmod: improve ubinascii.c test coverage
- thread: improve modthread.c test coverage
- cmdline: improve repl.c autocomplete test coverage
- unix: improve runtime_utils.c test coverage
- pyb/uart: update test to match recent change to UART timeout_char
- run-tests: allow to skip set tests
- improve warning.c test coverage
- float: improve formatfloat.c test coverage using Python
- unix: improve formatfloat.c test coverage using C
- unix/extra_coverage: add basic tests to import frozen str and mpy
- types1: split out set type test to set_types
- array: allow to skip test if "array" is unavailable
- unix/extra_coverage: add tests for importing frozen packages
unix port:
- rename define for unix moduselect to MICROPY_PY_USELECT_POSIX
- Makefile: update freedos target for change of USELECT config name
- enable utimeq module
- main: allow to print the parse tree in coverage build
- Makefile: make "coverage_test" target mirror Travis test actions
- moduselect: if file object passed to .register(), return it in .poll()
- Makefile: split long line for coverage target, easier to modify
- enable and add basic frozen str and frozen mpy in coverage build
- Makefile: allow cache-map-lookup optimisation with frozen bytecode
windows port:
- enable READER_POSIX to get access to lexer_new_from_file
stmhal port:
- dma: de-init the DMA peripheral properly before initialising
- i2c: add option to I2C to enable/disable use of DMA transfers
- i2c: reset the I2C peripheral if there was an error on the bus
- rename mp_hal_pin_set_af to _config_alt, to simplify alt config
- upgrade to STM32CubeF4 v1.13.0 - CMSIS/Device 2.5.1
- upgrade to STM32CubeF4 v1.13.0 - HAL v1.5.1
- apply STM32CubeF4 v1.13.1 patch - upgrade HAL driver to v1.5.2
- hal/i2c: reapply HAL commit ea040a4 for f4
- hal/sd: reapply HAL commit 1d7fb82 for f4
- hal: reapply HAL commit 9db719b for f4
- hal/rcc: reapply HAL commit c568a2b for f4
- hal/sd: reapply HAL commit 09de030 for f4
- boards: configure all F4 boards to work with new HAL
- make-stmconst.py: fix regex's to work with current CMSIS
- i2c: handle I2C IRQs
- dma: precalculate register base and bitshift on handle init
- dma: mark DMA sate as READY even if HAL_DMA_Init is skipped
- can: clear FIFO flags in IRQ handler
- i2c: provide custom IRQ handlers
- hal: do not include <stdio.h> in HAL headers
- mphalport.h: use single GPIOx->BSRR register
- make-stmconst.py: add support for files with invalid utf8 bytes
- update HALCOMMITS due to change to hal
- make-stmconst.py: restore Python 2 compatibility
- update HALCOMMITS due to change to hal
- moduselect: move to extmod/ for reuse by other ports
- i2c: use the HAL's I2C IRQ handler for F7 and L4 MCUs
- updates to get F411 MCUs compiling with latest ST HAL
- i2c: remove use of legacy I2C_NOSTRETCH_DISABLED option
- add beginnings of port-specific machine.I2C implementation
- i2c: add support for I2C4 hardware block on F7 MCUs
- i2c: expose the pyb_i2c_obj_t struct and some relevant functions
- machine_i2c: provide HW implementation of I2C peripherals for F4
- add support for flash storage on STM32F415
- add back GPIO_BSRRL and GPIO_BSRRH constants to stm module
- add OpenOCD configuration for STM32L4
- add address parameters to openocd config files
- adc: add "mask" selection parameter to pyb.ADCAll constructor
- adc: provide more accurate measure of VBAT and VREFINT
- adc: make ADCAll.read_core_temp return accurate float value
- adc: add ADCAll.read_vref method, returning "3.3v" value
- adc: add support for F767 MCU
- adc: make channel "16" always map to the temperature sensor
- sdcard: clean/invalidate cache before DMA transfers with SD card
- moduos: implement POSIX behaviour of rename, allow to overwrite
- adc: use constants from new HAL version
- refactor UART configuration to use pin objects
- uart: add support for UART7 and UART8 on F7 MCUs
- uart: add check that UART id is valid for the given board
- cmsis: update STM32F7 CMSIS device include files to V1.1.2
- hal: update ST32CubeF7 HAL files to V1.1.2
- port of f4 hal commit c568a2b to updated f7 hal
- port of f4 hal commit 09de030 to updated f7 hal
- port of f4 hal commit 1d7fb82 to updated f7 hal
- declare and initialise PrescTables for F7 MCUs
- boards/STM32F7DISC: define LSE_STARTUP_TIMEOUT
- hal: update HALCOMMITS due to change in f7 hal files
- refactor to use extmod implementation of software SPI class
- cmsis: add CMSIS file stm32f767xx.h, V1.1.2
- add NUCLEO_F767ZI board, with openocd config for stm32f7
- cmsis: add CMSIS file stm32f769xx.h, V1.1.2
- add STM32F769DISC board files
- move PY_SYS_PLATFORM config from board to general config file
- mpconfigport: add weak-module links for io, collections, random
- rename mp_const_vcp_interrupt to mp_kbd_exception
- usb: always use the mp_kbd_exception object for VCP interrupt
- use core-provided keyboard exception object
- led: properly initialise timer handle to zero before using it
- mphalport.h: explicitly use HAL's GPIO constants for pull modes
- usrsw: use mp_hal_pin_config function instead of HAL_GPIO_Init
- led: use mp_hal_pin_config function instead of HAL_GPIO_Init
- sdcard: use mp_hal_pin_config function instead of HAL_GPIO_Init
- add support for STM32 Nucleo64 L476RG
- uart: provide a custom function to transmit over UART
- uart: increase inter-character timeout by 1ms
- enable utimeq module
cc3200 port:
- tools/smoke.py: change readall() to read()
- pybspi: remove static mode=SPI.MASTER parameter for latest HW API
- mods/pybspi: remove SPI.MASTER constant, it's no longer needed
- update for moduselect moved to extmod/
- re-add support for UART REPL (MICROPY_STDIO_UART setting)
- enable UART REPL by default
- README: (re)add information about accessing REPL on serial
- make: rename "deploy" target to "deploy-ota"
- add targets to erase flash, deploy firmware using cc3200tool
- README: reorganize and update to the current state of affairs
- modwlan: add network.WLAN.print_ver() diagnostic function
esp8266 port:
- enable uselect module
- move websocket_helper.py from scripts to modules for frozen BC
- refactor to use extmod implementation of software SPI class
- mpconfigport_512k: disable framebuf module for 512k build
- enable native emitter for Xtensa arch
- enable inline Xtensa assembler
- add "ota" target to produce firmware binary for use with yaota8266
- use core-provided keyboard exception object
- add "erase" target to Makefile, to erase entire flash
- when doing GC be sure to trace the memory holding native code
- modesp: flash_user_start(): support configuration with yaota8266
- force relinking OTA firmware image if built after normal one
- scripts/inisetup: dump FS starting sector/size on error
- Makefile: produce OTA firmware as firmware-ota.bin
- modesp: make check_fw() work with OTA firmware
- enable utimeq module
- Makefile: put firmware-ota.bin in build/, for consistency
- modules/flashbdev: add RESERVED_SECS before the filesystem
- modules/flashbdev: remove code to patch bootloader flash size
- modules/flashbdev: remove now-unused function set_bl_flash_size
- modules/flashbdev: change RESERVED_SECS to 0
zephyr port:
- add .gitignore to ignore Zephyr's "outdir" directory
- zephyr_getchar: update to Zephyr 1.6 unified kernel API
- switch to Zephyr 1.6 unified kernel API
- support raw REPL
- implement soft reset feature
- main: initialize sys.path and sys.argv
- use core-provided keyboard exception object
- uart_core: access console UART directly instead of printk() hack
- enable slice subscription
docs:
- remove references to readall() and update stream read() docs
- library/index: elaborate on u-modules
- library/machine.I2C: refine definitions of I2C methods
- library/pyb.Accel: add hardware note about pins used by accel
- library/pyb.UART: added clarification about timeouts
- library/pyb.UART: moved writechar doc to sit with other writes
- esp8266/tutorial: update intro to add Getting the firmware section
- library/machine.I2C: fix I2C constructor docs to match impl
- esp8266/tutorial: close socket after reading page content
- esp8266/general: add "Scarcity of runtime resources" section
- library/esp: document esp.set_native_code_location() function
- library/esp: remove para and add further warning about flash
- usocket: clarify that socket timeout raises OSError exception
travis:
- build STM32 F7 and L4 boards under Travis CI
- include persistent bytecode with floats in coverage tests
examples:
- hwapi: button_led: Add GPIO pin read example
- hwapi: add soft_pwm example converted to uasyncio
- http_client: use read() instead of readall()
- hwapi: add uasyncio example of fading 2 LEDs in parallel
- hwapi: add example for machine.time_pulse_us()
- hwapi: add hwconfig for console tracing of LED operations
- accellog.py: change 1: to /sd/, and update comment about FS
- hwapi/hwconfig_console: don't alloc memory in value()
Defining and initialising mp_kbd_exception is boiler-plate code and so the
core runtime can provide it, instead of each port needing to do it
themselves.
The exception object is placed in the VM state rather than on the heap.
This includes StopIteration and thus are important to make Python-coded
iterables work with yield from/await.
Exceptions in Python send() are still not handled and left for future
consideration and optimization.
Builtin functions with a fixed number of arguments (0, 1, 2 or 3) are
quite common. Before this patch the wrapper for such a function cost
3 machine words. After this patch it only takes 2, which can reduce the
code size by quite a bit (and pays off even more, the more functions are
added). It also makes function dispatch slightly more efficient in CPU
usage, and furthermore reduces stack usage for these cases. On x86 and
Thumb archs the dispatch functions are now tail-call optimised by the
compiler.
The bare-arm port has its code size increase by 76 bytes, but stmhal drops
by 904 bytes. Stack usage by these builtin functions is decreased by 48
bytes on Thumb2 archs.
Introduce mp_raise_msg(), mp_raise_ValueError(), mp_raise_TypeError()
instead of previous pattern nlr_raise(mp_obj_new_exception_msg(...)).
Save few bytes on each call, which are many.
Passing an mp_uint_t to a %d printf format is incorrect for builds where
mp_uint_t is larger than word size (eg a nanboxing build). This patch
adds some simple casting to int in these cases.
Calling it from mp_init() is too late for some ports (like Unix), and leads
to incomplete stack frame being captured, with following GC issues. So, now
each port should call mp_stack_ctrl_init() on its own, ASAP after startup,
and taking special precautions so it really was called before stack variables
get allocated (because if such variable with a pointer is missed, it may lead
to over-collecting (typical symptom is segfaulting)).
This patch changes the type signature of .make_new and .call object method
slots to use size_t for n_args and n_kw (was mp_uint_t. Makes code more
efficient when mp_uint_t is larger than a machine word. Doesn't affect
ports when size_t and mp_uint_t have the same size.
When looking up and extracting an attribute of an instance, some
attributes must bind self as the first argument to make a working method
call. Previously to this patch, any attribute that was callable had self
bound as the first argument. But Python specs require the check to be
more restrictive, and only functions, closures and generators should have
self bound as the first argument
Addresses issue #1675.
MICROPY_ENABLE_COMPILER can be used to enable/disable the entire compiler,
which is useful when only loading of pre-compiled bytecode is supported.
It is enabled by default.
MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_EVAL_EXEC controls support of eval and exec builtin
functions. By default they are only included if MICROPY_ENABLE_COMPILER
is enabled.
Disabling both options saves about 40k of code size on 32-bit x86.
Fixes#1684 and makes "not" match Python semantics. The code is also
simplified (the separate MP_BC_NOT opcode is removed) and the patch saves
68 bytes for bare-arm/ and 52 bytes for minimal/.
Previously "not x" was implemented as !mp_unary_op(x, MP_UNARY_OP_BOOL),
so any given object only needs to implement MP_UNARY_OP_BOOL (and the VM
had a special opcode to do the ! bit).
With this patch "not x" is implemented as mp_unary_op(x, MP_UNARY_OP_NOT),
but this operation is caught at the start of mp_unary_op and dispatched as
!mp_obj_is_true(x). mp_obj_is_true has special logic to test for
truthness, and is the correct way to handle the not operation.
This allows the mp_obj_t type to be configured to something other than a
pointer-sized primitive type.
This patch also includes additional changes to allow the code to compile
when sizeof(mp_uint_t) != sizeof(void*), such as using size_t instead of
mp_uint_t, and various casts.
With this patch parse nodes are allocated sequentially in chunks. This
reduces fragmentation of the heap and prevents waste at the end of
individually allocated parse nodes.
Saves roughly 20% of RAM during parse stage.
Previous to this patch each time a bytes object was referenced a new
instance (with the same data) was created. With this patch a single
bytes object is created in the compiler and is loaded directly at execute
time as a true constant (similar to loading bignum and float objects).
This saves on allocating RAM and means that bytes objects can now be
used when the memory manager is locked (eg in interrupts).
The MP_BC_LOAD_CONST_BYTES bytecode was removed as part of this.
Generated bytecode is slightly larger due to storing a pointer to the
bytes object instead of the qstr identifier.
Code size is reduced by about 60 bytes on Thumb2 architectures.
Previous to this patch a call such as list.append(1, 2) would lead to a
seg fault. This is because list.append is a builtin method and the first
argument to such methods is always assumed to have the correct type.
Now, when a builtin method is extracted like this it is wrapped in a
checker object which checks the the type of the first argument before
calling the builtin function.
This feature is contrelled by MICROPY_BUILTIN_METHOD_CHECK_SELF_ARG and
is enabled by default.
See issue #1216.
Hashing is now done using mp_unary_op function with MP_UNARY_OP_HASH as
the operator argument. Hashing for int, str and bytes still go via
fast-path in mp_unary_op since they are the most common objects which
need to be hashed.
This lead to quite a bit of code cleanup, and should be more efficient
if anything. It saves 176 bytes code space on Thumb2, and 360 bytes on
x86.
The only loss is that the error message "unhashable type" is now the
more generic "unsupported type for __hash__".
Exceptions in .close() should be ignored (dumped to sys.stderr, not
propagated), but in uPy, they are propagated. Fix would require
nlr-wrapping .close() call, which is expensive. Bu on the other hand,
.close() is not called often, so maybe that's not too bad (depends,
if it's finally called and that causes stack overflow, there's nothing
good in that). And yet on another hand, .close() can be implemented to
catch exceptions on its side, and that should be the right choice.
This simplifies the API for objects and reduces code size (by around 400
bytes on Thumb2, and around 2k on x86). Performance impact was measured
with Pystone score, but change was barely noticeable.
Despite initial guess, this code factoring does not hamper performance.
In fact it seems to improve speed by a little: running pystone(1.2) on
pyboard (which gives a very stable result) this patch takes pystones
from 1729.51 up to 1742.16. Also, pystones on x64 increase by around
the same proportion (but it's much noisier).
Taking a look at the generated machine code, stack usage with this patch
is unchanged, and call is tail-optimised with all arguments in
registers. Code size decreases by about 50 bytes on Thumb2 archs.
"Base" should rather refer to "base type"."Base object for attribute
lookup" should rather be just "object".
Also, a case of common subexpression elimination.
Scott Shawcroft
Damien George
Scott Shawcroft
Paul Sokolovsky