That caused the compile of frozen_content.c to fail if characters like
backslash were in a short string. Thanks to @hippy for identifying the
spot to change.
This makes the auto soft-reset behaviour of mpremote more logical, and now
configurable via these new commands.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Background: .mpy files are precompiled .py files, built using mpy-cross,
that contain compiled bytecode functions (and can also contain machine
code). The benefit of using an .mpy file over a .py file is that they are
faster to import and take less memory when importing. They are also
smaller on disk.
But the real benefit of .mpy files comes when they are frozen into the
firmware. This is done by loading the .mpy file during compilation of the
firmware and turning it into a set of big C data structures (the job of
mpy-tool.py), which are then compiled and downloaded into the ROM of a
device. These C data structures can be executed in-place, ie directly from
ROM. This makes importing even faster because there is very little to do,
and also means such frozen modules take up much less RAM (because their
bytecode stays in ROM).
The downside of frozen code is that it requires recompiling and reflashing
the entire firmware. This can be a big barrier to entry, slows down
development time, and makes it harder to do OTA updates of frozen code
(because the whole firmware must be updated).
This commit attempts to solve this problem by providing a solution that
sits between loading .mpy files into RAM and freezing them into the
firmware. The .mpy file format has been reworked so that it consists of
data and bytecode which is mostly static and ready to run in-place. If
these new .mpy files are located in flash/ROM which is memory addressable,
the .mpy file can be executed (mostly) in-place.
With this approach there is still a small amount of unpacking and linking
of the .mpy file that needs to be done when it's imported, but it's still
much better than loading an .mpy from disk into RAM (although not as good
as freezing .mpy files into the firmware).
The main trick to make static .mpy files is to adjust the bytecode so any
qstrs that it references now go through a lookup table to convert from
local qstr number in the module to global qstr number in the firmware.
That means the bytecode does not need linking/rewriting of qstrs when it's
loaded. Instead only a small qstr table needs to be built (and put in RAM)
at import time. This means the bytecode itself is static/constant and can
be used directly if it's in addressable memory. Also the qstr string data
in the .mpy file, and some constant object data, can be used directly.
Note that the qstr table is global to the module (ie not per function).
In more detail, in the VM what used to be (schematically):
qst = DECODE_QSTR_VALUE;
is now (schematically):
idx = DECODE_QSTR_INDEX;
qst = qstr_table[idx];
That allows the bytecode to be fixed at compile time and not need
relinking/rewriting of the qstr values. Only qstr_table needs to be linked
when the .mpy is loaded.
Incidentally, this helps to reduce the size of bytecode because what used
to be 2-byte qstr values in the bytecode are now (mostly) 1-byte indices.
If the module uses the same qstr more than two times then the bytecode is
smaller than before.
The following changes are measured for this commit compared to the
previous (the baseline):
- average 7%-9% reduction in size of .mpy files
- frozen code size is reduced by about 5%-7%
- importing .py files uses about 5% less RAM in total
- importing .mpy files uses about 4% less RAM in total
- importing .py and .mpy files takes about the same time as before
The qstr indirection in the bytecode has only a small impact on VM
performance. For stm32 on PYBv1.0 the performance change of this commit
is:
diff of scores (higher is better)
N=100 M=100 baseline -> this-commit diff diff% (error%)
bm_chaos.py 371.07 -> 357.39 : -13.68 = -3.687% (+/-0.02%)
bm_fannkuch.py 78.72 -> 77.49 : -1.23 = -1.563% (+/-0.01%)
bm_fft.py 2591.73 -> 2539.28 : -52.45 = -2.024% (+/-0.00%)
bm_float.py 6034.93 -> 5908.30 : -126.63 = -2.098% (+/-0.01%)
bm_hexiom.py 48.96 -> 47.93 : -1.03 = -2.104% (+/-0.00%)
bm_nqueens.py 4510.63 -> 4459.94 : -50.69 = -1.124% (+/-0.00%)
bm_pidigits.py 650.28 -> 644.96 : -5.32 = -0.818% (+/-0.23%)
core_import_mpy_multi.py 564.77 -> 581.49 : +16.72 = +2.960% (+/-0.01%)
core_import_mpy_single.py 68.67 -> 67.16 : -1.51 = -2.199% (+/-0.01%)
core_qstr.py 64.16 -> 64.12 : -0.04 = -0.062% (+/-0.00%)
core_yield_from.py 362.58 -> 354.50 : -8.08 = -2.228% (+/-0.00%)
misc_aes.py 429.69 -> 405.59 : -24.10 = -5.609% (+/-0.01%)
misc_mandel.py 3485.13 -> 3416.51 : -68.62 = -1.969% (+/-0.00%)
misc_pystone.py 2496.53 -> 2405.56 : -90.97 = -3.644% (+/-0.01%)
misc_raytrace.py 381.47 -> 374.01 : -7.46 = -1.956% (+/-0.01%)
viper_call0.py 576.73 -> 572.49 : -4.24 = -0.735% (+/-0.04%)
viper_call1a.py 550.37 -> 546.21 : -4.16 = -0.756% (+/-0.09%)
viper_call1b.py 438.23 -> 435.68 : -2.55 = -0.582% (+/-0.06%)
viper_call1c.py 442.84 -> 440.04 : -2.80 = -0.632% (+/-0.08%)
viper_call2a.py 536.31 -> 532.35 : -3.96 = -0.738% (+/-0.06%)
viper_call2b.py 382.34 -> 377.07 : -5.27 = -1.378% (+/-0.03%)
And for unix on x64:
diff of scores (higher is better)
N=2000 M=2000 baseline -> this-commit diff diff% (error%)
bm_chaos.py 13594.20 -> 13073.84 : -520.36 = -3.828% (+/-5.44%)
bm_fannkuch.py 60.63 -> 59.58 : -1.05 = -1.732% (+/-3.01%)
bm_fft.py 112009.15 -> 111603.32 : -405.83 = -0.362% (+/-4.03%)
bm_float.py 246202.55 -> 247923.81 : +1721.26 = +0.699% (+/-2.79%)
bm_hexiom.py 615.65 -> 617.21 : +1.56 = +0.253% (+/-1.64%)
bm_nqueens.py 215807.95 -> 215600.96 : -206.99 = -0.096% (+/-3.52%)
bm_pidigits.py 8246.74 -> 8422.82 : +176.08 = +2.135% (+/-3.64%)
misc_aes.py 16133.00 -> 16452.74 : +319.74 = +1.982% (+/-1.50%)
misc_mandel.py 128146.69 -> 130796.43 : +2649.74 = +2.068% (+/-3.18%)
misc_pystone.py 83811.49 -> 83124.85 : -686.64 = -0.819% (+/-1.03%)
misc_raytrace.py 21688.02 -> 21385.10 : -302.92 = -1.397% (+/-3.20%)
The code size change is (firmware with a lot of frozen code benefits the
most):
bare-arm: +396 +0.697%
minimal x86: +1595 +0.979% [incl +32(data)]
unix x64: +2408 +0.470% [incl +800(data)]
unix nanbox: +1396 +0.309% [incl -96(data)]
stm32: -1256 -0.318% PYBV10
cc3200: +288 +0.157%
esp8266: -260 -0.037% GENERIC
esp32: -216 -0.014% GENERIC[incl -1072(data)]
nrf: +116 +0.067% pca10040
rp2: -664 -0.135% PICO
samd: +844 +0.607% ADAFRUIT_ITSYBITSY_M4_EXPRESS
As part of this change the .mpy file format version is bumped to version 6.
And mpy-tool.py has been improved to provide a good visualisation of the
contents of .mpy files.
In summary: this commit changes the bytecode to use qstr indirection, and
reworks the .mpy file format to be simpler and allow .mpy files to be
executed in-place. Performance is not impacted too much. Eventually it
will be possible to store such .mpy files in a linear, read-only, memory-
mappable filesystem so they can be executed from flash/ROM. This will
essentially be able to replace frozen code for most applications.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This changes the git commit message line length check to ignore lines that
contain URLs, since these cannot be wrapped without breaking tools that
detect URLs and create a link.
Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@pybricks.com>
This allows the compiler to merge strings: e.g. "update",
"difference_update" and "symmetric_difference_update" will all point to the
same memory.
No functional change.
The size reduction depends on the number of qstrs in the build. The change
this commit brings is:
bare-arm: -4 -0.007%
minimal x86: +150 +0.092% [incl +48(data)]
unix x64: -608 -0.118%
unix nanbox: -572 -0.126% [incl +32(data)]
stm32: -1392 -0.352% PYBV10
cc3200: -448 -0.244%
esp8266: -1208 -0.173% GENERIC
esp32: -1028 -0.068% GENERIC[incl -1020(data)]
nrf: -440 -0.252% pca10040
rp2: -1072 -0.217% PICO
samd: -368 -0.264% ADAFRUIT_ITSYBITSY_M4_EXPRESS
Performance is also improved (on bare metal at least) for the
core_import_mpy_multi.py, core_import_mpy_single.py and core_qstr.py
performance benchmarks.
Originally at adafruit#4583
Signed-off-by: Artyom Skrobov <tyomitch@gmail.com>
Changes are:
- decision to remount local filesystem on remote device is made only if
"MPY: soft reboot" is seen in the output after sending a ctrl-D
- a nice message is printed to the user when the remount occurs
- soft reset during raw REPL is now handled correctly
Fixes issue #7731.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
A backslash in the directory name will end up being passed through to the
device and becoming a backslash in a filename, rather than being
interpreted as directories. This makes "cp -r" problematic on Windows.
Changing to simply "/",join() fixes this.
As a prerequisite to upgrading to Zephyr v2.7.0, upgrade CI to use
Zephyr docker image v0.21.0. In particular, this is needed to pick up a
newer CMake version because Zephyr v2.7.0 increased the minimum CMake
version required to 3.20.0.
Signed-off-by: Maureen Helm <maureen.helm@intel.com>
This allows the remote MicroPython instance to create and delete
directories from the mounted host filesystem in addition to the already
existing functionality of reading, creating, and modifying files.
Signed-off-by: Michael Bentley <mikebentley15@gmail.com>
This changes makemanifest.py & mpy-tool.py to merge string and mpy names
into the same list (now mp_frozen_names).
The various paths for loading a frozen module (mp_find_frozen_module) and
checking existence of a frozen module (mp_frozen_stat) use a common
function that searches this list.
In addition, the frozen lookup will now only take place if the path starts
with ".frozen", which needs to be added to sys.path.
This fixes issues #1804, #2322, #3509, #6419.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Takes the functionality from tools/make-frozen.py, adds support for
multiple frozen directories, and moves it to tools/makemanifest.py.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Any board with a board.json file will be built. ESP32-based boards will be
built using the IDF at $IDF_PATH_V42, all other MCU variants (S2, S3, C3)
will be built using the IDF at $IDF_PATH_V44.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Any board with a board.json file will be built. Additional variants for
certain pyboards will also be built by the explicit build-stm32-extra.sh
script. Both .dfu and .hex files will be made available.
Also build boards in a sorted order, and don't stop building if a single
board fails.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This is to make the builds for all nucleo/discovery boards uniform, so they
can be treated the same by the auto build scripts.
The CI script is updated to explicitly enable mboot and packing, to test
these features.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
There is no release of IDF v4.4 yet but master is now on v5.0-dev so a
specific commit must be chosen to stick to v4.4.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
IDF v4.4 does not have an official release so for now use the latest
master. Also remove building GENERIC with no options (all the other boards
are no-option builds), to keep CI time reasonable.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
