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25 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
David Lechner 3e1bbeabaf py/modthread: Fix spelling error in comment. 2020-01-31 23:57:25 +11:00
Damien George 054dd33eba py: Downcase MP_xxx_SLOT_IS_FILLED inline functions. 2019-02-12 14:54:51 +11:00
Damien George 02d830c035 py: Introduce a Python stack for scoped allocation.
This patch introduces the MICROPY_ENABLE_PYSTACK option (disabled by
default) which enables a "Python stack" that allows to allocate and free
memory in a scoped, or Last-In-First-Out (LIFO) way, similar to alloca().

A new memory allocation API is introduced along with this Py-stack.  It
includes both "local" and "nonlocal" LIFO allocation.  Local allocation is
intended to be equivalent to using alloca(), whereby the same function must
free the memory.  Nonlocal allocation is where another function may free
the memory, so long as it's still LIFO.

Follow-up patches will convert all uses of alloca() and VLA to the new
scoped allocation API.  The old behaviour (using alloca()) will still be
available, but when MICROPY_ENABLE_PYSTACK is enabled then alloca() is no
longer required or used.

The benefits of enabling this option are (or will be once subsequent
patches are made to convert alloca()/VLA):
- Toolchains without alloca() can use this feature to obtain correct and
  efficient scoped memory allocation (compared to using the heap instead
  of alloca(), which is slower).
- Even if alloca() is available, enabling the Py-stack gives slightly more
  efficient use of stack space when calling nested Python functions, due to
  the way that compilers implement alloca().
- Enabling the Py-stack with the stackless mode allows for even more
  efficient stack usage, as well as retaining high performance (because the
  heap is no longer used to build and destroy stackless code states).
- With Py-stack and stackless enabled, Python-calling-Python is no longer
  recursive in the C mp_execute_bytecode function.

The micropython.pystack_use() function is included to measure usage of the
Python stack.
2017-12-11 13:49:09 +11:00
David Lechner 62849b7010 py: Add config option to print warnings/errors to stderr.
This adds a new configuration option to print runtime warnings and errors to
stderr. On Unix, CPython prints warnings and unhandled exceptions to stderr,
so the unix port here is configured to use this option.

The unix port already printed unhandled exceptions on the main thread to
stderr. This patch fixes unhandled exceptions on other threads and warnings
(issue #2838) not printing on stderr.

Additionally, a couple tests needed to be fixed to handle this new behavior.
This is done by also capturing stderr when running tests.
2017-09-26 11:59:11 +10:00
Stefan Naumann ace9fb5405 py: Add verbose debug compile-time flag MICROPY_DEBUG_VERBOSE.
It enables all the DEBUG_printf outputs in the py/ source code.
2017-08-15 11:53:36 +10:00
Damien George e374cfff80 py/modthread: Raise RuntimeError in release() if lock is not acquired. 2017-06-14 14:43:50 +10:00
Damien George 6213ad7f46 py: Convert mp_uint_t to size_t for tuple/list accessors.
This patch changes mp_uint_t to size_t for the len argument of the
following public facing C functions:

mp_obj_tuple_get
mp_obj_list_get
mp_obj_get_array

These functions take a pointer to the len argument (to be filled in by the
function) and callers of these functions should update their code so the
type of len is changed to size_t.  For ports that don't use nan-boxing
there should be no change in generate code because the size of the type
remains the same (word sized), and in a lot of cases there won't even be a
compiler warning if the type remains as mp_uint_t.

The reason for this change is to standardise on the use of size_t for
variables that count memory (or memory related) sizes/lengths.  It helps
builds that use nan-boxing.
2017-03-29 12:56:17 +11:00
Damien George 94c41bb06f py: Use mp_raise_TypeError/mp_raise_ValueError helpers where possible.
Saves 168 bytes on bare-arm.
2017-03-28 22:37:26 +11:00
Damien George 05fe66f68a py: Move locals/globals dicts to the thread-specific state.
Each threads needs to have its own private references to its current
locals/globals dicts, otherwise functions running within different
contexts (eg imported from different files) can behave very strangely.
2017-03-06 17:01:56 +11:00
Damien George 234f07f16c py/modthread: Use system-provided mutexs for _thread locks.
It's more efficient using the system mutexs instead of synthetic ones with
a busy-wait loop.  The system can do proper scheduling and blocking of the
threads waiting on the mutex.
2017-02-15 11:28:02 +11:00
Damien George 7d0d7215d2 py: Use mp_raise_msg helper function where appropriate.
Saves the following number of bytes of code space: 176 for bare-arm, 352
for minimal, 272 for unix x86-64, 140 for stmhal, 120 for esp8266.
2016-10-17 12:17:37 +11:00
Damien George 3a0a771730 py: Add mp_raise_OSError(errno) helper function.
This is an often used code pattern, and its use reduces code size of the
core by about 100 bytes.
2016-10-07 13:31:59 +11:00
Damien George 93c4a6a3f7 all: Remove 'name' member from mp_obj_module_t struct.
One can instead lookup __name__ in the modules dict to get the value.
2016-09-22 00:23:16 +10:00
Damien George df95f52583 py/modthread: Allow to properly set the stack limit of a thread.
We rely on the port setting and adjusting the stack size so there is
enough room to recover from hitting the stack limit.
2016-06-28 11:28:51 +01:00
Damien George c567afc5fa py/modthread: Make Lock objects work when GIL is enabled. 2016-06-28 11:28:50 +01:00
Damien George 4cec63a9db py: Implement a simple global interpreter lock.
This makes the VM/runtime thread safe, at the cost of not being able to
run code in parallel.
2016-06-28 11:28:50 +01:00
Damien George 9172c0cb25 py/modthread: Call mp_thread_start/mp_thread_finish around threads.
So the underlying thread implementation can do any necessary bookkeeping.
2016-06-28 11:28:49 +01:00
Damien George 722cff5fd0 py/modthread: Be more careful with root pointers when creating a thread. 2016-06-28 11:28:49 +01:00
Damien George 7f4658a7ee py/modthread: Satisfy unused-args warning. 2016-06-28 11:28:49 +01:00
Damien George 34fc006f5e py/modthread: Add with-context capabilities to lock object. 2016-06-28 11:28:49 +01:00
Damien George 801d1b3803 py/modthread: Implement lock object, for creating a mutex. 2016-06-28 11:28:49 +01:00
Damien George 2dacd604c5 py/modthread: Add exit() function.
Simply raises the SystemExit exception.
2016-06-28 11:28:48 +01:00
Damien George 707f98f207 py/modthread: Add stack_size() function. 2016-06-28 11:28:48 +01:00
Damien George 3eb7a26809 py/modthread: Properly cast concrete exception pointer to an object. 2016-06-28 11:28:48 +01:00
Damien George 27cc07721b py: Add basic _thread module, with ability to start a new thread. 2016-06-28 11:28:48 +01:00