If setting the frequency to a value used already by an existing timer, this
timer will be used. But still, the duty cycle for that channel may have to
be changed.
Fixes issues #8306 and #8345.
If MicroPython threads are enabled, loops waiting for an incoming event
should release the GIL and suspend, allowing other tasks to run while they
wait.
Prior to this commit, the problem can easily be observed by running a
thread that is both busy and regularly releases the GIL (for example a loop
doing something then sleeping a few ms after each iteration). When the
main task is at the REPL, the thread is significantly stalled. If the main
task is manually made to release the GIL (for example, by calling
utime.sleep_ms(500)) the other thread can be seen immediately working at
the expected speed again.
Additionally, there are various instances in where blocking functions run
MICROPY_EVENT_POLL_HOOK in a loop while they wait for a certain event/
condition. For example the uselect methods poll objects to determine
whether data is available, but uses 100% of CPU while it does, constantly
calling MICROPY_EVENT_POLL_HOOK in the process.
The MICROPY_EVENT_POLL_HOOK macro is only ever used in waiting loops, where
(if threads are enabled) it makes sense to yield for a single tick so that
these loops do not consume all CPU cycles but instead other threads may
execute. (In fact, the thing these loops wait for may even indirectly or
directly depend on another task being able to run.)
This change moves the sleep that was inside the REPL input function to
inside the MICROPY_EVENT_POLL_HOOK macro, where the GIL is already being
released, solving both the blocking REPL issue and the 100% CPU use issue
at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Daniël van de Giessen <daniel@dvdgiessen.nl>
The stack (and arg) of core1 is itself a root pointer, not just the entries
in it. Without this fix the GC could reclaim the entire stack (and
argument object).
Fixes issues #7124 and #7981.
.py files are valid source files and shouldn't be ignored. This line was
from the early days when .py files in the unix directory were used for
testing.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
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.
The xmlns attribute is required for older msbuild version (e.g. for
VS2015). Add it where needed, and reorder the attributes so all
files look the same.
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>
The unix port's main.c gets used by unix and windows ports, and with a
variety of compilers, so it's convenient to see which version is actually
being used immediately when starting micropython. This is similar to what
CPython does.
Some versions of Python (for instance: the mingw-w64 version which can be
installed on MSYS2) do include a pty module and claim to be posix-like
(os.name == 'posix'), yet the select.select call used in run-tests.py hangs
forever. To be on the safe side just exclude anything which might be
running on windows.
If MBOOT_BOARD_ENTRY_INIT is defined by a board then that function must now
make sure system clocks are configured, eg by calling mboot_entry_init().
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
If a board wants to customise the clocks it can define the following:
MBOOT_CLK_PLLM
MBOOT_CLK_PLLN
MBOOT_CLK_PLLP
MBOOT_CLK_PLLQ
MBOOT_CLK_PLLR (only needed on STM32H7)
MBOOT_FLASH_LATENCY
MBOOT_CLK_AHB_DIV
MBOOT_CLK_APB1_DIV
MBOOT_CLK_APB2_DIV
MBOOT_CLK_APB3_DIV (only needed on STM32H7)
MBOOT_CLK_APB4_DIV (only needed on STM32H7)
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>
In the `after_test` section, the current directory is `ports/windows` when
tests are run, so running `run-tests.py` without changing the directory or
specifying a path causes a file not found error.
This commit fixes the problem by changing the directory before calling
`run-tests.py`.
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>
A script will print "SKIP" if it wants to be skipped, so the test runner
must also use uppercase SKIP.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
