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Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>
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The main change here is that the Cmm parser now allows high-level cmm
code with argument-passing and function calls. For example:
foo ( gcptr a, bits32 b )
{
if (b > 0) {
// we can make tail calls passing arguments:
jump stg_ap_0_fast(a);
}
return (x,y);
}
More details on the new cmm syntax are in Note [Syntax of .cmm files]
in CmmParse.y.
The old syntax is still more-or-less supported for those occasional
code fragments that really need to explicitly manipulate the stack.
However there are a couple of differences: it is now obligatory to
give a list of live GlobalRegs on every jump, e.g.
jump %ENTRY_CODE(Sp(0)) [R1];
Again, more details in Note [Syntax of .cmm files].
I have rewritten most of the .cmm files in the RTS into the new
syntax, except for AutoApply.cmm which is generated by the genapply
program: this file could be generated in the new syntax instead and
would probably be better off for it, but I ran out of enthusiasm.
Some other changes in this batch:
- The PrimOp calling convention is gone, primops now use the ordinary
NativeNodeCall convention. This means that primops and "foreign
import prim" code must be written in high-level cmm, but they can
now take more than 10 arguments.
- CmmSink now does constant-folding (should fix #7219)
- .cmm files now go through the cmmPipeline, and as a result we
generate better code in many cases. All the object files generated
for the RTS .cmm files are now smaller. Performance should be
better too, but I haven't measured it yet.
- RET_DYN frames are removed from the RTS, lots of code goes away
- we now have some more canned GC points to cover unboxed-tuples with
2-4 pointers, which will reduce code size a little.
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This means that both time and heap profiling work for parallel
programs. Main internal changes:
- CCCS is no longer a global variable; it is now another
pseudo-register in the StgRegTable struct. Thus every
Capability has its own CCCS.
- There is a new built-in CCS called "IDLE", which records ticks for
Capabilities in the idle state. If you profile a single-threaded
program with +RTS -N2, you'll see about 50% of time in "IDLE".
- There is appropriate locking in rts/Profiling.c to protect the
shared cost-centre-stack data structures.
This patch does enough to get it working, I have cut one big corner:
the cost-centre-stack data structure is still shared amongst all
Capabilities, which means that multiple Capabilities will race when
updating the "allocations" and "entries" fields of a CCS. Not only
does this give unpredictable results, but it runs very slowly due to
cache line bouncing.
It is strongly recommended that you use -fno-prof-count-entries to
disable the "entries" count when profiling parallel programs. (I shall
add a note to this effect to the docs).
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User visible changes
====================
Profilng
--------
Flags renamed (the old ones are still accepted for now):
OLD NEW
--------- ------------
-auto-all -fprof-auto
-auto -fprof-exported
-caf-all -fprof-cafs
New flags:
-fprof-auto Annotates all bindings (not just top-level
ones) with SCCs
-fprof-top Annotates just top-level bindings with SCCs
-fprof-exported Annotates just exported bindings with SCCs
-fprof-no-count-entries Do not maintain entry counts when profiling
(can make profiled code go faster; useful with
heap profiling where entry counts are not used)
Cost-centre stacks have a new semantics, which should in most cases
result in more useful and intuitive profiles. If you find this not to
be the case, please let me know. This is the area where I have been
experimenting most, and the current solution is probably not the
final version, however it does address all the outstanding bugs and
seems to be better than GHC 7.2.
Stack traces
------------
+RTS -xc now gives more information. If the exception originates from
a CAF (as is common, because GHC tends to lift exceptions out to the
top-level), then the RTS walks up the stack and reports the stack in
the enclosing update frame(s).
Result: +RTS -xc is much more useful now - but you still have to
compile for profiling to get it. I've played around a little with
adding 'head []' to GHC itself, and +RTS -xc does pinpoint the problem
quite accurately.
I plan to add more facilities for stack tracing (e.g. in GHCi) in the
future.
Coverage (HPC)
--------------
* derived instances are now coloured yellow if they weren't used
* likewise record field names
* entry counts are more accurate (hpc --fun-entry-count)
* tab width is now correct (markup was previously off in source with
tabs)
Internal changes
================
In Core, the Note constructor has been replaced by
Tick (Tickish b) (Expr b)
which is used to represent all the kinds of source annotation we
support: profiling SCCs, HPC ticks, and GHCi breakpoints.
Depending on the properties of the Tickish, different transformations
apply to Tick. See CoreUtils.mkTick for details.
Tickets
=======
This commit closes the following tickets, test cases to follow:
- Close #2552: not a bug, but the behaviour is now more intuitive
(test is T2552)
- Close #680 (test is T680)
- Close #1531 (test is result001)
- Close #949 (test is T949)
- Close #2466: test case has bitrotted (doesn't compile against current
version of vector-space package)
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This patch makes two changes to the way stacks are managed:
1. The stack is now stored in a separate object from the TSO.
This means that it is easier to replace the stack object for a thread
when the stack overflows or underflows; we don't have to leave behind
the old TSO as an indirection any more. Consequently, we can remove
ThreadRelocated and deRefTSO(), which were a pain.
This is obviously the right thing, but the last time I tried to do it
it made performance worse. This time I seem to have cracked it.
2. Stacks are now represented as a chain of chunks, rather than
a single monolithic object.
The big advantage here is that individual chunks are marked clean or
dirty according to whether they contain pointers to the young
generation, and the GC can avoid traversing clean stack chunks during
a young-generation collection. This means that programs with deep
stacks will see a big saving in GC overhead when using the default GC
settings.
A secondary advantage is that there is much less copying involved as
the stack grows. Programs that quickly grow a deep stack will see big
improvements.
In some ways the implementation is simpler, as nothing special needs
to be done to reclaim stack as the stack shrinks (the GC just recovers
the dead stack chunks). On the other hand, we have to manage stack
underflow between chunks, so there's a new stack frame
(UNDERFLOW_FRAME), and we now have separate TSO and STACK objects.
The total amount of code is probably about the same as before.
There are new RTS flags:
-ki<size> Sets the initial thread stack size (default 1k) Egs: -ki4k -ki2m
-kc<size> Sets the stack chunk size (default 32k)
-kb<size> Sets the stack chunk buffer size (default 1k)
-ki was previously called just -k, and the old name is still accepted
for backwards compatibility. These new options are documented.
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Sanity checking was getting too slow in some cases, this returns it to
a constant-factor overhead.
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The extra safe points introduced for breakpoints were previously
compiled as normal updatable thunks, but they are guaranteed
single-entry, so we can use non-updatable thunks here. This restores
the tail-call property where it was lost in some cases (although stack
squeezing probably often recovered it), and should improve
performance.
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An AP_STACK now ensures that there is at least AP_STACK_SPLIM words of
stack headroom available after unpacking the payload. Continuations
that require more than AP_STACK_SPLIM words of stack must do their own
stack checks instead of aggregating their stack usage into the parent
frame. I have made this change for the interpreter, but not for
compiled code yet - we should do this in the glorious rewrite of the
code generator.
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* The correct definition of C-- requires that a procedure not
'fall off the end'. The 'never returns' annotation tells us
if a (foreign) call is not going to return.
Validated!
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This patch implements pointer tagging as per our ICFP'07 paper "Faster
laziness using dynamic pointer tagging". It improves performance by
10-15% for most workloads, including GHC itself.
The original patches were by Alexey Rodriguez Yakushev
<mrchebas@gmail.com>, with additions and improvements by me. I've
re-recorded the development as a single patch.
The basic idea is this: we use the low 2 bits of a pointer to a heap
object (3 bits on a 64-bit architecture) to encode some information
about the object pointed to. For a constructor, we encode the "tag"
of the constructor (e.g. True vs. False), for a function closure its
arity. This enables some decisions to be made without dereferencing
the pointer, which speeds up some common operations. In particular it
enables us to avoid costly indirect jumps in many cases.
More information in the commentary:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Rts/HaskellExecution/PointerTagging
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Most of the other users of the fptools build system have migrated to
Cabal, and with the move to darcs we can now flatten the source tree
without losing history, so here goes.
The main change is that the ghc/ subdir is gone, and most of what it
contained is now at the top level. The build system now makes no
pretense at being multi-project, it is just the GHC build system.
No doubt this will break many things, and there will be a period of
instability while we fix the dependencies. A straightforward build
should work, but I haven't yet fixed binary/source distributions.
Changes to the Building Guide will follow, too.
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