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User visible changes
====================
Profilng
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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
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+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)
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* 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
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In Core, the Note constructor has been replaced by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
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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 replaces the global blackhole_queue with a clever scheme that
enables us to queue up blocked threads on the closure that they are
blocked on, while still avoiding atomic instructions in the common
case.
Advantages:
- gets rid of a locked global data structure and some tricky GC code
(replacing it with some per-thread data structures and different
tricky GC code :)
- wakeups are more prompt: parallel/concurrent performance should
benefit. I haven't seen anything dramatic in the parallel
benchmarks so far, but a couple of threading benchmarks do improve
a bit.
- waking up a thread blocked on a blackhole is now O(1) (e.g. if
it is the target of throwTo).
- less sharing and better separation of Capabilities: communication
is done with messages, the data structures are strictly owned by a
Capability and cannot be modified except by sending messages.
- this change will utlimately enable us to do more intelligent
scheduling when threads block on each other. This is what started
off the whole thing, but it isn't done yet (#3838).
I'll be documenting all this on the wiki in due course.
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The first phase of this tidyup is focussed on the header files, and in
particular making sure we are exposinng publicly exactly what we need
to, and no more.
- Rts.h now includes everything that the RTS exposes publicly,
rather than a random subset of it.
- Most of the public header files have moved into subdirectories, and
many of them have been renamed. But clients should not need to
include any of the other headers directly, just #include the main
public headers: Rts.h, HsFFI.h, RtsAPI.h.
- All the headers needed for via-C compilation have moved into the
stg subdirectory, which is self-contained. Most of the headers for
the rest of the RTS APIs have moved into the rts subdirectory.
- I left MachDeps.h where it is, because it is so widely used in
Haskell code.
- I left a deprecated stub for RtsFlags.h in place. The flag
structures are now exposed by Rts.h.
- Various internal APIs are no longer exposed by public header files.
- Various bits of dead code and declarations have been removed
- More gcc warnings are turned on, and the RTS code is more
warning-clean.
- More source files #include "PosixSource.h", and hence only use
standard POSIX (1003.1c-1995) interfaces.
There is a lot more tidying up still to do, this is just the first
pass. I also intend to standardise the names for external RTS APIs
(e.g use the rts_ prefix consistently), and declare the internal APIs
as hidden for shared libraries.
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This merge does not turn on the new codegen (which only compiles
a select few programs at this point),
but it does introduce some changes to the old code generator.
The high bits:
1. The Rep Swamp patch is finally here.
The highlight is that the representation of types at the
machine level has changed.
Consequently, this patch contains updates across several back ends.
2. The new Stg -> Cmm path is here, although it appears to have a
fair number of bugs lurking.
3. Many improvements along the CmmCPSZ path, including:
o stack layout
o some code for infotables, half of which is right and half wrong
o proc-point splitting
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We recently discovered that they aren't a win any more, and just cost
code size.
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The following changes restore ticky-ticky profiling to functionality
from its formerly bit-rotted state. Sort of. (It got bit-rotted as part
of the switch to the C-- back-end.)
The way that ticky-ticky is supposed to work is documented in Section 5.7
of the GHC manual (though the manual doesn't mention that it hasn't worked
since sometime around 6.0, alas). Changes from this are as follows (which
I'll document on the wiki):
* In the past, you had to build all of the libraries with way=t in order to
use ticky-ticky, because it entailed a different closure layout. No longer.
You still need to do make way=t in rts/ in order to build the ticky RTS,
but you should now be able to mix ticky and non-ticky modules.
* Some of the counters that worked in the past aren't implemented yet.
I was originally just trying to get entry counts to work, so those should
be correct. The list of counters was never documented in the first place,
so I hope it's not too much of a disaster that some don't appear anymore.
Someday, someone (perhaps me) should document all the counters and what
they do. For now, all of the counters are either accurate (or at least as
accurate as they always were), zero, or missing from the ticky profiling
report altogether.
This hasn't been particularly well-tested, but these changes shouldn't
affect anything except when compiling with -fticky-ticky (famous last
words...)
Implementation details:
I got rid of StgTicky.h, which in the past had the macros and declarations
for all of the ticky counters. Now, those macros are defined in Cmm.h.
StgTicky.h was still there for inclusion in C code. Now, any remaining C
code simply cannot call the ticky macros -- or rather, they do call those
macros, but from the perspective of C code, they're defined as no-ops.
(This shouldn't be too big a problem.)
I added a new file TickyCounter.h that has all the declarations for ticky
counters, as well as dummy macros for use in C code. Someday, these
declarations should really be automatically generated, since they need
to be kept consistent with the macros defined in Cmm.h.
Other changes include getting rid of the header that was getting added to
closures before, and getting rid of various code having to do with eager
blackholing and permanent indirections (the changes under compiler/
and rts/Updates.*).
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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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