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authorFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2012-07-10 00:26:12 -0700
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2012-07-12 13:20:10 -0700
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parent8f55039992b2378df3dcb99bb2ec67d80b7c8854 (diff)
downloadperl-3107b51fb9c191a2ee82450f00c4568640538e12.tar.gz
PERL_DEBUG_READONLY_OPS with the new allocator
I want to eliminate the old slab allocator (PL_OP_SLAB_ALLOC), but this useful debugging tool needs to be rewritten for the new one first. This is slightly better than under PL_OP_SLAB_ALLOC, in that CVs cre- ated after the main CV starts running will get read-only ops, too. It is when a CV finishes compiling and relinquishes ownership of the slab that the slab is made read-only, because at that point it should not be used again for allocation. BEGIN blocks are exempt, as they are processed before the Slab_to_ro call in newATTRSUB. The Slab_to_ro call must come at the very end, after LEAVE_SCOPE, because otherwise the ops freed via the stack (the SAVEFREEOP calls near the top of newATTRSUB) will make the slab writa- ble again. At that point, the BEGIN block has already been run and its slab freed. Maybe slabs belonging to BEGIN blocks can be made read-only later. Under PERL_DEBUG_READONLY_OPS, op slabs have two extra fields to record the size and readonliness of each slab. (Only the first slab in a CV’s slab chain uses the readonly flag, since it is conceptually simpler to treat them all as one unit.) Without recording this infor- mation manually, things become unbearably slow, the tests taking hours and hours instead of minutes.
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diff --git a/op.h b/op.h
index 1d4f5710c0..ceedf35bce 100644
--- a/op.h
+++ b/op.h
@@ -752,6 +752,10 @@ struct opslab {
OPSLAB * opslab_next; /* next slab */
OP * opslab_freed; /* chain of freed ops */
size_t opslab_refcnt; /* number of ops */
+# ifdef PERL_DEBUG_READONLY_OPS
+ U16 opslab_size; /* size of slab in pointers */
+ bool opslab_readonly;
+# endif
OPSLOT opslab_slots; /* slots begin here */
};