Gareth Rees
2a3c4e0590
Address points made by rb in review < https://info.ravenbrook.com/mail/2016/03/14/18-48-19/0/ >
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Richard Brooksby
32d42e00cd
Catch-up merge from master sources to branch/2015-08-25/tradeoff.
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2016-03-12 15:13:15 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
e3d69095db
Catch-up merge from master sources to branch/2016-03-01/closure-size.
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2016-03-08 09:13:35 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
804f15dead
Removing the mostly unused size component of the closure convention.
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2016-03-01 17:20:50 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
14774ccd06
Eliminating closure_size from area scanners and root registration functions, as it isn't all that useful.
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2016-03-01 15:59:06 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
3804af1803
Catch-up merge from master sources to branch/2015-09-04/stack.
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2016-02-27 00:54:00 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
078ac268d5
Catch-up merge from branch/2015-08-06/config to remove arenaconfigure.
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2016-02-25 22:59:06 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
8d622806d0
Removing unused function arenascannable.
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Reinstate when needed. See <https://info.ravenbrook.com/mail/2016/02/17/13-05-54/0/ >.
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2016-02-25 17:09:09 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
b929dbbe4c
Moving scanning accounting to tracescanarea and creating analogous formatscan.
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2016-02-19 12:11:50 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
6413f3bc27
Renaming "bottom" and "top" of stack to "cold" and "hot" end, to prevent confusion about descending stacks.
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Correcting design documentation relating to stacks.
Referencing hot and cold end concepts from glossary entry for control stacks.
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2016-02-18 23:49:58 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
4487895475
Detabifying code and restructuredtext files.
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2016-02-18 19:58:13 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
f8341520c2
Catch-up merge from master sources.
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2016-02-17 11:04:51 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
c1918bc79b
Creating general mps_root_create_thread and renaming mps_root_create_stack as a specialised version of it, mps_root_create_thread_tagged.
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2016-02-15 19:12:59 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
b384334a32
Reimplementing mps_root_create_reg in terms of rootcreatethreadtagged and abolishing rootreg. yay!
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2016-02-15 18:19:30 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
ab41d5c4f7
Renaming rootreg_masked to rootthread_tagged with corresponding changes to other identifiers.
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2016-02-15 17:57:06 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
fe206feb2d
Lifting stack and register area scanner into mps interface to allow generalisation of stack format.
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2016-02-15 17:46:45 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
7238921356
Generalising roottable to rootarea and using it to implement mps_root_create_table_* and mps_root_create_area.
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2016-02-15 17:30:45 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
fb6c150ba2
Generalising roottable_masked to rootarea_tagged and lifting scanner assumption.
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2016-02-15 16:56:42 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
7df6c140f8
Generalising tracescanarea to be a checking wrapper for all area scanners.
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2016-02-15 15:44:57 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
31870a9b95
Renaming tracescanareamasked to tracescanareatagged
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2016-02-11 20:39:57 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
b2bc211404
Adding mps_root_create_table_tagged as an interface to more generally tagged roots.
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Deprecating the less general mps_root_create_table_masked.
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2016-02-11 20:28:39 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
aff58a3f60
Catch up merge from master sources.
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2016-02-10 21:10:25 +00:00
Richard Brooksby
a2f78d0df6
Catch-up merge from masters.
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2016-01-19 16:22:39 +00:00
Gareth Rees
d2662a861e
Catch-up merge from branch/2015-08-11/policy to branch/2015-08-25/tradeoff.
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2015-09-04 19:13:28 +01:00
Gareth Rees
800aa3b250
Policycollectiontime is now local to policy.c.
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Improve comment for policyCondemnChain (document the mortalityReturn parameter to; fix design reference).
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2015-09-04 16:02:46 +01:00
Gareth Rees
db81205af5
Move policy for mps_arena_step to policy module.
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2015-09-04 15:25:37 +01:00
Gareth Rees
5af0bf9f01
Correct type for rootcreateregmasked.
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2015-09-04 12:28:49 +01:00
Gareth Rees
ea6250898a
New function mps_root_create_reg_masked applies a mask and pattern test to all words in registers and on the stack when scanning them. this supports tagged references in these locations.
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Consistently use the type "Word *" for pointers into the stack or into saved registers.
Remove TraceScanAreaTagged.
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2015-09-04 12:22:03 +01:00
Gareth Rees
0ff67113ae
Separate the values "more work to do?" and "amount of work done" in tracepoll. previously, the code used "amount of work done > 0" when it needed "more work to do?" but that's not right, because on the last two calls to traceadvance, no "work" is done (because reclaim work is not measured), but there may still be more work to do.
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2015-09-03 15:51:37 +01:00
Gareth Rees
61bae42d43
Introduce new type work representing a measure of work done by the collector. use this systematically to make the code clearer.
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2015-09-03 13:01:55 +01:00
Gareth Rees
85595290d3
Accumulate trace metrics in arenapark.
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2015-09-03 11:50:28 +01:00
Gareth Rees
f1441b58d1
Don't start a trace unless there's work to do.
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2015-09-02 21:55:24 +01:00
Gareth Rees
e7d735125f
Catch-up merge from branch/2015-08-11/policy to branch/2015-08-25/tradeoff.
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2015-09-02 21:23:23 +01:00
Gareth Rees
837818ccb4
Refactor tracequantum into tracepoll and traceadvance. (tracequantum was formerly called from arenapark, but that doesn't care about the quantum size.)
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2015-09-02 10:50:00 +01:00
Gareth Rees
7cc5a2d8f6
Catch-up merge from branch/2015-08-11/policy to branch/2015-08-25/tradeoff.
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2015-08-25 19:35:03 +01:00
Gareth Rees
dd676e2919
New functions policypoll and policypollagain.
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Update design.strategy.
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2015-08-25 13:27:17 +01:00
Gareth Rees
46280a07ab
New function policycollectiontime estimates the time needed to collect the arena. mysterious constants are given names and moved to config.h.
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2015-08-21 15:27:14 +01:00
Gareth Rees
32acad85ea
New function policystarttrace decides whether to start a trace.
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2015-08-20 16:57:33 +01:00
Gareth Rees
2097678a37
New module policy.c.
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2015-08-19 15:03:47 +01:00
Gareth Rees
56e56e4ff4
Catch-up merge from branch/2015-08-10/arena-create to branch/2015-08-06/config.
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2015-08-10 12:49:36 +01:00
Gareth Rees
84347b9bbe
Merge branch/2014-09-29/reserved into the master sources.
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2015-08-07 16:33:43 +01:00
Gareth Rees
098b4da32d
New function mps_arena_configure provides keyword argument interface to changing the properties of an arena.
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New keyword arguments MPS_KEY_ARENA_COMMIT_LIMIT and MPS_KEY_SPARE_ARENA_COMMIT_LIMIT can be passed to mps_arena_create_k or mps_arena_configure.
Deprecate mps_arena_commit_limit_set and mps_arena_spare_commit_limit_set.
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2015-08-06 17:02:51 +01:00
Gareth Rees
497aaf7141
The "remember" parameters to arenaexposeremember is a boolean, not an integer.
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2014-11-06 12:03:18 +00:00
Gareth Rees
bdc1a92a18
Assert if a thread dies while registered, but make a best effort to continue working after the assertion, by marking the thread as dead and moving it to a ring of dead threads.
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2014-10-25 17:41:42 +01:00
Gareth Rees
4a9f32347f
Put the protection interface in prot.h, and the stack probe interface into sp.h, to make it easier to write the "porting" chapter of the manual.
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2014-10-21 16:44:19 +01:00
Gareth Rees
5f35b7f792
Use the method suffix only for methods in classes; use visitor or function for other kinds of functions.
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New document guide.impl.c.naming sets out the rules for naming.
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2014-10-07 23:48:55 +01:00
Gareth Rees
9436487a05
Instead of iterating over the chunks to compute the total reserved address space, maintain a running total in arenachunkinsert and (new function) arenachunkremoved.
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New arena class method chunkReserved handles the class-specific computation of the reserved size of a chunk.
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2014-09-29 22:50:46 +01:00
Gareth Rees
10afd0ee3b
Cast all arguments to the writef function to make it easy to check that none of the necessary casts have been omitted.
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New macro WriteFYesNo makes it easy to describe a Boolean.
Describe more structure elements for ABQ, Arena, Buffer, Format, MFS, Root, Seg.
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2014-09-27 12:49:30 +01:00
Gareth Rees
456d747b61
Rename segpref to locuspref -- this structure describes preferences for the placement of any kind of address, not just segments.
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Add LocusPrefDescribe and use it in MVFFDescribe.
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Gareth Rees
e95af3fb0e
Store the vm descriptor in the vmarena and vmchunk structures.
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2014-06-14 15:12:26 +01:00