Every time I see this recursive mutex I glare at it. Remove the last one
so that we no longer need to deal with it.
The only reason why this recursive mutex still existed today was because
it is fairly intertwined with the ContextImpl and tracing it all was a
pain.
Peel back the layers and follow the idiom to have ContextImpl pull the
write mutex when requiredand pass it through by reference to ensure it stays alive.
This allows us to entirely give rid of the recursive nature of the
mutex, which means that `FindBlock` can eventually be switched over to a
read-lock to improve multiple threads reading the caches at the same
time.
I didn't do that exercise since that can be followed up in a subsequent
PR.
This adds a new mode X87StrictReducedPrecision.
The strict reduced precision is like the reduced precision but adds extra checks,
like the currently implemented nan and snan propagations.
Fix for __builtin_issignaling() test of SPEC2017 classify test.
This has the Frontend and OpcodeDispatcher select their operating mode
depending on the incoming code segment long-mode flag.
Adds some asserts since currently it is unexpected if the configuration
changes at runtime.
This is fairly straightforward for an initial setup but isn't fully
fleshed out.
Right now FEX's x86 tables aren't setup in a way to support choosing a
different instruction decoding depending on runtime operating mode
change, so that would break in interesting ways.
Primarily this just gets FEX setup to start piping the operating mode
through from the frontend to the backend. This is a long term task, so
it is going to take a long time to iron out all the issues.
The constraints introduced by shared code buffers make supporting
calls with the previous layout impossible. The main additional constraint
imposed by call-ret that if a host location is ever pushed onto the
call-ret stack, then it must forever be a valid jump target. While
this is reasonable in the: unlinked, direct linked, unlinked,
direct linked case; it's almost impossible to achieve in the: unlinked,
indirect linked, unlinked, direct linked case while ensuring
all backpatching cases are valid with the current approach.
To solve this introduce an additional layer of indirection, jump thunks,
these are emitted at the end of a multiblock and are used to handle the
two cases of calling the initial linker, and calling an indirect linked
block. Initially at the ExitFunction location a branch/call to a unique
jump thunk will be emitted, which will have the code layout:
00: b 0x8
04: br TMP1
08: ldr TMP1, <Shared exit linker>
0c: blr TMP1
10: HostCode
18: GuestRIP
20: CallerOffset
If a direct link can be performed, then the initial branch/call to the
jump thunk can be linked/unlinked to point to the jump thunk in a
single 32-bit atomic operation. For an indirect link, the HostCode
member is updated with a 64 bit atomic operation, and then a 32 bit
atomic operation is used to replace the branch at 00 with a load of
HostCode. Indirect unlinks are done by placing back the b 0x8 at 00.
Safety:
(1)
Sequential link (e.g. one waiting to lock, one locked and linking):
Linking is idempotent, would just rewrite the same data atomically.
(2)
Simultaneous link or simultaneous delink:
Impossible due to LookupCache locking.
(3)
Simultaneous link and execute:
(3.1)
Direct link: Either the direct link is observed at the thunk
callsite, or it is not observed and the linker is entered - this is
then just (1).
(3.2)
Indirect link: Either the branch at 00 in the thunk is observed
to be replaced with an ldr, in which case the modified HostCode
must be observed due to the cache flush. Alternatively the branch
replacement isn't observed and it's just (1).
(4)
Simultaneous unlink and execute:
(4.1)
Direct link: Either the jump to the jump thunk is seen, which must
be in its base unlinked state with the branch at 00 as that would
be inserted by any previous indirect unlink. In such a case the
linker would just be entered, giving (5). Alternatively the modified
jump isn't seen and it calls the original host code (which is fine).
(4.2)
Indirect link: If an ldr is seen at 00, then the rest of that sequence
will function fine as HostCode is left untouched. If a branch is seen
at 00, then it will just call the linker giving (5).
(5)
Sequential unlink then link:
Unlinking restores the callsite and jump thunk to their original
contents (aside from a modified HostCode). Linking then works as
usual.
Since CodePages is now a member of the guest to host map, which could
be replaced when JITing ARM code, any additions to it must be moved after that.
Additionally there is no benefit marking code pages for invalidation at all if
they are never added to the cache as in the single-step case.
This does technically prolong the window of an existing race where guest code
modifications could be missed, however this is unlikely to cause issues and didn't
prior.
Prevents invalidations being missed under the following circumstances:
Thread A JITs block A into the global codebuffer, adding the guest to host
mapping to its CodePages, thread A is then killed.
Thread B then performs SMC on block A. An exception will be triggered but
as CodePages was stored per-thread, and thread A is now killed when all
threads are iterated over by the frontend to perform invalidations it
will be missed.
The accumulator is introduced to handle the case where multiple threads
have the same code entry in their local caches but share the same codebuffer.
Consider a thread C in the above example that also has block A in its cache,
without an accumulator, when invalidating thread B the entrypoint of A is erased
from the shared guest to host map. So when C is invalidated, the local cache entry
for A is not removed since it was removed from CodePages when invalidating B.
If a multiblock contains a call instruction, we know at the point
of compilation that the instruction after that call will likely be
jumped to at some point. Avoid redundant recompilation by tracking
such cases and including an entrypoint for that instruction in the
multiblock aswell.
This is changes the interface of CodeBuffer to that of a partially persistent
data structure based on reference counting:
- Exactly one CodeBuffer is now designated as "active", which means data can
be *appended* to it
- Lossy modifications to the active CodeBuffer will not invalidate any data
in use by other threads, which enables save sharing across threads
- Instead, such lossy modifications trigger a new "version" of the data in
the modifying thread. Old versions of the CodeBuffer persist as read-only
data for use by the other threads.
- The other threads can update their version of the CodeBuffer. This will
decrease the reference count and eventually trigger deallocation of the
old version
This sideband is now unused, registers are encoded directly in the IR. So we can
garbage collect all this code for quite some savings.
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@rosenzweig.io>
guest instruction
Single instruction blocks need to be treated specially when inline SMC
is detected, the frontend only needs to reprotect RWX and invalidate
caches then continue execution as side effects from the SMC shouldn't be
seen until the instruction executes.
Frontends need to detect this in order to handle SMC within the current
block (inline SMC) differently to regular SMC which can just reprotect
and continue.
When set - either via POPF or a thread context operation - the trap flag
raises a single step exception after the execution of each instruction.
As e.g. a JUMP instruction with TF set will raise an exception at the
jump target. Handle this on the FEX side by storing both the flag itself
(in bit 0) and a 'block exceptions' flag (in bit 1, inverted). Each
generated block when TF is set is then forced to a single instruction
with logic to raise the exception at the start. Initially after setting
TF exceptions are blocked, then at the start of the block they are
unblocked so that after the instruction executes an exception is raised
at the start of the next block.
Now that all the threading behaviour has been correctly separated/moved
to the frontend, these functions serve no purpose.
- Instead of using RunUntilExit, all threads can use `ExecuteThread`
directly, since there's nothing special about the primary thread now.
- This also removes the public function definition of `ExecutionThread` since that was only used for threading logic.
- Instead of using an exit handler, just do the same cleanup after
`ExecuteThread` has returned.
- Just make gdbserver is cleaned up early if it exists since it may
want to send some things to the connected gdb instance before
threads are exited.
Paulo Matos