Witness table accessors return a witness table for a given type's
conformance to a protocol. They are called directly from IRGen
(when we need the witness table instance) and from runtime conformance
checking (swift_conformsToProtocol digs the access function out of the
protocol conformance record). They have two interesting functions:
1) For witness tables requiring instantiation, they call
swift_instantiateWitnessTable directly.
2) For synthesized witness tables that might not be unique, they call
swift_getForeignWitnessTable.
Extend swift_instantiateWitnessTable() to handle both runtime
uniquing (for #2) as well as handling witness tables that don't have
a "generic table", i.e., don't need any actual instantiation. Use it
as the universal entry point for "get a witness table given a specific
conformance descriptor and type", eliminating witness table accessors
entirely.
Make a few related simplifications:
* Drop the "pattern" from the generic witness table. Instead, store
the pattern in the main part of the conformance descriptor, always.
* Drop the "conformance kind" from the protocol conformance
descriptor, since it was only there to distinguish between witness
table (pattern) vs. witness table accessor.
* Internalize swift_getForeignWitnessTable(); IRGen no longer needs to
call it.
Reduces the code size of the standard library (+assertions build) by
~149k.
Addresses rdar://problem/45489388.
The “requires instantiation” bit for protocol conformances that
might require runtime instantiation was set for essentially every
resilient conformance, so we would always be forced to create a
copy of the table. Narrow the “requires instantiation” bit to those
cases where there is something in the pattern that needs it to be
copied (for now, only associated type witnesses involving a type
parameter, which need to be cached differently). This optimizes
some narrow cases where we wouldn’t otherwise need a copy.
Simplify calls to getAddrOfLLVMVariableOrGOTEquivalent() and
getAddrOfLLVMVariable() by moving the computation of the alignment and
default type into LinkEntity.
Co-authored-by: Joe Groff <jgroff@apple.com>
Collapse the generic witness table, which was used only as a uniquing
data structure during witness table instantiation, into the protocol
conformance record. This colocates all of the constant protocol conformance
metadata and makes it possible for us to recover the generic witness table
from the conformance descriptor (including looking at the pattern itself).
Rename swift_getGenericWitnessTable() to swift_instantiateWitnessTable()
to make it clearer what its purpose is, and take the conformance descriptor
directly.
Place resilient witnesses in the protocol conformance descriptor,
tail-allocated after the conditional requirements, so they can be found by
reflection. Drop the resilient witness table and protocol descriptor from
the generic witness table.
Addresses rdar://problem/45228582.
The YAML format is the same one produced by the -dump-type-info
frontend mode.
For now this is only enabled if the -read-type-info-path frontend
flag is specified.
Progress on <rdar://problem/17528739>.
A few utility methods would bypass computing the TypeInfo for a tuple,
but they were only used in assertions or used in places where I can't
imagine tuples coming up often enough for it to matter.
Encode default associated type witnesses using a sentinel prefix byte
(0xFF) in the mangled name rather than as a second low bit on the
reference. Align all of the mangled names used for type references to
2 bytes (so we get that low bit regardless) and separate the symbol
names for default associated type witnesses vs. other kinds of
metadata or reflection metadata.
Indicate whether a particular associated type witness is a default (whose
mangled name is relative to the protocol) vs. being supplied as part of the
conformance (whose mangled name is relative to the conforming type). The
use of pointer identity to distinguish these cases can fail due to the
coalescing of these linker symbols.
Rather than storing associated type metadata access functions in
witness tables, initially store a pointer to a mangled type name.
On first access, demangle that type name and replace the witness
table entry with the resulting type metadata.
This reduces the code size of protocol conformances, because we no
longer need to create associated type metadata access functions for
every associated type, and the mangled names are much smaller (and
sharable). The same code size improvements apply to defaulted
associated types for resilient protocols, although those are more
rare. Witness tables themselves are slightly smaller, because we
don’t need separate private entries in them to act as caches.
On the caller side, associated type metadata is always produced via
a call to swift_getAssociatedTypeWitness(), which handles the demangling
and caching behavior.
In all, this reduces the size of the standard library by ~70k. There
are additional code-size wins that are possible with follow-on work:
* We can stop emitting type metadata access functions for non-resilient
types that have constant metadata (like `Int`), because they’re only
currently used as associated type metadata access functions.
* We can stop emitting separate associated type reflection metadata,
because the reflection infrastructure can use these mangled names
directly.
This was only used by the integrated REPL, and is now a dead option.
The "StartElem" option for performTypeChecking is still used for
reading SIL files, which have AST and SIL blocks alternate.
For a resilient protocol that has defaulted associated types, emit
default associated conformance witnesses that compute associated
conformances based on that default witness.
This completes the implementation of resilience protocols that
add new, defaulted associated types, rdar://problem/44167982.
For a resilient conformance, emit the associated conformance accessor
functions into the resilient witness table (keyed on the associated
conformance descriptor) rather than in the fixed part of the witness
table. This is another part of resilience for associated conformances,
and a step toward defaults for associated conformances.
When referencing an associated conformance in a witness table for a
resilient protocol, use the associated conformance descriptor to compute
the index into the witness table at run-time.
Another part of rdar://problem/44167982.
Associated conformance descriptors are aliases that refer to associated
conformance requirements within a protocol descriptor’s list of
requirements. They will be used to provide protocol resilience against
the addition of new associated conformance requirements (which only makes
sense for newly-introduced, defaulted associated types).
When an associated type witness has a default, record that as part of
the protocol and emit a default associated type metadata accessor into the
default witness table. This allows a defaulted associated type to be
added to a protocol resiliently.
This is another part of rdar://problem/44167982, but it’s still very
limiting because the new associated type cannot have any conformances.
When accessing the associated type witness metadata for a resilient
protocol, compute the index based on the difference between the
associated type’s descriptor and the protocol requirement base descriptor
to determine the offset into the witness table.
Introduce an alias that refers one element prior to the start of a
protocol descriptor’s protocol requirements. This can be subtracted from
an associated type descriptor address to determine the offset of the
associated type accessor within a corresponding witness table. The code
generation for the latter is not yet implemented.
When we define type metadata, the 'full' symbol points at the
entire struct, whereas the 'address point' symbol points at an
offset inside.
The logic for setting this up is a bit tricky because the
'address point' symbol may have been forward declared, and
has to be replaced.
They were, already, but remove the isConstant parameter to
getAddrOfTypeMetadataPattern(), and just assert that its true for
patterns in defineTypeMetadata() instead.
Also, metadata patterns are i8*, not i8**. In fact they don't contain any
absolute pointers at all.
Should be NFC other than the LLVM type change.
This saves us some expensive cross-referencing and caching in the runtime, and lets us reclaim the `isReflectable` bit from the context descriptor flags (since a null field descriptor is a suitable and more accurate indicator of whether a type is reflectable).
Certain uses of protocols only formally need the requirement
signature, not any of the method requirements. This results in IRGen
seeing a protocol where none of the members have been validated except
the associated types. Account for this by allowing ProtocolInfo to
only contain the layout for the base protocols and associated types,
if requested.
Note that this relies on the layout of a witness table always putting
the "requirement signature part" at the front, or at least at offsets
that aren't affected by function requirements.
rdar://problem/43260117
We were using this just as a convenient way to share an existing
DenseMap, but it's not really related; we don't need to compute
witness table layout just to generate a conformance reference.
I started working on this because the "Cub" source compat project was
hitting issues here, but now I can't reproduce it. Still, this is a
reasonable cleanup.
TypeBase::usesNativeReferenceCounting() was doing a lot of work to
find the class that a type refers to, then determine whether it
would use the native reference-counting scheme. Its primary caller
in IRGen would use an overly-conservative approximation to decide
between the “Objective-C” and “unknown” cases, which resulted in
uses of “unknown” reference counting for some obviously-ObjC cases
(e.g., values of “NSObject”).
Moreover, the approximation would try to call into the type checker
(because it relied unnecessarily on the superclass *type* of a class
declaration), causing an assertion.
Fixes rdar://problem/42828798.
Rather than using getAllConformances() to emit all conformances for a
nominal type whenever we emit its type metadata, use
getLocalConformances() consistently--on the nominal type and on any
extension--to emit the conformances in the appropriate source files.
Previously, when a tuple type had non-fixed layout, we would compute
a layout by building the metadata for that tuple type and then
extracting the layout from the VWT. This can be quite expensive
because it involves constructing the exact metadata for types like
arrays and functions despite those types being fixed-layout across
all instantiations. It also tends to cause unnecessary recursive-type
issues, especially with enums where tuples are currently used to model
cases with mutliple payloads. Since we just need a layout, computing
it directly from element layouts instead of constructing metadata for
the formal type lets us take advantage of all the other fast paths for
layout construction, e.g. for fixed types and single-field aggregates.
This is a good improvement overall, but it also serves to alleviate
some of the problems of rdar://40810002 / SR-7876 in a way that
might be suitable for integration to 4.2.
- `swift_getForeignTypeMetadata` is now a request/response function.
- The initialization function is now a completion function, and the
pointer to it has moved into the type descriptor.
- The cache variable is no longer part of the ABI; it's an
implementation detail of the access function.
- The two points above mean that there is no special header on foreign
type metadata and therefore that they can be marked constant when
there isn't something about them that needs to be initialized.
The only foreign-metadata initialization we actually do right now is
of the superclass field of a foreign class, and since that relationship
is a proper DAG, it's not actually possible to have recursive
initialization problems. But this is the right long-term thing to do,
and it removes one of the last two clients of once-based initialization.
As part of this, rename TypeMetadataRecordKind to TypeReferenceKind
and consistently give it three bits of storage.
The better modelling of these type references appears to have been
sufficient to make dynamic conformance checks succeed, which is good
but unexpected.
The central thrust of this patch is to get these metadata initializations
off of `swift_once` and onto the metadata-request system where we can
properly detect and resolve dependencies. We do this by first introducing
runtime support for resolving metadata requests for "in-place"
initializations (committed previously) and then teaching IRGen to actually
generate code to use them (this patch).
A non-trivial amount of this patch is just renaming and refactoring some of
existing infrastructure that was being used for in-place initializations to
try to avoid unnecessary confusion.
The remaining cases that are still using `swift_once` resolution of
metadata initialization are:
- non-generic classes that can't statically fill their superclass or
have resilient internal layout
- foreign type metadata
Classes require more work because I'd like to switch at least the
resilient-superclass case over to using a pattern much more like what
we do with generic class instantiation. That is, I'd like in-place
initialization to be reserved for classes that actually don't need
relocation.
Foreign metadata should also be updated to the request/dependency scheme
before we declare ABI stability. I'm not sure why foreign metadata
would ever require a type to be resolved, but let's assume it's possible.
Fixes part of SR-7876.
Switch one entry point in the runtime (swift_getExistentialTypeMetadata)
to use ProtocolDescriptorRef rather than a protocol descriptor. Update
IRGen to produce ProtocolDescriptorRef instances for its calls, setting
the discriminator bit appropriately.
Within the runtime, verify that all instances of ProtocolDescriptorRef have
the right layout, i.e., the discriminator bit is set for @objc protocols
but not Swift protocols.
