The new function `swift_compareTypeContextDescriptors` is equivalent to
a call through to swift::equalContexts. The implementation it the same
as that of swift::equalContexts with the following removals:
- Handling of context descriptors of kind other outside of
ContextDescriptorKind::Type_First...ContextDescriptorKind::Type_Last.
Because the arguments are both TypeContextDescriptors, the kinds are
known to fall within that range.
- Casting to TypeContextDescriptor. The arguments are already of that
type.
For now, the new function has "future" availability.
use getTypeByMangledName when abstract metadata state is requested
This can significantly reduce the code size of apps constructing deeply
nested types with conditional conformances.
Requires a new runtime.
rdar://57157619
When we generate code that asks for complete metadata for a fully concrete specific type that
doesn't have trivial metadata access, like `(Int, String)` or `[String: [Any]]`,
generate a cache variable that points to a mangled name, and use a common accessor function
that turns that cache variable into a pointer to the instantiated metadata. This saves a bunch
of code size, and should have minimal runtime impact, since the demangling of any string only
has to happen once.
This mostly just works, though it exposed a couple of issues:
- Mangling a type ref including objc protocols didn't cause the objc protocol record to get
instantiated. Fixed as part of this patch.
- The runtime type demangler doesn't correctly handle retroactive conformances. If there are
multiple retroactive conformances in a process at runtime, then even though the mangled string
refers to a specific conformance, the runtime still just picks one without listening to the
mangler. This is left to fix later, rdar://problem/53828345.
There is some more follow-up work that we can do to further improve the gains:
- We could improve the runtime-provided entry points, adding versions that don't require size
to be cached, and which can handle arbitrary metadata requests. This would allow for mangled
names to also be used for incomplete metadata accesses and improve code size of some generic
type accessors. However, we'd only be able to take advantage of the new entry points in
OSes that ship a new runtime.
- We could choose to always symbolic reference all type references, which would generally reduce
the size of mangled strings, as well as make runtime demangling more efficient, since it wouldn't
need to hit the runtime caches. This would however require that we be able to handle symbolic
references across files in the MetadataReader in order to avoid regressing remote mirror
functionality.
dynamic-replacement runtime functions.
The recent change of how we do dynamic replacements added 2 new runtime
functions. This patch adds those functions to the Compatibility50 static
archive.
This will allow backward deployment to a swift 5.0 runtime.
Patch by Erik Eckstein with a modification to call the standard
libraries implementation (marked as weak) when it is available.
This ensures we can change the implementation in the future and are not
ABI locked.
rdar://problem/51601233
Instead of a thunk insert the dispatch into the original function.
If the original function should be executed the prolog just jumps to the "real" code in the function. Otherwise the replacement function is called.
There is one little complication here: when the replacement function calls the original function, the original function should not dispatch to the replacement again.
To pass this information, we use a flag in thread local storage.
The setting and reading of the flag is done in two new runtime functions.
rdar://problem/51043781
When backward deploying to an OS that may not have these entry points, weak-link them so that they
can be used conditionally in availability contexts that check for them.
rdar://problem/50731151
This is essentially a long-belated follow-up to Arnold's #12606.
The key observation here is that the enum-tag-single-payload witnesses
are strictly more powerful than the XI witnesses: you can simulate
the XI witnesses by using an extra case count that's <= the XI count.
Of course the result is less efficient than the XI witnesses, but
that's less important than overall code size, and we can work on
fast-paths for that.
The extra inhabitant count is stored in a 32-bit field (always present)
following the ValueWitnessFlags, which now occupy a fixed 32 bits.
This inflates non-XI VWTs on 32-bit targets by a word, but the net effect
on XI VWTs is to shrink them by two words, which is likely to be the
more important change. Also, being able to access the XI count directly
should be a nice win.
Currently ignored, but this will allow future compilers to pass down source location information for cast
failure runtime errors without backward deployment constraints.
Introduce a new runtime entry point, swift_getAssociatedConformanceWitness(),
which extracts an associated conformance witness from a witness table.
Teach IRGen to use this entry point rather than loading the witness
from the witness table and calling it directly.
There’s no advantage to doing this now, but it is staging for changing the
representation of associated conformances in witness tables.
Runtime functions need to use the Swift calling convention for any function
returning MetadataResponse, so that we get the two values returned in separate
registers.
Fixes rdar://problem/45042971 and rdar://problem/45851050.
This runtime function doesn’t always perform instantiation; it’s how we
get a witness table given a conformance, type, and set of instantiation
arguments. Name it accordingly.
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.
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.
Have clients pass the requirement base descriptor to
swift_getAssociatedTypeWitness(), so that the witness index is just one
subtraction away, avoiding several dependent loads (witness table ->
conformance descriptor -> protocol descriptor -> requirement offset)
in the hot path.
Rather than rely on the metadata initialization function to compute and
fill in the superclass, use the mangled superclass name to construct the
superclass metadata.
swift_getAssociatedTypeWitness() is logically readnone because it is the
only function that accesses associated type witness information within the
witness table. Mark calls to it as readnone and nounwind.
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.
If a class has a backward deployment layout:
- We still want to emit it using the FixedClassMetadataBuilder.
- We still want it to appear in the objc_classes section, and get an
OBJC_CLASS_$_ symbol if its @objc.
- However, we want to use the singleton metadata initialization pattern
in the metadata accessor.
- We want to emit metadata for all field types, and call the
swift_updateClassMetadata() function to initialize the class
metadata.
For now, this function just performs the idempotent initialization of
invoking a static method on the class, causing it to be realized with
the Objective-C runtime.
Previously we would emit class metadata for classes with resilient
ancestry, and relocate it at runtime once the correct size was known.
However most of the fields were blank, so it makes more sense to
construct the metadata from scratch, and store the few bits that we
do need in a true-const pattern where we can use relative pointers.
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.
Now that we don't need the superclass before calling
swift_relocateClassMetadata(), it seems simpler to set it
here instead of doing it in various places in IRGen.
Using the superclass metadata here no longer makes sense with two-phase
init, in case the superclass metadata depends on the class being
instantiated.
It would also be nice to rework the resilient class metadata 'pattern'
to be its own data structure that's true const, instead of just the
prefix of a real class metadata, but for now let's keep the existing
crappy design.
These functions don't accept local variable heap memory, although the names make it sound like they work on anything. When you try, they mistakenly identify such things as ObjC objects, call through to the equivalent objc_* function, and crash confusingly. This adds Object to the name of each one to make it more clear what they accept.
rdar://problem/37285743
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.
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.
- Add swift_getForeignWitnessTable to unique non-unique foreign type
witness tables
- IRGen: Call the foreign witness uniquing runtime function
rdar://24958043
