I added Builtin.buildMainActorExecutor before, but because I never
implemented it correctly in IRGen, it's not okay to use it on old
versions, so I had to introduce a new feature only for it.
The shim dispatch queue class in the Concurrency runtime is rather
awful, but I couldn't think of a reasonable alternative without
just entirely hard-coding the witness table in the runtime.
It's not ABI, at least.
- Introduce an UnownedSerialExecutor type into the concurrency library.
- Create a SerialExecutor protocol which allows an executor type to
change how it executes jobs.
- Add an unownedExecutor requirement to the Actor protocol.
- Change the ABI for ExecutorRef so that it stores a SerialExecutor
witness table pointer in the implementation field. This effectively
makes ExecutorRef an `unowned(unsafe) SerialExecutor`, except that
default actors are represented without a witness table pointer (just
a bit-pattern).
- Synthesize the unownedExecutor method for default actors (i.e. actors
that don't provide an unownedExecutor property).
- Make synthesized unownedExecutor properties `final`, and give them
a semantics attribute specifying that they're for default actors.
- Split `Builtin.buildSerialExecutorRef` into a few more precise
builtins. We're not using the main-actor one yet, though.
Pitch thread:
https://forums.swift.org/t/support-custom-executors-in-swift-concurrency/44425
Through various means, it is possible for a synchronous actor-isolated
function to escape to another concurrency domain and be called from
outside the actor. The problem existed previously, but has become far
easier to trigger now that `@escaping` closures and local functions
can be actor-isolated.
Introduce runtime detection of such data races, where a synchronous
actor-isolated function ends up being called from the wrong executor.
Do this by emitting an executor check in actor-isolated synchronous
functions, where we query the executor in thread-local storage and
ensure that it is what we expect. If it isn't, the runtime complains.
The runtime's complaints can be controlled with the environment
variable `SWIFT_UNEXPECTED_EXECUTOR_LOG_LEVEL`:
0 - disable checking
1 - warn when a data race is detected
2 - error and abort when a data race is detected
At an implementation level, this introduces a new concurrency runtime
entry point `_checkExpectedExecutor` that checks the given executor
(on which the function should always have been called) against the
executor on which is called (which is in thread-local storage). There
is a special carve-out here for `@MainActor` code, where we check
against the OS's notion of "main thread" as well, so that `@MainActor`
code can be called via (e.g.) the Dispatch library's
`DispatchQueue.main.async`.
The new SIL instruction `extract_executor` performs the lowering of an
actor down to its executor, which is implicit in the `hop_to_executor`
instruction. Extend the LowerHopToExecutor pass to perform said
lowering.
- introduce UnsafeCurrentTask
- implement Hashable, Equatable on tasks
- assume we'll have a way to get a task from sync context
- Task.Handle now has a Failure type as well
- Task.Handle.getResult
