Previously, they were storing a low-bit flag that indicated that they
were a default actor. Using an extra inhabitant frees up the low bit
for future use without being conspicuously more expensive to check.
- 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
Allow runtime metadata queries to determine if a "class" (in the
runtime) is actually an actor by adding a bit to the class context
descriptor's type-specific kind flags.
Implements rdar://77073762.
Per updates to the Structured Concurrency protocol, make the `async`
operation (1) overloaded on throwing-ness and (2) return an appropriate
`Task.Handle`.
* Move differentiability kinds from target function type metadata to trailing objects so that we don't exhaust all remaining bits of function type metadata.
* Differentiability kind is now stored in a tail-allocated word when function type flags say it's differentiable, located immediately after the normal function type metadata's contents (with proper alignment in between).
* Add new runtime function `swift_getFunctionTypeMetadataDifferentiable` which handles differentiable function types.
* Fix mangling of different differentiability kinds in function types. Mangle it like `ConcurrentFunctionType` so that we can drop special cases for escaping functions.
```
function-signature ::= params-type params-type async? sendable? throws? differentiable? // results and parameters
...
differentiable ::= 'jf' // @differentiable(_forward) on function type
differentiable ::= 'jr' // @differentiable(reverse) on function type
differentiable ::= 'jd' // @differentiable on function type
differentiable ::= 'jl' // @differentiable(_linear) on function type
```
Resolves rdar://75240064.
The immediate desire is to minimize the set of ABI dependencies
on the layout of an ExecutorRef. In addition to that, however,
I wanted to generally reduce the code size impact of an unsafe
continuation since it now requires accessing thread-local state,
and I wanted resumption to not have to create unnecessary type
metadata for the value type just to do the initialization.
Therefore, I've introduced a swift_continuation_init function
which handles the default initialization of a continuation
and returns a reference to the current task. I've also moved
the initialization of the normal continuation result into the
caller (out of the runtime), and I've moved the resumption-side
cmpxchg into the runtime (and prior to the task being enqueued).
Fill out the metadata for Job to have a Dispatch-compatible vtable. When available, use the dispatch_enqueue_onto_queue_4Swift to enqueue Jobs directly onto queues. Otherwise, keep using dispatch_async_f as we have been.
rdar://75227953
In 26b35494e6, new bits were spoken for in
MethodDescriptorFlags and ProtocolRequirementFlags to indicate that a
field is an async function pointer and as such must is treated as data
for the purposes of ptrauth.
Previously, that bit was named IsSignedAsData because indeed async
function pointers must be signed and authed as data.
We should make the representation semantic, however, so here that name
is changed to IsAsync.
It is necessary to determine whether a given method in a vtable or a
witness table ought to be signed as data or as code. For example, async
functions pointers must be signed as data.
In their previous form, the non-`_f` variants of these entry points were unused, and IRGen
lowered the `createAsyncTask` builtins to use the `_f` variants with a large amount of caller-side
codegen to manually unpack closure values. Amid all this, it also failed to make anyone responsible
for releasing the closure context after the task completed, causing every task creation to leak.
Redo the `swift_task_create_*` entry points to accept the two words of an async closure value
directly, and unpack the closure to get its invocation entry point and initial context size
inside the runtime. (Also get rid of the non-future `swift_task_create` variant, since it's unused
and it's subtly different in a lot of hairy ways from the future forms. Better to add it later
when it's needed than to have a broken unexercised version now.)
The backs out of some early decisions we made about actor layout
that we don't need. Custom actors will use a different approach.
This should suffice for the remainder of rdar://70146827.
Compiler:
- Add `Forward` and `Reverse` to `DifferentiabilityKind`.
- Expand `DifferentiabilityMask` in `ExtInfo` to 3 bits so that it now holds all 4 cases of `DifferentiabilityKind`.
- Parse `@differentiable(reverse)` and `@differentiable(_forward)` declaration attributes and type attributes.
- Emit a warning for `@differentiable` without `reverse`.
- Emit an error for `@differentiable(_forward)`.
- Rename `@differentiable(linear)` to `@differentiable(_linear)`.
- Make `@differentiable(reverse)` type lowering go through today's `@differentiable` code path. We will specialize it to reverse-mode in a follow-up patch.
ABI:
- Add `Forward` and `Reverse` to `FunctionMetadataDifferentiabilityKind`.
- Extend `TargetFunctionTypeFlags` by 1 bit to store the highest bit of differentiability kind (linear). Note that there is a 2-bit gap in `DifferentiabilityMask` which is reserved for `AsyncMask` and `ConcurrentMask`; `AsyncMask` is ABI-stable so we cannot change that.
_Differentiation module:
- Replace all occurrences of `@differentiable` with `@differentiable(reverse)`.
- Delete `_transpose(of:)`.
Resolves rdar://69980056.
Introduce `@concurrent` attribute on function types, including:
* Parsing as a type attribute
* (De-/re-/)mangling for concurrent function types
* Implicit conversion from @concurrent to non-@concurrent
- (De-)serialization for concurrent function types
- AST printing and dumping support
* Adds support for generating code that uses swiftasync parameter lowering.
* Currently only arm64's llvm lowering supports the swift_async_context_addr intrinsic.
* Add arm64e pointer signing of updated swift_async_context_addr.
This commit needs the PR llvm-project#2291.
* [runtime] unittests should use just-built compiler if the runtime did
This will start to matter with the introduction of usage of swiftasync parameters which only very recent compilers support.
rdar://71499498
move comments to the wired up continuations
remove duplicated continuations; leep the wired up ones
before moving to C++ for queue impl
trying to next wait via channel_poll
submitting works; need to impl next()
of adding a property.
This better matches what the actual implementation expects,
and it avoids some possibilities of weird mismatches. However,
it also requires special-case initialization, destruction, and
dynamic-layout support, none of which I've added yet.
In order to get NSObject default actor subclasses to use Swift
refcounting (and thus avoid the need for the default actor runtime
to generally use ObjC refcounting), I've had to introduce a
SwiftNativeNSObject which we substitute as the superclass when
inheriting directly from NSObject. This is something we could
do in all NSObject subclasses; for now, I'm just doing it in
actors, although it's all actors and not just default actors.
We are not yet taking advantage of our special knowledge of this
class anywhere except the reference-counting code.
I went around in circles exploring a number of alternatives for
doing this; at one point I basically had a completely parallel
"ForImplementation" superclass query. That proved to be a lot
of added complexity and created more problems than it solved.
We also don't *really* get any benefit from this subclassing
because there still wouldn't be a consistent superclass for all
actors. So instead it's very ad-hoc.
There are things about this that I'm far from sold on. In
particular, I'm concerned that in order to implement escalation
correctly, we're going to have to add a status record for the
fact that the task is being executed, which means we're going
to have to potentially wait to acquire the status lock; overall,
that means making an extra runtime function call and doing some
atomics whenever we resume or suspend a task, which is an
uncomfortable amount of overhead.
The testing here is pretty grossly inadequate, but I wanted to
lay down the groundwork here.
For actor class's implementations of `enqueue(partialTask:)`, use a
fixed ptrauth discriminator. Paired with the fixed vtable location,
this allows one to invoke this operation on any native actor instance
without knowing the specific type.
The attachment of the canonical prespecializations to the generic type
will enable runtime functions to look through the canonical
prespecializations in order to return them (getGenericMetadata) and
register them with the runtime (getSpecializedGenericMetadata).
Add `async` to the type system. `async` can be written as part of a
function type or function declaration, following the parameter list, e.g.,
func doSomeWork() async { ... }
`async` functions are distinct from non-`async` functions and there
are no conversions amongst them. At present, `async` functions do not
*do* anything, but this commit fully supports them as a distinct kind
of function throughout:
* Parsing of `async`
* AST representation of `async` in declarations and types
* Syntactic type representation of `async`
* (De-/re-)mangling of function types involving 'async'
* Runtime type representation and reconstruction of function types
involving `async`.
* Dynamic casting restrictions for `async` function types
* (De-)serialization of `async` function types
* Disabling overriding, witness matching, and conversions with
differing `async`
Two protocol conformance descriptors are passed to
swift_compareProtocolConformanceDecriptors from generic metadata
accessors when there is a canonical prespecialization and one of the
generic arguments has a protocol requirement.
Previously, the descriptors were incorrectly being passed without
ptrauth processing: one from the witness table in the arguments that are
passed in to the accessor and one known statically.
Here, the descriptor in the witness table is authed using the
ProtocolConformanceDescriptor schema. Then, both descriptors are signed
using the ProtocolConformanceDescriptorsAsArguments schema. Finally, in
the runtime function, the descriptors are authed.
The Objective-C runtime expects a signed pointer here. The existing test
would have caught this, except it was always disabled because the
symbol name passed to the dlsym() check should not have had the leading
'_'.
Fixes <rdar://problem/57679510>.