History log of /dalvik/vm/mterp/armv5te/entry.S
Revision Date Author Comments
5dfcc78af479937ba8dafceefd9b1931a88dfaaf 11-Aug-2012 Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@gmail.com> hardening: eliminate all text relocations from lidbvm

This patch consists of:
- changes to mterp/ that turn all literals from absolute
to PC relative, so the relocations can be resolved at
(build) link time
- changes to compiler/template/ that result in the
compiler templates to live in the non-executable
.data.rel.ro section (this code is never executed
directly, only from the jit heap, so there is no
reason to put it in the .text section)

Change-Id: I2dc97bd4720b393a74b7277a188f0c7b681fc932
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@gmail.com>
9a3147c7412f4794434b4c2604aa2ba784867774 03-Mar-2011 buzbee <buzbee@google.com> Interpreter restructuring

This is a restructuring of the Dalvik ARM and x86 interpreters:

o Combine the old portstd and portdbg interpreters into a single
portable interpreter.
o Add debug/profiling support to the fast (mterp) interpreters.
o Delete old mechansim of switching between interpreters. Now, once
you choose an interpreter at startup, you stick with it.
o Allow JIT to co-exist with profiling & debugging (necessary for
first-class support of debugging with the JIT active).
o Adds single-step capability to the fast assembly interpreters without
slowing them down (and, in fact, measurably improves their performance).
o Remove old "polling for safe point" mechanism. Breakouts now achieved
via modifying base of interpreter handler table.
o Simplify interpeter control mechanism.
o Allow thread-granularity control for profiling & debugging

The primary motivation behind this change was to improve the responsiveness
of debugging and profiling and to make it easier to add new debugging and
profiling capabilities in the future. Instead of always bailing out to the
slow debug portable interpreter, we can now stay in the fast interpreter.

A nice side effect of the change is that the fast interpreters
got a healthy speed boost because we were able to replace the
polling safepoint check that involved a dozen or so instructions
with a single table-base reload. When combined with the two earlier CLs
related to this restructuring, we show a 5.6% performance improvement
using libdvm_interp.so on the Checkers benchmark relative to Honeycomb.

Change-Id: I8d37e866b3618def4e582fc73f1cf69ffe428f3c
a7d59bbafea5430fe81fc21ba94ddf6f6a63b0b3 24-Feb-2011 buzbee <buzbee@google.com> New interpreter breakout mechanism

Introduce parallel handler entry points for mterp interpreters as a step
towards fully supporting debug, profile and JIT within mterp (instead of
bailing out to the portable debug interpreter).

This CL contains most of the structural changes that need to happen,
but does not yet enable the new switch mode. In short, within the
mterp assembly interpreter register rIBASE points to an array of handlers
for Dalvik opcodes. Instead of periodically checking for suspend,
debug, profiling and JIT trace selection breakouts, rIBASE may simply
be altered to point to the parallel breakout handlers when control needs
to be rerouted. This will enable us to eliminate the separate portable
debug interpreter and the entire mechanism of switching between the fast
and portable interpreters.

The x86 implementation required a large number of changes because of the
need to dedicate a register to holding the table base. It will now use %edx
(which was previously scratch).

Changes include:

o Support for two styles of mterp assembly code generation: computed goto
and jump table (ARM uses computed goto, x86 uses jump table)
o New mterp config operators to trigger generation of alternate entry points.
o Alternate entries route execution through new dvmCheckInst(). That's
where the checking code will go.
o For x86, reserved register edx as dedicated rIBASE.
o For jump-table mterps, ignore "%break" operator and allow variable-sized
handlers with no "sister" region.

Note that the x86-atom implementation will need substantial changes
to function in this new model.

Change-Id: I3a22048adb7dcfdeba4f94fbb977b26c3ab2fcb3
9f601a917c8878204482c37aec7005054b6776fa 12-Feb-2011 buzbee <buzbee@google.com> Interpreter restructuring: eliminate InterpState

The key datastructure for the interpreter is InterpState.
This change eliminates it, merging its data with the Thread structure.

Here's why:

In principio creavit Fadden Thread et InterpState. And it was good.

Thread holds thread-private state, while InterpState captures data
associated with a Dalvik interpreter activation. Because JNI calls
can result in nested interpreter invocations, we can have more than one
InterpState for each actual thread. InterpState was relatively small,
and it all worked well. It was used enough that in the Arm version
a register (rGLUE) was dedicated to it.

Then, along came the JIT guys, who saw InterpState as a convenient place
to dump all sorts of useful data that they wanted quick access to through
that dedicated register. InterpState grew and grew. In terms of
space, this wasn't a big problem - but it did mean that the initialization
cost of each interpreter activation grew as well. For applications
that do a lot of callbacks from native code into Dalvik, this is
measurable. It's also mostly useless cost because much of the JIT-related
InterpState initialization was setting up useful constants - things that
don't need to be saved and restored all the time.

The biggest problem, though, deals with thread control. When something
interesting is happening that needs all threads to be stopped (such as
GC and debugger attach), we have access to all of the Thread structures,
but we don't have access to all of the InterpState structures (which
may be buried/nested on the native stack). As a result, polling for
thread suspension is done via a one-indirection pointer chase. InterpState
itself can't hold the stop bits because we can't always find it, so
instead it holds a pointer to the global or thread-specific stop control.

Yuck.

With this change, we eliminate InterpState and merge all needed data
into Thread. Further, we replace the decidated rGLUE register with a
pointer to the Thread structure (rSELF). The small subset of state
data that needs to be saved and restored across nested interpreter
activations is collected into a record that is saved to the interpreter
frame, and restored on exit. Further, these small records are linked
together to allow tracebacks to show nested activations. Old InterpState
variables that simply contain useful constants are initialized once at
thread creation time.

This CL is large enough by itself that the new ability to streamline
suspend checks is not done here - that will happen in a future CL. Here
we just focus on consolidation.

Change-Id: Ide6b2fb85716fea454ac113f5611263a96687356
b387fe1b970a216c09d2abc98c893ff1fff3e512 16-Feb-2011 Andy McFadden <fadden@android.com> Fix some asm .size directives

We were missing a .size directive for dvmPlatformInvoke, and the
directive for the mterp handlers wasn't being handled right. Threw
in a bonus directive for the entry point and the "assist debugger"
stuff that wraps method calls.

Bug 3456786

Change-Id: Ideee64a496e54eb09008410e9e9eba652b59f403
d88756df5b4dbc6fd450afd0019a5f64ebe4432d 22-Oct-2010 Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com> Remove junk from platform.S now armv4t is gone.

Change-Id: I30079aacc753c89cfc3a3f64bd900a0cc858d65f
7a2697d327936e20ef5484f7819e2e4bf91c891f 07-Jun-2010 Ben Cheng <bccheng@android.com> Implement method inlining for getters/setters

Changes include:
1) Force the trace that ends with an invoke instruction to include
the next instruction if it is a move-result (because both need
to be turned into no-ops if callee is inlined).
2) Interpreter entry point/trace builder changes so that return
target won't automatically be considered as trace starting points
(to avoid duplicate traces that include the move result
instructions).
3) Codegen changes to handle getters/setters invoked from both
monomorphic and polymorphic callsites.
4) Extend/fix self-verification to form identical trace regions and
handle traces with inlined callees.
5) Apply touchups to the method based parsing - still not in use.

Change-Id: I116b934df01bf9ada6d5a25187510e352bccd13c
7365493ad8d360c1dcf9cd8b6eee62747af01cae 09-Jun-2010 Carl Shapiro <cshapiro@google.com> Remove repeated newlines at the end of files.

Change-Id: I1e3d103a7b932ef21acedb6438c0f26b315df28f
d5adae17d71e86a1a5f3ae7825054e3249fb7879 27-Mar-2010 Ben Cheng <bccheng@android.com> Improve JIT self verifier test coverage to follow single-step instructions.

Bug: 2549326
Change-Id: I01412d4aac1379b61c90fe6e59c534b33be93f66
51ae442fa9ed49e081e58e5127d1805789dbb196 13-Mar-2010 Bill Buzbee <buzbee@google.com> Jit: Minor cleanup - enum size fix, remove useless code, control consistency.

Change-Id: Id8c16303efd25683ad4b04a85e0d2a059b5ec3be
7a0bcd0de6c4da6499a088a18d1750e51204c2a6 23-Jan-2010 Ben Cheng <bccheng@android.com> Tighten the safe points for code cache resets to happen.

Add a new flag in the Thread struct to track the whereabout of the top frame
in each Java thread. It is not safe to blow away the code cache if any thread
is in the JIT'ed land.
72e93344b4d1ffc71e9c832ec23de0657e5b04a5 13-Nov-2009 Jean-Baptiste Queru <jbq@google.com> eclair snapshot
ba4fc8bfc1bccae048403bd1cea3b869dca61dd7 01-Jun-2009 Ben Cheng <bccheng@android.com> Initial port of the Dalvik JIT enging to the internal repository.
Fixed files with trailing spaces.
Addressed review comments from Dan.
Addressed review comments from fadden.
Addressed review comments from Dan x 2.
Addressed review comments from Dan x 3.
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