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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
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09-Jun-2010 |
Carl Shapiro <cshapiro@google.com> |
Remove repeated newlines at the end of files.
Change-Id: I1e3d103a7b932ef21acedb6438c0f26b315df28f
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13-Nov-2009 |
Jean-Baptiste Queru <jbq@google.com> |
eclair snapshot
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08-Nov-2009 |
Bill Buzbee <buzbee@google.com> |
Introduce "just interpret" chainable pseudo-translation.
This is the first step towards enabling translation & self-cosim stress modes.
When trace selection begins, the trace head address is pinned and
remains in a limbo state until the translation is complete. Previously,
if the trace selected aborted for any reason, the trace head would remain
forever in limbo. This was not a correctness problem, but caused some
small performance anomolies and made life more difficult for self-cosimulation
mode.
This CL introduces a pseudo-translation that simply routes control to
the interpreter. When we detect that a trace selection attempt has
failed, the trace head is associated with this fully-chainable
pseudo-translation. This also has the benefit for self-cosimulation that
we are guaranteed forward progress.
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06-Jun-2009 |
Andy McFadden <fadden@android.com> |
Swap the meaning of r7 and r8.
This swaps rIBASE and rINST, so that we can access rINST with 16-bit
THUMB instructions.
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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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