Instead of limiting the nursery size and performing a full GC every
time a small nursery is full, allow the nursery to be proportional
to the total heap size if generational GC is disabled.
This option allows the user to enable or disable (with
--disable-generations or --enable-generations=no) generations in
3m. Disabling generational collection is, in most cases, a bad
idea, but it may be necessary on a platform where signal handling
doesn't work well enough to support a write barrier that is
implemented with page protection.
There are two parts to this commit:
* Until now we have been hardcoding the number of cores used per job
but this is wrong. We should use all cores available but limit new
jobs spawning if the load is too high. This enables us to use the 40
cores available in the pinwheel server.
* Unless qemu has been already installed, the job will fail because
the qemu magic has not been ran. Now we run the qemu magic in any
case. If the magic has been previously installed, it gets
updated. This was noticed when I started running racket jobs on the
brand new pinwheel.
Ignore new autoconf variable added in 2.70.
The interesting thing is that debian decided to backport this variable
to their 2.69 release so in some 2.69 autoconf this variable does not
exist but in debian ports 2.69 generates this variable. It is
nonetheless not useful for Racket, so add to ignore list.
When using a built-for-bootstrapping Racket to build Racket CS, the
intermediate module loading module mode should be `--boot` instead of
`--chain`. The repo's top-level makefile takes care of that already,
but not `configure`-generated makefiles as may happen in a build from
a source distribution.
Allows an inaccessible custodian to be GCed, promoting any values that
it manages to its parent custodian. Also repair memory accounting for
custodian boxes.
For values referenced by a custodian, the nature of the custodian's
weak references is slightly different on Racket CS. The reference is
weak enough that the value can be finalized via will (e.g., to close
an unused port), but it's not weak enough to allow weak boxes, weak
hash table keys, or ephemeron keys to be cleared. That's a consequence
of using ordered finalization instead of finalization/weakness levels.
This difference could be avoided at the cost of an extra wrapper for
any finalized value and a discipline of using such wrappers as the
user-visible reference for all custodian-managed values, but semi-weak
references so far appear to be practical and a better compromise.
The use of a will executor for a custodian is a bit of a hack, and it
doesn't want the "keep live until executed" constraint. So, add an
optional internally.
If a late will executor has pending will, then it needs to stay
live until the enclosing place has terminated (and post-custodian
callbacks are run). Otherwise, `ffi/unsafe/alloc` can lose values
that it expects to finalize, and it reports an "internal error".
The late will executor for `register-finalizer` from `ffi/unsafe`
was kept live in traditional Racket, but only as an accident of
custodian shutdown in a terminating place: the shutdown process skips
threads, since that work is technically not necessary. Relying on that
coincidence is asking for trouble, though, so implement retention more
deliberately.
Recognize `(ptr-ref <ptr> _uint8)`, etc., and turn it into a more
direct `(ptr-ref/uint8 <ptr>)`, etc. This improvement speeds PNG
loading by a factor of 10 to 20, for example, because the
implementation expects the pattern to be recognized.
When the number of places approaches the number of available
processing cores, then a spin lock isn't good enough for a small
number of contended hash tables (maybe just one of them). When
contention is discovered, fall back to a mutex-based lock.
When spawning a new subprocess, it's possible that one or more of the
new process's standard input, output, or error descriptors use file
descriptor 0, 1, or 2, even if they don't correspond to any of the
parent process's original standard input, output, or error descriptors.
This can happen if the parent process closes one of its standard
descriptors, and the operating system reuses the file descriptor number
for a new descriptor.
Therefore, be more careful about closing and copying file descriptors in
the child process before calling `exec`. Specifically, move file
descriptors out of the way as needed so they aren't clobbered, and
accommodate cases where multiple standard streams may share the same
file descriptor in the parent process.
fixes#2634
This reverts commit 9e7fa9b859.
CI had some unexpected results with this new version overnight. As a
result and until I investigate this, let go back to 3.1.0.
