This makes generator frame state transitions atomic in the free
threading build, which avoids segfaults when trying to execute
a generator from multiple threads concurrently.
There are still a few operations that aren't thread-safe and may crash
if performed concurrently on the same generator/coroutine:
* Accessing gi_yieldfrom/cr_await/ag_await
* Accessing gi_frame/cr_frame/ag_frame
* Async generator operations
This roughly follows what was done for dictobject to make a lock-free
lookup operation. With this change, the set contains operation scales much
better when used from multiple-threads. The frozenset contains performance
seems unchanged (as already lock-free).
Summary of changes:
* refactor set_lookkey() into set_do_lookup() which now takes a function
pointer that does the entry comparison. This is similar to dictobject and
do_lookup(). In an optimized build, the comparison function is inlined and
there should be no performance cost to this.
* change set_do_lookup() to return a status separately from the entry value
* add set_compare_frozenset() and use if the object is a frozenset. For the
free-threaded build, this avoids some overhead (locking, atomic operations,
incref/decref on key)
* use FT_ATOMIC_* macros as needed for atomic loads and stores
* use a deferred free on the set table array, if shared (only on free-threaded
build, normal build always does an immediate free)
* for free-threaded build, use explicit for loop to zero the table, rather than memcpy()
* when mutating the set, assign so->table to NULL while the change is a
happening. Assign the real table array after the change is done.
There are places we use "relaxed" loads where C11 requires "consume" or
stronger. Unfortunately, compilers don't really implement "consume" so
fake it for our use in a way that avoids upsetting TSan.
Added atomic operations to `scanner_begin()` and `scanner_end()` to prevent
race conditions on the `executing` flag in free-threaded builds. Also added
tests for concurrent usage of the `re` module.
Without the atomic operations, `test_scanner_concurrent_access()` triggers
`assert(self->executing)` failures, or a thread sanitizer run emits errors.
Makes sys.settrace, sys.setprofile, and monitoring generally thread-safe.
Mostly uses a stop-the-world approach and synchronization around the code object's _co_instrumentation_version. There may be a little bit of extra synchronization around the monitoring data that's required to be TSAN clean.
Most mutable data is protected by a striped lock that is keyed on the
referenced object's address. The weakref's hash is protected using the
weakref's per-object lock.
Note that this only affects free-threaded builds. Apart from some minor
refactoring, the added code is all either gated by `ifdef`s or is a no-op
(e.g. `Py_BEGIN_CRITICAL_SECTION`).
Use critical sections to make deque methods that operate on mutable
state thread-safe when the GIL is disabled. This is mostly accomplished
by using the @critical_section Argument Clinic directive, though there
are a few places where this was not possible and critical sections had
to be manually acquired/released.
These are intended to be used in places where atomics are required in
free-threaded builds but not in the default build. We don't want to
introduce the potential performance overhead of an atomic operation in the
default build.