Updates #9974
This proposal moves the definition of Pipe an Pipe2 from the generic
syscall_linux.go to the GOOS specific variants. This is in preparation
for the arm64 port.
For platforms where pipe2(2) is not supported in the minimum 2.6.23 kernel,
amd64 and 386, we retain pipe(2). For all other platforms pipe(2) is removed
and Pipe forwards to pipe2(2).
Because mksycall.pl does not sort symbols before generating the output file
the diff includes some unavoidable code moves as Pipe and Pipe2 are processed
latter in the run.
Discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/zpeFtN2z5Fc
Change-Id: Ie26d6761eeb9760dbaff974ee8bc0d57a9ceaee4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/5833
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Given:
p := alloc()
fn_taking_ptr(p)
p is NOT recorded as live at the call to fn_taking_ptr:
it's not needed by the code following the call.
p was passed to fn_taking_ptr, and fn_taking_ptr must keep
it alive as long as it needs it.
In practice, fn_taking_ptr will keep its own arguments live
for as long as the function is executing.
But if instead you have:
p := alloc()
i := uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(p))
fn_taking_int(i)
p is STILL NOT recorded as live at the call to fn_taking_int:
it's not needed by the code following the call.
fn_taking_int is responsible for keeping its own arguments
live, but fn_taking_int is written to take an integer, so even
though fn_taking_int does keep its argument live, that argument
does not keep the allocated memory live, because the garbage
collector does not dereference integers.
The shorter form:
p := alloc()
fn_taking_int(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(p)))
and the even shorter form:
fn_taking_int(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(alloc())))
are both the same as the 3-line form above.
syscall.Syscall is like fn_taking_int: it is written to take a list
of integers, and yet those integers are sometimes pointers.
If there is no other copy of those pointers being kept live,
the memory they point at may be garbage collected during
the call to syscall.Syscall.
This is happening on Solaris: for whatever reason, the timing
is such that the garbage collector manages to free the string
argument to the open(2) system call before the system call
has been invoked.
Change the system call wrappers to insert explicit references
that will keep the allocations alive in the original frame
(and therefore preserve the memory) until after syscall.Syscall
has returned.
Should fix Solaris flakiness.
This is not a problem for cgo, because cgo wrappers have
correctly typed arguments.
LGTM=iant, khr, aram, rlh
R=iant, khr, bradfitz, aram, rlh
CC=dvyukov, golang-codereviews, r
https://golang.org/cl/139360044
