This needs a single bit, but was stored as a void* in the module
struct. This didn't matter due to packing, but now that there's
another bool in the struct, we can save a bit of memory by
making md_gil a bool.
Variables that changed type are renamed, to detect conflicts.
This PR changes the current JIT model from trace projection to trace recording. Benchmarking: better pyperformance (about 1.7% overall) geomean versus current https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebookexperimental/free-threading-benchmarking/refs/heads/main/results/bm-20251108-3.15.0a1%2B-7e2bc1d-JIT/bm-20251108-vultr-x86_64-Fidget%252dSpinner-tracing_jit-3.15.0a1%2B-7e2bc1d-vs-base.svg, 100% faster Richards on the most improved benchmark versus the current JIT. Slowdown of about 10-15% on the worst benchmark versus the current JIT. **Note: the fastest version isn't the one merged, as it relies on fixing bugs in the specializing interpreter, which is left to another PR**. The speedup in the merged version is about 1.1%. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebookexperimental/free-threading-benchmarking/refs/heads/main/results/bm-20251112-3.15.0a1%2B-f8a764a-JIT/bm-20251112-vultr-x86_64-Fidget%252dSpinner-tracing_jit-3.15.0a1%2B-f8a764a-vs-base.svg
Stats: 50% more uops executed, 30% more traces entered the last time we ran them. It also suggests our trace lengths for a real trace recording JIT are too short, as a lot of trace too long aborts https://github.com/facebookexperimental/free-threading-benchmarking/blob/main/results/bm-20251023-3.15.0a1%2B-eb73378-CLANG%2CJIT/bm-20251023-vultr-x86_64-Fidget%252dSpinner-tracing_jit-3.15.0a1%2B-eb73378-pystats-vs-base.md .
This new JIT frontend is already able to record/execute significantly more instructions than the previous JIT frontend. In this PR, we are now able to record through custom dunders, simple object creation, generators, etc. None of these were done by the old JIT frontend. Some custom dunders uops were discovered to be broken as part of this work gh-140277
The optimizer stack space check is disabled, as it's no longer valid to deal with underflow.
Pros:
* Ignoring the generated tracer code as it's automatically created, this is only additional 1k lines of code. The maintenance burden is handled by the DSL and code generator.
* `optimizer.c` is now significantly simpler, as we don't have to do strange things to recover the bytecode from a trace.
* The new JIT frontend is able to handle a lot more control-flow than the old one.
* Tracing is very low overhead. We use the tail calling interpreter/computed goto interpreter to switch between tracing mode and non-tracing mode. I call this mechanism dual dispatch, as we have two dispatch tables dispatching to each other. Specialization is still enabled while tracing.
* Better handling of polymorphism. We leverage the specializing interpreter for this.
Cons:
* (For now) requires tail calling interpreter or computed gotos. This means no Windows JIT for now :(. Not to fret, tail calling is coming soon to Windows though https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/139962
Design:
* After each instruction, the `record_previous_inst` function/label is executed. This does as the name suggests.
* The tracing interpreter lowers bytecode to uops directly so that it can obtain "fresh" values at the point of lowering.
* The tracing version behaves nearly identical to the normal interpreter, in fact it even has specialization! This allows it to run without much of a slowdown when tracing. The actual cost of tracing is only a function call and writes to memory.
* The tracing interpreter uses the specializing interpreter's deopt to naturally form the side exit chains. This allows it to side exit chain effectively, without repeating much code. We force a re-specializing when tracing a deopt.
* The tracing interpreter can even handle goto errors/exceptions, but I chose to disable them for now as it's not tested.
* Because we do not share interpreter dispatch, there is should be no significant slowdown to the original specializing interpreter on tailcall and computed got with JIT disabled. With JIT enabled, there might be a slowdown in the form of the JIT trying to trace.
* Things that could have dynamic instruction pointer effects are guarded on. The guard deopts to a new instruction --- `_DYNAMIC_EXIT`.
Add PyUnstable_ThreadState_SetStackProtection() and
PyUnstable_ThreadState_ResetStackProtection() functions
to set the stack base address and stack size of a Python
thread state.
Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
Many functions related to compiling or parsing Python code, such as
compile(), ast.parse(), symtable.symtable(),
and importlib.abc.InspectLoader.source_to_code() now allow to pass
the module name used when filtering syntax warnings.
Example of fixed warnings on 32-bit Windows:
Python\remote_debugging.c(24,53): warning C4244: 'function':
conversion from 'uint64_t' to 'uintptr_t', possible loss of data
Modules\_remote_debugging_module.c(789,44): warning C4244:
'function': conversion from 'uint64_t' to 'size_t', possible loss
of data
faulthandler now detects if a frame or a code object is invalid or
freed.
Add helper functions:
* _PyCode_SafeAddr2Line()
* _PyFrame_SafeGetCode()
* _PyFrame_SafeGetLasti()
_PyMem_IsPtrFreed() now detects pointers in [-0xff, 0xff] range
as freed.
Allow the --enable-pystats build option to be used with free-threading. The
stats are now stored on a per-interpreter basis, rather than process global.
For free-threaded builds, the stats structure is allocated per-thread and
then periodically merged into the per-interpreter stats structure (on thread
exit or when the reporting function is called). Most of the pystats related
code has be moved into the file Python/pystats.c.
* Try to match the module name pattern with module names constructed
starting from different parent directories of the filename.
E.g., for "/path/to/package/module" try to match with
"path.to.package.module", "to.package.module", "package.module" and
"module".
* Ignore trailing "/__init__.py".
* Ignore trailing ".pyw" on Windows.
* Keep matching with the full filename (without optional ".py" extension)
for compatibility.
* Only ignore the case of the ".py" extension on Windows.
Add _Py_DumpWideString() function to dump a wide string as ASCII. It
supports surrogate pairs.
Replace _Py_EncodeLocaleRaw() with _Py_DumpWideString()
in write_thread_name().
Python has required thread local support since 3.12 (see GH-103324). By assuming that thread locals are always supported, we can improve the performance of third-party extensions by allowing them to access the attached thread and interpreter states directly.
* Count number of actually tracked objects, instead of trackable objects. This ensures that untracking tuples has the desired effect of reducing GC overhead
* Do not track most untrackable tuples during creation. This prevents large numbers of small tuples causing execessive GCs.
Fix memory leak in sub-interpreter creation caused by overwriting of the previously used `_malloced` field. Now the pointer is stored in the first word of the memory block to avoid it being overwritten accidentally.
Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya <kumaraditya@python.org>
The previous `Py_REFCNT(x) == 1` checks can have data races in the free
threaded build. `_PyObject_IsUniquelyReferenced(x)` is a more conservative
check that is safe in the free threaded build and is identical to
`Py_REFCNT(x) == 1` in the default GIL-enabled build.
