Integrate measureme's hardware performance counter support.
*Note: this is a companion to https://github.com/rust-lang/measureme/pull/143, and duplicates some information with it for convenience*
**(much later) EDIT**: take any numbers with a grain of salt, they may have changed since initial PR open.
## Credits
I'd like to start by thanking `@alyssais,` `@cuviper,` `@edef1c,` `@glandium,` `@jix,` `@Mark-Simulacrum,` `@m-ou-se,` `@mystor,` `@nagisa,` `@puckipedia,` and `@yorickvP,` for all of their help with testing, and valuable insight and suggestions.
Getting here wouldn't have been possible without you!
(If I've forgotten anyone please let me know, I'm going off memory here, plus some discussion logs)
## Summary
This PR adds support to `-Z self-profile` for counting hardware events such as "instructions retired" (as opposed to being limited to time measurements), using the `rdpmc` instruction on `x86_64` Linux.
While other OSes may eventually be supported, preliminary research suggests some kind of kernel extension/driver is required to enable this, whereas on Linux any user can profile (at least) their own threads.
Supporting Linux on architectures other than x86_64 should be much easier (provided the hardware supports such performance counters), and was mostly not done due to a lack of readily available test hardware.
That said, 32-bit `x86` (aka `i686`) would be almost trivial to add and test once we land the initial `x86_64` version (as all the CPU detection code can be reused).
A new flag `-Z self-profile-counter` was added, to control which of the named `measureme` counters is used, and which defaults to `wall-time`, in order to keep `-Z self-profile`'s current functionality unchanged (at least for now).
The named counters so far are:
* `wall-time`: the existing time measurement
* name chosen for consistency with `perf.rust-lang.org`
* continues to use `std::time::Instant` for a nanosecond-precision "monotonic clock"
* `instructions:u`: the hardware performance counter usually referred to as "Instructions retired"
* here "retired" (roughly) means "fully executed"
* the `:u` suffix is from the Linux `perf` tool and indicates the counter only runs while userspace code is executing, and therefore counts no kernel instructions
* *see [Caveats/Subtracting IRQs](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#Subtracting-IRQs) for why this isn't entirely true and why `instructions-minus-irqs:u` should be preferred instead*
* `instructions-minus-irqs:u`: same as `instructions:u`, except the count of hardware interrupts ("IRQs" here for brevity) is subtracted
* *see [Caveats/Subtracting IRQs](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#Subtracting-IRQs) for why this should be preferred over `instructions:u`*
* `instructions-minus-r0420:u`: experimental counter, same as `instructions-minus-irqs:u` but subtracting an undocumented counter (`r0420:u`) instead of IRQs
* the `rXXXX` notation is again from Linux `perf`, and indicates a "raw" counter, with a hex representation of the low-level counter configuration - this was picked because we still don't *really* know what it is
* this only exists for (future) testing and isn't included/used in any comparisons/data we've put together so far
* *see [Challenges/Zen's undocumented 420 counter](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#Epilogue-Zen’s-undocumented-420-counter) for details on how this counter was found and what it does*
---
There are also some additional commits:
* ~~see [Challenges/Rebasing *shouldn't* affect the results, right?](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#Rebasing-*shouldn’t*-affect-the-results,-right) for details on the changes to `rustc_parse` and `rustc_trait_section` (the latter far more dubious, and probably shouldn't be merged, or not as-is)~~
* **EDIT**: the effects of these are no long quantifiable, the PR includes reverts for them
* ~~see [Challenges/`jemalloc`: purging will commence in ten seconds](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#jemalloc-purging-will-commence-in-ten-seconds) for details on the `jemalloc` change~~
* this is also separately found in #77162, and we probably want to avoid doing it by default, ideally we'd use the runtime control API `jemalloc` offers (assuming that can stop the timer that's already running, which I'm not sure about)
* **EDIT**: until we can do this based on `-Z` flags, this commit has also been reverted
* the `proc_macro` change was to avoid randomized hashing and therefore ASLR-like effects
---
**(much later) EDIT**: take any numbers with a grain of salt, they may have changed since initial PR open.
#### Write-up / report
Because of how extensive the full report ended up being, I've kept most of it [on `hackmd.io`](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view), but for convenient access, here are all the sections (with individual links):
<sup>(someone suggested I'd make a backup, so [here it is on the wayback machine](http://web.archive.org/web/20201127164748/https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view) - I'll need to remember to update that if I have to edit the write-up)</sup>
* [**Motivation**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#Motivation)
* [**Results**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#Results)
* [**Overhead**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#Overhead)
*Preview (see the report itself for more details):*
|Counter|Total<br>`instructions-minus-irqs:u`|Overhead from "Baseline"<br>(for all 1903881<br>counter reads)|Overhead from "Baseline"<br>(per each counter read)|
|-|-|-|-|
|Baseline|63637621286 ±6||
|`instructions:u`|63658815885 ±2| +21194599 ±8| +11|
|`instructions-minus-irqs:u`|63680307361 ±13| +42686075 ±19| +22|
|`wall-time`|63951958376 ±10275|+314337090 ±10281|+165|
* [**"Macro" noise (self time)**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#“Macro”-noise-(self-time))
*Preview (see the report itself for more details):*
|| `wall-time` (ns) | `instructions:u` | `instructions-minus-irqs:u`
-: | -: | -: | -:
`typeck` | 5478261360 ±283933373 (±~5.2%) | 17350144522 ±6392 (±~0.00004%) | 17351035832.5 ±4.5 (±~0.00000003%)
`expand_crate` | 2342096719 ±110465856 (±~4.7%) | 8263777916 ±2937 (±~0.00004%) | 8263708389 ±0 (±~0%)
`mir_borrowck` | 2216149671 ±119458444 (±~5.4%) | 8340920100 ±2794 (±~0.00003%) | 8341613983.5 ±2.5 (±~0.00000003%)
`mir_built` | 1269059734 ±91514604 (±~7.2%) | 4454959122 ±1618 (±~0.00004%) | 4455303811 ±1 (±~0.00000002%)
`resolve_crate` | 942154987.5 ±53068423.5 (±~5.6%) | 3951197709 ±39 (±~0.000001%) | 3951196865 ±0 (±~0%)
* [**"Micro" noise (individual sampling intervals)**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#“Micro”-noise-(individual-sampling-intervals))
* [**Caveats**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#Caveats)
* [**Disabling ASLR**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#Disabling-ASLR)
* [**Non-deterministic proc macros**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#Non-deterministic-proc-macros)
* [**Subtracting IRQs**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#Subtracting-IRQs)
* [**Lack of support for multiple threads**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#Lack-of-support-for-multiple-threads)
* [**Challenges**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#Challenges)
* [**How do we even read hardware performance counters?**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#How-do-we-even-read-hardware-performance-counters)
* [**ASLR: it's free entropy**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#ASLR-it’s-free-entropy)
* [**The serializing instruction**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#The-serializing-instruction)
* [**Getting constantly interrupted**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#Getting-constantly-interrupted)
* [**AMD patented time-travel and dubbed it `SpecLockMap`<br><sup> or: "how we accidentally unlocked `rr` on AMD Zen"</sup>**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#AMD-patented-time-travel-and-dubbed-it-SpecLockMapnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspor-“how-we-accidentally-unlocked-rr-on-AMD-Zen”)
* [**`jemalloc`: purging will commence in ten seconds**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#jemalloc-purging-will-commence-in-ten-seconds)
* [**Rebasing *shouldn't* affect the results, right?**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#Rebasing-*shouldn’t*-affect-the-results,-right)
* [**Epilogue: Zen's undocumented 420 counter**](https://hackmd.io/sH315lO2RuicY-SEt7ynGA?view#Epilogue-Zen’s-undocumented-420-counter)
Our condvar doesn't support setting attributes, like
pthread_condattr_setclock, which the current wait_timeout expects to
have configured.
Switch to a different implementation, following espidf.
line 1352, change `self` to `*self`, other to `*other`
The current code will not results bug, but it difficult to understand. These code result to call &f32::partial_cmp(), and the performance will be lower than the changed code. I'm not sure why the current code don't use (*self) (*other), if you have some idea, please let me know.
Use `fcntl(fd, F_GETFD)` to detect if standard streams are open
In the previous implementation, if the standard streams were open,
but the RLIMIT_NOFILE value was below three, the poll would fail
with EINVAL:
> ERRORS: EINVAL The nfds value exceeds the RLIMIT_NOFILE value.
Switch to the existing fcntl based implementation to avoid the issue.
Fixes#96621.
The current code will not results bug, but it difficult to understand. These code result to call &f32::partial_cmp(), and the performance will be lower than the changed code. I'm not sure why the current code don't use (*self) (*other), if you have some idea, please let me know.
Rollup of 6 pull requests
Successful merges:
- #97718 (Fix `delayed_good_path_bug` ice for expected diagnostics (RFC 2383))
- #97876 (update docs for `std::future::IntoFuture`)
- #97888 (Don't use __gxx_personality_v0 in panic_unwind on emscripten target)
- #97922 (Remove redundant calls to reserve in impl Write for VecDeque)
- #97927 (Do not introduce bindings for types and consts in HRTB.)
- #97937 (Fix a typo in `test/ui/hrtb/hrtb-just-for-static.rs`)
Failed merges:
r? `@ghost`
`@rustbot` modify labels: rollup
Don't use __gxx_personality_v0 in panic_unwind on emscripten target
This resolves#85821. See also the discussion here:
https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/17128
The consensus seems to be that rust_eh_personality is never invoked.
I patched __gxx_personality_v0 to log invocations and then ran
various panic tests and it was never called, so this analysis matches
what seems to happen in practice. This replaces the definition with
an abort, modeled on the structured exception handling implementation.
update docs for `std::future::IntoFuture`
Ref https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/67644.
This updates the docs for `IntoFuture` providing a bit more guidance on how to use it. Thanks!
std::io: Modify some ReadBuf method signatures to return `&mut Self`
This allows using `ReadBuf` in a builder-like style and to setup a `ReadBuf` and
pass it to `read_buf` in a single expression, e.g.,
```
// With this PR:
reader.read_buf(ReadBuf::uninit(buf).assume_init(init_len))?;
// Previously:
let mut buf = ReadBuf::uninit(buf);
buf.assume_init(init_len);
reader.read_buf(&mut buf)?;
```
r? `@sfackler`
cc https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/78485, https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/94741
Add the Provider api to core::any
This is an implementation of [RFC 3192](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3192) ~~(which is yet to be merged, thus why this is a draft PR)~~. It adds an API for type-driven requests and provision of data from trait objects. A primary use case is for the `Error` trait, though that is not implemented in this PR. The only major difference to the RFC is that the functionality is added to the `any` module, rather than being in a sibling `provide_any` module (as discussed in the RFC thread).
~~Still todo: improve documentation on items, including adding examples.~~
cc `@yaahc`
`Mutex::lock()` and `RwLock::write()` are poison-guarded against panics,
in that they set the poison flag if a panic occurs while they're locked.
But if we're already in a panic (`thread::panicking()`), they leave the
poison flag alone.
That check is a bit of a waste for methods that never set the poison
flag though, namely `get_mut()`, `into_inner()`, and `RwLock::read()`.
These use-cases are now split to avoid that unnecessary call.
impl Read and Write for VecDeque<u8>
Implementing `Read` and `Write` for `VecDeque<u8>` fills in the VecDeque api surface where `Vec<u8>` and `Cursor<Vec<u8>>` already impl Read and Write. Not only for completeness, but VecDeque in particular is a very handy mock interface for a TCP echo service, if only it supported Read/Write.
Since this PR is just an impl trait, I don't think there is a way to limit it behind a feature flag, so it's "insta-stable". Please correct me if I'm wrong here, not trying to rush stability.
BTreeSet: avoid intermediate sorting when collecting sorted iterators
As [pointed out by droundy](https://users.rust-lang.org/t/question-about-btreeset-implementation/76427), an obvious optimization is to skip the first step introduced by #88448 (creation of a vector and sorting) and it's easy to do so for btree's own iterators. Also, exploit `from` in the examples.
This commit adds a new unstable attribute, `#[doc(tuple_varadic)]`, that
shows a 1-tuple as `(T, ...)` instead of just `(T,)`, and links to a section
in the tuple primitive docs that talks about these.
Suggest using `iter()` or `into_iter()` for `Vec`
We cannot do that for `&Vec` because `#[rustc_on_unimplemented]` is limited (it does not clean generic instantiation for references, only for ADTs).
`@rustbot` label +A-diagnostics
This resolves#85821. See also the discussion here:
https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/17128
The consensus seems to be that rust_eh_personality is never invoked.
I patched __gxx_personality_v0 to log invocations and then ran
various panic tests and it was never called, so this analysis matches
what seems to happen in practice. This replaces the definition with
an abort, modeled on the structured exception handling implementation.
Use repr(C) when depending on struct layout in ptr tests
The test depends on the layout of this struct `Pair`, so it should use `repr(C)` instead of the default `repr(Rust)`.
In some situations it is possible for required functions to be called before they've had a chance to be loaded. Therefore, we make it possible to recover from this situation simply by looking at error codes.
Remove confusing sentence from `Mutex` docs
The docs were saying something about "statically initializing" the
mutex, and it's not clear what this means. Remove that part to avoid
confusion.
Improve the safety docs for `CStr`
Namely, the two functions `from_ptr` and `from_bytes_with_nul_unchecked`.
Before, these functions didn't state the requirements clearly enough,
and I was not immediately able to find them like for other functions.
This doesn't change the content of the docs, but simply rewords them for
clarity.
note: I'm not entirely sure about the '`ptr` must be valid for reads of `u8`.', there might be room for improvement for this (and maybe for the other docs as well 😄)
Namely, the two functions `from_ptr` and `from_bytes_with_nul_unchecked`.
Before, this functions didn't state the requirements clearly enough,
and I was not immediately able to find them like for other functions.
This doesn't change the content of the docs, but simply rewords them for
clarity.
Remove migrate borrowck mode
Closes#58781Closes#43234
# Stabilization proposal
This PR proposes the stabilization of `#![feature(nll)]` and the removal of `-Z borrowck`. Current borrow checking behavior of item bodies is currently done by first infering regions *lexically* and reporting any errors during HIR type checking. If there *are* any errors, then MIR borrowck (NLL) never occurs. If there *aren't* any errors, then MIR borrowck happens and any errors there would be reported. This PR removes the lexical region check of item bodies entirely and only uses MIR borrowck. Because MIR borrowck could never *not* be run for a compiled program, this should not break any programs. It does, however, change diagnostics significantly and allows a slightly larger set of programs to compile.
Tracking issue: #43234
RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2094-nll.md
Version: 1.63 (2022-06-30 => beta, 2022-08-11 => stable).
## Motivation
Over time, the Rust borrow checker has become "smarter" and thus allowed more programs to compile. There have been three different implementations: AST borrowck, MIR borrowck, and polonius (well, in progress). Additionally, there is the "lexical region resolver", which (roughly) solves the constraints generated through HIR typeck. It is not a full borrow checker, but does emit some errors.
The AST borrowck was the original implementation of the borrow checker and was part of the initially stabilized Rust 1.0. In mid 2017, work began to implement the current MIR borrow checker and that effort ompleted by the end of 2017, for the most part. During 2018, efforts were made to migrate away from the AST borrow checker to the MIR borrow checker - eventually culminating into "migrate" mode - where HIR typeck with lexical region resolving following by MIR borrow checking - being active by default in the 2018 edition.
In early 2019, migrate mode was turned on by default in the 2015 edition as well, but with MIR borrowck errors emitted as warnings. By late 2019, these warnings were upgraded to full errors. This was followed by the complete removal of the AST borrow checker.
In the period since, various errors emitted by the MIR borrow checker have been improved to the point that they are mostly the same or better than those emitted by the lexical region resolver.
While there do remain some degradations in errors (tracked under the [NLL-diagnostics tag](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3ANLL-diagnostics), those are sufficiently small and rare enough that increased flexibility of MIR borrow check-only is now a worthwhile tradeoff.
## What is stabilized
As said previously, this does not fundamentally change the landscape of accepted programs. However, there are a [few](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3ANLL-fixed-by-NLL) cases where programs can compile under `feature(nll)`, but not otherwise.
There are two notable patterns that are "fixed" by this stabilization. First, the `scoped_threads` feature, which is a continutation of a pre-1.0 API, can sometimes emit a [weird lifetime error](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/95527) without NLL. Second, actually seen in the standard library. In the `Extend` impl for `HashMap`, there is an implied bound of `K: 'a` that is available with NLL on but not without - this is utilized in the impl.
As mentioned before, there are a large number of diagnostic differences. Most of them are better, but some are worse. None are serious or happen often enough to need to block this PR. The biggest change is the loss of error code for a number of lifetime errors in favor of more general "lifetime may not live long enough" error. While this may *seem* bad, the former error codes were just attempts to somewhat-arbitrarily bin together lifetime errors of the same type; however, on paper, they end up being roughly the same with roughly the same kinds of solutions.
## What isn't stabilized
This PR does not completely remove the lexical region resolver. In the future, it may be possible to remove that (while still keeping HIR typeck) or to remove it together with HIR typeck.
## Tests
Many test outputs get updated by this PR. However, there are number of tests specifically geared towards NLL under `src/test/ui/nll`
## History
* On 2017-07-14, [tracking issue opened](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/43234)
* On 2017-07-20, [initial empty MIR pass added](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/43271)
* On 2017-08-29, [RFC opened](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2094)
* On 2017-11-16, [Integrate MIR type-checker with NLL](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/45825)
* On 2017-12-20, [NLL feature complete](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/46862)
* On 2018-07-07, [Don't run AST borrowck on mir mode](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/52083)
* On 2018-07-27, [Add migrate mode](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/52681)
* On 2019-04-22, [Enable migrate mode on 2015 edition](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/59114)
* On 2019-08-26, [Don't downgrade errors on 2015 edition](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/64221)
* On 2019-08-27, [Remove AST borrowck](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/64790)
Add note to documentation of HashSet::intersection
The functionality of the `std::collections::HashSet::intersection(...)` method was slightly surprising to me so I wanted to take a sec to contribute to the documentation for this method.
I've added a `Note:` section if that is appropriate.