From fb94cd974dc03baf149264ca4f4d50c6d1f80f21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrik Nyblom Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:26:14 +0100 Subject: Store pointers to heap data in 32-bit words Store Erlang terms in 32-bit entities on the heap, expanding the pointers to 64-bit when needed. This works because all terms are stored on addresses in the 32-bit address range (the 32 most significant bits of pointers to term data are always 0). Introduce a new datatype called UWord (along with its companion SWord), which is an integer having the exact same size as the machine word (a void *), but might be larger than Eterm/Uint. Store code as machine words, as the instructions are pointers to executable code which might reside outside the 32-bit address range. Continuation pointers are stored on the 32-bit stack and hence must point to addresses in the low range, which means that loaded beam code much be placed in the low 32-bit address range (but, as said earlier, the instructions themselves are full words). No Erlang term data can be stored on C stacks (enforced by an earlier commit). This version gives a prompt, but test cases still fail (and dump core). The loader (and emulator loop) has instruction packing disabled. The main issues has been in rewriting loader and actual virtual machine. Subsystems (like distribution) does not work yet. --- erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_re.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_re.c') diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_re.c b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_re.c index c027cd5984..4b527ce215 100644 --- a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_re.c +++ b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_re.c @@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ void erts_init_bif_re(void) re_exec_trap_export.code[0] = am_erlang; re_exec_trap_export.code[1] = am_re_run_trap; re_exec_trap_export.code[2] = 3; - re_exec_trap_export.code[3] = (Eterm) em_apply_bif; - re_exec_trap_export.code[4] = (Eterm) &re_exec_trap; + re_exec_trap_export.code[3] = (UWord) em_apply_bif; + re_exec_trap_export.code[4] = (UWord) &re_exec_trap; grun_trap_exportp = erts_export_put(am_re,am_grun,3); urun_trap_exportp = erts_export_put(am_re,am_urun,3); @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Sint erts_re_set_loop_limit(Sint limit) static int term_to_int(Eterm term, int *sp) { -#ifdef ARCH_64 +#if defined(ARCH_64) && !HALFWORD_HEAP if (is_small(term)) { Uint x = signed_val(term); @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static int term_to_int(Eterm term, int *sp) static Eterm make_signed_integer(int x, Process *p) { -#ifdef ARCH_64 +#if defined(ARCH_64) && !HALFWORD_HEAP return make_small(x); #else Eterm* hp; -- cgit v1.2.3 From 20ba5ed3c281d3f0be587395fa66182873d229f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrik Nyblom Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:21:36 +0100 Subject: Add the BeamInstr data type for loaded BEAM code For cleanliness, use BeamInstr instead of the UWord data type to any machine-sized words that are used for BEAM instructions. Only use UWord for untyped words in general. --- erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_re.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_re.c') diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_re.c b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_re.c index 4b527ce215..d4a8a3aaa7 100644 --- a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_re.c +++ b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_re.c @@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ void erts_init_bif_re(void) re_exec_trap_export.code[0] = am_erlang; re_exec_trap_export.code[1] = am_re_run_trap; re_exec_trap_export.code[2] = 3; - re_exec_trap_export.code[3] = (UWord) em_apply_bif; - re_exec_trap_export.code[4] = (UWord) &re_exec_trap; + re_exec_trap_export.code[3] = (BeamInstr) em_apply_bif; + re_exec_trap_export.code[4] = (BeamInstr) &re_exec_trap; grun_trap_exportp = erts_export_put(am_re,am_grun,3); urun_trap_exportp = erts_export_put(am_re,am_urun,3); -- cgit v1.2.3