post-scarcity/src/memory/stack.c

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/*
* stack.c
*
* The Lisp evaluation stack.
*
* Stack frames could be implemented in cons space; indeed, the stack
* could simply be an assoc list consed onto the front of the environment.
* But such a stack would be costly to search. The design sketched here,
* with stack frames as special objects, SHOULD be substantially more
* efficient, but does imply we need to generalise the idea of cons pages
* with freelists to a more general 'equal sized object pages', so that
* allocating/freeing stack frames can be more efficient.
*
* (c) 2017 Simon Brooke <simon@journeyman.cc>
* Licensed under GPL version 2.0, or, at your option, any later version.
*/
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "consspaceobject.h"
#include "conspage.h"
#include "lispops.h"
#include "print.h"
#include "stack.h"
#include "vectorspace.h"
/**
* get the actual stackframe object from this `pointer`, or NULL if
* `pointer` is not a stackframe pointer.
*/
struct stack_frame *get_stack_frame( struct cons_pointer pointer ) {
struct stack_frame *result = NULL;
fputws
( L"get_stack_frame: about to get a pointer to the vector space object\n",
stderr );
struct vector_space_object *vso =
pointer2cell( pointer ).payload.vectorp.address;
fputws( L"get_stack_frame: got a pointer, about to test it\n", stderr );
if ( vectorpointp( pointer ) ) { // && stackframep(vso)){
fputws( L"get_stack_frame: pointer is good, about to set the result\n",
stderr );
result = ( struct stack_frame * ) &( vso->payload );
fputws( L"get_stack_frame: all good, returning\n", stderr );
} else {
fputws( L"get_stack_frame: fail, returning NULL\n", stderr );
}
return result;
}
/**
* Make an empty stack frame, and return it.
* @param previous the current top-of-stack;
* @param env the environment in which evaluation happens.
* @return the new frame, or NULL if memory is exhausted.
*/
struct cons_pointer make_empty_frame( struct cons_pointer previous ) {
fputws( L"Entering make_empty_frame\n", stderr );
struct cons_pointer result =
make_vso( STACKFRAMETAG, sizeof( struct stack_frame ) );
if ( !nilp( result ) ) {
fputws( L"make_empty_frame: about to call get_stack_frame\n", stderr );
struct stack_frame *frame = get_stack_frame( result );
/*
* TODO: later, pop a frame off a free-list of stack frames
*/
fwprintf( stderr,
L"make_empty_frame: about to set previous to %4.4s\n",
pointer2cell( previous ).tag );
frame->previous = previous;
fputws( L"make_empty_frame: about to call inc_ref\n", stderr );
inc_ref( previous );
/*
* clearing the frame with memset would probably be slightly quicker, but
* this is clear.
*/
frame->more = NIL;
frame->function = NIL;
frame->args = 0;
fputws( L"make_empty_frame: about to initialise arg registers\n",
stderr );
for ( int i = 0; i < args_in_frame; i++ ) {
set_reg( frame, i, NIL );
}
}
fputws( L"Leaving make_empty_frame\n", stderr );
return result;
}
/**
* Allocate a new stack frame with its previous pointer set to this value,
* its arguments set up from these args, evaluated in this env.
* @param previous the current top-of-stack;
* @args the arguments to load into this frame;
* @param env the environment in which evaluation happens.
* @return the new frame, or an exception if one occurred while building it.
*/
struct cons_pointer make_stack_frame( struct cons_pointer previous,
struct cons_pointer args,
struct cons_pointer env ) {
fputws( L"Entering make_stack_frame\n", stderr );
struct cons_pointer result = make_empty_frame( previous );
if ( nilp( result ) ) {
/* i.e. out of memory */
result =
make_exception( c_string_to_lisp_string( "Memory exhausted." ),
previous );
} else {
struct stack_frame *frame = get_stack_frame( result );
for ( frame->args = 0; frame->args < args_in_frame && consp( args );
frame->args++ ) {
/* iterate down the arg list filling in the arg slots in the
* frame. When there are no more slots, if there are still args,
* stash them on more */
struct cons_space_object cell = pointer2cell( args );
/*
* TODO: if we were running on real massively parallel hardware,
* each arg except the first should be handed off to another
* processor to be evaled in parallel; but see notes here:
* https://github.com/simon-brooke/post-scarcity/wiki/parallelism
*/
struct cons_pointer arg_frame_pointer = make_empty_frame( result );
inc_ref( arg_frame_pointer );
if ( nilp( arg_frame_pointer ) ) {
result =
make_exception( c_string_to_lisp_string
( "Memory exhausted." ), previous );
break;
} else {
struct stack_frame *arg_frame =
get_stack_frame( arg_frame_pointer );
set_reg( arg_frame, 0, cell.payload.cons.car );
struct cons_pointer val =
lisp_eval( arg_frame, arg_frame_pointer, env );
if ( exceptionp( val ) ) {
result = val;
break;
} else {
set_reg( frame, frame->args, val );
}
dec_ref( arg_frame_pointer );
args = cell.payload.cons.cdr;
}
}
if ( !exceptionp( result ) ) {
if ( consp( args ) ) {
/* if we still have args, eval them and stick the values on `more` */
struct cons_pointer more =
eval_forms( get_stack_frame( previous ), previous, args,
env );
frame->more = more;
inc_ref( more );
}
#ifdef DEBUG
dump_frame( stderr, result );
#endif
}
}
fputws( L"Leaving make_stack_frame\n", stderr );
return result;
}
/**
* A 'special' frame is exactly like a normal stack frame except that the
* arguments are unevaluated.
* @param previous the previous stack frame;
* @param args a list of the arguments to be stored in this stack frame;
* @param env the execution environment;
* @return a new special frame.
*/
struct cons_pointer make_special_frame( struct cons_pointer previous,
struct cons_pointer args,
struct cons_pointer env ) {
fputws( L"Entering make_special_frame\n", stderr );
struct cons_pointer result = make_empty_frame( previous );
if ( nilp( result ) ) {
/* i.e. out of memory */
result =
make_exception( c_string_to_lisp_string( "Memory exhausted." ),
previous );
} else {
struct stack_frame *frame = get_stack_frame( result );
for ( frame->args = 0; frame->args < args_in_frame && !nilp( args );
frame->args++ ) {
/* iterate down the arg list filling in the arg slots in the
* frame. When there are no more slots, if there are still args,
* stash them on more */
struct cons_space_object cell = pointer2cell( args );
set_reg( frame, frame->args, cell.payload.cons.car );
args = cell.payload.cons.cdr;
}
if ( !exceptionp( result ) ) {
if ( consp( args ) ) {
frame->more = args;
inc_ref( args );
}
#ifdef DEBUG
dump_frame( stderr, result );
#endif
}
}
fputws( L"Leaving make_special_frame\n", stderr );
return result;
}
/**
* Free this stack frame.
*/
void free_stack_frame( struct stack_frame *frame ) {
/*
* TODO: later, push it back on the stack-frame freelist
*/
for ( int i = 0; i < args_in_frame; i++ ) {
dec_ref( frame->arg[i] );
}
if ( !nilp( frame->more ) ) {
dec_ref( frame->more );
}
free( frame );
}
/**
* Dump a stackframe to this stream for debugging
* @param output the stream
* @param frame_pointer the pointer to the frame
*/
void dump_frame( FILE * output, struct cons_pointer frame_pointer ) {
struct stack_frame *frame = get_stack_frame( frame_pointer );
if ( frame != NULL ) {
for ( int arg = 0; arg < frame->args; arg++ ) {
struct cons_space_object cell = pointer2cell( frame->arg[arg] );
fwprintf( output, L"Arg %d:\t%c%c%c%c\tcount: %10u\tvalue: ", arg,
cell.tag.bytes[0],
cell.tag.bytes[1], cell.tag.bytes[2], cell.tag.bytes[3],
cell.count );
print( output, frame->arg[arg] );
fputws( L"\n", output );
}
fputws( L"More: \t", output );
print( output, frame->more );
fputws( L"\n", output );
}
}
void dump_stack_trace( FILE * output, struct cons_pointer pointer ) {
if ( exceptionp( pointer ) ) {
print( output, pointer2cell( pointer ).payload.exception.message );
fwprintf( output, L"\n" );
dump_stack_trace( output,
pointer2cell( pointer ).payload.exception.frame );
} else {
while ( vectorpointp( pointer )
&& stackframep( pointer_to_vso( pointer ) ) ) {
dump_frame( output, pointer );
pointer = get_stack_frame( pointer )->previous;
}
}
}
/**
* Fetch a pointer to the value of the local variable at this index.
*/
struct cons_pointer fetch_arg( struct stack_frame *frame, unsigned int index ) {
struct cons_pointer result = NIL;
if ( index < args_in_frame ) {
result = frame->arg[index];
} else {
struct cons_pointer p = frame->more;
for ( int i = args_in_frame; i < index; i++ ) {
p = pointer2cell( p ).payload.cons.cdr;
}
result = pointer2cell( p ).payload.cons.car;
}
return result;
}