llvm-6502/runtime/GC
Gordon Henriksen 8fa8929177 With this patch, the LowerGC transformation becomes the
ShadowStackCollector, which additionally has reduced overhead with
no sacrifice in portability.

Considering a function @fun with 8 loop-local roots,
ShadowStackCollector introduces the following overhead
(x86):

; shadowstack prologue
        movl    L_llvm_gc_root_chain$non_lazy_ptr, %eax
        movl    (%eax), %ecx
        movl    $___gc_fun, 20(%esp)
        movl    $0, 24(%esp)
        movl    $0, 28(%esp)
        movl    $0, 32(%esp)
        movl    $0, 36(%esp)
        movl    $0, 40(%esp)
        movl    $0, 44(%esp)
        movl    $0, 48(%esp)
        movl    $0, 52(%esp)
        movl    %ecx, 16(%esp)
        leal    16(%esp), %ecx
        movl    %ecx, (%eax)

; shadowstack loop overhead
        (none)

; shadowstack epilogue
        movl    48(%esp), %edx
        movl    %edx, (%ecx)

; shadowstack metadata
        .align  3
___gc_fun:                              # __gc_fun
        .long   8
        .space  4

In comparison to LowerGC:

; lowergc prologue
        movl    L_llvm_gc_root_chain$non_lazy_ptr, %eax
        movl    (%eax), %ecx
        movl    %ecx, 48(%esp)
        movl    $8, 52(%esp)
        movl    $0, 60(%esp)
        movl    $0, 56(%esp)
        movl    $0, 68(%esp)
        movl    $0, 64(%esp)
        movl    $0, 76(%esp)
        movl    $0, 72(%esp)
        movl    $0, 84(%esp)
        movl    $0, 80(%esp)
        movl    $0, 92(%esp)
        movl    $0, 88(%esp)
        movl    $0, 100(%esp)
        movl    $0, 96(%esp)
        movl    $0, 108(%esp)
        movl    $0, 104(%esp)
        movl    $0, 116(%esp)
        movl    $0, 112(%esp)

; lowergc loop overhead
        leal    44(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 56(%esp)
        leal    40(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 64(%esp)
        leal    36(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 72(%esp)
        leal    32(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 80(%esp)
        leal    28(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 88(%esp)
        leal    24(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 96(%esp)
        leal    20(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 104(%esp)
        leal    16(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 112(%esp)

; lowergc epilogue
        movl    48(%esp), %edx
        movl    %edx, (%ecx)

; lowergc metadata
        (none)


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@45670 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2008-01-07 01:30:53 +00:00
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SemiSpace With this patch, the LowerGC transformation becomes the 2008-01-07 01:30:53 +00:00
gc_exported_symbols.lst Undo removal of the runtime libraries. While this may have been a bit 2006-11-17 03:32:33 +00:00
GCInterface.h remove attribution from a variety of miscellaneous files. 2007-12-29 22:59:10 +00:00
Makefile remove attributions from the rest of the llvm makefiles. 2007-12-29 20:11:13 +00:00