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From: "Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet@protonmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	 ofv@wanadoo.es,  emacs-devel@gnu.org, eller.helmut@gmail.com,
	 acorallo@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some experience with the igc branch
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:38:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m25xn9urp4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8734idb4nj.fsf@protonmail.com> (Pip Cet's message of "Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:19:26 +0000")

Pip Cet <pipcet@protonmail.com> writes:

> Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm using SIGPROF below to make it more concrete. Similar for other
>> signals.
>>
>> The idea is to get the backtrace in the SIGPROF handler, without
>> accessing Lisp data. That can be done, as I've tried to show.
>
> I don't understand.  We need to access the specpdl, which I consider
> Lisp data, and certainly the backtrace includes data which can only be
> generated using MPS-managed memory.

What I meant with it not being Lisp data is union specbinding. The stack
of bindings is a root, and doesn't have a barrier. And accessing the
stack is not a problem because PVEC_THREAD is allocated from AMS which
doesn't have barriers. What we collect in get_backtrace is an array of
Lisp_Objects for the functions, and that's okay.

>
>> Then place that backtrace somewhere.
>
> I still think it's better to copy the specpdl, since that allows us to
> generate the "backtrace" (whatever we choose to use for that) in Lisp.
> If we spend too much time allocating short-lived data which triggers too
> many GCs, we want to know what to fix in the Lisp code.

In a way, what get_backtrace does is copy part of the bindings stack,
only the functions. The resulting backtrace that the user sees could
be done in Lisp, maybe, don't know. Important part for me is that we get
out of the signal handler to do stuff.

> Honestly, though, it doesn't matter much, does it?

Right, it's all details.

>
>> That's only one example architectures, of course. One can use something
>> else, like queues that are handled by another thread, one doesn't need a
>> scheduler thread, and so on, and so on. Pip's work queue is an
>> example.
>
> That's Helmut's code, not mine.

+2👍 to Helmut, -👍 to Pip, -👍 to me :-)



  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-24 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-22 15:40 Some experience with the igc branch Óscar Fuentes
2024-12-22 17:18 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-22 17:29 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-22 17:41 ` Pip Cet via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-22 17:56   ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-22 19:11   ` Óscar Fuentes
2024-12-23  0:05     ` Pip Cet via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-23  1:00       ` Óscar Fuentes
2024-12-23  3:42       ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-23  6:27     ` Jean Louis
2024-12-22 20:29   ` Helmut Eller
2024-12-22 20:50   ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-22 22:26     ` Pip Cet via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-23  3:23       ` Gerd Möllmann
     [not found]         ` <m234ieddeu.fsf_-_@gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <87ttaueqp9.fsf@protonmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <m2frme921u.fsf@gmail.com>
     [not found]               ` <87ldw6ejkv.fsf@protonmail.com>
     [not found]                 ` <m2bjx2h8dh.fsf@gmail.com>
2024-12-23 14:45                   ` Make Signal handling patch platform-dependent? Pip Cet via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-23 14:54                     ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-23 15:11                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-23 13:35       ` Some experience with the igc branch Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-23 14:03         ` Discussion with MPS people Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-23 14:04           ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-23 15:07         ` Some experience with the igc branch Pip Cet via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-23 15:26           ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-23 16:03             ` Pip Cet via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-23 16:44               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-23 17:16                 ` Pip Cet via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-23 18:35                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-23 18:48                     ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-23 19:25                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-23 20:30                     ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2024-12-23 23:39                       ` Pip Cet via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-24 12:14                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-24 13:18                           ` Pip Cet via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-24 13:42                           ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2024-12-24  3:37                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-24  8:48                         ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2024-12-24 13:52                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-24 13:54                             ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2024-12-23 17:44               ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-23 19:00                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-23 19:37                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-23 20:49                   ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-23 21:43                     ` Helmut Eller
2024-12-23 21:49                       ` Pip Cet via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-23 21:58                         ` Helmut Eller
2024-12-23 23:20                           ` Pip Cet via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-24  5:38                             ` Helmut Eller
2024-12-24  6:27                               ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-24 10:09                               ` Pip Cet via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-24  4:05                       ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-24  8:50                         ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-24  6:03                     ` SIGPROF + SIGCHLD and igc Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-24  8:23                       ` Helmut Eller
2024-12-24  8:39                         ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-24 13:05                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-24 12:54                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-24 12:59                         ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-23 23:37                   ` Some experience with the igc branch Pip Cet via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-24  4:03                     ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-24 10:25                       ` Pip Cet via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-24 10:50                         ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-24 13:15                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-24 12:26                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-24 12:56                         ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-24 13:19                           ` Pip Cet via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-24 13:38                             ` Gerd Möllmann [this message]
2024-12-24 13:46                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-24 14:12                             ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-12-24 14:40                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-24 12:11                     ` Eli Zaretskii

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