This is a reopening of the libuv-upgrade part of #8645. Hopefully this won't
cause random segfaults all over the place. The windows regression in testing
should also be fixed (it shouldn't build the whole compiler twice).
A notable difference from before is that gyp is now a git submodule instead of
always git-cloned at make time. This allows bundling for releases more easily.
Closes#8850
There were two main differences with the old libuv and the master version:
1. The uv_last_error function is now gone. The error code returned by each
function is the "last error" so now a UvError is just a wrapper around a
c_int.
2. The repo no longer includes a makefile, and the build system has change.
According to the build directions on joyent/libuv, this now downloads a `gyp`
program into the `libuv/build` directory and builds using that. This
shouldn't add any dependences on autotools or anything like that.
Closes#8407Closes#6567Closes#6315
This patch saves and restores win64's nonvolatile registers.
This patch also saves stack information of thread environment
block (TEB), which is at %gs:0x08 and %gs:0x10.
This resolves issue #908.
Notable changes:
- On Windows, LLVM integrated assembler emits bad stack unwind tables when segmented stacks are enabled. However, unwind info directives in the assembly output are correct, so we generate assembly first and then run it through an external assembler, just like it is already done for Android builds.
- Linker is invoked via "g++" command instead of "gcc": g++ passes the appropriate magic parameters to the linker, which ensure correct registration of stack unwind tables in dynamic libraries.
libuv handles are tied to the event loop that created them. In order to perform IO, the handle must be on the thread with its home event loop. Thus, when as task wants to do IO it must first go to the IO handle's home event loop and pin itself to the corresponding scheduler while the IO action is in flight. Once the IO action completes, the task is unpinned and either returns to its home scheduler if it is a pinned task, or otherwise stays on the current scheduler.
Making new blocking IO implementations (i.e. files) thread safe is rather simple. Add a home field to the IO handle's struct in uvio and implement the HomingIO trait. Wrap every IO call in the HomingIO.home_for_io method, which will take care of the scheduling.
I'm not sure if this remains thread safe in the presence of asynchronous IO at the libuv level. If we decide to do that, then this set up should be revisited.
