1574388 - Implement PHC on Mac

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Memory Allocator, enhancement)

Description

[Nicholas Nethercote [:njn]]

The number of Mac Nightly users is just over 5,000, very similar to the number of Linux users. (Windows is about 38,000.)

It won't make a huge difference, but we need all the coverage we can get, and (in theory) it's not hard to port to Mac.

Comment 1

[Nicholas Nethercote [:njn]]

Attachment: Bug 1574388 - Implement PHC on Mac. r=glandium,gsvelto

Comment 2

[Nicholas Nethercote [:njn]]

With the attached patch I get some link errors involving recordreplay:

 0:08.91 Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
 0:08.91   "__ZN7mozilla12recordreplay30InternalEndOrderedAtomicAccessEv", referenced from:
 0:08.91       __ZN7mozilla12recordreplayL22EndOrderedAtomicAccessEv in Unified_cpp_memory_replace_phc0.o
 0:08.91   "__ZN7mozilla12recordreplay23gIsRecordingOrReplayingE", referenced from:
 0:08.91       __ZN7mozilla12recordreplayL22IsRecordingOrReplayingEv in Unified_cpp_memory_replace_phc0.o
 0:08.91   "__ZN7mozilla12recordreplay32InternalBeginOrderedAtomicAccessEPKv", referenced from:
 0:08.91       __ZN7mozilla12recordreplayL24BeginOrderedAtomicAccessEPKv in Unified_cpp_memory_replace_phc0.o
 0:08.92 ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
 0:08.92 clang-8: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
 0:08.92 make[2]: *** [../../../../dist/bin/logalloc-replay] Error 1
 0:08.92 make[1]: *** [memory/replace/logalloc/replay/target] Error 2
 0:08.92 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

bhackett, glandium: any ideas what is the matter?

Background:

• PHC is somewhat special, being in memory/replace/, which means it's not part of libxul.
• PHC doesn't contain any recordreplay code, AFAICT, though it's possible it pulls some in via header inclusion.
• PHC is already implemented for Linux and Windows, and I haven't seen any problems like this on those platforms.
• The error is in memory/replace/logalloc/replay/, and the moz.build file in that directory does have some PHC-specific stuff in it involving some .cpp files in mozglue and MFBT. So that might be relevant.

Comment 3

[Mike Hommey [:glandium] (high latency)]

Try changing the Atomics in PHC to add a mozilla::recordreplay::Behavior::DontPreserve template argument.

Comment 4

[Nicholas Nethercote [:njn]]

It works, thank you.

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/1429658f80ca
Implement PHC on Mac. r=gsvelto,glandium

Comment 6

[Dorel Luca [:dluca]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1429658f80ca