The source language of GLib is technically en-US, so we should
consistently use en-US spellings.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3269
Some applications, toolkits or languages may define an alternative stack
to use for traces. This is for example the case of go.
So, in case an application defines an alternate signal stack, GLib should
use that instead of the default one to receive signals otherwise it may
break the application expectations and write where it's not allowed to.
The python interpreter found by `/usr/bin/env python3` is not
necessarily the same installation as the one that's found by meson's
`pymod.find_installation('python')`. This means that even though meson
is checking that the python installation it found includes the
'packaging' module, the scripts might not have access to that module
when run.
For distribution packaging, it's usually desirable to have python script
interpreters be fully specified paths, rather than use `/usr/bin/env`,
to ensure the scripts run using the expected python installation (i.e.
the one where the python 'packaging' dependency is installed).
The easiest way to fix this is to set the script interpreter to the
`full_path()` of the python interpreter found by meson. The specific
python interpreter that will be used can be selected through the use of
a meson machine file by overriding the "python" program. Many
distributions already have this set up using meson packaging helpers.
This fixes an issue with the number getting very big due to
CPU_ISSET not returning exactly 0 or 1.
This also fixes scenarios where there are holes in the CPU
set. E.g. for a simple run like `taskset --cpu-list 1,2,4 ...`
the old code would return 2 instead of 3, due to iterating
until `ncores` (which is 3) and therefore not accounting for
CPUs further in the set.
Ref https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3784
There are a lot of links to the description of I/O priority in the GIO
docs, and they’re all currently broken since the docs build was ported
to gi-docgen.
Use a simple find and replace (see below) to fix them. This doesn’t port
any of the surrounding docs to gi-docgen format, but should still
improve things overall.
```sh
git search-replace --fix '\[I/O priority\]\[io-priority\]///[I/O priority](iface.AsyncResult.html#io-priority)'
```
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3250
This is put together through git archaeology:
```
git log -- glib/tests/dataset.c
```
The following commits were too trivial to have meaningful copyright:
- 1a2c5e155d
- ea06ec8063
- 0178402c6d
- e3d1869ee3
- c34cc2348c
- d15e6f7c9c
- de8672fe0b
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #1415
The dataset tests are using a subprocess to catch possible deadlocks
within the `test_datalist_clear()` test. However, that’s causing
occasional spurious test failures on the slower CI runners, where the
subprocess can take longer than 500ms to run due to the machine being
overloaded.
Remove the subprocess from the test, and allow the test to deadlock if
it fails. The Meson test harness has a timeout for catching things like
this.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
g_file_copy_async() and g_file_move_async() are written in a way that is
not bindable with gobject-introspection. The progress callback data can
be freed once the async callback has been called, which is convenient
for C, but in language bindings the progress callback closure is
currently just leaked.
There is no scope annotation that fits how the progress callback should
be treated:
- (scope call) is correct for the sync versions of the functions, but
incorrect for the async functions; the progress callback is called
after the async functions return.
- (scope notified) is incorrect because there is no GDestroyNotify
parameter, meaning the callback will always leak.
- (scope async) is incorrect because the callback is called more than
once.
- (scope forever) is incorrect because the callback closure could be
freed after the async callback runs.
This adds g_file_copy_async_with_closures() and
g_file_move_async_with_closures() for the benefit of language bindings.
See: GNOME/gjs#590
For those projects that cannot use `g_autoptr()`, GStrvBuilder's end
plus unref is not really convenient.
We can crib the "unref to data type" model from GBytes, and have an
additional unref function that also returns the just built GStrv.
If our GPollFunc is set to g_poll() then we can optionally use a poll()
alternative with higher precision. ppoll() provides poll() equivalence
but with timeouts in nanoseconds.
With more precise polling timouts, frame clocks and other timing sensitive
APIs are not restricted to a minimum of 1 millisecond timeout.
This gets access to the timeout as microseconds up until we are about to
enter the GPollFunc. This is useful so that alternative means may be used
to poll with more precision for timeout.
This is an introspection-friendly version of g_settings_bind_with_mapping.
Having two callbacks that share the same user data is not supported by
girepository, so the existing function is not introspectable.
Closes: #564
This was erroring on recent GCC because `struct heap_dict` is smaller than
the publicly provided size (guintptr[16]) in the header for GVariantDict.
Port to use `g_malloc()` directly, and use a static assertion to ensure
we’re allocating the larger of the two struct sizes.
These consistently fail on scheduled CI runs, which is not helping our
ability to catch Hurd regressions.
For example, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/jobs/3709402
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
See: #3148
Bumping the reference count from 1 to 2 (and back) is more expensive,
due to the check for toggle notifications.
We have a performance test already that hits that code path. Avoid that
for he "property-{get,set}" tests, so we avoid the known overhead and
test more relevant parts.
Despite all the efforts, there still seems to be a lot of noise in the
performance measurement. Especially, the first iterations seem to run
faster. Maybe that is because the kernel didn't yet determine that the
process is CPU bound and is less likely to schedule it out Or maybe it's
because burning the cycles heats up the CPU and it gets throttled after
a while. It's unclear why, and it's even unclear whether this really
happens. But from my observations, it seems to do.
Hence, more warm up.
- the first time we enter the test, ensure that we keep the CPU busy for
at 2 seconds. This additional warm up (WARM_UP_ALWAYS_SEC) is
global, and not per test.
- for each test, ignore the first 5% of the runs. It seems those tend to
run faster, thus skewing the results.
- if the user specifies a "--factor", the warm up operations are the
same and independent from external factors (such as time
measurements).
Note that this matters the most, when you want to run the executable
twice in a row and compare the results.
By default, the test estimates a run factor for each test. This means,
if you run performance under `perf`, the results are not comparable,
as the run time depends on the estimated factor.
Add an option, to set a fixed factor.
Of course, there is only one factor argument for all tests. Quite
possibly, you would want to run each test individually with a factor
appropriate for the test. On the other hand, all tests should be tuned
so that the same factor gives a similar test duration. So this may not
be a concern, or the tests should be adjusted. In any case, the option
is most useful when running only one test explicitly.
You can get a suitable factor by running the test once with "--verbose".
Another use case is if you run the benchmark under valgrind. Valgrind
slows down the run so much, that the estimated factor would be quite
off. As a result, the chosen code paths are different from the real run.
By setting the factor, the timing measurements don't affect the executed
code.
The default output is annoyingly verbose. You see
Running test simple-construction
simple-construction: Millions of constructed objects per second: 33.498
Running test simple-construction1
simple-construction1: Millions of constructed objects per second: 142.493
Running test complex-construction
complex-construction: Millions of constructed objects per second: 14.304
Running test complex-construction1
...
where the "Running test" lines just clutter the output. In fact so much
so, that my terminal fills up and I don't see the output of all tests in
one page. The "Running test" line is not so useful, because I mostly
care about the test result, and that line already contains the test
name.
Add an option to silence this.
Previously, the result lines are not unique, for example
Running test simple-construction
Millions of constructed objects per second: 27.629
Running test simple-construction1
Millions of constructed objects per second: 151.879
...
That is undesirable, because we might want to parse the test results
with a script, and that's easier when the line is unique.
Change to:
Running test simple-construction
simple-construction: Millions of constructed objects per second: 27.629
Running test simple-construction1
simple-construction1: Millions of constructed objects per second: 151.879
...
It may not be obvious, but the moment unlock is called, the locker
instance may be destroyed.
See g_object_unref(), which calls toggle_refs_check_and_ref_or_deref().
It will check for toggle references while dropping the ref count from 2
to 1. It must decrement the ref count while holding the lock, but it
also must still unlock afterwards.
Note that the locker instance is on the object itself. Once we decrement
the ref count we give up our reference and another thread may race
against destroying the object. We thus must not touch object anymore.
How can we then still unlock?
This works correctly because:
- unlock operations must not touch the locker instance after unlocking.
- assume that another thread races g_object_unref() to destroy the
object, while we are about to call object_bit_unlock() in
toggle_refs_check_and_ref_or_deref(). Then that other thread will also
need to acquire the same lock (during g_object_notify_queue_freeze()).
It thus is blocked to destroy the object.
Add code comments about that.
We can only assert for having one toggle reference, after we confirmed
(under lock) that the ref count was in the toggle case.
Otherwise, if another thread refs/unrefs the object, we can hit a wrong
g_critical() assertion about
if (tstackptr->n_toggle_refs != 1)
{
g_critical ("Unexpected number of toggle-refs. g_object_add_toggle_ref() must be paired with g_object_remove_toggle_ref()");
Fixes: 9ae43169cf ('gobject: fix race in toggle ref during g_object_ref()')
