scsh-0.6/scheme/big/callback.scm

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; Copyright (c) 1993-1999 by Richard Kelsey and Jonathan Rees. See file COPYING.
; This code, along with C code in c/external.c, handles the interaction between
; callbacks from external code to Scheme functions and uses of continuations in
; Scheme. The problem is that Scheme 48 uses multiple continuations while
; operating with only one process stack.
;
; Suppose we have Scheme procedures s1 and s2 and C procedure c1 such that
; s1 calls c1 and c1 calls s2. There are two trampoline functions that are
; used to do this. The VM uses s48_external_call to call c1 and c1 uses
; s48_call_scheme to start the VM running s2. While in s2 the process stack will
; look like this:
;
; <C frame for VM running s2>
; <C frame for s48_call_scheme>
; <C frame for c1>
; <C frame for s48_external_call>
; <C frame for VM running s1>
; <base>
;
; The C code in c/external.scm keeps a record of the portions of the process
; stack that are running external code. Each of these stack portions has an
; s48_external_call frame at the base and an s48_call_scheme frame at the top.
; The stack is represented as linked list of records, called `stack-block's,
; each of which contains the following values:
; free? ; true if this frame is no longer needed
; unwind ; the longjmp target used to skip over this frame
; proc-name ; the name of the procedure this block is executing
; placeholder ; either #f or a placeholder, see the section on threads below
; next ; the next stack-block below this one
; These are Scheme records and are traced by the GC.
(define-record-type stack-block :stack-block
(stack-blocks-are-made-from-c)
stack-block?
(free? stack-block-free? set-stack-block-free?!)
(unwind stack-block-unwind)
(proc-name stack-block-proc-name)
(placeholder stack-block-placeholder set-stack-block-placeholder!)
(next stack-block-next))
; Stack-blocks are made from C, so we need to export the type.
(define-exported-binding "s48-stack-block-type" :stack-block)
; There is no need to keep track of the VM frames. These are all interchangable
; because 1) the VM's state is kept in top-level variables and 2) we have
; arranged it so that the relevent VM opcodes, call-external-value and
; return-from-callback, are all the same length and are always immediately
; followed by a return instruction. s48_call_scheme can safely overwrite the
; template and code-pointer registers in the VM as they always point to a
; one-byte instruction followed by a return instruction. When the VM returns
; from the callback, via a return-from-callback instruction, that too is a
; one-byte instruction followed by a return instruction. The VM can proceed,
; happily ignorant of all this fooling around.
;
; On entry, s48_external_call saves a longjump target. This is used when
; raising exceptions from with the external code and for unwinding the process
; stack. Each invocation of s48_call_scheme creates a new stack-block, saving
; within it the longjump target of the corresponding s48_external_call. `Free?'
; and `placeholder' are initially false and `next' points to existing list of
; stack-blocks.
;
; When a callback returns to s48_call_scheme, the corresponding block is popped
; off the list of stack-blocks.
;
; So far so good, and if that were all that happened there would be no need for
; all this mechanism. There are two problems: call/cc and threads. Call/cc is
; simpler to deal with. We have downward continuations in C, as implemented
; by longjmp(), so we simply limit continuations that cross callbacks to being
; downwards only. We also need to arrange for any jumped-over stack portions
; to be popped off of the stack.
;
; The popping off is handled by s48_external_call. Just before returning to the
; VM it checks to see if the top stack-block is free. If so, it loops through
; the list of stack-blocks to find the first non-free stack portion. A longjump
; is performed to the target in the last free block, removing any unneeded frames
; from the stack.
;
; s48_call_scheme starts the VM running the following CALLBACK procedure. The
; arguments are BLOCK, the stack-block just created for this callback, and
; the procedure and arguments for the actual callback. It prevents jumps back
; into the callback and frees BLOCK if a throw out occurs.
;
; We disable interrupts to ensure that nothing intervenes between setting DONE?
; and returning from the callback. BLOCK is then either freed or returned to,
; but not both or neither. RETURN-FROM-CALLBACK reenables interrupts.
(define (callback block proc . args)
(let ((done? #f))
(return-from-callback block
(dynamic-wind
(lambda ()
(if done?
(error "attempt to throw into a callback"
(cons proc args))))
(lambda ()
(let ((result (apply proc args)))
(disable-interrupts!)
(set! done? #t)
result))
(lambda ()
(if (not done?)
(begin
(set! done? #t)
(set-stack-block-free?! block #t)
(clear-stack-top!))))))))
(define-exported-binding "s48-callback" callback)
; CLEAR-STACK-TOP! is an empty C procedure. When it returns, s48_external_call
; will automatically clear any free frames off of the stack.
(import-lambda-definition clear-stack-top! () "s48_clear_stack_top")
; Dealing with threads.
;
; The difficulty here is that each stack-block belongs to some thread. Thread A
; can call a C procedures which calls back into Scheme. At that point a context
; switch occurs and we start running thread B, which promptly does the same
; calls. THe process stack then looks like this:
;
; <C frame for VM running B1>
; <C frame for s48_call_scheme>
; <C frame for B's c code>
; <C frame for s48_external_call>
; <C frame for VM running A1 and then B0>
; <C frame for s48_call_scheme>
; <C frame for A's c code>
; <C frame for s48_external_call>
; <C frame for VM running A0>
; <base>
;
; At this point A cannot return from its callback before B does, because B's
; portion of the process stack is above A's. If A does try to return it must
; block until it again is at the top of the stack.
;
; This is handled by s48_call_scheme, which checks to see if the stack-block
; being returned to is at the top of the stack. If not, it does a second
; callback to DELAY-CALLBACK-RETURN, defined below, with the same stack-block.
; DELAY-CALLBACK-RETURN creates a placeholder, puts it in the stack-block, and
; then blocks on it. When the placeholder gets a value the procedure attempts
; another return-from-callback.
;
; This is called with interrupts disabled, as we need to avoid having BLOCK
; reach the top of the stack before the placeholder is installed.
(define (delay-callback-return block value)
(let ((placeholder (make-placeholder)))
(set-stack-block-placeholder! block placeholder)
(enable-interrupts!)
(placeholder-value placeholder)
value))
(define-exported-binding "s48-delay-callback-return" delay-callback-return)
; Finally, s48_external_call looks to see if the top stack-block has a
; placeholder. If it does, it raises an exception instead of doing a normal
; return. The exception handler sets the placeholder's value, allowing the
; blocked thread to continue. The handler then returns the external call's
; value to its own thread, or, if the callback-return-uncovered is piggybacked
; on another exception, we raise that exception.
;
; Because of the all of the games played above, the callback-return-uncovered
; exception may appear to have come from either the call-external-value, or
; return-from-callback opcodes.
(define uncovered-return-handler
(lambda (opcode reason . args)
(if (= reason (enum exception callback-return-uncovered))
(call-with-values
(lambda ()
(if (= 2 (length args))
(values (car args)
(cadr args)
#f)
(let ((args (reverse args)))
(values (car args)
(cadr args)
(reverse (cddr args))))))
(lambda (block return-value exception-args)
(let ((placeholder (stack-block-placeholder block)))
(set-stack-block-placeholder! block #f)
(placeholder-set! placeholder #t)
(if exception-args
(apply signal-exception opcode return-value exception-args)
return-value))))
(apply signal-exception opcode reason args))))
(define (block-depth block)
(if block
(+ 1 (block-depth (stack-block-next block)))
0))
(for-each (lambda (opcode)
(define-exception-handler opcode uncovered-return-handler))
(list (enum op call-external-value)
(enum op return-from-callback)))
;----------------
; Utility for the common case of calling an imported binding.
(define (call-imported-binding proc . args)
(if (and (shared-binding? proc)
(shared-binding-is-import? proc))
(let ((value (shared-binding-ref proc)))
(if (byte-vector? value)
(apply call-external-value
value
(shared-binding-name proc)
args)
(apply call-error "bad procedure" call-imported-binding proc args)))
(apply call-error "bad procedure" call-imported-binding proc args)))
;----------------
; Helper functions for converting between C longs and Scheme bignums.
;
; HIGH and LOW are the two sixteen-bit halves of the negative magnitude of
; the number. The negative magnitude is used to avoid problems with two's
; complement's asymmetry.
(define (long-to-bignum positive? high low)
(let ((magnitude (+ (arithmetic-shift high 16)
low)))
(if positive?
(- magnitude)
magnitude)))
; Same again, except that we break the number into the sign and the two halves.
(define (bignum-to-long n)
(if (integer? n)
(let ((m (abs n)))
(vector (>= n 0)
(arithmetic-shift m -16)
(bitwise-and m sixteen-candles)))
#f))
(define sixteen-candles (- (arithmetic-shift 1 16) 1))
(define-exported-binding "s48-long-to-bignum" long-to-bignum)
(define-exported-binding "s48-bignum-to-long" bignum-to-long)
;----------------
; Testing
;
; `s48_trampoline' is a C routine that calls its Scheme argument with between
; zero and three arguments. The arguments are 100, 200, and 300.
;
;(import-lambda-definition trampoline (proc nargs)
; "s48_trampoline")
;
;(define (foo . args)
; (for-each display (list "[foo " args "]"))
; (newline)
; (cons 'foo-return args))
;
;; This should return 1100.
;
;(define (test0)
; (trampoline (lambda ()
; (call-with-current-continuation
; (lambda (c)
; (trampoline (lambda (x)
; (c (+ x 1000)))
; 1))))
; 0))
;
;; ,open threads locks debug-messages
;
;(define (test1 error?)
; (let ((lock (make-lock))
; (repl-lock (make-lock)))
; (obtain-lock repl-lock)
; (spawn (lambda ()
; (obtain-lock lock)
; (debug-message "A returned "
; (trampoline (lambda ()
; (obtain-lock lock) ; we block
; 'a)
; 0))
; (release-lock repl-lock))
; 'thread-a)
; (spawn (lambda ()
; (debug-message "B returned "
; (trampoline (lambda ()
; (release-lock lock) ; A can run
; (relinquish-timeslice) ; let A run
; (if error? #f 'b))
; 0)))
; 'thread-b)
; (obtain-lock repl-lock)))