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mdempsky opened this issue Dec 20, 2022 · 19 comments
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cmd/compile: remove GOEXPERIMENT=nounified #57410

mdempsky opened this issue Dec 20, 2022 · 19 comments
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Tracking issue for removing GOEXPERIMENT=nounified for Go 1.21.
@mdempsky mdempsky added NeedsFix The path to resolution is known, but the work has not been done. compiler/runtime Issues related to the Go compiler and/or runtime. labels Dec 20, 2022
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Change https://go.dev/cl/458624 mentions this issue: cmd/compile/internal/types: remove more unused features

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Change https://go.dev/cl/458623 mentions this issue: cmd/compile/internal/types: remove NewSignature's tparams parameter

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Change https://go.dev/cl/458617 mentions this issue: cmd/compile: remove -d=typecheckinl flag

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Change https://go.dev/cl/458622 mentions this issue: cmd/compile/internal/types: remove Type.Pkg

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Change https://go.dev/cl/458619 mentions this issue: cmd/compile/internal/noder: stop creating TUNION types

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Change https://go.dev/cl/458618 mentions this issue: cmd/compile: change some unreachable code paths into Fatalf

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Change https://go.dev/cl/458575 mentions this issue: cmd/compile: revert package typecheck part of CL 422914

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Change https://go.dev/cl/458620 mentions this issue: cmd/compile: remove GOEXPERIMENT=nounified frontend

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Change https://go.dev/cl/458616 mentions this issue: cmd/compile/internal/pkginit: remove dependency on typecheck.Resolve

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Change https://go.dev/cl/458621 mentions this issue: cmd/compile/internal/types: remove TTYPEPARAM and TUNION types

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Change https://go.dev/cl/458615 mentions this issue: cmd: remove GOEXPERIMENT=nounified knob

@mknyszek mknyszek moved this to In Progress in Go Compiler / Runtime Dec 21, 2022
gopherbot pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jan 25, 2023
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cmd/compile: revert package typecheck part of CL 422914
a896219 
This code path is unreachable anyway, and it adds new uses of
Type.Pkg, which shouldn't be used anymore.

Mark Type.Pkg as deprecated while here.

Updates #57410.

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gopherbot pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jan 25, 2023
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cmd: remove GOEXPERIMENT=nounified knob
4f467f1 
This CL removes the GOEXPERIMENT=nounified knob, and any conditional
statements that depend on that knob. Further CLs to remove unreachable
code follow this one.

Updates #57410.

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gopherbot pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jan 26, 2023
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cmd/compile/internal/pkginit: remove dependency on typecheck.Resolve
6d4101e 
The use of typecheck.Resolve was previously necessary to interoperate
with the non-unified frontend, because it hooked into iimport. It's no
longer necessary with unified IR, where we can just lookup the
".inittask" symbol and access Def directly.

Updates #57410.

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gopherbot pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jan 26, 2023
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cmd/compile: remove -d=typecheckinl flag
532e34d 
This flag forced the compiler to eagerly type check all available
inline function bodies, which presumably was useful in the early days
of implementing inlining support. However, it shouldn't have any
significance with the unified frontend, since the same code paths are
used for constructing normal function bodies as for inlining.

Updates #57410.

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cmd/compile: change some unreachable code paths into Fatalf
de9bffb 
Now that GOEXPERIMENT=nounified is removed, we can assume InlineCall
and HaveInlineBody will always be overridden with the unified
frontend's implementations. Similarly, we can assume expandDecl will
never be called.

This CL changes the code paths into Fatalfs, so subsequent CLs can
remove all the unreachable code.

Updates #57410.

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cmd/compile/internal/noder: stop creating TUNION types
a7de684 
In the types1 universe under the unified frontend, we never need to
worry about type parameter constraints, so we only see pure
interfaces. However, we might still see interfaces that contain union
types, because of interfaces like "interface{ any | int }" (equivalent
to just "any").

We can handle these without needing to actually represent type unions
within types1 by simply mapping any union to "any".

Updates #57410.

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cmd/compile: remove GOEXPERIMENT=nounified frontend
da97613 
This CL removes most of the code specific to the nounified
frontend. To simplify review, it's a strict remove-only CL.

Updates #57410.

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gopherbot pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jan 26, 2023
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cmd/compile/internal/types: remove TTYPEPARAM and TUNION types
f5eb0a7 
These were used by the nounified frontend for representing
uninstantiated generic types; however, the unified frontend only needs
types1 to represent instantiated types.

Updates #57410.

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cmd/compile/internal/types: remove unneeded functionality
f0b1563 
This CL removes a handful of features that were only needed for the
pre-unified frontends.

In particular, Type.Pkg was a hack for iexport so that
go/types.Var.Pkg could be precisely populated for struct fields and
signature parameters by gcimporter, but it's no longer necessary with
the unified export data format because we now write export data
directly from types2-supplied type descriptors.

Several other features (e.g., OrigType, implicit interfaces, type
parameters on signatures) are no longer relevant to the unified
frontend, because it only uses types1 to represent instantiated
generic types.

Updates #57410.

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Change https://go.dev/cl/463998 mentions this issue: test: enable inlining tests for functions with local type

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Change https://go.dev/cl/463997 mentions this issue: cmd/compile: cleanup atomic.Pointer[T] inline test

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cmd/compile: cleanup atomic.Pointer[T] inline test
3e1478e 
Updates #57410

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test: enable inlining tests for functions with local type
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Updates #57410

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liggitt commented Feb 10, 2023 •
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FYI, we're seeing regressions on ARM builds in go1.20 that bisected to 833367e where the unified experiment was enabled by default (#58425 (comment))

Should the experiment remain until we're confident regressions in the unified build on go1.20 are resolved? If I understand correctly, go1.20 (released 10 days ago) is the first time the unified build was used by default, which means it has had very little time to be adopted

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The nounified frontend used in the 1.18 and 1.19 releases was the first to support generics, but we've experienced a lot of subtle correctness issues with it, which became untenable to fix. E.g., for 1.18, we decided to stop backporting generics fixes, because every time we attempted to fix one issue, we introduced at least one new one.

The unified frontend has been in use internally within Google for months. The compiler team decided as a whole to commit to the unified frontend for 1.20 and forward. We talked about whether it made sense to keep the code around longer, but we have a lot of other work planned for 1.21 (e.g., overhauling how inlining works, for better PGO support), which was hindered by the technical burden of maintaining two frontends.

We did expect hiccups in the transition though, which is why GOEXPERIMENT=nounified is still available and supported in the 1.20 release branch. And admittedly #58339 is a bit embarrassing, but that will be fixed in 1.20.1. In 1.20, it can be worked around with -gcflags=all=-d=inlstaticinit=0.

Thanks for your patience while we address the reported regressions.

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Closing this issue because the nounified frontend has been removed at tip. There's still more cleanup work to do, but that can happen without a tracking issue.

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@liggitt I don't think the "relocation truncated" error is particularly related to the unified frontend. That's just the change that happened to reorder functions such that the branch distance was exceeded.

When I compile your repro from #58425 successfully with 1.20, it generates a binary whose text size is 66MB, when the branch (call) distance on arm32 is +/- 32 MB. I'm kind of surprised it ever worked before - you probably just got lucky using the old frontend.

Not that there couldn't be reasons why the unified frontend exacerbates the situation, but once your program is >32MB of text it's just a matter of time before some benign change causes relocation errors. (Until #58425 is fixed, probably by adding trampolines or something.)

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liggitt commented Feb 10, 2023 •
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When I compile your repro from #58425 successfully with 1.20, it generates a binary whose text size is 66MB, when the branch (call) distance on arm32 is +/- 32 MB. I'm kind of surprised it ever worked before - you probably just got lucky using the old frontend.

interesting... Kubernetes arm builds have been working since #17028, so 6+ years of luck was... pretty lucky

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cmd/compile: cleanup atomic.Pointer[T] inline test
c6e7509 
Updates golang#57410

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test: enable inlining tests for functions with local type
7e23c91 
Updates golang#57410

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Change https://go.dev/cl/493995 mentions this issue: cmd/compile: update README.md for unified IR

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