micropython/py
Damien George f2040bfc7e py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data.
Background: .mpy files are precompiled .py files, built using mpy-cross,
that contain compiled bytecode functions (and can also contain machine
code). The benefit of using an .mpy file over a .py file is that they are
faster to import and take less memory when importing.  They are also
smaller on disk.

But the real benefit of .mpy files comes when they are frozen into the
firmware.  This is done by loading the .mpy file during compilation of the
firmware and turning it into a set of big C data structures (the job of
mpy-tool.py), which are then compiled and downloaded into the ROM of a
device.  These C data structures can be executed in-place, ie directly from
ROM.  This makes importing even faster because there is very little to do,
and also means such frozen modules take up much less RAM (because their
bytecode stays in ROM).

The downside of frozen code is that it requires recompiling and reflashing
the entire firmware.  This can be a big barrier to entry, slows down
development time, and makes it harder to do OTA updates of frozen code
(because the whole firmware must be updated).

This commit attempts to solve this problem by providing a solution that
sits between loading .mpy files into RAM and freezing them into the
firmware.  The .mpy file format has been reworked so that it consists of
data and bytecode which is mostly static and ready to run in-place.  If
these new .mpy files are located in flash/ROM which is memory addressable,
the .mpy file can be executed (mostly) in-place.

With this approach there is still a small amount of unpacking and linking
of the .mpy file that needs to be done when it's imported, but it's still
much better than loading an .mpy from disk into RAM (although not as good
as freezing .mpy files into the firmware).

The main trick to make static .mpy files is to adjust the bytecode so any
qstrs that it references now go through a lookup table to convert from
local qstr number in the module to global qstr number in the firmware.
That means the bytecode does not need linking/rewriting of qstrs when it's
loaded.  Instead only a small qstr table needs to be built (and put in RAM)
at import time.  This means the bytecode itself is static/constant and can
be used directly if it's in addressable memory.  Also the qstr string data
in the .mpy file, and some constant object data, can be used directly.
Note that the qstr table is global to the module (ie not per function).

In more detail, in the VM what used to be (schematically):

    qst = DECODE_QSTR_VALUE;

is now (schematically):

    idx = DECODE_QSTR_INDEX;
    qst = qstr_table[idx];

That allows the bytecode to be fixed at compile time and not need
relinking/rewriting of the qstr values.  Only qstr_table needs to be linked
when the .mpy is loaded.

Incidentally, this helps to reduce the size of bytecode because what used
to be 2-byte qstr values in the bytecode are now (mostly) 1-byte indices.
If the module uses the same qstr more than two times then the bytecode is
smaller than before.

The following changes are measured for this commit compared to the
previous (the baseline):
- average 7%-9% reduction in size of .mpy files
- frozen code size is reduced by about 5%-7%
- importing .py files uses about 5% less RAM in total
- importing .mpy files uses about 4% less RAM in total
- importing .py and .mpy files takes about the same time as before

The qstr indirection in the bytecode has only a small impact on VM
performance.  For stm32 on PYBv1.0 the performance change of this commit
is:

diff of scores (higher is better)
N=100 M=100             baseline -> this-commit  diff      diff% (error%)
bm_chaos.py               371.07 ->  357.39 :  -13.68 =  -3.687% (+/-0.02%)
bm_fannkuch.py             78.72 ->   77.49 :   -1.23 =  -1.563% (+/-0.01%)
bm_fft.py                2591.73 -> 2539.28 :  -52.45 =  -2.024% (+/-0.00%)
bm_float.py              6034.93 -> 5908.30 : -126.63 =  -2.098% (+/-0.01%)
bm_hexiom.py               48.96 ->   47.93 :   -1.03 =  -2.104% (+/-0.00%)
bm_nqueens.py            4510.63 -> 4459.94 :  -50.69 =  -1.124% (+/-0.00%)
bm_pidigits.py            650.28 ->  644.96 :   -5.32 =  -0.818% (+/-0.23%)
core_import_mpy_multi.py  564.77 ->  581.49 :  +16.72 =  +2.960% (+/-0.01%)
core_import_mpy_single.py  68.67 ->   67.16 :   -1.51 =  -2.199% (+/-0.01%)
core_qstr.py               64.16 ->   64.12 :   -0.04 =  -0.062% (+/-0.00%)
core_yield_from.py        362.58 ->  354.50 :   -8.08 =  -2.228% (+/-0.00%)
misc_aes.py               429.69 ->  405.59 :  -24.10 =  -5.609% (+/-0.01%)
misc_mandel.py           3485.13 -> 3416.51 :  -68.62 =  -1.969% (+/-0.00%)
misc_pystone.py          2496.53 -> 2405.56 :  -90.97 =  -3.644% (+/-0.01%)
misc_raytrace.py          381.47 ->  374.01 :   -7.46 =  -1.956% (+/-0.01%)
viper_call0.py            576.73 ->  572.49 :   -4.24 =  -0.735% (+/-0.04%)
viper_call1a.py           550.37 ->  546.21 :   -4.16 =  -0.756% (+/-0.09%)
viper_call1b.py           438.23 ->  435.68 :   -2.55 =  -0.582% (+/-0.06%)
viper_call1c.py           442.84 ->  440.04 :   -2.80 =  -0.632% (+/-0.08%)
viper_call2a.py           536.31 ->  532.35 :   -3.96 =  -0.738% (+/-0.06%)
viper_call2b.py           382.34 ->  377.07 :   -5.27 =  -1.378% (+/-0.03%)

And for unix on x64:

diff of scores (higher is better)
N=2000 M=2000        baseline -> this-commit     diff      diff% (error%)
bm_chaos.py          13594.20 ->  13073.84 :  -520.36 =  -3.828% (+/-5.44%)
bm_fannkuch.py          60.63 ->     59.58 :    -1.05 =  -1.732% (+/-3.01%)
bm_fft.py           112009.15 -> 111603.32 :  -405.83 =  -0.362% (+/-4.03%)
bm_float.py         246202.55 -> 247923.81 : +1721.26 =  +0.699% (+/-2.79%)
bm_hexiom.py           615.65 ->    617.21 :    +1.56 =  +0.253% (+/-1.64%)
bm_nqueens.py       215807.95 -> 215600.96 :  -206.99 =  -0.096% (+/-3.52%)
bm_pidigits.py        8246.74 ->   8422.82 :  +176.08 =  +2.135% (+/-3.64%)
misc_aes.py          16133.00 ->  16452.74 :  +319.74 =  +1.982% (+/-1.50%)
misc_mandel.py      128146.69 -> 130796.43 : +2649.74 =  +2.068% (+/-3.18%)
misc_pystone.py      83811.49 ->  83124.85 :  -686.64 =  -0.819% (+/-1.03%)
misc_raytrace.py     21688.02 ->  21385.10 :  -302.92 =  -1.397% (+/-3.20%)

The code size change is (firmware with a lot of frozen code benefits the
most):

       bare-arm:  +396 +0.697%
    minimal x86: +1595 +0.979% [incl +32(data)]
       unix x64: +2408 +0.470% [incl +800(data)]
    unix nanbox: +1396 +0.309% [incl -96(data)]
          stm32: -1256 -0.318% PYBV10
         cc3200:  +288 +0.157%
        esp8266:  -260 -0.037% GENERIC
          esp32:  -216 -0.014% GENERIC[incl -1072(data)]
            nrf:  +116 +0.067% pca10040
            rp2:  -664 -0.135% PICO
           samd:  +844 +0.607% ADAFRUIT_ITSYBITSY_M4_EXPRESS

As part of this change the .mpy file format version is bumped to version 6.
And mpy-tool.py has been improved to provide a good visualisation of the
contents of .mpy files.

In summary: this commit changes the bytecode to use qstr indirection, and
reworks the .mpy file format to be simpler and allow .mpy files to be
executed in-place.  Performance is not impacted too much.  Eventually it
will be possible to store such .mpy files in a linear, read-only, memory-
mappable filesystem so they can be executed from flash/ROM.  This will
essentially be able to replace frozen code for most applications.

Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
..
argcheck.c py: Add option to compile without any error messages at all. 2021-04-27 23:51:52 +10:00
asmarm.c py/emitglue: Always flush caches when assigning native ARM code. 2021-06-05 11:03:04 +10:00
asmarm.h py/emitglue: Always flush caches when assigning native ARM code. 2021-06-05 11:03:04 +10:00
asmbase.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
asmbase.h py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
asmthumb.c py/emitglue: Always flush caches when assigning native ARM code. 2021-06-05 11:03:04 +10:00
asmthumb.h py/emitglue: Always flush caches when assigning native ARM code. 2021-06-05 11:03:04 +10:00
asmx64.c py/asmx64: Support use of top 8 regs in src_r64 argument. 2021-05-20 23:43:25 +10:00
asmx64.h
asmx86.c
asmx86.h
asmxtensa.c
asmxtensa.h
bc.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
bc.h py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
bc0.h
binary.c all: Fix signed shifts and NULL access errors from -fsanitize=undefined. 2021-06-24 23:01:04 +10:00
binary.h
builtin.h extmod: Add platform module. 2021-09-19 23:35:10 +10:00
builtinevex.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
builtinhelp.c py: Only search frozen modules when '.frozen' is found in sys.path. 2021-12-18 00:01:59 +11:00
builtinimport.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
compile.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
compile.h py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
dynruntime.h py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
dynruntime.mk all: Remove MICROPY_OPT_CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE. 2021-09-16 16:04:03 +10:00
emit.h py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
emitbc.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
emitcommon.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
emitglue.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
emitglue.h py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
emitinlinethumb.c py/emitinlinethumb: Exclude code using #if when ARMV7M disabled. 2021-01-29 23:57:10 +11:00
emitinlinextensa.c py: Use unsigned comparison of chars. 2020-10-22 11:47:36 +02:00
emitnarm.c
emitnative.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
emitnthumb.c
emitnx64.c
emitnx86.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
emitnxtensa.c
emitnxtensawin.c
formatfloat.c
formatfloat.h
frozenmod.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
frozenmod.h py: Only search frozen modules when '.frozen' is found in sys.path. 2021-12-18 00:01:59 +11:00
gc.c py/gc: Update debug code to compile with changes to qstr pool types. 2022-02-17 11:17:21 +11:00
gc.h py/gc: Change include of stdint.h to stddef.h. 2021-02-05 15:46:56 +11:00
grammar.h
lexer.c py/lexer: Support nested [] and {} characters within f-string params. 2021-11-25 21:50:58 +11:00
lexer.h py: Implement partial PEP-498 (f-string) support. 2021-08-14 16:58:40 +10:00
makecompresseddata.py
makemoduledefs.py all: Update Python code to conform to latest black formatting. 2020-08-29 15:18:01 +10:00
makeqstrdata.py py/qstr: Separate hash and len from string data. 2022-02-11 22:52:32 +11:00
makeqstrdefs.py py/makeqstrdefs.py: Don't include .h files explicitly in preprocessing. 2021-06-25 10:50:54 +10:00
makeversionhdr.py py/makeversionhdr: Add --tags arg to git describe. 2021-07-05 10:41:31 -05:00
malloc.c
map.c py: Add wrapper macros so hot VM functions can go in fast code location. 2021-10-15 23:31:19 +11:00
misc.h stm32: Add implementation of machine.bitstream. 2021-08-19 22:50:32 +10:00
mkenv.mk py/mkrules: Automatically build mpy-cross if it doesn't exist. 2021-08-07 20:25:32 +10:00
mkrules.cmake py/mkrules.cmake: Set frozen preprocessor defs early. 2021-12-18 00:05:18 +11:00
mkrules.mk all: Remove support for FROZEN_DIR and FROZEN_MPY_DIR. 2021-12-17 23:54:05 +11:00
modarray.c
modbuiltins.c py/modbuiltins: Add additional macro for extending builtins. 2022-01-07 11:36:52 +11:00
modcmath.c
modcollections.c
modgc.c
modio.c py/modio: Remove io.resource_stream function. 2021-12-17 23:53:44 +11:00
modmath.c py/modmath: Add math.tau, math.nan and math.inf constants. 2022-01-23 09:28:33 +11:00
modmicropython.c py/gc: Make gc_lock_depth have a count per thread. 2021-05-10 13:07:16 +10:00
modstruct.c
modsys.c py/modsys: Replace non-ASCII quote char with ASCII char. 2021-11-19 17:26:04 +11:00
modthread.c py/mpstate: Make exceptions thread-local. 2021-06-19 09:43:44 +10:00
moduerrno.c
mpconfig.h py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
mperrno.h py/mperrno: Add MP_ECANCELED error code. 2021-06-24 23:14:01 +10:00
mphal.h all: Rename absolute time-based functions to include "epoch". 2020-09-18 17:20:34 +10:00
mpprint.c py/mpprint: Fix length calculation for strings with precision-modifier. 2020-12-07 23:32:06 +11:00
mpprint.h extmod/modujson: Add support for dump/dumps separators keyword-argument. 2021-08-07 13:52:16 +10:00
mpstate.c
mpstate.h py/qstr: Separate hash and len from string data. 2022-02-11 22:52:32 +11:00
mpthread.h
mpz.c py/mpz: Fix bugs with bitwise of -0 by ensuring all 0's are positive. 2021-12-21 18:00:05 +11:00
mpz.h py/mpz: Fix bugs with bitwise of -0 by ensuring all 0's are positive. 2021-12-21 18:00:05 +11:00
nativeglue.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
nativeglue.h py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
nlr.c
nlr.h py/nlr: Implement NLR for AArch64. 2021-03-11 12:51:10 +11:00
nlraarch64.c py/nlraarch64: Add underscore prefix to function symbols for Darwin ABI. 2021-05-18 11:46:30 +10:00
nlrpowerpc.c
nlrsetjmp.c
nlrthumb.c
nlrx64.c py/nlrx64: Correct the detection of Darwin ABI. 2021-05-18 11:52:00 +10:00
nlrx86.c
nlrxtensa.c
obj.c py: Add wrapper macros so hot VM functions can go in fast code location. 2021-10-15 23:31:19 +11:00
obj.h py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
objarray.c py/objarray: Fix constructing a memoryview from a memoryview. 2021-05-18 10:18:56 +10:00
objarray.h py/objarray.h: Add mp_obj_memoryview_init() helper function. 2020-09-25 12:23:11 +10:00
objattrtuple.c
objbool.c
objboundmeth.c
objcell.c
objclosure.c py: Rename remaining object types to be of the form mp_type_xxx. 2021-03-26 13:48:34 +11:00
objcomplex.c py/objcomplex: Add mp_obj_get_complex_maybe for use in complex bin-op. 2020-06-27 01:03:10 +10:00
objdeque.c
objdict.c extmod/modujson: Add support for dump/dumps separators keyword-argument. 2021-08-07 13:52:16 +10:00
objenumerate.c
objexcept.c py/objexcept: Make mp_obj_new_exception_arg1 inline. 2021-07-15 00:12:41 +10:00
objexcept.h
objfilter.c
objfloat.c py/modmath: Add math.tau, math.nan and math.inf constants. 2022-01-23 09:28:33 +11:00
objfun.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
objfun.h py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
objgenerator.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
objgenerator.h
objgetitemiter.c py: Support single argument to optimised MP_OBJ_STOP_ITERATION. 2021-07-15 00:12:41 +10:00
objint.c all: Fix signed shifts and NULL access errors from -fsanitize=undefined. 2021-06-24 23:01:04 +10:00
objint.h
objint_longlong.c
objint_mpz.c py/mpz: Do sign extension in mpz_as_bytes for negative values. 2020-11-11 22:18:24 +11:00
objlist.c extmod/modujson: Add support for dump/dumps separators keyword-argument. 2021-08-07 13:52:16 +10:00
objlist.h
objmap.c
objmodule.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
objmodule.h py/builtinimport: Refactor module importing. 2021-12-01 13:23:34 +11:00
objnamedtuple.c py: Add option to compile without any error messages at all. 2021-04-27 23:51:52 +10:00
objnamedtuple.h
objnone.c
objobject.c
objpolyiter.c
objproperty.c
objrange.c py: Rename remaining object types to be of the form mp_type_xxx. 2021-03-26 13:48:34 +11:00
objreversed.c
objset.c py: Introduce and use mp_raise_type_arg helper. 2021-07-15 00:12:41 +10:00
objsingleton.c
objslice.c
objstr.c py/objstr: Support '{:08}'.format("Jan") like Python 3.10. 2022-01-19 15:34:32 +11:00
objstr.h
objstringio.c
objstringio.h
objstrunicode.c py/mpprint: Fix length calculation for strings with precision-modifier. 2020-12-07 23:32:06 +11:00
objtuple.c extmod/modujson: Add support for dump/dumps separators keyword-argument. 2021-08-07 13:52:16 +10:00
objtuple.h
objtype.c py/vm: Add a fast path for LOAD_ATTR on instance types. 2021-09-16 16:02:15 +10:00
objtype.h
objzip.c
opmethods.c
pairheap.c
pairheap.h
parse.c py/parse: Simplify parse nodes representing a list. 2021-09-10 14:09:44 +10:00
parse.h py/parse: Pass in an mp_print_t to mp_parse_node_print. 2020-09-11 23:00:03 +10:00
parsenum.c py: Add option to compile without any error messages at all. 2021-04-27 23:51:52 +10:00
parsenum.h
parsenumbase.c
parsenumbase.h
persistentcode.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
persistentcode.h py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
profile.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
profile.h py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
py.cmake py/py.cmake: Introduce MICROPY_INC_CORE as a list with core includes. 2021-04-09 13:08:35 +10:00
py.mk all: Remove support for FROZEN_DIR and FROZEN_MPY_DIR. 2021-12-17 23:54:05 +11:00
pystack.c py: Introduce and use mp_raise_type_arg helper. 2021-07-15 00:12:41 +10:00
pystack.h
qstr.c py/qstr: Use `const` consistently to avoid a cast. 2022-02-11 22:55:02 +11:00
qstr.h py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
qstrdefs.h py: Only search frozen modules when '.frozen' is found in sys.path. 2021-12-18 00:01:59 +11:00
reader.c
reader.h
repl.c py/repl: Don't read past the end of import_str. 2021-05-30 11:50:51 +10:00
repl.h
ringbuf.c
ringbuf.h
runtime.c ports: Move '.frozen' to second entry in sys.path. 2021-12-29 23:55:36 +11:00
runtime.h py: Introduce and use mp_raise_type_arg helper. 2021-07-15 00:12:41 +10:00
runtime0.h
runtime_utils.c
scheduler.c py/mpstate: Schedule KeyboardInterrupt on main thread. 2021-06-19 09:49:00 +10:00
scope.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
scope.h py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
sequence.c
showbc.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
smallint.c
smallint.h all: Fix signed shifts and NULL access errors from -fsanitize=undefined. 2021-06-24 23:01:04 +10:00
stackctrl.c
stackctrl.h py/stackctrl: Prevent unused-var warning when stack checking disabled. 2021-06-05 11:03:09 +10:00
stream.c
stream.h
unicode.c
unicode.h
usermod.cmake rp2: Add support for USER_C_MODULES to CMake build system. 2021-03-31 00:26:01 +11:00
vm.c py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. 2022-02-24 18:08:43 +11:00
vmentrytable.h py/vmentrytable: Ignore GCC -Woverride-init. 2020-10-22 11:47:36 +02:00
vstr.c
warning.c