Explain why we had to take the bullet on context strings now
and move the historical approach in a historical section.
Change-Id: Ie3bcc2213b391c6ba06547cc05c850891a41d06b
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Autosubmit: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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Reviewed-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
When dealing with a formal argument in a function argument pattern that
has a default expression, there are two different things that can happen
at runtime: Either we select its value from the passed attribute
successfully or we need to use the default expression. Both of these may
be thunks and both of these may need finalisers. However, in the former
case this is taken care of elsewhere, the value will always be finalised
already if necessary. In the latter case we may need to finalise the
thunk resulting from the default expression. However, the thunk
corresponding to the expression may never end up in the local's stack
slot. Since finalisation goes by stack slot (and not constants), we need
to prevent a case where we don't fall back to the default expression,
but finalise anyways.
Previously, we worked around this by making `OpFinalise` ignore
non-thunks. Since finalisation of already evaluated thunks still
crashed, the faulty compilation of function pattern arguments could
still cause a crash.
As a new approach, we reinstate the old behavior of `OpFinalise` to
crash whenever encountering something that is either not a thunk or
doesn't need finalisation. This can also help catching (similar)
miscompilations in the future. To then prevent the crash, we need to
track whether we have fallen back or not at runtime. This is done using
an additional phantom on the stack that holds a new `FinaliseRequest`
value. When it comes to finalisation we check this value and
conditionally execute `OpFinalise` based on its value.
Resolves b/261 and b/265 (partially).
Change-Id: Ic04fb80ec671a2ba11fa645090769c335fb7f58b
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Autosubmit: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
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When resolving a select expression (`attrs.name` or `attrs.name or
default`), if the set compiles to a constant attribute set (as is most
notably the case with `builtins`) we can backtrack and replace that
attribute set directly with the compiled value.
For something like `builtins.length`, this will directly emit an
`OpConstant` that leaves the `length` builtin on the stack.
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Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
While it is in the given example, i.e. for integer addition, to claim
that they are equivalent is a bit misleading: builtins.add is less
overloaded than +, i.e. builtins.add "foo" "bar" will fail whereas
"foo" + "bar" performs string concatenation.
Change-Id: Ib52d530d1ab289b367565b286f06a76dd518d4fb
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The codebase contains a lot of complexity and odd roundabout
handling for shadowing globals. I'm pretty sure none of this is
necessary, and all of it disappears if you simply make the globals
part of the ordinary identifier resolution chain, with their own
scope up above the root scope. Then the ordinary shadowing routines
do the right thing, and no special cases or new terminology are
required.
This commit does that.
Note by tazjin: This commit was originally abandoned when Adam decided
not to take away reviewer bandwidth for this at the time (eval was
still in a much earlier stage). As we've recently done some
significant refactoring of globals initialisation this came up again,
and it seems we can easily cover the use-cases of the poison tracking
in other ways now, so I've rebased, updated and resurrected the CL.
Co-Authored-By: Vincent Ambo <tazjin@tvl.su>
Signed-off-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
Change-Id: Ib3309a47a7b31fa5bf10466bade0d876b76ae462
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This explains my current thinking on string contexts. Thanks to
everyone who gave input so far.
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This commit adds a markdown document which explains how the
thread-local VM infrastructure works, in case it is useful in the
future.
Change-Id: Id10e32a9e3c5fa38a15d4bec9800f7234c59234a
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Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
This implements builtins.split, and passes eval-okay-regex-split.nix
(which is moved out of notyetpassing).
Signed-off-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
Change-Id: Ieb0975da2058966c697ee0e2f5b3f26ccabfae57
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Reviewed-by: grfn <grfn@gws.fyi>
We're getting close to the finish line, folks.
I went through the list of builtins and there are only 33 that
remain unimplemented. I've marked them, and indicated which are
ready to be implemented vs which are waiting for other things.
We can delete this column from the table once everything is
implemented.
Signed-off-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
Change-Id: Idfaef93283536288b12e59aef5c3e1cd139bd133
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I believe that the currentTime, findFile, hashFile, pathExists,
readDir, path (unless ?sha256), and readFile builtins are impure.
This commit marks them as such in docs/builtins.md.
Change-Id: Ib1b59fe643dde73cb2b00050b4ef9d3401ad22eb
Signed-off-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7139
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Working on https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7158, I discovered that C++
Nix actually is strict in the accumulator, just not in the first value.
This seems due to the fact that in the C++ evaluator, function calls
don't seem to be thunked unconditionally and foldl' just elects not to
wrap it in a thunk (don't quote me on this summary, even though it seems
to line up with the code for primop_foldlStrict and testable behavior).
It doesn't seem worth it to risk breaking the odd Nix expression just to
be strict in one more value per invocation of foldl' (i.e. the initial
accumulator value `nul`), so let's match the existing C++ Nix behavior
here.
Change-Id: If59e62271a90d97cb440f0ca72a58ec7840d1690
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7022
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When investigating discrepancies between foldl' in tvix and C++ Nix,
I discovered that C++ Nix's foldl' doesn't seem to be strict at all.
Since this seemed wrong, I looked into Haskell's foldl' implementation
which doesn't force the list elements (`val` in our code), but the
accumulation value (`res` in our code). You can look at the code here:
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.17.0.0/docs/src/GHC.List.html#foldl%27
This actually makes a lot of sense: If `res` is not forced after each
application of `op`, we'll end up thunks nested as deeply as the list is
long, potentially taking up a lot of space. This can be limited by
forcing the `res` thunk before applying `op` again (and creating a new
thunk).
I've also PR-ed an equivalent change for C++ Nix at
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7158. Since this is not merged nor
backported to our Nix 2.3 fork, I've not copied the eval fail test yet,
since it wouldn't when checking our tests against C++ Nix in depot.
Change-Id: I34edf6fc3031fc1485c3e714f2280b4fba8f004b
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The idea is that we can keep track of the more unexpected behavior,
behavior that maybe should not be a thing at all and behavior we are not
sure about yet.
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Just want to note those down somewhere before I forget them again,
we can delete them later if we have it all figured out.
Change-Id: Icafa2d8fc7ca39e38e9637b7eca6f2bbf487c2b8
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Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Previously, "calling" (setting up the VM run loop for executing a call
frame) and "running" (running this loop to completion) were separate
operations.
This was basically an attempt to avoid nesting `VM::run` invocations.
However, doing things this way introduced some tricky bugs for exiting
out of the call frames of thunks vs. builtins & closures.
For now, we unify the two operations and always return the value to
the caller directly. For now this makes calls a little less effective,
but it gives us a chance to nail down some other strange behaviours
and then re-optimise this afterwards.
To make sure we tackle this again further down I've added it to the
list of known possible optimisations.
Change-Id: I96828ab6a628136e0bac1bf03555faa4e6b74ece
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/6415
Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
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`builtins.getFlake` doesn't interest us, of course, but some others may
be worth (or easy) to implement. They are pretty low priority, though,
since nixpkgs has compatiblity wrappers for the ones it uses.
The new debugging-related builtins (break and traceVerbose) are
interesting to note, but may not make sense to implement at all.
Change-Id: Icae547aa3bd9d6ee6b87897ba8210eb9b9b044c7
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Autosubmit: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
