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Allocate Array.Empty<> on a frozen segment (NonGC heap) #85559

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@EgorBo EgorBo commented Apr 29, 2023

Contributes to #76151 (implements @jkotas's suggestion to put empty arrays on FOH). Initial infrastructure to emit "frozen" allocators instead of normal ones for newobj, newarr in static constructors. Basically, we want static readonly <gcref> fields to be allocated on frozen segments since they're immortal. It gives us:

  1. Less immortal objects in normal heaps
  2. JIT can bake direct object addresses in codegen
  3. JIT can perform more optimizations on them e.g. read their fields in case of immutable objects, fold comparison, etcs.

Codegen improvement example:

string[] Test()
{
    return Array.Empty<string>();
}
; Assembly listing for method MyClass:Test():string[]:this
; Tier-1 compilation
       mov      rax, 0x25D00309C68      ; 'System.String[]'
       ret      
; Total bytes of code 11

Also, works for user-defined arrays:

static byte[] Array { get; } = new byte[1024];

public byte[] Test()
{
    return Array;
}
; Assembly listing for method MyClass:Test():ubyte[]:this
       mov      rax, 0x29480209C80      ; 'System.Byte[]'
       ret      
; Total bytes of code 11

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EgorBo commented Apr 29, 2023

Although, I assume I'd better land a workaound to detect EmptyArray's cctor shape to emit a frozen allocator in JIT. Will see if I can do it easily

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EgorBo commented Apr 30, 2023

@jkotas @MichalStrehovsky I'm a bit lost here - can you please point me where R2R helper can be mapped to a VM function? I basically want CORINFO_HELP_READYTORUN_NEWARR_1_FROZEN to call my jithelpers.cpp's JIT_NewArr1Frozen

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EgorBo commented Apr 30, 2023

Ah, I think I've figured that out, just not sure if I bumped R2R version correctly (maybe a minor version change is enough?)

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jkotas commented Apr 30, 2023

Right, this does not need MINIMUM_READYTORUN_MAJOR_VERSION bump. It adds new helpers; it does not break anything existing.

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EgorBo commented Apr 30, 2023

/azp run runtime-coreclr outerloop

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EgorBo commented May 1, 2023

@jkotas when you have time can you please review VM/CG2 side?

I've added an allocator for non-array too but that is not used currently, I want to work separately on a phase to do a proper analysis and emit them less conservatively for many types of objects and e.g. initialized arrays. Currently, it only works for Array.Empty<> and similar user patterns, actually even

static readonly int[] myArr = new int[10]; // without initialization

works. I've also verified that the allocators work in both R2R and only-JIT modes

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jkotas commented May 1, 2023

#85559

LGTM otherwise

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EgorBo commented May 1, 2023

@jakobbotsch @AndyAyersMS @dotnet/jit-contrib Please, sign off the JIT side - it should be simple at this point, recognizes a fixed IL pattern. I'll remove that once I come up with a smarter phase to insert allocators (already have a prototype)

Also, I've removed some AreTypesEquivalent left overs in JIT

Co-authored-by: Jakob Botsch Nielsen <Jakob.botsch.nielsen@gmail.com>
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JIT changes LGTM assuming we can generalize it more in the future.

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I realize it's tempting to aggregate a bunch of jit interface changes to minimize some of the churn, but I'd really like to see PRs like this split into two -- one for things that should be no diff and another for things that that cause diffs.

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EgorBo commented May 3, 2023

I realize it's tempting to aggregate a bunch of jit interface changes to minimize some of the churn, but I'd really like to see PRs like this split into two -- one for things that should be no diff and another for things that that cause diffs.

This is exactly what I do in this PR - I add new helpers and plan to actively use them in a separate PR. In this PR I only added Array.Empty but that didn't cause a lot of diffs (although, caused new inlining events because Foo(Array<int>.Empty,...) was recognized as a constant arg at the call-site (due to frozen object handle).

@EgorBo EgorBo merged commit 0be256e into dotnet:main May 3, 2023
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EgorBo commented May 3, 2023

Failure is known - #85637, #85659

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