X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fcode%2Fsave.lisp;h=defb53accd6b70f06c0e8123997f4e0167cfaaab;hb=4898ef32c639b1c7f4ee13a5ba566ce6debd03e6;hp=772fa8eaea7b1ae565c1ac08648695aa31af0c6e;hpb=165bb53b405ab95ce76615ab77cee8284df0a36e;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/src/code/save.lisp b/src/code/save.lisp index 772fa8e..defb53a 100644 --- a/src/code/save.lisp +++ b/src/code/save.lisp @@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ ;;;; SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE itself -(sb!alien:define-alien-routine "save" (sb!alien:boolean) - (file sb!c-call:c-string) - (initial-function (sb!alien:unsigned #.sb!vm:n-word-bits))) +(define-alien-routine "save" (boolean) + (file c-string) + (initial-fun (unsigned #.sb!vm:n-word-bits))) ;;; FIXME: When this is run without the PURIFY option, ;;; it seems to save memory all the way up to the high-water mark, @@ -27,67 +27,97 @@ ;;; image to make a running Lisp, the memory never gets reclaimed. ;;; (But with the PURIFY option it seems to work OK.) (defun save-lisp-and-die (core-file-name &key - (toplevel #'toplevel-init) - (purify t) - (root-structures ()) - (environment-name "auxiliary")) + (toplevel #'toplevel-init) + (purify t) + (root-structures ()) + (environment-name "auxiliary")) #!+sb-doc - "Saves a CMU Common Lisp core image in the file of the specified name, - killing the current Lisp invocation in the process (unless it bails - out early because of some argument error or something). + "Save a \"core image\", i.e. enough information to restart a Lisp +process later in the same state, in the file of the specified name. +Only global state is preserved: the stack is unwound in the process. - The following &KEY args are defined: - :TOPLEVEL - The function to run when the created core file is resumed. - The default function handles command line toplevel option - processing and runs the top level read-eval-print loop. This - function should not return. - :PURIFY - If true (the default), do a purifying GC which moves all dynamically - allocated objects into static space so that they stay pure. This takes - somewhat longer than the normal GC which is otherwise done, but it's - only done once, and subsequent GC's will be done less often and will - take less time in the resulting core file. See PURIFY. - :ROOT-STRUCTURES - This should be a list of the main entry points in any newly loaded - systems. This need not be supplied, but locality and/or GC performance - may be better if they are. Meaningless if :PURIFY is NIL. See PURIFY. - :ENVIRONMENT-NAME - This is also passed to PURIFY when :PURIFY is T. (rarely used) +The following &KEY arguments are defined: - The save/load process changes the values of some global variables: - *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *DEBUG-IO*, etc. - Everything related to open streams is necessarily changed, since - the OS won't let us preserve a stream across save and load. - *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* - This is reinitialized to reflect the working directory where the - saved core is loaded." + :TOPLEVEL + The function to run when the created core file is resumed. The + default function handles command line toplevel option processing + and runs the top level read-eval-print loop. This function should + not return. - #!+mp (sb!mp::shutdown-multi-processing) - ;; FIXME: What is this for? Explain. - (when (fboundp 'cancel-finalization) - (cancel-finalization sb!sys:*tty*)) + :PURIFY + If true (the default), do a purifying GC which moves all + dynamically allocated objects into static space. This takes + somewhat longer than the normal GC which is otherwise done, but + it's only done once, and subsequent GC's will be done less often + and will take less time in the resulting core file. See the PURIFY + function. + + :ROOT-STRUCTURES + This should be a list of the main entry points in any newly loaded + systems. This need not be supplied, but locality and/or GC performance + may be better if they are. Meaningless if :PURIFY is NIL. See the + PURIFY function. + + :ENVIRONMENT-NAME + This is also passed to the PURIFY function when :PURIFY is T. + (rarely used) + +The save/load process changes the values of some global variables: + + *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *DEBUG-IO*, etc. + Everything related to open streams is necessarily changed, since + the OS won't let us preserve a stream across save and load. + + *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* + This is reinitialized to reflect the working directory where the + saved core is loaded. + +Foreign objects loaded with SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT are +automatically reloaded on startup, but references to foreign symbols +do not survive intact on all platforms: in this case a WARNING is +signalled when saving the core. If no warning is signalled, then the +foreign symbol references will remain intact. Platforms where this is +currently the case are x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, x86/NetBSD, +sparc/Linux, sparc/SunOS, and ppc/Darwin. + +This implementation is not as polished and painless as you might like: + * It corrupts the current Lisp image enough that the current process + needs to be killed afterwards. This can be worked around by forking + another process that saves the core. + * It will not work if multiple threads are in use. + * There is absolutely no binary compatibility of core images between + different runtime support programs. Even runtimes built from the same + sources at different times are treated as incompatible for this + purpose. +This isn't because we like it this way, but just because there don't +seem to be good quick fixes for either limitation and no one has been +sufficiently motivated to do lengthy fixes." + (deinit) ;; FIXME: Would it be possible to unmix the PURIFY logic from this ;; function, and just do a GC :FULL T here? (Then if the user wanted ;; a PURIFYed image, he'd just run PURIFY immediately before calling ;; SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE.) (if purify (purify :root-structures root-structures - :environment-name environment-name) - #!-gencgc (gc) #!+gencgc (gc :full t)) - ;; FIXME: Wouldn't it be more correct to go through this list backwards - ;; instead of forwards? - (dolist (f *before-save-initializations*) - (funcall f)) + :environment-name environment-name) + #-gencgc (gc) #+gencgc (gc :full t)) (flet ((restart-lisp () (handling-end-of-the-world - (reinit) - (dolist (f *after-save-initializations*) - (funcall f)) - (funcall toplevel)))) + (reinit) + (funcall toplevel)))) ;; FIXME: Perhaps WITHOUT-GCING should be wrapped around the ;; LET as well, to avoid the off chance of an interrupt triggering ;; GC and making our saved RESTART-LISP address invalid? (without-gcing - (save (unix-namestring core-file-name nil) - (get-lisp-obj-address #'restart-lisp))))) + (save (unix-namestring core-file-name nil) + (get-lisp-obj-address #'restart-lisp))))) + +(defun deinit () + (dolist (hook *save-hooks*) + (with-simple-restart (continue "Skip this save hook.") + (funcall hook))) + (when (fboundp 'cancel-finalization) + (cancel-finalization sb!sys:*tty*)) + (profile-deinit) + (debug-deinit) + (foreign-deinit))