Customize Lua GC, add object-memory-lock API.

Add custom API to prevent Lua Objects from being garbage collected.
This is intended to for Ardour LuaBridge bindings (~1MB Objects:
tables, functions and userdata).
The bindings are persistent and the gc can skip them in mark & sweep
phases. This is a significant performance improvement for garbage
collection.

Note. The next version of Lua (5.4) will come with a generational-gc
rather than an incremental, so extending the API at this point in time
is acceptable.
This commit is contained in:
Robin Gareus 2018-03-19 01:33:13 +01:00
parent 130211a4bd
commit 78cf0e5235
Signed by: rgareus
GPG Key ID: A090BCE02CF57F04
4 changed files with 16 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -210,8 +210,14 @@ GCObject *luaC_newobj (lua_State *L, int tt, size_t sz) {
GCObject *o = cast(GCObject *, luaM_newobject(L, novariant(tt), sz));
o->marked = luaC_white(g);
o->tt = tt;
o->next = g->allgc;
g->allgc = o;
if (g->gcmlock) {
white2gray(o); /* gray forever */
o->next = g->fixedgc;
g->fixedgc = o;
} else {
o->next = g->allgc;
g->allgc = o;
}
return o;
}
@ -1176,4 +1182,7 @@ void luaC_fullgc (lua_State *L, int isemergency) {
/* }====================================================== */
LUA_API void lua_mlock (lua_State *L, int en) {
global_State *g = G(L);
g->gcmlock = en;
}

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@ -328,6 +328,7 @@ LUA_API lua_State *lua_newstate (lua_Alloc f, void *ud) {
g->gcfinnum = 0;
g->gcpause = LUAI_GCPAUSE;
g->gcstepmul = LUAI_GCMUL;
g->gcmlock = 0;
for (i=0; i < LUA_NUMTAGS; i++) g->mt[i] = NULL;
if (luaD_rawrunprotected(L, f_luaopen, NULL) != LUA_OK) {
/* memory allocation error: free partial state */

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@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ typedef struct global_State {
unsigned int gcfinnum; /* number of finalizers to call in each GC step */
int gcpause; /* size of pause between successive GCs */
int gcstepmul; /* GC 'granularity' */
int gcmlock; /* memory lock new objects - fixedgc */
lua_CFunction panic; /* to be called in unprotected errors */
struct lua_State *mainthread;
const lua_Number *version; /* pointer to version number */

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@ -311,6 +311,8 @@ LUA_API int (lua_isyieldable) (lua_State *L);
LUA_API int (lua_gc) (lua_State *L, int what, int data);
LUA_API void (lua_mlock) (lua_State *L, int enable);
/*
** miscellaneous functions