Fixes #13808.

Change-Id: Ifbd5644da995a812438a405485c9e08b4503a313
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Does anyone actually pass -a to the linker?

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Change-Id: I4fc35649ff5a3510f5667b62e7e84e113e95dffe
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There should be a unit, and s is the SI unit name, so use that.
The other obvious possibility is ns (nanosecond), but the fact
that durations are measured in nanoseconds is an internal detail.

Fixes #14058.

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Fixes #14004.

$ go doc encoding.gob
Before:
func Register(value interface{})
func RegisterName(name string, value interface{})
func NewDecoder(r io.Reader) *Decoder
func NewEncoder(w io.Writer) *Encoder
type CommonType struct { ... }
type Decoder struct { ... }
type Encoder struct { ... }
type GobDecoder interface { ... }
type GobEncoder interface { ... }

After:
func Register(value interface{})
func RegisterName(name string, value interface{})
type CommonType struct { ... }
type Decoder struct { ... }
    func NewDecoder(r io.Reader) *Decoder
type Encoder struct { ... }
    func NewEncoder(w io.Writer) *Encoder
type GobDecoder interface { ... }
type GobEncoder interface { ... }

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The cached copy's ID is sometimes outside the bounds of the orig array.

There's no reason to start at the cached copy and work backwards
to the original value. We already have the original value ID at
all the callsites.

Fixes noopt build

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Instead of using TARRAY for both arrays and slices, create a new
TSLICE kind to handle slices.

Also, get rid of the "DDDArray" distinction. While kinda ugly, it
seems likely we'll need to defer evaluating the constant bounds
expressions for golang.org/issue/13890.

Passes toolstash/buildall.

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- adjusted example code
- fixed comments

Fixes #14785.

Change-Id: Ia757dc93b0a69b8408559885ece7f3685a37daaa
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Currently when we compute the trigger for the next GC, we do it based
on an estimate of the reachable heap size at the start of the GC
cycle, which is itself based on an estimate of the floating garbage.
This was introduced by 4655aadd to fix a bad feedback loop that allowed
the heap to grow to many times the true reachable size.

However, this estimate gets easily confused by rapidly allocating
applications, and, worse it's different than the heap size the trigger
controller uses to compute the trigger itself. This results in the
trigger controller often thinking that GC finished before it started.
Since this would be a pretty great outcome from it's perspective, it
sets the trigger for the next cycle as close to the next goal as
possible (which is limited to 95% of the goal).

Furthermore, the bad feedback loop this estimate originally fixed
seems not to happen any more, suggesting it was fixed more correctly
by some other change in the mean time. Finally, with the change to
allocate black, it shouldn't even be theoretically possible for this
bad feedback loop to occur.

Hence, eliminate the floating garbage estimate and simply consider the
reachable heap to be the marked heap. This harms overall throughput
slightly for allocation-heavy benchmarks, but significantly improves
mutator availability.

Fixes #12204. This brings the average trigger in this benchmark from
0.95 (the cap) to 0.7 and the active GC utilization from ~90% to ~45%.

Updates #14951. This makes the trigger controller much better behaved,
so it pulls the trigger lower if assists are consuming a lot of CPU
like it's supposed to, increasing mutator availability.

name              old time/op  new time/op  delta
XBenchGarbage-12  2.21ms ± 1%  2.28ms ± 3%  +3.29%  (p=0.000 n=17+17)

Some of this slow down we paid for in earlier commits. Relative to the
start of the series to switch to allocate-black (the parent of "count
black allocations toward scan work"), the garbage benchmark is 2.62%
slower.

name                      old time/op    new time/op    delta
BinaryTree17-12              2.53s ± 3%     2.53s ± 3%    ~     (p=0.708 n=20+19)
Fannkuch11-12                2.08s ± 0%     2.08s ± 0%  -0.22%  (p=0.002 n=19+18)
FmtFprintfEmpty-12          45.3ns ± 2%    45.2ns ± 3%    ~     (p=0.505 n=20+20)
FmtFprintfString-12          129ns ± 0%     131ns ± 2%  +1.80%  (p=0.000 n=16+19)
FmtFprintfInt-12             121ns ± 2%     121ns ± 2%    ~     (p=0.768 n=19+19)
FmtFprintfIntInt-12          186ns ± 1%     188ns ± 3%  +0.99%  (p=0.000 n=19+19)
FmtFprintfPrefixedInt-12     188ns ± 1%     188ns ± 1%    ~     (p=0.947 n=18+16)
FmtFprintfFloat-12           254ns ± 1%     255ns ± 1%  +0.30%  (p=0.002 n=19+17)
FmtManyArgs-12               763ns ± 0%     770ns ± 0%  +0.92%  (p=0.000 n=18+18)
GobDecode-12                7.00ms ± 1%    7.04ms ± 1%  +0.61%  (p=0.049 n=20+20)
GobEncode-12                5.88ms ± 1%    5.88ms ± 0%    ~     (p=0.641 n=18+19)
Gzip-12                      214ms ± 1%     215ms ± 1%  +0.43%  (p=0.002 n=18+19)
Gunzip-12                   37.6ms ± 0%    37.6ms ± 0%  +0.11%  (p=0.015 n=17+18)
HTTPClientServer-12         76.9µs ± 2%    78.1µs ± 2%  +1.44%  (p=0.000 n=20+18)
JSONEncode-12               15.2ms ± 2%    15.1ms ± 1%    ~     (p=0.271 n=19+18)
JSONDecode-12               53.1ms ± 1%    53.3ms ± 0%  +0.49%  (p=0.000 n=18+19)
Mandelbrot200-12            4.04ms ± 1%    4.03ms ± 0%  -0.33%  (p=0.005 n=18+18)
GoParse-12                  3.29ms ± 1%    3.28ms ± 1%    ~     (p=0.146 n=16+17)
RegexpMatchEasy0_32-12      69.9ns ± 3%    69.5ns ± 1%    ~     (p=0.785 n=20+19)
RegexpMatchEasy0_1K-12       237ns ± 0%     237ns ± 0%    ~     (p=1.000 n=18+18)
RegexpMatchEasy1_32-12      69.5ns ± 1%    69.2ns ± 1%  -0.44%  (p=0.020 n=16+19)
RegexpMatchEasy1_1K-12       372ns ± 1%     371ns ± 2%    ~     (p=0.086 n=20+19)
RegexpMatchMedium_32-12      108ns ± 3%     107ns ± 1%  -1.00%  (p=0.004 n=19+14)
RegexpMatchMedium_1K-12     34.2µs ± 4%    34.0µs ± 2%    ~     (p=0.380 n=19+20)
RegexpMatchHard_32-12       1.77µs ± 4%    1.76µs ± 3%    ~     (p=0.558 n=18+20)
RegexpMatchHard_1K-12       53.4µs ± 4%    52.8µs ± 2%  -1.10%  (p=0.020 n=18+20)
Revcomp-12                   359ms ± 4%     377ms ± 0%  +5.19%  (p=0.000 n=20+18)
Template-12                 63.7ms ± 2%    62.9ms ± 2%  -1.27%  (p=0.005 n=18+20)
TimeParse-12                 316ns ± 2%     313ns ± 1%    ~     (p=0.059 n=20+16)
TimeFormat-12                329ns ± 0%     331ns ± 0%  +0.39%  (p=0.000 n=16+18)
[Geo mean]                  51.6µs         51.7µs       +0.18%

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Currently we allocate white for most of concurrent marking. This is
based on the classical argument that it produces less floating
garbage, since allocations during GC may not get linked into the heap
and allocating white lets us reclaim these. However, it's not clear
how often this actually happens, especially since our write barrier
shades any pointer as soon as it's installed in the heap regardless of
the color of the slot.

On the other hand, allocating black has several advantages that seem
to significantly outweigh this downside.

1) It naturally bounds the total scan work to the live heap size at
the start of a GC cycle. Allocating white does not, and thus depends
entirely on assists to prevent the heap from growing faster than it
can be scanned.

2) It reduces the total amount of scan work per GC cycle by the size
of newly allocated objects that are linked into the heap graph, since
objects allocated black never need to be scanned.

3) It reduces total write barrier work since more objects will already
be black when they are linked into the heap graph.

This gives a slight overall improvement in benchmarks.

name              old time/op  new time/op  delta
XBenchGarbage-12  2.24ms ± 0%  2.21ms ± 1%  -1.32%  (p=0.000 n=18+17)

name                      old time/op    new time/op    delta
BinaryTree17-12              2.60s ± 3%     2.53s ± 3%  -2.56%  (p=0.000 n=20+20)
Fannkuch11-12                2.08s ± 1%     2.08s ± 0%    ~     (p=0.452 n=19+19)
FmtFprintfEmpty-12          45.1ns ± 2%    45.3ns ± 2%    ~     (p=0.367 n=19+20)
FmtFprintfString-12          131ns ± 3%     129ns ± 0%  -1.60%  (p=0.000 n=20+16)
FmtFprintfInt-12             122ns ± 0%     121ns ± 2%  -0.86%  (p=0.000 n=16+19)
FmtFprintfIntInt-12          187ns ± 1%     186ns ± 1%    ~     (p=0.514 n=18+19)
FmtFprintfPrefixedInt-12     189ns ± 0%     188ns ± 1%  -0.54%  (p=0.000 n=16+18)
FmtFprintfFloat-12           256ns ± 0%     254ns ± 1%  -0.43%  (p=0.000 n=17+19)
FmtManyArgs-12               769ns ± 0%     763ns ± 0%  -0.72%  (p=0.000 n=18+18)
GobDecode-12                7.08ms ± 2%    7.00ms ± 1%  -1.22%  (p=0.000 n=20+20)
GobEncode-12                5.88ms ± 0%    5.88ms ± 1%    ~     (p=0.406 n=18+18)
Gzip-12                      214ms ± 0%     214ms ± 1%    ~     (p=0.103 n=17+18)
Gunzip-12                   37.6ms ± 0%    37.6ms ± 0%    ~     (p=0.563 n=17+17)
HTTPClientServer-12         77.2µs ± 3%    76.9µs ± 2%    ~     (p=0.606 n=20+20)
JSONEncode-12               15.1ms ± 1%    15.2ms ± 2%    ~     (p=0.138 n=19+19)
JSONDecode-12               53.3ms ± 1%    53.1ms ± 1%  -0.33%  (p=0.000 n=19+18)
Mandelbrot200-12            4.04ms ± 1%    4.04ms ± 1%    ~     (p=0.075 n=19+18)
GoParse-12                  3.30ms ± 1%    3.29ms ± 1%  -0.57%  (p=0.000 n=18+16)
RegexpMatchEasy0_32-12      69.5ns ± 1%    69.9ns ± 3%    ~     (p=0.822 n=18+20)
RegexpMatchEasy0_1K-12       237ns ± 1%     237ns ± 0%    ~     (p=0.398 n=19+18)
RegexpMatchEasy1_32-12      69.8ns ± 2%    69.5ns ± 1%    ~     (p=0.090 n=20+16)
RegexpMatchEasy1_1K-12       371ns ± 1%     372ns ± 1%    ~     (p=0.178 n=19+20)
RegexpMatchMedium_32-12      108ns ± 2%     108ns ± 3%    ~     (p=0.124 n=20+19)
RegexpMatchMedium_1K-12     33.9µs ± 2%    34.2µs ± 4%    ~     (p=0.309 n=20+19)
RegexpMatchHard_32-12       1.75µs ± 2%    1.77µs ± 4%  +1.28%  (p=0.018 n=19+18)
RegexpMatchHard_1K-12       52.7µs ± 1%    53.4µs ± 4%  +1.23%  (p=0.013 n=15+18)
Revcomp-12                   354ms ± 1%     359ms ± 4%  +1.27%  (p=0.043 n=20+20)
Template-12                 63.6ms ± 2%    63.7ms ± 2%    ~     (p=0.654 n=20+18)
TimeParse-12                 313ns ± 1%     316ns ± 2%  +0.80%  (p=0.014 n=17+20)
TimeFormat-12                332ns ± 0%     329ns ± 0%  -0.66%  (p=0.000 n=16+16)
[Geo mean]                  51.7µs         51.6µs       -0.09%

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Currently allocating black switches to the system stack (which is
probably a historical accident) and atomically updates the global
bytes marked stat. Since we're about to depend on this much more,
optimize it a bit by putting it back on the regular stack and updating
the per-P bytes marked stat, which gets lazily folded into the global
bytes marked stat.

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Currently we count black allocations toward the scannable heap size,
but not toward the scan work we've done so far. This is clearly
inconsistent (we have, in effect, scanned these allocations and since
they're already black, we're not going to scan them again). Worse, it
means we don't count black allocations toward the scannable heap size
as of the *next* GC because this is based on the amount of scan work
we did in this cycle.

Fix this by counting black allocations as scan work. Currently the GC
spends very little time in allocate-black mode, so this probably
hasn't been a problem, but this will become important when we switch
to always allocating black.

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Allows passing regexps per subtest to --test.run and --test.bench

Note that the documentation explicitly states that the split regular
expressions match the correpsonding parts (path components) of
the bench/test identifier. This is intended and slightly different
from the i'th RE matching the subtest/subbench at the respective
level.  Picking this semantics allows guaranteeing that a test or
benchmark identifier as printed by go test can be passed verbatim
(possibly quoted) to, respectively, -run or -bench: subtests and
subbenches might have a '/' in their name, causing a misaligment if
their ID is passed to -run or -bench as is.
This semantics has other benefits, but this is the main motivation.

Fixes golang.go#15126

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Fixes noopt builder.

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Progress on SSA backend for ARM. Still not complete. It compiles a
Fibonacci function, but the caller picked the return value from an
incorrect offset. This CL adjusts it to match the stack frame layout
for architectures with link register.

Updates #15365.

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Progress on SSA for ARM. Still not complete. Now Fibonacci function compiles
and runs correctly.

The old backend swaps the operands for CMP instruction. This CL does the same
on SSA backend, and uses conditional branch accordingly.

Updates #15365.

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Updates #15374

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Reduces link time for cmd/go by 1%.

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cmd/link reads PE object files when building programs with cgo.
cmd/link accesses object relocations. Add new Section.Relocs that
provides similar functionality in debug/pe.

Updates #15345

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Disable phielimValue from rewrite pass for now.

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Consistently use type int for the size argument of
runtime.newarray, runtime.reflect_unsafe_NewArray
and reflect.unsafe_NewArray.

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Ancestor comparison was the wrong way around, effectively
disabling the def-must-dominate-use check.

Update #15084

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For the Solaris and S/390 builders.

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Updates #15345

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Introduce (*SectionHeader32).fullName and add documentation comments.

Updates #15345

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Fixes #14729

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Test with forceNewExport set to true (but continues to be disabled by
default for now).

Fixes #15322.

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First (and largest single) step to switching cmd/link from linked
lists of symbols to slices.

Sort sections independently and concurrently.
This reduces jujud link times on linux/amd64 by ~4%.

Updates #15374

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(Split out from CL 22205.)

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This change improves the performance of the block
function used within crypto/md5 on ppc64le.  The following
improvement was seen:

BenchmarkHash8Bytes              8.39         26.04        3.10x
BenchmarkHash1K                  99.41        407.84       4.10x
BenchmarkHash8K                  108.87       460.00       4.23x
BenchmarkHash8BytesUnaligned     8.39         25.80        3.08x
BenchmarkHash1KUnaligned         89.94        407.81       4.53x
BenchmarkHash8KUnaligned         96.57        459.22       4.76x

Fixes #15385

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Follow-up to https://golang.org/cl/21755.
This turned out to be a bit more than just a few nits
as originally expected in that CL.

1) The actual mantissa may be shorter than required for the
   given precision (because of trailing 0's): no need to
   allocate space for it (and transmit 0's). This can save
   a lot of space when the precision is high: E.g., for
   prec == 1000, 16 words or 128 bytes are required at the
   most, but if the actual number is short, it may be much
   less (for the test cases present, it's significantly less).

2) The actual mantissa may be longer than the number of
   words required for the given precision: make sure to
   not overflow when encoding in bytes.

3) Add more documentation.

4) Add more tests.

Change-Id: I9f40c408cfdd9183a8e81076d2f7d6c75e7a00e9
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/22324Reviewed-by: Alan Donovan <adonovan@google.com>

mapaccess{1,2} returns a pointer to the value.  When the key
is not in the map, it returns a pointer to zeroed memory.
Currently, for large map values we have a complicated scheme which
dynamically allocates zeroed memory for this purpose.  It is ugly
code and requires an atomic.Load in a bunch of places we'd rather
not have it.

Switch to a scheme where callsites of mapaccess{1,2} which expect
large return values pass in a pointer to zeroed memory that
mapaccess can return if the key is not found.  This avoids the
atomic.Load on all map accesses with a few extra instructions only
for the large value acccesses, plus a bit of bss space.

There was a time (1.4 & 1.5?) where we did something like this but
all the tricks to make the right size zero value were done by the
linker.  That scheme broke in the presence of dyamic linking.
The scheme in this CL works even when dynamic linking.

Fixes #12337

Change-Id: Ic2d0319944af33bbb59785938d9ab80958d1b4b1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/22221
Run-TryBot: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@canonical.com>

A late response to CL 22163.

Change-Id: I5275a22af7081875af0256da296811f4fe9832dc
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/22296Reviewed-by: David Symonds <dsymonds@golang.org>

(Split out from CL 22243.)

Change-Id: I07709a0c417e7a57e839e5085a37db7d5fbf3a35
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/22322
Run-TryBot: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>

(Split out from CL 22243.)

Change-Id: Idac1748c8db2b2ed0484e4afadb105c471c6ce34
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/22321Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>

(Split out from CL 22205.)

Change-Id: Id32698f48ce02b55c15b6f2842215e0ffdbf425b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/22298Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>

Added GobEncode/Decode and a test for them.

Fixes #14593

Change-Id: Ic8d3efd24d0313a1a66f01da293c4c1fd39764a8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/21755Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>

(Split out from CL 22205.)

Change-Id: Iab66ac2a1cd3716966d8e59c570931bce95aba9b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/22297Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>