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2025-09-21Elf2: create a new linker from scratchJacob Young
This iteration already has significantly better incremental support. Closes #24110
2025-08-06link: prevent deadlock when prelink tasks failmlugg
If an error occured which prevented a prelink task from being queued, then `pending_prelink_tasks` would never be decremented, which could cause deadlocks in some cases. So, instead of calculating ahead of time the number of prelink tasks to expect, we use a simpler strategy which is much like a wait group: we add 1 to a value when we spawn a worker, and in the worker function, `defer` decrementing the value. The initial value is 1, and there's a decrement after all of the workers are spawned, so once it hits 0, prelink is done (be it with a failure or a success).
2025-06-13link: fix obvious race conditionmlugg
Did you know that allocators reuse addresses? If not, then don't feel bad, because apparently I don't either! This dumb mistake was probably responsible for the CI failures on `master` yesterday.
2025-06-13compiler: fix atomic orderingsmlugg
I messed up atomic orderings on this variable because they changed in a local refactor at some point. We need to always release on the store and acquire on the loads so that a linker thread observing `.ready` sees the stored MIR.
2025-06-12compiler: don't queue too much AIR/MIRmlugg
Without this cap, unlucky scheduling and/or details of what pipeline stages perform best on the host machine could cause many gigabytes of MIR to be stuck in the queue. At a certain point, pause the main thread until some of the functions in flight have been processed.
2025-06-12link.Queue: release safety lock before releasing mutex after stoppingmlugg
2025-06-12compiler: improve progress outputmlugg
* "Flush" nodes ("LLVM Emit Object", "ELF Flush") appear under "Linking" * "Code Generation" disappears when all analysis and codegen is done * We only show one node under "Semantic Analysis" to accurately convey that analysis isn't happening in parallel, but rather that we're pausing one task to do another
2025-06-12compiler: get most backends compiling againmlugg
As of this commit, every backend other than self-hosted Wasm and self-hosted SPIR-V compiles and (at least somewhat) functions again. Those two backends are currently disabled with panics. Note that `Zcu.Feature.separate_thread` is *not* enabled for the fixed backends. Avoiding linker references from codegen is a non-trivial task, and can be done after this branch.
2025-06-12compiler: rework backend pipeline to separate codegen and linkmlugg
The idea here is that instead of the linker calling into codegen, instead codegen should run before we touch the linker, and after MIR is produced, it is sent to the linker. Aside from simplifying the call graph (by preventing N linkers from each calling into M codegen backends!), this has the huge benefit that it is possible to parallellize codegen separately from linking. The threading model can look like this: * 1 semantic analysis thread, which generates AIR * N codegen threads, which process AIR into MIR * 1 linker thread, which emits MIR to the binary The codegen threads are also responsible for `Air.Legalize` and `Air.Liveness`; it's more efficient to do this work here instead of blocking the main thread for this trivially parallel task. I have repurposed the `Zcu.Feature.separate_thread` backend feature to indicate support for this 1:N:1 threading pattern. This commit makes the C backend support this feature, since it was relatively easy to divorce from `link.C`: it just required eliminating some shared buffers. Other backends don't currently support this feature. In fact, they don't even compile -- the next few commits will fix them back up.