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author | David Young <dyoung@hdfgroup.org> | 2021-11-08 21:08:07 (GMT) |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-11-08 21:08:07 (GMT) |
commit | a0445d806c480529e127d79fda257aa8bf70d594 (patch) | |
tree | 19cad85a7c0b2b1afdcbab4b913c25f6e9f62d55 /doc/library-init-shutdown.md | |
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Simplify function enter macros for performance benefits (#1024)
* Take a stab at using constructors to initialize instead of
function-entry macros. This is a work in progress. It's good enough to
run `many_dsets`.
* Committing clang-format changes
* Add the `many_dsets` benchmark and some scripts I used on jelly for
setting up the build/test environment and for recording/flame-graphing
profiles.
* Committing clang-format changes
* Change my Makefile and environment script to work both on jelly
and on mayll (and probably on Summit).
* Disable clang-format "fix."
* Replace the `if (!H5_TERM_GLOBAL)` test in each FUNC_ENTER_ macro with
`if (true)`.
* Fix bad grammar in a comment.
* Instead of labeling the H5*__init_package routines constructors, fold
each into an initialization routine, H5*_init(), and call each of
the H5*_init() routines. Call most of the H5*_init() routines from
H5_init_library() in an explicit order that I found out earlier by
instrumenting each __init_package routine and running the library
tests. Roll H5FD*__init_package routines into H5FD*_init() routines.
This change ends just-in-time initialization of package dependencies by
package initializers.
Don't track in per-package variables (H5_PKG_INIT_VAR) whether each
package has been initialized. Instead, track in a single library
variable whether the whole library is initialized or not.
Drive the initialization of packages by H5_init_library() with a table
of initializer routines. Also drive the termination of packages by
H5_term_library() with a table.
Perform initialization as needed from FUNC_ENTER_API_INIT(err). This
basically restores the old behavior of that macro.
Delete a bunch of #definitions in H5private.h that have fallen out of
use with these changes.
* Committing clang-format changes
* Undo the bad auto-formatting that appears to have occurred in spite
of my disabling it. Bracket some code in /* clang-format off */ /*
clang-format on */ to prevent a recurrence.
* Remove a diagnostic abort().
* Fix a logic error: print a comma between every package terminator run,
and don't print an initial comma.
* Complete the changes I started in H5_term_library() that undo the bad
auto-formatting.
Stop tracking whether package "tops" were initialized in per-package
variables H5*_top_package_initialize_s. H5_term_library() takes care of
that for them.
Remove H5R_top_term_package() and H5R_term_package(), they don't do
anything.
* Committing clang-format changes
* NFCI. Simplify macro text: replace `if (true) {` with `{`.
* Fix formatting and suppress clang-format on a longer range.
* Quiet some unused label, unused variable complaints that cropped up
after I simplified the FUNC_ENTER_ macros for the sake of performance.
* Committing clang-format changes
* Delete some programs and scripts that don't belong in the pull request.
* Use the right function-entry macro.
* Use a sensible format and disable auto-formatting.
* Stop calling do-nothing initializer H5FS_init(). Delete it.
* Document what changes to make if the default VFD changes.
* While I am here, change an `await_prior` flag on the terminator table
to `true` to match the previous, non-table-driven code that was here.
Found the oversight making the following changes:
NFCI: insert an empty line and copy over slightly-edited comments from
the previous version, where those comments still correctly explained how
library termination operated.
* NFCI: lower a staircase.
* Replace every occurrence of FUNC_ENTER_NOAPI_INIT(...) with H5_PUSH_FUNC
since that is all that that macro does any more.
Quiet a bunch of new warnings by changing FUNC_ENTER_NOAPI(...) to
FUNC_ENTER_NOAPI_NOERR and removing disused `done:` labels.
* NFCI: add curly braces around a multiline statement.
* Quiet a signed/unsigned comparison warning.
* Add some documentation about library initialization and shutdown.
* Make sure that the library is initialized, or else that initialization
is already underway, before performing any VFD's initialization.
* Committing clang-format changes
* Committing clang-format changes
* Reduce differences from `develop` branch.
* Always initialize `tot_init`.
* Committing clang-format changes
* Fix typo: H5SL_init initializes skip lists, not VOL.
* Remove H5_TERM_GLOBAL test in H5T_init. H5T_init was unusual in that
it tested H5_TERM_GLOBAL and exited early if it was set. No other
module initializers did that, and I cannot find any reason that should
be necessary. Tests still pass when I remove it, so away it goes.
* Use HD prefix.
* Add function header comments.
* Drop the intermediate variable, it's only used once.
* Extract subroutine `H5FDperform_init(hid_t (*init)(void))` that
initializes the library, if necessary, before calling its VFD-initializer
argument. Use H5FDperform_init in the definition of the symbols
H5FD_<vfd> (e.g., H5FD_SEC2), which may be evaluated before the library
is initialized, like so:
```
```
I implement H5FDperform_init in its own source file, H5FDperform.c,
and exclude that file from trace processing because the `bin/trace`
cannot deal with the function-pointer type.
* Straggler from last: add new source file src/H5FDperform.c.
* Committing clang-format changes
* Add a missing file to the MANIFEST.
* Switch to FUNC_ENTER_API_NOINIT in H5FDperform_init() and hbool_t in
H5_term_library().
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diff --git a/doc/library-init-shutdown.md b/doc/library-init-shutdown.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..917d213 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/library-init-shutdown.md @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +# HDF5 Library initialization and shutdown + +## Application perspective + +### Implicit initialization and shutdown + +When a developer exports a new symbol as part of the HDF5 library, +they should make sure that an application cannot enter the library in an +uninitialized state through a new API function, or read an uninitialized +value from a non-function HDF5 symbol. + +The HDF5 library initializes itself when an application either enters +the library through an API function call such as `H5Fopen`, or when +an application evaluates an HDF5 symbol that represents either a +property-list identifier such as `H5F_ACC_RDONLY` or `H5F_ACC_RDWR`, +a property-list class identifier such as `H5P_FILE_ACCESS`, a VFD +identifier such as `H5FD_FAMILY` or `H5FD_SEC2`, or a type identifier +such as `H5T_NATIVE_INT64`. + +The library sets a flag when initialization occurs and as long as the +flag is set, skips initialization. + +The library provides a couple of macros that initialize the library +as necessary. The library is initialized as a side-effect of the +`FUNC_ENTER_API*` macros used at the top of most API functions. HDF5 +library symbols other than functions are provided through `#define`s +that use `H5OPEN` to introduce a library-initialization call (`H5open`) +at each site where a non-function symbol is used. + +Ordinarily the library registers an `atexit(3)` handler to shut itself +down when the application exits. + +### Explicit initialization and shutdown + +An application may use an API call, `H5open`, to explicitly initialize +the library. `H5close` explicitly shuts down the library. + +## Library internals perspective + +No matter how library initializion begins, eventually the internal +function `H5_init_library` will be called. `H5_init_library` is +responsible for calling the initializers for every internal HDF5 +library module (aka "package") in the correct order so that no module is +initialized before its prerequisite modules. A table in `H5_init_library` +establishes the order of initialization. If a developer adds a +module to the library that it is appropriate to initialize with the rest +of the library, then they should insert its initializer into the right +place in the table. + +`H5_term_library` drives library shutdown. Library shutdown is +table-driven, too. If a developer adds a module that needs to release +resources during library shutdown, then they should add a call at the +right place to the shutdown table. Note that some entries in the shutdown +table are marked as "barriers," and if a new module should only be +shutdown *strictly after* the preceding modules, then it should be marked +as a barrier. See the comments in `H5_term_library` for more information. |