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#
#
#            Nim's Runtime Library
#        (c) Copyright 2019 Andreas Rumpf
#
#    See the file "copying.txt", included in this
#    distribution, for details about the copyright.
#

# Cycle collector based on Lins' Jump Stack and other ideas,
# see for example:
# https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f2b2/0d168acf38ff86305809a55ef2c5d6ebc787.pdf
# Further refinement in 2008 by the notion of "critical links", see
# "Cyclic reference counting" by Rafael Dueire Lins
# R.D. Lins / Information Processing Letters 109 (2008) 71–78

type PT = ptr pointer
include cellseqs_v2

const
  colGreen = 0b000
  colYellow = 0b001
  colRed = 0b010
  jumpStackFlag = 0b100  # stored in jumpstack
  rcShift = 3      # shift by rcShift to get the reference counter
  colorMask = 0b011

type
  TraceProc = proc (p, env: pointer) {.nimcall, benign.}
  DisposeProc = proc (p: pointer) {.nimcall, benign.}

template color(c): untyped = c.rc and colorMask
template setColor(c, col) =
  when col == colGreen:
    c.rc = c.rc and not colorMask
  else:
    c.rc = c.rc and not colorMask or col

proc nimIncRefCyclic(p: pointer) {.compilerRtl, inl.} =
  let h = head(p)
  inc h.rc, rcIncrement
  h.setColor colYellow # mark as potential cycle!

proc markCyclic*[T](x: ref T) {.inline.} =
  ## Mark the underlying object as a candidate for cycle collections.
  ## Experimental API. Do not use!
  let h = head(cast[pointer](x))
  h.setColor colYellow

type
  GcEnv = object
    traceStack: CellSeq
    jumpStack: CellSeq

proc trace(s: Cell; desc: PNimType; j: var GcEnv) {.inline.} =
  if desc.traceImpl != nil:
    var p = s +! sizeof(RefHeader)
    cast[TraceProc](desc.traceImpl)(p, addr(j))

proc free(s: Cell; desc: PNimType) {.inline.} =
  when traceCollector:
    cprintf("[From ] %p rc %ld color %ld in jumpstack %ld\n", s, s.rc shr rcShift,
            s.color, s.rc and jumpStackFlag)
  let p = s +! sizeof(RefHeader)
  if desc.disposeImpl != nil:
    cast[DisposeProc](desc.disposeImpl)(p)
  nimRawDispose(p)

proc collect(s: Cell; desc: PNimType; j: var GcEnv) =
  #[ Algorithm from the paper:

    Collect(S) =
      If (Color(S) == red) then
        RC(S) = 1;
        Color(S) = green;
        for T in Sons(S) do
          Remove(<S, T>);
          if (Color(T) == red) then Collect(T);
      free_list = S;

  (Whatever that really means...)
  ]#
  if s.color == colRed:
    s.setColor colGreen
    trace(s, desc, j)
    while j.traceStack.len > 0:
      let (p, desc) = j.traceStack.pop()
      let t = head(p[])
      #Remove(<S, T>):
      p[] = nil
      if t.color == colRed:
        t.setColor colGreen
        trace(t, desc, j)
        free(t, desc)
    free(s, desc)
    #cprintf("[Cycle free] %p %ld\n", s, s.rc shr rcShift)

proc markRed(s: Cell; desc: PNimType; j: var GcEnv) =
  if s.color != colRed:
    s.setColor colRed
    trace(s, desc, j)
    while j.traceStack.len > 0:
      let (p, desc) = j.traceStack.pop()
      let t = head(p[])
      when traceCollector:
        cprintf("[Cycle dec] %p %ld color %ld in jumpstack %ld\n", t, t.rc shr rcShift, t.color, t.rc and jumpStackFlag)
      dec t.rc, rcIncrement
      if (t.rc and not rcMask) >= 0 and (t.rc and jumpStackFlag) == 0:
        t.rc = t.rc or jumpStackFlag
        when traceCollector:
          cprintf("[Now in jumpstack] %p %ld color %ld in jumpstack %ld\n", t, t.rc shr rcShift, t.color, t.rc and jumpStackFlag)
        j.jumpStack.add(p, desc)
      if t.color != colRed:
        t.setColor colRed
        trace(t, desc, j)

proc scanGreen(s: Cell; desc: PNimType; j: var GcEnv) =
  s.setColor colGreen
  trace(s, desc, j)
  while j.traceStack.len > 0:
    let (p, desc) = j.traceStack.pop()
    let t = head(p[])
    if t.color != colGreen:
      t.setColor colGreen
      trace(t, desc, j)
    inc t.rc, rcIncrement
    when traceCollector:
      cprintf("[Cycle inc] %p %ld color %ld\n", t, t.rc shr rcShift, t.color)

proc nimTraceRef(q: pointer; desc: PNimType; env: pointer) {.compilerRtl.} =
  let p = cast[ptr pointer](q)
  if p[] != nil:
    var j = cast[ptr GcEnv](env)
    j.traceStack.add(p, desc)

proc nimTraceRefDyn(q: pointer; env: pointer) {.compilerRtl.} =
  let p = cast[ptr pointer](q)
  if p[] != nil:
    var j = cast[ptr GcEnv](env)
    j.traceStack.add(p, cast[ptr PNimType](p[])[])

proc scan(s: Cell; desc: PNimType; j: var GcEnv) =
  when traceCollector:
    cprintf("[doScanGreen] %p %ld\n", s, s.rc shr rcShift)
  # even after trial deletion, `s` is still alive, so undo
  # the decrefs by calling `scanGreen`:
  if (s.rc and not rcMask) >= 0:
    scanGreen(s, desc, j)
    s.setColor colYellow
  else:
    # first we have to repair all the nodes we have seen
    # that are still alive; we also need to mark what they
    # refer to as alive:
    while j.jumpStack.len > 0:
      let (p, desc) = j.jumpStack.pop
      let t = head(p[])
      # not in jump stack anymore!
      t.rc = t.rc and not jumpStackFlag
      if t.color == colRed and (t.rc and not rcMask) >= 0:
        scanGreen(t, desc, j)
        t.setColor colYellow
        when traceCollector:
          cprintf("[jump stack] %p %ld\n", t, t.rc shr rcShift)
    # we have proven that `s` and its subgraph are dead, so we can
    # collect these nodes:
    collect(s, desc, j)

proc traceCycle(s: Cell; desc: PNimType) {.noinline.} =
  when traceCollector:
    cprintf("[traceCycle] %p %ld\n", s, s.rc shr rcShift)
  var j: GcEnv
  init j.jumpStack
  init j.traceStack
  markRed(s, desc, j)
  scan(s, desc, j)
  while j.jumpStack.len > 0:
    let (p, desc) = j.jumpStack.pop
    let t = head(p[])
    # not in jump stack anymore!
    t.rc = t.rc and not jumpStackFlag
  deinit j.jumpStack
  deinit j.traceStack

proc nimDecRefIsLastCyclicDyn(p: pointer): bool {.compilerRtl, inl.} =
  if p != nil:
    var cell = head(p)
    if (cell.rc and not rcMask) == 0:
      result = true
      #cprintf("[DESTROY] %p\n", p)
    else:
      dec cell.rc, rcIncrement
      if cell.color == colYellow:
        let desc = cast[ptr PNimType](p)[]
        traceCycle(cell, desc)
      # According to Lins it's correct to do nothing else here.
      #cprintf("[DeCREF] %p\n", p)

proc nimDecRefIsLastCyclicStatic(p: pointer; desc: PNimType): bool {.compilerRtl, inl.} =
  if p != nil:
    var cell = head(p)
    if (cell.rc and not rcMask) == 0:
      result = true
      #cprintf("[DESTROY] %p %s\n", p, desc.name)
    else:
      dec cell.rc, rcIncrement
      if cell.color == colYellow: traceCycle(cell, desc)
      #cprintf("[DeCREF] %p %s %ld\n", p, desc.name, cell.rc)