Achilleas Anagnostopoulos 62aca2f2de Implement tool for calculating offsets into g, m and stack structs ...

The offsets tool is essentially a wrapper around "go build -a -n". It
creates a temporary folder with a dummy go file and runs the above
command using the target OS/ARCH for the kernel and captures the output.
The use of the "-a" flag forces go build to generate a build script for
rebuilding all packages including the runtime ones. As a by-product of
building the runtime package, the compiler emits the "go_asm.h" file
that contains (among other things) the offsets for each element of the
g, m and stack structures (see src/runtime/runtime2.go).

These offsets are used in Go assembly files instead of hardcoded
offsets. For example the following snippet accesses the pointer to m in
the g struct address stored at register CX:

MOVQ TLS, CX
MOVQ g_m(CX), BX

The offsets tool modifies the captured output from the go build command
so it only includes the steps up to building the runtime package,
executes the build script and post-processes the generated go_asm.h file
to retain the entries relevant to g, m and stack and then formats them
so they are compatible with nasm definitions (name equ value).

Depending on the value of the "-out" option, the tool outputs the
generated definitions either to STDOUT (default value for -out) or to a
file.

2017-06-30 09:01:41 +01:00

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offsets.go

Implement tool for calculating offsets into g, m and stack structs

2017-06-30 09:01:41 +01:00