1. Use uctypes.bytearray_at().
Implementation of the "ffi" module predates that of "uctypes", so
initially some convenience functions to access memory were added
to ffi. Later, they landed in uctypes (which follows CPython's
ctype module).
So, replace undocumented experimental functions from ffi to
documented ones from uctypes.
2. Use more suitable type codes for arguments (e.g. "P" (const void*)
instead of "p" (void*).
3. Some better var naming.
4. Clarify some messages printed by the example.
Examples are added to the beginning of the module docs, similarly to docs
for many other modules.
Improvements to grammar, style, and clarity. Some paragraphs are updated
with better suggestions. A warning added of the effect incorrect usage of
the module may have. Describe the fact that offset range used in one
defined structure is limited.
sizeof() can work in two ways: a) calculate size of already instantiated
structure ("sizeof variable") - in this case we already no layout; b) size
of structure decsription ("sizeof type"). In the latter case, LAYOUT_NATIVE
was assumed, but there should possibility to calculate size for other
layouts too. So, with this patch, there're now 2 forms:
uctypes.sizeof(struct)
uctypes.sizeof(struct_desc, layout)
Configurable via MICROPY_MODULE_GETATTR, disabled by default. Among other
things __getattr__ for modules can help to build lazy loading / code
unloading at runtime.
Configurable via MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_STR_COUNT. Default is enabled.
Disabled for bare-arm, minimal, unix-minimal and zephyr ports. Disabling
it saves 408 bytes on x86.
Some Python linters don't like unconditional except clauses because they
catch SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt, which usually is not the intended
behaviour.
Part of this test was trying to test some functionality of __getattribute__
but this method name was misspelt so it wasn't doing anything useful.
Fixing the typo in this name makes the test fail because MicroPython
doesn't support user defined __getattribute__ methods. So this part of the
test is removed. The remaining tests are modified slightly to make it
clearer what they are testing.
1. Return correct error code for non-blocking vs timed out socket
(POSIX returns EAGAIN for both, we want ETIMEDOUT in case of timed
out socket). To achieve this, blocking/non-blocking flag is added
to the mp_obj_socket_t, to avoid issuing fcntl() syscall each time
EAGAIN occurs. (mp_obj_socket_t used to be 8 bytes, having some room
in a standard 16-byte alloc block.)
2. Handle socket.settimeout(0) properly - in Python, that means
non-blocking mode, but SO_RCVTIMEO/SO_SNDTIMEO of 0 is infinite
timeout.
3. Overall, make sure that socket.settimeout() call switches blocking
state as expected.
Prior to this commit the USB CDC used the USB start-of-frame (SOF) IRQ to
regularly check if buffered data needed to be sent out to the USB host.
This wasted resources (CPU, power) if no data needed to be sent.
This commit changes how the USB CDC transmits buffered data:
- When new data is first available to send the data is queued immediately
on the USB IN endpoint, ready to be sent as soon as possible.
- Subsequent additions to the buffer (via usbd_cdc_try_tx()) will wait.
- When the low-level USB driver has finished sending out the data queued
in the USB IN endpoint it calls usbd_cdc_tx_ready() which immediately
queues any outstanding data, waiting for the next IN frame.
The benefits on this new approach are:
- SOF IRQ does not need to run continuously so device has a better chance
to sleep for longer, and be more responsive to other IRQs.
- Because SOF IRQ is off, current consumption is reduced by a small amount,
roughly 200uA when USB is connected (measured on PYBv1.0).
- CDC tx throughput (USB IN) on PYBv1.0 is about 2.3 faster (USB OUT is
unchanged).
- When USB is connected, Python code that is executing is slightly faster
because SOF IRQ no longer interrupts continuously.
- On F733 with USB HS, CDC tx throughput is about the same as prior to this
commit.
- On F733 with USB HS, Python code is about 5% faster because of no SOF.
As part of this refactor, the serial port should no longer echo initial
characters when the serial port is first opened (this only used to happen
rarely on USB FS, but on USB HS is was more evident).
So these constant objects can be loaded by dereferencing the REG_FUN_TABLE
pointer instead of loading immediate values. This reduces the size of
generated native code (when such constants are used), and means that
pointers to these constants are no longer stored in the assembly code.
Otherwise there is really nothing that can be done, it can't be unlocked by
the user because there is no way to allocate memory to execute the unlock.
See issue #4205 and #4209.
The maximum index into mp_fun_table is currently less than 1024 and should
stay that way to keep things efficient for all architectures, so there is
no need to handle loading the pointer directly via a literal in this
function.
All architectures now have a dedicated register to hold the pointer to the
native function table mp_fun_table, and so they all need to load this
register at the start of the native function. This commit makes the
loading of this register uniform across architectures by passing the
pointer in the constant table for the native function, and then loading the
register from the constant table. Doing it this way means that the pointer
is not stored in the assembly code, helping to make the code more portable.
Instead of storing the function pointer directly in the assembly code.
This makes the generated code more independent of the runtime (so easier to
relocate the code), and reduces the generated code size.
The esp register is always a fixed distance below ebp, and using esp to
reference locals on the stack frees up the ebp register for general purpose
use (which is important for an architecture with only 8 user registers).
Instead of storing the function pointer directly in the assembly code.
This makes the generated code more independent of the runtime (so easier to
relocate the code), and reduces the generated code size.
The rsp register is always a fixed distance below rbp, and using rsp to
reference locals on the stack frees up the rbp register for general purpose
use.
For s132 and s140, GAP_ADV_MAX_SIZE was currently set to
BLE_GATT_ATT_MTU_DEFAULT, which is 23. The correct value
should have been 31, but there are no define for this in
the s132/s140 header files as for s110.
Updating define in ble_drv.c to the correct value of 31.
The macros are MICROPY_HEAP_START and MICROPY_HEAP_END, and if not defined
by a board then the default values will be used (maximum heap from SRAM as
defined by linker symbols).
As part of this commit the SDRAM initialisation is moved to much earlier in
main() to potentially make it available to other peripherals and avoid
re-initialisation on soft-reboot. On boards with SDRAM enabled the heap
has been set to use that.
Add some more POSIX compatibility by adding a d_type field to the
dirent structure and defining corresponding macros so listdir_next
in the unix' port modos.c can use it, end result being uos.ilistdir
now reports the file type.
This value is unused. It was an artifact of early draft design, but
bitfields were optimized to use scalar one-word encoding, to allow
compact encoding of typical multiple bitfields in MCU control
registers.
This test doesn't check the actual I/O behavior, just "static" invariants
like behavior on duplicate calls or calls when I/O object is not registered
with poller.
Paul Sokolovsky