Background: the friendly/normal REPL is intended for human use whereas the
raw REPL is for computer use/automation. Raw REPL is used for things like
pyboard.py script_to_run.py. The normal REPL has built-in flow control
because it echos back the characters. That's not so with raw REPL and flow
control is just implemented by rate limiting the amount of data that goes
in. Currently it's fixed at 256 byte chunks every 10ms. This is sometimes
too fast for slow MCUs or systems with small stdin buffers. It's also too
slow for a lot of higher-end MCUs, ie it could be a lot faster.
This commit adds a new raw REPL mode which includes flow control: the
device will echo back a character after a certain number of bytes are sent
to the host, and the host can use this to regulate the data going out to
the device. The amount of characters is controlled by the device and sent
to the host before communication starts. This flow control allows getting
the maximum speed out of a serial link, regardless of the link or the
device at the other end.
Also, this new raw REPL mode parses and compiles the incoming data as it
comes in. It does this by creating a "stdin reader" object which is then
passed to the lexer. The lexer requests bytes from this "stdin reader"
which retrieves bytes from the host, and does flow control. What this
means is that no memory is used to store the script (in the existing raw
REPL mode the device needs a big buffer to read in the script before it can
pass it on to the lexer/parser/compiler). The only memory needed on the
device is enough to parse and compile.
Finally, it would be possible to extend this new raw REPL to allow bytecode
(.mpy files) to be sent as well as text mode scripts (but that's not done
in this commit).
Some results follow. The test was to send a large 33k script that contains
mostly comments and then prints out the heap, run via pyboard.py large.py.
On PYBD-SF6, prior to this PR:
$ ./pyboard.py large.py
stack: 524 out of 23552
GC: total: 392192, used: 34464, free: 357728
No. of 1-blocks: 12, 2-blocks: 2, max blk sz: 2075, max free sz: 22345
GC memory layout; from 2001a3f0:
00000: h=hhhh=======================================hhBShShh==h=======h
00400: =====hh=B........h==h===========================================
00800: ================================================================
00c00: ================================================================
01000: ================================================================
01400: ================================================================
01800: ================================================================
01c00: ================================================================
02000: ================================================================
02400: ================================================================
02800: ================================================================
02c00: ================================================================
03000: ================================================================
03400: ================================================================
03800: ================================================================
03c00: ================================================================
04000: ================================================================
04400: ================================================================
04800: ================================================================
04c00: ================================================================
05000: ================================================================
05400: ================================================================
05800: ================================================================
05c00: ================================================================
06000: ================================================================
06400: ================================================================
06800: ================================================================
06c00: ================================================================
07000: ================================================================
07400: ================================================================
07800: ================================================================
07c00: ================================================================
08000: ================================================================
08400: ===============================================.....h==.........
(349 lines all free)
(the big blob of used memory is the large script).
Same but with this PR:
$ ./pyboard.py large.py
stack: 524 out of 23552
GC: total: 392192, used: 1296, free: 390896
No. of 1-blocks: 12, 2-blocks: 3, max blk sz: 40, max free sz: 24420
GC memory layout; from 2001a3f0:
00000: h=hhhh=======================================hhBShShh==h=======h
00400: =====hh=h=B......h==.....h==....................................
(381 lines all free)
The only thing in RAM is the compiled script (and some other unrelated
items).
Time to download before this PR: 1438ms, data rate: 230,799 bits/sec.
Time to download with this PR: 119ms, data rate: 2,788,991 bits/sec.
So it's more than 10 times faster, and uses significantly less RAM.
Results are similar on other boards. On an stm32 board that connects via
UART only at 115200 baud, the data rate goes from 80kbit/sec to
113kbit/sec, so gets close to saturating the UART link without loss of
data.
The new raw REPL mode also supports a single ctrl-C to break out of this
flow-control mode, so that a ctrl-C can always get back to a known state.
It's also backwards compatible with the original raw REPL mode, which is
still supported with the same sequence of commands. The new raw REPL
mode is activated by ctrl-E, which gives an error on devices that do not
support the new mode.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Note: the uncrustify configuration is explicitly set to 'add' instead of
'force' in order not to alter the comments which use extra spaces after //
as a means of indenting text for clarity.
Pending exceptions would otherwise be handled later on where there may not
be an NLR handler in place.
A similar fix is also made to the unix port's REPL handler.
Fixes issues #4921 and #5488.
For the 3 ports that already make use of this feature (stm32, nrf and
teensy) this doesn't make any difference, it just allows to disable it from
now on.
For other ports that use pyexec, this decreases code size because the debug
printing code is dead (it can't be enabled) but the compiler can't deduce
that, so code is still emitted.
mp_compile no longer takes an emit_opt argument, rather this setting is now
provided by the global default_emit_opt variable.
Now, when -X emit=native is passed as a command-line option, the emitter
will be set for all compiled modules (included imports), not just the
top-level script.
In the future there could be a way to also set this variable from a script.
Fixes issue #4267.
So that boot.py and/or main.py can be frozen (either as STR or MPY) in the
same way that other scripts are frozen. Frozen scripts have preference to
scripts in the VFS.
Replaces "PYB: soft reboot" with "MPY: soft reboot", etc.
Having a consistent prefix across ports reduces the difference between
ports, which is a general goal. And this change won't break pyboard.py
because that tool only looks for "soft reboot".
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.
Header files that are considered internal to the py core and should not
normally be included directly are:
py/nlr.h - internal nlr configuration and declarations
py/bc0.h - contains bytecode macro definitions
py/runtime0.h - contains basic runtime enums
Instead, the top-level header files to include are one of:
py/obj.h - includes runtime0.h and defines everything to use the
mp_obj_t type
py/runtime.h - includes mpstate.h and hence nlr.h, obj.h, runtime0.h,
and defines everything to use the general runtime support functions
Additional, specific headers (eg py/objlist.h) can be included if needed.
This happens with some compilers on some architectures, which don't define
size_t as unsigned int. MicroPython's printf() dooesn't support obscure
format specifiers for size_t, so the obvious choice is to explicitly cast
to unsigned, to match %u used in printf().
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