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cmd/compile: recognize Syscall-like functions for liveness analysis Consider this code: func f(*int) func g() { p := new(int) f(p) } where f is an assembly function. In general liveness analysis assumes that during the call to f, p is dead in this frame. If f has retained p, p will be found alive in f's frame and keep the new(int) from being garbage collected. This is all correct and works. We use the Go func declaration for f to give the assembly function liveness information (the arguments are assumed live for the entire call). Now consider this code: func h1() { p := new(int) syscall.Syscall(1, 2, 3, uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(p))) } Here syscall.Syscall is taking the place of f, but because its arguments are uintptr, the liveness analysis and the garbage collector ignore them. Since p is no longer live in h once the call starts, if the garbage collector scans the stack while the system call is blocked, it will find no reference to the new(int) and reclaim it. If the kernel is going to write to *p once the call finishes, reclaiming the memory is a mistake. We can't change the arguments or the liveness information for syscall.Syscall itself, both for compatibility and because sometimes the arguments really are integers, and the garbage collector will get quite upset if it finds an integer where it expects a pointer. The problem is that these arguments are fundamentally untyped. The solution we have taken in the syscall package's wrappers in past releases is to insert a call to a dummy function named "use", to make it look like the argument is live during the call to syscall.Syscall: func h2() { p := new(int) syscall.Syscall(1, 2, 3, uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(p))) use(unsafe.Pointer(p)) } Keeping p alive during the call means that if the garbage collector scans the stack during the system call now, it will find the reference to p. Unfortunately, this approach is not available to users outside syscall, because 'use' is unexported, and people also have to realize they need to use it and do so. There is much existing code using syscall.Syscall without a 'use'-like function. That code will fail very occasionally in mysterious ways (see #13372). This CL fixes all that existing code by making the compiler do the right thing automatically, without any code modifications. That is, it takes h1 above, which is incorrect code today, and makes it correct code. Specifically, if the compiler sees a foreign func definition (one without a body) that has uintptr arguments, it marks those arguments as "unsafe uintptrs". If it later sees the function being called with uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(x)) as an argument, it arranges to mark x as having escaped, and it makes sure to hold x in a live temporary variable until the call returns, so that the garbage collector cannot reclaim whatever heap memory x points to. For now I am leaving the explicit calls to use in package syscall, but they can be removed early in a future cycle (likely Go 1.7). The rule has no effect on escape analysis, only on liveness analysis. Fixes #13372. Change-Id: I2addb83f70d08db08c64d394f9d06ff0a063c500 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/18584 Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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// errorcheck -0 -m -live
// +build !windows
// Copyright 2015 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
// Test escape analysis and liveness inferred for syscall.Syscall-like functions.
package p
import (
"syscall"
"unsafe"
)
func f(uintptr) // ERROR "f assuming arg#1 is unsafe uintptr"
func g() {
var t int
f(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&t))) // ERROR "live at call to f: autotmp" "g &t does not escape"
}
func h() {
var v int
syscall.Syscall(0, 1, uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&v)), 2) // ERROR "live at call to Syscall: autotmp" "h &v does not escape"
}
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