runtime: attach mark workers to P after they park

Currently mark workers attach to their designated Ps before parking,
either during initialization or after performing a phase transition.
However, in both of these cases, it's possible that the mark worker is
running on a different P than the one it attaches to. This is a
problem, because as soon as the worker attaches to a P, that P's
scheduler can execute the worker. If the worker hasn't yet parked on
the P it's actually running on, this means the worker G will be
running in two places at once. The most visible consequence of this is
that once the first instance of the worker does park, it will clear
g.m and the second instance will crash shortly when it tries to use
g.m.

Fix this by moving the attach to the gopark callback. At this point,
the G is genuinely stopped and the callback is running on the system
stack, so it's safe for another P's scheduler to pick up the worker G.

Fixes #13363. Fixes #13978.

Change-Id: If2f7c4a4174f9511f6227e14a27c56fb842d1cc8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/18761
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>

src/runtime/mgc.go

@@ -1349,15 +1349,22 @@ func gcBgMarkPrepare() {
 	work.nwait = ^uint32(0)
 }
 
-func gcBgMarkWorker(p *p) {
-	// Register this G as the background mark worker for p.
+func gcBgMarkWorker(_p_ *p) {
+	type parkInfo struct {
+		m      *m // Release this m on park.
+		attach *p // If non-nil, attach to this p on park.
+	}
+	var park parkInfo
+
+	// casgp is casp for *g's.
 	casgp := func(gpp **g, old, new *g) bool {
 		return casp((*unsafe.Pointer)(unsafe.Pointer(gpp)), unsafe.Pointer(old), unsafe.Pointer(new))
 	}
 
 	gp := getg()
-	mp := acquirem()
-	owned := casgp(&p.gcBgMarkWorker, nil, gp)
+	park.m = acquirem()
+	park.attach = _p_
+	// Inform gcBgMarkStartWorkers that this worker is ready.
 	// After this point, the background mark worker is scheduled
 	// cooperatively by gcController.findRunnable. Hence, it must
 	// never be preempted, as this would put it into _Grunnable
@@ -1365,33 +1372,51 @@ func gcBgMarkWorker(p *p) {
 	// is set, this puts itself into _Gwaiting to be woken up by
 	// gcController.findRunnable at the appropriate time.
 	notewakeup(&work.bgMarkReady)
-	if !owned {
-		// A sleeping worker came back and reassociated with
-		// the P. That's fine.
-		releasem(mp)
-		return
-	}
 
 	for {
 		// Go to sleep until woken by gcContoller.findRunnable.
 		// We can't releasem yet since even the call to gopark
 		// may be preempted.
-		gopark(func(g *g, mp unsafe.Pointer) bool {
-			releasem((*m)(mp))
+		gopark(func(g *g, parkp unsafe.Pointer) bool {
+			park := (*parkInfo)(parkp)
+
+			// The worker G is no longer running, so it's
+			// now safe to allow preemption.
+			releasem(park.m)
+
+			// If the worker isn't attached to its P,
+			// attach now. During initialization and after
+			// a phase change, the worker may have been
+			// running on a different P. As soon as we
+			// attach, the owner P may schedule the
+			// worker, so this must be done after the G is
+			// stopped.
+			if park.attach != nil {
+				p := park.attach
+				park.attach = nil
+				// cas the worker because we may be
+				// racing with a new worker starting
+				// on this P.
+				if !casgp(&p.gcBgMarkWorker, nil, g) {
+					// The P got a new worker.
+					// Exit this worker.
+					return false
+				}
+			}
 			return true
-		}, unsafe.Pointer(mp), "GC worker (idle)", traceEvGoBlock, 0)
+		}, noescape(unsafe.Pointer(&park)), "GC worker (idle)", traceEvGoBlock, 0)
 
 		// Loop until the P dies and disassociates this
-		// worker. (The P may later be reused, in which case
-		// it will get a new worker.)
-		if p.gcBgMarkWorker != gp {
+		// worker (the P may later be reused, in which case
+		// it will get a new worker) or we failed to associate.
+		if _p_.gcBgMarkWorker != gp {
 			break
 		}
 
 		// Disable preemption so we can use the gcw. If the
 		// scheduler wants to preempt us, we'll stop draining,
 		// dispose the gcw, and then preempt.
-		mp = acquirem()
+		park.m = acquirem()
 
 		if gcBlackenEnabled == 0 {
 			throw("gcBgMarkWorker: blackening not enabled")
@@ -1405,13 +1430,13 @@ func gcBgMarkWorker(p *p) {
 			throw("work.nwait was > work.nproc")
 		}
 
-		switch p.gcMarkWorkerMode {
+		switch _p_.gcMarkWorkerMode {
 		default:
 			throw("gcBgMarkWorker: unexpected gcMarkWorkerMode")
 		case gcMarkWorkerDedicatedMode:
-			gcDrain(&p.gcw, gcDrainNoBlock|gcDrainFlushBgCredit)
+			gcDrain(&_p_.gcw, gcDrainNoBlock|gcDrainFlushBgCredit)
 		case gcMarkWorkerFractionalMode, gcMarkWorkerIdleMode:
-			gcDrain(&p.gcw, gcDrainUntilPreempt|gcDrainFlushBgCredit)
+			gcDrain(&_p_.gcw, gcDrainUntilPreempt|gcDrainFlushBgCredit)
 		}
 
 		// If we are nearing the end of mark, dispose
@@ -1421,12 +1446,12 @@ func gcBgMarkWorker(p *p) {
 		// no workers and no work while we have this
 		// cached, and before we compute done.
 		if gcBlackenPromptly {
-			p.gcw.dispose()
+			_p_.gcw.dispose()
 		}
 
 		// Account for time.
 		duration := nanotime() - startTime
-		switch p.gcMarkWorkerMode {
+		switch _p_.gcMarkWorkerMode {
 		case gcMarkWorkerDedicatedMode:
 			atomic.Xaddint64(&gcController.dedicatedMarkTime, duration)
 			atomic.Xaddint64(&gcController.dedicatedMarkWorkersNeeded, 1)
@@ -1441,7 +1466,7 @@ func gcBgMarkWorker(p *p) {
 		// of work?
 		incnwait := atomic.Xadd(&work.nwait, +1)
 		if incnwait > work.nproc {
-			println("runtime: p.gcMarkWorkerMode=", p.gcMarkWorkerMode,
+			println("runtime: p.gcMarkWorkerMode=", _p_.gcMarkWorkerMode,
 				"work.nwait=", incnwait, "work.nproc=", work.nproc)
 			throw("work.nwait > work.nproc")
 		}
@@ -1453,21 +1478,19 @@ func gcBgMarkWorker(p *p) {
 			// as the worker for this P so
 			// findRunnableGCWorker doesn't try to
 			// schedule it.
-			p.gcBgMarkWorker = nil
-			releasem(mp)
+			_p_.gcBgMarkWorker = nil
+			releasem(park.m)
 
 			gcMarkDone()
 
-			// Disable preemption and reassociate with the P.
+			// Disable preemption and prepare to reattach
+			// to the P.
 			//
 			// We may be running on a different P at this
-			// point, so this has to be done carefully.
-			mp = acquirem()
-			if !casgp(&p.gcBgMarkWorker, nil, gp) {
-				// The P got a new worker.
-				releasem(mp)
-				break
-			}
+			// point, so we can't reattach until this G is
+			// parked.
+			park.m = acquirem()
+			park.attach = _p_
 		}
 	}
 }

src/runtime/proc.go

@@ -3212,6 +3212,8 @@ func procresize(nprocs int32) *p {
 				traceGoUnpark(p.gcBgMarkWorker, 0)
 			}
 			globrunqput(p.gcBgMarkWorker)
+			// This assignment doesn't race because the
+			// world is stopped.
 			p.gcBgMarkWorker = nil
 		}
 		for i := range p.sudogbuf {