See the following issue for context:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9729#issuecomment-74648287
In short, RDTSC can produce skewed results without preceding LFENCE/MFENCE.
Information on this matter is very scrappy in the internet.
But this is what linux kernel does (see rdtsc_barrier).
It also fixes the test program on my machine.
Update #9729
Change-Id: I3c1ffbf129fdfdd388bd5b7911b392b319248e68
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/5033
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Add local workbufs to the m struct in order to reduce contention.
Add consistency checks for workbuf ownership.
Chain workbufs through call change to avoid swapping them
to and from the m struct.
Adjust the size of the workbuf so that the mutators can
more frequently pass modifications to the GC thus shifting
some work from the STW mark termination phase to the concurrent
mark phase.
Change-Id: I557b53af34ad9972265e0ed9f5996e52d548563d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3972
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
Fixes#9791
g.issystem flag setup races with other code wherever we set it.
Even if we set both in parent goroutine and in the system goroutine,
it is still possible that some other goroutine crashes
before the flag is set. We could pass issystem flag to newproc1,
but we start all goroutines with go nowadays.
Instead look at g.startpc to distinguish system goroutines (similar to topofstack).
Change-Id: Ia3467968dee27fa07d9fecedd4c2b00928f26645
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/4113
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
The unbounded list-based defer pool can grow infinitely.
This can happen if a goroutine routinely allocates a defer;
then blocks on one P; and then unblocked, scheduled and
frees the defer on another P.
The scenario was reported on golang-nuts list.
We've been here several times. Any unbounded local caches
are bad and grow to infinite size. This change introduces
central defer pool; local pools become fixed-size
with the only purpose of amortizing accesses to the
central pool.
Change-Id: Iadcfb113ccecf912e1b64afc07926f0de9de2248
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3741
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
This adds a "framepointer" GOEXPERIMENT that that makes the amd64
toolchain maintain base pointer chains in the same way that gcc
-fno-omit-frame-pointer does. Go doesn't use these saved base
pointers, but this does enable external tools like Linux perf and
VTune to unwind Go stacks when collecting system-wide profiles.
This requires support in the compilers to not clobber BP, support in
liblink for generating the BP-saving function prologue and unwinding
epilogue, and support in the runtime to save BPs across preemption, to
skip saved BPs during stack unwinding and, and to adjust saved BPs
during stack moving.
As with other GOEXPERIMENTs, everything from the toolchain to the
runtime must be compiled with this experiment enabled. To do this,
run make.bash (or all.bash) with GOEXPERIMENT=framepointer.
Change-Id: I4024853beefb9539949e5ca381adfdd9cfada544
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/2992
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
m.gcing has become overloaded to mean "don't preempt this g" in
general. Once the garbage collector is preemptible, the one thing it
*won't* mean is that we're in the garbage collector.
So, rename gcing to "preemptoff" and make it a string giving a reason
that preemption is disabled. gcing was never set to anything but 0 or
1, so we don't have to worry about there being a stack of reasons.
Change-Id: I4337c29e8e942e7aa4f106fc29597e1b5de4ef46
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3660
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
This cleanup was slated for after the conversion of the runtime to Go.
Also improve type and function documentation.
Change-Id: I55a16b09e00cf701f246deb69e7ce7e3e04b26e7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3393
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
During a concurrent GC stacks are scanned in
an initial scan phase informing the GC of all
pointers on the stack. The GC only needs to rescan
the stack if it potentially changes which can only
happen if the goroutine runs.
This CL tracks whether the Goroutine has run
since it was last scanned and thus may have changed
its stack. If necessary the stack is rescanned.
Change-Id: I5fb1c4338d42e3f61ab56c9beb63b7b2da25f4f1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3275
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
The equal algorithm used to take the size
equal(p, q *T, size uintptr) bool
With this change, it does not
equal(p, q *T) bool
Similarly for the hash algorithm.
The size is rarely used, as most equal functions know the size
of the thing they are comparing. For instance f32equal already
knows its inputs are 4 bytes in size.
For cases where the size is not known, we allocate a closure
(one for each size needed) that points to an assembly stub that
reads the size out of the closure and calls generic code that
has a size argument.
Reduces the size of the go binary by 0.07%. Performance impact
is not measurable.
Change-Id: I6e00adf3dde7ad2974adbcff0ee91e86d2194fec
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/2392
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
The ones at the end of M and G are just used to compute
their size for use in assembly. Generate the size explicitly.
The one at the end of itab is variable-sized, and at least one.
The ones at the end of interfacetype and uncommontype are not
needed, as the preceding slice references them (the slice was
originally added for use by reflect?).
The one at the end of stackmap is already accessed correctly,
and the runtime never allocates one.
Update #9401
Change-Id: Ia75e3aaee38425f038c506868a17105bd64c712f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/2420
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
The Gobuf.g goroutine pointer is almost always updated by assembly code.
In one of the few places it is updated by Go code - func save - it must be
treated as a uintptr to avoid a write barrier being emitted at a bad time.
Instead of figuring out how to emit the write barriers missing in the
assembly manipulation, change the type of the field to uintptr, so that
it does not require write barriers at all.
Goroutine structs are published in the allg list and never freed.
That will keep the goroutine structs from being collected.
There is never a time that Gobuf.g's contain the only references
to a goroutine: the publishing of the goroutine in allg comes first.
Goroutine pointers are also kept in non-GC-visible places like TLS,
so I can't see them ever moving. If we did want to start moving data
in the GC, we'd need to allocate the goroutine structs from an
alternate arena. This CL doesn't make that problem any worse.
Found with GODEBUG=wbshadow=1 mode.
Eventually that will run automatically, but right now
it still detects other missing write barriers.
Change-Id: I85f91312ec3e0ef69ead0fff1a560b0cfb095e1a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/2065
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
This is the detection code. It works well enough that I know of
a handful of missing write barriers. However, those are subtle
enough that I'll address them in separate followup CLs.
GODEBUG=wbshadow=1 checks for a write that bypassed the
write barrier at the next write barrier of the same word.
If a bug can be detected in this mode it is typically easy to
understand, since the crash says quite clearly what kind of
word has missed a write barrier.
GODEBUG=wbshadow=2 adds a check of the write barrier
shadow copy during garbage collection. Bugs detected at
garbage collection can be difficult to understand, because
there is no context for what the found word means.
Typically you have to reproduce the problem with allocfreetrace=1
in order to understand the type of the badly updated word.
Change-Id: If863837308e7c50d96b5bdc7d65af4969bf53a6e
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/2061
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
This reverts commit ab0535ae3f.
I think it will remain useful to distinguish code that must
run on a system stack from code that can run on either stack,
even if that distinction is no
longer based on the implementation language.
That is, I expect to add a //go:systemstack comment that,
in terms of the old implementation, tells the compiler,
to pretend this function was written in C.
Change-Id: I33d2ebb2f99ae12496484c6ec8ed07233d693275
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/2275
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Now that we've removed all the C code in runtime and the C compilers,
there is no need to have a separate stackguard field to check for C
code on Go stack.
Remove field g.stackguard1 and rename g.stackguard0 to g.stackguard.
Adjust liblink and cmd/ld as necessary.
Change-Id: I54e75db5a93d783e86af5ff1a6cd497d669d8d33
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/2144
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
These signals are used by glibc to broadcast setuid/setgid to all
threads and to send pthread cancellations. Unlike other signals, the
Go runtime does not intercept these because they must invoke the libc
handlers (see issues #3871 and #6997). However, because 1) these
signals may be issued asynchronously by a thread running C code to
another thread running Go code and 2) glibc does not set SA_ONSTACK
for its handlers, glibc's signal handler may be run on a Go stack.
Signal frames range from 1.5K on amd64 to many kilobytes on ppc64, so
this may overflow the Go stack and corrupt heap (or other stack) data.
Fix this by ensuring that these signal handlers have the SA_ONSTACK
flag (but not otherwise taking over the handler).
This has been a problem since Go 1.1, but it's likely that people
haven't encountered it because it only affects setuid/setgid and
pthread_cancel.
Fixes#9600.
Change-Id: I6cf5f5c2d3aa48998d632f61f1ddc2778dcfd300
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/1887
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Calls to goproc/deferproc used to push & pop two extra arguments,
the argument size and the function to call. Now, we allocate space
for those arguments in the outargs section so we don't have to
modify the SP.
Defers now use the stack pointer (instead of the argument pointer)
to identify which frame they are associated with.
A followon CL might simplify funcspdelta and some of the stack
walking code.
Fixes issue #8641
Change-Id: I835ec2f42f0392c5dec7cb0fe6bba6f2aed1dad8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/1601
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Eventually I'd like almost everything cmd/dist generates
to be done with 'go generate' and checked in, to simplify
the bootstrap process. The only thing cmd/dist really needs
to do is write things like the current experiment info and
the current version.
This is a first step toward that. It replaces the _NaCl etc
constants with generated ones goos_nacl, goos_darwin,
goarch_386, and so on.
LGTM=dave, austin
R=austin, dave, bradfitz
CC=golang-codereviews, iant, r
https://golang.org/cl/174290043
The garbage collector is now written in Go.
There is plenty to clean up (just like on dev.cc).
all.bash passes on darwin/amd64, darwin/386, linux/amd64, linux/386.
TBR=rlh
R=austin, rlh, bradfitz
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/173250043
Scalararg and ptrarg are not "signal safe".
Go code filling them out can be interrupted by a signal,
and then the signal handler runs, and if it also ends up
in Go code that uses scalararg or ptrarg, now the old
values have been smashed.
For the pieces of code that do need to run in a signal handler,
we introduced onM_signalok, which is really just onM
except that the _signalok is meant to convey that the caller
asserts that scalarg and ptrarg will be restored to their old
values after the call (instead of the usual behavior, zeroing them).
Scalararg and ptrarg are also untyped and therefore error-prone.
Go code can always pass a closure instead of using scalararg
and ptrarg; they were only really necessary for C code.
And there's no more C code.
For all these reasons, delete scalararg and ptrarg, converting
the few remaining references to use closures.
Once those are gone, there is no need for a distinction between
onM and onM_signalok, so replace both with a single function
equivalent to the current onM_signalok (that is, it can be called
on any of the curg, g0, and gsignal stacks).
The name onM and the phrase 'm stack' are misnomers,
because on most system an M has two system stacks:
the main thread stack and the signal handling stack.
Correct the misnomer by naming the replacement function systemstack.
Fix a few references to "M stack" in code.
The main motivation for this change is to eliminate scalararg/ptrarg.
Rick and I have already seen them cause problems because
the calling sequence m.ptrarg[0] = p is a heap pointer assignment,
so it gets a write barrier. The write barrier also uses onM, so it has
all the same problems as if it were being invoked by a signal handler.
We worked around this by saving and restoring the old values
and by calling onM_signalok, but there's no point in keeping this nice
home for bugs around any longer.
This CL also changes funcline to return the file name as a result
instead of filling in a passed-in *string. (The *string signature is
left over from when the code was written in and called from C.)
That's arguably an unrelated change, except that once I had done
the ptrarg/scalararg/onM cleanup I started getting false positives
about the *string argument escaping (not allowed in package runtime).
The compiler is wrong, but the easiest fix is to write the code like
Go code instead of like C code. I am a bit worried that the compiler
is wrong because of some use of uninitialized memory in the escape
analysis. If that's the reason, it will go away when we convert the
compiler to Go. (And if not, we'll debug it the next time.)
LGTM=khr
R=r, khr
CC=austin, golang-codereviews, iant, rlh
https://golang.org/cl/174950043
The conversion was done with an automated tool and then
modified only as necessary to make it compile and run.
[This CL is part of the removal of C code from package runtime.
See golang.org/s/dev.cc for an overview.]
LGTM=r
R=r, austin
CC=dvyukov, golang-codereviews, iant, khr
https://golang.org/cl/167550043
