This adds a best-effort pass to remove stack barriers immediately
after the end of mark termination. This isn't necessary for the Go
runtime, but should help external tools that perform stack walks but
aren't aware of Go's stack barriers such as GDB, perf, and VTune.
(Though clearly they'll still have trouble unwinding stacks during
mark.)
Change-Id: I66600fae1f03ee36b5459d2b00dcc376269af18e
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/20668
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
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Currently we remove stack barriers during STW mark termination, which
has a non-trivial per-goroutine cost and means that we have to touch
even clean stacks during mark termination. However, there's no problem
with leaving them in during the sweep phase. They just have to be out
by the time we install new stack barriers immediately prior to
scanning the stack such as during the mark phase of the next GC cycle
or during mark termination in a STW GC.
Hence, move the gcRemoveStackBarriers from STW mark termination to
just before we install new stack barriers during concurrent mark. This
removes the cost from STW. Furthermore, this combined with concurrent
stack shrinking means that the mark termination scan of a clean stack
is a complete no-op, which will make it possible to skip clean stacks
entirely during mark termination.
This has the downside that it will mess up anything outside of Go that
tries to walk Go stacks all the time instead of just some of the time.
This includes tools like GDB, perf, and VTune. We'll improve the
situation shortly.
Change-Id: Ia40baad8f8c16aeefac05425e00b0cf478137097
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/20667
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
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Currently, setNextBarrierPC manipulates the stack barriers without
acquiring the stack barrier lock. This is mostly okay because
setNextBarrierPC also runs synchronously on the G and prevents safe
points, but this doesn't prevent a sigprof from occurring during a
setNextBarrierPC and performing a traceback.
Given that setNextBarrierPC simply sets one entry in the stack barrier
array, this is almost certainly safe in reality. However, given that
this depends on a subtle argument, which may not hold in the future,
and that setNextBarrierPC almost never happens, making it nowhere near
performance-critical, we can simply acquire the stack barrier lock and
be sure that the synchronization will work.
Updates #12528. For 1.5.3.
Change-Id: Ife696e10d969f190157eb1cbe762a2de2ebce079
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/18022
Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
This improves stack barrier debugging messages in various ways:
1) Rather than printing only the remaining stack barriers (of which
there may be none, which isn't very useful), print all of the G's
stack barriers with a marker at the position the stack itself has
unwound to and a marker at the problematic stack barrier (where
applicable).
2) Rather than crashing if we encounter a stack barrier when there are
no more stkbar entries, print the same debug message we would if we
had encountered a stack barrier at an unexpected location.
Hopefully this will help with debugging #12528.
Change-Id: I2e6fe6a778e0d36dd8ef30afd4c33d5d94731262
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/17147
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
The stack barrier locking functions use a simple cas lock because they
need to support trylock, but currently don't increment g.m.locks. This
is okay right now because they always run on the system stack or the
signal stack and are hence non-preemtible, but this could lead to
difficult-to-reproduce deadlocks if these conditions change in the
future.
Make these functions more robust by incrementing g.m.locks and making
them nosplit to enforce non-preemtibility.
Change-Id: I73d60a35bd2ad2d81c73aeb20dbd37665730eb1b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/17058
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Reviewed-by: Ingo Oeser <nightlyone@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
A sigprof during stack barrier insertion or removal can crash if it
detects an inconsistency between the stkbar array and the stack
itself. Currently we protect against this when scanning another G's
stack using stackLock, but we don't protect against it when unwinding
stack barriers for a recover or a memmove to the stack.
This commit cleans up and improves the stack locking code. It
abstracts out the lock and unlock operations. It uses the lock
consistently everywhere we perform stack operations, and pushes the
lock/unlock down closer to where the stack barrier operations happen
to make it more obvious what it's protecting. Finally, it modifies
sigprof so that instead of spinning until it acquires the lock, it
simply doesn't perform a traceback if it can't acquire it. This is
necessary to prevent self-deadlock.
Updates #11863, which introduced stackLock to fix some of these
issues, but didn't go far enough.
Updates #12528.
Change-Id: I9d1fa88ae3744d31ba91500c96c6988ce1a3a349
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/17036
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
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runtime/internal/sys will hold system-, architecture- and config-
specific constants.
Updates #11647
Change-Id: I6db29c312556087a42e8d2bdd9af40d157c56b54
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/16817
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Currently the stack barrier code is mixed in with the mark and scan
code. Move all of the stack barrier related functions and variables to
a new dedicated source file. There are no code modifications.
Change-Id: I604603045465ef8573b9f88915d28ab6b5910903
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/14050
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
