This fixes an issue where the runtime panics with "out of memory" or
"cannot allocate memory" even though there's ample memory by reducing
the number of memory mappings created by the memory allocator.
Commit 7e1b61c worked around issue #8832 where Linux's transparent
huge page support could dramatically increase the RSS of a Go process
by setting the MADV_NOHUGEPAGE flag on any regions of pages released
to the OS with MADV_DONTNEED. This had the side effect of also
increasing the number of VMAs (memory mappings) in a Go address space
because a separate VMA is needed for every region of the virtual
address space with different flags. Unfortunately, by default, Linux
limits the number of VMAs in an address space to 65530, and a large
heap can quickly reach this limit when the runtime starts scavenging
memory.
This commit dramatically reduces the number of VMAs. It does this
primarily by only adjusting the huge page flag at huge page
granularity. With this change, on amd64, even a pessimal heap that
alternates between MADV_NOHUGEPAGE and MADV_HUGEPAGE must reach 128GB
to reach the VMA limit. Because of this rounding to huge page
granularity, this change is also careful to leave large used and
unused regions huge page-enabled.
This change reduces the maximum number of VMAs during the runtime
benchmarks with GODEBUG=scavenge=1 from 692 to 49.
Fixes#12233.
Change-Id: Ic397776d042f20d53783a1cacf122e2e2db00584
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15191
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
The motivation is that sysAlloc/Free() currently aren't safe to be
called without a valid G, because arm's xadd64() uses locks that require
a valid G.
The solution here was proposed by Dmitry Vyukov: use xadduintptr()
instead of xadd64(), until arm can support xadd64 on all of its
architectures (not a trivial task for arm).
Change-Id: I250252079357ea2e4360e1235958b1c22051498f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/9002
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
We return memory to the kernel with madvise(..., DONTNEED).
Also mark returned memory with NOHUGEPAGE to keep the kernel from
merging this memory into a huge page, effectively reallocating it.
Only known to be a problem on linux/{386,amd64,amd64p32} at the moment.
It may come up on other os/arch combinations in the future.
Fixes#8832
Change-Id: Ifffc6627a0296926e3f189a8a9b6e4bdb54c79eb
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/5660
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Rename "gothrow" to "throw" now that the C version of "throw"
is no longer needed.
This change is purely mechanical except in panic.go where the
old version of "throw" has been deleted.
sed -i "" 's/[[:<:]]gothrow[[:>:]]/throw/g' runtime/*.go
Change-Id: Icf0752299c35958b92870a97111c67bcd9159dc3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/2150
Reviewed-by: Minux Ma <minux@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Cheney <dave@cheney.net>
This is to reduce the delta between dev.cc and dev.garbage to just garbage collector changes.
These are the files that had merge conflicts and have been edited by hand:
malloc.go
mem_linux.go
mgc.go
os1_linux.go
proc1.go
panic1.go
runtime1.go
LGTM=austin
R=austin
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/174180043
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
CC=austin, dvyukov, golang-codereviews, iant, khr
https://golang.org/cl/167540043
