This will let us ask people to rebuild the Go system without
precise GC, and then rebuild and retest their program, to see
if precise GC is causing whatever problem they are having.
R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/8700043
It's not trivial to make a comprehensive check
due to inferior pointers, reflect, gob, etc.
But this is essentially what I've used to debug
the GC issues.
Update #5193.
R=golang-dev, iant, 0xe2.0x9a.0x9b, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/8455043
Inserting a key-value pair into a hashmap storing keys or values
indirectly can cause the garbage collector to find the hashmap in
an inconsistent state.
Fixes#5074.
R=golang-dev, minux.ma, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7913043
broke arm garbage collector
traceback_arm fails with a missing pc. It needs CL 7494043.
But that only makes the build break later, this time with
"invalid freelist". Roll back until it can be fixed correctly.
««« original CL description
runtime: restrict stack root scan to locals and arguments
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7301062
»»»
R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7493044
If the constant CollectStats is non-zero and GOGCTRACE=1
the garbage collector will print basic statistics about executed
GC instructions.
R=golang-dev, dvyukov
CC=golang-dev, rsc
https://golang.org/cl/7413049
The current code uses 64-bit pc-relative on 64-bit systems,
but in ELF linkers there is no such thing, so we cannot
express this in a .o file. Change to 32-bit.
R=golang-dev, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7383055
Before, the mheap structure was in the bss,
but it's quite large (today, 256 MB, much of
which is never actually paged in), and it makes
Go binaries run afoul of exec-time bss size
limits on some BSD systems.
Fixes#4447.
R=golang-dev, dave, minux.ma, remyoudompheng, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7307122
Change the stack unwinding code to compensate for the dynamic
relocation of symbols.
Change the gc instruction GC_CALL to use a relative offset instead of
an absolute address.
R=golang-dev
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7248048
Mark candidate spans one GC pass earlier.
Move scavenger's code out from mgc0 and constrain it into mheap (where it belongs).
R=rsc, dvyukov, minux.ma
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7002049
Currently it's summed to mark phase.
The change makes it easier to diagnose long stop-the-world phases.
R=golang-dev, bradfitz, dave
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7182043
If the scanned block has no typeinfo the garbage collector will attempt
to get the actual type of the block.
R=golang-dev, bradfitz, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7093045
Also undo revision a5b96b602690 used to workaround the bug.
Fixes#4643.
R=rsc, golang-dev, dave, minux.ma, lucio.dere, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7090043
Details:
- This CL is the conceptual skeleton of code found in CL 6114046
- The garbage collector uses struct Obj to specify memory blocks
- scanblock() is putting found memory blocks into an intermediate buffer
(xbuf) before adding/flushing them to the main work buffer (wbuf)
- The main loop in scanblock() is replaced with a skeleton code that
in the future will be able to recognize the type of objects and
thus will improve the garbage collector's precision.
For now, all objects are simply sequences of pointers so
the precision of the garbage collector remains unchanged.
- The code plugs .gcdata and .gcbss sections into the garbage collector.
scanblock() in this CL is unable to make any use of this.
R=rsc, dvyukov, remyoudompheng
CC=dave, golang-dev, minux.ma
https://golang.org/cl/6856121
Garbage collection code (to be merged later) is calling functions
which have many local variables. This increases the probability that
the stack capacity won't be big enough to hold the local variables.
So, start gc() on a bigger stack to eliminate a potentially large number
of calls to runtime·morestack().
R=rsc, remyoudompheng, dsymonds, minux.ma, iant, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6846044
Currently race detector runtime just disables race detection in the finalizer goroutine.
It has false positives when a finalizer writes to shared memory -- the race with finalizer is reported in a normal goroutine that accesses the same memory.
After this change I am going to synchronize the finalizer goroutine with the rest of the world in racefingo(). This is closer to what happens in reality and so
does not have false positives.
And also add README file with instructions how to build the runtime.
R=golang-dev, minux.ma, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6810095
Check for specific, important misalignment in garbage collector.
Not a complete fix for issue 599 but an important workaround.
Update #599.
R=golang-dev, iant, dvyukov
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6641049
This CL makes the runtime understand that the type of
the len or cap of a map, slice, or string is 'int', not 'int32',
and it is also careful to distinguish between function arguments
and results of type 'int' vs type 'int32'.
In the runtime, the new typedefs 'intgo' and 'uintgo' refer
to Go int and uint. The C types int and uint continue to be
unavailable (cause intentional compile errors).
This CL does not change the meaning of int, but it should make
the eventual change of the meaning of int on amd64 a bit
smoother.
Update #2188.
R=iant, r, dave, remyoudompheng
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6551067
The change is a preparation for the new scheduler.
It introduces runtime.park() function,
that will atomically unlock the mutex and park the goroutine.
It will allow to remove the racy readyonstop flag
that is difficult to implement w/o the global scheduler mutex.
R=rsc, remyoudompheng, dave
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6501077
The issue seems to not be triggered right now,
but I've seen the deadlock after some other legal
modifications to runtime.
So I think we are safer this way.
R=rsc, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6339051