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Austin Clements ed09e0e2bf runtime: fix underflow in next_gc calculation
Currently, it's possible for the next_gc calculation to underflow.
Since next_gc is unsigned, this wraps around and effectively disables
GC for the rest of the program's execution. Besides being obviously
wrong, this is causing test failures on 32-bit because some tests are
running out of heap.

This underflow happens for two reasons, both having to do with how we
estimate the reachable heap size at the end of the GC cycle.

One reason is that this calculation depends on the value of heap_live
at the beginning of the GC cycle, but we currently only record that
value during a concurrent GC and not during a forced STW GC. Fix this
by moving the recorded value from gcController to work and recording
it on a common code path.

The other reason is that we use the amount of allocation during the GC
cycle as an approximation of the amount of floating garbage and
subtract it from the marked heap to estimate the reachable heap.
However, since this is only an approximation, it's possible for the
amount of allocation during the cycle to be *larger* than the marked
heap size (since the runtime allocates white and it's possible for
these allocations to never be made reachable from the heap). Currently
this causes wrap-around in our estimate of the reachable heap size,
which in turn causes wrap-around in next_gc. Fix this by bottoming out
the reachable heap estimate at 0, in which case we just fall back to
triggering GC at heapminimum (which is okay since this only happens on
small heaps).

Fixes #10555, fixes #10556, and fixes #10559.

Change-Id: Iad07b529c03772356fede2ae557732f13ebfdb63
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/9286
Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-04-23 20:52:54 +00:00
api api: update next.txt 2015-04-11 07:13:48 +00:00
doc doc/faq: replace reference to goven with gomvpkg 2015-04-23 03:39:17 +00:00
lib/time remove the obsolete lib/codereview. 2014-12-08 07:51:54 +00:00
misc misc/cgo/testcshared: add c-shared test with no exports 2015-04-21 20:50:23 +00:00
src runtime: fix underflow in next_gc calculation 2015-04-23 20:52:54 +00:00
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