This adds support for scanning the stack when a goroutine is stopped
at an async safe point. This is not yet lit up because asyncPreempt is
not yet injected, but prepares us for that.
This works by conservatively scanning the registers dumped in the
frame of asyncPreempt and its parent frame, which was stopped at an
asynchronous safe point.
Conservative scanning works by only marking words that are pointers to
valid, allocated heap objects. One complication is pointers to stack
objects. In this case, we can't determine if the stack object is still
"allocated" or if it was freed by an earlier GC. Hence, we need to
propagate the conservative-ness of scanning stack objects: if all
pointers found to a stack object were found via conservative scanning,
then the stack object itself needs to be scanned conservatively, since
its pointers may point to dead objects.
For #10958, #24543.
Change-Id: I7ff84b058c37cde3de8a982da07002eaba126fd6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/201761
Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com>
Rework how the compiler+runtime handles stack-allocated variables
whose address is taken.
Direct references to such variables work as before. References through
pointers, however, use a new mechanism. The new mechanism is more
precise than the old "ambiguously live" mechanism. It computes liveness
at runtime based on the actual references among objects on the stack.
Each function records all of its address-taken objects in a FUNCDATA.
These are called "stack objects". The runtime then uses that
information while scanning a stack to find all of the stack objects on
a stack. It then does a mark phase on the stack objects, using all the
pointers found on the stack (and ancillary structures, like defer
records) as the root set. Only stack objects which are found to be
live during this mark phase will be scanned and thus retain any heap
objects they point to.
A subsequent CL will remove all the "ambiguously live" logic from
the compiler, so that the stack object tracing will be required.
For this CL, the stack tracing is all redundant with the current
ambiguously live logic.
Update #22350
Change-Id: Ide19f1f71a5b6ec8c4d54f8f66f0e9a98344772f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/134155
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
Austin Clements
Leon Klingele
Keith Randall