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Michael Anthony Knyszek b7eca1cf3e [release-branch.go1.14] runtime: make the scavenger's pacing logic more defensive
This change adds two bits of logic to the scavenger's pacing. Firstly,
it checks to make sure we scavenged at least one physical page, if we
released a non-zero amount of memory. If we try to release less than one
physical page, most systems will release the whole page, which could
lead to memory corruption down the road, and this is a signal we're in
this situation.

Secondly, the scavenger's pacing logic now checks to see if the time a
scavenging operation takes is measured to be exactly zero or negative.
The exact zero case can happen if time update granularity is too large
to effectively capture the time the scavenging operation took, like on
Windows where the OS timer frequency is generally 1ms. The negative case
should not happen, but we're being defensive (against kernel bugs, bugs
in the runtime, etc.). If either of these cases happen, we fall back to
Go 1.13 behavior: assume the scavenge operation took around 10µs per
physical page. We ignore huge pages in this case because we're in
unknown territory, so we choose to be conservative about pacing (huge
pages could only increase the rate of scavenging).

Currently, the scavenger is broken on Windows because the granularity of
time measurement is around 1 ms, which is too coarse to measure how fast
we're scavenging, so we often end up with a scavenging time of zero,
followed by NaNs and garbage values in the pacing logic, which usually
leads to the scavenger sleeping forever.

For #38617.
Fixes #38856.

Change-Id: Iaaa2a4cbb21338e1258d010f7362ed58b7db1af7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/229997
Run-TryBot: Michael Knyszek <mknyszek@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: David Chase <drchase@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
(cherry picked from commit c7915376ce)
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/232743
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