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authorBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2019-10-23 14:01:45 -0400
committerBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2019-10-23 14:56:46 -0400
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Merge non-moving garbage collector
This introduces a concurrent mark & sweep garbage collector to manage the old generation. The concurrent nature of this collector typically results in significantly reduced maximum and mean pause times in applications with large working sets. Due to the large and intricate nature of the change I have opted to preserve the fully-buildable history, including merge commits, which is described in the "Branch overview" section below. Collector design ================ The full design of the collector implemented here is described in detail in a technical note > B. Gamari. "A Concurrent Garbage Collector For the Glasgow Haskell > Compiler" (2018) This document can be requested from @bgamari. The basic heap structure used in this design is heavily inspired by > K. Ueno & A. Ohori. "A fully concurrent garbage collector for > functional programs on multicore processors." /ACM SIGPLAN Notices/ > Vol. 51. No. 9 (presented at ICFP 2016) This design is intended to allow both marking and sweeping concurrent to execution of a multi-core mutator. Unlike the Ueno design, which requires no global synchronization pauses, the collector introduced here requires a stop-the-world pause at the beginning and end of the mark phase. To avoid heap fragmentation, the allocator consists of a number of fixed-size /sub-allocators/. Each of these sub-allocators allocators into its own set of /segments/, themselves allocated from the block allocator. Each segment is broken into a set of fixed-size allocation blocks (which back allocations) in addition to a bitmap (used to track the liveness of blocks) and some additional metadata (used also used to track liveness). This heap structure enables collection via mark-and-sweep, which can be performed concurrently via a snapshot-at-the-beginning scheme (although concurrent collection is not implemented in this patch). Implementation structure ======================== The majority of the collector is implemented in a handful of files: * `rts/Nonmoving.c` is the heart of the beast. It implements the entry-point to the nonmoving collector (`nonmoving_collect`), as well as the allocator (`nonmoving_allocate`) and a number of utilities for manipulating the heap. * `rts/NonmovingMark.c` implements the mark queue functionality, update remembered set, and mark loop. * `rts/NonmovingSweep.c` implements the sweep loop. * `rts/NonmovingScav.c` implements the logic necessary to scavenge the nonmoving heap. Branch overview =============== ``` * wip/gc/opt-pause: | A variety of small optimisations to further reduce pause times. | * wip/gc/compact-nfdata: | Introduce support for compact regions into the non-moving |\ collector | \ | \ | | * wip/gc/segment-header-to-bdescr: | | | Another optimization that we are considering, pushing | | | some segment metadata into the segment descriptor for | | | the sake of locality during mark | | | | * | wip/gc/shortcutting: | | | Support for indirection shortcutting and the selector optimization | | | in the non-moving heap. | | | * | | wip/gc/docs: | |/ Work on implementation documentation. | / |/ * wip/gc/everything: | A roll-up of everything below. |\ | \ | |\ | | \ | | * wip/gc/optimize: | | | A variety of optimizations, primarily to the mark loop. | | | Some of these are microoptimizations but a few are quite | | | significant. In particular, the prefetch patches have | | | produced a nontrivial improvement in mark performance. | | | | | * wip/gc/aging: | | | Enable support for aging in major collections. | | | | * | wip/gc/test: | | | Fix up the testsuite to more or less pass. | | | * | | wip/gc/instrumentation: | | | A variety of runtime instrumentation including statistics | | / support, the nonmoving census, and eventlog support. | |/ | / |/ * wip/gc/nonmoving-concurrent: | The concurrent write barriers. | * wip/gc/nonmoving-nonconcurrent: | The nonmoving collector without the write barriers necessary | for concurrent collection. | * wip/gc/preparation: | A merge of the various preparatory patches that aren't directly | implementing the GC. | | * GHC HEAD . . . ```
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diff --git a/rts/Schedule.h b/rts/Schedule.h
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--- a/rts/Schedule.h
+++ b/rts/Schedule.h
@@ -52,6 +52,12 @@ StgWord findAtomicallyFrameHelper (Capability *cap, StgTSO *tso);
/* Entry point for a new worker */
void scheduleWorker (Capability *cap, Task *task);
+#if defined(THREADED_RTS)
+void stopAllCapabilitiesWith (Capability **pCap, Task *task, SyncType sync_type);
+void stopAllCapabilities (Capability **pCap, Task *task);
+void releaseAllCapabilities(uint32_t n, Capability *keep_cap, Task *task);
+#endif
+
/* The state of the scheduler. This is used to control the sequence
* of events during shutdown. See Note [shutdown] in Schedule.c.
*/